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distant guns
» genre:
Alternative >
Shoegaze
» location:
Northern Exiles
» label: Egress UK
» for fans of: Slowdive, Ride, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, GYBE, Deftones, The Fall, Pixies, Everclear, Statistics, GYBE, Doves, Elbow, The Smiths, Longview, Glasvegas, The Twilight Sad, Guided By Voices, July Skies
» latest album:
"The Redundant Pioneer EP"
4 tracks
running time 21:00
$0.00
4 tracks
running time 21:00
$0.00
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Distant Guns
NEWS
"EP3: The Redundant Pioneer" will be released on Egress Records, July 2009.
Offical website launched Feb 09 www.distantguns.webs.com
Offical website launched Feb 09 www.distantguns.webs.com
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Distant Guns are a two man recording army, whose mission is to explore the frontiers of the DIY ethic, by regularly releasing self-produced 4-track EPs.
Each CD release is strictly limited edition and has handmade artwork that complements the EP's theme and makes each copy slightly unique. They cannot be purchased for love or money, but are sent out at random to fans on the Distant Guns mailing list.
'EP3: The Redundant Pioneer' will be released July 2009. Tracklisting:
We Set Sail From Granadaland
Shakerley
First Night On A Hostile Planet
The Hardest Man In Alaska
From EP3 onwards, digital downloads will also be available through Egress Records.
All copies of 'EP1: The Complacent Pacifist' and 'EP2: The Peaceful Technophobe' have now gone and will NEVER be reissued... but the songs can be downloaded free from:
The DISTANT GUNS Soundclick Page
It's better quality than Myspace, which is an utter shed that can't even cope with substantial song titles, never mind high bit-rates.
If you would like the opportunity of receiving future releases, please email distantguns@hotmail.co.uk or sign up at Egress Records. Your thoughts, questions, poetry, recipes, death threats and offers of Florentine patronage are most welcome. We promise not to share your details with knobheads.
Each CD release is strictly limited edition and has handmade artwork that complements the EP's theme and makes each copy slightly unique. They cannot be purchased for love or money, but are sent out at random to fans on the Distant Guns mailing list.
'EP3: The Redundant Pioneer' will be released July 2009. Tracklisting:
We Set Sail From Granadaland
Shakerley
First Night On A Hostile Planet
The Hardest Man In Alaska
From EP3 onwards, digital downloads will also be available through Egress Records.
All copies of 'EP1: The Complacent Pacifist' and 'EP2: The Peaceful Technophobe' have now gone and will NEVER be reissued... but the songs can be downloaded free from:
The DISTANT GUNS Soundclick Page
It's better quality than Myspace, which is an utter shed that can't even cope with substantial song titles, never mind high bit-rates.
If you would like the opportunity of receiving future releases, please email distantguns@hotmail.co.uk or sign up at Egress Records. Your thoughts, questions, poetry, recipes, death threats and offers of Florentine patronage are most welcome. We promise not to share your details with knobheads.
Why this name?
Because of distance and guns.
Do you play live?
Not at the moment (see previous question)
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Not many Rolls-Royces plunging into swimming pools these days, are there?
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
No. Anyway, the question should be: Would they have the BALLS to sign one with us?
Band History:
We only look forward.
Your influences?
Widescreen, windswept Northern indie
(Doves, Elbow, The Smiths, The Twilight Sad, Longview, Glasvegas).
Post-rock
(Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, Talk Talk, GYBE)
Ambient / shoegaze
(Sigur Ros, Slowdive, Ride, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, July Skies)
US melodic hardcore
(Deftones, Pixies, Everclear, Sugar, Statistics, Guided By Voices)
And The Fall, who are unclassifiable.
(Doves, Elbow, The Smiths, The Twilight Sad, Longview, Glasvegas).
Post-rock
(Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, Talk Talk, GYBE)
Ambient / shoegaze
(Sigur Ros, Slowdive, Ride, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, July Skies)
US melodic hardcore
(Deftones, Pixies, Everclear, Sugar, Statistics, Guided By Voices)
And The Fall, who are unclassifiable.
Favorite spot?
The North.
Equipment used:
Anything and everything. Fender Jazzmaster & Stratocaster guitars, a medium chisel, Focusrite compressors, OLP Musicman bass, Stella Artois, Boss pedals (especially the PS-3 Pitchshifter / Delay), birdsong, Ashdown bass amplification, Soundforge, Garrison G-30 acoustic guitar, Rode microphones, E-fects Scrambl-E and Bias Fuzz pedals, righteous anger, Eventide Eclipse, 9V batteries, SONAR, Roland XV-5050, kitchen scissors (get an adult to help you), Ashbory rubber-string bass, Vox amplifiers, Lexicon Vortex, toy xylophone, Rickenbacker 360 12-string guitar, Hohner Harmonium, rally cars, Electro-Harmonix Micro POG, home-made piezo contact microphones, "Magnetic" cider, Olympus S914 cassette dictaphone with dying batteries, Alesis AirSynth, Fender Jaguar bass, E13 Truly Beautiful Disaster, Fredric Grumbly Wolf & Harmonic Percolator, Danelectro Baritone guitar, Amdek Percussion Synthesizer, 1968 Yamaha SB-5A bass, Roland V-Drums, Fender "Input Device" Telecaster, ZVex pedals, Line 6 UX8, sleighbells, Barry Seaborne, microKorg, Digitech XP-1000 Jetpack, OUR F@CKING IMAGINATION...
Anything else...?
For what it's worth... we are deeply suspicious of the Myspace phenomenon (& social networking sites in general) and lament that the word 'friend' has been so devalued. You can visit www.myspace.com/distantguns if you like, but don't bother trying to add us as a friend... we will politely decline. It's nothing personal, we decline friend requests from absolutely everyone. If this offends your sensibilities, it's probably best if you switch off the computer, go for a walk and try to work out the crucial difference between 'making friends' and 'adding' them.