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Hey
No time for idle chit-chat this month, it's our busiest time of the year right now and things are mad busy! If you're in London tomorrow (Tuesday) night you should come to the Barfly to see This Town Needs Guns, Pennines, Mimas and Colour. Pretty much the best lineup in the world. Get there early though, it's going to be busy.
News...

01: Free digital sampler
02: Mimas UK tour
03: This Town Needs Guns on tour
04: New Tubelord single details and Radio One session
05: Pulled Apart By Horses
06: Blakfish v Tubelord podcast online now


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01: Free digital sampler
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You may well have already noticed this one as it's splashed across the front page of www.bsmrocks.com and adorns the whole of www.myspace.com/bigscarymonsters but we're currently promoting our Summer Collection of releases and are offering a digital sampler for free download.

The sampler features MP3s from Secondsmile, Blakfish, This Town Needs Guns…

Big Scary Monsters need you. Over the past few weeks we've been receiving submissions from this countries best unsigned bands and from the hundreds sent it we've whittled it down to just 12, and this is where you come in.

Listen through the 12 tracks in the 6 Machine playlist on our Last.fm page and then once you've decided which is your favourite head over to www.bsmrocks.com/the6machine and make your vote count. You only get one choice, so take it carefully!

The 6 with the most votes at 12pm on Monday 10th March will make it onto the 10 compilation record, due out in April.

Hey
Is anyone else suffering from the flu at the moment? I'm struggling through my second bout in as many months and it's getting annoying now. Obviously need to up my Vitamin C intake. If anyone knows any ultra-quick cures, please let me know!
Just a few bits of news you might be interested in?

01: The New 1920 single out today and on tour
02: MMISL tour disaster!
03: Competition time!
04: New videos online now
05: T-shirt offer
06: Alcopop! new website and offer


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01: The New 1920 single out today and on tour
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The first of in our new Meet & Greet singles series is out today. It's called 'Torpedo Libido', it's by a band called The New 1920, it's received airplay from Radio One, 6 Music and is on the Xfm evening playlist. If you're into Saves The Day-esque punk rock fun, you'll probably really enjoy them. As is the theme of the M&G releases…

As of this month I now write not one, but two blogs. This makes me a real life blogger. Check out my second, almost-daily scribe over at http://blogscarymonsters.blogspot.com - something I'm not ashamed to admit I setup purely for the amusement the title gives me.

September was pretty nuts really, with workloads going through the roof as Meet Me in St Louis' debut album, Variations On Swing' was finally released. Having recorded it early on this year it's so nice to get the thing out and at last start to see and hear the delighted reactions of you all as you realise just how right I was all this time when I said it's a bloody great record. This month we also had the new split album from This Town Needs Guns and Cats and Cats and Cats. Both bands have recorded what I believe to be their best material to date, an opinion shared by NME, Drowned In Sound, Radio One and a plethora of journalists from other magazines. These two new releases can both be bought from www.bsmrocks.com so why don't you just do that, hey?
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There's a reason why July is my favourite month, but the weather cerainly isn't it! Rain of biblical proportions saw half of Oxford submerge under water, festivals cancelled and national panic spread as I started to wish my friend had taken me seriously all those years ago when I asked him to build me an arc.

The month started in delightful style though, with the annual Cowley Road festival in Oxford. Anyone who's ever been will know what fun it is, with thousands of people filling the long and varied street, with strange processions (this years included a giant ant riding 6 bikes), loud music, raves in newsagents and a restaurant for semingly every nationality spilling out onto the streets to sell their goods. Whether or not good is a word I can use to describe the squid on a stick I plumped for, I still can't decide.

House of Brothers uploaded a new demo track from his forthcoming EP to Myspace. Slightly different vibe to his previous work, and very much worth a listen.

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June was a funny ol' month. It started with me collecting the master CD for the new BSM sampler, 'Record Label Shmecord Label', from the side door of a police station, and ended with Chris Benoit, a famed and much adored professional wrestler, killing himself and his family in somewhat strange and unexpected circumstances. Obviously this had no real bearing on my life, but shocking nonetheless.

A small handful of gigs were attended in June. In London there was Owen/City On Film/House of Brothers at Lark In The Park (where I saw not one band thanks to arriving late, venue being rammed and poorly designed, and me drinking too much flavoured cider) and the first Huckster night with Tellison, Cats And Cats And Cats and some other bands which I unfortunately missed due to two of the above reasons. In Oxford we had two nights running at the Port Mahon, geographically the closest venue to me since the closure of the Zodiac-come-Carling Academy…

Hi all
I hope this finds you all well. I'm about to head off for a week of partying and hope that everyone else has exciting plans in mind with the bank holiday weekend fast approaching. If you don't, I can't recommend the below highly enough to help fill your days with sunshine and fun...

01: Meet Me in St Louis/Secondsmile tour - starts this week!
02: Welcome House of Brothers - tour, EP, Radio One
03: Live date round-up
04: Record Label Shmecord Label
05: 4 or 5 Magicians for Alcopop! - Radio One, tour

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01: Meet Me In St Louis/Secondsmile tour - starts this week!
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Meet Me In St Louis and Secondsmile are off on tour in celebration of their brand new split 7 release. 7 days of partying for these 7 inches of beautiful rock music is promised, and we hope to see as many of you as possible along the way.

24.05 - Cardiff, The Barfly
25.05 - Sheffield, The Corporation
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Hi all
It's good news o' clock around here...
01: Meet Me in St Louis/Secondsmile split 7 and tour (and press)
02: Alcopop label of the week on Radio One
03: Facebook


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01: Meet Me In St Louis/Secondsmile split 7 and tour (and press)
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Kicking off the mailout is a whole feast of Meet Me In St Louis related news!

First off, Big Scary Monsters Records is delighted to announce that two of it's prodigal sons, Meet Me In St Louis and Secondsmile, will be coming together in a marriage that only musical lovers can dream of: a hand-packaged split 7 single and accompanying short UK tour.

The single features one brand new track from each band, MMISL's 'I've Got Knives In My Eyes, I'm Going Home Sick' (the first song you will ever hear from the new record) and Secondsmile's 'Aspen Fears'. Both, of course, are fantastic. The lovely slab of black 7 vinyl will be in shops from 11th June packaged in a pink and…