Jenson Button

Hooray, our song Jenson Button has arrived to herald in the start of the new F1 season!

You can download the track for free from here: Bandcamp

HEY! YEAH!

We have a new song! And not just written, but recorded and available for free download from this coming Sunday, 18th March, start of the new F1 season. It's our ode to our current favourite driver, Jenson Button. He's exciting to watch because he's great at overtaking and zooming to the front from the back of the pack, also he is good at driving in the rain when other drivers often struggle, so he tends to liven things up a bit without crashing or going off the track and generally putting himself out of the race like Montoya used to (although we loved him for it). Anyway it'll be available from Soundcloud, Bandcamp and Last FM. and probably directly from our website as well. M has also made a video for the song, it's rather silly.

Nearly forgot....

Oh yeah, M also did a little solo thing, although not that solo as Paul did some drumming on one of the tracks. It's a departure from TT or Lost Harbours stuff, just some things she wanted to get out of her head, all recorded on a dictaphone with minimum takes and no real gameplan.

http://soundcloud.com/pettaluck/sets

Russia

So, for as long as anyone can remember, M has been pretty much obsessed with all things Russian.  Right now there's all sorts of upheaval over there, although the election at the end of the week seems to be unlikely to change much at all. But, this is a music blog, so I shall focus on the two points most salient to our band.

1) On the downside, there's the new law in St Petersburgh which is sort of like section 28 (the law in the 80's which stopped people 'promoting' homosexuality) only a lot bigger and scarier. Strangely this story doesn't seem to be being covered by the BBC online but you can find it elsewhere. It's all pretty ludicrous - basically you either pretend that gay and bi people don't exist, or you have to mention that we're all sick and evil.  They seem to have gotten the word 'gay' confused with the word 'vampire' or something.  The upshot is that you probably shouldn't email a copy of '82 to your comrades anytime soon.

2) Unless you comrade is one of these ladies and you have a safe address for her.

http://pussy-riot.livejournal.com/

Pussy Riot are amazing.  And they've got a track on the free comp I blogged about below. We are honoured to share that tiny scrap of history.

In all seriousness I'd like to get some copies of the Any Love album into Russia when it's released but it's a pretty big fire to prod.  It's important to remember that no one is free until everyone is free, no-one is equal until everyone is equal. Things can sometimes get tough in the UK due to prejudice but at least it isn't officially state sanctioned. Anymore. A lot of people had to fight to change that and the fight for many rages on.