Hi Mark,

I was wondering whether you'd be interested in selling advertising space on Thesteal.co.uk? The advertisement would be unobtrusive and we can pay you an annual upfront payment for the advertising space.

We can also provide guest blog posts from industry experts in many cases.

I am from @£$^^ *&^%$£@!, a new media agency headquartered in the UK. We plan out and acquire advertising space on major websites and portals, as well as smaller niche sites. I personally deal with our smaller publishers, increasing brand awareness and share of voice for the major brands that our group works with.

We'd love to work with your site. If you have any questions or would like further information, please do not hesitate to email me directly.


Kind Regards,
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THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.

BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Just A Band

Hey,

So we had our first practice in 8 months last Sunday and it went well, the cobwebs were well and truly dusted off, the cogs were greased and my hands were bleeding by the end... friday should be good fun. Also, in between bouts of tea, coffee and discussing the finer points of Dave's magical prowess we decided that friday would be the last gig we play as the Steal. We think it's a nice end being at the Peel, where we played our first gig 4 years ago. Also playing with Paint It Black, whose member's current and past exploits were a primary influence on us playing the music we do, is a nice touch. We think the band has come to it's natural end and we wanted to give people a heads-up if they wanted come see us one last time.

Thanks.

Keep Moving Forward.

x

B-complex. Pulses.

"After 7 long years Dillinger 4 return to play 7 gigs in the uk.


December

Thursday 10th London - Underworld, Camden with Hard Skin and The Arteries
Friday 11th Exeter - The Cavern with The Steal and Annalise
Saturday 12th Bristol - Fiddlers With The Steal, The Cut Ups and Captain Everything's New Band
Monday 14th Brighton - Engine Rooms with Hard Skin, Four Letter Word, Southport and The Steal
Tuesday 15th Newcastle - Ouseburn House Community Centre with Leatherface, Cop Out, Offshore Radio and Pure Graft
Wedensday 16th Glasgow - The V Club with the Murderburgers
Thursday 17th Leeds - Brudenell Social Club with Leatherface, The Magnificent and Offshore Radio

please put these on myspaces, websites, forums, magazines etc

cheers"

Distractions

Hey there,

So we've been pretty quiet on 'The Steal' front of late... We're pretty savvy with this band thing, as my dad always says, "A funny thing happens when you don't promote... nothing." So yeah.
We put out our second record almost a year ago, which is the best thing we've done. Did a tour which was the best/worst tour we've ever done... best - the shows, worst - constant draining illness. Ho hum. Since then you might say we've done a total of fuck all... however you'd be wrong.

Dave wrote, recorded and released his third solo album, "Intersections" went on tour with the amazing Lemuria and has been holding it down in Kingston selling misc. genres and helping the kids dance.



Pavey has been building his DIY printing empire, creating glorious posters, t-shirts and putting on exhibitions (for good causes) with his talented partner in crime in good old Brighton town.



Lindsay has been studying hard and creating a near constant stream of music and noise in London Town. Including the mystical Tough Magic album, which he's giving away for free.



Richard (me, I) released a 7" with the other band I play drums in, Hot Damn. Released an EP with The North Pole, which I play bass & sing in and released a remix of a song luke & I did by the mighty Fall Of Efrafa... all on my housemates & I shambolic label. I've also been painting a whole lot.



So yeah, on top of all that we work and blah, blah, blah... you know, life and things. We're not planning on moving back to our parents' houses anytime soon, that's for sure.
As well as updating you on all that boring shit, we are actually going to be playing some shows! holy crapola. One is with our friends in Paint It Black and the others are with the almighty Dillinger Four. We'll let you know more when we know more. ok? Should be fun.

Uh, yeah i'm pretty bored now... hope you enjoy all the hyperlinks.

Love,

Richard.
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7"

HOT CAKES

For a limited time only...

Really expensive copies of the S/T record

Doppler Effect

DV HSE IS GETTING BUSY.

Keep the peepers peeeeeeled.

Form a band

So the franchising thing has been done, i'm highlighting my ignorance of a band we ripped off. Oh well, who wants to start The Steal 2?

Garlic Twin Pack / Mr. Feynman

We done tour. It was good. Many thanks to everyone for making all the shows pretty much amazing. If you ever want to know how to put on a show get in contact with any one of the promoters who helped us out, holy crapola they were good.

We were fair to middling, we were ill... we didn't even get the chance to go insane. kinda figures when it's minus 11 and there's no heating anywhere. Summer tours ONLY from now on yeah guys?

I'm sure we'll put up some links to media related internet age business promotion fun times, if you have any 'shots' from any of the 'shows' we love seeing ourselves in the midsts of the high, with everyone along for the ride, so yeah, tell us where to look and we'll look.

Uh, AGAIN, we ARE breaking up... sometime around september. cheersthen.

Basically, THANKS, the tour showed us that punk rock CAN work and there are tons of amazing people out there doing their thing, doing it well and doing it for the fun of it, without any motive for reward or praise. yeah! great stuff...

(not really, they do it for the money, always for the money. the shits.)

Um, our series of 7" is starting in a couple of months by the way... they're all going to be secret. Look for clues.

New Year Tour

In a hope that we will start as we mean to go on, here is a video of a few songs from our New Years Day Kingston show to get the people up north excited. It was filmed by Treat, he is lovely.


The Steal - 'Kids With Kids' / 'The Steal' from Mike Hemsley on Vimeo.

Party at Sean's house.

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The Steal on the radio

Specifically on the Radio 1 Lock up show with Mike Davies.
So recently we went back to the BBC and spent a very plesent day in Maida Vale 4. The resulting live session was broadcast last night at about 2 in the morning. We played 4 tracks on the show (Disconnected, The Angles/Fashionless and Dave gets mad) and also rambled for about 30 minutes to Mike about the album, the Steal, life in general and about the collective noun for a group of hornets (which was unfortunately edited out of the final broadcast). We also recorded Got Ideas which will be played next week.

Check out the Full Broadcast here (this is only available for a week!)

Or hear the edited Steal Interview highlights on the podcast here

Thank you very much to Mike and Radio 1 for letting us come and play. When we were at MV4 I sat on the same stool that Beyonce had sat on a few days previous, imagine that.
Super big thanks to John from the Don Ramos Players who we drafted in to play second guitar and beef up the Steal's sparse normally Salad Based sound.


The Steal Maida Vale Bright Grey Picture




One for Old times sake



John Ramos Players looks lonely

Limited Edition Glow in the Dark Shirts

Hello Friends,
I have just updated our big cartel merch page with a new glow in the dark tshirt design. The design is going to be printed to order on the 2nd December and is available to pre-order for 2 weeks until the 1st December. After that the screen will be cleaned and the design wont be reprinted. Rich drew it and I'm going to print it. I'll even throw in a few goodies with the first few orders. The Shirts are white American Apparel shirts in Xs,S,M,L,XL and the print will be a greenish blue and glow in the dark. They will be shipped in time for xmas. They cost £8 + £1 p&p.

I have also put a few extra things up on the merch page like some of the left over bags and shirts from our record release show.

That is all, how are you?

xx
Mark

sexy seeing

yep, we're going on tour! i couldn't be bothered to type these out again so i just nicked them from another source... so if you replace 'The Steal' (that's us) with "Our Time Down Here" then you will have a more accurate picture of what's going on in January.

WHO starts a tour on New years Day? a bunch of fucking idiots that's who... prepare for sounds.

here are those dates, do come along, it's definitely a weird time to tour but we like shooting ourselves in the collective feet.

1 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! Fighting Cocks - Kingston
2 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! King Alf’s - Southampton
3 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! The Cowley Club - Brighton
4 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! The Retro Bar - Manchester
5 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! TBC - Glasgow
6 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! The Star and Shadow Cinema - Newcastle
7 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! TBC - Leeds
8 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! The Cavern - Exeter
9 Jan 2009 20:00
w/ The Steal & Hot Damn! Sigma Bar - Swansea

oh, and direct from Dave's mouth - sadness - "The LP won't be ready for the Lp release show", fucking classic... oh well, you'll just have to do with some ogg vorbis rips of the songs till we do get them out to you, or something.

oh, and we're playing in brighton on sunday the something...28th of september and a bunch of other bands too, including fast point who i picked up their album the other day and it 'rrrrips'.

over. stop asking us to play gigs.

oh, wait...

shoot yourself in the face

Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat's Ian MacKaye from Mean Magazine on Vimeo.

MEEJA HOR

I've got and idea, let's write a song, we'll call it, 'Bright Grey' and you'll sing along.

HYPE 3.0

Potential for success

If you're as old as 3 quarters of us are and played in a punk band when you were at an age when it was slightly more acceptable then you will have ventured into the wonderful world of demo cassettes... Running around your house utilising every available recording deck to try and get as many done before the gig that night, using the lower quality 'high speed' record function that 9 times out of 10 would fuck up the tape and not actually save you time, having to effectively listen to your badly recorded demo over and over and over again so you knew when to stop the tape until you hate every last second of its poorly played existence, also doubly hating that extra 'secret track' bit you put on at the end because it was funny at the time but actually having to sit there and wait 10 minutes before it even starts is now the opposite of funny, like really not funny at all. Wow, those were the days.
Well we're taking ourselves back to those days... to co-incide with the new record we're putting together something very special with our friend Matt over at Suplex cassettes and you will shortly have something to play in your car, if it's a bit old, or you parents stereo.

WATCH THIS SPACE ----> <------- for more details.

yes.