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.

HYPE

So yeah.

We called that one Breathe In. Which is something you should do... then hold it until the 29th September. Then do the other one...

No brainer