smash

apparently, 'they' can now predict which songs are going to be solid gold hits and which aren't.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10442377&ft=1&f=5

two good bands to listen to are

thee shitty limits

and

eagle boys.

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It's nothing. It's nothing. It's nothing. It's nothing. It's nothing. It's nothing. It's nothing. It's nothing...

Don't spend your life worrying...

Let's have a bobble, everybody bobble, let's bobble, bobble, bobble along.



we're playing tomorrow in London at the Underworld with Big D and the Kids Table, i think we're on about 8:30. They're amazing we're under-rehearsed, but holy shit we're going to play at least half of the new album in our 25 minute set. are you ready?

Waiting for the Simple Life...

Hello Everybody,

As some of you have noticed (it took us a while to notice too) a photo from one of our shows is being used to advertise Macbeth shoes on a global scale. As a band we're all pretty unhappy about such a perfect show (and indeed brilliant photo) being used to promote "an image of punk rock" as for us it goes against everything we stand for as a band and things we sing about.

Because of this we feel the need to tell you that we are not endorsed or will ever be endorsed by any clothing / punk rock image related company. The photo was taken by our good friend Owen who did indeed sell it to the Lowlife / Atticus / Macbeth company thinking as it wasn't directly of 'The Steal' and it was someone in the audience wearing Macbeth shoes (who has since thrown them away and in no way agreed to be a poster boy for anyone) that it would be ok. If we'd have known I think we would have matched the offer for the photo but we don't blame him at all...we still love him.

Anyway, point being there's not alot we can do about the photo being used without starting punk rock WW3 as it was sold to Macbeth by one of our friends, and indeed some of the people who work at Macbeth UK are also our friends. However we'd like to state the fact that we have no affiliation with Atticus / Lowlife / Macbeth. The photo was taken when we were playing in someones front room, the height of DIY...the irony is that the photo absolutely captures "an image of punk rock" we just don't support that being used to sell anything, even to punks!

Cheers

The Steal

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Spinoza eh?

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In other news...

We've been up to a few things recently... although not THAT much the real world keeps getting in the way.

We had a weekend of fervent activity a week and a bit ago... we played at the cowley club, in brighton on the friday night which was a lot of fun. Pavey even got up to some Eddie Vedder style antics. Then on the saturday we descended upon a practice space in brighton for 9 hours and completed the music for the the 2 records we ARE releasing (yes, i know we've been banging on about these for a while but they're coming, we promise). We did our best despite the efforts of an extremely loud, techy, repetitive, loud, metal band next door trying to multiply the cabin fever by about a trillion. Apparently according to dave it 'sounds good' so far... THEN the sunday we played at the concorde 2, yes, you guessed it, in brighton. With Capdown & the King Blues, Pickled Dick, etc... this was grand, a bit of performing monkey syndrome but fun nonetheless and the King Blues totally blew me away. which was nice.

The US tour is still happening, we now have tickets... haha. I almost crapped myself at the first show we're hopefully playing too... oooo, if it happens it'll be good.

ok... remember kids that photo you saw of the macbeth party the other day wasn't an event created so someone could sell you a lifestyle choice with a pair of shoes... rather a bunch of people who managed to create something out of nothing just with an idea. Also i heard that this is a more accurate representation of an macbeth party... allegedly,

peaches en regalia

we're on second. come if you like?

RE-EDIT RE-EDIT

Unsere geschworenen Feinde, das Diebstahl können an der Cowley Verein heute abend erscheinen. Ihnen einen Zoll nicht geben, weil sie eine Meile nehmen. Und wenn sie einen Guitarre Verstärker borgen konnten, der gut sein würde, vielen Dank

Crowd Killing apparently.

News, news, news...

lots of interesting stuff going on in the world right about now then, we might be on the cusp of something terrible happening, which is worrying... and obviously someone didn't want Barry Gibb's dentures and hairspray littering up the place.
Also in other interesting news, the guardian a couple of weeks ago published an article on 'new dance crazes'... luckily though there's apparently no transatlantic crossover potential of 'Crowd Killing' becoming a hit with the kids in the UK...

"HxC Dancing, The Floor Punch, Crowd Killing
Where: Eastern seaboard
As seen in the music video: AFI The Leaving Song Part 2

Don't really know martial arts? Never actually been in a fight? You shouldn't let this stand in the way of you mastering this pugilistic hardcore punk dance style. A camp, non-contact take on moshing, hardcore dancers stand with feet apart, windmill their fists through the air and high kick imaginary opponents (teachers, ex-girlfriends, dinner ladies), while listening to their favourite Sick Of It All CD. There's plenty of footage out there, although this doozy is quite a treat. The comments, at time of writing, ranged from "did you plan the uniform?" through to "every single one of you guys are losers".

YouTube tags: HxC hardcore, dancing, floor punch, crowd killing
Transatlantic crossover potential: 0/5"

Brilliant.

As for us, things are ticking over nicely thank you very much... as ever we have plans, big plans. None of which can be announced as of yet but we're working on it, trust us. Things with all these magazines getting in touch are getting kinda hectic though, we're having to make some big decisions on what direction we're going to take. The pressure to become the leaders of a new genre are surprisingly heavy, i mean we know hardcore can be used to describe 2 quite opposing styles of music but we're still not sure about how it's sounding at the moment, i mean is it too much of a cash in? We're told if we do it we'll have the full backing of some very influential people though and we all know we don't make our own decisions when it comes to taste, we can be easily swayed... one way or another.

jouer ecosse

"Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life’s means!"

TOPS OFF

thanks to anyone who made the trip down to see the show yesterday. RIP 48A. anyone reading this from europe should check out attack! vipers! and mercury league on their 10 day assault, which will be stupendous as long as they remember not to put petrol in their diesel van again.

I'm a newly wed, not a divorceeeeee.

thank you minty.

Uh, practice. yes.
We have been productive... it was fun. Songs have been completed, plans are afoot, secrets are waiting to be revealed... Saturday should be fun :)

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We decided that we're going to re-record all the stuff for the Lightyear record and the Mercury League split... Just so you, the listener, can have a higher quality aural experience. Also we know the songs now, which will improve things no end.

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US tour is going well, thanks for asking, still need a few dates and apparently it's not the done thing just to turn up.

bugger.

Huxley huxley

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

Willie and the Hand Jive

e just got this mail through about the show we did in Dorking a couple of weeks back...

"...hey guys, it's Joey here. This afternoon, after I finished my first (well, technically second) day as a Biffa binman, I went to deliver the money to the Us In A Bus charity office. They were just about to have a trustees meeting and I gave the lady Janet £1460...raised by us, with help from you and Heroic Doses also. It was the money from four shows in total I think. Anyways, I thought you'd like to know and could maybe put something on your site. The website of the charity is www.usinabus.org.uk . Thanks again for playing. Joey. x"

amazing. If you're in a band, go play Dorking.

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The NME stuff is going a bit weird, we got a few emails about the photo shoot and that and we're not sure about how they want to portray us... I think they're trying a play on words with hardcore but we're really not sure about dressing up as builders... hmmm.

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If any of you people out there in the internet are Americans, or more specifically Americans based on the East Coast of America, we need help with a hairbrained scheme we had a while back... a tour!

This is what it looks like at the moment -

Aug 11th - NYC - ABC No Rio - Status - BOOKED
Aug 12th - New Jersey - Status - NO IDEA YET
Aug 13th - Philly? - Status - Awaiting Response
Aug 14th - ???
Aug 15th - Washington DC - Status - NO IDEA YET
Aug 16th - Pittsburgh Penn - Status - Awaiting Response
Aug 17th - somewhere in north Penn - Status - NO IDEA YET
Aug 18th - Hartford CT - Festival - Status - BOOKED
Aug 19th - Easthampton Mass - Status - BOOKED
Aug 20th - Boston Mass - Status - NO IDEA YET
Aug 21st - Ithaca - the Abattoir - Status - BOOKED
Aug 22nd - Back to NYC - Status - NO IDEA YET

so we need help with the dates in BOLD can you help? can you? can you? can you?

email us here - thesteal@gmail.com and we will lavish you with affection.

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that is all. thank you.