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7"
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19:11
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
HOT CAKES
For a limited time only...
Really expensive copies of the S/T record
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RJP
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17:43
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
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?
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RJP
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10:39
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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.
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01:09
Sunday, January 04, 2009
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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08:18
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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
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The Steal
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15:58
Saturday, November 15, 2008
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
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The Steal
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20:18
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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...
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