SINGLELONELYDESPERATE

THANK YOU loads to everybody who came out to our recent shows with the fantastic COMANECHI!! We had the best ever time playing with them and we know they did too (cos they said so). It was a match made in heaven & we're really excited about doing more shows with them, which WILL happen!! This mutual appreciation circle-jerk is also going to be preserved very soon ON VINYL TOO!! In the next few months a COMANECHI and DIVORCE split 7" will be released on MEROK - stay tuned for more info on that!!

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We're getting MEGA-PSYCHED about our shows in February with the totally awesome BITCHES!!!!
If you don't know, they're an awesome bass & drums, girl & boy, loud & LOUDER two-piece from London and are punk-as-FUKK. They've already got a cassette available (released on the excellent DEATHBOMBARC label) and will have their debut self-released 7" EP "WINNERS" released in time for our shows together!!
GLASGOW: Feb 13th at The 13th Note with NORTH AMERICAN WAR and STAB TEEN
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EDINBURGH: Feb 14th at Sneaky Pete's with THE PINEAPPLE CHUNKS
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ALSO!!!!!!!
If you come to the Glasgow show, you'll get a ticket that will get you into ONE MORE TUNE at the Glasgow School Of Art for only £2!!!! We're also gonna be doing a special midnight show there too!!!
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So it's gonna be a hellova busy couple of nights for us!! But the way things are looking right now, these will be our last Scottish shows for a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time, so get down to them!!!
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Speaking of BITCHES and DEATHBOMBARC, you must get this right now!
We have a song included on "PRO-CREATION ROCKERS", an amazing compilation that's been put together by punk rhythm maniacs FOOT VILLAGE!! They asked all the bands who they loved that played with them on their recent European tour to contribute a track - so there's BITCHES, ULTIMATE THRUSH, BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI and tons more awesome music! It also includes to live recordings of two brand new, unreleased Foot Village songs that was recorded at our show together at the CCA!!
Best thing of all though, is that it's COMPLETELY FREE!!!!!!!!!
CLICK HERE AND DOWNLOAD THE FUCK OUT OF THIS NOW!!!!

(BTW the cover artwork was done by the amazing SERIPOP COLLECTIVE)
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Our guitarist Hillary has got all her BLOOD OF THE BULL songs up on Soundcloud for you to hear. CLICK HERE and have a listen. If you like the EP tracks you can download them FOR FREE TOO from the excellent Winning Sperm Party website HERE.
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COMING UP!! More shows in England at the end of March!!! We'll post all the dates up soon.
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NEW YEAR = FRESH MEAT

First off, a HUGE MASSIVE thanks to evereybody who totally LOST THEIR SHIT BIG STYLE for our set at Optimo's hogmanay party, that was totally insane!! The pit was epic, the ceiling was coming down... I can't believe they had to put four big burly security guards between us and the crowd, what a hoot!! So yeah, BIG THANKS, it was amazing!!!
We're not sitting still though, in just over two weeks time we're going to be playing two Scottish shows with our favourite sludge-punk duo COMANECHI!!!!!!!
GLASGOW:: Monday Jan 18th at Captains Rest with HOLY MOUNTAIN (TICKETS)
EDINBURGH:: Tuesday Jan 19th at Sneaky Petes with YOUR LOYAL SUBJECTS (TICKETS)
We fucked London up massively when we played with Comanechi at their album launch last month, we're insanely excited about these shows, they're going to RUIN YOU ALL!!






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BLOOD OF THE BULL

Like we mentioned in our previous post, our guitarist Hillary has her own personal musical project called BLOOD OF THE BULL.
Her music is really melodic, simple but not simplistic, and has a dark, brooding sense of foreboding bubbling just under the surface. To these ears she follows in the lineage of people like Mary Timony/Helium, Lois, The Spinanes and Heavens To Betsy, recalling the early days of the Kill Rock Stars and K record labels. It's great stuff!

The debut Blood Of The Bull ep has just been released on WINNING SPERM PARTY and is available to download for free, so there's no reason to not have a listen! Rory, who plays drums in Blood Of The Bull, also plays in THE BALLAD OF MABLE WONG (alongside Laurie from ULTIMATE THURSH). They've also had their debut ep released on WSP too, so get that too!!
Hillary and Rory are playing tomorrow night at The Captains Rest in Glasgow (also on the bill are our label-mates LOUISE McVEY & CRACKS IN THE CONCRETE, who have just had their debut ep released on OPTIMO MUSIC) - they don't get the chance to play live so often, probably because we swallow up almost all of Hillary's time musically, so those of you who are able, you should make it down to the show!

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MISTLETOE AND GRIND

Have you noticed? It's Christmas.

To celebrate the day when we all get together and give each other things (and the day the pope got a doing) we've got some presents to offer you by way of FREE MUSIC.
Here's a live mp3 of "Death Of You" by Comanechi (featuring VSO, Andy and Sinead from Divorce = COMANECHIVORCE!!) live at their album launch from December 11th in London in all it's filthy, fetid glory!!! DOWNLOAD!!!
Also, don't forget you can still get the live bootleg of our set with Deerhoof from Edinburgh on December 8th at the Winning Sperm Party website -- GET IT HERE!!!
Winning Sperm Party have also unleashed FOUR NEW RELEASES TODAY!! Among them is the debut EP by BLOOD OF THE BULL, which is our guitarist Hillary's own personal musical project. Her own songs are minimal, melodic and brooding, sort of harking back to the early days of Kill Rock Stars/K Records (Lois, The Spinanes, Mary Timony etc), sung by Hillary herself. She's a talented lady!! As with all W.S.P. releases, they're available to download for ABSOLUTELY FREE!! GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL!!!
Hope you all got what you wanted and some of you got what you needed. See you at hogmanay!!!
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C O M A N E C H I V O R C E

When we went to London to play at Comanechi's album launch, Simon & Keex asked us if VSO & Andy would join them on bass & drums for their last few songs - here's some brutal footage of us doing 'My Pussy' and 'Death Of You' - it totally fucking SLAYS!!!!!
Comanechi are absolutely fucking amazing and their album is a work of ferocious, brutal genius!! BUY IT HERE!!!!


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DEATH OF THE DECADE

We're extremely honoured to have been asked by the esteemed Twitch & Wilkes of OPTIMO (ESPACIO) to perform at their epic Hogmanay party at The Fruitmarket in Glasgow!!
It's known as a fact that the Optimo Hogmanay party is BY FAR the most hedonistic, excessive and outright FUN night happening on the night in Glasgow, if not Scotland!! Amazing music, amazing people, amazing party!!!!!
They always put together excellent line-ups for each year too, with the 2009 edition is not looking shabby in the slightest. Sets from DRUMS OF DEATH, HUDSON MOHAWKE, THE NIALLIST and Optimo themselves will be bringing in the new year and new decade. Regarding the Scottish-centric line-up, Optimo themselves explain that "As we leave the 2000s, we felt that it was a good idea to celebrate some of the immense talent that has come out of our fine city in recent years and invite some of the best artists this city has produced to come and perform." High praise indeed, making it all the more flattering that we've been included on the bill!! We'll do our best to not ruin yr buzz too much...!!!
Buy tickets HERE and HERE!!! Facebook info is HERE

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