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DEBT Records is a label born out of troubled times, a label nurse-fed on the understanding that current music industry practices are failing both artists and listeners. DEBT IS A LABEL THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THAT INDUSTRY
Valentine's Day Giveaway!
PRESS RELEASE - DEBT RECORDS’ VALENTINE’S DAY GIVEAWAY
LOVE IS…
A free album from Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six
Manchester independent label Debt Records is offering you a Valentine’s Day gift that’ll outlast all those bouquets and boxes of chocolate (and probably the subsequent marriages and children too). Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six’s debut album Found Drowned is available on 14th February 2010 absolutely free.
The twelve track LP - recorded over the course of a ten day caffeine blur in a crowded Withington house - was completed in January 2008 and is only now being officially released after two years of the band flogging clingfilm-wrapped hand-illustrated versions for petrol money at gigs.
The group have achieved much acclaim since their inception in late 2006, playing with the likes of Supergrass and Motorhead, rubbing shoulders with jazz veterans Sun Ra’s Arkestra, adapting poems by John Cooper Clarke and even winning the support of the Hell’s Angels. In spite of this success, however, the near constant destruction of instruments, vehicles and equipment has meant that there’s never been enough money left over to press a record. Luckily for the band, The Community Foundation of Greater Manchester recently decided to help out and this long overdue album (the first of three records anticipated for this year) will at last be on general release.
But why give the record away for free? On Valentine’s Day of all days?
“Because,” explains song-writer and front-man Louis Barabbas, “Valentine’s Day is a wretched, gimmick-stricken, expensive excuse to hate yourself and this album is, contrastingly, all about love. Granted it isn’t about the radiant, hopeful, life-affirming aspects of love… the material is sordid, obsessive, manipulative and cynical - the perfect soundtrack to Valentine’s Day.”
The songs - gleeful romance tragedies that range from swing to folk to rock and back
again - are peppered with love metaphors that you’d be hard pressed to find in a
Hallmark card (such as “Relationships are like chickenpox, you’ve got to get immune
when you’re young”). This is the crux of the giveaway - it requires an act of creativity on
both sides: Go to www.debtrecords.net, fill out the contact form with the subject “Love
Is…” and send off your own definition (or leave the space enigmatically blank) to
receive a secret Found Drowned download key to the tracks and artwork.
If you miss the offer, the record will be out through the usual channels on 15th February. Stay tuned for Mother’s Day plans…
Comments
Giannicola
February 10, 2010 16:46
Love is missing you more the farer you are in space and time...
Ann-Marie Lawrence
February 11, 2010 12:39
Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my husband"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts
….Courtesy of Wikipedia
Jess
February 11, 2010 15:42
the tragicomedy that makes life more than an empty stage...and we all know something is better than nothing..
Laura
February 11, 2010 15:49
Love is simple (stolen)
Una Cassidy
February 11, 2010 19:56
Love is....complicated..frustrating...obsessive...hard work...and yet beauteous, joyful, carefree, passionate....
to quote Tennyson "It is better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all"
Sam
February 11, 2010 22:37
Love is short and life is always over in the morning.
Love is never having to go to Surrey.
Love is the giving of an umbrella in a back street boozer in Salford.
x
Rob
February 12, 2010 16:24
Love Is fighting the battle between my instinctive selfishness and the desire to make other people happy. If you can find balance from the chaos, you might occasionally glimpse real love.
Tom
February 13, 2010 23:05
Love is so simple yet so complicated...
Paul
February 14, 2010 00:35
Love is a good excuse for a drink.
Mark
February 14, 2010 09:37
Love is usually over in the morning!!!
Alejandro van Rooy
February 14, 2010 10:57
Love is what happens when you didn't believe in it anymore.
Matt
February 14, 2010 11:02
Love is...
either fools game or the most powerful force in the universe
Jam
February 14, 2010 13:21
love is... cabbage and chocolate soup.
sam
February 14, 2010 13:22
love is what you guys have lots of! givin ur album away for free thats awesome!
dan kennard
February 14, 2010 14:02
love is a pain in the heart, arse and wallet
Ben
February 14, 2010 14:15
Love is easily given but sometime hard to find
Katy
February 14, 2010 14:23
Love is wanting to spend all your time with someone, but understanding when they can't!
suse
February 14, 2010 15:22
Love is...
a behaviour not just a feeling
liz
February 14, 2010 15:52
Love is the enemy of apathy.
katt
February 14, 2010 16:05
love is someone drawing on you with a biro
ali
February 14, 2010 16:16
love is food for the soul, devour it while you can!
Lynnie Poohs
February 14, 2010 17:34
Love is........like a new pair of Doc Martens, when you first get them you can't stop looking at them, the longer you have them the better they become including creases and scuffs, you just love them for being them :-) x
laura
February 14, 2010 18:24
love is very difficult and not hollywood-like at all, but usually worth the effort (if it's really real...)
Julian Romero
February 14, 2010 19:36
Love depends on what culture you are but it at the end it is a universal common thing that melt all the living things
Jill
February 14, 2010 21:00
is pain...
Matt
February 14, 2010 22:58
Love is not buying your girlfriend a Valentines Day card or present, and her being remarkably calm about the let down.
BD'Urq
February 21, 2010 03:02
Love is ... living it, suffering because of it, thinking about it. The cicle will repeat
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