HONEYFEET!

18 March 2010

NEW SIGNING … NEW SIGNING … NEW SIGNING … NEW SIGNING … NEW SIGNING

We are overjoyed to announce that Debt Records has now signed the wonderful, incomparable HONEYFEET. We’ve been hoping this would happen for some time now, they really are one of the greatest outfits on the gig circuit. We’ll be properly updating the website in due course to make room for their formidable boots to sit comfortably in the label’s hearth.

In the meantime, check out their music and upcoming shows on the Honeyfeet myspace

And join their facebook page for updates and discussion

Joy of joys.

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LOVE IS...

15 February 2010

You wrote to us in droves, like swarms of angry cupids, some wanting to take advantage of our Valentine’s Day album giveaway, some merely wanting to share their innermost feelings about LOVE.

So, what did you have to say for yourselves?

Here are a few of the responses we got (sorry, couldn’t publish them all - partly due to sheer numbers, partly for the sake of decency!)

LOVE IS…

…that indefinable feeling that sticks two together even when the glue stops working

… always being on your side even when you’re not on your own side.

…a hungarian poetry recital

…sadly slowing down my heart

…not buying your girlfriend a Valentines Day card or present, and her being remarkably calm about the let down.

…never running out of Marmite!

…champagne at lunch time and chunky Fanny Burney through a drunken haze in the afternoon.

…nearly as good as getting a free album

…freedom?

… someone that understands you when everyone else is left scratching their heads

… pain…

…never lost, just sometimes misplaced.

…everything

…A nice cup of tea being made for you just round about 3 in the afternoon. (biscuit/roll up optional)

…the only true adventure that keeps me guessing, sustained by action, communication and belief in yourself as much as trust in the other.

…a universal common thing that melt all the living things

…was and always will be exhausting- in a good way mostly.

…patient … a losing game … in the air … blind … just another word i never learned to pronounce

…very difficult and not hollywood-like at all, but usually worth the effort (if it’s really real…)

…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

…getting stuff free, especially good music!

…saying ‘I love you’ and doing (free) nice things every day and not just because it’s Valentine’s Day and the media say that you should spend lots of money doing it!!!

…food for the soul, devour it while you can!

…love is someone drawing on you with a biro

…the enemy of apathy.

…like a box of chocolates: you didn’t ask for it in the first place but you just can’t help dipping-in, pinching all the good stuff & feeling guilty about throwing away the hard bits.

…not what you think it is…

…wanting to spend all your time with someone, but understanding when they can’t!

…the slowest heart attack you will ever have.

…a pain in the heart, arse and wallet

…knowing someone has your back and you will always have theirs

…cabbage and chocolate soup.

…better than a warm trombone

…giving me a free download of an album. love is loving a free download. love is defining love.

…not for me

…a near-death experience.

…either a fools game or the most powerful force in the universe

…what happens when you didn’t believe in it anymore.

…blind… So why is lingerie so popular?!?

…a good excuse for a drink.

…usually over in the morning!!!

…like a plane ride - a huge amount of anticipation and uncertainty, a quick take off and takes ages to land. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes you get cheated. And it’s bloody expensive too.

…incurable

…an illusion lost in the mist of some distant misunderstanding, and a constant warmth embracing my solitary heart.

…never having to say ‘that’s disgusting’

…a fascinating combinations of chemical reactions in the brain. Rather than making love seem less special that fact we can understand it makes it even more immense.

…whatever you want it to be

…a green-eyed monster.  No, that’s jealousy.  Oh wait, what’s the difference?

…short-sighted

…the ultimate selfishness.

…not about looking in each others eyes …. it’s about looking in the same direction

…gleefully severing off an appendage of your choice then through the subsequent off-kilter blinking, nauseating pain and suffocating dizziness finding that the flailing, spurting stump has in its sanguinary writhings produced a dazzlingly accurate replica of your true and only heart’s desire, Les Dennis

…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.

…a morpheme which, through convention,now represents a feeling of affection from one human to another. Love is misleading. You don’t need to be loved back in order to love. But surely the more love you give, the more you will get back. Be loving.

…short and life is always over in the morning. …never having to go to Surrey. …the giving of an umbrella in a back street boozer in Salford.

…not a crackhouse, it’s a crackhome.

…Complicated… painful… obsessive…. hardwork.. but also beauteous, joyful, carefree and passionate….. to quote Tennyson “It is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all”

…complicated..frustrating…obsessive…hard work…and yet beauteous, joyful, carefree, passionate….

…difficult, frustrating, heartbreaking… but always worth it

…the tragicomedy that makes life more than an empty stage…and we all know something is better than nothing..

…free, at least, it should, but every year as the 14th draws near, we wrestle ideas from behind blind eyes and between deaf ears in a crass attempt to tempt the attentions of those who are subjects of our amorous intentions, only to find that behind the lines that divide the sexes, the lovers , the ex’s, that money talks, but bullshit walks………

…everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

…a dangerous and exiting poison that makes us think for a brief moment that our life has meaning. But when you’re alone, you realize that love is a horrible mirage and the only true love is the love for yourself. Women let me go…

And here’s a new one from Louis Barabbas:

LOVE IS…not some open road we walk in pairs. It is an open wound we salt with promises.

“Found Drowned” by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six is now on general release.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

14 February 2010

Well it’s Valentine’s Day and the Debt Set are scattered across the world wondering what all the fuss is about. But, since romance is the number one cause of song-writing, we thought that it was appropriate for a record label to get in on the action.

As you may know, Debt Records is giving away “Found Drowned” by Louis Barabbas and The Bedlam Six for free (today only!) as an antidote to all the rose-tinted mania. To claim your free download simply go to The Debt Records contact section and write a message with the subject line “Love Is…”. We will then send you a message with a special download key. Offer is open globally until midnight (we will take timezones into account - if you message us on monday we’ll probably just assume you’re in Samoa).

Many of you have already sent us your definitions and they’re absolutely brilliant! You’ll be hearing from us before the day is out.

In the meantime, give your lover a kiss from us…

(Illustration by Rebekah Joy Shirley www.rebekahshirley.com)

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Debt On The Net

10 January 2010

The brand new Debt Records website is now fully operational. Amongst its virtual pages you will find the particulars of our principal signings, links to venerable contemporaries and doffed caps towards our collaborators.

At Debt we are all achingly aware of the fearsome oscillations buzzing up from the very nucleus of the music industry and, with that in mind, we intend for this website (our primary hub) to reflect this ever-changing environment. Though the fundamentals of our creed remain stolidly unyielding we do not intend to remain static in anything we do. Consequently the news page of this site will be regularly updated with reports of our artists’ releases, collaborations, tours and deals; we will also upload any interesting industry mutterings that come our way from the various schmoozy events we’re obliged to attend. The music player will also be perpetually fed with whatever new material our people are putting out.

If you’d like to contact us then be assured that is checked daily (including weekends) so feel free to get in touch for more information about anything we or our affiliates are up to.

COMING SOON: A magazine edited by the Debt Set with content contributed by writers from across the world as well as diaries written by our touring artists and poetry from the finest scribes we come across. Plus… no record label would be complete without an online shop containing physical records as well as downloads, plus assorted merchandise. Watch this space…

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