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NEWS
New Download, direct from the band only - Who Fingered Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘If Rocks Salad is the good looking slow ballad, Who Fingered Rock 'n' Roll,’ is probably the best opener line in Rock for many a year according to Alan McGee. Respected US producer Sir Paul Kolderie, has said it’s ‘a hit in the old sense of the word’. It certainly puts it to you like better years gone by, for this is not a song about being stood up in a carpark. Of those types of bands it asks Who Put The Band Back On The Road? MOJO magazine have said that it ‘starts the album with an irresistible neo-Stones swagger’. Finally it points the finger to large record labels who have ‘Put The Button To Remote Control,’ and devalued the industry so much that its 29pence for a download, making it near impossible for artists to work without the machine. Big issues, big memorable sound. Is that a moustache the bassist is wearing that you hear? This track download is only available from the cornershop.com website. The fightback starts here! ‘Who Fingered Rock n Roll… another enormously catchy pop song from a band who are masters of the art, when they choose to show it and re-enter the fray’ John Mulvey, Uncut -------------------------- The new longplayer “Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast” is about to be dropped. It comes in full colour glory, and so good we had to do a double vinyl LP – Tjinder Singh has taken a long run-up and done it. Certified. We know that we are on to something when the phone just has not stopped shaking our coffee table, and these reactions are coming in thick and fast: Oshira Matagosi of the Japanese x-reflex magazine has said “its the best album this decade since their last album this decade” & that's not a bad way to start off the century. Repeated visits, have pointed up multiple joys: perfect Cornershop nuggets like “Soul School” and perhaps best of all, Tjinder’s latest psychedelic extrapolation of Punjabi folk, “Free Love”, (without Noel Gallagher on board this time). “Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast” sounds like a mighty summer record from here.” John Mulvey, Uncut Cornershop re-engineer the seeds of pop and sow them in the hedgerows of memory and intuition.” Alastair McKay, Uncut “Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast”, this bold fresh sounding album makes them a candidate for the quintessential 21st century pop group. Mike Barnes, MOJO We think it’s fair to say that funky days are back again!
RECORD RELEASE We are pleased to be releasing the 1st single (from our forthcoming album) out on Tuesday 26 May.
"In 1974, in his State address to Congress, Gurkhal Surjan, Patwallia Dist., stated that the world will be tested by Texas Instruments, and English diction." These are the anti-war, pro-people words from the new single ‘The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making)‘on our own ample play label. Musically it’s different, from the trombone/sitar get-go, right down to its funk outro, with country piano added for good measure. Different but typically Cornershop:
The B. side is an etch by NYC's Jeffrey Lewis depicting the super dooper Jaganath, whom can circumference the earth in 5 steps.
ROLL OFF REMIX Born for his first time in Italy, Solo now makes experimental music in London, and sound-engineering songs for some friends, such as Mowgli, Hannah Holland, S.Kotey of Chicken Lips.. together with crafting his own genre he calls "Midget House" . 2009 is already full of Solo music, & luckily for us a Remix of “The Roll Off Characteristics” best played in the early hours of night, is part of it.
NEW WEBSITE – NEW CORNERSHOP ON-LINE SHOP Brand new at the Cornershop.com site is the Cornershop On-Line Shop. Here both physical products can be ordered via the tried and trusted pigeon postal service and digital products can be downloaded securely via Paypal. Local shops are to be supplied via the Cargo Distribution Network.
ROLL OFF VIDEO Well before the current interest in India as a different locational source for film, Chicago’s award winning Grafitti artist turned award winning Film-maker and Designer Prashant Bhargava put together his film Patang – this feature length drama is set during the jubilant atmosphere of India's largest kite festival. Luckily for us he also did a video for “The Roll Off Characteristics” LIVE DATES IN THE SUMMER Around the release of the new Cornershop album this summer, the band will be playing a few low-key dates, thus JULY AUGUST THANK YOUS There are too many people to thank, even too many to mention, but we do provide here a list of those that need to be given special mention: ROLL ON For some time now we have been looking to see which was the best way to put the new material out and due to the dire circumstances the industry has found itself in we have concluded to do as much ourselves as is physically possible. This is in keeping with how Cornershop has done things in the past, and what we have strived to do since starting the band – the William Morris theory has always been our raja raag, and it was strangely due to William Morris and his splendid public beard that brought Tjinder and Ben together as friends in the first instance. On the way they have collated many a good friend, and have been thankful for the support that enthusiast Cornershop fans have bestowed upon the group. Sometimes this has been in the form of notes to us via info@cornershop.com, or our facebook and myspace pages, but also by way of doing videos for us, helping out day to day, staying up all hours to hand craft our screen printed bags, etc. It has and is always welcome, and we commend you for it. REGISTER ON E-LIST We won’t disturb you too often but free downloads for those on the e-list.
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NOVEMBER 08
People people, Cornershop's track "Candyman" has been used by a rather good advert in the USA, "Heavy Soup" has been used in a bodily health advert in Indonesia, genius & most respected poet John Hegley is using "Brimful of Asha" to close his shows by getting kids 'singing and dancing' (Some of you might remember Mr Hegley wrote a BBC Radio 4 play in which he had a character called 'Tjinder'). Cornershop are involved with photographer Rankin in the Youth Music "Destroy" campaign, more info here:
Tjinder and Ben appear about the 4 min mark. Thanks for all the support we have been getting that has been sent direct to Rock forward |
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LIVE DATES THIS SUMMER Wednesday 22 Milan Parklife Festival Monday 27 Manchester Moho Tuesday 28 Bristol Thekla Wednesday 29 London Heaven Friday 31 Birmingham Academy AUGUST Sunday 2 Kendal Calling
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