Ooh, BSP stuff. I only have the two albums, being a convert after seeing them in a pub some years ago. Any B-sides would be appreciated as I try to replenish my computer which has lost all the rarities it had on it a year ago.

b-sides uploaded

 

check them in the NON-CP multimedia

http://britishseapower.co.uk/mailinglistatomdownload/

 

 

OMG New song and its fucking amazing IMO

 

People ,after one listen I can say its the song of the year so far

British Sea Power release free download

 

The release coincides with their new EP

 

British Sea Power have announced that they have released a first taste of their new EP to all fans on their mailing list.

 

The new track 'Atom' is now available for download from today (September 25) on their official website Britishseapower.co.uk.

 

The band's third album, 'Do You Like Rock Music?', will be released in January.

 

Meanwhile, British Sea Power's new five-track EP 'Krankenhaus?' is set for release digitally on October 8.

 

The full tracklisting is as follows:

 

'Atom' (edit)

'Down On The Ground'

'Straight Down The Line'

'Hearing Aid'

'Pelican'

'Water Tower' (video)

'The Spirit Of St Louis' (live at The Forum, video)

Atom is - simply - awesome, awwwww. Can't wait for their third album.

British Sea Power are a lot better than Arcade Fire.

 

plus I discovered arcade fire long time before bsp

Atom is SO GOOD!! :guitarist: WOHOO!

yes, indeed.

(January 2008, January 2008, "do you like rock music?")

Yes old news,krankenhaus is growing on me

You can almost sense the Godspeed influence in this EP, quite mostly from the beginning and ending of the song "Pelican". :nice:

BRITISH SEA POWER

Newsboost Granite

13 November 2007

 

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*New single Waving Flags - full track-listing.

*Rock, livestock, shipping, attractive underwear.

*Live-on-tour report from the Dales and the demimonde

 

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A lot of bands talk about getting you high. Some people get themselves high. Last Friday night, British Sea Power removed us all from ground level - literally, legally, naturally. The venue was the Tan Hill Inn - at 1,732 feet above sea level, the highest pub in Britain. Here, truly, was rock music in the most exalted context.

 

It was at Tan Hill and in North London that the recent BSP UK tour came to a wonderful, undimming conclusion. First there was a night up on the Yorkshire moors, not far from the villages of Crackpot, Scargill and Booze, but still miles from anywhere. There, up among the stars, beside the roosting red grouse, deep in the black, black night, BSP played one of the most stunning shows of their lifetime. Next it was south to the big city, for the big burlesque bounty of the White Mischief night. There, to both BSP loyalists and boys and girls dressed in the most provocative Crimea-era crinolines, this band once again played with irreducible vigour and sense of occasion.

 

Thank you to everyone who attended the tour. There were many remarkable hours and minutes - looking on as BSP played beneath the stately 18th century dome in All Saints Church in Newcastle; heading down the River Mersey as the band prepared to play aboard a 1962 Cammel Laird ferry, the Merchant Vessel Royal Daffodil. Those dates were memorable; Tan Hill was unforgettable.

 

We arrived as the sun was setting over the beautifully austere expanse of rock and heather. The BSP crowd began to squeeze in beside the open fires; a duck sat unconcerned on the stone floor by the bar. Indeed, there was a wealth of welcoming livestock - creating a mood that was less Animal Farm, more Animal Pub. As more people arrived, emerging drinking patterns gave the evening a suitably Orwellian slogan: ‘Four pints good, two pints bad.’ At Tan Hill there is a pub cat and a couple of pub dogs. There is also a pub sheep - Tanny, a crisp-eating, bar-dwelling Swaledale/Lincoln cross.

 

BSP took to the stage. They did so with an elemental potency that seemed to channel the bleak majesty of the setting - the endless, magnificent melancholy of the moors. Bit by bit, pint of Black Sheep bitter by pint of Black Sheep bitter, the set grew into something of catastrophic glee. It was marvellous to see this music being lapped up by both BSP regulars and rosy-faced locals in puffer jackets and riding boots. The set ended with both band and audience members balancing precariously up on the beams. But even then the night was far from over. Revelry continued with a mass singalong of the ancient BSP track A Wooden Horse - through in the lounge bar, led by Noble on piano. We slept where we fell.

 

The next morning your correspondent was transported to London in a BSP-affiliated Audi, registration M40 BSP (one of a growing numbers of vehicles with BSP-specific custom plates). Our destination was the Scala in King’s Cross - on Saturday home to the polyandrous pleasure-fest of the White Mischief night. Here again was fascinating and uplifting context. BSP were playing alongside the North Korean vaudeville of Fancy Chance, alongside the contemporary burlesque of Trixie Malicious and Red Sarah. The audience were impressively togged - mixing inventive millinery with some very well chosen bustiers. All very much much fanny by gaslight - but, of course, in the nicest possible way.

 

The BSP set was a big, blasting wave of joyous sturm und drang. Again, it was inspiring to see old-hands and semi-naked newcomers all looking on with rapturous disbelief. There was a man dressed as a big panda and a woman dressed as Lillie Langtry impersonating Kaiser Wilhelm II. Well done her. BSP concluded with a nail-gun medley of Spirit Of St Louis/The Scottish Wildlife Experience/More Spirit Of St Louis. Frontman Yan spent most of this section doing crowd-surfing handstands. Guitarist Noble played in full effect from 30 feet up, high on the upper balcony. Thank heavens they’d invested in those lengthier guitar leads.

 

Special thanks to the guest vocalists who joined BSP for the Scala performance of Waving Flags - the super-style Brighton-based singer-songwriter Lisa Lindley-Jones and glamorous Sarah Williams of The Research. Special thanks also to Tobias of glam-indigenes Kunta Kinte who organised and promoted the whole White Mischief jamwagon - a real feat of on-it entertainment logistics.

 

WAVING FLAGS SINGLE. And now news on the forthcoming BSP single - Waving Flags. This track has already been praised skyward by The Guardian: “Mark my words, this monstrous Arcade Fire-style explosion of heart-shattering reverb, battle-cry drums and choral melody will be the festival song of 2008.”

 

Such reference to the respected Canadians of Arcade Fire is interesting here. Following the release of BSP’s debut album in 2003 and before his own first album, Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler would attend BSP shows in Canada. Such notions of congress and confluence across nations and across oceans are very much appropriate to the Waving Flags single. The themes: nationalism, sport, quality lager, internationalism.

 

Waving Flags is released on 7 January on CD, two different limited-edition seven-inch singles and as download. The album Do You Like Rock Music? will follow on 14 January. The full single tracklisting is as follows.

 

Compact disc:

1. Waving Flags

2. Everybody Must Be Saved

 

Seven-inch No. 1:

A-side. Waving Flags

B-side. Ooby Dooby Doo

 

Seven-inch No. 2:

A-side. Waving Flags (Wandering Horn Instrumental)

B-side. Elizabeth And Susan Meet The Pelican

 

Downloads:

Waving Flags (Single Version)

Waving Flags (Hotel 2 Tango Demo Version)

Waving Flags (White Mischief Live Version)

 

The download Single Version of Waving Flags will be available from the usual on-line retailers. The Hotel 2 Tango and White Mischief download versions will be available EXCLUSIVELY from the on-line retailer http://www.recordstore.co.uk. Everyone ordering the Waving Flags single from recordstore.co.uk will also be entered for an exclusive BSP competition. The prize will be a unique and hand-finished item of Sea Power paraphernalia - more details soon. (No purchase is necessary to enter competition. Alternatively enter by post, including your email details and contact phone number, to: The Manager, Recordstore.co.uk, Unit 5, Waldo Works, Waldo Rd, London, NW10 6AW). Fans of the Figurine Panini experience will be interested to know that the Waving Flags CD comes with a sticker.

 

BUYER BEWARE! The Hotel 2 Tango and White Mischief download versions of Waving Flags will, of course, brim with the primordial crackle of the real-time rock creative process. Those seeking the production values of, say, Def Leppard may be disappointed. The rest of us will froth with unsaddled joy.

 

SHOPPING NOTE! The recordstore.co.uk gang are offering two value-for-money BSP packages. The CD and two seven-singles - all three formats - are available for a fairly remarkable total price of £3.00. More info here:

 

http://tinyurl.com/2v7hq6

 

For a total of £4.00 you can buy all three physical formats plus the two exclusive downloads. What a laugh! More info here:

 

http://tinyurl.com/2va923

 

Such all-hands-to-the-pump retail endeavour will assist British Sea Power in their twin ambitions for 2008: a) having enough food to eat, b) uniting ALL THE PEOPLE in a spirit of collective drunkenness and collective lack of fear of the other people living on the other side of the hill.

 

As BSP’s Yan says of Waving Flags: “The aim of this record is to have Poles dancing with Slovaks, Romanians dancing with the Welsh, Arsene Wenger dancing with Alex Ferguson and everyone singing this song. We’re better together than we are apart - all together and nice and drunk. The East is maybe the future of all of us lot in the West, so long live the mighty power-chords of trans-national rock music.”

 

With that and memories of the rock duck of Animal Pub we will say goodbye and wish you well. Pausing only to note that respected Brizzle/Bath comedian and music-ist Bill Bailey declared himself for BSP in the recent issue of the Observer Music Monthly: “I like their streak of British eccentricity. Any band who have a giant bear on stage are OK with me.” For now, the bear is no longer with us. But British Sea Power are still here.

 

With thanks.

 

Yours,

The Secretary

Ordered :)

got the mail too,not chance for me to order it :(

Didn't know they recorded it at Hotel 2 Tango as well :cool:

Pre-ordered the new CD :cool:

Oh cool,I will hoepfully buy it in music stores somewhere here in Slovakia

BRITISH SEA POWER

Newsboost Dolomite

15 November 2007

 

* UK and Irish dates.

* Hottest Record In The World Ever.

* Desirable new merchandise, including bag.

* Brian Clough and food on table Vs Hitler and Sting.

 

Kim Yong-il and Han Duck-soo have spoken for the first time in 15 years. In the same spirit as the North and South Korean prime ministers meeting up for a chat, British Sea Power have been communicating widely this week. The radio waves have been alive!

 

On Monday on Radio 1, Zane Lowe made forthcoming BSP single Waving Flags his 'Hottest Record In The World Ever'. On the 6 Music Round Table panel vote with Steve Lamacq, Waving Flags triumphed over Fightin' Amy Winehouse, The Futureheads and even Wyclef Jean. Marc Riley and John Kennedy also weighed in with style on 6 Music and XFM. Special mention must go to Radcliffe and Maconie and their Radio 2 show. First they played the new BSP track Canvey Island - and then discussed it with vigour. The next night they announced the BSP 'Rock Music/Non-Rock Music' initiative to the great British public - more below. As Stuart Maconie insisted, "This is boardgame everyone will be playing this Christmas."

 

On the print front, there was a rapturous review of BSP's recent Scala show in leading UK newspaper The Independent: "Precise... primal... one of our most compelling bands." To read the review:

 

http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article3164444.ece

 

Better still, there is more BSP live-on-tour rock music on the way. The following UK and Irish dates are now confirmed.

 

Thurs 17 Jan - Belfast Spring And Airbrake

Fri 18 Jan - Dublin Whelan's (Tel: 00 353 1890 200 078)

Sun 20 Jan - Norwich Waterfront (Tel: 01603 508 050)

Mon 21 Jan - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (Tel: 023 9286 3911)

Tues 22 Jan - Nottingham Rescue Rooms (Tel: 0871 3100 000)

Weds 23 Jan - Leeds Irish Centre (Tel: 0113 245 5570)

Thurs 24 Jan - Kendal Brewery (Tel: 0871 424 4444)

Sat 26 Jan - Glasgow The Arches (Tel: 08444 999 990)

Sun 27 Jan - Manchester Academy 2 (Tel: 0161 832 1111)

Mon 28 Jan - Oxford Academy (Tel: 0844 477 2000)

Tues 29 Jan - Brighton Komedia (Tel: 01273 647100)

Thurs 31 Jan - London Koko (0870 0600 100)

 

24-hour credit-card line: 0870 2200 260

Most tickets online at http://www.gigsandtours.com

 

All shows will feature beer bar and amplified rock music. And we would like to further canvass your views on these important areas.

 

Perhaps the overriding theme of the forthcoming BSP album, Do You Like Rock Music?, is good versus evil. Or rock music versus non-rock music. For, surely, 'rock music' and 'non-rock music' are synonyms for all that this is truly good and truly bad in this world.

 

To this end, BSP are compiling a list of all that is truly rock music and all that is truly non-rock music - please see the starter selections below.

 

The enlightened radio broadcasters Radcliffe and Maconie have already come to our assistance, inviting entries for the fields of rock music and non-rock music on their Radio 2 show. Radcliffe and Maconie opened this important contemporary debate on Thursday 15 November.

 

You can listen again at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffemaconie/

 

The BSP rock/non-rock content starts about eight minutes in. (You can also listen again to the track Canvey Island - about 18 mins in on the Wednesday show).

 

Please do suggest your own rock/non-rock dipoles and include them on this BSP Forum thread: http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/forum.htm

 

Even better if you also fancy e-mailing your rock/non-rock suggestions to Radcliffe and Maconie:

 

[email protected]

 

And, of course, do feel at liberty to froth, fight and disagree. But, REMEMBER, in their self-sealed role as the moment's supreme rock-music authority, BSP will have final say. Oh yeah.

 

ROCK MUSIC: Brian Clough, Iggy Pop, Little Richard, Tommy The Buzzard, second-hand bicycles, Charles Francis, Johnny Kingdom, Jose Mourinho, sweet chestnuts, Jamelia, having enough food to eat, Bob Nastanovich Of Pavement, Winston Churchill, Wayne Coyne, affordable cider, Roy Keane, The Who, Jordan, Thin Lizzy, Big Daddy, Arthur Brown, James Brown, Ian Brown, Pamela Brown, The Brown Bottle, Hedy Lamarr, dominoes, cherry wood, Bill Clinton, soap, Nick Cave, good manners, Ol' Dirty Bastard.

 

NON-ROCK MUSIC: U2, Hitler, Royal rat Prince Harry shooting hen harriers (allegedly), the Red Hot Chili Peppers, continental lager made in Britain, malnutrition, being the bassist in a Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band, George Bush, Kevlar, Green Day (aka The American Alarm), Jlo, Tony Blair still being a politician when he should be reforming his Rolling Stones-style rock band, Nine Inch Nails, accidentally shooting the wrong person on a train, Sting, owning more mobile phones than you have hands, shower gel, being seen at a Rolling Stones after-show party.

 

Finally, please note that there are some remarkable new product lines now available at the BSP web shop: http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/shop.htm.

 

These include a brown T-shirt with a horse brass and motivational slogan, plus a shopping bag and mugs, stickers, hair pomade and tats.

 

But which are rock music? Surely not the latter?

 

With thanks.

 

Yours,

The Secretary

Have you fucking heard the leak????

 

Easily the album of the year!!!!!

I'm relatively new to BSP.

 

Good grief, how good is the new record? :dance:

 

Breakthrough album, definitely.

 

Lights Out For Darker Skies is a tune.

I'm relatively new to BSP.

 

Good grief, how good is the new record? :dance:

 

Breakthrough album, definitely.

 

Lights Out For Darker Skies is a tune.

 

yeah and intro with outro are immense

Haven't heard any of their new stuff yet, still hoping I can hold out until the 14th. I can't, but I'm hoping. Will be in Leeds for their tour too, I had to miss the Bradford one a couple of months ago.

 

Thanks for the B-sides you posted by the way Dave, I'm not sure I ever said thank you for it which is a most selfish and stupid way to behave. Any recommendations because, much as I love the albums, I haven't found many greats in there apart from the St. Louis EP?

you mean which songs are good???

Haven't heard any of their new stuff yet, still hoping I can hold out until the 14th. I can't, but I'm hoping. Will be in Leeds for their tour too, I had to miss the Bradford one a couple of months ago.

 

Thanks for the B-sides you posted by the way Dave, I'm not sure I ever said thank you for it which is a most selfish and stupid way to behave. Any recommendations because, much as I love the albums, I haven't found many greats in there apart from the St. Louis EP?

 

I posted b-sides? :stunned:

Wow, there's a hole I just keep digging. I think I meant to apologise to Odnes Marinot instead. But still, what does anyone who has the b-sides think of them?

I dont have their b-sides yet,Dave,could you find any of them?