JL / handheldcinéclub

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After putting together Young Legionnaire’s videos ‘Numbers‘ and ‘Colossus‘ – Justin (handheldcinéclub) created a video for We Were Promised Jetpacks track ‘Medicine

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WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS – MEDICINE

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JL / Tell All Your Friends

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WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS (IT ALL WORKED OUT)

White Belt Yellow Tag released their new single ‘Tell Your Friends (It All Worked Out)’ yesterday.

Released through Distiller Records, London. It is self-produced and mixed by Chris Potter (The Verve), the single is taken from their debut album Methods which is due for release later this year.

WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS (IT ALL WORKED OUT) VIDEO

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JL / Methods Album Release

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WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – METHODS ALBUM

Methods will blow you away and take you through a journey of grandiose proportions. There isn’t one bad track on this album but then again these aren’t three teenagers who just got into music these are three very experienced and obviously talented musicians.

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JL / Always and Echoes Released

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WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – ALWAYS AND ECHOES

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Ahead of their debut full-length, White Belt Yellow Tagunleash ‘Always and Echoes. It’s reasonably high-tempo and exciting. The track goes straight for the jugular, with a minimal intro; tribal drums and crashing guitar creating a sound fitting somewhere in between Doves and the Bunnymen.


JL / Remains E.P

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WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – REMAINS E.P

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White Belt Yellow Tag have announced details of the release of a new EP, ‘Remains’, out on Monday October 19th 2009 through Distiller Records. Self-produced and mixed by Chris Potter (The Verve, Blur).

‘Remains’ is taken from the band’s recently recorded debut album ‘Methods’, an amazingly far-reaching and beguiling record. The pair’s song-writing nouse and Lockey’s “sonic alchemy” have combined to create something unique where epic wide-screen atmospherics work in harmony with moments of white-noise and fragile beauty.

Methods is due to be released in early 2010, but in the mean time the band will release and tour the incredible ‘Remains EP’ on the following dates:

OCTOBER
6th Cardiff Barfly
7th London Roundhouse Studio
8th Manchester Ruby Lounge
9th Leeds Cockpit
11th York Fibbers
12th Glasgow King Tuts
13th Derby Royal

JL / Your Not Invincible E.P

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WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – YOU’RE NOT INVINCIBLE

WhiteBeltYellowTag release their debut EP You’re Not Invincible on 6 April 2009, with the title track being named as ‘Track of the Day’ on Q Magazine’s website.

Released through Distiller Records, London their new 4 track EP ‘You’re Not Invincible’ is the first piece of material to be released, Lockey and Pilbin produced all four tracks in their own studio.

The self-produced 4-track EP features: ‘You’re Not Invincible’, ‘News’, ‘Picture All The Same’and ‘Song About Growing’, and can be bought here.

WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – YOUR NOT INVINCIBLE

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JL / Welcome WBYT

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Although a duo, made up of Justin Lockey and studio boffin bandmate Craig Pilbin, White Belt Yellow Tag have managed to conjure up a grand, sweeping, sound reminiscent, in part, of Doves or Editors, which has been winning them glowing endorsements from critics and DJs alike.

The EP was recently branded “the hottest record in the world” by Radio One‘s Zane Lowe – not that singer Lockey is getting carried away by all the positive feedback. He’s been here before.

Lockey is determined to keep his feet on the floor about his latest project. The band came about when he met Pilbin (a Chris Lowe to Lockey’s Neil Tennant) while working on a British Expeditionary Force album in the North East last year. As Lockey puts it, the pair have “both been around the block a bit” and this are determined to do it their own way.

“It’s great actually,” says the singer. “We don’t have to make lots of other people happy any more. This time is just us making the music we want to make. We got together by accident really. Craig happened to be working in the same studio where I was and we clicked. We started writing songs and it turned out they were really good. A couple of months later and here we are. We’re just winging it really, seeing what turns up.”

Having gone through the mill with YCNI:M, Lockey reckons he’s better prepared now to deal with the pitfalls of pop stardom and is looking forward to releasing a new album later this year with little pressure for it to perform.

“We’re not signed to a major label, which helps,” he says. “We’ve got more time to develop at our own pace now. We’re not 17-year-old kids any more desperate to be rock stars. Now we can take the more relaxed route. As long as I can pay the rent and feed my kids at the end of the day, I’m happy.”