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Bastion

About Me

Bastion are four upstanding young gentlemen from Brighton who play two-minute songs about topics including post-apocalyptic worlds, the mundanity of their nine-to-five lives and tales of local murderers.

We heartily recommend you examine the bands / zines / promoters in our top friends, in particular: The New Wave of Cut & Paste (Zine and Shows), Home of the Brave Records (Record Label), Serf Combat (Punkrock sounds) and Mr Dan Goudie (Producer / Sound Engineer Chief @ www.dangoudie.com)

We've been lucky enough to play with many sweet bands over the last two years including tours with Heroic Doses (r.i.p.) and Just Panic, and have played one off shows with bands such as P.R.F (USA) Blotto (Japan) The Dauntless Elite, The Arteries, The Cut Ups, The Shitty Limits, You Me & The Atom Bomb, Chillerton, Poison Heart (Belgium), Off With Their Heads (USA), 4FT Fingers, Four Letter Word and a shedload more.....Lucky eh?

Fifty per cent of Bastion (Dan Bell & Iain Buchanan) are comic geeks who write + draw for Underfire Comics . Please check out the weblink below for examples of their work.


We have a few original zombie design t-shirts left! (message us for what colours and sizes remain first) They're £5 inc. P&P, or £4 direct from shows.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/3/2006
Band Website: http://bastionisyourfriend.blogspot.com/
Band Members:

(From 'Top Bowler' to 'Bottom Bowler') Dan Bowden (Mouth) Dan Bell (Guitar) Dave Reid (Drums) Iain Buchanan (Bass)
Influences:
Sounds Like:

Demo No.1 'Zombies / ST'(2007) SOLD OUT 1.No Fun 2.The Fire Escape 3.Red Queen 4.Pthriasis 5.Velocity 6.S.O.S

Demo No.2 'Circa 1882' (2008) SOLD OUT 1.Welcome to my House 2.Verging on Violence 3.Trust Me 4.Nowhere Fast 5.It's Called Entrapment, Fucker!

UnScene 4: Punktastic Compilation 'Pthriasis' is featured on this compilation from Punktastic/Banquet Records, 99 Songs by UK punk/hardcore acts.


Nine Track Compilation for NWOCAP Christmas 2008 Party feat. Serf Combat, The Arteries, The Grizzley Ends, Just Add Monsters, The Dead City Stereo, Brito + Bastion SOLD OUT*

*Not actually sold out, but Bowden got drunk and lost the entire box of these after the night. Idiot.


Debut Album: 'Consequences' 1. Beasts 2. Big Yellow 3. One For The Road 4. Dooomed! 5. D.A.V.E.T.O.O. 6. Falling Down 7. Detectives 8. Trust Me 9. No Way! Jose! 10. Verging On Violence 11. I Don't Like Your Face 12. Make Slogans History 13. No Sleep 'Til Brighton 14. Velocity
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Lost London Records Split Ltd 7" Vinyl Format Featuring Moral Dilemma / The Kramers / Armed Response Unit
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Record Label: Home of the Motherfucking Brave!
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Proper Blog

Howdy, I finally got around to putting a 'proper' blog up - and copying numerous other bands - like we do best...http://bastionisyourfriend.blogspot.com/Ch-ch-check it out.Bowdenio.
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:24:00 GMT

Developments

This Friday 13th:Brighton, The Hobgoblin 7.15pm start.We're opening up the Off With Their Heads show on this date, the other supports are Attack! Vipers! (Ace South Coast Hardcore)The Blankheads (Ace ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:35:00 GMT

Vinyl Split + Album News + Gig!

Good Morning, Some titbits of news for whoever the sad soul is that reads this: Gig! We've been given one of the support slots for the Brighton Off With Their Heads show on 13/03/09 (Thanks Toby) - we...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:55:00 GMT

And one more for the hell of it...

Big Yellow: About as proper pop-punk punk as we can get considering our less than harmonious singing voices. This one's about the murder of a teacher in Brighton a few years ago, I think from the murd...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:03:00 GMT

Some new songs up

So, we have a couple of new songs up:No Way, Jose! is a little poppy hardcore ditty that Iain wrote most the music for and I tried to shoehorn as many references to things I like (Beastie Boys - Skill...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:11:00 GMT

So, thats us done..

For the year of 2008. Saturday was a blast - enjoyed every band who played, thanks to everyone in all the bands and thanks to everyone who came along, and especially those who dressed as equally ridic...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:20:00 GMT

Consequences Recording

So, recording was amazing. We used Transmission studios in Hove Laguna owned by a nice chap called Ally, really nice little studio, lots of interesting instruments including a small pink ucilaylee(sic...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:13:00 GMT

13th December NWOC&P Christmas Party Brucie Bonus

I'm even more excited for December now, have been listening to Arteries, Dead City Stereo, Brito and Grizzley Ends this morning, and I have a feeling it's going to be frickin' awesome! As a heads up,...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:17:00 GMT

The Bore: Consequences

Yeah yeah, I know these Blogs aren't really needed but lunchtimes are dull otherwise. So, main news is that we've changed the title of the album and with it the concept of the artwork. We're calling i...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:44:00 GMT

The Score: Bastion (6) vs (0) Hearing

Good morning, Album Update We had a rather productive evening last night, 6 new songs demo'd in Warner studios, Brighton - recordings are frankly shoddy due to us still learning them as...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:41:00 GMT