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The Lodger

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OUR SECOND ALBUM 'LIFE IS SWEET' IS OUT NOW! /
Tracklisting:
1. My Finest Hour 2. The Good Old Days 3. Falling Down 4. Honey 5. The Conversation 6. A Hero's Welcome 7. A Year Since Last Summer 8. An Unwelcome Guest 9. Running Low 10. Nothing Left (To Say) 11. Famous Last Words
Buy in UK - http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type =sku&sku=300056
Buy in Germany - http://www.amazon.de/Life-Sweet-Lodger/dp/B0016420QQ/ref=sr_ 1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1211119326&sr=8-1
Buy in USA - http://www.amazon.com/Life-Sweet-Lodger/dp/B00163LU9U/ref=sr _1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1211119362&sr=8-1
Buy in Japan - http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2684631

NEW SINGLE "THE GOOD OLD DAYS" OUT NOW!
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BUY OUR DEBUT ALBUM ON CD!
Our debut album "Grown-Ups" was released in the UK on Monday June 11th 2007 on Angular Records (CD/download) and in North America/Canada on Monday June 4th 2007 on Slumberland Records (CD/LP worldwide).
Tracklisting:
1. Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion / 2. Kicking Sand / 3. Getting Special / 4. You Got Me Wrong / 5. A Free Period / 6. Simply Left Behind / 7. My Advice Is On Loan / 8. Let Her Go / 9. Watching / 10. Unsatisfied / 11. The Story's Over / 12. Not So Fast / 13. Bye Bye / 14. Let's Make A Pact
CLICK HERE TO BUY THE 12" VERSION!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM FROM ITUNES!
STORY
The Lodger was formed inside the mind of Ben Siddall inside an LS6 bedsit.
After 3 sold-out limited 7s and touring around the UK and Europe with bands such as The Long Blondes and The Research, the group released their debut album “Grown-Ups”, produced by Alan Smyth and James Ford, in June 2007 on Angular Records in the UK, Slumberland Records in the US, Fabtone in Japan and Speak N Spell in Australia.
Critical acclaim for the album followed, particularly on the blogs; the band have featured heavily on the elbo.ws charts since the release along with heavy rotation on US college radio and other stations worldwide.
The album was voted as 62nd best of 2007 on www.amazon.com and 95th in Woxy.com's Top 97 of '07.
The Lodger completed their first tour of the USA in October 2007 and then entered the studio to record their 2nd album in November.
After touring Europe with The Long Blondes in early 2008, the group's second album "Life is Sweet" was released in May 2008.Over the summer The Lodger are playing a couple of festivals and embark on their first tour of Japan, alongside rehearsing new songs for their third as-yet-untitled album, which they intend to record before the year is out.
DISCOGRAPHY
CD - Dance to the Radio: Leeds featuring Unsatisfied (Dance to the Radio) April 2005
7" single - Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion (Dance to the Radio) May 2005
Split 7" single - Getting Special (Wrath) June 2005
CD on front of Thee Humbug Issue 3 featuring Unsatisfied (Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation) September 2005
7" single - Watching/Not So Fast (Double Dragon) December 2005
CD - What We All Want featuring You Got Me Wrong (Dance to the Radio) February 2006
7" single - Let Her Go (Angular) May 2006
CD - Blue Skies Up: Welcome to the New Pop Revolution featuring Not So Fast (Dogbox) May 2006
CD - Future Love Songs featuring Simply Left Behind (Angular) Nov 2006
CD - On the Bone Vol 1 featuring Let's Make A Pact (On the Bone) Feb 2007
Digital Download single - Kicking Sand/Centuries (Angular) Apr 2007
CD/LP - Grown-Ups (Angular/Speak N Spell/Noise Deluxe/Fabtone/Slumberland) June 2007
7" single - The Good Old Days (Bad Sneakers Records) May 2008
CD/LP - Life Is Sweet (Bad Sneakers Records/Slumberland/Noise Deluxe/Fabtone) May 2008
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/19/2005
Band Website: thelodgersblog.blogspot.com
Band Members: The Good Old Days

Kicking Sand

Let Her Go

THE LODGER: Ben - singing, the guitar. Joe - the bass guitar. Bruce - the drums, singing + Tim - lap steel/2nd guitar joining the band live + occasionally Sarah - background vocals, percussion.

CONTACTS:

Management: [email protected]

Band: [email protected]

UK label: [email protected]

US label: [email protected]

German label: [email protected]

Japan label: [email protected]

UK press enquiries: [email protected]

UK radio + tv enquiries: [email protected]

USA press enquiries: [email protected]

USA radio enquiries: [email protected]

Germany/Aus/Switz press/radio enquiries: [email protected]

Influences: Lots.
Sounds Like: Pop Music.
Record Label: Bad Sneakers(UK) Slumberland (US)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ben is writing songs

HiThought we'd just check in and say a fleeting 'hello'....well, it's been a bloody nice summer, thanks to everyone that saw us at the Faraday festival in Barcelona, Indietracks in the UK and those wh...
Posted by The Lodger on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:05:00 PST

New blog

The latest news from The Lodger's world can be found here.http://www.thelodgersblog.blogspot.comx...
Posted by The Lodger on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:51:00 PST

The Lodger on tour in Japan this week!

The Lodger are excited to be going on their first tour of Japan this week. Here are the dates in full.Wednesday 16th July: Kieth Flack, FukuokaThursday 17th July: Club Vijon, Shinsaibashi, OsakaFriday...
Posted by The Lodger on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:39:00 PST

Faraday Festival, Barcelona

The Lodger will be performing at this years Faraday Festival in Barcelona, Spain on the Friday night (4th July).Please say hello if you're coming!The Lodger x...
Posted by The Lodger on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:45:00 PST

The Lodger featured on Pitchforks Forkcast

Right here, right here, right here.http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/50870-th e-lodger-the-good-old-days-mp3stream...
Posted by The Lodger on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:26:00 PST

New single "The Good Old Days" out on May 5th on 7" and download!

We’re sorry we’ve been away so long. But fear not as the first fruit of our labour drops from the pop tree soon."The Good Old Days" is backed with a remix by The Slips and is released on h...
Posted by The Lodger on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:54:00 PST

New single up and remixes!

HelloOur new single "The Good Old Days" is being released as a 7" single and download via Bad Sneakers Records on May 5th. We’ve put up the full thing, plus two remixes by The Slips - www.myspac...
Posted by The Lodger on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:00 PST

New Pictures!

While we were recording the 2nd album we had some new photos of the band done, go to the "Life Is Sweet" album in the gallery to see what we got up to.
Posted by The Lodger on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:26:00 PST

Woxy.coms Top 97 of 07

"Grown-Ups" makes the Woxy.com Top 97 albums of 2007 at 95More here http://woxy.lala.com/music/best.php
Posted by The Lodger on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:02:00 PST

Short UK tour in December

We're off a short tour of the North of England with our good mates The Research in December. Expect lots of new songs, some old favourites and perhaps a Christmas song.The tour calls at:Wednesday 12th...
Posted by The Lodger on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:46:00 PST