Nathaniel Green

We started as just Rob and Matt and did an EP on Subjugation rec's in 2001. It was recorded by my Dad in my Mum and Dad's spare room and Steve Lamacq played it on the Evening Session. That's like being played by Zane Lowe today, which seems quite implausible. We were almost living together at this point (not in the biblical sense) and we used to drink in Leeds in the daytime and people in fancy clothes shops didn't really know what to make of us but still took our money. We toured with Stapleton and the EP went unthinkably well so in 2003 we recorded an album and got Jarv and Parkes (and Chris Charlton for a bit) in to add a bit of variety to the record. About this time we paid an old lady £20 to sew little Nathaniel Green name tags onto 200 t-shirts we'd had printed, I feel a bit bad about that. The album, entitled 'Same Time Tomorrow', came out on Firefly Recordings and was also released in Norway on Sellout! Music to surprisingly good reviews. Rock Sound proclaimed it to be ". . . one of the releases of the year" which was nice if a touch over the top. We toured the UK with Koufax, then Norway with Ken Ishak and played the Sant Feliu Festival in Spain, where Matty was given access to a free beer pump. The festival organisers soon regretted that decision. We also played a gig in Southend put on by a 17 year old who kept texting me things like 'everyone is super-excited about you guys coming down', which I doubted very much. When we got there it turned out to be true and the gig was one of the best we've ever done. The young man turned out to be called Sam and he played too performing as Get Cape Wear Cape Fly for only the second time. It would be good to have some hilarious anecdote about him being rubbish and us telling him to give it up but he wasn't and we didn't. You can buy Same Time Tomorrow from us if you want, message me and I'll think of an old fashioned way to do it. It's not on iTunes cus it wasn't invented then.
Along the way we've toured and played with some lovely acts - Stapleton, Koufax, Pylon, Ken Ishak, Ted Leo, William E Whitmore, Chuck Regan, Milloy, Dugong, Copperpot Journals, Spy V's Spy, Get Cape and tonnes more. We don't play that much these days because we are old and boring and own two houses in different cities and have walls to paint and dogs to babysit.
Last year saw the end of our release drought when we released a new single on the Alcopop! label. You can listen to it above - it's called 'Old Folks/Young Folks'. You can buy it on a pretty smart 3" CD by clicking the link below or at iTunes because apparently that's the done thing these days.
The full track listing for the single is -
Old Folks/Youngs Folks
The Hardest Man in the World
All You Know
The Tortoise and the Hare
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Big Scary Monsters records have just reached their 50th release milestone and to celebrate they've released a 50 track compilation of bands they've put out or just simply 'dig'. Our song ' The Hardest Man In The World' is on there, along side tracks from Stapleton, Get Cape, Sam Issac and 46 others. . .
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We've also made a video for 'Old folks/Young folks' which features us driving around Norway and . . . well some more of us driving around Norway. . . enjoy!
Here's a video for the song 'Mort a la Bete' from the album Same Time Tomorrow. It feature's us walking round Wakefield singing to ourselves like mad men before returning home to find some roughians have broken in set up some drums.