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the maple state

Please, please, please, Mr. Hox

About Me

THE MAPLE STATE - 'SAY, SCIENTIST' EP


"faultless" - NME
"energetic, refreshing" 8/10 - Drowned in Sound
"Be forewarned—The Maple State might be your new obsession" - Absolutepunk.net
"a stunning release" 4/5 - Clickmusic.com
Album of the week - 9/10 Manchestermusic.co.uk
"as furious a statement of intent as you’ll hear this year" - BBC Manchester
"explosive, powerful, old-school indie that's just crying out to be heard" - Piccadilly Records
1) We Swear By The Light Life 2) Say, Scientist
3) Don't Take Holidays 4) Temperate Lives
5) Starts With Dean Moriarty (Bad Sign)
6) You And Me And An X-ray Machine

Released 25th February 08 - £5.99
Cat Number HVCDS 022
BUY NOW
or download from iTunes UK
download from iTunes US


'WE SWEAR BY THE LIGHT LIFE' SINGLE OUT NOW!...
1) We Swear By The Light Life, 2) Cemetery, 3) Cold Theatre
Cat Number HVCDS 020.
Limited CD single housed individually in hand printed sealed envelopes.
Released 10th Dec 07 - £2.99
order now from High Voltage , HMV or download from iTunes UK or iTunes US
VOTE FOR OUR 'TEMPERATE LIVES' VIDEO IN THE MTV MYSPACE CHART!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/21/2004
Band Website: themaplestate.co.uk
Band Members: Gregory Counsell
William Pearson
Christian Counsell
Richard Higginbottom
John Goodwin

band:
[email protected]

management/booking:
[email protected]

press:
[email protected]

Influences: the anniversary
my bloody valentine
weezer
hot rod circuit
braid
the smiths
american football
the get up kids
the whitest boy alive
brand new
johnny cash
death cab for cutie
Sounds Like: "the maple state are gifted" - NEU!Magazine
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

JOIN OUR STREET TEAM

First of all we'd like to thank everyone who came out to any of the gigs we played over the past couple of weeks; we've never experienced such a warm welcome in every town before and tours like that a...
Posted by the maple state on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:24:00 PST

NEW MUSIC

Hi everyone,   You may have noticed we've added 4 new songs to our myspace player but we'd like to remind you that all our releases are still available to buy on itunes.   We just recorded ...
Posted by the maple state on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:42:00 PST

JULY TOUR +TICKET INFORMATION

Hello,you can currently get advance tickets for some of our shows in July, we'll update with more as soon as we know them... MANCHESTER @ the Night And Day Cafe Here.....http://www.ticketline.co....
Posted by the maple state on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:04:00 PST

MTV2 MYSPACE CHART - WE'RE No.6 THIS WEEK SO KEEP VOTING!

Hi everyone, I'd like to thank everyone who has voted for us so far on the MTV2 myspace chart, the video for our single 'Temperate Lives' entered the chart at number 7 this week which is pretty top if...
Posted by the maple state on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:03:00 PST

CHANNEL M - LIVE SESSION THIS THURSDAY (13th March)

Hey everyone, We've been asked to kick off a new series on Channel M this Thursday, only thing is we need people (like you) to come down to the Channel M studios at Manchester Urbis and rock out whils...
Posted by the maple state on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:04:00 PST

SAY SCIENTIST PRE-ORDERS

Hello, Our 'Say, Scientist' ep will be released on february 24th, you can pre-order a copy now HERE We Swear By The Light Life Say, Scientist Don't Take Holidays Temperate Lives Starts...
Posted by the maple state on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:01:00 PST

TICKETS FOR FEBRUARY TOUR

  Hello All, Advance tickets are available now for the majority of our dates in february. please keep checking back for those that are not currently listed or contact y...
Posted by the maple state on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:11:00 PST

’WE SWEAR BY THE LIGHT LIFE’ SINGLE OUT NOW + ON iTUNES

 Hello everyone Our Single 'We Swear By The Light Life' is out NOW! the CD super-limited edition and comes in hand numbered, sealed envelopes which we spent hours putting together last ...
Posted by the maple state on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:08:00 PST

recording update with pictures and that...

Hey everyone, I'm afraid I have to apologize, I had this great plan to do a studio diary with videos and photos and everything but then sort of got caught up in the actual recording and forgot all abo...
Posted by the maple state on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:18:00 PST

+44 AND THE MAPLE STATE UK TOUR!

Hey everyone, We're heading out around the UK in a couple of weeks with +44! most of the shows are now sold out but if you do have tickets get down there early to catch us in the following places. 3r...
Posted by the maple state on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:18:00 PST