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The Short Stories

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Member Since: 27/10/2007
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Influences:The first Short Stories LP, Short Stories For Long Nights, was released on 21st April 2008. The 2nd LP, The Night is on Fire, was released on Valentine's Day 2009. Buy them here, or visit the International Lo-Fi Underground label website: www.myspace.com/theinternationallofiunderground
Sounds Like: “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” - William Faulkner
Record Label: The International Lo-Fi Underground
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Reviews 2

Paul Towler has written this lovely review of the recent album on Bristol Rocks: The opening line 'it's not been the best of weekends...' accompanied by a lone piano tinkle has to be one of the most e...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:51:00 GMT

New Reviews - The Night Is On Fire

Here's a review from Venue Magazine, 5 June 2009."It is the early 80s. You are sitting in a bedsit, resting your feet on a pile of structuralism lecture notes and wondering whether to crack the spine ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:38:00 GMT

Review of the Night is on Fire

Here's a review of The Night is on Fire from www.kisschase.blogspot.com. Bristol's latest slept-on sensation, the Short Stories, have taken only months from album no.1, "Short Stories For Long Nights"...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:44:00 GMT

The Night is On Fire - Song By Song

Our new LP is out this week, so here's a song-by-song summary for you..SIDE ONEIt Only Hurts When I Move Tim  I used to find it difficult to know what to write about in songs, but over the years I've...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:31:00 GMT

Wilmington Arms

A fabulous weekend, all in all, watching the rightly legendary Magazine at the Forum on Friday Night, then opening for a band that, if there was any justice in the world, would be selling out the Foru...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:52:00 GMT

The Night is on Fire - our new album

Our new LP is out on 14th February, St Valentines Day. This is because we have a sense of humour.The LP features a guest vocal from our new virtual Friend Martin Bramah, whom we'd like to thank here a...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:05:00 GMT

Burn With Me

Tim was poleaxed with sickness for ages so we couldn't rehearse really, but we scraped together just enough energy to play our final gig of the year at the request of the wonderful Westfield Mining Di...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:17:00 GMT

Frightened

We knocked out a quick version of Frightened by the Fall in my front room one Saturday for a compilation of 1978 covers.  Then I stupidly told the label it was released in January 1979, so they r...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Eighties Night in the North - 19 September 2008

The Yo-Yo club is a very stylish and suave establishment oddly situated in a somewhat grim area north of Barnsley. Near it is a kebab place run by a guy who goes to the gym a lot. The RPM club nights ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:59:00 GMT

CD Review - Venue

Venue just reviewed the CD, giving it four stars out of five and saying loads of nice things about us. This is what they said: Sounding at times like they were recorded to cassette, The Short Stories ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:24:00 GMT