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The single 'Treatise' is available for download here www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/Treatise

cover stars 'GIRLS AT THE POOL'. Production still from The Rape of the Sabine Women. Photo by Benedikt Partenheimer for Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation. Reproduced with permission.

"These songs are Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright 154085, for a period of 280 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. Love Ed and Owen 2008."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/4/2006
Band Website: shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/220.html
Band Members: Ed Dodd does words and Owen Gaffney does music and We have something that may interest you.
Influences: no-one in particular but just maybe: Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, The Smiths, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Pixies, Jack Kerouac, Will Oldham, Nicolai Dunger, Milan Kundera, Stereolab, The Beach Boys, Tindersticks, Woody Guthrie, Belle and Sebastian, Pennyeach, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Angelo Badalamenti, The Fall, Fairport Convention, John Steinbeck, Benedikt Partenheimer, James Joyce, Tricky, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Half Man Half Biscuit, Paul Scholes, Jim Crace, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimmie Rodgers, The Macc Lads, Charlie Brooker, The Velvet Underground, Morrissey, Yo La Tengo, Count Arthur Strong, The Rolling Stones, Larry David, Massive Attack, The Shangri-Las, Chuck D, Peep Show, Kandalama, Sim, Sophie, George, Jerry, Palace
Sounds Like: The single 'Russian Dolls' is available for download from indie label, Shifty Disco. www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/Russian Dolls .. ..

Single of the Month byPennyeach ‘Gracie b’ (Shifty Disco)‘From the moment this record begins it has a very accomplished feel. It’s a heartfelt ballad with some lovely bontempi style keyboard, totally redolent of wracked adolescents sitting in their bedrooms. A gorgeous repetitive piano motif just adds the final gloss to a wonderful release.’© Record Collector January 2000
Record Label: Shifty Disco
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 12:52:00 GMT

The Single Treatise

The War Crimes are pleased to announce that the single 'Treatise' isnow available for download from highly influential indie label, ShiftyDisco.http://www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/220.htmlEnjoy
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:12:00 GMT

Who Will Ride Now?

As a big thank you to all of you loyal to the cause of The War Crimes we now have the song 'Who Will Ride Now?' available for download. This particular track has the greatest set of lyrics ever writt...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:18:00 GMT

The War Crimes on Shifty Disco

The War Crimes are pleased to announce that the single 'Russian Dolls' is now available for download from highly influential indie label, Shifty Disco.http://www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/173.html ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:30:00 GMT

I aint a communist. Just been in the red my whole life.

Viva Mr Woody Guthrie, ladies and gentlemen!
Posted by on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:06:00 GMT