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Superman Revenge Squad

About Me

Hello,
Superman Revenge Squad is one bloke from Croydon, called Ben, and an acoustic guitar.
I started writing this stuff at the beginning of 2007. Since then I've gone from playing a load of open mic nights to playing gigs supporting people like Jeff Lewis, the Wave Pictures and Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences.
I've got another 11-track CD available! It's £2.50, plus 50p postage, and is called "We're Here for Duration... We Hope" and can be ordered through my website ...the track listing is:
1. A Good Idea
2. Super Sad Morgan
3. We're Here For The Duration
4. I'm Afraid Of Flying
5. Losing Yourself To Stadium Rock
6. When Everyone's Dead
7. The Access Self-Storage Means Were Nearly Home
8. I've Been Listening To The Rollins Band
9. Broken Stuff
10. A Happy Slapping Incident I Brought Upon Myself
11. Get Yourself Into The Arms Of Drunken People
To order it, go to my wesbite: supermanrevengesquad dot com
You can also still order the first 11-track CD available now for £2.50 and a bit of postage - it's called "This is my own personal way of dealing with it all" and can be ordered through paypal by clicking on the button below...the track listing is:
1. idiot food
2. i’m gonna go to bed and when i wake up i’m gonna be someone else
3. the angriest dog in the world
4. captain non-entity
5. will oldham sang to me
6. kevin rowland
7. woman hating internet pornography
8. pupkin
9. this is a happy song
10. you be a friend, i’ll be a friend to you
11. joe concedes ultimate defeat by blowing his face skywards with a shotgun
“A very sharp lyricist indeed… Absolute genius!” – Tom Robinson on Radio6 Music
"Stirring aggit-folk, with the fragility of Bright Eyes & some hilarious lyrics" -subba-cultcha.com
"Like Brooklyn's Jeffrey Lewis, Superman Revenge Squad is taking folk music in exciting new directions - accessible, inventive and painfully funny, taking shots at pop culture but never straying too far from endearing self-deprecation. An artist who deserves much more press" - Indiefolkforever.
"A one man attack on Croydon and all within it" - Put it On promotions in Brighton.
"A man with an acoustic guitar and really great line in songs" - ishotthedeputy.com.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/05/2006
Band Website: www.supermanrevengesquad.com
Band Members: Just me, on my own, on the acoustic guitar. But I am practicing with a cellist and a drummer at the moment...
Influences: I just went out for lunch and saw a man briefly put down his four pack of fosters so that he could urinate onto the side of the building I work in. It's seeing stuff like this that can drive someone to write little depressing songs in his spare time, don't you think? I'm surprised Croydon isn't full of aspiring wordsmiths considering the amount of mildly depressing material that is constantly on hand.

What else? Oh, when I was a child I remember a couple of teenagers having a spitting competition as they walked down the road parrallel with our garden - somehow one of them managed, unwittingly, to spit straight over the fence and onto the top of my head.

I like Bonny Prince Billy / WIll Oldham / Palace Brothers quite a lot. Appendix out, possibly even more (just for the first record which is, in places, great - after that it's a bit hit or miss until Alistair Roberts came out with a record under his own name, which is, erm, magical). I've seen the Fall a fair few times, so I'll have to add them here. And Leatherface, believe it or not, have produced two records that I love - I sometimes like to think of them as the perfect pop band in a funny sort of way. And what about 'It's a Shame about Ray' by the Lemonheads - My Drug Buddy is very nice indeed. Sonic Youth as well. And Dinosaur Jr and the Afghan Whigs certainly have a place in my musical past. But one of the best songs is 'The Only Living Boy in New York' by Simon and Garfunkal - I don't much like most of their other songs, but this one is a gem. Belle and Sebastian were great for two records then threw it all away, or ran out of new songs to sing, or something. There are other songs, albums, people, and maybe I'll return and write them out one day...
Sounds Like: A bloke from Croydon playing an acoustic guitar and singing a bit.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

2nd CD now available - "We're Here For Duration... We Hope!"

The Second collection of SRS songs is now available - its called "We're Here For Duration... We Hope", and here's the track listing: 1. A Good Idea2. Super Sad Morgan3. We're Here For The Duration4. I...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 16:21:00 GMT

2 new recordings to listen to

Hello.Cheers to people for coming to the recording at the church on Friday - I was knackered by the end of it but I think it went okay - I recorded the 12 new songs in the day in my flat (with Simon a...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:48:00 GMT

A live recording in April, "We're Here For Duration... We Hope"

Hey, I haven't written anything here for ages now, so I thought I would now - got a few new gigs coming up (added to the site) - the one at Christ Church in Gyspy Hill, that is all the way away at the...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:09:00 GMT

Album Review. And you can listen to the album on last.fm now.

There's a new review of the album up on [SIC] magazine - giving it 8/10, which is quite nice - have a read: the review's here:http://www.sicmagazine.net/articles/93/superman-revenge -squad-this-is-my-o...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:54:00 GMT

Clip of me playing at teh Windmill the other week on youtube

Here's "When everyone's dead" again on youtube:http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=pdKRoJ50zoUCheers indie dad.
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:24:00 GMT

Watch the gig from the other week on the internet. And album of the month on Dandelion radio

The gig I played at The Perseverance the other week can be watched on this link here - just had a quick watch of it and it looks quite good, although I spend most of the "between song" bits trying to ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:28:00 GMT

Interview on Talk to the Hand / Sounds XP

Hey, Mary B has written up an interview with me on these two sites: http://www.myspace.com/diggingmynailsin http://soundsxp.com Also for today, I notice that people have started talking about the alb...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:59:00 GMT

Buy my 11-track CD!

buy it via paypal on the main page of the myspace.Go on!
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:14:00 GMT

Earwax Radio Sessions

Two songs that I recorded for Earwax radio at the New Cross Inn a couple of weeks ago are featured on the earwax podcast this week - Idiot Food and Kevin Rowland - download it and have a lsiten here: ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 14:15:00 GMT

A couple of reviews on the Internet - good ones indeed

I found, or was told about, another couple of reviews on the internet this week: "An edgy and asymetrical and strangely affectionate condemnation-cum look at current pop culture and I don’t...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:37:00 GMT