Monday, 27 July 2009

Kerrang! the album '09

Swound! are going to be on a Kerrang! compilation CD! How amazing is that? As you can see by the tracklisting below, it's an incredible line-up of bands.. only made better by the fact that we are on it! YES! EAT THAT!



Disc 1
    Green Day - Know Your Enemy
    Billy Talent - Rusted From The Rain
    My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
    Paramore - Misery Business
    You Me @ Six - Save It For The Bedroom
    The All American Rejects - Gives You Hell
    New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends
    The Blackout - Stfuppercut
    The King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl
    Spinnerette - Rebelious Palpitations
    Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
    Madina Lake - Let's Get Outta Here
    Swound! - We Are A Danger
    Gallows - London Is The Reason
    The Ghost Of A Thousand - Bright Lights
    Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
    Chiodos - Lexington
    Cobra Starship - Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We're Famous
    Metro Station - Shake It
    Enter Shikari - Juggernauts
    The Prodigy - Omen
Disc 2
    Slipknot - Sulfer
    Dragonforce - Heroes Of Our Time
    Slayer - Psycopathy Red
    Killswitch Engage - Starting Over
    Mastadon - Divinations
    Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
    Theory Of A Deadman - Hate My Life
    In Case Of Fire - Enemies
    Disturbed - The Night
    Devildriver - Pray For Villains
    Shinedown - Sound Of Madness
    Papa Roach - Lifeline
    Fightstar - Mercury Summer
    Static-X - Stingwray
    Lamb Of God - Set To Fail
    Cancer Bats - Engine Skull
    Bring Me The Horizon - Football
    Season Is Over
    Blakfish - Economics
    Outcry Collective -
    The Dead Formats - Dirty White Shoes
    Rolo Tomassi - I Love Turbulence

We have beaten the following bands, as they are not on the compilation
U2
Coldplay
Snow Patrol
N-Dubz
JLS
Fat Man Scoop


You can pre-order the CD from these sites, and more (much cheaper than iTunes, by the way)

Recordstore

CD WOW

Amazon

HMV

YES!

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Challenge Swound! is up!

So we launched Challenge Swound! and its been going pretty well. We have attempted 12 challenges, if you want to check out the results, you can just go here:

http://challengeswound.com/results.php

Or just watch some of these:




Keep checking back, we are posting results up nearly every day. Please feel free to submit a challenge and get our album for free.

Sunday, 10 May 2009

XFM, City Showcase, Rock Sound and Radio 1 Big Weekend

Yo bitches!

It's really early.. I have had about 7 hours sleep in the last two days.. probably due to a mixture of excitement and also a sore gut that I've had every morning for the last two weeks.

Friday, XFM and Rock Sound sponsored City Showcase Gig

This was our first headline gig in London and it was incredible. The crowd were awesome and the other bands were amazing too. They came in the form of The Sea, Hunting the Minotaur and Telegraphs. You should look for them all on myspace. Also, the gig was sponsored by Fentimans botanically brewed soft drinks. They endorse us, so it was good to knock back some of their sweet sweet botans. mmmm. Anyway, this was reviewed for Rock Sound so there will be something in the magazine in the next month. I'll upload a scan when I have it. BIG thanks to City showcase, Ian Camfield and Rock Sound who put us on. YO!

Radio One's Big Weekend

This added to probably our best weekend ever. Being our first festival appearance we were super psyched. I'm going to write a proper blog soon with pictures and all, so I'll keep this brief.

Basically, we played, had a great crowd (if any of you are reading this, thanks so much for coming to watch us), did loads of interviews and drank lots of free bottled water. Our toilets were good too, until one guy left two huge logs in them.

We met Moyles, Westwood (more stories about this guy to follow), Vernon Kaye, Fern and Reggie (who are both apparently fans of the band), Jo Whiley etc etc etc. I spent all day telling most of them that we were amazing.. I think they probably wanted me to go away but humoured me nonetheless.

Videos, photos and various media to follow. In the meantime check this out from bbc3 (available for 7 days from now I think) - BBC iPlayer Fast forward to 10 minutes.

Yes! Biggest thanks in the world to local DJ Dean Jackson who put us forward to play. He is going to be best man at all of our weddings (if we can convince anyone to marry us). Check out his awesome show called The Beat. Rowan was interviewed on his show after the gig. Check it out here - Rowan Interviewed on The Beat (fast forward to 2.43)

Lastly, for anyone that likes our music, check out Challenge Swound!. You can pay what you want for our album. You could even get our album for free! The site isn't quite operational yet, but check back soon! More to follow

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Challenge Swound! video

Here is the video that I have spent the past few days making.

Challenge Swound! Intro from Swound! on Vimeo.




We are playing our first London headline show on Friday and Radio 1's Big Weekend on Saturday. It's gonna be right LOL, Yeah?

Lloyd out!