This Town Needs Guns

This Town Needs Guns begin their European tour  on Tuesday, April 24th in the Netherlands. Don’t miss them when they roll through your city. Click HERE For  details on each show.

THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS SPRING 2012
Apr 24, 2012 - Enschede, OV (NL) @ The Loch
Apr 25, 2012 - Antwerpen,  (BE) @ JC Den Eglantier
Apr 26, 2012 - Den Haag,  (NL) @ 330 Live
Apr 27, 2012 - Paris,  (FR) @ Espace B
Apr 28, 2012 - Secret Show TBA on 4/27
Apr 29, 2012 - Toulouse, M-P (FR) @ Connexion
Apr 30, 2012 - Bordeaux,  (FR) @ Les Lectures Aleatoires
May 1, 2012 - Getaria,  (ES) @ Gaztetxe
May 2, 2012 - Madrid,  (ES) @ Wurlitzer Ballroom
May 3, 2012 - Barcelona,  (ES) @ Underground
May 5, 2012 - Clermont-Ferrand, AUV (FR) @ Raymond Bar
May 6, 2012 - Milano,  (IT) @ Cox18
May 7, 2012 - Trieste,  (IT) @ Tetris Club
May 8, 2012 - Modena,  (IT) @ La Tenda
May 9, 2012 - Porrentruy,  (CH) @ Galerie du Sauvage *
May 10, 2012 - Luzern, LU (CH) @ Treibhaus *
May 11, 2012 - Bolzano,  (IT) @ Rock N’ Roll Club
May 12, 2012 - Rijeka,  (CT) @ Klub Place
May 13, 2012 - Vienna,  (AT) @ Rhiz w/ Tera Melos *
May 14, 2012 - Bratislava,  (SK) @ KC Dunaj
May 15, 2012 - Prague,  (CZ) @ Chapeau Rouge
May 16, 2012 - Dresden,  (DE) @ AZ Conni *
May 17, 2012 - Berlin,  (DE) @ Comet Club *
May 18, 2012 - Hamburg,  (DE) @ Kulturhaus III & 70 *
May 19, 2012 - Copenhagen,  (DK) @ Huset I Magstraede *
May 21, 2012 - Magdeburg,  (DE) @ Projekt 7 *
May 22, 2012 - Gottingen,  (DE) @ Laufseg *
May 23, 2012 - Giessen,  (DE) @ MuK *
May 24, 2012 - Oberhausen,  (DE) @ Druckluft *
May 25, 2012 - Würzburg,  (DE) @ Café Cairo *
May 26, 2012 - Trier,  (DE) @ Ex Haus
May 27, 2012 - Luxembourg,  (LU) @ Food For Your Senses Festival
May 28, 2012 - Cologne (DE) @ Aetherblissement
* w/ Mutiny On The Bounty

TTNG SHOW DETAILS & UPDATES

This Town Needs Guns made a short video of their trip to Australia for Harvest Festival, made by friend Chris Baker. It features a track off our new album, and also something from our new electronic album entitled ‘People Also Like Fudge’ (…ok, maybe not). 

New This Town Needs Guns Album coming on Sargent House this Fall 2012 !!!

This Town Needs Guns announce their April/May European tour dates! However, due to them having been so busy making us a new album and mixing up some of the lineup the band photo will have to be just a dog in a top hat for now. We are so excited for their upcoming release coming this year on Sargent House and we are very happy that they will be out on the road to play for you some old and some new songs. So don’t miss them when they roll through. Remember to always check with the venues in your city directly for door times/ age restrictions/ and Show times.

THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS SPRING 2012
Apr 24, 2012 - Enschede, OV (NL) @ The Loch
Apr 25, 2012 - Antwerpen,  (BE) @ JC Den Eglantier
Apr 26, 2012 - Den Haag,  (NL) @ 330 Live
Apr 27, 2012 - Paris,  (FR) @ Espace B
Apr 28, 2012 - Secret Show TBA on 4/27
Apr 29, 2012 - Toulouse, M-P (FR) @ Connexion
Apr 30, 2012 - Bordeaux,  (FR) @ Les Lectures Aleatoires
May 1, 2012 - Getaria,  (ES) @ Gaztetxe
May 2, 2012 - Madrid,  (ES) @ Wurlitzer Ballroom
May 3, 2012 - Barcelona,  (ES) @ Underground
May 5, 2012 - Clermont-Ferrand, AUV (FR) @ Raymond Bar
May 6, 2012 - Milano,  (IT) @ Cox18
May 7, 2012 - Trieste,  (IT) @ Tetris Club
May 8, 2012 - Modena,  (IT) @ La Tenda
May 9, 2012 - Porrentruy,  (CH) @ Galerie du Sauvage *
May 10, 2012 - Luzern, LU (CH) @ Treibhaus *
May 11, 2012 - Bolzano,  (IT) @ Rock N’ Roll Club
May 12, 2012 - Rijeka,  (CT) @ Klub Place
May 13, 2012 - Vienna,  (AT) @ Rhiz w/ Tera Melos *
May 14, 2012 - Bratislava,  (SK) @ KC Dunaj
May 15, 2012 - Prague,  (CZ) @ Chapeau Rouge
May 16, 2012 - Dresden,  (DE) @ AZ Conni *
May 17, 2012 - Berlin,  (DE) @ Comet Club *
May 18, 2012 - Hamburg,  (DE) @ Kulturhaus III & 70 *
May 19, 2012 - Copenhagen,  (DK) @ Huset I Magstraede *
May 21, 2012 - Magdeburg,  (DE) @ Projekt 7 *
May 22, 2012 - Gottingen,  (DE) @ Laufseg *
May 23, 2012 - Giessen,  (DE) @ MuK *
May 24, 2012 - Oberhausen,  (DE) @ Druckluft *
May 25, 2012 - Würzburg,  (DE) @ Café Cairo *
May 26, 2012 - Trier,  (DE) @ Ex Haus
May 27, 2012 - Luxembourg,  (LU) @ Food For Your Senses Festival
May 28, 2012 - Cologne (DE) @ Aetherblissement
* w/ Mutiny On The Bounty

TTNG SHOW DETAILS & UPDATES

This Town Needs Guns’, Tim & Hank have a chat with Beat Magazine while over in Australia for Harvest Festival.

This Town Needs Guns will be playing the first annual launch of Australia’s  “Harvest Festival” along with two newly announced sideshows in November.

with a great line up of bands  including:
Portishead, The National, The Flaming Lips, Bright Eyes, TV on the Radio,  Mogwai, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Mercury Rev, The Family Stone, Holy Fuck, Death In Vegas, The Walkmen, Dappled Cities,  Phosphorescent  and many more : FULL LINEUP

TTNG AT HARVEST FESTIVAL  & SIDESHOWS
Sat 12 Nov -  “The Gathering”, Werribee Park, Melbourne, VIC (Fest)
Sun 13 Nov - Parramatta Park, Sydney, NSW (Fest)
Mon 14 Nov - Vanguard, Sydney, NSW (Side Show ) 18+
Tue 15 Nov - The Toff In Town, Melbourne, (Side Show) 18+
Sat 19 Nov - Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, QLD (Fest)

Tickets for the two new side show dates go on sale Oct 27 at 9am

You can get more details at harvestfestival.com.au.

Enjoy! Order it on 7” Vinyl limited Editions. 

This Town Needs Guns will be touring the UK this December tickets for all shows can be found HERE. We will have the new 7” on tour for sale as well. 

(Source: artistdata.sonicbids.com)

We are delighted to announce the upcoming This Town Needs Guns 7” release coming on Sargent House. It has two tracks, the last recordings that will have Stu on vocals. We will be releasing it digitally everywhere on October 11, 2011 and will be taking pre-orders for this limited edition 7” vinyl soon! You will be able to download the tracks right away when you pre-order starting on or around October 1st. 

Congratulations go out to the winning photos that made the covers!

“We chose two photographs after a few hours of deliberation and decided that Oswaldo Guadarrama and Ousseynou Cissé’s photographs best represented the look we wanted to achieve for this release. The photos struck a chord with us and we definitely are very happy that these lovely gentlemen’s photographs sit well with the overall finished vinyl. We knew as soon as we looked that the images that they were great shots and they were always at the top of the pile from then on.” - TTNG  

And in NEW This Town Needs Guns Album news!!
“we are currently planning our next tours and have booked the recording studio. We will be shipping Ed Rose of Black Lodge Recording (Appleseed Cast, Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, etc.) over to the most United of Kingdoms to help us get these tones down onto magnetic tape. ” - TTNG 

FAREWELL TO STU LONDON SHOW!! THE BORDERLINE, FRIDAY 16th SEPTEMBER, 2011.

We are excited to announce a special one-off show in London town!

This will be the last show we play with Stu before he moves on with paternal duties and the introduction to the world of his newborn baby! Though I am sure he will still get involved in shows here and there afterwards, this is the last show we will play with Stu start to finish!  

It promises to be a great evening!

This Town Needs Guns
London - Borderline
Friday 16 Sep 2011 
Doors at 19:00
14+
£10 adv
Tickets are available HERE.
More details to follow/support TBA

EARTHLINGS,

You may or may not know that we will be releasing a 7” containing two songs. We have continued writing for our forthcoming album, but two tracks are complete with vocals from one Stuart Smith, which we are planning to release this Summer. We will be recording these in July and are looking to prepare the artwork soon.

We are now looking to our wonderful fans to help us complete this release by us holding a photography competition. So what we are wanting is for you to send us a photograph (one entry per person) and we will choose our favourite image to be the sleeve artwork for the upcoming vinyl, which will be released through the awesome SARGENT HOUSE.

The main requirements are that the photo needs to be TAKEN BY YOU and to be high enough resolution to print. We have a design chap (Jamie (me)) who can help you with any issues you might have and can prepare the photo for the artwork/layout if you don’t know how.

• The photo will be at least 2272 x 1704 pixels (4mp) But the higher the better.
• CMYK (but that is easy to do!)
• 300dpi (as above!)
• NO photoshopping/design elements allowed
• NO pornography or disturbing images and nothing abusive or insulting to any race, sex or religion.
• NO cruelty towards any animal/living organism.
• NO using other people’s images or stealing. Thieves are lame as f*ck.
• One entry per person
• If a human appears in the image, you need to have their explicit permission for the image to be used. (this means a signature from them for permission to print the photo.)
• NO images of strangers/crowds of people.

The subject is entirely up to you.

The winning photo will be chosen by us, we will not tolerate bribery and are by no means swayed by ‘interesting’ offers. The winner will receive a signed copy of the vinyl and any other merch we have which is likely to be a t-shirt and a tab book. Also you will be credited on the sleeve and you will be generally awesome in the eyes of Thor, and us.

Good luck and we look forward to seeing the entries. :)

Email: thistownneedsguns.uk (at) gmail.com with your entry attached. Title your email thusly: Photography Competition.

Closing date: Thursday 30th June.

Blizzaow!

TTNG
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Happy/Sad

A Message From Stu
So this is a post I never thought I’d have to write. First up, the happy news. In October this year (so long as everything goes to plan) I’ll be welcoming my first born child into the world. It’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me and I couldn’t be happier.

Now for the sad bit…unfortunately this means I can’t commit the same amount of time to the band that the others would like to. This has not been an easy decision. My life has taken a different path and it just doesn’t seem right for me to hold back the rest of the band.

I hope that we’ll be able to record some of the songs we have already been playing live and do some sort of release soon. That being said, plans will continue for the band to go on and record an album with possibly the best replacement I could imagine. Many of you will already know Henry Tremain from ‘Pennines’. We have all been long time fans and were all delighted when he said he would pick up the mantle and help TTNG carry on. He is a fantastic musician and all-round great dude. His inclusion in TTNG can only help improve their sound.

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“Movement would be nice but it’s not necessary,” singer Stuart Smith assures the crowd in a friendly British voice. “Considering there’s so many of you, you’re quite quiet.” It is almost awkward. The air in the Toff is muggy, people packed wall to wall, but the crowd is still and lulled.

Sure, it’s a Wednesday night, but there’s more to it. This Town Needs Guns isn’t an average rock band you can do the indie-bop-and-nod to all night. You can start kicking your feet to the beat – but you’ll shortly find you are out of sync. The band has been stamped with the obscure ‘math-rock’ label, characterised by their use of shifting time signatures within a song; washing the crowd with waves of tension and feelings of unpredictability in the music. Maybe some find it frustrating initially, the fickleness of rhythm, but the serenity of the crowd suggests they have submitted to the unfamiliar territory the band is leading them through.

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Hailing from the UK, This Town Needs Guns are a burgeoning math influenced indie band. Having now hit several continents and released multiple EPs and a full-length, they are now gearing up for more touring and a new record.  Review Rinse Repeat had the pleasure to exchange a few words with them on these topics and more recently.

Matthew@RRR: Thank you for taking the time to do this interview. How are you doing today?

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