Ipanema/Atomic Garden Split Single!!! 7th July!!

Hey! Its been a while and we have been busy. Last year it was our intention to release a split single with our good friends and touring buddies Atomic Garden from Clermont Ferrand in France. We were extremely excited about it.

The idea was that each band would record one new track and also do a cover of one of the other bands songs acoustically.

After Wiz passed away, both we and his family felt strongly that he would have wanted the new music we were working on to be out there. After all he did love music above everything else (even football!). So we set out to do just that.

We buried ourselves in Stakeout Studios with Jason the wizard in order to sort out the demo of Vote For Pedro that we recorded together at the West End Centre in Aldershot. What emerged was tremendous!…even if we do say so ourselves and has really lifted our spirits.

A combination of ourselves, Boss Tuneage and Atomic Garden have joined forces to get the release rolling. Boss Tuneage kindly offered to act as distributor for the bands. The single is released on the 7th July.

The awesome artwork for the single was provided by Countertrash (thank you Karina) we hope you like it. It was based on a photo Wiz took while we were touring in France.

The money raised from the sales of this recording will be pumped straight back into finishing and releasing an album that will contain (hopefully) all nine NEW songs that we had demoed (cleaned up and polished of course) and also the songs from “Me Me Me” and the “Skull vs Baseball Bat”single. So kind of an Anthology of Ipanema if such a thing could exist!

This future release will be dedicated to raising money for “International Fund for Animal Welfare” and “Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice” which were picked on behalf of Wiz by his family and also for the “Forward 4 Wiz Trust” which is something we’ll be explaining more about soon.

Right, big love and thanks to all. Rock on!

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