I couldn't quite believe the numbers they were quoting.

getting 30,000 made on a first run seems somewhat foolhardy.

wicked burn!

maybe that "£75,000" could have been better spent distributing good nature slightly more effectively than on promotion. having bought all of their prior releases (including the first DiS Redjetson split) and seem them live many times, the hardest thing I have had to do since youthmovies is to actually find a physical copy of good nature (the "breakthrough album").
living in bristol; fopp / the beat goes on / HMV / zavvi all managed to be either not stocking youthmovies or have only hurrah... (Fierce Panda seemed to do a much better job)

HMV on oxford st. and that rough trade east also didnt stock it on my last visit to london - which seems pretty odd. and after ordering it off HMV online their distribution failed.

i digress..I dont agree with excessive downloads of new bands, but how can you expect people to buy albums if its not on sale anywhere?

I realise I could have bought it elsewhere online, btw - but thats not the point in terms of physical distribution.

sorry to moan, but I have been meaning to post something about this - and your wry comment got me going

when you guys failed to make it easily available and screwed up big time.

I bought it eventually on play.com anyway.

on iTunes by the looks of it, clicking the link from their site. First I've heard of it, being honest.

30 second preview sounds bloody awful.

don't get the money until it's aired

i'd recognise the novelty factor from the off and would stump up the cash regardless of the quality of the band...

Bands like you annoy me. It's clear you are all very, very talented and super tight, yet you choose to play really, really ordinary funk soul music with absolutely no heart or anything that is even resembling relevant. Just a vapid, clinical and deeply unoriginal sound. You'll be insanely lucky if you have chart success with such an out of date sound and a gigantic bass guitar. Yet, you are all smoking good at playing, obviously, so, i'm confused. Sorry, but you did ask for comments! :)

Do you ask yourself why it doesn't exist? It's because you haven't been fed it yet by radio 1. They decide what music you like and what you listen to and until they stop pushing generic indie in our faces there's nothing else we can do. Come down to a live show, it's hard to show what we can do on a recording that cost us £150 but our live audiences love it and that's all that matters to us.

Pop band or indie band. Who cares? It's insultingly ordinary and generic dweeb music for prats in suits with big wet patches under their arms who have to stay late at the office on wednesdays because their wives are at home that night blowing real men with real muscles. Or something. Honky tonk farting.

Got a name as godawful as Hamfatter?

because Fergal Sharky was on BBC breakfast this morning and basically said that the sums in their pitch were way off.

i didn't realise you ended up in Look See Proof. I was talking about Linda's Nephew. My old old band played with you at the moon once.

hah anyway myspace.com/holmenated. Beat that LOL

Eurgh.

because you were supposed to play a show here in york but you cancelled without warning and i was supporting and had to do an impromptu headline set which went really well and i got mad props for. cheers linda's nephew!