Distophia: no more for yer

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by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 17 comments 18:01 August 2nd, 2007

The worst headline ever can't mask the hard fact of this matter: Birmingham's Distophia - ever so good, y'know - have called it quits.

The four-piece's long-awaited debut album, Beat Dyslexia, never actually founds its way to release. Do we blame the label in question? We could, but let us not wag guilt-sniffing fingers at this juncture. Here's a MySpace bulletin thing:

Unfortunately we have decided to call it day.
Thanks to all the people who've helped us out along the way.
We just couldn't hold on any longer.
We will try and sort out an online shop for those of you who still want Beat Dyslexia.
We will have a new band at some point in the future but Distophia is now officially over.

And that, as I'm about to conclude, is that. I interviewed Distophia once. They were nice. I saw one of them throw up once, too. That, not so nice. MySpace page here.

Distophia: no more for yer 02 Aug 18:01
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Distophia, Hard-Fi at The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Fri 21 Oct 03 Nov 11:24
Distophia get Hard-Fi on yo' ass 08 Sep 15:35
Brave New Ideas #13 - this thursday! 02 Mar 19:28
Distophia and Fickle Public go head-to-head 24 Feb 15:41
Distophia: New single and tour dates 16 Feb 13:48
Distophia at 93 Feet East, London, South East England, Sat 18 Sep 19 Sep 17:49

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sad news

i suppose the label still owns the rights to the recordings too. So we may never hear beat dyslexia unless the band shell out for their own work

Woodstock1984 | 2 Aug '07, 18:04 | X | Reply

this is very strange

especially as i got sent out three new tracks, liek, last week.

but then the lineup just changed, so maybe they're just going to change their name to reflect this..

guntrip | 2 Aug '07, 18:09 | X | Reply

a great shame

Soda Lake is one of the most underrated (mini) LPs of recent years and i'm pretty certain Beat Dyslexia was due to trump it. Good luck to them.

thommo | 2 Aug '07, 19:49 | X | Reply

sob...

I_Are_Scientist | 2 Aug '07, 21:20 | X | Reply

Bus-t up

I used to see one of them on the top deck of the 50 bus EVERY day.

chrisbeanland | 2 Aug '07, 21:27 | X | Reply

yeah it's really good

really slick production, some of the layered guitar sounds awesome. Sags a bit towards the end, but if they had had an extra year to record some better ones to replace the slightly less good songs rather than recording it and it never coming out, then it would easily have been one of the best albums of recent years. A big shame. Best of luck to them in the new band!

dan_thw @thommo | 2 Aug '07, 22:14 | X | Reply