less than a week til tour :-)

We kick off on friday in Peterborough with a masssive reunion of sorts since our irish tour in august, we'll be playing with Kasper rosa and Double handsome dragons who both played Derry with us and our captain brother Ross' new band This is our monument so its fun times to start the tour :-)

come say hello at any of the dates below

YEEEEEEEEEOOOOWWWW!

We'd a blast at the Hockley hustle again this year and can't wait til next year, thank you to Will (i'm not from london)for putting us on and everyone who came along :-) we caught some awesome bands like shapes, beyond this point are monsters, Monsters build mean robots, taken by the tide & worriedaboutsatan. Excellent day overall :-)

on that note we're all suitably fired up for our mini tour starting at the end of next week with our Irish buddies Kasper Rosa & This is Our Monument, the dates are...

6th Nov - Goodbarns yard, Peterborough w/ Double handsome dragons
7th - Chichester inn. Chichester w/ Flies are spies from hell
8th - Chameleon, Nottingham w/ Karhide
9th - The Vines, Derby w/ Catharsis
10th - Packhorse, Leeds w/ Khuda
14th - Horse & Groom, Lincoln w/ Chickenhawk



see ya there
xx

Hockley hustle time

we're excited! it's gonna be a good day :-)

for full details go to www.hockleyhustle.co.uk

sometimes things go wrong

Manchester was fun despite the headliners pulling out while we were en route to the venue so we arrived to find that there was a borrowed kick pedal for the drum kit which got taken back 2 songs into our set :-( after a few minutes standing around we decided to try a few more songs with Ash physically kicking the bass drum, we battled on and enjoyed ourselves as much as possible....we learned a valuable lesson, don't leave anything to chance and bring everything!

Nottingham was another fun show with Sincabeza & Souvaris, it was absolutely rammed at various points during the night and our nightmare came during our penultimate song when Todds bass slowly started cutting out meaning we had to drop one of our new fave songs called "The Payoff" and resolve ourselves to party mode for the remainder of the night!

our next show is the Hockly hustle...we'll make sure everything's working and that nothing in our control goes wrong but it's us so somethings likely to happen!

poppin our manchester cherry :-)

We play our first show in Manchester Tonight @ The Dry Bar with Dear Brutus, Satellites & War Horse Descent, we're excited! The closest i've been to Manchester in the past was the airport ;-)

M

and heres a video we found on Todds camera from our tour in August too :-)

Soundtrack your death (Live in Belfast) http://bit.ly/4Etw5

FREE SHOW - Nottingham 7th Oct

FREE SHOW @ THE SPEAKEASY, Nottingham
7th October 2009

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149792038584&ref=mf


other shows in October......

15th - DRY BAR, MANCHESTER w/ SATELLITES
16th - CHAMELEON ARTS CAFE w/ SINCABEZA (france) & SOUVARIS
25th - HOCKLEY HUSTLE www.hockleyhustle.co.uk


see ya soon

x

123.EP reviews so far....

here are some of the first reviews we've had for the 123.EP, we're so stoked that people are enjoying it :-)

The Silent Ballet - http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Reviews/tabid/54/ctl/Details/mid/438/ItemID/2762/Default.aspx

DROP D REVIEW - http://www.drop-d.ie/archives/7588

One Beat - http://onebeat.squarespace.com/main/2009/8/27/review-alright-the-captain-123-ep.html


LEFTLION magazine - 123.EP

"This release is everything we've come to expect from Notts/Irish purveyors of surf-math-post-rock grooves. Ranging from distorted funk to recumbent arpeggiation, this EP is the best of a great band in the making.

Opening track Honey badger is ATC! at their most playful: immediately heavy and nervously crazy, the lead guitar adds frenetic phrasing while the rest of the band thrash around. Neo Tokyo soon follows,beginning with a pleasant and highly catchy string-tapping theme. The bass and drums make a very tight backbone, until the song takes a more sinister turn and goes axe-murderer with scattershot riffing.

ATC! leave the best and proggiest song for last, with Soundtrack your death beginning with primus-like instrumental playfulness that crackles with good fun. Distorted bass brings the song to critical mass until the playfulness collapses upon itself and into heavier, discordant territory and breaks down into angry walls of sound before eventually slowing to a stop. This is a big step in the evolution of one of the best bands in Nottingham right now." Anthony Whitton