May 2012
6 posts
Hit The Lights robbed now too!
Didn’t have too much time on this yesterday cos we had a plethora of shows, but here’s my two-bits worth.
So when The Menzingers were robbed we wanted to help out how we could. When The Skints were messed up too, we wanted to help how we could. We were kinda like, “well we cant do this again…” but when a band on our label - and we’re their home in the UK -...
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HELP THE SKINTS →
theskints:
Hello tumblr! I imagine if you follow us on here you already know about what an awful weekend we’ve had. Our van was taken outside one of our homes containing all of our equipment.. Naturally we are devastated. 5 years worth of collecting amps and instruments, Marcia’s dresses and shoes, the boy’s suits and of course the van itself has all been harshly taken away and we have nothing....
Watchhundredreasonsband:
Last day to get £20 tickets for Banquet’s Big Day Out - they go up in price tomorrow.
http://www.banquetrecords.com/BBDOticket
The Menzingers: So.. We were robbed in Manchester... →
themenzingers:
Ok so here’s what happened…
We played a sold out show at The Moho last night in Manchester which ended up being the absolute best show of tour. Seriously! Stagedives, singalongs, shots of mystery liquors.. It was one for the books. An afterparty started to form at a bar down the street. In…
April 2012
5 posts
RSD queries etc
oh hi
We’re pushing 1000 RSD online orders at the moment. its the week late online tsunami following the earth shaking shop experience of Record Store Day in the shop last week.
Here’s the thing. we’ve had LOADS of orders. We are also a real record shop, and we’re still putting on loads of gigs in this time. And hey, we’re also real people.
To people...
Jhon's blogsgrove.: The Gran National. →
this is a confusing read. but its pretty funny. but also, in the satire, is the point that its 2012 and there’s no place for this anymore.
jhoncosgrove:
Plans are afoot and a broken leg for next year’s Grand National to be changed to the more exciting, mouth watering and piss soaked pant-wetting ‘Gran National.’ Animal charities have today, yesterday and every other day been up in arms...
Banquet's Big Day Out Of Our Comfort Zone
did we even talk about the festival yet?
For literally years we’ve been talking to people about doing something like this. Those people come and go. Most of the people that come are from breweries and not music fans, but something’s come alright this time round as the people behind the already running Happy Days Festival, have given us complete runnings of their site on June 4th,...
March 2012
2 posts
Record Store Yay
we had a sold out Ceremony show at the fighting cocks last night, but it was also the industry hobnobbing press release night for Record Store Day 2012 too. RSD is big deal for us, a months takings in a day, and last night was a quite unique chance to meet up with people we only ever talk to on the phone / email. So, we had to go to that. A decision which caused internal wranglings for me but...
February 2012
8 posts
here's an interview we did. →
Brits
this morning, my facebook feed was full of people moaning about The Brits. That Adele or Ed Sheeran were somehow undeserving of it and that they’re not real musicians.
Instead of watching it on TV, you coulda been at a gig, rehearsing for your band, listening to records or reading a book.
The Brits isnt a reflection of the whole of the music world or society in general. so chins up. ...
PACER: The Last 6 Months →
wearepacer:
I find it hard to believe that it’s been 6 months since I did a post on here. It puts a lot of stuff in perspective. Our summer ended last year with a European Tour with the Bouncing Souls and it was pretty amazing to say the least. Seeing Austria (albeit from though a van window most of the time)…
7-up
i cant remember when it was exactly, but i can remember way WAY before we took over Banquet, i can remember skateboarding to work from my then girlfriend’s student house, crossing Eden St and coming into the shop, hi-fiving Buddy Peace, and him asking me to choose the morning’s CD. I put on the then current Reel Big Fish CD and thought “I CANT BELIEVE I’M GETTING PAID TO...
all time low signing tomorrow is off :( →
shame this has happened, but thats life, and obviously the shows are most important to the band right now.
im sure we’ll hook up with them again soon.
earthtoalex:
Yo!
I wanted to make the first official announcement regarding a few cancellations per my faulty voice pipes.
As some of you may know, I’ve been struggling with an upper respiratory cold/infection/thing for the past week,...
buy this Radiohead / Jamie XX record and donate to...
we only got one of these, and apparently they’re limited to 55 for the UK!!!. Anything above the usual retail price of £8.99 we’re giving to Shelter. Get involved below.
January 2012
9 posts
WatchEnter Shikari album release show footage put together by the top dudes at Everything Sucks TV.
This captures the day. The Enter Shikari band and crew were the best guys. The gig was insane and we sold A LOT of albums. Thanks to everyone that got involved, that came out, that helped spread the word and helped get a great, and brilliantly minded, band get to number 4 in the album charts.
If you...
Anarchy (my dear) In The UK
pretty stoked to be the only place in the world to get the UK press of the new Say Anything LP. This is first press, but UK colour (Transparent non-metallic gold LP), and you can only get it from Banquet. And yes, we’ll ship to America. The press is limited to 200. well, 198 cos im having two copies. It includes the download code, obvs.
http://www.banquetrecords.com/sayanarchy
cheers...
Where's Wiley?
usually drink, usually DANCE, usually bail.
There was a group of about 20 people in Where’s Wally outfits last night. Shoulda been Where’s Wiley outfits…
Despite all assurances to the contrary, we had a no-show last night from Wiley.. Its not so much that it was cancelled (there’s always a risk of this with this culture and maybe moreso with this artist) its just we had...
havent read the NME in so long...
… but i certainly follow them on twitter. its a good resource for tours, news and the like. some of our shows at New Slang arent allowed to be announced until NME exclusively announces them, bands i care about care about their NME album review etc etc. The blog on RSD last year was terrible. Rock Sound then showed the world why.
but today, their @NMEmagazine feed was SO bad, i thought...
REFUSED AT THE FIGHTING COCKS!!!
my friend went to get a pint, but he didnt have ID.
had to get a lemonade instead
December 2011
7 posts
REVIEW OF 2011
Here’s the review of 2011. it looks way better on our site at http://www.banquetrecords.com/2011review and includes videos of the big events, but for the tumblr world its here too.
After the inevitable hang-over of Christmas and New Year it took a while for the best of the month’s releases to come through. But that they did. Lemuria, The Hot Water Music / Bouncing Souls split and...
we're in the guardian - that's high brow! →
October 2011
7 posts
5 years of New Slang!! something from the site...
Since Sean and I decided to put on an indie night with live bands at The Works, New Slang has become a feature of Kingston night life and Kingston indie music. We’ve seen some of our favourite bands in the world play on our door-step (Vampire Weekend, The Cribs, Maccabees, Alkaline Trio, Friendly Fires, Hot Chip, Frank Turner, Bombay Bicycle Club and, er, Wheatus spring to mind) ...
5 years of @newslangclub
our label's next release: @YoungStatues - Nov 2011
Banquet Records are to release the debut S/T album by Philadelphia’s Young Statues in the UK and Ireland, next month; November 2011 We fully recommended for fans of Death Cab For Cutie, Band Of Horses, The Weakerthans, Into It. Over It & Tigers Jaw. Released in the US on Run For Cover Records (Man Overboard, The Wonder Years, Fireworks etc)
Check out a couple of tracks HERE...
Dave House: so long, and thanks for all the shows.
I cant remember the first time i met Dave House. I think it was at The Ag in Camberley. His band was playing, and i was wearing a Girl hoody. Things which would make us clock each other..
Dave was very much a part of our Gravity DIP label. The label run from my bedroom with Mark Jane and Dave’s input / runnings. It was from watching Dave’s bands for months on end which made me...
signing sessions....
i’ve been thinking about doing this for a couple of weeks. i hurt my bum skating on Sunday so i’m in the office a bit more than i would usually be on a dry Tuesday afternoon.
We’ve been doing loads more urban / pop signing sessions recently. I think the concensus amongst followers of Banquet and the like is that, ah thats cool, whatever pays the bills, as long as they keep...
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September 2011
1 post
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|B|ur|n| The Press: Interview: Letlive. →
burnthepress:
If you’re into the heavier and end of the musical spectrum, and haven’t heard of Letlive over the past year, then you’ve surely been living in a cave. When they last ventured here in February, they blew the minds of many, not least at their breath-taking debut headline UK performance (which…
August 2011
1 post
empty feat.: feliciano is fucking dead. →
samsmifff:
basically, the two feliciano shows this weekend (the all day summer smash in kingston, and the our lost infantry show in camden) will be my last for the forseeable future. any other shows which have been booked already have been cancelled and i will not be booking anymore.
every show i’ve done…
July 2011
2 posts
sponsorship deal for @newslangclub from @etnies
Banquet Records’ New Slang club night announces a sponsorship deal with etnies
Banquet Records’ New Slang club night is happy to announce a sponsorship deal with skate brand etnies to run through the latter half of 2011.
Now in its 5th year, New Slang has regularly been bringing the biggest bands to Kingston on a Thursday night. The likes of Vampire Weekend, The Cribs, Bombay...
June 2011
3 posts
I live sweat...: "I was just a bit worried my... →
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