Merchandise

New Music player with Free Download!

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:55:19 +0000

Here’s our new Reverb Nation player which has some new tunes and Audio Mainline’s remix of Beautiful morning for a Bad Day which you can download for free! Enjoy!

Live Dates

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:14:54 +0000

The Last Stand of Pucho Vasquez - Video

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:48:11 +0000

This isn’t really a music video for the tune, it’s just a video made by friend and cat obsessive Marc Fearns about his cat using our track as a soundtrack. It’s just charming and good and we welcome people using our music on their vids!

Enjoy!

Buy The Last Stand of Pucho Vasquez on itunes

Salford Advertiser article on Lies Like These vid!

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:05:27 +0000

Lies Like These - Merchandise from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.

And the original post: http://newmusicstrategies.com/2009/06/05/lies-like-these/

Sunday Sixty interview

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:40:14 +0000

From Jolly Interesting Stuff.Blogspot

Brad. B. Wood is one half of the band Merchandise. He also runs the Cityscape Record label and Cityscape Presents live events. Click here for free downloads related to their next event.

Morning. Have I caught you at a good time? Yeah, not a bad one – Sunday morning’s always a slow one.

So what’s your usual Sunday routine? Rise when the mood takes me, then shower, coffee, read the bits of the Saturday Guardian that I didn’t get time for on Saturday, watch the F1 if it’s on, see my girlfriend and her son and try to go somewhere interesting, eat well, film, sleep.

Five years ago did you think you’d be where you are now? Probably! Five years ago me and Con (the other half of my band, Merchandise) started For The Masses, our third album. It’s just about finished and ready for release. The previous one took 4 years so I could probably have guessed it would take us a while…

Where will you be in five years? Hmmm, depends where the music takes me. I hope that the tunes will have winged their way around the world and that will have lead to some interesting opportunities. I’d like to have travelled more.

What’s your motto in life? Keep going and you’ll get there.

I have 24 hours in your hometown. What should I do? Bolton has its detractors but there are some great pubs and pie shops, as you might expect. There’s some fine walking on the moors to be done or you could catch the Wanderers or watch a play at the Octagon. The night life can be a bit rum in parts, but if you know where to go you can catch some great bands.

You’ve got thirty minutes in the kitchen. What are you going to knock up? Just 30 mins? I love cooking and can spend hours knocking up a good pile of food, but in that time I reckon I could do fajitas with home made guacamole.

You’ve just won £10 on the lottery. Spend or save? A tenner would definitely be spent – it would give me an excuse to do something fun.

What can’t your friends/family understand about you? Well, I don’t put things in alphabetical order, but I do get comments for putting things in size order – books, records, pans and the like.

What are you currently obsessed with? The finishing touches on For The Masses.

What should we all be doing more of? Buying vinyl, real ale and well bound books. Cooking properly, walking and being friendly to folk!

And finally, when you go to bed tonight, are you looking forward to Monday morning? I’m not great at mornings really, but I’m not working tomorrow so it could be worse!

Impromptu Video for Lies Like These . . . Merchandise go viral . . .

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:35:43 +0000

This video was shot at Unconvention in Salford on Friday night after a conversation (over a few beers and then a pizza) about video costs. Andrew Dubber from New Music Strategies.com decided we should make one then and there in the pizza shop. He got out a small digital camera and I quickly told my “co-star” Tracy Dempsey what the song was about and we synched to my ipod. Afterwards, Dubber ripped the track from the ipod to his mac and in a few minutes we had this vid. It’s had tons of hits really quickly and loads of comments on the newmusicstrategies site. Have a look and let us know what you think of the budgetless (well Dubber got half a kebab pizza out of it) video as Merchandise go viral . . . ;0)

Like the track? Buy the download here.

Lies Like These - Merchandise from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.

Indie Pages review Listen Up!

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:22:10 +0000

Merchandise - “Listen Up!” 7″ (Cityscape)
This single is packaged in a very similar style to last year’s “Sometimes” 7″ - in fact, with its brown sleeve with cartoon drawing and white vinyl, I had to double check that I didn’t have this record already! And like the previous single, the A-side is a surefire winner, that feels full of life and relaxed all at the same time with a bouncy piano-led melody. On the flip is the bossa-infused “Lonesome Beauty”, which is also lively, though it does seem to go on at least a minute too long. With a pair of fine singles, I look forward to hearing the band’s new album! MTQ=2/2

Click the tiger to visit Indie Pages!

Bearded magazine reviews Listen Up!

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:02:18 +0000

Last but not least is Cityscape’s Merchandise with the summery pop gem Listen Up! It’s ‘Girl From Mars’ era Ash but more laidback and subtly sophisticated. Melodically simple and nicely structured, this sticks in the brain longer than you really want it to, which is annoying, but again, a sign of quality songwriting.

Q Radio Session - Listen Here Now!

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:07:52 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we went down to London to record this session with Eddie Pillar. It was broadcast last night and here it is in case you missed it!

download link:

http://www.merchandisetheband.co.uk/Qsession.mp3

And some pics!

Top: Con / Matt / Brad / John

Bottom: Matt, Eddie, Con, John and Brad / Matt, John, Con (the rapper), Eddie and Brad

Merchandise headline Cityscape Presents 14th March

brad@cityscaperecords.co.uk (Merchandise) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:27:27 +0000

The next Cityscape Presents takes place at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton on 14th March . . . and Merchandise are heading the bill!

Here’s the flyer with info on - click it to go to the Cityscape site for more info.