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Shut All The Clubs / Love

by The Speed Of Sound

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The new limited edition physical 7" 45rpm single from The Speed Of Sound. Pressed on heavy 50g heavy vinyl, with full colour numbered label, signed inner sleeve and numbered full colour outer sleeve. Shut All The Clubs c/w Love.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Shut All The Clubs / Love via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Shut All The Clubs: Business invests and business infests The developers dream runs wild Bohemia shrinks the public blinks The city is restyled A glass fronted gym and retail opportunities Make up the empire of the bland The heart of the city is replaced with empty offices The developers rub their hands The artists move out as rents shoot up Atmosphere makes its final stand The heart of the city beats its last as computers boot up The development goes as planned Business invests business divests The developers dream runs wild Bohemia shrinks the public drinks And the city is defiled Corporatise, sanitise, big it up with PR lies, Shut all the clubs tear down the pubs Sear it all and cauterise So that we can have more luxury flats 'Cos living in the city - thats where its at © J Armstrong 2015

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Dark and melancholy vocals and crunching swirling guitars, if the Velvet Underground merged their DNA with The Jam it would probably sound like this. Taking the best of 1968 and 1978 and making it very now. The new 45rpm single from The Speed Of Sound and the first release by the new expanded four piece line up, combines blistering anger on the A-side with a swirling rollercoaster ride on the flip. In 'Shut All The Clubs' early punk flavoured guitars kick hard as yet another live music venue closes to be replaced with a corporate cityscape where everywhere is the same. The B-side (and live favourite) 'Love' is a swirling rollercoaster trip into darkness.
Limited physical edition of 200
50g heavy black vinyl with full colour label, signed inner sleeve and full colour printed outer sleeve with lyrics.
Includes 'print your own' PDF cd sized sleeve.
Shut All The Clubs

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released March 28, 2016

Shut All The Clubs - © JohnArmstrong 2015
Love © - John Armstrong 1984
guitars/vocals - John Armstrong
vocals - AnnMarie Crowley
bass guitar - Kevin Roache
drums - Paul Worthington
Recorded at SeedStudios (Engineered by Raul Carreno) and at BrynElwy post production by Pro-Rec

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The Speed Of Sound UK

"Unique and other worldly"- Vive Le Rock!
"New Wave Post-Punk blood powered by a heartbeat of 1960's influences"- Louder Than War.

The Speed Of Sound are:
John Armstrong guitar/vocals, AnnMarie Crowley - vocals/percussion, Kevin Roache - bass guitar & John Broadhurst - drums,

Based in Manchester UK. Unfettered, unchained & independent since 1989.
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