Civil Protection

A good friend of mine from University of Wales, Lampeter, is currently in the process of making a film. This dark, creepy film is titled WORM, and brings home some sort of Cronenbergian feeling of dread and organic horror. And this is why the working trailer is giving me goosebumps and tears of joy. There’s not a great deal more I can say about it, other than check it out below, head over to Retronica’s Youtube channel, and donate some well-needed money to this talented, and weird, chap.

WORM

It looks like Civil Protection’s EP, , is finally on Spotify. It should have been live on the same date as all the other avenues of listening to our fantabulous music, but some strange issue occured, BUT NOW it is fine! So now you can show the world that you are listening to one of the best bands EVER. Followed by some Civil Protection.
On Thursday 8th March we hit the practice room primarily to run through a new song Josh and Nathan have been writing. We decided to go for something rather bizarre, so expect off-beats, silly timing signatures, and (yet more) overdriven bass, heavily influenced by a certain favourite band of mine.
I’m currently getting into a electronics and am hoping to create a clone of one of the most influential and unique fuzz pedals ever designed. I’m likely to butcher it, but so far it looks like a rather simple process. Just need a particular friend to abuse their workplace rights to get me parts and a PCB.

Well, it’s highly unlikely that anyone other than the band has actually viewed the website as I have only just got round to assigning a registered domain name to the site and actually putting it out there. Sorry about that, but at least it’s now live. Officially. Welcome to the site. We hope you enjoy your stay.

In real news, the EP was released last Wednesday 29/02/2012 on iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp, the latter being for as much or as little as you would like to pay. If you do decide to pay more than £1 via the Bandcamp site, we will give you instrumental tracks and an acoustic version of A Quiet Night performed by wonderful Adam Fielding, so I would recommend going through the latter (but shhh, don’t tell Apple or Amazon!) It should be available through Spotify soon. You can also listen to it through the Music page or at the bottom of this post.

So far we’ve had some outstanding response, and I don’t mean lots of people responding in a rather mediocre “yeah, it’s alright. Good job” but in a much more superlative manner. We’ve currently had one review, and there should be more on the way, plus some airtime on various radio stations and maybe some surprises. All in all, a very good release! Now, listen to our music and we hope you enjoy. Feel free to shout praises or condemn us to the Linda Finkle Hall of Fame. The more feedback we get, the better we will get (or, at the least, the quicker we will abandon the music scene).

We received news that on Sunday Sam Flintlock over at Croon reviewed ‘The Lines Are Drawn’ and gave a positive write-up, with a round-off stating “All in all, a solid debut from Civil Protection. It will be interesting to see where they go from here.” Sounds good to me! The EP will be released on Wednesday totally free, and we hope to god you enjoy it.

You can read the full preview here.

Welcome one and all! This here is the new Civil Protection site, where, eventually, you’ll be able to stalk us, idolise images of us, listen to our ripping music, and read our banal rantings. The site is currently rather bare, but this will change over the coming weeks, especially since we will be releasing our debut EP at the end of the month.

Our ultimate aim is to use this site as a portal for fans to check out what we’e up to and a little insight into who we are as human beings. So, expect, at the start at least, to be flooded by gibbering banter, ravings of the end of the world, and general promotional forcing.

So, thanks for visiting our site, we hope you enjoy your stay and all that, and check out our music!