SIX BY SEVEN CLOSER YOU GET plus PEEL SESSIONS 2 x VINYL LP D/LOAD *NEW*
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Description Summary Nottingham’s finest rock export Six By Seven release a double vinyl reissue of their 2000 classic ‘The Closer You Get’, with an additional LP of Peel Sessions and B-sides, both released via Beggars Arkive.To coincide with the releases, the band will be bringing together their original line-up for the first time in sixteen years for a triumphant return to the stage with a special, already sold out show (including a performance of ‘The Closer You Get’ in its entirety) at The Maze in Nottingham as well a one-off London show.
Despite heaping praise on Six By Seven’s breakthrough second album ‘The Closer You Get’, the press seemed confused as to how to categorise them. The band straddled a fine line between post-Brit Pop, British rock and a much edgier kind of punk. Inspired by The Pistols and The Stranglers as well as US bands such as Sonic Youth and Mercury Rev, Six By Seven consciously wanted to write songs that would get played on the radio, as Chris Olley explains: “We wanted to fill a gap I think, fill it with the sort of music we would like to hear and buy ourselves; sort of Captain Beefheart doing pop.”
Mixing misanthropic lyrics with Olley’s distinctive vocal style, the music was underpinned by malevolent, slow-burning guitars, creating a menacing, dense wall of sound. Chris Olley continues; “There is a great sense of vitriol running through ‘The Closer You Get’ both musically and lyrically.” Journalist Sharon O’Connell commented in her review for Mojo; “Few bands now have the courage to make noise as meaningful as this; it’s like warming your heart against a limited nuclear strike.”
Back in 2000 it didn’t seem like the country was ready for Six By Seven’s brand of politically aware, angry and astute rock & roll. Whilst Olley was singing about junk food culture, unexploded mines, fake success and “this country’s dirty and depressing,” others were embracing Blair’s Britain. People had it ‘good’ and Coldplay were about to become the biggest band in the world. It seemed like no one understood where Six By Seven were coming from. As Olley explains: “To us it felt like everything was being diluted, merged and homogenised.” He talks about the sense of isolation they felt from the rest of the music industry: “We actually felt quite helpless and not part of anything, it was almost like we were in our own broken dream, stranded on an island because we had pulled up the drawbridge.”
With everything going on in the world currently, the time is ripe to experience these impassioned songs again. The idea for the reissues came following a fan’s campaign to get the song ‘Eat Junk Become Junk’ to a Christmas Number One after Shaun Keaveney played it on his breakfast show last year, knocking both Slade and The Darkness off the Number One spot for a brief moment during Christmas week in 2015. Following this flurry of interest, Olley and Lesley Bleakley from Beggars Arkive decided to reintroduce the band’s classic sophomore album ‘The Closer You Get’ to a modern audience, as part of a carefully curated reissue package.
‘The Closer You Get’ will be presented in all its former glory, without being remastered or tampered with and will sound the same as it did when it originally came out. In homage to Beggars Arkive’s re-release of Olley’s heroes and labelmates’ Mercury Rev’s ‘Yerself Is Steam’, the additional LP will be polybagged together with the album. It will feature Six By Seven’s third Peel Session on one side and various B-sides and other Peel Sessions on the other.
Having formed in 1994, Six By Seven have gone through various incarnations, with the only constant being singer and composer Chris Olley. They recorded three albums for Mantra Records via Beggars Banquet - ‘The Things We Make’ (1998), ‘The Closer You Get’ (2000), ‘The Way I Feel Today’ (2002) - toured extensively, had two hit singles - ‘Candlelight’ (1998) and ‘I O U Love’ (2002) - recorded five Peel Sessions and appeared on Later With Jools Holland (December 1998).
‘The Closer You Get + Peel Sessions’ double LP includes digital download codes.
Tourdates - March 4 The Maze Nottingham, 11 The Garage London.
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ARTIST: SIX BY SEVEN
TITLE: THE CLOSER YOU GET and THE PEEL SESSIONS
LABEL: BEGGARS BANQUET
CAT. NO.: BBQLP2139
FORMAT: 2 x VINYL LP plus DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
TRACK LIST:
‘The Closer You Get’ (LP1)
Eat Junk Become Junk
Sawn Off Metallica T-Shirt
Ten Places to Die
New Year
One Easy Ship Away
My Life Is An Accident
Don’t Wanna Stop
Slab Square
England And A Broken Radio
Another Love Song
Overnight Success
100 & Something Foxhall Road
‘Peel Sessions’ (LP2)
Sleep
Another Love Song
England And A Broken Radio
Sawn Off Metallica T Shirt
Overnight Success
Get A Real Tattoo (B-Side)
Oh! Dear (1st Peel Session)
I’m Wide Open (B-Side)
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