“URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: New York Casting Call – August 3rd
Be an extra in a New Line Cinema feature-film starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, with a special guest appearance from The Boxer Rebellion”

30th July, 2009

If I’m not wrong the lads were recording and finishing their part last week. Was there any TBR American fan? Any information? I think this is the movie: ‘Going The Distance’ (“a look at the trials and tribulations of a long-distance relationship”). A romantic comedy? Promotion has some mysterious ways

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1322312/

Half an hour with ‘Boxer Rebellion’...

We shall see…

http://www.mondosonoro.com/detas/DetalleCriticaObra/tabid/96/Default.aspx?titular=Union&fecha=01/06/2010 12:15:00
http://issuu.com/mondosonoro/docs/mondosonoro_junio_10 (page 50)

*** 3 out of 5 stars

There’s no bigger misfortune for a band than finding themselves in no man’s land when your record company disappears off the face of the earth as if by magic. That’s what happened to The Boxer Rebellion soon after publishing their debut ‘Exits’ five years ago. After publishing on iTunes ‘Union’, which we’re dealing with (and after checking their success in the digital charts), the Londoners decided to release physical copies of this epic album, which could be influenced by Coldplay, Kings Of Leon or Editors themselves before introducing the synths, under their own responsibility. ‘Flashing Red Light Means Go’ galloping drums welcome us and, together with the single ‘Evacuate’, they involve two crystal-clear uncut diamonds if we compare them with their debut songs. Frontman Nathan Nicholson feed himself through the album with his affected voice but those bright guitar lines (‘Spitting Fire’, for instance, will have delighted The Edge), even repeating themselves as the essential leitmotiv through the songs, fulfil their mission consolidating The Boxer Rebellion as one of those bands halfway between the mainstream and the alternative scene, being able to please an heterogeneous target which is hungry for new faces in the always trite British pop.

Thanks for those that came to the shows at the weekend. They were great from where I was sitting.

Piers.

Is this the same CD package as the one collected at gigs or just a bog standard edition?

- Official Website: http://www.theboxerrebellion.com/
- Blog: http://blog.theboxerrebellion.com/
- Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theboxerrebellion
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theboxerrebellion
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/boxerrebellion/
- iLike: http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Boxer+Rebellion
- Bebo: http://www.bebo.com/theboxerrebellion
- LastFM: http://www.lastfm.es/music/The+Boxer+Rebellion
- ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/theboxerrebellion
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxer_Rebellion_(band)
- Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBoxerRebellion#p/c/932EB8F35280B1D0

- Piers’ Blog: http://piersboxer.posterous.com/
- Nathan Nicholson’s Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nathanwnicholson
- Anonymous Collective Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/anonymouscollective

1. Evacuate (The first time I heard the album, Evacuate was mistakenly opening the album, I actually like it better this way)
2. Flashing Red Light Means Go
3. Move On (without Evacuate here, Move On and Soviets sound amazing next to each other)
4. Soviets
5. Spitting Fire
6. The Gospel Of Goro Adachi
7. Murder Ballad (this is where I stuck Murder Ballad, tried it in other spots, but here is where it sounds best)
8. These Walls Are Thin
9. Forces
10. Semi Automatic
11. Broken Glass (Silent Movie is best for closing)
12. Misplaced (too epic to be near the start, especially, between two of the more faster and upbeat songs on the album, too much of a tone shift for me between Spitting Fire and Gospel)
13. Silent Movie

I know this goes against how the album is supposed to be listened to, but I like it this way. You should try it.

Anyway, is there any shuffled or mixed way of listen to TBR tracks that you like?