Jan 29th 2007 | Baby I'm Yours! Compilation releasedLondon's alright features as the first track on this compilation of 17 songs billed as a "shimmering collection of London indie". Find it in all good independent London record shops www.dcbabyrecords for more info
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Jan 14th 2007 | Live radio interview this afternoonOllie and Joe will be playing and talking live on Resonance 104.4FM at 16:30 UK time this Sunday. For instructions on how to listen to this show worldwide, go to www.resonancefm.com
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Jan 4th 2007 | Happy New Year!This is the news before the news. The Tacticians are recording a debut album, we'll be making an announcement very soon about the label and the how and when you will be able to get your hands/ears on it. Meanwhile, the tactical word keeps on spreading. If you don't believe us, try putting tacticians music into google and get back blogs and reviews from the world over.Enjoy 2007 and be tactical!
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Oct 31st 2006 | So much news, so little time!So the single is out and radio plays, great reviews and all sorts are happening and we're a bit behind in keeping the site updated. We'll be updating links and all that jazz soon (yes it's Jan 2007 and we still haven't done it, writing music is a lot more interesting than writing websites). Meanwhile don't forget to to buy the single if you haven't already! Go to Dancing Giraffe Records to find stockists or just search in iTunes. Thank you and hope to see lots of London people at The Fly on the 8th
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Oct 13th 2006 | New single available pre-order worldwide now from Rough Trade!The excellent Rough Trade have put "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys/Get a Move on" straight into their "what's hot" category. So get it while it's hot! Click on the Rough Trade Logo to find us. For those that do the new fangled downloading thing or the quaint, old-fashioned, go into a shop and buy it thing, news on iTunes and physical stockists coming soon.
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Oct 11th 2006 | Jim Coulson on Kerrang Radio supports The TacticiansDJ Jim Coulson played "Girls" for the second week in a row on his indie nation show and told everyone to go out and by the single so that we could continue to make records while avoiding the hideousness of the business - couldn't have put it better ourselves! Catch his show again anytime via the Kerrang site up until Oct19th. Click on the logo
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Oct 3rd 2006 | Listen to Respectfully Proceeding now!The floor tom driven stomper "Respectfully Proceeding"is previewing on our myspace player this week, get on over to our myspace page to have a listen
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Sep 2006 | New Single release dates confirmed!We are happy to announce that our new single will be out and available for digital download from ITunes on Oct 16th and from Oct 23rd on limited 7"vinyl and CD. Newly re-written and re-recorded "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys" A side; The Northern soul inspired "Get a Move on" on AA and on CD and download, the floor tom driven stomper "Respectfully Proceeding". This website and the website of Dancing Giraffe Records are being updated revamped to include the new single and more news will be on-line very soon
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Aug 2006 | "London's alright" appears on Tough Love Records 1st Birthday album "What will survive of us?"Thank you to Tough Love for inviting us to appear on their compilation album. "London's alright" appears as track 13 - a fitting number for us as we've had possibly more than our fairshare of bad luck. Happily, this time it's lucky 13 as we're pleased to say that it has led to our track being recommended by forum dwellers and reviewers alike. This week the Music Week recommended websize www.new-noise.net made us one of their tracks of the week having heard us via the compilation. So come on all you supporters of great new music and indie labels, you may already own "London's alright" but this 19 track album is worth having. Get it via Tough Love Records website
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July 29th 2006 | The Tacticians win Spare Room track of the month on BBC 6Music! Thanks to all who voted Early on it wasn't looking good, we were languishing in 4th place out of 4 after some of the other bands put on hundreds of votes overnight and then we got to feeling mighty annoyed when one of them stole our web entry and code for their myspace blog (the literary version of sampling?). The good news is that, after trials and tribulations and 2000 "ghost votes" cleared off the system, we won, taking nearly 50% of the vote. Ollie gave his first live radio interview to DJ Vic McGlynn, "London's alright" was playlisted for a week and it felt good to see The Tacticians on the shows' tracklist next to some great bands. Thanks to Vic and BBC 6 for supporting new music! Now, can we persuade them to playlist our next single when we finally release it....?
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July 2006 | We are Spare Room track of the week on BBC 6 Music For the second time this year DJ Vic McGlynn chose us as her spare room track of the week on her excellent lunchtime show; This is her spot for tracks recorded at home -at last an advantage to not being able to afford a recording studio - this time we had to prove it really was recorded at home as they thought it was too good for a home recording!! Please vote for us all month, CLICK HERE and scroll down and vote for The Tacticians :-)
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2nd July 2006 | More radio playOneword, part of Channel 4 Radio - the world's first radio station to feature the best in books, drama, comedy & discussion has one music show a week and they've put The Tacticians on it - which means we beat a lot of competition to get there. If you're of a literary as well as musical bent, check them out and if you want to listen to the show you can do so by clicking here or they can be heard on DAB, Freeview, Sky or NTL. Transmission times for the distillery show that we feature on are Sunday 2nd July and Tuesday 4th July 10am and 6pm, Saturday 8th July 1pm and 9pm
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17 June 2006 | The Tacticians feature on BBC Radio LondonDj Gary Crowley picked The Tacticians for his London Calling track of the week. If you want to listen to the show you can do so until June 24th by clicking here and then on listen again to Gary Crowley
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June 4 2006 | MySpace Mega music week!Where were we when we didn't come to your gig/your party/or even just reply to an email? We tell you that it is 'cos we were working on the music - but you doubt us as said music never seems to see the light of day. So this week, every day for a week (actually a bit more than a week) we'll be putting up tracks to hear on our myspace player. They're works in progress but good enough we hope to give you some listening pleasure. From old live favourites like "size" to the not oft played ballads like "full of life" - they'll be something for everyone. So tune in and tell us what you think...click here to listen at our myspace page
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May 2006 | MySpace UK Music Featured Artists!!A mystery Tacticians fan at myspace towers put us up as a featured artist for over a week on the new UK targeted music page. The response was overwhelming, thousands of new views and downloads. Many many people playing one of our tracks on their profile. This has been an inspiration to get moving and get the new single out. Watch this space for news. Thanks to all old friends and new for your support. Don't forget to keep telling people about us on music forums, radio phone-ins and all that jazz. xxx
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2nd March 2006 | The Tacticians on Kerrang Radio!!!Dj Jim Coulson has put "London's alright" on the playlist of his "Indie Nation" show. Played in between Gorillaz and Morrissey, we were billed by Jim Coulson as ones to watch. If you want to listen to the show you can do so by clicking here
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23rd February 2006 | " Record of the Day" today with "London's alright"Record of the Day is a website and newsletter providing an essential daily digest of music industry-related stories together with soundclips of the best new music. It goes out to people in the business. The Tacticians were an editorial choice. The Tacticians are horrible showoffs !! check it out
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13th February 2006 | We were Spare Room track of the week on BBC 6 Music DJ Vic McGlynn chose us as her spare room track of the week on her excellent lunchtime show. This is her spot for tracks recorded at home -at last an advantage to not being able to afford a recording studio!
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16th January 2006 | Happy New Year2006 could be the one. New recordings almost finished, A new release on it's way. More gigs booked and the world cup in summer. Magic!! Bring on The Tacticians.
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28th November 2005 | New recordingsWe have started to record new material for what is going to be our next single. We've put down basic tracks for "Honey you ain't needed anymore", "Girls grow up faster than boys" "Respectfully proceeding","Ammunition for your gun","Uptight" and a few more. Ollie's flat has been turned into a recording studio once again.It's a scary idea living with a musician!! We're working on overdubs and mixing now. Sounding good. We are very excited.
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1st November 2005 | New memberThere is a new member in the Tacticians' band. Alex is playing piano and organ for us now. He is incredibly talented and still single. We want you to want him! That means 5 people on stage now. Are we going too be the new E-Street Band? Anyone know a sax player? ;-)
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26th October 2005 | Life has been busy for The Tacticians recently.We've written several new songs, started pre production for new recordings (that means a lot of cables in the lounge and bedroom!), picked up lots more net radio play and have been fielding emails from all corners of the globe. Meanwhile we've joined MySpace. We weren't too sure about it at first but it's proved worth the effort. New people really do find us on there. Downside is we've been spending far too many hours on there ourselves, discovering new and old favourites. If you're on Myspace come and be our friend!!
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24 Aug 2005 | Our latest reviewMark@losingtoday.com is the first to review our 7" Single. Click here to read it.
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10 Aug 2005 | Our first releaseWe are proud to annonce our first proper release. The Tacticians "London's alright/Hardcore Porn" 7" vinyl out now on Dancing Giraffe Records.
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