ARTIST: Brakes
TITLE: Give Blood
LABEL: Rough Trade
GENRE: Alternative
BITRATE: 190kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 28min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-07-04
RIP DATE: 2005-06-04

Track List

01. Ring A Ding Ding                1:37
02. My Pie                          1:59
03. The Most Fun                    1:35
04. Heard About Your Band           1:29
05. What's In It For Me?            1:44
06. You'll Always Have A Place To   2:27
Stay
07. Cheney                          0:10
08. I Can't Stand To Stand Beside   3:39
You
09. Pick Up The Phone               0:30
10. You're So Pretty                2:58
11. Jackson                         3:07
12. All Nite Disco Party            2:43
13. Hi How Are You                  0:38
14. Comma Comma Comma Full Stop     0:07
15. Sometimes Always                2:30
16. Fell In Love With A Girl        1:40

Release Notes:

Eamon Hamilton was born in Stewart, Canada. He was mostly raised in Stroud,
Gloucestershire. His first band was called Jockrash. He joined British Sea Power
in 2002. Tom White was born and raised in Brighton. He left school at 16 to form
the band The Electric Soft Parade. Flying scares him. Alex White was born and
raised in Brighton. He left school at 18 to form the band The Electric Soft
Parade. He was born with perfect pitch. Marc Beatty was born in Croydon and
raised in Brighton. He left school at 18, took a sound engineering course and
set up Mockin' Bird Studio in Brighton. He joined The Tenderfoot in 2002.

Brakes formed when Tom and Alex and Eamon were drinking after Eamon had
supported The Lonesome Organist at Palmer's Bar in Brighton in August 2002.
"We'll play drums and guitar on your tunes," they said. "Rad," said Eamon. They
went to Mockin' Bird studios, a rehearsal/recording space in Kemptown, Brighton
run by Marc Beatty, and convinced him to play bass. After half an hour, they
looked at each other and said "this sounds freshmode."

Between now and then, they played wherever and whenever they could, but they
mostly played at the Freebutt, Brighton's 200 capacity sweat box where bands
like Lift To Experience, American Analogue Set, Fuck You Planet Earth and Yeah
Yeah Yeahs played. Eamon did a few more acoustic Brakes shows. Georg and Orri
from Sigur Ros played as his backing band in Reykjavik. He supported Lach. "I
like your anti-folk" said Lach. "I thought it was country-punk" said Eamon. Lach
looked away.