TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: British Sea Power

TITLE: The Decline of British Sea

LABEL: Rough Trade

RIPPER: Team RNS

0hr 47min total- 68.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-06-02
RIP DATE: 2003-05-29

01 Men Together Today             0:41
02 Apologies to Insect Life       2:48
03 Favours in the Beetroot Fields 1:16
04 Something Wicked               3:12

06 Fear of Drowning               4:26

British Sea Power, Brighton-based rock
ensemble, are proud to announce their
first single for Rough Trade Records.
These recordings will be accompanied by
live performances of uncommon valour
and, who knows, maybe, an exciting
live-firing exercise off Dymchurch

The band's new record consists of three
tracks - Remember Me, A Lovely Day
Tomorrow and Birdy. These three songs,
respectively, touch on the cerebral
cortex, Central Europe and the Common
Gull. This record follows their debut,
Fear Of Drowning/A Wooden Horse, which
appeared on the band's own Golden
Chariot imprint. The popular press
accurately compared this remarkable
release to "A Force Ten gale on the peak
of Scafell Pike."

British Sea Power are an all-male
quartet based in Brighton and
district. They play amplified rock
music and dress to look the part. Though
courteous and hygienic when licking
stamps and ordering general provisions,
once placed upon the concert stage they
are remarkable in their actions: quick
of foot and unafraid in their movements.

Originating in South Lakeland and West
Yorkshire, they aim to return honour
and diligence to a depleted artform.
Attractively positioned exactly midway
between Laibach and Belle & Sebastian,
they draw inspiration from James
Osterberg, Charles Lindbergh and the
works of mesmerist, pleasure-ground
manager, magic lanternist and pioneer
film-maker George Albert Smith.

Their first record, Fear Of Drowning/A
Wooden Horse, was recorded for their
own Golden Chariot label and released in
the Spring of 2001. These recordings drew
pleasing reaction from radio
programmers, while the popular press
decided that, "BSP create a sound like
North Sea oil rigs, isolated and dark, but
with a light that burns for 24 hours."

All the while, the band have been
presenting Club Sea Power, their own
monthly night, alternating between
Brighton venues The Lift and The
Freebutt. With its pine needles,
effigies of owl and heron and fully
stocked beer bar, Club Sea Power has
become an notable attraction for
enlightened minds and off-duty
railwaymen seeking sandwiches and a
night out with Franoise Hardy. It was
at a Club Sea Power evening that Rough
Trade's Geoff Travis happened upon the
band. He immediately presented the band
with a recording contract.

The first product of British Sea Power's
association with Rough Trade is the
Remember Me single - available as
three-track CD and two-track 7-inch
vinyl. In full, the recordings are
Remember Me, A Lovely Day Tomorrow and
Birdy, songs that, collectively, alight
on memory, Moravia and the mournful
mewing of the seabird.

That is it so far. Please realise that
these are not intended as pretty words.
These are not diverting notions to be
set before the swine. Music and myth
are machines for the suspension of
time. These are mechanisms for which
British Sea Power have a full set of

British Sea Power are: