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Aug 4th, 2010 Okay last minute organising for Blackpool Rebellion festival! First off The Restarts play on Thursday eve in The Empress Ballroom at 7:20 hope to see you there early to kick off the weekend. Also we will be displaying the above mentioned artwork at the Punk Art show at Rebellion, one week later the online auction will start, if you know anyone who would be interested please forway the iinfo to them. If you click on the artwork links it will take you to eBay wher eyou can then click "watch this item" so it will remind you when the auction starts. cheers xThe Restarts |
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| June 22nd, 2010 Okay we are gearing up for Canada in July!! The main focus of the trip was to come and play Spiderfest on July 10th to comemorate our fallen friend Warren Hastings! The event is designed to raise funds for a tombstone for Spiders grave. I will be raffling off the original framed artwork at Spider fest. Looking forward to seeing old and new friends on the road. x the Restarts
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| June 9th, 2010
Thanks to everyone who helped us along the way on the MDC USA tour. We had a fantastic time and big props to MDC for taking us under their wings! even despite the set backs in Houston Texas we still managed to continue and have a total blast. toom many people to thank individually - you know who you are! Im sorry about the webshop, we need to restock everything, and like total plums we forgot some of our merch in minneapolis, which means by the time i get all the stuff back and open the shop up we will then be in Canada!! Anyhow looking forward to coming back to Canuckistan again!!! up the punks and Vive le SPIDER!!!! |
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| May 3rd, 2010
Had a great tour in Europe, thank you to everyone that came out, especially all the people in Zagreb and Modena!! We are now gearing up to leave for America for our USA tour with MDC. Cant wait to get there. We have posted the final comfirmed dates for the east coast extention. see you on the road. cheers x The Restarts |
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| April 13th, 2010
We just got back from Greece and Turkey - we had an amazing time! The organization and hospitality was second to none and tyhe gigs were fantastic. Big thank you's to 77-82 Punk Rock Team in Athens, Street Attack Squat Crew in Thessaloniki and Wargasm Kolektif in Istanbul! we look forward to coming back soon. A quick update on merch, we are now out of the clear vinyl Mobocracy LPs, we may have one or two left when we hit the road on thursday...but they will most definitely be gone in the first few gigs. We have had to temporarily close the web shop while we are on the road, so that will re-open when we get back from the USA tour on June 5th! We are also in the process of adding a few more gigs to the USA tour (on our own) these will be in the New York Area. please check back for udates. Looking forward to seeing you all on the Road xthe Restarts |
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| March 9th, 2010
What can I say, we were blown away by everyones support last Saturday at the Skinny Memorial! THANK YOU! Was a great Atmosphere all night, and we raised a HUGE amount of Money for SKinny's family, just goes to show what an amazing scecnen we have here - proper FAMLY!! Big Shout outs to Mik, Coitus, Reknaw and everyone that helped with the door and general organization. Cheers also to Sly for this great video montage (Below)! Onwards and upwards - Our Mobocracy Split LPs ARE NOW available on our merch page!! x The Restarts
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| March 6th, 2010
Big shout out to Alex, Danny, Bianca, Ronja, and Fred for helping coordinate our Euro Weekend - We had a blast! We ended up collecting our LP vinyl release of Mobocracy, but the pressing plant forgot to include the lyric sheet!!! very frustrating...but alas they have arrived today in the post! They will be available to buy as soon as i can update the webshop! The European release has only 100 copies onclear vinyl - once these sel out there will only be black vinyl - so get em quick beofre they go (t also comes with agatefold poster of the album cover artwork) Tonight is going to be a special gig - it is the memorial benefit gig for Skinny from Coitus. We are truly gutted he has gone, and look forward to helping tonight to be an amazing send off! Up the punks RIP Skinny |
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| Dec 21st, 2009
Thank you so much to everyone who came out in Derby, Sheffield and Stoke-on-trent we had a brilliant weekend. Hope to see some of you again shortly after boxing day as we venture back up to Birmingham for a gig with Drongos Dun2def and Rotunda Sunday Dec 27. cheers x the Restarts |
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| Dec 12th, 2009
Sorry have been slacking a bit here, forgive me, have been burning the candle at both ends so to speak. We are in the process of releasing "Mobocracy" on vinyl LP as a co-release between NO LABEL records and DIRTY FACES records in Germany. This will be out in the early new year. next week we are about to head up north for a few gigs with the Subhumans in Derby Sheffield and our own gigs (with Wonk Unit) in Stoke. After xmas we will gig with Drongos up in Brum!! Hope to see you there - we all know after a week of xmas tv you need a good does of punk rock to bring you back to earth!! On the touring front we plan on being in Czech Republic Jan 14 - 17, Italy France Germany April 16 - 27 and we are in the works of booking the USA with MDC in May. okay all the best |
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| Sept 3rd, 2009
Thanks to everyone who made Fuk Reddin a great weekend, even though I cant rememebr fuck all from Sunday!! Respect to Risky & Bev and all who helped out - well done! This weekend finds us playing the Plymouth Punks Picnic (our first time there!!!!) and then we will be embarking on an 8 hour drive to Newcastle to play with the Subhumans the very next day!! We pray(?) there is no traffic congestion! Also we have just been added to the JELLO BIAFRA and the Guantanamo School of Medecine gig on Tues Sept 8th at the Islington Academy! Jello has a new band featuring memebers from Faith No More and Victims Family, they have a new CD coming out and the lyrics are amazing (as you would expect) If you would like to come please email moraldilemma_cbr@hotmail.com with your first and last name and you will be put on guest list which will allow you to pay £8.50 on the door instead of £15! TIMES: Moral Dilemma On-stage – 8.00pm – 8.30pm Curfew 11pm hope to see ya there!!! |
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| Aug 12th, 2009
Well we survived Rebellion weekend, was a total blast! I happy to report the NEW CD split with MDC "Mobocracy" is now available from our online shop! please click the flyer above! It will be coming out on Rodent popsicle and Crash Assailant records in America so save yourself some money and shop local! We would like to convey ahuge sincere thank yuou to everyone that supports us at Rebellion, was great to see it the Arean was sold out (even though i reckon we could squeezed about 100 more people in !! okay bye for now...see you in the pit! |
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| July 17th, 2009
I am happy to report our NEW split CD with MDC will be available for August 6th, so we will have it at this years Rebellion, up in Blackpool. We are playing the Arena stage on friday night at 10:10 pm, we are looking forward to seeing you there! Hopefully see some of you tonight or in Bath Tomorrow! up the punks!! |
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| May 9th, 2009
The Online shop is up and running and the NEW EP is available! We are restocking the tshirts at the moment and will have all sizes in stock sometime next week. Meanwhile we do have the new SLIM FIT Tees of Dead Planet. cheers x The Restarts |
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| May 1st, 2009
Just back from our Euro Tour 2009 - What a blast that was! One huge GIANT punk-tastic THANK YOU to everyoine that heloped us out, some were old friends and some new ones too, you all did a great job and helped contribute to a wonderful tour. At the moment we are updateing the online shop so it will be down for a few days. When its back up live we will have the new 4 way split available and the dead planet in girly slim fit shirts! so check back in a few days up the punks!!!! |
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| March 4th, 2009
Has been a while...we have been busy in the last few months. We have recorded a total of 10 new songs, one of which will be on a 4way split 7" ep called Human EP. we will be splitting this with MDC, Phobia and Embrace the Kill. We will be releasing the European release on No Label Records! We also recorded a cover version for a Rudimentary Pene covers CD (we did Radio Schizo) that will be coming out on Pumpkin records. We then have 8 songs to go on a split CD with MDC which we are hoping to have out in April, but may be pushed back to May! We are currently planning a European Tour in April which you can see the dates for on our myspace page...so hopefully we will be seeing you in your town soon! |
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| Dec 1st, 2008
Okay lots to report here...all is well and we are keeping busy! thanks to all at punkIllegal in Gothenburg for a great weekend. Top class treatment and top class festival thanks again. Last nights gig with Flux, Subhumas and Rubella Ballet was a great gig, lots of faces we havent seen in years! Lots of wee people too! at one poin the gig looked like a bloody creche!! Great Stuff! and once again that to all who showed up at the unearthly early hour of 6:15!!! lol At the moment we are writing new material. this will be with Bram on druming duties, as Darragh has left to persue his Trashcat project. We wish him the best of luck. We have booked some Decmeber gigs with Gewapend Beton from Amsterdam and are looking forward to hitting a few cities we havent played before. The 1 in 12 New Years Eve party looks to be a good one, hti swill also be our first time playing at this historical punk social center! we are looking forward to bringing in the new year with a bunch of tanked up disco dancing punk rockers!!! We have also planned another venture over to Ireland for three gigs taking us as far west as Galway! We will be playing Dublin with the legendary Paranoid Visions and looking forward to seeing all our Belfast chums again. until then... |
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| Oct 25th, 2008
Thanks to everyone in at Bristol Antifa for a great gig (The Blaggers tore the place up!) and additional thanks Clive and Co at the Bridgehouse 2 in Canning town. finally a shout goes out to Buz for the Brighton gig and the the almighty King Blues for a great night! We are looking forward to playing Gothenburg next week at the Punk Illegal festival (Defcon Zero from London have also been added to the bill) so should be a stormer. Anyhow sorry for my lack of updating skills...this is too much like a bloody job!!! up the punks |
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| Aug 15th, 2008
Thanks to everyone who came to see us in Blackpool! we had an amazing time! we have finally got the online shop back open! These things take time. will keep this short but look forward to seeing you all in Birmingham and at Fuk Reading! ;) |
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| July 21st, 2008
Sorry for the lack of updates...has been a bit crazy lately. After getting back from America and Canada we went straight out to Madrid to do a gig with Varukers and Oi Polloi and SS Kalliert. we had a great time, but havent had a chance to sit down and sort our shit outf!!! I am planning to do a USA tour diary, although our driver Neil has already done a photo journal wich can be viewed here coyotephoto.net. We have two local London gigs coming up (see flyers above) before we venture off to Blackpool, so hope to see you there. Also we are in the midst of getting more shirts and stock done , so hence the online shop still not open...please be patient. cheers |
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| May 07th, 2008
So we now have all the confirmed dates in for the USA/Canada tour! (with one or two final tweeks needed) but all is well. We are looking forward to coming over, as it has been a long 4 years since our last visit! Please feel free to help spread the word, as we rely on the DIY ethos to inform people!! so see you in your city soon The Restarts
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| Mar 11th, 2008
The USA is in the finalising stages, we will be releasing the confirmed dates soon (dates already confirmed are posted on Myspace). We will be starting May 29th in Toronto, going down around New York for a few gigs, then working our way up from dallas up the west coast and ending in Vancouver on June 22! Outsider is now available on LP!!! so for all you vinyl junkies please see details on where to order it on the merch page. We will be performing at City Invasion in Bolton and London (see flyer) and would like to thank all the people in Belfast for a fucking great weekend and gig! (see Belfast Blog on myspace page). we wil have one or two other london gigs before we venture off to the states, so will keep you posted...until then adios |
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| Dec 17th, 2007
Just got back from our Leeds, sheffield and Manchester excursion! thanks to everyone that came out and made the gigs great! and extra thanks goes out to Steve Caldwell, Steve Hyland, Stu BSD and Debs & Mark, and Pingu. and happy new year!! |
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| Oct 5th , 2007
Sorry, I have been neglecting this site, The myspace site is easier to update, and lets face it I dont really have time to man two flipping sites ; ) Okay we have confirmed a bunch of UK gigs please see myspace for these. The Outsider CD is moving well, we have had to repress already, thanks to all you peo[le that support independent music! We plan to have it licensed and distributed by Dirty Faces out of Bochum Germany. They will also be doing the vinyl version of Outsider which should be out before the new year. We will be playing in Sweden Nov 1-3 then Spain and the Basque Country Nov 29 - Dec 2 we are also planning on touring in the USA/Canada in spring 2008 and a small tour of Italy in April 2008...any confirmed info will be posted on myspace and here (but first on myspace) hope to see you soon ! |
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| June 3rd , 2007
The NEW CD is ready and now available online! We will be selling the CD cheap (£5) at our CD Release gig on June 9th. Otherwise you can get it from us here for £7 postage paid...and have it delivered to your door! We will also make it available at All Ages Records in Camden Town. To answer a few questions, YES we are planning on releasing it on LP and we are also planning on releasing (licensing it ) in America and on the European continent, so it will be easier to get a hold of! A Big thanks goes out to Distubance for setting up the 10 tour in Europe..we had a total blast. If you get a chance check out Disturbances new CD "Shades of Fear" brilliant stuff. Also Thanks to Dave and the Folks from the Dudley Arms in Rhyl, NWales for the Dirty weekend gig! Nice one Lads! |
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| May 14th , 2007
Okay Look forward to seeing you all on the road |
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| Apr 11th , 2007
BOB fest 2007 in Bath was a week to be remembered! every night was a blinder, seeing old friends and making new ones! Respect goes out to Bill Collins and his acoustic performance, where he played the original version of Big Rock Candy Mountain...and to the Fracas who Rocked the HOUSE, those boys we're 'bloodied but unbowed' ...LITERALLY!! (after an altercation on a London night bus!!!) anyhow ALL the performances were great and Kudos goes out to all the organisers! Will be back with recording updates etc |
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Apr 2nd , 2007 Well the Birmingham gig was great! Thanks to all involved in putting it on and to all the bands and punters that showed up, and in particular Contempt who did all the ground work and supplied the backline (not to mention playing a blinding set!!) Special thanks to all the punks who came straight up to us bearing gifts of ice cold beer upon our arrival - very cool! (...and we thought it was only in Germany where beer is thrust in your face the second you get out of the van! lol) So on Monday the 9th-15th we are locking our selves in the studio to finish this recording off once and for all...we have been working long and hard on this, and want to get it right! The material is coming along nicely, we got a mixture of fast paced punk, upbeat ska and the usual thrashy stuff...
FRI 18 - 05 - 2007 Nancy@AZIMUT 854 FR SAT 19 - 05 - 2007 TBC?. SUN 20 - 05 - 2007 Amsterdam@Maloe Melo(Rebellion afterparty) NL TUE 22 - 05 -2007 potsdam @the Archiv WED 23 - 05 -2007 berlin @ wild at heart THU 24 - 05 - 2007 Vienna@fluc FRI 25 - 05 - 2007 Munchen@orange club (pogorausch fest)DE SAT 26 - 05 - 2007 Giessen@10 Jahr Pestpocken DE alright see you all in Bath for the BOB fest next week! cheers The Restarts |
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Mar 11th , 2007 Tuesday night in Kingston was a great night out! thanks to all involved! Both Hot Rocket Trio and Time Again put on amazing shows. Cheers to all the people that made the effort on a weekday night! Thanks again to Tim from Distorted Magazine for the interview, check it out http://www.distortedmagazine.com/
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Feb 19th , 2007 Okay thanks to all the South London Punks and to Joe for the gig in Dirty South on Friday. Much Respect!! Not much else to report. Our next gig is March 6th in Kingston, hope to see you soon |
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Feb 11th , 2007 Newport was a blast! thanks for making it kick off...and cheers to all the Bristol punks for making it down, plus once again cheers to the Belfast posse!All the Bands were GREAT!...and a big shout out To TJ's, Lianne and Darren for the gig.
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Dec 14th , 2006 Thanks for everybody thatcame out to the Sebright gig! We had a lot of fun! Unfortunately the people who run the pub werent that impressed. We really need to concentrate on 'not taking the piss' with people that open their doors to us! > On a lighter note, the recording is coming along nicely, we have 8 songs so far, and will write and record more in the new year! See pictures on our myspace page! > We also have new merchandise, Girly tops (printed with Silver ink) and we now have all patches in stock |
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Dec 2nd , 2006 > okay This week we will also be laying down vocal tracks to eight new songs. We will be doing some more songs to make it a full length release hopefully to be released in early 2007! |
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Nov 15 th, 2006 > sorry for the extended silence, the accesability of myspace seems to be making independent website redundant? So we have been busy on the new recording, we have got 8 songs so far and plan on doing another batch to make a full length album for 2007. We thank you for your patience (I know weve been banging on about this since februaury). Our next appearances will be in Birmingham and London Islington academys Nov 24-25(see flyer above) plus there is more info on the myspace page. Both these gigs have a very early curfew so you should be down there 6pm sharp if you want to see all 4 bands (The Restarts will be on stage soon after 6pm!) We Look forward to seeing you down there! |
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June 26 th, 2006 > I have just realised the contact link on here isnt working, I apologise if you have written and got no repsonse (that is because I didnt get it). Please contact us through myspace until I get a chance to get this fixed. > Have added our next two gigs P.O.B. is in Bremen, Germany Sept 2nd and with Conflict and Subhumans, Lost Cherees Nov 25th...hope to see you there. |
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May 10th , 2006 > Okay...sorry have been neglecting this site for a while! First off thanks to everyone for supporting us in Birmingham and Amsterdam. > Merch Page has been updated (see below), we now have the Fuck Corp Punk tshirts available,We have New metal etched plates and an assortment of new and out of stock patches. > We are still in the process of writing the new material and is going well ...we are hoping to have it out for the Summer. we dont think we will be able to make the USA this year...but we will have to see. We will post ANY developments as soon as they are confirmed, so please note that the answer to "when are you coming to the USA?" is .... "We dont know????" ; ) > Our next gigs are listed above and on the gigs page we will be playing Aachen the day before Frankfurt, but have yet to get a flyer or info. |
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Jan 17th , 2006 > Hope you all survived the New Year! Things are coming along nicely with new material..will keep you posted on that. > However our next gig will be Academy in the UK in Birmingham, Sunday April 30th! see flyer above, it is an all dayer and your truly will be playing ...first! at 2pm, so any revelers eager enough to be the first through the doors will be greatly welcomed! |
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Dec 7th , 2005 > Our next gig (and last gig for a while) will be with Hard Skin Dec 16th > The new material is coming along nicely...to concentrate on this we have decided to take a break from gigging! We appreciate all the requests for gigs but will be abstaining until we get on top of this new stuff. So we will NOT be available for gigs prior to MAY 2006. > We will also be revamping the website and coming up with new merch etc...so bear with us. >All the best in the new year ...and hopefully you get through all this Xmas bollocks painlessly! |
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Nov 12th , 2005 > The Harry Callaghan gig in Dublin was fantastic! We had a great time and was great to see so many old and new friends! I will be trying to put a gallery together from the event, anyone with any good photos pleasr email them to me...thanks. * LOST EMAILS* any emails between Nov 8th and Nov 12 were lost...my email client is fucking me around. There was one email from Bogota, Columbia ...please write again! >We have added one gig with HardSkin on Sat, Dec 17th at the Freebutt in Brighton . |
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Oct 27th , 2005 > Okupational Hazard was great fun, thanks to all those involved, Reknaw, Flatpig, IT, and especially PAIN for swapping time slots with us...much appreciated. We are now getting our stuff ready for the Dublin gigs...we will just be bringing CDs due to weight restrictions on ryanair! We look forward to seeing you all...line up the guiness's. |
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Oct 10th , 2005 > Here is our next gigs (click on flyers above) come check it out...both will be amazing. > We are still ironing out our plans for a new recording and release and then we will concentrate on gigging. We appreciate all the offers and questions about when we will be touring, but to be honest until we get this recording in motion we really be doing any extensive gigging > As you may have noticed some 'no-brainer' hacked into our chat forum, and due to my lack of knowledge ended up deleting everything : ( I have now reinstalled a new message forum and would like to welcome you all back to it. We really appreciate all the feedback that you give us. |
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Sept 8th , 2005 > Big thanks to everyone who helped out with the three gigs with Born/Dead, noteably Jof,Jules, M, Sly, PA Rick, Simon, Pete Rose, Totters, Steve(Driving) plus anyone we forgot! Click the link above to see great photos courtesy of John Dye and Diana More-Riddle. > Our next gig will be in Dublin on October 29 and 30th with Dread Messiah, Coitus and Stricknine DC + more, I will be posting details soon. Thanks again for all the emails inquiring about gig, we will of course post any confirmed gig here or on Myspace, so these will be the first places to look for gig confirmation. |
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July 16th , 2005 > We are back up and running again, we are concentrating on writing new material, so we wont be gigging alot until we get on top of that. However we will be doing three gigs with Born/Dead from Oakland, CA. see flyer above. >Thanks for all the emails and messages expressing concern over the London bombings, we are all fine...but now share the fear that Londoners have to bear due to the UK's involvement in the Iraq War. |
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June 8th , 2005 > Okay sorry for the silence, have got some new updates for ya. We have just got a new video done, Directed and produced by Darragh! You can see this by clicking the image above. > We have a new Comp CD and New Profane Existence (with yours truly as featured artist) available on the Merch page > Also check us out on www.myspace.com/therestarts link to us and let the games begin!
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Mar 10th , 2005 > Our plans are all on hold for the moment, we wont be able to make it over to the USA for the summer, sorry about that. We will concentrate on a new recording, and let you know when we reschedule. |
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Feb 23rd , 2005 >The Restarts Live telephone interview on University of Southern California Radio station... Tonight!! click http://kscr.org at 2am London Time ( 6pm Los Angeles time). >Still getting feedback on what a great night the Stig memorial was, they managed to raise in excess of £3500 to put into a bursary fund for his kids...nice one! > We are planning to write a new album and have it out for July 2005, so hopefully all ths goes to plan! we will keep you updated. There is also talks of us Touring the USA again in August. we will let you know as soon as possible. cheers The Restarts |
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