Welcome to the new look SL Website - rather similar to the old SL Website but with a few improvements. Were we web designers by trade we'd probably call it the slrecordswebsite2.0beta or something. Hopefully it's easier to use, clearer, quicker for us to update and has LOADS of downloads - many of them free. But rest assured it'll still have the same great spelling mistakes, poor puncuiation and dead links. Over the next few weeks months we should have all the SL back catalogue uploaded and available as high quality MP3s, WAVS or whatever takes your fancy. If there's something you're desperate to download and it's not up yet, and you can't find it on your current favourite peer to peer network, drop us an email and we'll get it encoded post-haste.
First time here? Try Withered Hand, the Lynchian Thomas Truax, the new rock opera from Paul Vickers & The Leg, 8-bit enfant terrible Enfant Bastard or our own "ich bein ein berliner" Wowl! for starters. Plus there's a free sl record sampler you can download over there.
posted Wednesday 17th Feb. file under croeso
A couple of truly DIY festivals are coming up over the next few weeks so we'd thought flag up a couple of them (that a variety of SL acts are appearing at). Firstly Doune The Rabbit Hole Festval being held at the delightful Doune Castle in central Scotland (which many of you will recognise from Monty Python's Holy Grail), which comes with it's own stop motion promotional video (see above)
RETREAT! errr returns to Edinburgh for this years festival - over not one but two days at Pilrig Church in Leith. The 28th and 29th August sees a slew of great music (The Leg, Withered Hand, Benni Hemm Hemm, Wounded Knee, eagleowl, Meursault....basically anyone who's any good in Edinburgh) art and food.
Fellow Fifer's FENCE records as well as their Homegame and Awaygame festivals are this year also organising another week of live gigs in Anstruther. Haarfest takes place 16th - 21st August and see's Withered Hand, eagleowl and Meursault appear along side Fence acts
posted Tuesday 20th July. Filed under take the red pill
The Edinburgh festival approaches and this year Mr Vickers (perhaps best know as frontman with lovable gonk rockers Dawn of the Replicants) is stretching his comedy wings and performing 18 shows at this years comedy festival. not only is his show on at a festival friendly time of 12:10 in the afternoon but it's FREE. So you've no excuse.
Accompaning his show is a limited edition album of...err....fucking storys....
posted Monday 19th July. Filed under wtf
Thomas Truax' wonderful new album Sonic Dreamer hits the store this week
DiS says the album takes the best elements of anti-folk and combines them with his own lyrical dexterity and wonky outlook on life
and Morning Star descibes Truax as one of the great rock eccentrics
. Genius
says The List whilst The Skinny loves The most deranged moments the best....opener Beehive Heart clicks and shudders as Truax laments his shoes’ vulnerability to coming untied despite no movement on his part
.
That not enought to convince you? Have a listen....
Sonic Dreamer - Thomas Truax
posted Monday 14th June. Filed under twenty 4 seven
8-bit wizard Enfant Bastard has finished his new album. "Master Dude" will be out in July, in the meantime here's a taste....
Enfant Bastard - "Wanker"
posted Wednesday 2nd June. Filed under Au Revoir?
Misty's Big Adventure are currently mixing their new album, or rather having it mixed, in London. It'll still be a few months before it sees the light of day (Grandmaster Gareth is yet to hear the rough mixes) so in the meantime there's single from these brummie popstars. A-Side is Gareth's girl pop protégés The Dumbettes whilst Misty's appear on the AA-side with There's Someone at The Window
The Dumbettes - "Dumb Head"
Misty's Big Adventure - "There’s Someone At The Window"
Download Now - More Info - Press Release pdf
The album, possible featuring Patrick Moore, will be along some time in 2010....I hope
Meanwhile Misty's will be back on the road in April and May (full details on the SL Records Gigs Pages) including some special shows with the mights King of Fuh himself Brute Force
posted Wednesday 14th April. Filed under Hess/Monte
King Creosote, Pictish Trail and Adem's cover of Withered Hand's "No Cigarettes"
Withered Hand - "No Cigarettes"
posted Wednesday 17th March. Filed under epee
Thomas Truax performance at the Glasgow Film Festival was brilliantly captured by Jules Gay
There's also some lovely words about his performance from Fiona Shepherd in The Scotsman
update: this is a version with Thomas' music. There's also a version with Jules' music on youtube
updated Wednesday 17th March. filed by MI5 anon

yooouuutuuube is a rather genius website - stick a youtube link into it and it does weird and trippy things with it. We've tried a selection of SL videos, Paul Vickers and the Leg's "Paperboat" works rather well (you can watch the yooouuutuuube version here and the original video here)
Perhaps topically one of the best yoouuutuuube videos is Pogo's Alice in Wonderland track, nothing to do with us - but genius.
But be warned either your computer, mind, or both may be pushed to the max.
Paul Vickers and The Leg - Paperboat
posted Monday 8th March. File under mary jane

Misty's Big Adventure have been recording a track with star gazer Patrick Moore. He's narating a story called "General Confusion" which will be on their new album. Full details on Grandmaster Gareth's blog. No firm details on Misty's new album yet, but hopefully it'll be coming out in some way, shape or form soon.
Misty's Big Adventure - The Black Hole
posted Tuesday 2nd March. File under star struck
There's been a rash of Withered Hand covers recently, the mighty eagleowl has recorded a version of 'I Am Nothing', King Creosote has been playing 'No Cigarettes' and Enfant Bastard's done a glorious version of 'Song For The Maudlin' which you can hear on his myspace. And we've found more versions popping up online - I came across this rather nice version of 'Religious Songs' by Lovers Turn To Monsters - drop us an email if you come across any more and we'll post links up here.
We're collecting a nice selection of Withered Hand remixes. Swimmer One have been twiddling the knobs for B-side of the new Withered Hand single 'No Cigarettes' which will be out in March (more details soon) and the Wonderful Wowl! have created a grand version of 'New Dawn' (with the "Hey's" included!) - have a listen below.
Wowl! vs Withered Hand - "New Dawn"
more details: The new virtual single from Withered Hand "No Cigarettes" will be available to download from your favourite download site from 29th March. The b-side is Swimmer One's take on "Love In The Time Of Ecstacy". You can download it NOW from here
Withered Hand - "Love In The Time of Ecstacy (Swimmer One Remix)"
posted Tuesday 23rd Feb. Updated Tuesday 2nd March. File under Dread Hen Whit
Paul Vickers (of
Paul Vickers and The Leg and Dawn of The Replicants) is, as has been mentioned before, a tireless workaholic. To keep himself busy he's written a Fringe show, that'll be performed at The Counting House Ballroom in August (12:10 to 13:00 from the 5th to the 29th of August 2010 apart from the 12th, 19th and the 26th).
This isn't Paul's first foray into comedy, his off the wall comedy can be found on Recording The Impossible, an album and pilot radio show made for the BBC. A new album "Fucking Storys" will be out this summer to coincide with the show.
Twonkey’s Cottage is an off-centre treasure trove of tall tales, featuring stories from across the globe and local. Tall stories to rival "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" with a demented puppet show as first realised on a night train to Liechtenstein.......you have been warned
Paul Vickers - A Moosk
posted Friday 26th Feb. Filed under impossible comedy
Paul Vickers and The Leg's glorious new album Itchy Grumble is now in the shops. It's an epic rock opera that tells the tale of the immortal Itchy Grumble who is tasked, by the evil genius inventor The foreman, with revolved the lighthouse in the Firth of Forth.....probably best you have a listen.
It's garnered a slew of great reveiws: "firmly on the jazz-Hobbit pop ley line that conects Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits and Pere Ubu" Uncut; "The Jesus Lizard soundtracking The Wickerman" Mojo; "a concept so impenetrably surreal that even the Mighty Boosh might find it bewildering" The Scotsman; "devilish...leftfield neo-rock opera" The List and "Unlistenable Tosh".....thanks Q!
The band are playing Itchy live at The Bang Bang Club in Edinburgh on 13th March.
posted Monday 22nd Feb. File under what would forth ports authority say?
Thomas Truax, who's album of Songs From The Films Of David Lynch we released last year has been invited to the Glasgow Film Festival. He'll be playing Songs from the films of David Lynch, and no doubt some of his own material, on Tuesday night [23rd Feb] at Mono, tickets available from the GFF website, doors 8pm. Whilst he's up in Scotland he'll be playing Edinburgh on Thursday at The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh Collage of Art with the wonderful Golden Ghosts. Tickets available from We Got Tickets
posted Sunday 21st Feb. filed by the FBI
Paul Vickers
Fucking Stories
Album
Download Now Buy CD more infoPaul Vickers is badly dressed with a shedload of odd toys, he would have
had his very own sitcom in the 70s
N.M.E.
Tracklisting:
Enfant Bastard
Master Dude
Album
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Thomas Truax
Sonic Dreamer
Album
Buy CD Download Now More InfoAmid the gleeful sonic invention it's easy to miss how good his songwriting can be.....Truax is shaping up nicely as one of the great rock eccentrics.
Morning Star
Tracklisting:
The Dumbettes / Misty's Big Adventure
Dumb Head / There’s Someone At The Window
Single
Download Now More InfoTracklisting:
Paul Vickers and The Leg
Itchy Grumble
Album
Download Now Buy CD Listen more infoFirmly on the jazz-Hobbit pop ley line which connects Captain Beefheart, skronk-era Tom Waits, Kevin Coyne and Pere Ubu
Jim Wirth, Mojo
Tracklisting:
Wowl!
Three Hits
EP
Download Now Listen more infoa whistle-infused flash of feral pop
The Skinny
Tracklisting:
Withered Hand
Good News
Album
Download Now Buy CD more infoOn this impressive debut Dan Willson’s alter ego attains the celestial lustre of that holy grail of lapsed evangelical folk nouveau, the first Palace Brothers album.
Ben Thompson, Mojo
Tracklisting:
Thomas Truax
Songs From The Films of David Lynch
Album
Buy CD ListenTruly unsettling and perplexingly brilliant....these covers wouldn’t sound out of place soundtracking a mental breakdown.
The Skinny
Tracklisting:
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