Six.By Seven split on eve of fifth album.

hmm: i'm merely mildly sad. i loved the first two albums but haven't really paid much attention to them since then.

someone might be able to confirm this, but i believe th enew album shares some tracks with Left Luggage...

it sucks that they have split, but it was very much on the cards. the way they've lost members over their history, the next record would've been Olley solo anyway.

That would be fantastic - it's a title I've come across several times but never heard.

i'm assuming your gmail position is out of choice? if you want an account, there are thousands of us in a position to supply! i've got [click] 50 invites ... you can't give them away fast enough.

Ugh! I saw them live last November and they were atrocious. Lumpen, arrogant, plodding and graceless, their set reached it's nadir at the very end when Chris Olley threw his guitar down, took of his leather jacket, and began to whip his instrument with it.

A couple of years ago, I stumbled upon a streamed video of a 6x7 live show ... they were excellent, and from the looks of it, best experienced live. Explosive was the best word for it. Like Mogwai, their records are very good but that sort of volume and intensity is best heard live.

I've still not checked out Twelve, but I've just bought a Macbook and a stack of CDs so spending is somewhat arrested for the rest of the month. Could anyone gmail or YSI me some songs privately? sickmouthy@gmail.NOSPAM

Wanking in the shower is wrong I feel, and not just from an energy conservation standpoint.

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x-post - Louis I could tell you some amazing secrets about Taoist pressure points and 90-second, ejaculate-less orgasms, but I wont.

You mentally picture yrself wanking whilst you wank?

They're AACs, which is cool, but they're only 120kbps; you can set higher via preferences > import settings.

Get A Real Tattoo on the way; I actually got up and fetched the CD.

OK, henceforth I'll import on a higher setting. Also, woohoo, yer a star etc. :D

Get A Real tattoo, people; long since deleted, and not on iTunes or anywhere I don't think - http://www.sendspace.com/file/0h0w5h

psyched...i'm not even sure i've heard this...i was probably thinking of something else

blimey that downloaded in less than 2 seconds. I thought something was wrong and redownloaded it and it did it again. I checked and the file is fine. When did sendspace get so fast? It usually limps along.
Thanks Nick.

I own the 1st 2 cds but never bought any of the others. Where should I start?

skip the third, get them in order after that

i think i d/l the 3rd at the time and it put me off checking the later stuff (see Therapy? , Suede and SFA for further examples)

(not their 3rd albums)

Let's all listen to GART right now.

Am doing so. There is an awesomely ominous keyboard hum.

3rd 6x7 album is kind of pants. Bits of 2nd, 4th, and 5th are way over-produced / compressed, although occasionally to quite astonishing (if headache-inducing) effect. Last album = amazingly textured grooves and drones. Debut = drones, arcs, rocking, rhythms, and pop in perfect alignment.

5:40 = apocalypse

That's why dynamic range compression sucks, kids. Radiohead never suddenly consumed the world like that.

3rd album is basically ONLY worth it for the opening track and "All My New Best Friends" and precisely diddly-squat else. They pretty much reinvented their sound for 04, which was a strikingly original album and an incalculable improvement. Quality control has been excellent since then, with (big) variations on the 04 model being largely prevalent. Last record is one of the all-time great post-reformation records. It's stunning and when I heard it I was completely blown away.

also :D @ GART

Wow yeah, that explosion is up there with "My Life Is An Accident" or "Sometimes I Feel Like..."

er i think some of these songs you've sent me are password protected :-/

well, only the caribou one, i can live without that i guess (unless you give me the password :P)

"up in flames" is awesome btw

anyway, cheers, all aboard, and it's probably time I sent you some more low-sound-quality 6x7 goodies tbh

This Hull Bloke. Who the fuck?

Ian Ashbee?

thanks for my new username

i didn't think GART was that hard to get? i have all the singles up to the fourth album, if there's any b-sides anyone is missing

The version of the For You EP on iTunes is the one with I'm Wide Open on the b-side, rather than GART, likewise 7 Digital, and second-hand copies of the physical CD don't turn up that often I don't think, at least in the UK; hence GART is in danger of becoming a bit of a lost classic, it seems.

I'd be very grateful of any b-sides you cared to zip together, dude. Doubt I have anything you'd want in return, though.

Hey - while you wait for all that to be sorted, why not expound on your Peveril faves thus far?

uploading now, will post link when i wake up

awesome, cheers

There was a live version of GART on an NME cd around the time I started uni (maybe for Sound City 98 or something?), but I've never heard the original, due to never finding the cd that had it. I think I even wrote to Mantra/Beggars mail order trying to get hold of it. Thanks for uploading it, Nick.

Gave up on them just before the 4th album came out, mainly 'cos I got the hump with them. Long story: I had abeautifulshape as my AIM name, and AOL login, and then presumably when they left Beggars they had to get a new website and email and stuff so they picked beautifulshape, which would've been bad enough if I'd only got the occasional misspelt address, but Chris or someone put MY email address on the website, and then asked for everyone's top 10 6x7 songs for some spurious reason, which then got sent to me, and because I actually really liked 6x7, instead of deleting them all I'd forward them to the proper address, and reply to the sender saying what had happened. Who knew they had so many fans. At the time I was driving vans for 11hours a day, so I'd come home and find a few dozen emails that weren't even my business to be dealing with. I got a bit annoyed, and emailed Chris O and begged him to sort it out, and that I was 'hoping' (nudge nudge) to see them at the Garage soon, thinking I might maybe get a free ticket for you know, running their mailing list for a fortnight, but nothing. I went to the gig anyway, with about 20 other people, and they played a load of underwhelming new stuff, and then Candlelight, as a 3-piece with all the bass on DAT or whatever. I kind of lost interest after that.

Still love the first album, top 10 of all time for me.

sorry for the rant!

The Peveril stuff so far I like quite a bit; it seems quite stripped down and krauty, but still with some pop chops, and hence closer to the first album, which I just think is awesome. Government head & shoulders best in terms of tune. Wallflower very cool.

lolol that is seriously unfortunate.....the only time I saw them was I think their final ever London gig, where they performed as a 5-piece and sounded glorious, playing predominantly first-album material. I was actually slightly disappointed by the setlist; I'd hoped it would cover their discography much more evenly. Like I say, though, they sounded fucking huge. A shame that the 04 material didn't sound especially great...the album's monstrous.

Also, they played "IOU Love" which has to be up there in the worst 3 songs they've ever written (and they didn't even write it!)...still forgiven.

Another thing is that I'm listening to Symptoms right now and for all 04's brilliance, this is actually in danger of leapfrogging it into 2nd place. It's that good. I haven't listened to it in a while and it sounds just flaming magnificent. Even the supposed 'weaker tracks' like World Army are titanic.

Government is one of the great lost 21st-century love songs. Should have been massive. Wallflower is just uh kickass.

Who wrote IOU Love?

Was that the Luminaire gig? I should've gone to that, wasn't Sam playing with them as well? It's a shame, because everytime I'd seen them before that had been amazing, Chris O looking like he wanted to tear down the entire venue in disgust at the fact they weren't anywhere bigger (this is like the Hop & Grape in Manc), but in the Garage everyone just seemed so apathetic and bored. I'll have to track down the stuff I've not heard.

The Church wrote IOU Love and called it "Under The Milky Way"...it was one of their biggest hits. And their version's way better.

It was indeed the Luminaire gig. I had a chat with Sam beforehand and he was very nice. Almost too nice, considering the bad-boy pissed-off psycho-rockstar persona Mr Olley seems to like adopting for live shows. Definitely off-message! :D

They played hard, 'twas a game attempt to lift the roof! One of the louder bands I've heard. They rock with exceeding might. Yeah, you should have been there. Coz now they's dead'n'gone.

"Ten Places To Die" was probably the highlight, although the one song they played off the new album, "Enemy", sounded about 2x as vengefully righteous as it does on record, and the rhythmic change-up near the end damn near threw me in the air.

"Brilliantly Cute" was another one that jumped out at me....WAY better live than on record imo.

6x7 b-sides:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jkek6i
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p9v2da

big thumbs up to that man

Kinda weird how this thread was revived (and the discussion turned to b-sides) after I grabbed the "New Year" CD-single out of a bargain bin over the weekend ...

Awesome; cheers dude!

Recent b-sides that I've heard, fwiw, extend pretty much only to ambient-ish instrumentals - fucking 11 of them on the Bochum single (so it counted as an album for chart purposes, I suppose).

Thanks to Jim, this is my new little b-sides collection; 12 tracks over 55 minutes and as good as any album by them, I'd wager.

I'm Wide Open 5:12 Six.By Seven For You
This 4:04 Six.By Seven 88-92-96
Spiegelei Und Brot 2:59 Six.By Seven All My New Best Friends
Requiem for an Oil Spill Seagull 5:54 Six.By Seven So Close
100 Thousand and 80 3:36 Six.By Seven Ocean Clouds
Cool TV Suit 4:34 Six.By Seven Two And A Half Days In Love With You
Your Town 3:28 Six.By Seven 88-92-96
Stoned In Hawaii 5:23 Six.By Seven New Year
Young Man's Stride 2:58 Six.By Seven Candlelight
Get A Real Tattoo 7:09 Six.By Seven For You
Always Waiting For... 6:23 Six.By Seven Two And A Half Days In Love With You
Sleep 2:53 Six.By Seven New Year

Spiegelei Und Brot is fucking wicked. Largely because it's in German.

Oh yeah, and rocks like a bitch in a caveman's house.

"I'll Take My Chances" is an almost complete rip of another song, riff, chorus, melody, everything, but I can't quite place it. It's driving me mad.

A Talking Heads song. Off Fear of Music.

Memories Can Wait! It's a total rip of that.

Listening quickly to GART last night, I remembered that I really love their snare drum sound.

Opener: All I Really Want From You Is Love >>> Eat Junk Become Junk >>> So Close >>> Nations >>> Around >>> Untitled >>> A Beautiful Shape >>> Intro & Theme Tune (which is still ace, if a NIN rip...god this lot could do opening tracks)
Closer: You Know I Feel Alright Now >>> 100 And Something Foxhall Road >>> Wallflower >>> Bad Man >>> War Nations >>> Comedown >>> Hours >>> Don't Let It Bring You Down

I cannot overstate just how well ACPT begins and ends. They're almost perfect. Penultimate track's a stunner too.

Recording again, I gather.

Seeing them tonight! :D

Catch you all there! :D :D

SIX.BYSEVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Standing In The Light is the stormer off the new album and boy does it storm. Scik, get on it ffs.