This Town Needs Guns for Irish Dates

ODL Booking & The Richter Collective Presents:
This Town Needs Guns (Sargent House, Big Scary Monsters)

IRISH DATES FEBRUARY 2009

Oxford is home to the oldest University in the English-speaking world, but more recently has been acknowledged as a musical hotbed with a habit of producing some of the most vital bands around today (Radiohead and Foals, to name a few). Their latest export is This Town Needs Guns, a band being hailed as the darling buds of the thriving UK indie scene. The band have toured across Europe with the likes of I Was A Cub Scout, Meet Me In St Louis, Rolo Tomassi and Maps and Atlases and the release of 2007s split EP with Cats And Cats And Cats garnered critical acclaim from fans and press alike.

This Town Needs Guns entered the studio in April 2008, setting out to find an intricate balance between indie rock, catchy pop and technical prowess, all while ignoring the lure of special effects and studio wizardry. Through this process, their debut full-length Animals was born; a collection of songs that bring to light the band's pure, clever and earnest song writing ability. Tim Collis' guitar sounds as though it's being caressed by 6 hands as his brother, Chris, flings his sticks around the drum kit not wanting to leave any tiny patch un-touched. Bassist Dan Adams completes the rhythm section with his dancey, jazz influenced bass lines while Stuart Smith's vocals dip and soar, taking this record from thought provoking depths to sky-scraping triumphs.

Animals Will be released in the US on Sargent House (Daughters, Maps and Atlases, Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes) Early 2009 and is currently on general release in Europe through Big Scary Monsters.

Thursday 5th Feb - Whelans - Dublin (Support from Adebisi Shank + And so I Watch you From Afar)
Friday 6th Feb - Cork - Fred Zepplins (Support from The Avalanche Effect)
Saturday 7th Feb - Limerick - (Crude Magazine Issue 2 Launch Party)

This Town Needs Guns

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