the blog of london based punk rock musicians the athens polytechnic band

wet your whistle.

Posted: Tuesday 14 September 2010 | Posted by SON OF A BITCH : the athens polytechnic blog | 0 comments

Yo, some new tracks from the 7" are now up at on our myspace. Give them a listen and see if you fancy parting with £4 (incl. P&P)* of your hard earned to own a legit first pressing when it's released**. We humbly think you might.

I'm also gonna post up a review of the Offset show that appeared on the artrocker site because it makes us sound well good (and Paragon Management Enterprises Ltd. said that we had to in order to feed 'the buzz' surrounding 'the group' right now), so here it is...

"Into a tent next for the blindingly wonderful Athens Polytechnic, who are a Roadrunner cartoon come to life. Twin vocalists scream their lungs out, wrestle with each other, improvise dance routines and chase the audience around the tent. Amidst the carnage is a thrash version of Kraftwerk’s ‘The Model’. Second TotW – the inspired and non-obvious cover version. They are also the only band today with a chorus that goes “We want you for the Cameron youth!”

Athens Polytechnic are bloody marvellous and put a smile on my face for the rest of the day."

And then it goes on to talk about some shitty bands that use weird little DJ things with turny bits instead of guitars.

There's also a whole fuckin' gallery of pics from our set here, it's one of those set ups where you click on each picture and it moves on to the next one: Just like iPhoto! Below is my own personal 'best of the bunch' which not only makes me look like I have a steriod neck as fat as my head but shows off the hairdressing skills of my flat mate Kayleigh, I mean, look at those layers!

*or buy it from Rough Trade records for £3 and endear us to the big boys.

** First week of October sometime







offset is done, 7" to come.

Posted: Monday 6 September 2010 | Posted by SON OF A BITCH : the athens polytechnic blog | 0 comments

Offset is done. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Some of us saw The Monotonix and agreed it was the best show we had ever seen. Some of us saw Bo Ningen and agreed it was a bloody good show. We all saw Lovvers and danced until we cried. Aimee got her tooth knocked out during Trash Talk. The term 'shitty nifter' entered common parlance. I even saw The Mystery Jets (don't ask). But we have to put all that behind us now, Offset is done.

The show in Ipswich also ruled, huge thanks to everyone who lives at Harland Street for letting us stay and everyone who attended Baxtoberfest IV, we would come back again like that .

Our debut EP 'Selling Out Fast!' is being pressed right now by burly men wiping sweat from their brows at the heart of a natural furnace too close to the centre of the earth for normal specimens of humanity to bare (how many more times can I mention that?)

Few shows coming up here and there but watch out for The Montague Arms on the 23rd of Sep. We're along side the mighty Waxing Captors and local legends Buffalo in SE London's finest ale offering venue. Do it.

For the meantime, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Tommy!





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Posted: Thursday 2 September 2010 | Posted by SON OF A BITCH : the athens polytechnic blog | 0 comments

TONIGHT: Ipswich


TOMORROW: New Cross Inn

SATURDAY: Offset

Don't make us miss you x