Why do you walk away when I am trying to show you dreams?.........

........These were the words of Lyon's premier street magician, comdeian, acrobat, impressionist, ventriloquist, gynast and fortune teller as his unbeguiled public began to slowly back away, unimpressed by the levetating cigarette, the dematerialising bank note or the old man eating toaster routine.
Luckily the Athens Polytechnic were forced to endure no such ignomony at the hands of discerning French audiences, putting on as we did a fucking awesome show and being delighted to find a FUCKING AWESOME AUDIENCE there to receive it. We want to send hampers of thanks out to everyone at Grrrnd Zero, especially Alexianne and Camille, who gave us beds, found us cigarettes and passed us beers (that we hadn't paid for). It was also great to see evryone getting into a punk band considering we were at some wierd-ass experimental show with a support band that sounded like a balrog being blown by a northerner and a guy called Bob Log III who was... well, he was this. Thanks Bob for telling us off all the different ways to die in the Arizona desert, we owe you one!

But now, to the important proceedings of the day A SINCERE APOLOGY. We want, from the bottom of our hearts, to apologise to one Badger, resident of Lyon. He was not a real badger, he was a man that is true, but his name was badger. We think. He did everything he could for us, everything, and we let him down. We let him down bad. So while I don't wanna go into all the details here I will just say Badger, wherever you are, the Athens Polytehcnic group is very, very sorry we left in the middle of the rainy night in a strange part of town stoned out of your mind.

Anyway, enough of this wank thanking! Come see us at Dr Kruger's Surgery at the Victoria in Hackney on the 9th of December and any kids from Lyon who said they were gonna send us pictures - where the fucking hell are they?

seen x

IT'S HERE

It's finally here. The papers wanted to stop it, the punk rock establishment wanted to stop it, the bands whose tunes we ripped off wanted to stop it, hell, most of our parents wanted to stop it but in the words of one more eloquent than us 'the lady is not for turning'. We would not be stopped.

Thanks to the herculean efforts of Ski and Jake at Lost London and the boys and girls at Paragon Management Incorporated 300 brand new copies of 'Selling Out Fast' are being smuggled over the border marked as UHT milk as we speak, and you can get yours from Friday (BUY)HERE(BUY) or (BUY)here(BUY). However, If you're one of those who favours next second delivery why not go to Rough Trade East/West, stand in front of the record and talk really loudly about how awesome it is for a few minutes before you make your purchase, we'd really appreciate it.

This little vinyl biscuit contains such fan favourites as LAST GOOD CITIZEN, WHERE DID ALL THE YOUNG MEN GO?, AND I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT AS WELL IF IT WASN'T FOR THOSE MEDDLIN' BOOKS, OTHER SHOES and THE KIDS WILL NOT HAVE THEIR SAY, not to mention featuring the full original line-up of CATHOLIC - VOCALS, AMERICAN - VOCALS, JEW - GUITAR, ARAB - BASS, PROTESTANT - DRUMS. Don't miss out, we're strictly limited to 300 copies and we're sure to split up soon.

Talking of splitting up, we're playing a few shows soonish (they always tend to hasten the inevitable) including Grrrnd Zero in Lyon on the 16th, possibly a secret venue in Lewisham on the 18th (watch this space) maybe a record release gig/art show/buffet at Goldsmiths College (if we can be arsed to organise it), perchance the Victoria in Hackney on the 9th of December with some cool garage bands (if they guy gets back to us) and definitely THE HARD SKIN CHRISTMAS SHOW AT THE GROSVENOR IN STOCKWELL ON THE 17TH!

Wrap up warm x

Listen when wilko speaks unto you....

"Rock 'n' roll music ain't supposed to be about The Hobbit, that's for girls. We make music for people who wanna have a good time."
Wilko Johnson, 1975