The Seal Cub Clubbing Club

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The Seal Cub Clubbing Club
The Seal Cub Clubbing Club
Background information
Origin	The Wirral, England
Genre(s)	Indie rock, Post-punk revival
Years active	2003–present
Label(s)	None
Website	Official website
Members
Nik Glover Si Stephens Andy Thompson John Biddle Jay Freeman
Former members
Andy Rostron

The Seal Cub Clubbing Club are a five-piece post-punk band from The Wirral, England. With their lyrics covering wildly different subjects, Thom Yorke like mutterings, repetitive instrumental hooks and unconventionaly catchy choruses and melodys, their music is unlike other Merseyside bands The Coral and The Zutons. They are often compared to the likes of The Fall and Radiohead

1 History
2 Discography
3 External links

[edit] History

As friends of friends at school in The Wirral, The Seal Cub Clubbing Club started off playing Prog-Reggae, a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club cover and just 'jamming' in 2003. Their first gig, on a beach in West Kirby was ended abruptly after only half-an-hour due to a power failure.

Their name, a mendacity as Seal infants are called pups not cubs, was an effort to get away from usual one word-searching through the dictionary names that are often used by bands. According to an interview with the band by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1, the name simply came from something a friend had said when the band was looking for a name.

They started out at as proper live act at the VALHALLA night at the Zanzibar venue in Liverpool. This was a night started by West Kirby's The Laze.

Their first EP, Number One In A Serious, was released in January 2005 on their own mini record label, Boon(e). Containing Why Don't You Fix It? and Slow-Motion Powerslides (in Dee), it was placed in the recommended section of Rough Trade Records and received airplay from Steve Lamacq.

A second EP, the five-track The Seal Cub Clubbing Club EP was released on Nomadic in November 2005 following a UK tour in support of Brakes. It gained positive reviews from the Channel 4 website and Rough Trade Records.

The Seal Cub Clubbing Club EP II, a more poppy effort than their previous releases, was released on Nomadic in March 2006. Lead track Celine was notable for receiving nationwide airplay and being written "for NME audiences so they don't cry"[1].

In August 2006, The Seal Cub Clubbing Club played the Leeds Festival early in the afternoon on the Comedy stage. In September they toured the UK in support of British Sea Power.

The single World Of Fashion was released in November 2006 on Nomadic receiving airplay from Steve Lamacq and Huw Stevens on BBC Radio 1. This was followed by nationwide headlinging tour and then a tour in support of [Blackwire].

An album was recorded in France, during summer 2006 and was ready for release in Spring 2007 according to their interview in [Kruger Magazine] issue 12. According to the flyer for the summer 2007 tour, the album was to be called Super Science Fiction. However, due to contractual wrangles with Nomadic Music, and the subsequent collapse of the label, the album was put back indefinitely. In April 2008 the band finally left Nomadic Music, not long after the release of Number Three In A Serious, which was put out on the band's own Boon(e) Records label. The lead track on this release was May, and a video for the b-side tin drum, a re-edited short film about a man who compulsively attends the funerals of strangers, appeared on YouTube.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

2008 - Super Science Fiction

[edit] EPs

2005 - Number One In A Serious
2005 - The Seal Cub Clubbing Club EP
2006 - The Seal Cub Clubbing Club EP II

[edit] Singles

2006 - World Of Fashion/Oblong
2008 - Number Three In A Serious

[edit] External links

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