Author Archives: Rob

“Others (Remixes)” is a collection of remixes perpetrated by Sounds of System Breakdown in 2011 and 2012. The EP embraces a variety of UK and Irish acts including My Tiger My Timing, little xs for eyes, and Gorgeous Colours and is available as a free download from Bandcamp.
The cover art is a large whiteboard drawing [...]

Today we are releasing our new single “Jumps” along with a live studio recording of “Still Be Bad”. The single is available from Bandcamp as a digital download. We are also doing a limited run of handmade badges that will be given out free at the launch tonight in Whelan’s. We’ll be doing more runs [...]

Here’s some thing that happened over the last few months:
We went to the UK. We packed the Joy Machine* top to bottom with gear and hopped on the old Jonathan Swift. Our ferry captain sounded like Bill Oddie. Milo in Leeds first, them Proud Camden and finished up with the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Our [...]

Here we go:

Wednesday 13th July – Leeds – Milo Bar, Doors 8pm
Thursday 14th July – London – Bad Sex @ Proud Camden, Doors 7:30pm, Free before 10pm
Saturday 16th July – Brighton – The Hydrant, Doors 8pm
Sunday 17th July – London – Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, Doors 6:30pm, Free Admission

We leaving early tomorrow morning, dragging [...]

We’ve confirmed the first few dates of our UK mini-tour with gigs in Pop Southampton and Sheltered @ The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen. Go to the Gigs page for more details. See you there Englanders!
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A huge thank you to everyone to stayed up well past bedtime to celebrate the launch of our new EP “Colour”, you guys were easily the best crowd we’ve ever had! Thanks to our manager Peter for all the hard work he put in over the last few weeks and to Montage Populaire for supporting [...]

Pre-sales of our new EP “Colour” are available now from bandcamp.com. It’s a pay-what-you-want release, with a small administration cost (for the moment). A number of bundles are available (more to come):

Physical and digital – €5 plus postage
Physical, digital and launch tickets – €9 plus postage

Check it out. By pre-ordering, you’ll help fund the printing, duplication and [...]

 
We’ve some important (and sad) news to announce:
“Although it is very sad and tough for all three of us it is necessary for myself and the band to part effective immediately. After heartfelt discussions and slightly too lengthy bro-hugs my time w/ SOSB is over. We’re planning a couple on-stage things including a “farewell to [...]

On Monday we released a track in collaboration with art collective Scissors|Cuts|Paper as part of the “Bling” issue of their zine. Have a listen:
Fashion Mercenary – Radio Edit by SOSB
The CD comes free with the zine which will be available in The Winding Stair (Ormonde Quay), Indigo And Cloth (South William Street) and Monster [...]

To celebrate Hard Working Class Heroes we are streaming our album in full on bandcamp.com. You can also download two brand new remixes from Channel One and I Am The Cosmos!
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We are playing the festival at 10:50 on Saturday in the lovely new Grand Social venue in the former Pravda. If you can’t make [...]