Once in a while you need a new bandpic because some people you work with keep asking for it. That means, trying to find a situation where 4 guys standing closely together won’t look awkard or overly artsy. An old school 70ies elevator, complete with carpeted walls and hideous lighting, will do. Thanks to donotfold.be for shooting this. It looks exactly the way we want it: unflattering and nasty.

We’ve been selling this new shirt (which comes with a free pressed album) on our shows and to people we know for about a month and a half now. Sending us pictures like the one above make us go: ‘yiiiiihaaaaa’. So keep ‘em coming people. Note the double benefit: you endorse our next album and you look great.

We have long abandoned the road of trying to point out what defines compassion. In the end it’s highly evident, that no one cares about the rest, as long as they are not affected by the turmoil of misery. Where did I read this thing again? Can’t remember, but it was along these lines: “Are the charitable feelings we have, nothing more than our excuse and desire to feast on the misfortune of others. A bit like that part of us that feels compelled to hang around car crash sites, crime scenes or other disaster areas.” 

Either way, we are not unaffected by this and hope you too will do your part in raising funds and, more importantly, awareness about the issue that Music For Life is addressing this year. Please, find all the details and the bank account number for your donations on this webpage.

If you have a webpage of your own, you might consider borrowing it to Stubru for the time of the Music For Life action.

Check out the last batch of great photos that were shot by Stijn (donotfold.be). As we said: someone has to document this road to perdition. Thanks man.

at Kinky Star 28/11/2010 
at Trix/Hof ter loo 27/11/2010 
at Lintfabriek 13/11/2010

In this entire exercise of offering our songs as free downloads on our site, we got some really excited reactions AND we got politely insulted by our former publisher. But on the other hand, there still were a lot more people that wanted to buy an actual album to support our music, or just because they didn’t like the hassle of downloading music and moving it to a player.

So here’s the album, pressed for your CD listening pleasure. It will be available on our concerts. It is not for sale but you will get it for free if you buy an authentic ‘a school of QUIET’ signature shirt. This is a limited edition print and only 500 will be up for grabs.

Here we go again. Another 8 free songs in our download section. There’s one song we like best,  so if you ask for anything new on your favourite radio station, ask for ‘More Bootlegs‘.

This addition of 8 more free tracks (some old and new stuff blended together) gives you the full 14 song download of our ‘HANDMADErecord’ album. Check out the lyrics, and next time we meet you on stage, we’ll have an extra mic ready for your sing alongs.

Every time we handed someone a shirt we asked them to provide us with a picture of them wearing it. The first pictures are coming in. (We still have to put some other shirts in the mail – a bit behind on that. Sorry Torben, my bad). We started a flickr set, so you can take a look at them here. We’ll be adding as they come in. Thanks to all of you.

Take, take, take …

We have been communicating ‘take this music’ for the past few weeks and I guess we mean business. This music is all free. Not because we don’t value it, we highly do, but because we like the idea of you playing it and sharing it.

You can easily help us out. All we need is for you to download the tracks and tell everyone and anyone about them. (Only if you like what you hear, of course.) – In the long run this will help us to provide you with more releases.

5 more free songs for your sharing pleasure: ‘varnish’, ‘single me out’, ‘insular’, ‘hoax’ and ‘freak’. A blend of old and new material. Along with the previously released ‘city of quartz’, these six songs are the first half of our ‘more bootlegs’ online free album compilation.

The math is quite simple:

	the music is free
	if you like this music, download the tracks
	share this with your friends to listen
	they can also download the tracks and hopefully tell others about it

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