STATE RUN 12"

We have a 12" record with bonus discography CD available to buy now. Head on over to www.staterunrecords.blogspot.com to listen to an mp3 from the new record, and to purchase it online.

Destroy.

Just another quick update. One day I'll have something substantial to say.

I've been having a lot of ideas the past few days for songs. I want to record some new material in March 2007 for an album. This is an idea we have been talking about for over a year.

Do they think guitars and microphones are just fucking toys?

Here is a list of our upcoming gigs:

THURSDAY 16th NOVEMBER
at THE TOLLHOUSE, BRIDGEND
£2 entry

SATURDAY 2nd DECEMBER
ENDFEST 2006
at COMMUNITY CENTER, GUILDFORD
£7 entry. Click for more info.

SUNDAY 7th JANUARY
at THE MONKEY BAR, SWANSEA
w/ You, Me and the Atom Bomb.
£3 entry

Thank you

This is just a short post to say "thank you" to everyone who helped us out on our recent jaunt around the UK. It was really awesome, and despite how cynical I sometimes feel towards the UK scene, I still find it incredible that it is sufficient to support, take care of and essentially offer bands this platform and oppurtunity to get out there and "do it".

Hopefully a more detailed account will be posted in the forthcoming days, but for now I'll leave you with a few select photographs.



Fuck all of these poser geeks. We're the real deal.

State Run on a journey

We have some gigs coming up:

SAT 28TH OCTOBER
at: LE PUB, NEWPORT
w/ Milloy, A Death in The Family and Social Skills

SUN 29TH OCTOBER
The "Means to an End" Festival
at: THE 1in12 CLUB, BRADFORD
w/ Birdflesh, Sylvester Staline and more

MON 30TH OCTOBER
at: CONOR'S BASEMENT, LEEDS
w/ Aghast and Baron Noir
(Check here for the location soon, or email me)

WED 1ST NOVEMBER
at: THE COWLEY CLUB, BRIGHTON
w/ The Keep and End The Agony

If you could sort us out with a gig on 31st October or 2nd November, that'd be a great help.

We'll report back soon.

Stop whining.

take a human and place upon a pedestal
offer obscene amounts of money in exchange for dignity-
the ultimate gameshow.
How much is your privacy worth to you?
How much is your life worth to you?
humiliate and violate
the depraved strip you: nude.
you've got a 6 figure bank account
and that's all that counts
these parasites have the right to intrude into your life
that was part of the deal when you signed to make yourself a product

Our culture is structured in such a way that we obtain gratification directly from the exploitation of human beings. Their lives are down-trodden and stripped of sacredness so that we have hair salon gossip and can play Peeping Tom without being arrested.
Yet willing participants are not difficult to come by- in fact they arrive in hordes at the auditions of reality TV shows, desperately clawing for their 15 minutes and discarding any shred of dignity in the process. Society is taught to feel no moral obligations towards these "celebrities". They are pictures, characters, mannequins, icons, products- not human beings. In the same way, the effigies of animals or those god-damn Iraqis are distorted as to suppress any feeling of guilt for us when we eat them or shoot them.

Jon

Like, Hell

Having tried to clear some of the shit from my bedroom floor, I spent most of Thursday night reading through a mini-zine that me and Jon had put together for a Farewell to Arms show we set up and thinking over stuff (sleep was pretty hard to come by). Barely anyone showed up to the show; FTA travelled most of the day to play to about 5 local kids and a handful of guys from other towns. To be honest I don't really know how many people read it and out of those, how many of them really gave a shit, but I was getting really excited over it. It was really cool to read some of our ideas back to myself. It clearly doesn't matter at all that our town is made of kids who mostly don't care for much of what you do when you can take comfort in your own and a friends ideas written permanantly; when I get hung up over other transient stuff thats just gonna pass its always gonna be there.

I remembered how stoked FTA were to play and it got me real psyched over a few dates we've got planned for half term outside of Wales (including the means to an end festival!). Louis also sent me a txt about the zine that had me smiling for ages. It seemed immense how excited they were about everything. I'm probably just going to be dissappointed by the experience, but it feels to me like playing outside of Wales is going to be like re-finding other kids on the same page as you all over again, like the first time I met Jon here, the friends we've made from NATC and other bands and the kids up in Brecon etc.

I eventually got to sleep and woke up half an hour late for school, which was shit.

Noel