HISTRIONICS. FREE DOWNLOAD - 17/02/2013

Hey,

A number of months ago we found ourselves at the centre of an internet shitstorm during which time individual members of the band were labelled as racist, among other wonderfully stupid and obviously false things. Unfortunately threats of violence were also made against us from people who are old enough to really know better. In the interest of letting the situation die the quick death it deserved a decision was made to pull out of a local gig and also halt an impending digital release of Histrionics, our second full length album.

I'm loathed to comment on the entire episode itself; the 'storm' has passed and i've no interest in picking apart the whys and wherefores, or directly addressing any one of the obscene and disturbing 'facts' that are actually anything but. Their campaign is driven by people who actively enjoy taking part in anonymous, faceless campaigns of hate and squalid hearsay, all of course behind the security of a computer screen, they don't deserve any further time, effort or thought wasted on them.

Since the incident we have all subsequently talked to or crossed paths with all the people we love, respect and care about, every single one of whom offering nothing but support. If a misguided hate campaign is what it takes for you to see just how much love and support is readily available to you from family, friends, acquaintances, to outright strangers, then so be it. Life is bizarre sometimes, but that's what keeps you on your toes i guess.

Thank you to absolutely everyone who offered support, either publicly on a forum, social networking site, at a gig, or privately with any one of us at the time. You know who you are.

It's for those people and anyone who has ever expressed an interest in our band, bought a t-shirt, downloaded or bought a record, come to see us live or ever put us on that we'd like to offer our not-in-any-way-new, but definitely previously unreleased second album, Histrionics, as a free download via the below link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?oueovcdnjx7p4b0

We hope you enjoy it. We loved making it (nearly two years ago) and we still love the songs now. We hope to be out and about playing them to you again in the not too distant future.

Cheers, Solutions.

Histrionics.

1) House Of America
2) Blank Cities
3) Harmony In The Heart Of A Hurricane
4) Drug Money
5) Whatever Keeps You Alive
6) Histrionics
7) An Extended History Of The Bullfight
8) Gorgeous Horses
9) Penance For Raped Angels
10 ) Lake Palmer
11) New Adventures In Wi-Fi

'Nasty Punks, Fuck Off.'

Punk Rock All Dayer in Exeter... - 30/05/2012

BANGERS
SOLUTIONS.
DON BRONCOS
ATTACK! VIPERS!
& many more...

@ The Cavern, Exeter, Bank Holiday Monday 4th June 2012!

Fb event page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/170063826453723/

Lesson No. 1 @ Buffalo Bar... - 30/05/2012

Foreign Objects
Solutions.
Personal Best

@ Buffalo Bar, Cardiff THIS FRIDAY (01/06/12), £6 on the door.

Fb event page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/452814414735273/

Solutions. welcomes Chris Morgan! - 10/05/2012

Chris Morgan will be playing bass for us for the forseeable future whilst Eddie takes a bit of time out for personal reasons. All is good and well, Eddie has to do what he has to do, and Chris is more than capable to step up to the mic in the meantime. We're really, really lucky to know such a fucking talented and brilliant dude. Cheers Chris!

Exit_International / Solutions. - 10/05/2012

Exit_International
Solutions.
Beasts

@ Bogiez, Cardiff. £5 on the door. 18/05/2012.

Be there! We played a show with the exact same line-up @ Le Pub in Newport a couple of weeks back and it was the best show i've been a part of for a long, long time. Great vibes. Here's to hoping for more of the same @ Bogiez.

Solutions. loves Laura Jane Grace - 10/05/2012

Fearless, brave and free. Stay beautiful, my friend. Big, big love from Wales.

numberonemusic.com - 08/05/2012

We have a profile on numberonemusic.com. Check it out:

http://www.numberonemusic.com/solutions/

Harmony In The Heart Of A Hurricane (Edit) & Whatever Keeps You Alive (Alive) - 22/04/2012

We put up both Harmony In The Heart Of A Hurricane and Whatever Keeps You Alive, two tracks from Histrionics, on our Reverb Nation page a couple of weeks back.

http://www.reverbnation.com/solutionsofficial

Exit_Solutions. - 22/04/2012

Big thanks to Exit_International and Beasts, Sam and everyone else at Le Pub for a great show last night. We haven't played Le Pub for ages and the atmosphere and turn out last night really reminded me of some of the great shows i used to watch there years ago, Milloy, Leatherface et al.

It was our first show in over four months! We had to take a bit of an unexpected break for a while, but i'm happy to say that we're now good to go, and look forward to getting out as much as possible, to places we haven't been for a while and as well as some untapped new ground.

With regards to Histrionics, come hell or high water, we'll know in a couple of weeks whether or not it's being brought out by one of a couple of labels that have shown a modicum of interest, or we may just decide to bring it out ourselves. Personally, i think we're better off going for the latter option, that way you're not hanging around for anyone else, the stuff can be out there, and we can move on to the next thing. But we'll see, i'm determined that the issue is settled and a decision is made sometime next month.

Cardiff Show Next Tuesday - 14/12/2011

SOLUTIONS
KASA
BLOWGOAT
MASTS

Tuesday 20th December 2011 @ The Undertone (beneath Ten Feet Tall), Cardiff. Doors @ 8pm. Not sure what the damage is on the door, but knowing Tom it's probably no more than a couple of quid.

We'll be playing no less than NINE new songs at this show, last show of the year no less, can't wait.

Needle Drop Radio (US) play Histrionics - 14/12/2011

Big thanks for Needle Drop Radio (US) for playing the title track from our forthcoming record a couple of weeks ago! Again, will upload said link when i get a chance. Alternatively, you could let google do all the work, we're the first track played on Episode #64. I can't copy and paste text from this computer, pain in the arse.

Drug Money played on the Adam Walton show - 14/12/2011

Thanks to Adam Walton for playing Drug Money on his show last Sunday. Will copy and paste the link on here when i get a chance to finally log on to my laptop at home. Adam's twitter suggested that the track 'nearly broke' the studio speakers. Re-sult!

Free Local Show - 25/11/2011

SOLUTIONS
A THOUSAND ARROWS
I AM HOPE
FIRE SEASON

@ The Full Moon (opposite Clwb Ifor Bach) on Saturday 22nd January 2012. Free entry.

Really, really excited for this show! It'll be our first show in what will hopefully be a very, very busy year gig wise. Cheers to Jon Greenwood for sorting this out.

Histrionics has been mastered - 22/11/2011

After more than two months of tracking and wrestling around with the mix, we were finally presented with the Master copy of Histrionics, our second record and first with the new line-up, on Sunday afternoon. I'm pleased to say everything sounds great, from start to finish. Promos are due to be sent out to the usual suspects and more in the next couple of weeks, once we've got an idea of our options for the record, we'll look at getting it released both physically and digitally as soon as possible. Thanks again to Todd for all his hard work and patience.

Expect to see a track from the record surface online before the New Year.

Pulp TV / Scuzz TV 'Secret Show' with Madina Lake - 14/11/2011

Last Friday we played a 'secret' acoustic show with Madina Lake for Pulp TV / Scuzz TV. We'd known about it for the better part of two weeks but had been sworn to secrecy(!) as Madina Lake were due to play a show on the same night at the Cardiff University. To much stress, sweating and (eventual) nervous amusement, we only found out that the show was an acoustic and an not electric, full-band affair less than ten hours (i.e. on the previous night) before the performance. We'd never, ever previously practiced an acoustic set before. We basically cobbled ourselves together at 9am the following morning (our set was due t be filmed at 11:30am) and decided on four songs we could feasibly (re-)learn(?) and nail with around two hours practice. As it happens, we ultimately only recorded two, Histrionics and Fighting Tigers, the former sounding a little bit ropey but the latter coming out just great. Performances of one or both of the songs will be shown in Pulp stores accross the UK as of next year, as well appear on a 'Pulp TV' episode on the cable channel Scuzz TV.

Gigantic thanks to all who helped out on the day, not least my old man for lending me an acoustic guitar (cheers dad!), Jimmy from Future Of The Left for lending us the other acoustic guitar (cheers Jimmy!), all the crew on the set for being generally lovely and not least Sammy T for hooking the whole thing up in the first place.

Show next Monday @ Clwb Ifor Bach - 03/11/2011

We're playing with Arcane Roots @ Clwb Ifor Bach next Monday evening. £6 on the door. Show starts @ 7:30pm. Be good to see some familiar faces.

BBC Radio One - 03/11/11

The title-track from our upcoming second record was debuted on BBC Radio One on Sunday night by our mate Jen Long. Nice one Jen!

Here's a link to the show (we're played around 55 minutes in):

http://www.bbc.co.uk./programmes/b01fpx0

Also, we will be wrapping up production on the record next Wednesday evening. A few minor adjustments need to be made to the opening track, House Of America, and after that we're good to roll out a limited pressing of four-track album promo's to be sent to all the usual suspects and more. The run of promo's will be funded by the good folks at TUBORG (http://www.tuborgmusic.com/) which we're over the moon about. Massive thanks to Nick Davidson and co. at The Promised Land (http://www.thepromisedlanduk.com/) for sorting that sweet little hook-up out for us.

Facebook Band Page - 17/10/2011

Here's a long overdue link to our facebook band page:

http://www.facebook.com/solutionsmusic

Been meaning to post that link up for months. Feel free to 'LIKE' the bandpage of course, support in any way, shape or form is always greatly appreciated!

Drug Money Free Download (Reminder) - 22/09/2011

The 'Drug Money' (Live Demo) is still available to download for free HERE.

The verse lyrics for the demo are almost entirely different from the album version we recorded the other week, but you'll still be able to get the general idea.

Spent a small fortune on a Blackstar HT Duel Valve Pedal earlier today, with the express intention of bringing a bit more 'beef' to the live shows, here's to hoping it's worth the considerable dent to the wallet.

I'm gonna get Robin to take the free download offline in the next couple of weeks, so be sure to grab it while you can.

Can't Get There From Here - 22/09/2011

Adios R.E.M and thanks for all the incredible records accross your thirty one years, not least the first four albums which to my mind are each perfect and utterly seminal. I'd estimate less than 1% of all the bands i've ever loved have managed to make one perfect record in their time, to knock out four in the space of as many years, plus arguably one or two further classics after that is just mind-blowing. The quintessential indie rock band. I fear they won't ever make them like R.E.M any more.

Here are my very favourite R.E.M tracks, just for the hell of it:

1) Laughing
2) Green Grow The Rushes
3) Driver 8
4) Talk About The Passion
5) I Believe
6) You Are The Everything
7) Radio Free Europe
8) Daysleeper
9) Life And How To Live It
10) Man On The Moon
11) Catapult
12) Pretty Pursuasion
13) Nightswimming
14) Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
15) Harbourcoat
16) Just A Touch
17) Half A World Away
18) The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
19) Try Not To Breathe
20) Perfect Circle