tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39480740748279154352024-02-19T09:10:55.801-08:00Bronze MedalsWe are a 3 piece band from Nuneaton. We play pop music because we enjoy hanging out and writing together. Thanks for looking at our page!Bronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948074074827915435.post-58795651645915158312010-05-06T02:49:00.000-07:002010-05-06T02:49:33.683-07:00We Got Some More Reviews.And very nice they are too. Thank you very much to Andy and Graham for taking the time to write about us, and thanks very much if you've been to see us recently! x<br />
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Next up was Derby with Switzerland for their last show. It was an intimate affair at the Big Blue Coffee Shop and to be honest it was a bit of a disaster for us. The first sign that things were going wrong was when we had to stop in the middle of our set because Lloyd was about to get a parking ticket. As he ran off to plead ignorance, me and Mike were left to nervously stand in front of a room full of people thinking how all the money we'd saved for the CD was about to go down the drain. Luckily Lloyd is a persuasive devil and he managed to get away with it. So he rejoined us on stage and we played our new song again, and carried on the set. Unfortunately for us during this song the PA which had been teetering on the brink all night decided to break. This lead to the hilarious sight of me and Mike screaming the words to the crowd for the last two songs. Luckily they saw the funny side, and we mostly did, although it was a little bit gutting that it had all gone so wrong! The mics came back on for a second or two, just long enough for me to introduce the last song but then instantly cut out again when I went to sing. Never mind, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger apparently. A lot of people were incredibly nice afterwards, soothing us with kind words, asking where they could listen to us without all the technical difficulties and buying cds and even overpaying for them. Miraculously we sold every CD we had left. So we just want to say thanks to everyone who stuck it out with us, and thanks to Callum for putting us on and trying his hardest to sort everything out as quickly as he could.<br />
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As we loaded out someone tried to steal my amp which lead to Mike and Dan from the Royal chasing him down and yelling in his face, and someone else threatened to throw Lloyd's floor tom through the car window unless he gave him 40p. He didn't give it him, Lloyd is a bad ass mother who don't take no crap from nobody. We decided it'd probably just be for the best to leave at that point so we escaped the insanity of Derby on a Saturday night and went to bed. <br />
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Our Next few shows are:<br />
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Monday 29th March - Wolverhampton @ Alchemy with Failures Union, Joyous and Cajole Cajole<br />
Tuesday 30th March - Nottingham @ The Central with Hold Your Horse Is and Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea<br />
Sunday 4th April - Birmingham @ Hare and Hounds - HOTT DATE! With Scarlet Harlots, Little Palm and many others.<br />
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More new shows on the page. Keep it dusty.<br />
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20th March - Huddersfield @Bar 1.22 with Cub Club and super good headliners TBC<br />
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4th April - Birmingham @ The Hare and Hounds with The Scarlet Harlets, Little Palm and a bunch moreBronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948074074827915435.post-22709340984032496952010-02-28T05:00:00.000-08:002010-02-28T05:00:09.477-08:00Neu!Hello,<br />
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It's been far too long since I updated this blog, but we actually have some new things to report on now! First off we have quite a few new shows, and a couple more that will hopefully be confirmed soon:<br />
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5th March - Taylor John's House, Coventry with The JCQ<br />
26th March - The Crown, Nuneaton with Young Wolves and The Sweet Hereafter<br />
27th March - Big Blue, Derby - Switzerland's final show with BTPAM, Directions and Call Me Ishmael<br />
30th March - The Central, Nottingham with Hold Your Horse Is<br />
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As well as that we've been recording an EP with our good friend Billy Moss and that should hopefully be finished in the next few weeks. We're already pleased with how it's sounding so we can't wait to hear the finished product!<br />
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'Deary Me', the Dirty Dirty Promo compilation we're appearing on is now ready, we have 10 copies on the way to us through the post as I type so we'll have them at the next few shows for £1 with a copy of our demo.<br />
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I think that is all for now, we have a couple of new songs nearing completion so hopefully I'll sort my life out and finish the lyrics in time to play some of them at the next few shows.<br />
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Ben. xBronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948074074827915435.post-70567645474941224232010-01-04T11:54:00.000-08:002010-01-04T11:54:51.955-08:00So This Is The New Year.Hi,<br />
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We have some new shows for the new year:<br />
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Friday 8th - The Crown, Nuneaton<br />
Friday 22nd - The Horse and Groom, Lincoln<br />
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Saturday 13th - Rosie Malones, Coventry.<br />
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Hopefully we'll see you there? We're really ultra sorry to Matt from Carefully Planned for pulling out at the last minute, our car broke down so we couldn't make the all dayer just before Christmas. We were upset. We have some new songs nearly finished and some others just taking form in my head and we might be doing a bit of recording as well soon so hopefully we'll be busy this year!<br />
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xBronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948074074827915435.post-90708115264458983972009-12-10T03:44:00.001-08:002010-01-04T11:50:48.549-08:00Coming Soon!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Also the new Converge is wicked!Bronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948074074827915435.post-7568214999429785552009-12-08T10:31:00.000-08:002009-12-08T10:31:42.272-08:00These Archives Are Monuments Podcast.We were kindly asked to be on this podcast. We're track 3. Have a listen, all the other bands are great!<br />
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http://thesearchivesaremonuments.blogspot.com/2009/12/thesearchivesaremonuments-podcast.html<br />
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We've been a bit quiet as of late what with the Youves tour and us not hassling people enough for shows. We have two shows booked at the minute:<br />
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19th December - Carefully Planned All Dayer @ Saki Bar, Manchester with Luke Leighfield, My First Tooth, Instruments (Make Music) plus lots of other bands.<br />
22nd January - The Horse and Groom, Lincoln.<br />
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We're also going to be appearing on a compilation put together by Dirty! Dirty! in Leeds so we'll get more details when that's all finalised. There's hopefully going to be a show to support the release of that too.<br />
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Other than that we've been working on some new songs, hanging out with our friends and generally being lazy, so I guess it's time I got back booking shows and writing some lyrics!<br />
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See you soon hopefully! XBronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948074074827915435.post-30972796568476074012009-10-18T04:33:00.000-07:002009-10-18T04:34:21.539-07:00Bronze Medals Are Fucking Dead.No, they're not really, we're all alive and well, I just wanted to reference Refused songs in an attempt to look cool on the internet. The reason why will become clear soon enough! So Hi! Welcome to the inaugural Bronze Medals blog post. Me and Michael decided it would be a good idea to start a blog as we drove the weaving roads of the British countryside at 3am the other night so here it is! I'll start by updating everyone on what we have been up to recently. <br />
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We played this wonderful show last week:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was great! We arrived just in time for sound check thanks to the awful traffic, set up and got a sound onstage that meant we could actually hear ourselves! It was a revelation! Shortly after the doors opened and we played dead on 8 which meant not many people were there for our first song or two but it soon filled up with people anticipating a brilliant show from This Town Needs Guns, Great Eskimo Hoax and Kidnapper Bell. This meant we ended up playing to quite a few people which was nice. We played a bit of a different set to usual and that worked nicely too. Thanks a million to Craig for putting us on, to everyone who came down especially to see us and drove from Nuneaton, to Kidnapper Bell for being so nice and supportive of us, to This Town Needs Guns for watching us and giving us some positive feedback and to Great Eskimo Hoax for being awesome guys.<br />
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Then Stacks played and got shut down by the police. They only had one song left but at least a consolation was that there was a beautiful policewoman to stop them playing. They left to a shower of inappropriate comments as we all packed away. Me and Mike had our packed lunches I'd made for us (Jam Econo!) and then we drove home on the scenic route which was nice and Lloyd went off to enjoy a lovely weekend in Manchester. Thanks to Siobhan and all the stacks guys for making it happen, we had a lot of fun.<br />
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We only have one show booked at the minute, which looks like it will be a good one. It's at Saki Bar in Manchester and its part of the Carefully Planned All Dayer on December 19th with some ace bands like Kid Pang, Instruments (Make Music), Luke Leighfield and My First Tooth amongst others. We're working on getting a few more shows booked before the end of the year, maybe doing a few more recordings, finishing up some new songs ready to play live as well as a few other exciting things. Things are going to be a bit quiet for the next few weeks because of the upcoming Youves tour but we'll let you know when anything is coming up. <br />
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Ben. xxBronze Medalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580632560803139425noreply@blogger.com0