Blue Shirts

check out my band.
as the title says, its name is blue shirts.
we are a free-improv noise collective. anything goes, there is no solid line-up, there are about 6 people who are 'members', and dozens of guests who have participated in gigs/recordings/jams. we have played sets with anywhere between 2 and 12 people doing noise.no standard instrumentation. we use/have used drums, keyboards, analog synthesizers, organ, guitars, bass, vocals, percussion, effect pedal loops, feedback, musical spoons, saxophone, clarinet, whistles, mouth harmonica, piano, crates, engraver, and tonns of other stuff.

links:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Blue-Shirts
http://www.blueshirts.tk/ <== official site
http://www.reverbnation.com/blueshirts


http://www.archive.org/details/BlueShirtsLiveAtReflectionsSeptember162008 <= live video 1
http://www.archive.org/details/BlueShirtsLiveAtGradHouse4202009 <= live video 2

Expect a BLUE SHIRTS tape release on SFM soon!

worshipsatanzine wrote:

Expect a BLUE SHIRTS tape release on SFM soon!

right fucking on!
thanks for doing this one, Keeg!

Samizdat wrote:

worshipsatanzine wrote:

Expect a BLUE SHIRTS tape release on SFM soon!

right fucking on!
thanks for doing this one, Keeg!

Your very much welcome, its our pleasure!

I'm not sure if I allready asked, will this be a limited or unlim release

worshipsatanzine wrote:

I'm not sure if I allready asked, will this be a limited or unlim release

whatever's clever.
we havent done any truly handnumbered releases yet (well, our cdr is kinda, we did like 10 or 11 prints of several copies each, and they are all labelled as such - copy 6/6 print , but some of our tapes have been limited (only 40 copies of we jam with jam in a jam, 6 copies of mean green, etc) while others (banned from, $4) are not.
i cant imagine the rest of the band cares either, so.. you can decide and let us know!!!

Cool, i'm thinking unlimited as I trade alot via master cdr + covers method. Keeps it simpler lol.

that works for us!
fucking right!



i might get to finish it up this weekend if all goes well!

Samizdat wrote:

that works for us!
fucking right!



i might get to finish it up this weekend if all goes well!

Excellent! That would be great as we have 2 more SFM releases ready to go this month, I'd like to photocopy the covers all at the same time kinda deal and then promote the shit outta them at the same time pretty much.

worshipsatanzine wrote:

Samizdat wrote:

that works for us!
fucking right!



i might get to finish it up this weekend if all goes well!

Excellent! That would be great as we have 2 more SFM releases ready to go this month, I'd like to photocopy the covers all at the same time kinda deal and then promote the shit outta them at the same time pretty much.

awesome, PM me your new snail mail..

BLUE SHIRTS - HEAR NO EVIL SMELL NO EVIL SAY NO EVIL out now on SKULLFUCKINGMETAL!!
contact me or Keeg for a copy. Keeg sells them cheaper i think.. so unless you are local to me, prolly cheaper to get it off him.

5 tracks of live (instrumental) noise. includes an unexpected and irrelevant cover song. plenty of guest appearances. 420% halifax fueled. one side more power electronics, other side more no wave noise. free madness!

we are psyched to be released on SFM; the same label that released Hellacaust, Gruuthaagy, Cumsock, Toxic Holocaust, and countless others. Cheers Keeg!!

Cheers man!

new release out! w00t w00t!

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Four Way Split CD-R with Indigenous Nudes, Disleksick, Fossils, and Blue Shirts

"Londoom Live Volume 1". Recorded live August 15th 2010 at Hey Rock studios at the ongoing noise night series (where noise people show up but fans dont!). This new series is in response to the "Hammer Live" series that we were lucky enough to be a part of earlier this year (release number 12 for you nerds keeping track).

Disleksick contribution is a Harsh Noisecore track. Contact Mics, Vocals through distortion, guitar freak outs, insane vocals, blast beats. Was one of the best sets we have ever played and quite different from what we usually do live.

The Indigenous Nudes are a new group from London that suddenly showed up and are going to destroy each and everytime. The set this night was harsh noise pushing into power electronics territory. Great stuff, this is their first release but not the last I hope.

Fossils is the super prolific group from Hamilton (aka THE HAMMER). Sax freaks outs drown out buried and mysterioys noise. Tape loops of the future played in reverse. Something odd like that.

Blue Shirts are the reason this show happened. From the east coast of Canada, they toured Ontario as a duo and brought one long and loud set to Hey Rock! this summer night. Interesting stuff, kinda like the Halifax Explosion but only out of one speaker.

Limited to 50 copies on Coffin Crawl Records.

order from Disleksick/Coffin Crawl Records, or soon enough I will have copies to distro.







and here's some info on what we've been compared to - Halifax Explosion

new releases out:
Iron Bitchface/Blue Shirts - frathearts split c47
Awesome Bin Laden/Blue Shirts - life nafta death split cdr
Blue Shirts - LLARS OF NOI c47 ep

more info in the robot lust thread. all $4 pick up, $5 canada mail, more outside

I know who the Brown shirts were, I know who the black shirts were, who are the Blue shirts?

Platoon wrote:

I know who the Brown shirts were, I know who the black shirts were, who are the Blue shirts?

haha thats not the first time this has come up.. i only knew of the brown shirts before we started.. apparently Blue Shirts are/were:

Comics

• Les Tuniques Bleues, a Belgian comic about the American Civil War
  

[edit] Culture

• The Soviet agitprop theatre collective Blue Blouse.
  

[edit] Politics

• The American National Blue Shirt Minutemen
  
• The British Fascists
  
• The Canadian Parti national social chrétien
  
• The Chinese Blue Shirts Society
  
• The French groups:
  
  
  
  • Mouvement Franciste
    
  • Solidarité Française
    
  
  


• The Irish Blueshirts
  
• National Syndicalists (Portugal)
  
• The Romanian Lăncieri
  
• The Spanish Falange
  

[edit] Sports

• The Toronto Blueshirts
  
• "Broadway Blueshirts", a common nickname for the New York Rangers
  

plus the Thai Blue Shirts (i believe pro-government protesters).

we got the name from the place where all the original members worked - army/navy store, which had a stock of ~12 000 surplus canadian navy blue button up shirts. they are our on-stage uniform..

Lookin forward to the upcomming BLUE SHIRTS Toronto date in July, perhaps we can do our trade then man to save each other on postage fees?

Blue Shirts - liv @ (.) pleasent park barricks c47

mostly acoustic jam, recorded at historic (and abandoned) bunkers that were part of the line of defence against German Uboats during WWII. a sunny day in the park.
Released June 2 2011, recorded may 29 2011



Blue Shirts - The Vipers EP c47

same track on both sides, but different mixes. soundtrack to a vipers' weekend.
Released June 2 2011, recorded May 28+29 2011



as always, they are $4 plus shipping. robot DOT lust DOT records AT gmail you know the rest