March 2010 Archives

The infinitely capable, infinitely charming mega-salespeople at Discovery Records have done a magnificent job for us. Born In A Barn is finally in the record shops, just waiting for the good people of the UK to snap it up.

Thanks, Discovery Records.

I'd heard tell the album was on sale in HMV on Oxford St, which is surely the biggest record shop in Britain these days. And under the guise of making sure the system worked, that the barcode was readable by the scanners and more than anything to see it for myself in this new and illustrious setting, I happened in there and bought it. The amazing thing about this is not that I bought a copy of my own record, (after all, that's more pathetic than amazing), but that someone had already been in and bought a copy. To the best of my knowledge, Discovery put four copies in there, and there were only three by the time I got there. So someone (probably a relative) had snapped one up. This is immensely pleasing.

You hear so many grim messages from the record industry about how CD sales have slumped, how illegal downloads are killing their business and how this means the demise of recorded music forever. So the only assumption I can make is that these two sales of The Scaremongers' Born In A Barn must put us at the Number One slot on the Album Chart. Surely. If things are as bleak as they say, then obviously we are Toppermost of the Poppermost. All hail us!

So today, we celebrate our first Number One.

Another point of note is that we're a HMV import. Excellent. Devises is abroad now. I must remember to take my passport next time I go to Wiltshire.

Seriously, big thanks to Discovery - keep up the good work, you're doing a fine job for us.

After several months of sonic in exile, The Scaremongers return!

The People's Pop Group, the very definition of Super 8, the Sound of Aging Huddersfield are back with their first gig since Latitude and a distribution deal for their album, Born in a Barn.

On Friday 12th March 2010 they play Bar 1:22 in the centre of Huddersfield - their first ever home town gig. The gig is part of Huddersfield Literary Festival, which runs from the 10th March to the 14th.

BROCHURE - HUDDERSFIELD LITERARY FESTIVAL 2010

On top of this, The Scaremongers have secured distribution.

Discovery Records, specialists in Specialist Music since 1978, and The Scaremongers, Chancers in Popular Music since 2006, have come together in the kind of creative liaison Michelangelo enjoyed with the Medicis, or something along those lines. We're very proud to align ourselves with this thorough, knowledgeable and likeable crew from Wiltshire, and very hopeful this can be a beneficial partnership for both parties for years to come.