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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.

CORPORATION POP and OPM MUSIC PROUDLY PRESENTS:

The long-awaited (twenty years in the making) debut album from Huddersfield based band The Scaremongers. Never ones to be rushed, non poet laureate vocalist/lyricist Simon Armitage and multi-tasking guitarist Craig Smith crafted the songs over the past two decades, letter by letter, quaver by quaver, and now feel that the galaxy is ready for their unique brand of “kitchen-sink snow-shaker pop-rock” as they casually refer to it.

Songs range from the swirling, up-for-it-indie-dancefloor-hum-it-in-the-bathroom-classic You Can Do Nothing Wrong (In My Eyes) to the soul hugging, shoe-gazing, hair-shirt wearing, seven-and-a-half minute From The Shorelines Of Venus, to the heartfelt and cryptic (even to the band themselves) Grouse Beaters Boys’ Club, to the stomping Derailleur, the only song ever dedicated to the sprocket-activated, variable-ratio transmission system frequently deployed on the modern bicycle.

    “Caesar came from Rome,
    picnicked here then pushed off home.

    The dashboard music soared
    from a Russian car,
    I could have sworn… in the chrome,
    your face, and next to it my own.”
                                      Derailleur

Full track listing:

    You Can Do Nothing Wrong (In My Eyes)
    Grouse Beaters Boys’ Club
    Tea Leaves
    Cardigan Girl
    Legendary
    Less Is More
    Nodding Dog
    Long Ride Home
    Derailleur
    From The Shorelines Of Venus
    Porch

Official Release Date: Friday 7th May 2009

Picture CD, including lyric booklet and artwork by Lyndon Hayes, £8.99 available from Vinyltap Records: http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/shop/item/951171950968.aspx

Downloads available from Cherry Red Records Download Shop.

Further information:
    http://www.thescaremongers.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/thescaremongers

Seeing (and Hearing) Is Believing: catch The Scaremongers on their Small But Perfectly Formed 2009 mini tour:
   Hebden Bridge Trades and Friendly - 27 June
   Latitude Festival - 16 July
   Nantwich Festival - 10 October.

Contact Details - OPM:
    Trevor Jenkins/David Carroll
    OPM LLP
    Aquarium Studios
    122 Wardour Street
    London
    W1F OTX
    t. 020 7 734 7224
    m. 07793 671813