Time for a pre-Winter clear out.

First and foremost: The East Wing has been quarantined for the forseeable future. We hope you enjoyed the exhibits while they lasted (and if not, more fool you), but the bloodwork was getting increasingly haphazard and the less said about the gallery attendants the better.

Moving on.

We performed live in September (on account of being a pop group with a new album out).

The delightful Aneta Jarzebska joined us on stage for corporeal bass destruction and white noise making. Very nice to have her along for the ride. Setlist (for those who worry about such matters) comprised

1. The Youth Remain Unbroken/Good Design
2. Filthy/Dirty
3. Vampires
4. Money
5. Burning Down The Witch House
6. We Hate You Little Mix (oh, the hilarity).

The charming and erudite Sir Francis Alford was also on hand to capture the happy occasion on camera. His visual reportage can now be found in the (recently refurbished) Photography section.  Our thanks, as always are due.

In other news, we’ve also reupholstered the website (up to date sections for all our criminal records) and a temporarily up-to-date Biography. Catch em’ while you can.

More live dates are rumoured (if we can try and get all three/four members of the collective in the same room this side of the Pagan Festivities).

More to follow anon.

Babyslave – Songs That Won The War. Released today via Valentine Records. Download it here

Press Release-type-thing: Babyslave Return with a new EP, album and live appearance at Valentine Records’ 10th Anniversary Celebration (24th September)

Ok, let’s start with the single:

Lead track Filthy/Dirty isn’t what you expect:  This is a tighter/more stripped down Babyslave than you’ve ever heard before – 3 minutes of in-your-face intent with the core elements of the Slave sound (sax, bass and pounding drums) brought right to the fore. Lyrically it’s a poisoned love-letter between two sadists. Or submissives. Or (more likely) both.  Charlie Machine will explain later this week….

The EP also includes two radical reworkings from the parent album in the form of Shirokuma’s ‘Westminster Funkthrobber’ deconstruction of Vampires alongside Daniel Maze’s speaker-troubling meltdown of the aforementioned Filthy/Dirty

Our thanks, as always are due…

Last but not least is the exclusive Burning Down the WitchHouse (which is either a homage/parody/denouncement of the Drag/Occult/Haunted House genre).  Make up your mind.

Burning Down The ▲ House is released via Valentine Records at Midnight on September 11th 2011. Date-related coincidences entirely intentional…

Babyslave – Burning Down The ▲ House EP – Download here

Our record label Valentine Records is apparently 10 Years old this September. They’re having a party which they have (rather foolishly) invited us to crash and burn.

Expect fatalities. Tickets are available Here

Oh, and there’s a box-set they’re releasing that night which features a couple of old Babyslave tracks alongside a new/exclusive thing we wrote last month called Speak and Spell. It’s not on the album