Filthy Little Angels

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Little 059 - Filthy Navidad!

Between 2005 and 2009 Filthy Little Angels released almost 100 Christmas tracks. To make it easier for you to enjoy them all in one place we've thrown them all together in a 4-disc or 5-hour playlist (that will see you through till cristmas lunch) for you to download all in 1 easy click of the button.

In addition we have included a handful of bonus tracks, 5 taken from an unreleased album we had planned. The album was to be called "Filth on Filth" and would have featured FLA Acts covering FLA tracks, sadly it never materialized other than 6 tracks (the 5 included here along with Dirtblondes cover of Stockholm Syndrome)

Here's Wishing You A Filth-filled Christmas

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Shock And Awe - DontchaLuvXmas
FromMars - Last Christmas
Hyperbubble - Christmas Riff
The Birthday Girl vs Alexander's Festival Hall - Hey Santa! (Black Snow At Christmas)
The Fountain - Shout For Trout At Christmas Dinner
Fridge Noises - Silent Night
The Star fighter Pilot - Mark Snow At Christmas
The New Royal family - A New Hope (Thank Christ It's Christmas)
Meg - Another Merry Christmas
Listen Lisse - Wake Me Up When Christmas Is Over
Glasgow Glam Bangers - Lonely This Christmas
Postcode - I'll Be Shoegazing For Christmas
The International Karate Plus - Black Christmas
Captain Polaroid - Until Boxing Day
Ich Bin Chimp - Mary's Boy Child
Beacons - Driving Home For Christmas
The Vatican Cellars - Christmas Island
The Vichy Government - Stop The Cavalry
Scunner - Bearing Gifts
J'Adore - Thank God It's Christmas
ShiSho - Christmas Time In Paris France
No Aloha - Plastic Christmas Tree
SAY - Make It Snow
Osni - Père Noël
ShiSho - Get Behind Me Santa (Sufjan Stevens Cover)
My-T-Hi - Christmas Time
SAY - Christmas 1954
Geese - Lonely This Christmas
Later - December Song
Beki Bullet - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Goop - Nuclear Christmas
Billy Ruffian with Mike Chavez Dawson - Feliz Navidad
The Kill Raimi's - Ho Ho
The Sexual Hot Bitches - Christmas With The Sexual Hot Bitches
Akira - White Christmas (Entropy Refix)
Ivan Dirtblonde- Christmas Bells
Shock And Awe - Dontcha Luv Xmas (Filthy Spector Version)
The Housewives - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
SAY - Another Christmas Day
Ant - Home
SAY - Stille Nacht
Hyperbubble - Away In A Manger
Captain Polaroid - River
Wojtek Godzisz - December Will Be Magic Again
Hefner - The Little Baby Hefner's Xmas Song For Holland
ShiSho - Get Behind Me Santa
Alex Kidd - Stop The Cavalry
ShiSho - Merry Christmas, Now Leave!
Sunset Gun and Jay - In The Bleak Midwinter
Helen Love - Merry Christmas I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight
Awful Sparks and Jake Eliot - Do They Know It's Christmas?
Vinnie Santino - A Sleighing On 34th Street
Ant - Let It Snow
Mertle - Christmas With Derek
Das Wanderlust - Santa Claus Is Coming To Get You!
The Vichy Government - (One More Widow) One Less White Christmas
And What Will Be Left of Them? - Have Yourself A Filthy Little Christmas
The Swear - All I Want For Christmas
Captain Polaroid - If You Came on Christmas Day
The Vichy Government - Christmas is Cancelled
Postcode - Black And White Christmas
Shock And Awe - XMS PRTY
Billy Ruffian - It’s A Long Lonely Christmas Without Jimmy Greenhoff
S Punk 7 - White (Trash) Christmas
The Rocks - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Hillary And The Democrats - Do You Remember Snow?
The Housewives - Blue Christmas
ShiSho - Stranger In The Manger
Hyperbubble - Christmas With The Bee Gees (Barry Gentlemen Mix)
Paris Street - A Marshmallow World
Eddie Argos & Keith Totp - Mistletoe And Wine
Later - Long Winter Gone
Captain Polaroid - You’ll Never See Christmas Again
Rod Jones - Christmas Fire
Lonely Ghosts - Christmas Time Is Here
Lost Summer Kitten - Jullåten
The Black Tulips - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Favours - Last Christmas
ShiSho - Christmas Red
Paris Street - Candy Cane Withdrawal
Micropenis - Happy Christmas Stalin
Billy Ruffian - All I Want For Christmas Is A Ting Ting
23 Shock And Awe - XMS PRTY (Filthy Spector Version)
Psychotic Reaction - Goodwill To All Beings
S Punk 7 - The Fault Of You The Lovely Eggs - I'm Going To Build My Snowman Better Than Yours
ShiSho - Christmas Bells
Ginger Tom - Christmas Day Alone
Ivan Dirtblonde - Christmas Time
Micropenis - Christmas In The Midlands
Mascot Fight - Christmas Dinner For One
Captain Polaroid - When The Advent Calendar Comes Down
SideFields - Christmas In China
Das Wanderlust - Someone To Pull Crackers With

PLUS BONUS TRACKS:
The Vichy Government - Winter Forever (from the White Elephant LP)
Captain Polaroid - You'll Never See Xmas Again (unreleased version)
Micropenis - Secretarial Elite (The Vichy Government cover)
Later - A Dream Is A Dream Is A Dream Is A Lie (Captain Polaroid cover)
Hyperbubble - I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Two (The Lovely Eggs cover)
Hot Beds - Pass Over (Plastic Passion cover)
Lewis Costello - Kulcha Vulture (Lewis Campbell cover)

Sunday, 2 May 2010

LHR004 Future And The Boy / Micropenis

LHR004: Future and the Boy / Micropenis split
Format: 7"
Release Date: 3rd May 2010

A1 Skin Flick (Future and the Boy)
A2 Charity Shop (Future and the Boy)
B1 Jeremy Warmsley Stole My Trust Fund (Micropenis)
B2 Russian Art Comes to Paris (Micropenis)
B3 My Goodbye Boyfriend (Micropenis)
B4 How to Kiss Boys (Micropenis)

Released through FLA sister label Leaving Home Records, this long-planned seven inch pairs fuzzed up electro-punk duo Micropenis with Eddie Argos side-project Future and the Boy. Both artists have released through the label in the past, the former with two free download EPs and a song on the Just a Minute 7", the latter a split 7" with Billy Ruffian as Art Goblins. Micropenis will be releasing a new EP later this year followed by an iTunes album compiling the best of the four short-players.

The single is available from today (3rd May) and is purchasable in the Leaving Home Records section of our shop at
http://filthylittleangels.bigcartel.com/. and for the whole of May each purchase will also receive a FREE 7" of LHR002 Plastic Passion/Awful Sparks

FROM EDDIE ARGOS
Future And The Boy was a sort-of-electro band I started with my friend Nicky Biscuit who also played in a band called the Art Goblins with me and who is now in a band called The Owls Are Not What They Seem.

We last played live about ten years ago. We dressed like Kraftwerk and one of us played the Keytar. Him I'd imagine. I read from a book of spells and opened an umbrella inside whilst talking about how our luck couldn't get any worse. Lots of it was improvised. We used to rehearse using the CD player in his car. Matt Biscuit from the Art Goblins was in the "band" briefly too. Although I cant imagine what he did. Maybe he played the guitar, maybe he just danced. To explain the relevance of this painting to the Future And The Boy songs though I need to tell you the story of the Art Goblins.

The Art Goblins were my first band, well the first one that played live. I'd had one previously called The Fantastic Folk Devils R.F.C. That had songs about alcoholic cheese. Luckily that one never saw the light of day.

The Art Goblins began as a semi-serious three piece. Me and another singer called Dave and our friend Steve on guitar. We didn't have a drummer and we took it in turns to shout our lyrics. I remember Dave had a particularly good song called Beware Of The Skies Because Penguins Can't Fly. Mine were mainly half remembered Pulp B-sides. The first show went all right. So we thought we'd add two or three bass players to our already unusual line up. The second show was terrible and we sort of split up. One of the bass players we had added though was a guy I'd just met called Jasper who was obsessed with Brit-pop and some how he convinced me, or maybe I convinced him that we should carry on as a sort of arty-britpop band.

For a long time we were one of those pretend bands that doesn't play live, rehearses occasionally and talks about itself all of the time.

Then one day we got a stable line up. And played a gig. I was a lot more worried about my terrible singing voice then than I am now and to distract from it I used to do stunts on stage. I'd hold up signs, escape from a sack, play a vacum cleaner as an instrument. That sort of thing. People seemed to like it (well our friends). Then everyone went to university and we had to start again.

It didn't take long to start again though. We found three people in a club and became best friends with them because one of them was wearing a Half Man Half Biscuit T shirt. I was so delighted that we finally had a proper line up I went around telling everybody how brilliant we were. All the time. Everybody. Even the people who were drinking in the pub in Westbourne where I worked. I think that is how The Art Goblins got added to the bill of the Westbourne Traders Association Fete

Westbourne is quite an affluent area of Bournemouth and for the day of the fete they'd booked a proper PA and lots of tribute bands. There was a tribute to Phil Collins playing, a tribute to ABBA and loads more bands of that ilk. We were all playing on the forecourt of the pub. We were the only non-tribute band playing and we were on first. As it was a summer fete on first meant at about mid-day. Which is quite a busy time for a summer fete. We went down really really badly.

The set began with me making a joke by pretending I thought we were playing a fundraiser for the trade unions and singing a little bit of There Is Power In A Union by Billy Bragg. If anything that was the bit of the set that went down the best. By the time we'd got to the part of the set where I'm handcuffed and climb into a sack with a hoover (with the intention of escaping before the air gets sucked out) whilst growling and muttering

"Are you afraid of the art?.....ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE ART?"

The organisers were trying to turn the PA off. They were definitely afraid of the art. I think I saw some children crying

Luckily (or maybe not) I'd made really good friends with a guy called Derek who was sort of in charge of the fete and he refused to let them turn us off till we'd finished our set.

The set ended with me having a row with a gentleman who had covered his ears and was screaming 'THAT IS NOT MUSIC" at me.

My argument was that it was Clever Clever Jazz and that he was too stupid to understand.

I imagine we must have been quite an unusual sight bickering like that at 12.30pm on a Sunday in Westbourne surrounded by crying children.

Anyway after the horror of playing the only Westbourne traders fete that was ever held. Whenever any of the Art Goblins did anything a bit unusual just for fun we used to describe it as 'Clever Clever Jazz' especially if nobody else liked it.

Future And The Boy was often described by Nicky and I as 'clever clever jazz'.

Now that does not sound like a ringing endorsement for a single. But I am actually quite proud of some of the songs Nicky and I recorded later on as Future And The Boy when we lived together in London.

I have made three "Clever Clever Jazz" Paintings. They are made of Cotton Canvas (16" x 20") and Acrylic paint. They are £80 each plus postage.

I can be contacted at eddie.argos.resource@gmail.com

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Little 058 Dirtblonde "Brooklyn/White Horses" EP

Artist: Dirtblonde
Title: Brooklyn/White Horses EP
Label: Filthy Little Angels
Cat No: Little 058
Format: Digital
Release Date: 26th April 2010

ARTWORK
01 Brooklyn
02 White Horses
03 Stockholm Syndrome (The Colt .45's Cover)

Brooklyn (Video)

Stockholm Syndrome (Video)

Whilst you're here, why not download 3 more tracks from Dirtblonde

The Hangmen EP
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The Hangmen (Video)

Download the Debut Mini-Album "White Noise, Rubber Heart" (with bonus track)

from iTunes NOW!!!

Sunday, 7 March 2010

GIITTV review Kissing Kalina - Sirens

Kissing Kalina's free Sirens EP received a great four-star review at God is in the TV recently!

"This London based three-piece make smart, cool tunes with memorable hooks and a good spoonful of dirty fuzz."

CLICK TO READ THE FULL REVIEW

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

The Music Fix review Show Me A Word That Rhymes With Pavement

There's a fantastic review of our Pavement tribute album at The Music Fix where it was given 8/10.

"Even if this was a full priced release it would be an awesome collection of songs. As a freebie it’s astounding. It might re-ignite your passion with Pavement or you might find a favourite new band on it."

CLICK TO READ THE FULL REVIEW

Monday, 1 March 2010

NEW RELEASE - Various Artists "Show Me A Word That Rhymes With Pavement"

Today's the day Pavement begin their long awaited reunion tour - it's also the day we excitedly release Show Me A Word That Rhymes With Pavement, a seventeen track tribute to California's finest. Make sure you get in early for a bonus track!

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01 Cats and Cats and Cats - Cut Your Hair
02 Mascot Fight - Carrot Rope
03 The International Karate Plus - Box Elder
04 Vom Vorton - Zurich is Stained
05 Benjamin Shaw - Starlings of the Slipstream
06 Black Heart Generator - Serpentine Pad
07 Postcode - In the Mouth a Desert
08 Ace Bushy Striptease - Secret Knowledge of Backroads
09 Horowitz - I Love Perth
10 Captain Polaroid - Here
11 The Dead Cassettes - Gold Soundz
12 Jack Lewis and the Golden Indies - Stub Your Toe
13 Later - Trigger Cut
14 Rod Jones - Shady Lane
15 Olympic Swimmers - We Dance
16 Billy Ruffian - Stereo
17 Miss Halliwell - Silence Kid

Thank you to all the bands who took the time to make these recordings and also to Dan Lucas at Barewires Studios/Anchor Baby Recordings

Here's a video of Billy Ruffian's 'Stereo'.

Head over to our shop to pick up releases by Billy Ruffian, Captain Polaroid, The International Karate Plus, Horowitz and MORE!

Friday, 1 January 2010

NEW RELEASE - Five Years Of Filth: Music vs Money

Filthy Little Angels? Who the devil are they? What do they do? If you are asking yourself these questions then look no further. Last year we compiled a FREE retrospective for our fifth birthday (where were our presents?!) featuring some of our favourite FLA releases. You can download it underneath the image either through Sendspace or track by track from this very site.

We have some new releases planned for the coming months - more details to follow!

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Five Years Of Filth: Music vs Money
Label: Filthy Little Angels
Cat No: Little 055
Format: Digital
Release Date: 14th December 2009

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ARTWORK
01 Dirtblonde - The Hangmen
02 The Lovely Eggs - Devil In Me
03 October All Over - The Day The Earth Stood Still
04 Plastic Passion - Pequena Petit
05 Black Kites - Paper Heart
06 Rocket Uppercut - We'll Always Love The Stars
07 The Swear - Retail Therapy
08 The Fountain - Living In A House In Wales
09 Later - Year By Year
10 ShiSho - Courtney Sat On A Rock
11 Hyperbubble - Non Biodegradable Hazardous Waste Disposal
12 The Vichy Government - Secretarial Elite
13 The Jesus' - Jimmy Tractor
14 The Star Fighter Pilot - Drunk With You
15 The New Royal Family - Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive?
16 Micropenis - All I Need
17 The Leatherettes - Shoot To Thrill
18 And What Will Be Left Of Them? - 4 Years To Be An Artist
19 Tiny Tigers - Sort It Out
20 Billy Ruffian - Music Versus Money
21 The Sexual Hot Bitches - Let's Fuck
22 Projekt A-Ko - Nothing Works Twice
23 Captain Polaroid - Dust Will Settle on This Lifeless Town
24 The International Karate Plus - Brides Abroad
25 Aria C Jalali!- Bohemia (With A Sea)
26 Slideshow Freak - Electro Rock Therapy
27 Esiotrot - Venus

Rachael Neiman (Cherryade Records & Dandelion Radio)
Though Filthy Little Angels are celebrating their fifth anniversary, you’d be forgiven for thinking they’d been around for much longer. A Quick look at their back catalogue reveals a frankly astonishing number of releases by an awe-inspiring selection of some of the most important and exciting artists of the last half decade.

I have been enthralled with Filthy Little Angels pretty much since the very beginning and have always trusted them as a source for finding the most exciting new pop music from around the world. FLA never disappoint and have introduced me to more amazing music over the last five years than any other label. Thinking back, it’s actually harder to think of the bands I’ve discovered who haven’t had some connection with FLA!

As time has gone on FLA’s output has become even more prodigious, but, far from diminishing the quality of the releases, the records being released on FLA have continued to be utterly essential. Also, over the last couple of years, the label has issued a number of free download albums, singles and eps, including their popular annual Christmas compilations, and, don’t let the fact they’re free fool you, they’re right up there with the high quality you’ve come to expect from FLA!

The range of artists and styles that FLA have worked with over the years is also a tribute to their dedication to tracking down new and unknown artists, regardless of genre.

So many FLA releases have meant so much to me over the last five years that it would be impossible for me to pick a short list of favourites, luckily I don’t have to as FLA have kindly compiled another great collection of songs, taking in a selection of classics from their flawless roster, of course it can’t include all the amazing artists they’ve worked with (that would make it the longest compilation ever!) but the enduring quality of the songs here is a fitting testament to the truly amazing work that FLA have done for DIY and unsigned bands since they first started releasing records and to the treasures that they’ve unearthed for us music lovers!

Here’s to the next 5 years of FLA, I, for one, can’t wait to hear what audio treats there’ll be providing us with in the years to come!

Monday, 21 December 2009

Little 056 - Various Artists "Oh Come, All Ye Filthy"

(Now, That's What We Call The Best Filthy Little Angels Christmas Album In The World Ever: Volume 5½)

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ARTWORK
01 And What Will Be Left Of Them? - Have Yourself A Filthy Little Christmas
02 Hillary & The Democrats - Do You Remember Snow?
03 The Lovely Eggs - I'm Going To Build My Snowman Better Than Yours**
04 ShiSho - Christmas Bells
05 Hyperbubble - Away in a Manger
06 Helen Love - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
07 Ginger Tom - Christmas Day Alone
08 The Birthday Girl vs Alexander's Festival Hall - Hey Santa! (Black Snow At Xmas)
09 FromMars - Last Christmas
10 Ivan Dirtblonde - Christmas Time
11 Micropenis - Christmas In The Midlands**
12 Billy Ruffian with Mike Chavez Dawson - Feliz Navidad
13 Shock And Awe - DontchaLuvXmas
14 Alex Kidd - Stop The Cavalry
15 Osni - Père Noël
16 The International Karate Plus - Black Christmas
17 Mascot Fight - Christmas Dinner For One
18 Captain Polaroid - When The Advent Calendar Comes Down
19 ShiSho - Merry Christmas, Now Leave
20 The Vichy Government - Christmas Is Cancelled
21 SideFields - Christmas In China
22 Listen Lisse - Wake Me Up When Christmas Is Over
23 The Vatican Cellars - Christmas Island
24 Das Wanderlust - Someone To Pull Crackers With*
25 Rod Jones - Christmas Fire
26 Ant - Let It Snow
27 SAY - Stille Nacht

Tracks 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21 & 24 previously unreleased on FLA
Tracks 1 & 20 taken from "Have Yourself A Filthy Little Christmas"
Tracks 5, 6, 14, 19 & 26 taken from "Hark! The Filthy Angels Sing"
Tracks 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 22 & 27 taken from "Tis The Season To Be Filthy"
Tracks 2, 23 & 25 taken from "It'll Be Filthy This Christmas"

*a note from Das Wanderlust
So here's how it works. We spent a lot of time writing and recording this Christmas song, and then paid to get it mastered at Abbey Road, and in return we'd probably normally ask for money for it. But because its the season of goodwill, and because Laura is pretty much obsessed with donkeys, we thought it'd be a better idea if we tried to use it to raise a bit of money for The Brooke Animal Hospital.

The Brooke is a charity helping working horses, donkeys, and mules in the world's poorest communities. Their mobile vet teams and community animal health workers provide free treatment to animals and train animal owners, local healers, farriers, saddlers, feed sellers, harness and cart makers to give the animals they depend so heavily on a better quality of life - so everyone benefits, humans and animals together in perfect harmony like Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

Naturally we can't make y'all give to charity, and if you want to take the mp3 for free then you can, but we're kind of hoping your conscience will persuade you otherwise.

Simply Click here to donate to The Brooke through JustGiving.com

Now you can sit back and let the Christmassy music wash over you with a feeling of smug satisfaction that, for once, you've made a good decision in your life. Well done, and Merry Christmas! xxx

**A BIG thank you, to Cherryade Records
The Lovely Eggs - I'm Going To Build My Snowman Better Than Yours & Micropenis - Christmas In The Midlands previously appeared on the Cherryade Records "A Very Cherry Christmas" Series, available now from www.cherryademusic.co.uk, where you can also purchase The Lovely Eggs album "If You Were Fruit". Big thanks for allowing us to borrow these tracks!!!