Competition

Win 1 of 5 Orphan Boy 'Passion, Pain and Loyalty' CDs

closing date: 9 Jul 2010

Orphan Boy

Album: Passion, Pain and Loyalty ' 02/08/10
Single: Pop Song ' 19/07/10
+ London Headline Show Announced

Orphan Boy are proud to announce the release of their album 'Passion, Pain and Loyalty' on the 2nd August 2010. The single 'Pop Song' will precede the album, on the 19th July 2010. Both single and album will be released through Manchester based Concrete Recordings. The album Passion, Pain and Loyalty will be available digitally and on CD, the single 'Pop Song' will be available as a digital release only.

Track-listing for the album Passion, Pain & Loyalty is as follows:

Letter For Annie
Popsong
Harbour Lights
Remember
Some Frontier
1989
Anderson Shelter Blues
The Promise
Untitled 9
A180 Song

Orphan Boy are a rock/pop trio that formed in Cleethorpes in February 2005. They soon got the fuck out of there and moved to Manchester where they signed to Concrete Recordings. (Though two of them are now back in their beloved Cleethorpes)
They began by making a kind of post-post punk music in which choruses were forbidden and lots of guitar strings got snapped. This became known as Two-Chord Council Pop, the culmination of which was their (classic) debut album, 'Shop Local', released in 2008.

Orphan Boy have played Glastonbury four times, twice under an alias. The orphans have a loyal fanbase, known formally as the Bebop Council Pop Orphanite Anti-Social Brigade, informally as the Orphanites and a record label that claims to be guided by the ghost of John Peel. As a band they have learnt to buy bananas from service stations to gain best value for money and, once, nearly froze to death sleeping in Soho Square in the middle of winter.

In the wake of Shop Local's 'cult' success, Orphan Boy began working on a new more melodic, more musical and more introspective direction (working title of Lad Art).
As the band put it:

'Passion, Pain & Loyalty was written for all the people who listen to records alone in their bedrooms and stare out of the windows late into the night. It's still got the energy and imagination of the first record, but the music is bigger this time. It's sharper, deeper and more accomplished. We like to think that it could become one of the last great rock 'n' roll records. Which, for three scruffs from Grimsby, would be pretty good going. But even if no one buys it, this record will always be a success to us, because our aim was to make a great album, and that's what we did.

In the lead up to the release of 'Passion, Pain and Loyalty', Orphan Boy
will play the following warm up gigs and festivals.

Full album tour in August/September:

June
Fri 18th Rock & Goal, Bar Bliss Leigh (Free )
Fri 25th O'Neil's Cleethorpes (Free)
July
Fri 30th Ruby Lounge Manchester (Free)
(BBC INTRODUCING Album Launch)
Sat 31st KENDAL CALLING ' Calling Out Stage Kendal
(http://www.kendalcalling.co.uk/tickets)
July
Fri 23rd Proud Gallery (headline) London
August
Fri 6th Gypsy Tears Cleethorpes (Free)

Orphan Boy are Rob Cross ' Guitar, bass, keyboard, Vocals, Paul Smith ' Guitar, bass, keyboard, vocals and Chris Day ' Drums.

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