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Date Posted: 00:58:35 11/16/02 Sat
Hello pop pickers.
Okay, so excuse me for whoring our wares on your site, but we’re trying to flog a few more copies of our album so we can fund our tour early next year. Naturally, you can whore yourselves back on our site (http://clix.to/mavis) in return. We won’t mind.
Yes, 12 tunes of hurt, regret, sorrow and ultimately joy that you can whistle, released on the ‘On the Door’ label, and recorded by Frankie ‘Leatherface’ Stubbs, is now available for you to buy! As heard on the John Peel show and John Kennedy’s XFM programme, it’s called ‘The Mavis Crisis’ and it’s the story of our bands battle against pop mediocrity, a collection of songs written between 1996 and 2001. It sounds super, it has a dinosaur on the front, and you can get your copy for just £7 (inc. P+P). Available on CD and limited to 500 copies, a cheque/postal order/well concealed cash made payable to ‘James McMahon’, for the princely sum of £7, will get you a copy. Mail us at mavispop@hotmail.com for posting address.
And if you need some more persuading, here are some things people had to say about ‘The Mavis Crisis’…
‘It’s likely that by the time they’ve segued into The Ramones’ ‘Hey ho, lets go’ mantra on fifth track ‘Punk Rock Christmas’, Sunderlands Mavis will be your new favourite band. The quirky quartet deal in soulful, uplifting punk rock with a healthy dose of wit and humour, delivered with the sort of naive charm that will endear the band to all but the most hard-nosed and stern-faced of punkers’. (Four K’s)
* Kerrang
‘This is great, it has a real early 90’s indie rock feel to it, think Lemonheads, Midway Still and Australia’s Smudge. Non-distorted, almost folky guitar led, with good vocals and some superb female accompaniment that enhances the songs and gives the band that extra dimension you need when playing this kind of music. There’s snippets of lyrics and they are fantastic’.
* Fracture
‘Presumably recorded on a tiny budget in the northeast, this Sunderland ensemble's album captures the dark punk spirit magnificently. With weary-boy lead vocals leant on by a more piercing, female voice, they excite against a backdrop of noise that recalls good, noirish American bands such as The Gun Club, Rank & File and early Superchunk’.
* The Independent
‘Mavis write joyously uncomplicated, heads-down, hook-laden, indie-pop songs, driven by an underdog’s suspicion of the music industry and a will to succeed alongside a healthy artistic splatter of self-depreciation. Filled with rattling three-minute guitar blasts, call and response choruses, brittle vocal harmonies and mini-manifestos, this is a low budget, high ambition little gem of a record’.
* Comes With A Smile Magazine
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