The Sums headline there first Liverpool show of 2012.. showcasing old and new songs

Here it is folks The Sums return with their first gig of the year, which promises to be another one to remember, The Sums are on top form at the moment and we are told they will be playing some brand new songs in the set list.

Saturday 7th April 2012 – Liverpool; Zanzibar 7.30 till late
THE SUMS

THE STERLINGS

PROFESSOR YAFFLE

THE DECEPTION

DJ ANDY CARROLL ( ibiza rocks set )

Tickets £6.00 or £7.00 otd

click on the link below to buy tickets

http://www.ticketline.co.uk/tickets/13266829/the-sums/liverpool-the-zanzibar-club/2012-04-07

The Sums debut album ” If Only ” out now and available from

Probe Records (Liverpool)  and from Townsend Records, ITunes, Amazon.

click on the link below

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=The+Sums&pType=1

Please join the mailing list on the website for all the info first.

I love a good moan; we all love a good moan. Moaning is healthy, and as the old saying goes ‘better out than in’. So here goes, let the moaning begin.

X factor or should I say X fucking factor!!

I hate it, and yes I think it is ruined real music today. It’s not giving room to hardworking bands and artists who choose not to sell their soul to the man!

Why? Well for a start the charts and press are dominated by the same over produced predictable plop music!! Yes plop music, and not even decent pop songs, just shite… The  whole nation is brainwashed by a glorified karaoke competition into thinking that these people are really talented, I mean don’t get me wrong some of these people do have decent voices and they might look the part, but at the end of the day they are simply boil in the bag celebrities with a short shelf life, they are a piece of cloth with an adidas sign sewn on, they are a tin of beans, a box of Lego, just another product that is being produced to make the powers that be richer, they are doing this by means of a huge real life pantomime show that they involve you in, and all they want in return is your money and in return you get a singing robot!!

People have set their standards without realizing it, it’s no wonder the charts are full of shit because we allow it to happen.   I actually genuinely feel sorry for these contestants as they too are just as brainwashed as the viewer!!!

These poor little fuckers are told they are amazing and a star in the making etc etc.. Bollocks!!! Get yourself in a band or learn an instrument and write a real song or be a part of real music in the making and see what it’s really like to have the twatting x factor!!!

Most of these people have never had to borrow money for the hire of a van and sit on wheel arches being bumped around the back with drums guitar cases and amps smashing into you for 9 hours in the middle of winter and dying for a piss only to find the next service station is 27 miles away!!!! No they get nice big hotels on wheels and luxury jets, the ‘celeb’ lifestyle and all that nonsense. Only to find one day it will be taken away as quick as it was given.

Anyway where was I?
Right ok, I’ve lost my thought now….
Here it is…

I don’t want to sound like I am over opinionated but I do have an opinion and a strong one it is, so take it or leave it, so continue reading or stop now and call me a dick head who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, I don’t have anything against anyone who wants to watch this shite on TV, and I occasionally sit and watch bits to confirm to myself how right I am.

I am just passionate about what I do and I don’t think its right to see fucking idiots milking the viewers with their stupid sad story about this being their last chance and it’s now or never etc!! Piss off shitty TV producers playing the sad song while you hear the stories about being bullied at school and singing is all i have got, then builds to a massive chorus and brings a tear to your eye. Not me mate!!!  !! Last Friday you where runner up in the karaoke contest in your local pub and now you’re on the telly!! Woooo. So fucking what!! YOU DONT DESERVE IT!

Also I used to laugh at the first few episodes where they have the really crap ones who come from all different walks and forms if life, some are arguably not human, I don’t find this funny anymore, it’s out of order, they are humiliating people who they know have no musical talent and putting them on television knowing they are gonna get the laughed at and have the piss taken out of them, it’s wrong… These people are shite i know  but these same people have been through a process of auditions that you don’t see on telly, i know amazing singers who have failed to get past that stage yet they put 3 headed chicken farmers through to live auditions so you can take the piss out of some poor deluded individual. Therefore and I won’t go into it, but before the show starts they have a good idea of their winner, it’s just finding the right piece for their pre planned jigsaw…

Sorry I’m off again…. Bad idea this moaning blog thing I had some really good things I wanted to include but can’t remember now because all I am thinking about is that shower of twats dominating our ears!!

Taken from Jade Wrights Music Blog, from The Liverpool Echo’s website.

Photo gallery: Chris Mullin from The Sums shares his backstage pictures

For our first photo gallery on the new look ECHO music blog, Chris Mullin, bass player and vocals for Liverpool band The Sums was armed with camera during the Don’t Buy the Sun concert at the Liverpool Olympia.
“It was a really special night and the band were really pleased to be involved with such a worthy cause,” he says. “There was a really lovely atmosphere and it was great to see everyone pull together to make it a memorable night.”

1 Chris Campbell (The Sums), John Power, Chris Mullin (The Sums)
2 crowd
3 Ian Prowse, Martyn Campbell (Lightning Seeds)
4 Mick Jones & Phil Hayes
5 Keith Mullin (The Farm), Pete Wylie, Chris Mullin (The Sums)
6 Pete Wylie, Mick Jones, Chris Mullin, Ian Prowse
The Sums release their debut album If Only and launch on Saturday 29
October at the Zanzibar Liverpool
The Sums, The Fallows, Rob Smith ( acoustic ), The Ladykillers, DJ
Andy Carroll ( Classic State set )
7.30pm till 1.00am, £5.00 from Probe and the Zanzibar or £6.00 on the door
If Only available from Townsend Records on download and cd from
Monday 17th Oct.
First 200 copies signed at: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/stores/thesums/

http://thesums.net/video/ 

During the interview Digsy and Chris play live versions of “Small Smile” and “Spilt Milk” from the album. Enjoy.

Digsy & Chris Mullin interview & live session

http://youtu.be/sSBV2ZDXzX0

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