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For those in bands

Submitted by citizenpaul on Fri, 10/12/2010 - 19:32
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I asked Ian at @Makeitinmusic what his top Twitter tips were for bands a few weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised (to say the least!) when he decided to use this as an excuse to write a 12,000 word magnum opus in response! Well worth checking out if you're a musician, his 5-part article can be found over at: http://www.makeitinmusic.com/twitter-for-musicians-the-basics. Since I raise Twitter, our ACAS tweets can be found at @acitizenabove.
 

This is going to be weird

Submitted by citizenpaul on Wed, 01/12/2010 - 19:47
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The Manics will be on Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday... not sure what I think about that. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/01/manics-strictly-come-dancing

One for Manics fans

Submitted by citizenpaul on Sun, 14/11/2010 - 23:09
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This little documentary about "Everything Must Go" actually had a few new insights in it - worth checking out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/vw721/

Free 5-track sampler –The Social Network score

Submitted by citizenpaul on Tue, 05/10/2010 - 00:03
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A one-liner in case you haven’t seen this freebie – Trent Reznor has composed the score to the new David Fincher movie, which is out next week. You can download a 5-track sampler in exchange for your email address here. It’s well worth a listen. OK, that was four lines...

And then there were three…

Submitted by citizenpaul on Sun, 26/09/2010 - 17:31
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We’ve been a little quiet of late as there have been a few big changes in the ACAS camp over the summer months. The biggest being that, after 5 solid years of service, our drummer Grant decided to move on to pastures new in June. 

 

Rather than search for someone else to fill the drum stool (I’m not sure we’d be able to find someone who would be as good a fit for our style…), we’ve been trying out a new computer-aided, three-piece line-up. 

Having less people to coordinate has also meant that we’ve been rehearsing more frequently than ever before. 

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The Prisoner (rehearsal run-through, 26 March 2010)

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A rough around the edges, warts and all, live run-through of a new song called The Prisoner. The studio version will be released for download later this month, so here's a quick take from our rehearsal session last week to whet your appetite, mistakes and all!

Grab it while you can – entire back catalogue free for a limited time

Submitted by citizenpaul on Sun, 14/03/2010 - 19:47
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Some quick news we think you might like – we've made the entire* Citizen back catalogue available online to download for FREE until 30 April 2010 (includes the album, plus all EPs and standalone tracks). You can stream all the music and download the files in the format of your choosing (ranging from mp3 up to CD quality files) at the newly overhauled music section of our site: http://music.acitizenabovesuspicion.co.uk.

As it’s a new section of the site and you won’t have visited before, the system will ask you for your email address in exchange for accessing the downloads – but don’t worry, we won’t add you to the mailing list again if you've previously signed up. Read more »

Best laid plans and big ideas

Source: 
Brighton Source

The recent bad weather has scuppered Brighton band A Citizen Above Suspicion’s plans to shoot their new promo video – not once, but twice. “We don’t seem to be having much luck with this one,” said guitarist Paul Shepherd. “We released our new song as a free download on Christmas day but each time we set a day to shoot the promo we seem to get shafted by the snow.” Hopefully by the time you read this, the video for Big Ideas will finally be up in all its glory at http://bit.ly/4AGoY4.

Snow struggle - Citizen press clipping

Submitted by citizenpaul on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 00:12
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A quick little note that our recent woes with the bad weather made it into local mag the Brighton Source. The full (although it's pretty short) story is available here: http://www.brightonsource.co.uk/news/1-latest-news/690-news-february-2010, and is hopefully in the print edition too (let us know if you've seen it yet).

We did of course eventually manage to shoot the video for Big Ideas, which you can see here: http://www.acitizenabovesuspicion.co.uk/video/big-ideas.

Citizen in a widget - feel free to share!

Submitted by citizenpaul on Thu, 28/01/2010 - 00:03
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