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Horsell Common - Good From Afar [official clip]

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NEW SONG ON MYSPACE
Today we launched our new Myspace design and put up the first single from our debut album, The Rescue. The song is called “Good From Afar” and we think it’s pretty fucking special. Make sure you go to our myspace and check it out. Also if you guys can add the song to your sites I’m sure that will make you all the more popular with the opposite sex in cyber world.

That links again is www.myspace.com/horsellcommon

RADIO PREMIERE
The song is also premiering this Wednesday on Triple J’s Short Fast Loud program. It’s on at 10pm and will be the songs first fling with radio. Make sure you tune in.

CD SINGLE FOR SALE
We are also releasing the single on CD on September 1^st. It will be in all good record stores and will include FOUR B-Sides. That’s FIVE songs for FIVE bucks. The B-Sides include a professional remix by Norman Pow! (he did Evermore and Cat Empire remixes too) and covers of Jimmy Eat World and Life of Agony. It’s pretty good.

PRE-ORDER AND GET HORSELL BASKETBALL CARDS
If you want to get the CD the Monday it comes out delivered to your door you can actually pre-order it through the best mailorder site around – www.killyourstereo.com. And if you pre-order it, you will also get a limited edition Horsell Common Basketball Trading Card. We made three different cards – one for each member. Full Colour, with stats and everything. Every Pre-order will get one of the cards. If you’re really keen you could buy three copies and get all three cards. And give the other two cds as presents to people you don’t really like. They wont know how cheap the CD was so you’ll be sweet.

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER THE SINGLE

Check out the artwork for the new single, designed by www.robot-academy.com

The Rescue Tracklisting

So we've chosen the tracklisting for "The Rescue". Stephen from Anberlin sings on "I'm Dead" and Lisa from Capeside sings on "Annie, If You're Listening".

1. Good From Afar
2. Bruise Easy
3. Automation
4. Help is on Its Way
5. Sing the News
6. Annie, If You’re Listening
7. It’s OK
8. I’m Dead
9. The Sound of Breaking Records
10. Gone For the Summer
11. Surgery

future looks good from afar...

So we have some photos from our film clip shoot we just did for our first single "Good From Afar" from the album, The Rescue. We shot it at the old ballroom at Flinders St Station in Melbourne with our friend Toby Angwin and his crew. The ballroom hasn't been used in like 40 years for anything, and it's a really hard location to lock down. But Toby and Stewart at Soup Kitchen we're amazing enough to get the room for us, which was the best news ever.

The only hard parts were two things:

A) We had two days to source all our equipment and props because we all have such crazy schedules, and;
B) We had wake up at 6am to load a few trucks and cars worth of stuff up three flights and into the station. And, mostly notably;
C) Cripps got really drunk the night before and was feeling the pain.

Nonetheless we got there. As we loaded in all the gear across platform one and up the stairs, we saw the front cover of MX with Elora Danan on it. That made us laugh heaps. We got on the phone to our publicist demanding a cover but she said we have to wait.

Anyway, we did about 50 takes of the song. Our manager Luke was the ipod boy. He only stuffed up twice. Than he told us he hated the song cos he heard it too much. Our video guru, Matt Turnbull, filmed a bunch of stuff for the "Making Of Good From Afar" and our photo guru, Kane Hibberd, took a bunch of happy snaps.

And here they are, CLICK ON EACH THUMBNAIL TO SEE THE PHOTO






All photos by Kane Hibberd @ www.theartofcapture.com

The clip will be premiering on Myspace in August, stay tuned for the info!