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REASON TO EXIST insectguide 664 views BUY TRACK HERE: http://insectguide.bandcamp.com/track/reason-to-exist One minute and six seconds isn't a lot of time. There isn't much you can do with one minute and six s...
DISCO TENTS (LIVE) insectguide 75 views Recorded live at Hall Place Studios, Leeds. 30.01.10.
10 insectguide 373 views Taken from the album 'Dark Days & Nights' released on Squirrel Records on 03.10.10. Download here: http://insectguide.bandcamp.com/album/dark-days-nights Buy the CD/DVD h...
GREY SKY insectguide 827 views Haunted and hauntingly beautiful, 5 O'Clock Recordings is released digitally at 5am on Monday December 20th FREE on Eardrumspop Records. A limited edition CD with special t...
5 O'CLOCK RECORDINGS insectguide 111 views Just two months after the release of their Dark Days & Nights album, Insect Guide return with a brand new EP, the 5 O'Clock Recordings. Written and recorded mostly in dusk-...
DOCUMENTARY TRAILER - 'DARK DAYS & NIGHTS' insectguide 1,126 views RELEASED 04.10.10. A DARK VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE LEGENDARY VENUES, REHEARSAL ROOMS, DARK BARS AND DIRTY DANCE CLUB FLOORS OF THIS CITY.
DOWN FROM HERE insectguide 1,884 views Released on Dead Penny Records 06.09.10. Taken from the album 'Dark Days & Nights' released on Squirrel Records 04.10.10. http://insectguide.bandcamp.com/
WASTED (LIVE in LEEDS 17.04.10) insectguide 218 views Released 07.06.10. The ever brilliant Dead Penny Records brings you the latest CD single from The Insect Guide. Just ahead of their forthcoming 2nd album, here's another...
WASTED (UK Single Edit) insectguide 5,175 views Released 07.06.10 on Dead Penny Records. Taken from the album 'DARK DAYS & NIGHTS' released on Squirrel Records in August 2010.
DARK DAYS & NIGHTS (LIVE in LEEDS 17.04.10) insectguide 756 views Recorded live at 'The Library' in Leeds -17.04.10. This gig was the single launch for DARK DAYS & NIGHTS released on Dead Penny Records 22.03.10. BUY HERE: http://insectgu...

About THE INSECT GUIDE

DEAD PENNY RECORDS presents the dark audio-visual journey of the INSECT GUIDE!

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Formed in Leeds in late 2005, Insect Guide Su Sutton and Stan Howells have been sending ripples through the musical underground ever since thanks to their distinctive brand of dark, cinematic pop.

After two years of intensive activity songwriting, gigging, recording, and filming Insect Guide's debut album, 6ft in Love, appeared on Leeds' Dead Penny Records in October 2007. Uniquely, the release included not just a CD, but also a DVD of self-produced videos for each and every track. Sometimes bizarre and disturbing, sometimes gentle and reflective, the videos complemented the music perfectly; fans of the band's immersive, audio-visual live shows would have expected no less.

An Uncut magazine 'Debut of the Month', 6ft in Love attracted reviews that ranged from the enthusiastic to the near-ecstatic. Subba-Cultcha described it as 'a beautiful and idiosyncratic pop album'; Drowned in Sound called it 'an irresistible pop masterpiece... as dark as the most potent Velvet Underground'. Elsewhere, the album drew favourable comparisons to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.

6ft in Love was followed in January 2008 by a limited EP featuring remixes of two tracks by Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3/Spectrum). The CD quickly sold out.

The first half of 2008 saw the Insects gigging heavily in support of both releases, supporting the likes of Ulrich Schnauss and Maps. A mini-tour of the USA in March was followed by appearances in Norway and Poland. Meanwhile, the band's profile in the UK was raised by the unexpected appearance of their cover of Dinosaur Jr.'s 'Freakscene' originally given away free at gigs on Radio 1's Steve Lamacq show and in the pages of the NME ('an amazing cover of Dinosaur Jr.'s finest moment').

In late 2008 with the Sonic Boom remix of 'Frozen' finding a whole new audience on Northern Star Records' groundbreaking Psychedelica Three compilation Insect Guide began gigging and recording with drummer Chris Cooper, of 4AD legends The Pale Saints. The result is a new batch of songs that show Insect Guide, far from struggling to follow their debut, are just hitting their stride: still darkly atmospheric, still multi-layered, still beautifully crafted but louder, more direct, and more unashamedly 'pop'.

Released on Squirrel Records 03.05.10!

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