The Spitfires launch their debut album "Songs From The Debt Generation"

Perth indie punk upstarts launch their debut album "Songs From The Debt Generation" on the 20/7/12 at Perth's Amplifier followed by a lighting trip North to play at Latitude 28, tomorrow Saturday 21/7/12. "Songs From The Debt Generation" is the RTRFM Local Fetaure and is out now through Firestarter Distribution. You can check out the video clip for the latest single Suffer Kate here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVq7m-NzFSk

To commemorate sixty glorious years of "Her Madge" Queen Elizabeth the second's reign, Perth's very own Indie Terrorists The Spitfires will be releasing a delicate ode to everybody's favourite fucked up nuclear family. Written in 2011 in honour of the Royal Wedding of William and Kate, the track received its debut in the UK prior to the big event. Fasterlouder were on hand to discuss it with front man Sean Regan during an interview that January...

Fasterlouder - So you were inspired by the Royals?

Regan - Well it was easy to write about them really because they’re such a bunch of strange inbred loons with such an interesting culture. So what we decided to do was to write it taking on the guise of Prince William and rather than singing “Hi I’m Prince William and blah, blah, blah…” we just simply sung about a bunch of guys who live on an estate, sponging off the social and keeping pit bulls that attack children, which ironically enough, is a pretty good description of the royal family. The Royal Family is a perfect little English family. They’ve got gay Uncle Eddie who lives life in the cupboard, there’s his brother Harry who’s the bastard of the family and yeah so it was really, really easy

Fasterlouder - You had perfect material…

Regan - It was really difficult to keep it down to three minutes. In our wildest dreams it will hopefully get released, then banned and we won’t have to worry about it.

... the track follows on from debut single Smile's caustic take on a funeral gone wrong, with a 90's era Brit-Rock sound married with fuzzed guitar solo and tribal drumming. Suffer Kate is the second Single from The Spitfires forthcoming album which will be available through Firestarter distribution and can be listened to now on Soundcloud.

http://soundcloud.com/thespitfires/sufferkate

Suffer Kate Music Video

Following a successful fundraiser, The Spitfires have secured the necessary cash for a new clip for Suffer Kate. Teaming up with Stefan Radanovich and Aaron McCann, the group will be shooting the music video at the end of May with a release to coincide with the Perth launch party. Though everybody involved with the clip remain tight lipped about its content, it has been revealed that it will feature ultraslow motion camera technology and Luchador wrestlers... with Debut Clip Smile to exceed 2,500 hits this week the band hope to continue their good run of form on the video front.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZgaYmh7r8

Perth Launch Party - The Rocket Room / 8th of June

The Spitfires will be getting out the bunting at the Rocket Room on Friday the 8th of June with support from The Caballeros, High Horse and The Cabarets to give the new single a right royal send-off. Tickets will be available for $10 on the door with a free download for all in attendance.

THE SPITFIRES – SMILE SINGLE LAUNCH - NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN TOUR - JAPAN CHRISTMAS TOUR

2011 proved to be another killer year for The Spitfires with touring at home and abroad, picking up coveted British India supports and Triple J airplay along the way. To round off the year the band will be hitting the road once again to promote the release of their brand new single Smile before jetting off to Japan for their second international tour of the year.

Debut single from the upcoming album Smile, a dark tale of drunkeness and excess at a funeral, will be available as a free download from www.thespitfires.net before being made available for sale online on the 9th of December. The single features the band's debut music video, written and directed by Stefan Radanovich (Perished, The Debt).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZgaYmh7r8

Link to free download

http://app.topspin.net/store/artist/9429?wId=104298&highlightColor=0x00A1FF&theme=black&w=900&h=750&src=fb

Perth Launch Party

Friday Dec 9th at The Rosemount (cnr Angove and Fitzgerald St)

Entry $12 Presales from www.thespitfires.net + bonus free download

$10 on the door on the night

Support from Minute 36, The Insatiables & Violet Scene

Tour dates

12/9 THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL, PERTH
12/14 RIC'S BAR, BRISBANE
12/15 THE PONY, MELBOURNE
12/16 LANSDOWNE HOTEL, SYDNEY
12/23 ORANGE COUTY BROTHERS, YOKOHAMA
12/24 JAM, SHINJUKU, TOKYO
12/25 CLUB HEAVY SICK, HATAGAYA, TOKYO (Christmas Day)
12/26 SUNSET STRIP, NAGOYA
12/27 G-SIDE, HAMAMATSU
12/28 MELE, NAMBA, OSAKA

'THE SPITFIRES' ENLIST NEW DRUMMER FROM 'THE BULLET HOLES', WHO INSISTS ON MUSIC WITH ATTITUDE
 
Following an exhaustive search of the Perth music scene, The Spitfires have finally found their new drummer. Through hundreds of interviews, auditions and reality TV style "challenges", Bradley Stevens, former stickman from The Bullet Holes, has been chosen for the coveted Spitfires drum stool. Bradley will be making his debut headline performance for the band at the Norfolk Basement on Friday 26th August.

The Bullet Holes split up in February this year after spending 5 years working hard in the WA music scene, releasing 2 EPs, a couple of singles, and winning prizes in various band competitions. Now without a group, Bradley Stevens has been invited to play for The Spitfires, the very band that he booked to support The Bullet Holes for their farewell show, and feels right at home in the english pop-rocker's line-up.

Bradley has said: "I've had plenty of experience and I know what I'm doing on a drum stool, but I still wouldn't offer my time to any random band. The Spitfires have a similar purpose to what The Bullet Holes did... they're charged up on social-awareness which they've infused into pop-rock, and that takes my fancy. I want to play music with attitude and passion, so when Sean Regan invited me to audition, I made it my goal to have that spot".

THE SPITFIRES WEBSITE BACK ONLINE

Hi everyone,

As you will have noticed the website has been down for a while and has a lot of the old content missing. Well while we were off on our little tour of the UK our site got hacked by a bunch of unscrupulous fraudsters and a fake bank got installed into the middle of it. Considering how outspoken we've been on the whole issue of the banking crisis this was ironic to say the least!

However all has been restored and we're slowly rebuilding the page. In the meantime you can head over to our facebook page for a free download and a list of upcoming shows, we've even got a lovely live clip of the band to keep you amused until we get the site back up and running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FDY6i0DeM8