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09/01/07Are you in Toronto? Wanna see Sailboats are White scientifically ‘tear shit up’ in the MTV studios? Yeah so do we… all you have to do is read the invite below and get yourself down there!
read more... Tiny Mix Tapes review Sailboats are White
02/01/07I was convinced punk was a lifeless, bloated corpse, arrogant even in death, unhitching the bottom hatch of its compartmentalized pants to show us all its pasty white ass at the open-casket funeral of CBGB. People — i.e., voracious promoters — tried to tell me they saw punk live and in the flesh at some truck-stop diner in the middle of nowhere, but I never believed ’em. “Tell it to Darby Crash, you plug-ugly yeg,” I’d say before crushing out a cigarette in their left eye while they screamed for mercy like a squealing pig.
I was doubtful, to be sure. However, signs of life are emerging from the underground. It took a few years for punk to be revived à la Dawn of the Dead, but now that it’s drawn a few breaths into its corroded lungs, you can find activity all over the map in the work of bands like Le Joshua, Modern Machines, and even seemingly disparate electroshockers like The Mall. Some would say it was never dead, and I’m not gonna put their ignorant balls to the band saw just yet; I’m too busy digging the ever-fuck out of bands like Sailboats Are White.
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Sailboats are White are on the Wedge!
11/12/06Sailboats new video ‘Let’s Set the North Up On Fire’ debuted on MTV’s The Wedge on Friday...! For a full detailed listing of the show please click below…
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Poptones.co.uk's first Asthmatic Kitty Blog ...!
05/12/06Oliver, the manager for Sailboats are White (a Hamiltonian band which I signed to Poptones) forwarded me the story about a young boy’s journey into the heart of darkness of Hamilton in search of My Brightest Diamond--- and asked me if I wanted to write something in defense of Hamilton. I used to quote Lara Flynn Boyle’s character from Happiness when I mentioned Hamilton ‘I’m living in a state of constant irony’...when people asked me why would i live in Hamilton and not Toronto.
read more... Drownedinsound.com review Sailboats are White
21/11/06So there’s this new band signed to Poptones and they play guitars and… no wait, come back! Did I say play guitars? My bad… they pummel guitars. They play guitars in the same way that lawnmowers ‘play’ grass. And they’re from Hamilton in Canada rather than some grotty hovel in London. Plus, they cite The MC5 as an influence by actually taking their hardcore ethics into their music rather than by just wearing a T-shirt. Oh, and they’re also an electro band, although only in the same way that The Locust are an electro band – i.e. they’ve got a synth but it probably weeps in fear before it gets all the scuzzed-up anti-riffs torn out of it. I know, I didn’t think McGee had it in him either.
read more... Sailboats are White Reviewed in High Voltage...!
13/11/06 Canada has always seemed like a fairly safe country to live in, if a small portion of Michael Moore’s film ‘Bowling for Columbine’ is to be believed. A population of passive, happy people, but like most countries it has its shady areas, such as Hamilton, an hours drive outside of Toronto. With violence on the streets, and a thriving drug culture, it’s also responsible for throwing up proto-punk’s latest nihilists, Sailboats Are White.
Sailboats are White reviewed in Rock Sound
09/11/06Sailboats are White
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Imagine Black Flag losing the plot and beating a befuddled yet remarkably resilient Human League to a bloody pulp with a drum machine and you might be halfway to imagining the sheer abrasive energy of SAW’s individual brand of furious electro-hardcore. Both superbly violent and unexpectedly poignant, this is a band truly worth investigating.
