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Released: Dec 20, 2010
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OUR INFLUENCES
Brian Wilson / Phil Spector / Ellie Greenwich / Carole King

AVAILABLE TO BUY:
Loveless Unbeliever CD / Red Vinyl Elefant Records (Spain/everywhere!)
UK
Rough Trade / RecordStore.co.uk (limited signed copies!) / Spillers Records / Piccadilly Records / Amazon UK

US
Amoeba / Amazon USA

AUS/NZ
Popfrenzy

EUROPE
Amazon Germany / Amazon France

JAPAN
Amazon Japan

Or from iTunes / HMV / Zavvi or your local independent record shop.

All I Wannna Do (limited edition bubblegum pink vinyl 7") - Available from Amazon / iTunes / Elefant Records / Spillers Records / HMV / Fifa Records / your local independent record shop.

AND SUDDENLY
Split single on Slumberland Records with George Washington Brown (featuring Pete Gofton aka Johnny X from Kenickie!). Order from: Slumberland / Rough Trade / download from Amazon or iTunes (search for 'the school and suddenly')


'HOPING AND PRAYING' digital EP - from i-Tunes


'I LOVE EVERYTHING' digital single - from i-Tunes


MAKE SURE IF YOU BUY FROM I-TUNES YOU SEARCH FOR BOTH TITLE & ARTIST or you'll just end up with lots of High School Musical results! x

MERCHANDISE!
New merch coming very soon!

Video for 'Hoping And Praying', directed by Tom Readdy 2010

.. Video for 'Can't Understand' directed by Tom Readdy 2010 and featuring the DRA Collective dancers

.. Video for 'Is He Really Coming Home?' directed by Tom Readdy 2010.

CONTACTS
GENERAL/UK BOOKING - theschoolband@hotmail.com
UK RADIO/AIRPLAY - luke@rocketpr.co.uk
LABEL / PRESS / EVERYTHING ELSE - elefant@elefant.com

SPAIN
Label & Booking - Elefant Records elefant@elefant.com

GERMANY
Radio/airplay - Denise, Melody Cat denise@melodycat.de
Booking - V, Antistars v@antistars.de

IRELAND
Booking & Label - Pat, Fifa Records pat@fifarecords.com

ASIA
Label & Booking - Nina, Happy Robot nina@happyrobot.co.kr

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Booking - Chris, Popfrenzy chris@popfrenzy.com.au
Label & Press - Julia, Popfrenzy julia@popfrenzy.com.au

USA
Label & everything else - Minty Fresh Records musiala@mintyfresh.com

UP NEXT! new shows will be announced later in 2011 when our 2nd album is released..

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PRESS

"I'd like to state that The School's debut album Loveless Unbeliever is my favourite Welsh pop album of all time
Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales

"This song just makes me feel happy. It's very young. You just want to hold hands with someone while you listen to it."
Molly Ringwald, speaking about 'All I Wanna Do'

"Perhaps I’m only revealing my own roots in C86 when I talk about how much I adore this, but it’s on pink vinyl!"
Everett True, The Village Voice

"infectious, hyper-melodic pop you can simultaneously cry and dance to"
Album of the Week - Rough Trade

Top 100 Albums of 2010 - Rough Trade

"Proper girly pop from catchy Cardiff combo.. Drinking deep from a well of elegant by gone girl pop, School singer liz Hunt and her melodic mates have fashioned a delightfully danceable album that could have proudly sat in the racks of a Carnaby Street record shop of yore. Naysayers will sniff and suggest St Etienne got there first, but there's a stronger Spector/Shangri-Las fixation to The School's sound. The smalltown uncertainty of Sandie Shaw rears its head on "Is He Really Coming Home?", while there's a Motown-lite spin to "Can't Understand" and bubblegum doo-wop bounce of "Hoping and Praying"
4/5 - Uncut

"a swaying, winsome tune with some of the Phil Spector lushness of Lucky Soul, the Belle & Sebastian-style modesty of Camera Obscura, and the airy, girl-group vocals of both"
Pitchfork

"On bubblegum pink vinyl, the sixties-saturated sound of The School is indiepop par excellence. ‘All I Wanna Do’ conjures up the aching hearts of Mary Weiss and the Ganser sisters as Liz Hunt’s little-girl-lost voice pours on the passion to describe an angelic innocent’s first big crush. ‘Valentine’ is like a pixie-booted Eurovision entry with a stomping piano-led tune that’s swept aloft by heavenly strings. Douze points pour Le Pays de Galles: c’est magnifique!"
SoundsXP

"indie pop sweetness blended with heart-lifting girl group harmonies, punchy Northern Soul beats and lush Brill Building strings"
VIDEO OF THE DAY (Let It Slip) ..- AllMusic

"they do enough to at least light up (if not part) the greying clouds into blue sky as a musical and meteorological Moses with their floaty, shimmering and often clip-clapping tunes"
DrownedinSound

'Album of the day' - BBC6Music


AWARDS
Nominated for the 2011 UFI Independent Music Awards - 'International Artist of the Year'.

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