The Failures’ Union

The wonderful Jon Rybicki and Rick Sans from Cleveland filmed and edited a video for us. You can check it out here.

We’re going to be doing a mini Canadian tour this week. Dates are finally up. Sorry about the delay, we weren’t sure if the tour was going to happen.
Also in October we’re bringing Bedford Falls over from Wales to tour down to Fest and back. Hopefully we’ll be seeing a lot of your smiling faces down in Florida (and our way down and back).
In other news our split 7” with Cheap Girls is officially out of print.

We just got in the Sinker LPs and the Bedford Falls Split 7”. They are up on our merch page and you can order them now. We’ve also started to ship out the copies of the Sinker LP to those who pledged to our Kickstarter page. We can’t thank you enough. The Bedford Falls split is the first release on our own record label, Sheets of Tens. We’re really excited to have a 7” with Bedford Falls, and even more excited to be going on a UK tour with them starting next week. You can check out the dates on the shows page.

Thank you very much to everyone who pledged. It means so much to us. We’ll get that LP out soon and in your hands.

We have less than a week left for our Kickstarter page, and we’re still a little under $700 short of our goal. Please help us out and get this record out! It ends on Sunday at midnight.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1325712062/failures-union-sinker-album-on-lp

We just put up a free downloadable sampler on the site. It’s nine songs that span most of our releases. Check it out and spread the word.

We just launched a Kickstarter.com page to help raise money to put out our first full length, Sinker, on LP. Kickstarter.com is a great website that allows musicians, artists or anyone who have an idea for a project, but little capital to get it started. Basically people pledge a donation towards your project, and in return they get something back. For our project the lower level donations are pretty much just pre-orders. The more people pledge, the more they get in return. If someone pledges us $50 we will screen print them any one color shirt of their choice/design. If someone pledges $75 they will get a test press of the LP (this is limited to 5 people). If anyone has the money to pledge $100, Tony will write and record a song specifically for/about them. There are also other pledge levels, so check out our page to see what they are.

Check out the Punk News and Paper & Plastick Haiti Relief Fundraiser. They are auctioning off a bunch of test presses, including ours for In What Way.

Our friend’s Eric Ayotte and Super Bobby shot this video for us about two years ago. The footage was lost, but recently found. Here’s the finished video for West Coast, NY.

We’re home from tour now, and we just wanted to thank everyone who helped out with shows and gave us a place to stay. We really appreciate your help in making this tour amazing.
In other news Banquet Records is now distributing Paper & Plastick Releases in the UK. You can go to the Banquet website to order In What Way over there. Plans are now in the works for us to head over to the UK this spring with Bedford Falls. See you there!