This is just a quick update to let you know how we’re progressing. Obviously we have all the Slimpig tracks ready to go on it, but what of the cover artists? They’re coming on nicely! Duke Ukem have successfully recorded their cover (I’m not going to tell you which artist is doing which track, that will ruin the fun!) and Chris Flood’s is sounding spectactular, with a few little bits of mixing left to do.

Anna Goldsmith, Swound! and Suspect Package are working on theirs at the moment while I’m pretty chuffed to announce the Higgins Brothers have entered the fray and offered to record a track too. I can’t tell you how even more psyched I am on this album now.

So basically it’s coming and it’s going to be amazing. In other news we’re gearing up for the release of This Years Winner Is’s debut Ep ‘Always Goes Down Smooth’ so I’ll be talking about that and plugging it and what-not in the coming weeks.

That’s how for now.

Since these will be the last two weekends of the Trafalgar’s life before Billy has to close up shop make sure you get down and show your support.

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I’ll have more details on the This Years Winner Is debut single and the upcoming Slimpig greatest hits album too.

Take a look around the new Section Five Records website, I hope you like it. There’s now a section for all the Artists on our roster with links to find them on the internet and also where you can buy or download their music from (including our latest ’signing’, see below!). As well as this we’ve got the updated shop which is really easy to use and all transactions are done through PayPal, so you’re safe and secure at all times. You don’t even need a PayPal account to pay for your stuff, just a credit or debit card.

Everything is at a bargain price so get shopping!

In even greater news punk rock legends Slimpig will be releasing an album of all their greatest tracks along with an exclusive collection of Slimpig covers recorded especially for the album – featuring local artists Chris Flood, Anna Goldsmith, Suspect Package and Duke Ukem. Also on there are the lovely Manx fellas Swound!.

To celebrate this coming release in 2010 the lads have offered up a free MP3 of the track ‘Lifestyles’ from their first album ‘Slimming With Pigness’ for you all as an early Christmas present! You can download it by pressing this big chunky button below (it’s in a .zip file):

That’s everything for now, hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and stay tuned for more great news from Section Five Records in the new year!

It’s been a while coming as Spotify have been copying the entire back catalogue of CD Baby over to their service, but you can now stream Opinion Is Not A Substitute For Reason by Chris Flood in all it’s rock-tastic Glory!

Here’s a direct link to the album: Chris Flood – Opinion Is Not A Substitute For Reason

or you can find it by searching for Chris Flood. Enjoy folks!

After several hours of discussions with various people here and there (mainly there, in a pub), it has been decided that I, Chris Flood along with some variation of The Chris Flood Band will enter the studio within the next few weeks to begin work on a second album, a follow up to this year’s (or 2008 if you’re on the Isle of Man) debut album ’Opinion is not a substitute for Reason’.

There are a total of 21 new songs ready to be recorded, only a handful of which have been played by myself or the band at live shows. There’s one or two older songs in there, as well as a few brand spanking new ones that have been written within the last few weeks and months. The entire list of 21 songs will probably not make the final cut of the album either; only the best will make it. So in reality it’ll probably be around 14ish tracks. Statistically then, at least one third of the songs I write are shit!

The album will be recorded in Douglas by Phil Reynolds. Having already worked together on ‘Opinion is not a substitute for Reason’ we know how we work and what we can do, plus we get on really well! I’ll keep you all posted with blogs every couple of weeks or when something significant happens.

Meanwhile, there are currently no plans for Chris Flood (solo) or The Chris Flood Band to play any shows to accompany the album.

Chris.

Meanwhile, I’ve got an acoustic show at GuitarFest at 11am on September 5th, after that – who knows? Music has always been a big part of my life, but there are other things that need attention too.”

It’s a damn shame they have decided to split but here’s hoping they won’t be gone forever.

Chris Flood’s debut album ‘Opinion Is Not A Substitute For Reason’ is still available on CD from our shop (where you can also pick up some merch) and also CD Baby. You can also download it from iTunes, Amazon MP3 and most other download stores.

In further Suspect Package news they are also playing The Black Monday Suicides’ last gig for who knows how long (go here for awesome music: http://www.myspace.com/theblackmondaysuicides) with This City Screams Red (MySpace-age: http://www.myspace.com/thiscityscreamsred) on Sept 4th, also at the Trafalgar.

Finally here’s a cool video of SP playing Fairweather Faith at the Traf the other week:

That’s all for now, bye!