I’ve been tinkering with the shop a bit so it should be a bit easier to get around and find information payment and shipping details. All payments made through the shop are processed through PayPal to ensure all your details are secure. And don’t worry if you don’t have a PayPal account – you don’t need one! Just click on the link to use your credit or debit card and enter your details.

Orders over £10 now have free postage so fill your boots. Or your web carts, whichever is best. There are also a few freebie downloads in there as well so grab them and spread the word about all our excellent bands! Keep an eye out for some sexy model shots of our merch coming soon.

Speaking of bands, from now on I’ll be promoting hard to find the next bunch of Section Five bands and artists, so if you or anyone you know plays in a band and are serious about it tell them to get in touch. I can’t promise I will sign every band I receive demos from but I will listen to everything I get. Although Section Five is predominantly a punk and indie label don’t let that put you off, if I like it there’s a good chance I will do something with it. Send me a message on the contact page and we can go from there.

You can also keep track of Section Five Records and what we’re all doing on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

Thanks again for everyone’s support, we couldn’t do it without you all buying our ace stuff!

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!

Everything should be working fine now (although if it doesn’t let me know) and the shop is back up and everything.

In other news, if you haven’t taken a look already head over to http://onchanzombiefest.blogspot.com for info and updates about the new short film I’m involved with. We haven’t got a name for it yet but if you want to get involved you can, we’re making a zombie short film so the more the better!

That’s all for now.

Alan.

Section Five Records was started by me, Alan Quirk (singer in punk rock band Suspect Package), initially to put out Chris Flood’s album “Opinion Is Not A Substitute For Reason” as well as one-time metal-punk monsters I Blame You’s masterpiece of an album “Knee Deep In The Dead”. You can find both of these albums for sale in the Shop while Chris Flood’s album is also available on digital download from Amazon MP3, iTunes and Napster, and will soon be available to stream on Spotify, as well as a bunch of other websites too.

I will also be releasing music by ska punkers Suspect Package, beginning with offering our 2007 self-titled album up for free download, available from this site (check Current Releases for more info) or the band website: www.suspect-package.com.

Based in the Isle of Man, Section Five Records was started in the summer of 2009 to try and put some albums out and help promote Manx talent. Without revealing too much about future plans for the label just yet I will say that I’m aiming to release whatever/however/whoever I can, so I won’t be ruling anything out presently.

As well as great music for sale in the shop there is also a selection of Section Five branded shirts featuring original design work. Some of these have already been on sale a while on the old site (and also at events such as Willstock) so some of the stock may be limited, but that’s OK, plus there will be more on the way soon. An increase in the range of band merchandise is on the cards as well, which will also be available at most of the bands’ shows.

Thank’s for taking an interest in this venture and if I get enough support then hopefully more and better stuff will come out of it. You can follow my progress with the label on MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, etc, get more artist treats on YouTube (more vids coming!) and follow my personal ramblings on Twitter.

Cheers!
Alan.