We’ve decided to end the pre order period for Diseases of England – If we don’t have your order for the three part CDs by the end of February 4th, you’ll have to wait until the official release to get hold of a copy.

Largely this is because we keep running out of stock that we thought was suitably abundant when we ordered it, but which has repeatedly turned out to be of inelegant insufficiency. This is a very good thing – but as we go into the studio in a week and a half to record part three (the demos of which are sounding quite massive and alarming) – we need to know final numbers.

We know that some of you have been having a bit of trouble getting the money together and we don’t want to deprive anyone of CDs if they want them – so if you really really want one of the three CD packages but can’t afford one right now – let us know before the end of tomorrow and we’ll make sure we have the stock available for when you can. After tomorrow night, we won’t be able to order any more though so it really is your last chance.

In addition, we’re going to continue taking orders for amended higher level packages that include only the final CD album right up until the final release date.

We’d like to thank all of your who have been part of the preorder thing – it’s been wonderful and awesome and we’re so grateful to have had the opportunity to keep working on this record. We hope you like the bits you’ve got and we’re pretty sure you’ll like the bits you haven’t heard yet. It literally wouldn’t exist without you and your collective economic weight and that’s pretty amazing when you take a moment to think about it. You are a direct, unmediated, ungoverned cause of this album’s existence – no one needed to be hyped, press released, packaged, signed, discovered or upsold. No one was involved except us and you and it still got done. I think we’re all entitled to at least fifteen minutes looking quite smug about that.

Part Three will be sent out during the second half of march.

XX.
Julia and Simon

Postscript:
Quite a few of you have said that you are willing to pay extra for vinyl – but not quite enough. We’ve got an idea to help us make the final decision which we will tell you about in a day or two. keep em peeled, pop fans.

I hate end of year lists – in fact I hate the whole urge to categorize and impose order on the ineluctable chaos of existence. I hate Nick Hornby Books and alphabetisation and boring MAN things that MEN do. I hate that Carly Rae Jetson song and I hate it when people like things because they are ‘pure pop genius’ because there isn’t any such thing and I hate it when they like things because they are sweet and innocent and sexless and white and so much more morally acceptable than that dreadful dusky one who appears to like cocks too much AND I don’t even remember her being in the Jetsons, unless she was Judy and she changed her name.

Year end lists are the worst. Either self-validating auditions for a career remembering the 80s for money or just crushing disappointments when you realise that the bands you loved at school have succumbed to the dullard charms of whichever billowing sub Virginia has sexily warbled her way into the hearts of all the fifty year old men over the last twelve months. Hock spit and fuck it.

But SEO, yeah? Can’t just not post anything in the current media climate, can you? So here’s my top things that I did in 2012 because if we’re going down the route of self-promotion, showing off and smugness, let’s dive in face first.

Bands (I’m in/involved with) of The Year
The Indelicates, The Thlyds, Keith Top Of The Pops And His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All Star Backing Band

Song (I wrote) of The Year
Probably Le Godemiché Royal from Diseases of England Part One – it is one of the better songs I’ve written where Marie Antoinette wanking in a satirical pornographic pamphlet from pre-revolutionary France is used as a metaphor for the entrenched and unacknowledged elitism of the public school educated commentariat.

Gig (I played) of The Year
The Thlyds tribute show at Guided Missile. Did you form an Indelicates, KTOTP, Art Brut, Gay Dad supergroup to play a one off tribute concert to a band you may or may not have made up who have a song called ‘Song About When Lewis Met His real Dad But he Just Told Him To Fuck Off’? No? I win then.

Video (I made) of The Year

‘I Used To Sing’. Of the two videos I’ve made, this one was made more recently and is therefore better.

Joke (I wrote) of The Year
For some reason people on facebook were coming up with blaxploitation versions of 2012 hit films and I suggested ‘The Cabin In The Hood’ – that was pretty funny.

Book (I wrote) of The Year
No one has it yet, but the unfilmable David Koresh Superstar screenplay that comes with the more expensive preorder editions of Diseases of England is ace.

TV show (I created) of The Year
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Toy (I helped design) of The Year
Gobbles.

Children’s Song (I recorded) of The Year
The Ballad of Indiana Bear

Children’s Book (I wrote) of The Year
Flopsy Bunney and his Friends

Album (I produced) of The Year
Thalidomidas Touch by The Thlyds

Tweet (I did) of The Year
Maybe this one: “My least favourite bands are the ones that actually are the band we used to think it was necessary to describe ourselves as in press bios.”
Or possibly: “Sheeran, a man who has performed the seemingly impossible and demoted hucknall to second least welcome ginger gremlin in music.”

I don’t know, I don’t really remember – I only found those ones by signing up for a favstar account and now I have a favstar account and will have to go through 2013 with that hanging round my neck.

Will that do?

HAPPY NEW YEAR, kids and stunted adults. SEE YOU IN IT.
XX
Simon I

There are lots of  seasonal songs on Corporate Records! Here are some to cheer and chuckle to…

The English (At Christmas Time) By Father Xmas. Download it here: http://corpor.at/T2970

Kith and Kin (A Christmas Song) by Laurence Owen. Download here: http://corpor.at/T2967

Lily Rae – I Like Christmas. Download here: http://corpor.at/T272

Jonny Cola & The A-Grades – All I Want For Christmas is an Action Man. Download here: http://corpor.at/T2233

bog off christmas – By Carfax. Download here: http://corpor.at/T2261

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Other Year – By The Melting Icecaps. Download here: http://corpor.at/T2965

Then there’s A Christmas Gift by The 10p Mixes. Download here: http://corpor.at/A143

We also made our Gobbles do a special christmas video:

And Simon did a little song called The Ballad of Indiana Bear, which is lovely:

Happy Holidays everyone! Have a lovely week 🙂

Love, Julia and Simon X

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