Three Awesome R's!

So lets start off by firstly saying Happy Birthday to Gaz! Yes that's right gaz has hit the big 30 today,
and after a night of hard partying including some Bon Jovi And Van Halen Karaoke, he is now settling into his old age :) 

                                                    HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAZ!!!!!!!

While I'm making a post, I might as well take this chance to remind you all we are playing a show this Tuesday night in Birmingham.
We are going to be playing a few new songs of our upcoming releases, as well as all the "classics" so it would be awesome if people could come along and make it a good night! I have found this flyer of the show on a message board, I think that's meant to be me on the right?
I hope I don't normally look that pail! ha ha



I wanted to make this post to talk about a few awesome bands that we are down with, and how you should be listening to them by now! (my post about our shows with Right Idea will have wait until next time!) First are our good buddies Remission, my favourite current hardcore band. If you haven't checked these guys out yet then maybe you have been living under a really shitty rock where the only sounds that creep in are crappy Integrity worshipping bands.

 Anyways the guys have got a new 7" coming out which went up for pre-order last monday on React! Records. I don't think you could place a better order for three new records at once this year than to go pick up the pre-orders for the new Remission, Common Cause and Not Sorry 7"s over at itstimetoreact.com
If you like bands like Verbal Assault, 411 One Step Ahead and basically just classic rockin' hardcore than I can't see you not being able to get behind Remission. It's also worth pointing out that you should go and pick up there LP "accept" from my main man Pablo at Amendment Records, which is one of the most awesome labels going. While your there pick up the Remains To Be Seen
and Approach records, both brilliant 7"s and the new Columnas 7", which is arguable the best thing i've heard this year! Yes it is that damn good! Look out for Times Together working with Remission and Amendment Records on something exciting in early 2011!

Next up is an awesome band from Russia called Rearranged. I can't even begin to start describing how awesome there LP "New Forms" is. Probably the best LP i've heard this year, and the best record to get released on a UK label since Dead And Gone put out Damage Control and Champion. Yes get excited, as there is an awesome new label in the UK called Anger Battery Records (you can't go wrong
with a Verbal Assault reference!). I can't say enough good things about this record, it hasn't left my record player for about a month now!
You can pick it up here http://angerbatteryrecords.bigcartel.com/

I read a description of it that said it was "the perfect mix of youth crew sound, traditional hardcore and passionate lyrics", and I think that
pretty much hits the nail on the head! If you like classic core, YOT, Dag Nasty etc, you won't be disappointed!



The final record I wanna talk about is the Resolve LP "Won't stand By". This went up for pre-order along side our 7" on Just Another Day Records earlier this year. Now firsty I wanna say that I'm not just talking this record up because it got released on the same label as our record, Seb has put out several records before and since our record, and you don't see me making a post about each one (not to say they aren't good records, as the one's i've heard are!) but I am posting about this record as it is a very very good piece of wax!
I finally picked this record up a few weeks ago from Ignite Record Store in Birmingham (Rich is selling it for £5 I believe, which is such a bargain it's untrue!) and i'm pleased to say it completely exceded my expectations! It's always good when a record is as good as you expect it to be, but nothing
is better than picking up a record and it being even better than you expected!
 This a great Traditional Hardcore record, basically what people call "Youth Crew" nowadays, but yeah, this is just a raging, hard record! Seriously good, think classic rev bands, YOT, BOLD etc, really angry sounding, but in a good way! You can pick it up from Rich in Ignite Records, direct from the band, or from justanotherdayrecords.com, and i'd recommend doing that! Good work guys, keep it up! 

That's all for now, hopefully see you tuesday, and i'll be back with more updates soon :)

Btw, i'm really struggling with this blog, so sorry for the big spaces, it looking shit etc! :(



INTRO / GROWING STRONGER

Hello, sup, how's it going? Welcome to a blog that is basically all things TIMES TOGETHER.

You may be wondering what is the purpose of this blog?, well basically it just to keep anyone that cares up to date with things going on with the band, news, shows, pictures, and generally cool and not so cool things I feel like writing about and sharing related to the band. The main reason is, with the impending death of myspace (well it seems that way!), I can't really think of any other way of keep people up-to-date with whats going on with the band! That's is when there are things going with the band! So yeah that's basically it!

Firstly i'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has picked up "The Changing Of The Leaves" 7" since it came out earlier this year, all the people who have took the time to contact us with positive things to say about the record, and the people who have order it from all around the world, while i always felt that after taking our time with the record we were happy with what we had in our hands at the end, its awesome that the amount of people who have picked up the record has truly surpassed my expectations. With that being said we are down to our last copies of the record ( I think we have around 15 copies left) and I believe Seb at Just Another Day Records is down to his last few copies as well, and this this leads me to the first bit of news,

THE CHANGING OF THE LEAVES Repress (2nd press)

Yes, I believe as I type the record is currently getting repress by our main man Seb at Just Another Day Records. I think that there is gonna be 500 records for the 2nd pressing, although i'm not 100% at this moment in time. Two new colours if my information is correct :) Either way they will be available in the near future so keep an eye out for them if you wanna keep your collection complete, or just pick up the record for the first time.

While on the subject, i had quite alot of people message me about getting the record in Asia since it was released, and i'd imagine alot of the time including postage it just works out to much for one record, so if someone is interested in distributing the record I suggest getting in touch with Seb and i'm sure he'd be able work something out with you to make the record more available in your part of the world.

NEW / UPCOMING RELEASES

So, we are currently working "hard" on new songs for several upcoming releases. While at this point I can't divulge all the information I can say that one of the releases will be our follow up 7" to TCOTL, which currently is untitled, but we'll come up with something soon, and there will be two other releases we will be recording for at the same time. So in total we will be looking at going into the studio to record either 8 or 9 new songs, and we are looking at doing this in late 2010 / early 2011 (probably either December or January) and let's just say we are getting to work with some amazing record labels and couldn't be more stoked! The new songs are really starting to come together, if you've you saw us play with Right Idea in August (there will be a post about these shows soon!) or if you see us in the upcoming months you'll probably get to hear us play a couple of the new songs live :) So yeah, lots of new material will be seeing the light of day in early to mid 2011!

UPCOMING SHOWS

As it stands we have two shows lined up before christmas, the first is in our home town, Birmingham on tuesday october 26th, and is with the Famine, Crossbreaker, No Reality and Thawed Out. The show is free to get in so you don't really have an excuse not to come if you are local! It will be great to play to Birmingham for the first time since febuary (how the hell has it been that long!, ask us to play more shows please people!) and with some other local SCHC hardcore bands too :)
The second show is a pretty special show, it is a Charity show for Hayward House Cancer Trust and Macmillen Cancer Support and is being put on by our favourite people Alan & Caroline :) I can't say enough good things about those guys or this show, so please please come along to this one and support an awesome cause and great people :) I saw Habour a few days ago, and they were a very cool band, so there another reason if you needed it!

While on the subject of shows, we could really do with playing some more shows, both in Birmingham and all round England/Wales in general, so if your putting on a show, or know anyone who is please help hook us up, seriously, we need to start playing more so dew it! :)

Anyways, I suppose that's it for now, i'll be updating this on a regular basis hopefully so check back every week or so and there should be something new to check out :)

I'll leave you with this rather awesome picture of dave with our main man Gabor at one of the shows with Right Idea in August, more on those shows in the next update :)

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