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Secrets & Wives Free EP

by Enormous on June 28, 2009

The Secrets & Wives EP is a collection of four songs from the Enormous back-catalogue.

The songs feature on Electric Baby Grand: The Enormous Early Years compilation, but, in our benevolence,  we decided to make them available for a limited period as a totally free download.

There’s no catch, no annoying DRM, you don’t have to sign anything, and nobody will visit you in the middle of the night with a big sword.

Click here and grab it now, and if you like it follow Enormous on Twitter and tell your friends.

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Thank You Very Much

by Enormous on August 17, 2007

It’s hard to believe that it is only 30 years since Elvis Presley died. It seems like yesterday. (Sigh.)

I was only a twinkle in my father’s eye when the famous singer shrugged off his mortal coil whilst trying to empty his bowels on a toilet in Memphis back then in ’77, but I remember it well.

Enormous have covered a few Elvis songs in our live shows in the past including: Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog, That’s Alright Mama, Train Arrive, and my personal favourite All Shook Up which, as luck would have it, is available as part of the Something for the Weekend EP, a totally gratis download from the Enormous Reloaded website.

Now, to celebrate this poignant anniversary, I must go and do something constructive. I shall get drunk.

Here’s to Elvis the Pelvis – and not forgetting his brother Enis, of course.

On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
Elvis Presley – G.I. Blues

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The Artist Formally Available in Record Stores

by Enormous on July 16, 2007

I am somewhat concerned that Planet Earth, the new album from Prince, the artist formerly known as ‘the artist formerly known as Prince’, was given away free this weekend with the Mail On Sunday newspaper here in the UK.

Prince probably feels that he has employed some clever marketing tactics and has outsmarted the record industry in the process – something that many musicians would dearly love to do on a regular basis. But he has manifestly done it at the highest level.

Although the performer himself (who received around £250,000 in the deal – more, in all probability, than he would have earned if the album went on sale normally, his last CD selling only around 80,000 copies in the UK), the newspaper, and around 3 million consumers – who may or may not be Prince fans - have greatly benefited from the promotion, the whole thing is an insult to high street record stores and other music retailers.

As a songwriter, musician and record company co-owner, I personally feel very uneasy about this move. It implies that music ought to be free and therefore has no value. Retail prices for CDs and tracks available for download have fallen considerably recently, and whilst this is obviously advantageous to the general music-buying public, it is a serious concern for the rest of the industry.

And while you ruminate on this, why not go and download the free 4-track Enormous EP, or the awe-inspiring EP from the critically acclaimed ultracool, punky pop band Slaughterhouse 5 . . . which, as luck would have it, is also free. Hehehe.

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By Popular Demand

by Enormous on June 26, 2007

I have been asked by several people after the Classic Lines post to include several examples of my own song lyrics. (Oh gosh darn it, I’m blushing now.) I do not like singing my own praises, as it were, but here are a few that I am particularly proud of:

‘Nice bloke, he’s the cheekiest chappie
He’s got a pink grin on a face like a knee’
It’s Gonna Happen

‘You can see her face
You can smell her feet
You can still hear her shoes in the hall’
Goes Against the Grain

‘You’ve got me speaking a language
Where the verbs are unpronounceable‘
The Definite Article

‘My type – you’re not very bright
But you’re my type – with your slightly-crossed eyes
And you’re my type – you’re not very bright
But you’re mine’
My Type

‘Here comes that girl again
There go my knocking knees
Here comes that girl and I just
Lose the basic power of speech’
That Girl Again

‘Pretty little painkiller
I’m in love with you
Sweaty little stocking-filler
Sealed me in her little tomb
Starts like an embarrassing affliction
Ends up as a permanent addiction
Pretty little painkiller
I’m in love with you’
Pretty Little Painkiller

If you like these examples of my oeuvre to date, many more can be found at enormousreloaded.com and slaughterhouse5.co.uk where you can also find free and exclusive tracks to download.

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Bad Hair Day

by Enormous on June 2, 2007

I have just made my hairdresser cry. She was only a young girl – a trainee, I believe.

‘Very short, please. About a one-inch-length all over.’ I told her upon my arrival at the new and very cheerful little barbers in the village. It costs a modest £5 to have one’s hair fashioned and styled at this particular venue, but even at such a low cost, I expected a decent job to be done. Alas, ‘twas not to be.

When the girl began to take off only about five millimetres from my long mane, I reminded her of my initial instructions. ‘Sorry,’ she said with all the sullen disregard she could muster, and continued with her delicate snipping.

To cut a long story short (hehe), she spent about forty minutes removing hardly any hair from my head.  I determined, for once, that I was not going to endure such unacceptable treatment and decided to make a stand right there and then – not only for myself, but for all the discontented individuals who are afraid to speak out and stand up for their rights in such situations.
I decided to complain.

‘Do you know how long an imperial inch actually is?’ I asked her.

At that, we both went very red. She also began to tremble slightly and pursed her lips as if she had just swallowed a large beetle. I insisted that she continue until I was happy with the result – something I have never before done in my life and probably never will do again.

As I left the shop, she burst into tears – perhaps because I did not leave a tip. It has often been said that Napoleon Fantastic is ‘tighter than an Eskimo’s nad’, but on this particular occasion I did not feel that such an extravagant gesture was at all warranted.

Yet again, I have been left severely disappointed by the level of service one often receives in this country. ‘Bring back conscription!’ my grandfather was prone to declare in certain instances – and the older I get, the more I feel inclined to agree with him.

Talking of barbers, Something for the Weekend, the astonishingly brilliant (and DRM-free) 4-track EP from Enormous, is still available as a totally gratis download.

(And I can personally guarantee that you will be utterly satisfied – and also a little turned on – by the quality of songs that it features.)

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Big Pop Rocks!

by Enormous on May 7, 2007

I just thought I would remind you that the Something For The Weekend EP by ENORMOUS is still available as a free download from the enormousreloaded.com website.

The featured tracks, taken from all three ENORMOUS albums for sale on Big Arena Records are:

1/Being Very Fair (taken from the album Electric Baby Grand);

2/Stand Up (taken from the album Situation:Comedy);

3/My Type (taken from the album Almost Everything)

4/A bonus exclusive ‘secret’ track – you have to download the EP to find out what it is!

There are no strings attached, no copy protection, nothing but four free tracks complete with artwork.

Oh yes, not only are they extraordinarily talented and surprisingly good looking down the hatch there at the Enormous control-centre, they are truly munificent too!

So why not head on over there right now and treat yourself to some amazing free music described by Melody Maker as ‘Like being locked in a lingerie store with Anna Friel and Catherine Deneuve’

Big Pop Rocks!

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