The Young Punx - News and updates

NEWS 2008

July 31st. New live band footage online
Well we've just got back from playing in New York, San Francisco, LA, Tokyo, Lucerne and Ibiza! We've snuck a few new video clips onto Youtube of The Young Punx live band playing to 15,000 fans in Yokohama area for you to check out : "Hideaway", "Rock star (Understand)", "Wake up, make up, bring it up, shake up", and "Rockall".
July 21st. New "Fire" remixes available.
We have a new package of mixes for "Fire" available now including a filthy piece of electronic mayhem from Space Cowboy and some straight down the line funky club house from Solitaire. Its currently available from beatport but it will be turning up on other mp3 sites and also some vinyl soon too. The USA release is the 12th August.
July 15th. Giant Jr. - "I want to be evil" (The Young Punx Remix)
We've been getting a lot of email enquiries about our hot new remix of "I want to be evil" by Giant Jr., chiefly due to the fact that Fatboy Slim has been playing it as the first full track in a lot of his big live/DJ gigs this summer. The track is about to go on promo and isn't commercially available yet... but hopefully fairly soon the house remix will be available on the likes of Beatport. We'll keep you posted once it is available. Join our mailing list to be informed when it goes on sale! You can hear a short version of the track on youtube.
July 2nd. New mini album "One Point Five" available exclusively in Japan now
A new exclusive Young Punx album is now available in Japan only! Coming between The Young Punx' first and second "full" albums, the aptly named "One Point Five" is a mixture of sneak previews of upcoming songs from the future second album, favorite remixes of songs from the first album, and collaborations with other artists such as Supermal, Phonat, Steve Angello and Howard Jones and top Japanese superstars Ayumi Hamasaki and Asian Kung Fu Generation. In Japan get the album from HMV, Mu-mo or iTunes etc. We suspect it may turn up on import over time in the rest of the world on amazon or Juno or something...
July 1st. The Young Punx in NYC - Interview on ManiaTV now online.
While The Young Punx were in New York, playing at the Mercury Lounge, they were inviewed by Hole's Samantha Moloney (the self styled "Sexiest Drummer in Rock") for ManiaTV's "All Access" show. Watch the interview online now. It's episode 12, should you have to find the appropriate episode... http://allaccess.maniatv.com/
April 30th. Supermal - LIGHT YEARS - Phonat Mix. Available on promo now.
The Young Punx and Phonat have recently collaborated on the new track from Supermal - "Lightyears". The Phonat remix of the track, as premiered on Pete Tong's BBC Radio One show last week is now available on early DJ promo exclusively from Beatport. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU BUY IT TODAY! :-)

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/98922/light_years
April 2nd. Destroy Celebrity Crap 2008 USA
In 2005 we remade Mylo's "Destroy Rock and Roll" as "Destroy Celebrity Crap" as a backlash against the vapid colonization of the media by celebrity drivel. Well now its 2008. Thingsdon't seem to have improved much, some of the name s have changed, some have stayed the same, and some of our US fans have asked for a versio without the UK-only celebrities. So here it is. The return of Destroy Celebrity Crap!
March 3rd. The ~~Muppets take Manhatten~~ Young Punx take America.
Everythingis warming up nicely for the USA release of our record on Ultra Records this spring. We're currently lined up to play live on The Late Show with David Letterman in the next couple of months, the You've got to video is getting good airplay. Hopefully soon it will be much easier for you USA fans to get your hands on our music!

NEWS 2007

Nov 15th. LOTS OF GOOD NEWS!
Oct 28th. "Your Music Is Killing Me" club remixes now on Vinyl
Does anyone still buy vinyl? If that's you... you can now get the amazing Olav Basoski and Don Diablo mixes of Your Music Is Killing Me on 12 inch, withthe Phonat and Young Punx mixes on a second disc very soon.
Oct 22nd. "Your Music Is Killing Me" CD ALBUM AVAILABLE IN UK!
Hurrah. 'Tis cause for much jubilation. The Young Punx' devastatingly good debut album "Your Music Is Killing Me" is now available in the UK. If you want to know why you should buy it, we suggest you read this or this. In the UK you can get it from Mp3 stores, but also on CD from amazon and good old fashioned real shops. If they don't have it in tell them to order it! Outside the UK you should be able to get it on import and in some cases from mp3 stores.

The CD is a 2 disc set with a limited edition 2nd disc of a continuous DJ mix of the best remixes of tracks from the album. The second disc also features as a bonus track on iTunes.
Never have we meant it more when we say BUY NOW!
and many more.
Oct 15th. "Your Music Is Killing Me" single available.
The title track from The Young Punx' debut album "Your Music Is Killing Me" is now available on digital download as a single, in a complete mix package containing club remixes from Olav Basoski, Don Diablo and Phonat.
To quote the legendary Popjustice website "You will hear a cowboy guitar, a vocoder, opera and a violin. All essential ingredients for a very good pop record."
Buy it now at... and many more.
Watch the video here.
Sept 26th. Great Update Mag Album Review
Great review of our album from Update magazine (the insiders' mag for the UK dance music industry)

Album of the Week
The Young Punx
‘Your Music Is Killing Me’
(Mofo-Hifi)
This refreshing and at times startling debut from Hal Ritson and Cameron Saunders is the sorta record Fatboy Slim should have made to follow-up ‘We’ve Come A Long Way Baby’. It’s phat, funky, quirky, in-ya-face and above all fun. Stompers like ‘Wake Up, Make Up…’, ‘Rockall’ and ‘You’ve Got To…’ rub shoulders with the ‘80s disco boogie pastiche of ‘It Doesn’t Stop’, and the electro pop of ‘Young & Beautiful’. There’s also the kitsch: ‘Interplanetary’ (a remake of the Carpenters hit), and neo-classical title track along with and the Eric Prydz-like ‘Fire’. In fact there’s a staggering 17-tracks on show, with many, past, present and future single among them. By refusing to adhere to any one musical style, the Young Punx! may well become one of the most misunderstood artists of their generation, yet despite this, expect this totally absorbing debut to make its mark on the end of year ‘best of’ listings. (Lewis Dene) 5 dancin’ men

The album is released in the UK (with wider global availability through mp3 stores and imports) on 22nd October 2007. PRE-ORDER IT NOW FROM AMAZON
August 20th. DJ Lyrebird Viral Clip
In one of our many foolish moments we decided to mash up some David Attenborough. Please send it to your friends to confuse them...
July 24th. 2 new limited club promos commercially available.
"Fire" is now available from dance mp3 stores, such as Juno, Trackitdown.net and iTunes.
A recent review of the track in M8 says: "The ever hyperactive Young Punx follow a string of consistent releases with an attractive offering. Combining flamenco guitar and hooky vocals (Sting eat your heart out) to a bumpy, as ever well funky, electro-house backing track, ‘Fire’ is ... a fine club choon that, rare occurrence, will work in commercial clubs and cooler parties alike."
[buy Trackitdown.net] [buy iTunes]

There is also now a 12" vinyl release of the Soul Seekerz and Fembot Funk remixes of "You've got to..." - previously only available on mp3. [buy now]
July 11th. Album released in Japan
We are very excited to announce that our debut album is now released in its first territory - Japan! We've been doing press interview with Japan all week and there are massive video screens in the center of Tokyo showing our videos. We'll be over in Japan in August to play live shows. Japanese people buy it here : http://info.hmv.co.jp/p/t/2561/882.html / http://www.amazon.co.jp/ / http://shop.mu-mo.net/ / iTunes
June 26th. Back from muddy muddy Glastonbury!
A big thank you to everyone who braved the miles of slurry-like mud at Glastonbury to hear our live set on Sunday. A particular thank you to everyone who sent us such kind messages after the show... like these!
"just got back from glastonbury covered in mud but wanted to say out of everything i saw there you were by far the best thanks for putting a big smile on our rain sodden faces".

"hey hey hey saw you in the roots tent on sunday and you made us laugh so much and you are so fuckin amazing and definitly my new best favourite band on the planet except maybe for the super furry animals. You got us sorted for the rest of sunday so for that and your music i thank you from the bottom of my robotic heart! ps it was the tall one and the thuggish looking one, you might have seen us!"

"Chaps and lady, To be honest I only came across you because I know that fatboy slim used some bits from your tracks, and I am so glad I came to see you at Glastonbury, well worth the muddy walk across the site, I was stood in front of the mixing desk, Great set wicked; loads of enthusiasm and energy you have just gained another supporter, WICKED."
May 28th. "You've got to..." OUT NOW on mp3 and vinyl

Club chart number 3, Galaxy and Kiss playlists, Radio One play, video on MTV, The Box, E4 and terrestrial Channel 4. And now you can buy it. Mp3 available from iTunes and other good mp3 stores. Vinyl available from good dance stores such as Juno. Check out the incredible video here... (And the album will be out in September)
March 1st. "The Young Punx FM" Podcast is up and running!

In The Young Punx FM Podcast, Hal Ritson of The Young Punx, together with a variety of entertaining music industry guests, brings you the best in new electronic music, broadcasting from London bridge, England.
FEATURING SUCH VERITABLE DELIGHTS AS:
- Ultra hot house, breaks, drum and bass and electro-pop tracks, focusing on upfront new material (much of which can't be found anywhere else). Tracks on promo in the underground that are tipped in the industry to be set for big things in the coming months. Ultra new tracks by big producers made exclusively available to the show before release. Leftfield hidden gems of artists Hal has tracked down who deserve wider exposure.
- Interviews and chats with guests from the music business - recording artists, DJs, record producers and A&R men, all of whom give their own view on what is going on it the scene right now.
- Insider views on dance music production and the inside story of the music business.
- Mayhem, insanity, talking rubbish and messing around.
Subscribe with iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=219436012

RSS Feed : http://btpodshow.com/feeds/theyoungpunxfm.xml

Listen online : http://theyoungpunxfm.btpodshow.com/
February 23rd. Mainstream Media Madness!

Woh! What a week. Everyone has suddenly gone Rockall mad! We had articles in The Sunday Mirror and The Sun, along with radio interviews on BBC local radio news (10 million listeners!) and Radio 4's The World Tonight and even the bastion of sensible-ness - BBC 2 Newsnight!. (listen / watch using the links)
February 6th. Ike and Tina Turner VS Young Punx - "Raise Your Hand (U Got To)"

Well well. Turns out there is a new Young Punx track out today and we didn't even know about it. This is a bootleg of and old, fairly unknown, but pretty groovy Ike and Tina Turner track that we did a year ago for Gut records that has now surfaced with a digital release this week. We should note that though they have put our name down as the artist, the original idea was by an act called Gauzz (I think). Our mix is quite downtempo and breaky, but there are bangin mixes in there too for the house heads. Its quite fun.

You can listen and buy this track on mp3.

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