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Giants Stream New Track Ahead Of H2O Tour Dates

• 25th Jun 2013

Ahead of their highly prized main support slot with veteran US punks H2O in July, Essex skate-punks GIANTS are streaming a brand new single with Rock Sound today.

They’ve also announce the launch of their new compilation to raise awareness for the Long Live Southbank campaign to save the legendary skate park in London, already featuring tracks from Great Cynics, Marmozets, Hot Damn, Darko and more.

Stream It’s Not All Bad News at:

The band released the following statement on their website:

“We’re sure it’s no secret that we like skateboarding. Simply put, our band wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for skateboarding. Recently something has been happening in the skateboarding world that we feel so strongly about that we decided to take it upon ourselves to try and help out as much as we can.”

“Earlier this year, The Southbank Centre revealed their plan to transform the iconic Southbank Undercroft skate park in London into retail units (Starbucks etc.) as part of their £120 million redevelopment of its Festival Wing. We believe Southbank is just as much as a landmark in our country to us as anything else that stands on its streets and it needs to be saved.”

“We as a band are going to be organising a downloadable compilation ‘mixtape’, with the sole purpose of spreading the word and raising awareness for the ‘Long Live Southbank’ campaign, set up to protect Southbank from the fate that it has unfairly had placed upon it.”

“This compilation will be absolutely free to download and as well as some brand new material from us, it will feature new/old/un-released material from bands all over that share the same view as we do about saving the historic Southbank undercroft.”

“By downloading the compilation you will be directly signed up to Long Live Southbank’s campaign and will be instructed on how you can do your part to save Southbank.”

“We will have more info on featuring bands and release info available very soon. We can confirm the following bands so far will be featured:

GIANTS
MARMOZETS
STILLBUST
GREAT CYNICS
HOT DAMN
DARKO

If you would like to put your band forward for the compilation please email us on skatepunkforsouthbank@gmail.com

In the meantime, check out:

Long Live Southbank
http://www.longlivesouthbank.com/”

The band will be releasing a brand new animated video for single It’s Not All Bad News in the next few weeks and another unreleased track Misguided will feature on the compilation.

UK Tour Dates:

June
30th – Underworld with H2O, London
July
1st – Trillians with H2O, Newcastle
2nd – Brudenell Social Club with H2O, Leeds
3rd – Bogiez with H2O, Cardiff
4th – The Vault with H2O, Rugby
14th – The Haunt with 7Seconds, Brighton
August
11th – ‘Edgefest’ at The Edge, Portsmouth
12th – Underworld with The Casualties & The Adolescents, London
31st – ‘Make A Noise Festival’ at The Tap n’ Tin, Kent