The fat lady has sang the final song blah blah blah

We have called it a day, I (gav, bass player) need to have more time around my children and the drummers curse has struck again so the remaining 2 troopers have left it at that. We had a blast, cheers to the following (and a load of others too) Section 13, Regimes, Hobos live music venue, Chi and Spider Kitten, Discharge, The Subhumans, Diet Pills, Faceshredder UNSANE, Corleone family Bristol, Riot Ska, birds out records, haroldXshitman, wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair, you dead!/cleavers, same four walls, question the mark?, 7 inch records, world of shit zine, mass movement zine, artcore fanzine, grand collapse, Ed Wood, Rash Decision, Atomck, Guntys, Trigger McPoopchute, Darrell and Slugest, Death or glory promotions, F.U.K. Manic rehearsal studios, Fudge at Soundspace rehearsal studios, Alex and Scot. If I forgot you at all then much apologies.
Gav, Ioan, Mikee, Kzz, Marc, Mike.

Review from world of shit

http://www.worldofshit.co.uk/?p=213

Nice review of the loserpalooza in Cardiff.

Birmingham 24th September

Playing on an all dayer organised by the legendary Waddy and punks alive http://www.punksalive.co.uk/ details to follow.

Next gig, 2nd September

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=121282371301585

Again playing in the best venue in Wales. This one is not organised by Gav, we are playing with the excellent You Dead! From the Scottish highlands as part of their tour. Going to be a good one, and some really heavy drinking too.

Review from Slugfest

http://www.uberrock.co.uk/gig-reviews/11-july-gigs/2865-slugfest-4-sunday-abertillery-the-dolls-house-31st-july-2011.html

Review of the last day of Slugfest 4

Words about the band by the semi legendary Noel Gardner

http://thequietus.com/articles/06744-mr-gardner-s-straight-hedge-no-iv-punk-and-hardcore-reviewed

When you get mentioned in a short review of  bands of the UK you should be checking out and your band is there along with the bands you are telling everyone else they should be checking out all the time you know it's worth sitting back with a cup of tea and your favourite ripcord records to celebrate.

Live video

Filmed by the nice guys in wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair at the XharoldshitmanX, wheelchairx4, smiler and Same 4 Walls show in Bridgend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlzrD2SfYZg&feature=share

Our Album for FREE

You can now download our album for free, thats correct, free. If you like it you can always buy the proper cd of it from us. Feel free to pass this link on to everyone you know, re-post on facebook/twitter or whatever the cool kids use these days.

http://www.archive.org/details/Smiler-Con-demned

LOSERPALOOZA

We, along with some great bands we have had the honour of playing with before and some more, are playing on the first ever Loserpalooza half dayer in Cardiff, this is the brainchild of Chi from spider kitten and is hopefully going to be an annual thing. Come down and help to make it a memorable occasion.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=115815585166482

SLUGFEST

We are playing on the last day of the semi legendary Slugfest up in Abertillery

Facebook page link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=195355380480727

UNSANE @ the fleece, Bristol. Wednesday 13th July

We have stepped in on 2 days notice to play on what was already going to be our favourite gig of the year. If you can make it this one will be well worth making it out for.

Heres a link to the facebook page for it. Massive thanks to 'the corleone family' promoters for having us over.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=190001531035250

Album out 15th May, download/pre-order now

The good folksat seven records/seven inch records have cofirmed our album release date for 'con-demned' as the 15th May. It is also available now as a digital download. Click the link, go and have a look at the other bands on there too. Ouralbum launch is on Friday 13th May in Hobos, Bridgend. This night is heaqdlined by the amzing Section 13 (boss tuneage records) and also playing this night is Threat Manifesto and Trigger McPoopshute. The night befoe this Section 13, Bring To Ruins, Smiler and Guntys are also playing in LePub, Newport aswell. Be nice to see somefaces out and drinking heavily.

http://www.seveninchrecords.com/

Patches £1 each

Japan Benefit in Cardif

Welly of Artcore Fanzine/Four Letter Word has organised a benefit show to help out the survivors of the disasters in Japan, we are not on the show but are giving it all of the support we can, go down, get drunk, watch some ace bands, all for a good cause.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191086807593556

Album reviews

From those good gents at uberrock:
http://www.uberrock.co.uk/cd-reviews/23-march-cd/2213-smiler-con-demned-seven-records.html

From the ever so kind Mass Movement zine:
http://www.massmovement.co.uk/wordpress/?p=9801#more-9801

Follow these people anyway, even without their kind words all of us seperately have been long term supporters of both of there organisations as they are just honest fans of music.

16th July

All I wanted was a pepsi presents:
@ The Gower, Cathays, Cardiff, South Wales.
Rash Decision, Cornwalls hardest working thrashers.
Ed Wood, they're just a minor threat, thats a promise
Witch Cult, so good I'm putting them on 2 shows in a row.
Smiler, all high heels and no knickers.
£4 entry as normal

15th July

All I wanted was a pepsi presents:
Live at Hobos, Bridgend. South Wales.
XharoldshitmanX Perth Power Violence, with members of the legendary Mafafi, birds out records/distro.
Wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair: 2 man Glasgow wall of death
Witch Cult: Dorsets best, simple as that.
Smiler: Us, simples.

11th June

All I wanted was a pepsi presents (these shows have become a lot more regular than I was planning so I cant be arsed to keep numbering anymore!):
Live at the Gower pub, gwyenneth street, Cathays, Cardiff. £4 on the door.
Diet Pills: Leicesters best in a long, long time, very loud, very heavy.
Spider Kitten: surreal noise outfit from Cardiff, suppliers of the kiten kast, Chi recorded and mixed our album, legendary 10 year strong ever evolving retarded mess.
Atomck: grind madness, riff after riff, loved by agrophobic nosebleed amongst many others, will have just arrived back from a European tour so likely even tighter than before.
Smiler: Thats us.

Upcoming shows

1st April, Leicester, England: Downstairs at 'the Shed' supporting FUK and Diet Pills
2nd April, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England: Venue/Krash, with Theia and Faceshredder (last ever Faceshredder show!)
3rd April T.B.C.
7th April, Newport, Wales: Lepub, with Threat Manfesto and Regimes
8th April, Bridgend, Wales: Hobos with Threat Manifesto and Regimes
12th May, Newport, Wales: Lepub, with Bring to uins and Section 13
13th May, Bridgend, Wales: Hobos, with Threat Manifesto and Section 13 (smiler album launch party for Con-Demned released through seven records/seven inch records)
28th May Pontypridd, Wales: Green Rooms T.B.C.
11th June, Cardiff, Wales: The Gower with Diet Pills and Spider Kitten.
18th June, Birmingham, England: The old wharf, punks alive all dayer.
15th July, Bridgend, Wales: Hobos, with XharoldshitmanX, wheelchairx4, witch cult.
16th July, Cardiff, Wales. The Gower pub, with Ed Wood, rash decision and witch cult.
17th July, Bristol, England: the croft with Ed Wood and Rash Decision, T.B.C.
31st July, Abertillery, Wales: SLUGFEST 4 (day 3), venue and line up T.B.C.

Other notables are our album 'con-demned' will be available from May (pre orders up now) through seven records/seven inch records (http://www.seveninchrecords.com/) catalogue number seven13
Also we will be doing a split with XharoldshitmanX from Scotland, details of this will follow but a release date of the 29th July looks to be correct so far!

seven 13

Our debut album is available for pre order from Friday 11th March from Seven Records. It is titled Con-Demned and the catalogue number is seven13. Hope you enjoy.