Last night we met three good dudes who run a label called Brave or Invincible. We drank some booze (some of it was free), ate some pizza (brought my own hot sauce, yo) and talked about rockumentaries (mostly Metallica based).

We bandied about ideas for packaging and release formats and gigs and tours, and we’re mega happy to announce that somewhere in the midst of all of this, we agreed that we would work together on a CD release of Distal.

The label is based in Birmingham and is nice and DIY. They’re into making tasty handmade packaging (we’re looking forward to getting our hands dirty with them) and they’ve promised not to screw us over. They seem like trustworthy gents. We couldn’t possibly say no.

We’ll have more news on what the release will look like and details of when it’ll be available soon. We’ll have t-shirts too.

In other news, we’ve got a whole bunch of gigs coming up – take a look to the right. Hopefully one of them is near enough for your eyes and ears to get to. We’re still looking for more though, so send an email to acrashofrhinos@gmail.com.

Finally, the LP is selling nicely. We’ve got about 70 left. Lots of people have said that they will be picking one up when we play Ceolchoirm at Temple Works in Leeds this Saturday (which is incidentally our first gig in over a year). Get one from our big cartel store before they’re gone.

That’s it for now. Until next time, treat yourself to an egg in a bap.

So, we sold out of our first batch of records using an archaic system of email-based back-and-forths. After many hours of meetings with our lawyers, managers, strategists and accountants we’ve gone and sorted ourselves right out with a serious sales platform to lead us into a new era of e-commercial dominance.

In other words, grab yourself a copy of our record from our new BigCartel page at crashofrhinos.bigcartel.com. It smells bloody lovely. This way we don’t have to do any maths. The internet does all of that shit for us. It’s truly magical.

It’s also still available as a pay-what-the-hell-you-want download from our bandcamp page. If you want it for free, just enter zilch point zilch zilch in the price box thing. Spam your mates, they’ll proper love you for it.

We’ve not played live at all this year, so we’re looking forward to these dates. Especially now we’re back to our original line-up. Beal gets back from India at the end of April, so we’re going to practice and write through May, do our first gigs back in June, and then tour as much as we can in July. Boom:

JUNE:
Sat June 11th – Leeds @ Art For Blind All-dayer
Sun June 26th – Derby @ Vines for Pennyfest 2 w/loadza bands

JULY:
Sat July 9th – Manchester House Show w/ Theo, Econo
Wed July 20th – Sheffield w/ Algernon Cadwallader
Fri July 22nd – Royal Tunbridge Wells @ Forum w/ Algernon Cadwallader
Sat July 23rd – Birmingham @ Wagon & Horses w/ Algernon Cadwallader (Matinee)
Sat July 23rd – Leeds @ Fox & Newt w/ Cauls, Eagulls, and Crushing Blows
Tue July 26th – Derby @ The Old Bell Hotel w/ Algernon Cadwallader
Sat July 30th – Kingston w/ Sundials & Textbook (matinee)

AUGUST:
Tue August 2nd – Manchester @ Star & Garter w/ Lemuria & Cheap Girls

At long last, the vinyl of our album ‘Distal’ arrived in the country. It smells pretty sexy. We’ve had a couple of spins at my house on our lunch break and it sounds quite huge n’all. You can see it in the top right hand corner of this website (not to scale).

People from Italy should order it direct from Triste Records to save on postage. Click here you lot, it’ll be loads cheaper.

Everyone else can order it from us at our new Big Cartel page, where you can also have a look at other things we’ve done in recent/not-so-recent years.