News archive – 2007

• Ratchet & Clank – Tools of destruction Playstation 3Advert
  – Playstation are launching a global TV advertising campaign
  using the original cut of ‘You’ve Got To….’ The advert will
  run on terrestrial TV and in Cinemas across the globe (apart
  from US) in Playstation’s priority campaign this Christmas.

• Top US TV shows use Young Punx tracks – Hit US shows
  Nip//Tuck and The Bionic Women are using tracks off The Young
  Punx album. Nip//Tuck are using Young and Beautiful and The
  Bionic Women is using the album title track ‘Your Music Is
  Killing Me.

• UK TV also using The Young Punx– not to be left out,
  Blighty TV is also loving The Young Punx. This month The Young
  Punx have been featured on Eastenders and Soccer AM.

• Limited edition release of The Young Punx album available in the UK.
  – distributed by Absolute Universal a limited edition double
  disc version of the album is available in shops now.

• Foo Fighters playing ‘You’ve Got To…’ at live shows –
  The Young Punx ‘You’ve Got To…’ is being played before the
  Foo Fighters go on stage on their current UK tour.

• Your Music Is Killing Me to be used on EA EURO 08 computer game
  – following the use of You’ve Got To… on FIFA 07 ( which sold
  over 9 million copies worldwide), EA games are now using Your
  Music Is Killing Me in their FIFA Euro 08 game

• The Young Punx receive over 250,000 views on You tube
  – The Fantastic videos by Han Hoogerbrugge and live performances
  are clocking up some great viewing figures.

• Nemone’s Record of The Week – Your Music Is Killing Me has
  been Nemone’s record and Video of the week on 6 Music, video
  director Han Hoggerbruge was interviewed on air and was also
  featured in The Guardian and Radio Times.

• Your Music Is Killing Me Video featured on The Box,
  MTV Dance , B4, E4, Channel 4, Chart Show, Flaunt, Fizz, Musflash
  TV, VMX Dance, Topshop TV

• Great Feature in Clash Magazine and use of ‘Dirty Shoes’
  on covermount CD. Also features in Urban Planet, EQ Magazine,
  UKCD, Base Magazine, M8, Popjuctice, Update, One Week To Live,
  The Guardian, InternetDj.com. Ihouseu.com, Time out, IDJ

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.

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.

Buy
it now at…

and
many more.

Watch the video here.

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

In one of our many foolish moments we decided to mash
up some David Attenborough. Please send it to your friends
to confuse them…

“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]

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

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.”

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)

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)

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.