Absolute Radio Session

The Rifles were at Absolute Radio doing an interview (in the "Zoo") as well as playing two songs, "The Great Escape" and "For the Meantime". Check out the video HERE! (poor Grant's on tambourine)...

They mentioned the t-shirt contest in the interview... and they haven't been blown away so far, so you still have a chance! Get your designs in!

The Rifles on Twitter

The Rifles now have their own Twitter page, so just follow them under the name theriflesband. They also have a twitter widget on their myspace page now, so you can always follow them there as well.

• Here is a review of The Rifles live gig at Chinnerys.
• Here is a myspace review of The Rifles gig at Roundhouse. (He described Rob's new glasses as the "Harry Potter look").

It's The Brook in Southampton tonight (Sold Out) and Waterfront in Norwich tomorrow!

Single Delay

The Rifles announced the release date of their double a-side single The General / Romeo & Julie is being pushed back from today to April 13th.

Friday Update: Videos!

A few items to share...

• The Rifles would like you to upload your fan photos to THIS flickr account.
• Bex Holmes was the winner of the £100 bar tab for the Roundhouse gig. Congrats!
• Speaking of the Roundhouse, The Rifles added a new folder of photos from the gig to their myspace.
• Keep the t-shirt designs coming!

On to the videos!...

Interview Intro...(0:19)


The Rifles being interviewed by PowerfulPeanuts.com (9:48)...


The Rifles rehearsing "Buffalo Stance" backstage (2:34)...


The Rifles perform a cover of Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance". Dean Mumford with the vocals. (2:32)...


From Camden's Roundhouse...

The Rifles start with "Science in Violence" (4:18)...


The Rifles performing "History" (rockin ending to this)... (4:43)...


The Rifles playing "Darling Girl" (4:35)...


Winston's Zen's channel collected some songs from the Roundhouse, including this one: "Sometimes" (2:59)...


From The Sheffield Leadmill...

The Rifles performing "Winter Calls" (2:59)...


And a fan video of The Rifles playing "The General" (2:15)...

T-Shirt Contest

The Rifles t-shirt contest opened it's Flickr account for entries a couple days ago. Here's a few of the designs so far...

More single news

Just some information here from the BanquetRecords.com page (who had the "Fall to Sorrow" single details before anyone else) ...

The 7" double A-side single of "The General" (a) and "Romeo and Julie" (b) will be released on March 23rd and cost £1.99.
Cat no: TRV002
Label: 679 Recordings

You can preorder it on that page as well.

RiflesTV

The Rifles have created their own official YouTube channel, RiflesTV. You can watch all of The Rifles official videos there ( some are just moved over from oliboat's channel, which was their former channel). If you're looking for the band's music videos, you can find them all between these channels...

• RiflesTV
• oliboat
• TheRifles
• 679Recordings
  

Interview with FaceCulture

Joel and Luke did a video interview with FaceCulture.com, clarifying their alleged album title references to Joy Division and Blur, explaining their new direction, fans, the media, and much more.
These interviews are definitely worth a watch. The embed code wasn't working, so here are the links...
The Rifles Interview part 1
The Rifles Interview part 2
The Rifles Interview part 3
The Rifles Interview part 4
The Rifles performing "The Great Escape"
And the final cut of the interview, edited down to fit with "The General" music video.

Win 3 tickets for The Rifles!

More contests!
Click HERE to go to the Clash Music site and enter for your chance to win 3 tickets to a Rifles gig as well as signed albums by the band! The tickets can be used at any one of the following venues...

14th Sheffield Leadmill
16th Oxford Academy
17th Southend Chinnerys
18th London Roundhouse
21st Hitchin Remix
22nd Leeds Stylus
23rd Northampton Roadmender
25th Southampton The Brook
26th Norwich Waterfront
27th Birmingham Academy
29th Glasgow The Garage
30th Nottingham Rescue Rooms
31st Manchester The Ritz

There's just one catch: You'll have to answer a trivia question. Here it is...
"Complete the name of The Rifles single: 'The Great....' :
A) Escape
B) Swindle
C) Wall of China
"
Let's just hope you don't get that one wrong...

Design a Rifles T-shirt!

From The Rifles blog:

"WIN £100 for designing a t-shirt for The Rifles!

People - it's time to get creative.

We're running a competition where you have the chance to have a design of your very own made into a t-shirt which will be sold as part of The Rifles merchandise.

The competition is open for submissions on March 13th for one month.

All you need to do is include The Rifles logo (below) and whatever else you see fit, then upload to The Rifles Flickr account which can be found HERE

You can be as inventive or as minimalist as you like...

The person who designs the t-shirt which is chosen for the final artwork will also win £100..!

We look forward to seeing all your designs - and thanks in advance to everyone who gets involved. "