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APRIL UPDATE

2009-04-09T07:55:00.000-07:00

Well it's all going well in the band at the mo. We've played some mental shows in recent weeks, Brixton and Manchester were seriously rocking, and thank you to everyone who was there and made it so - you were awesome...

As for next - we have just announced a gig in Sunderland on 18th April with our brothers - the "Former Cell Mates".

We have the awesome "Punk n Bowl" fest coming up on 10th May playing with Virgins (FL).
And then it's back for our 2nd tour of Germany and a quick stop in Arnhem, Holland.

We will also be announcing dates for Portsmouth, Newport and London shortly.

For all Milloy gigs check out our myspace - myspace.com/milloy

Cheers,

Beefy

Newport / Germany / Gigs

2009-02-27T02:00:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone,

Firstly a huge thankyou to our brothers in Newport (particularly Tom and Kerry) who had us there last Friday for our first gig with Wes. We had one hell of a blast!

Second up - the finishing touches to our second tour of Germany is are currently being added and we are well excited to be heading back there this year - and can confirm Jose the Mexican will be joining us once again..

Finally we are still looking to book as many gigs as possible this year, it's been a bit slow recently whilst we got added Wes, but now that's done, you can bet we'll be playing some place near you in the UK very soon...

Easy brothers....
x

NEW BASS PLAYER

2009-01-29T07:29:00.000-08:00

Hi sorry we've been away for a long time... We're now back....

Well unfortunately Ian Smart has left the band after an awesome 10 years with us. We really wish him all the luck in the world with his new project....

But - we've wasted no time in replacing him with Wes Wasley of One Car Pile Up, Billy No Mates, Snuff, Consumed and many others fame.....

Our first gig with Wes will be 20th Feb in Newport South Wales..

Album and t-shirt preorder

2008-07-06T07:45:00.000-07:00

Hey milloy fans, thank-you for the interest with the album and t-shirt pre-orders, these will be sent out in the next few weeks.

We are no stopping offering the album pre-order with t-shirt due to selling out of t-shirts. We do seemed to have sold out of small and large shirts and only have medium left, so if your a medium and want one of the new milloy shirts then head over to our myspace page

We will also be offering the CD pre-order on its own at some point this week

Cheers

Milloy

New album pre-order

2008-04-20T10:06:00.000-07:00

Once again hello milloy fans.

We have decided to offer a pre-order of the new album for anyone who would like to secure a copy of the new album on the day it gets released. But rather than just the album we are offering a pre-order only deal consisting of the new album on CD and a T-shirt. The t-shirt will be a choice of 2 new design not seen before as shown below:

We are offering you the chance to get your hands on the CD and a brand new T-shirt for £18 including P&P

This offer is only available for the UK

A saving of £2 if you bought the CD separately £10 and the T-shirt £10

The album is due for release late June, an exact date will be specified on the site asap

So if you want to get your hands on the new album so you can sing along at our next gig then just specify a design and a t-shirt size and then click on the paypal button to be taken straight to the checkout

Cheers

Milloy

New album update

2008-04-20T09:45:00.000-07:00

MILLOY – Update April 2008

So yeah – we have finally finished the rehearsals for our new album and other than a few little bit’s here and there, we’re in the studio at the end of this month to record our second full length album… And we love it…

The sessions have seen the band completely re-invent the way the songs are written, with both Ian and Beefy asserting their own quality control on to their writing, it’s meant that little to no time has been wasted on pieces that just didn’t cut it and the inputs Brigga and Bedi have therefore added much more in terms of dynamics to what were already rocking tunes.

Jim’s trademark voice is on top form, and with so much more to work with in terms of songs, it has enabled him to demonstrate much more of his range.

The songs display considerable differences in structure to previous releases, but of course we’ve ensured there will be numbers on the album that will deliver the now obligatory in your face punk rock.

So far we’ve agreed releases with “Household Name Records” for the UK market, “Boss Tuneage” for Europe and Japan, and “Poison City Records” of Melbourne Australia look like they may release a double album featuring the new album and of course More Than a Machine. Hopefully we’ll have some other labels on board once the recording is completed.

Also we will be covering much of the UK this summer and we are in the process of putting the finer details to our first tour of Germany due in October, which we’re totally buzzing about.

Tally ho for now – we’ll let you know how the sessions are going later this month…

MILLOY

Welcome

2008-02-27T06:16:00.000-08:00

Ay up Milloy fans!

This is a big welcome just for you to our new Milloy blog page!

It may seem like we seemed to have forgot to keep you all up to date with what we have been doing for the past year and it may seem like we have disappeared over the last 6 months. Well we can safely say that the Milloy machine has been raging on and here is the place where we will keep you informed!

Stay tuned this Blog as it will become your main source of news and info about the band!

Milloy

About the band

2008-01-27T07:16:00.000-08:00

The Wakefield, West Yorkshire based punk/rock band Milloy was formed in 2000 by guitarists Beefy & Bedi, bassist Ian, drummer Brigga and front-man Jim McManus. With their debut release in 2001 with the 6 Track EP “Autodrivel”, the band were soon creating a huge wave of interest within the UK underground scene. Milloy re-shaped the mould in terms of the pop-punk bands that had been so plentiful in West Yorkshire and England in the 90’s and did this by injecting intelligent song writing that was fuelled with the angst of emo and delivered as if their lives depended on it. With the 2002 EP “Belt Up” confirming this, the band then focussed on their live performances and began to tour. In 2003 a split CD and 12” was released with their good friends “The Leif Ericsson” and together they toured the UK. In mid 2004 Jim McManus left the band due to other priorities and commitments, the rest of the band decided to continue writing and search for a new singer. With an album half written and no-one up to the job on vocals in December after 4 months of searching for a replacement, Jim re-joined the band. The writing continued and by May 2005 the band were ready to record again. Their debut album “More Than a Machine” was released in July 2005.. The album showed yet another shift in Milloy’s ability to add further dimensions to their sound, this time in a much darker harder hitting vein. In 2006 Milloy recorded 2 songs for a split release with “Billy No Mates” who featured the legendary Duncan Redmonds (Snuff / Guns N’Wankers) on vocals and drums. The 2 songs recorded “Le Coup de Grace” and “Damaged Goods” are possibly the 2 finest recorded examples of Milloy in full flight. The former a blistering devastating barrage of anger, and the latter an ironic ode demonstrating the full range of McManus. In October 2007 the album “More Than a Machine” was re-packaged, re-mastered and re-released on “Household Name” records. In January 2008 their first BBC Radio 1 session was aired. APRIL 2008. MILLOY WILL BE RECORDING THEIR NEW ALBUM LATER THIS MONTH