Here’s part one of the story behind our single You Are Stuck which will be released on 1 May on all major digital platforms as told by Ollie.
“Back in 2018 we were playing at the Chaos Festival (Guernsey) and…
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Control (Free Download via Bandcamp)
Who doesn’t like something for free?
We live in unprecedented times and we recognise that life is tough for a lot of people. Happier times are ahead but might be a little way off for most.
The main reason for…
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L’islet Records - Interview
Last week we sat down (over the phone) with Coastal Fire Dept. about their forthcoming single You Are Stuck.
The big news is Ken Andrews mixed your single, how did that come about?
Ollie “Well you asked us how we…
Artwork/Lyanne
For our mini-album we were so happy to work with USA based photographer/artist and all round supercool Lauren who appeared on the album cover. We’re gonna do an article about her soon but you may have noticed we’ve looked closer…
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Alt Rock Radio Canada
It’s always nice to hear from people outside of Guernsey who are picking up our music! It was great to hear from @altrockradio in Canada who will be playing one of our songs on their Thursday night show tomorrow!
A…
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You Are Stuck - Release Update
***UPDATE***
We had planned to release ‘You Are Stuck (Ken Andrews mix)’ together with an accompanying music vid but the current lockdown means we can’t finish the video.
We live in extraordinary times at the moment. It’s important to try…
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Musical Influences
Reading some comments online about our mini-album Control (free to listen to on Spotify!) made me think about the musical influences for Coastal Fire Dept..
The first band the writer mentioned was the @pixiesofficial and that band is/was one of…
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You Are Stuck
Following on from last years debut mini-album Control, Guernsey’s Coastal Fire Dept. release their first official single ‘You Are Stuck’ on 1 May together with an accompanying music video (*current situation allowing).
Recorded at Apocalypse Studios, Guernsey with Mikey Ferbrache…
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Band update/You Are Stuck Single
Our music is heavily influenced by grunge with a liberal sprinkling of other musical influences including alt-rock, shoegaze and pop. Our first official single You Are Stuck was recorded in Guernsey and mixed in Los Angeles and we are gearing…
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You Are Stuck - Video Update
The star of our music video for “You Are Stuck” caught wishing there’ll be lots of people tuning in to watch the video on 1 May (release day).
Let’s make her wishes come true. We need more followers/like on our…
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Single Launch - Gig Update
***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT***
Our gig on 2 May (also our single release party) is going ahead in one format or another. If we are able to play live at The Vault Guernsey we will, if the current situation persists we fully…
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Recording Update 2
Yesterday was guitar day and virtually all the heavy guitar work was done by Bob & Ollie and we also had Mikey (our fifth member) in on the act!
We’ve broken the back of our second album but still a…
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Recording Update and YMMF Video
Next weekend we record the rest of our second album...(can we say what it’s called yet?) and the week after we are making a music video for our debut single You Are Stuck. There will be nothing new released by…
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SarkFest 2020
Another festival coming up that we are on the line-up for on Friday 10 July 2020! We’ll have a special grunge set for all the festival goers... bring your earplugs as we drench you in fuzz, distortion, feedback and the…
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Youtube Artist Channel
So we set up a You Tube channel (link below)...and at the time we had no expectations at all. We’ve put out a music video, some of the songs from Control and a couple of live recordings (of songs that…
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