Next gig: 2nd April, 100 Club, with The Darling Buds

Our next gig – which is also our first of 2016! – will be 2nd April at The 100 Club, supporting our comrades The Darling Buds, who are celebrating their 30th Anniversary by playing ‘Pop Said’ in full (is this a first?) as well as other classics.

Also on the bill are Brighton C86 band The Popguns.

We can’t wait to be back on the stage. See you down the front.

Tickets and info here.

 

 

 

Buy Thee Faction’s LP: Reading Writing Revolution

Reading Writing Revolution, or, The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, is the fifth album from legends of Socialist RnB Thee Faction. It’s yours for £7.

Track listing: Choose your enemy/(You’ve got the) numbers (why don’t you use it?)/The Three Rs/Rent strike/Bastards/Socialism:utopian & scientific/Police state/(Get it out) of your system/Strictly come marching/Equality/Bubble club

Reading Writing Revolution £7

Not sure? Here’s the first single from Reading Writing Revolution:

Like it? Download it for free:

And here’s the second single. With a selection of pictures and numbers to look at:

And here’s the title track:

Now buy the album.

Kick Out The Tories: The Pep Rally

Chris T-T & The Hoodrats, Grace Petrie, Thee Faction & Janine Booth. 100 Club, Oxford Street. Wed 22/4/15.

Cheap advance tickets (£6) still available. £8 on door. Best line-up you’ll see in London this year. Thee Faction onstage 20.00 sharp. Grace Petrie 21.00. Chris T-T and the Hoodrats 22.00. Janine Booth somewhere in between.

Can’t come, but want to get your hands on our new LP – Reading Writing Revolution – long before its official release? Get it here for £7. Or get our last two LPs for a tenner (Good Politics & Reading Writing Revolution).

Not sure? Here’s our new single. It will convince you.

Downoad it for free here:

3 Things you need to know about Thee Faction

1. There’s a new album coming VERY soon, and it’s our best yet. It’s called Reading Writing Revolution. Here’s a sneak preview of the cover in progress.

2. Our next gig will be in London on 22 April, at a very special ‘Kick out the Tories’ night at The 100 Club, with some massively exciting names on the bill. More on that soon.

3. Our products and services available on Bandcamp now includes t-shirts, and three of our albums – At Ebbw Vale, Up the Workers! and Singing Down the Government. The more stuff we sell, the more stuff we can create.

New Thee Faction EP available now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Songs to Remind the Class of the Glorious Victory to Come, and the Work That Must Be Done To Get There’ is the new EP from Thee Faction.

Featuring a  reworking of old Thee Faction favourite ‘Customer’, with legendary punk poet Attila the Stockbroker on lead vocals, as well as a never-heard-before brand new song ‘Relentless’, sung by Judy Dyble, of Fairport Convention fame, this four-track EP is limited to 250 copies. As well as these two special-guest-sung highlights you’ll also get ‘Employment’ (from the current album Good Politics) and Thee Faction’s Christmas Song (previously masquerading as a hidden track on an old album that’s no longer available).

Have a listen to the trailer:

You really need this. There’s not going to be another opportunity to get the Attila or Judy songs. So order now.

Of course, you might want to order it as a package with the current album, Good Politics. If you do, you can have the pair for £10 (incl.P&P).

 

 

Or, if you haven’t got Singing Down the Government either, you can get both albums and the EP for £12 (incl. P&P).

 

 

 

 

At the Buffalo Bar (28/11) we launch our new EP

Customer (featuring Attila the Stockbroker)

Relentless (featuring Judy Dyble)

Employment

Thee Faction’s Christmas Song

This new EP will be available at our next London gig. On the 28th November. Buffalo Bar. With Keith TOTP and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band. And also with Abdoujaparov (Fruitbat off of out of Carter USM’s current band). Here’s a taster:

Attila will be joining us on stage. Judy will be there too. Everything else we’re doing in London for the rest of 2013 is already sold-out. So if you want to see us in London, it’s got to be this one. It’s also a chance to pick up a load of Thee Faction records for Xmas presents. So bring money. And wear your best clothes.

Here’s all you need to know about the gig and how to get tickets.

See you there.

Thee Faction to Headline No Pasaran

A Night to Remember for the 75th Anniversary of the Return of the International Brigade’s British Battalion

A guest post from the comrades at Philosophy Football.

The red hot socialist R n’ B of Thee Faction will headline a spectacular show ‘No Pasaran’ which marks on Saturday 7 December the 75th anniversary of the return of the International Brigade’s British Battalion from the Spanish Civil War. It will be a fantastic gig: if you are a fan of Thee Faction’s music don’t miss it.

The rest of a superb line-up includes Maxine Peake, Mark Steel, Paul Mason, Francesca Beard, PanditG and Salma Yaqoob. Spoken word, comedy, red-hot socialist r n b, ideas and a dancefloor-filling DJ set. All brought together to mark the 75th anniversary of 7 December 1938 when the men and women of the International Brigade’s British Battalion docked at Newhaven then travelled by train to Victoria to be met by a crowd of thousands to celebrate their heroic stand against Fascism. 75 years on, Saturday 7 December 2013, ‘No Pasaran!’ Will be a night to remember.

The venue is superb too, Rich Mix is East London’s premier arts centre, superbly equipped for an event of this ambition, just 10 minutes walk from Liverpool Street or Old Street underground stations, almost opposite Shoreditch High Street overground station.

A Philosophy Football event, presented in association with the International Brigade Memorial Trust and generously sponsored by Thompson’s Solicitors

Tickets, just £9.99 plus p&p, are going fast so snap yours up early to be sure of your place. On the night doors will open at 6pm, the show begins at 7pm.

Book here   or if you prefer call to book 01273 472 721.

A note from Thee Faction: This will be the second of Philosophy Football’s events we’ve played at, having guested at their tremendous Stalingrad anniversary event last year. These nights are always amazing. The kind of person who likes us will love this night. The perfect mix of music and laughing and politics and dancing and polemic and drama and drinking and catching up with old comrades. You must come to this. It will sell out, so if you’re planning to come, book now.

Thee Faction in Barnsley – 5th October

 

You don’t need us to tell you the significance of Orgreave. So you’ll understand why a night of music remembering that moment in the class war is vitally important, and why the injustices must not be forgotten. So you’ll want to be at this.

Comrades in the North East and North West are forever pointing out that we don’t visit them enough. So meet us half way. See you all in Barnsley.

NB The venue has changed. The gig is now at Club Retro (see poster above).

Can’t make this one? Then get yourself to Newport, South Wales for the 18th October. We return to Le Pub with the comrades of Give Me Memphis.

Thee Faction at the Bubble Club – 18/09/13

 

On Wednesday night we will be helping the Bubble Club celebrate their 8th birthday, at the Backyard Bar in Bethnal Green, London. We’ll be bashing out some hits, introducing a couple of new ones, and even unleashing a one-off song (‘The Bubble Club’) we’ve written especially for the occasion. Get your phones out to record that one, because we won’t ever play it again.

Why should you come? Well, even if you don’t fancy seeing us, The Bubble Club is exactly the sort of organisation you should be supporting. Check this out, for example.

If you can’t make it, it’s going to be a while ’til we play London again. So you’ll have to console yourself with a copy of our new album, Good Politics. £7 including postage (to anywhere) and packing.

 

Try before you buy? Here’s a trailer:

Have a look at all the press and whathaveyou here.

 

 

 

Thee Faction at the Stow Festival. E17