Dreamboat Records’s Summer 2006 is an introduction to the two Dreamboat Records acts who will be releasing their debut records in Autumn 2006: Robin Allender and Azalea City Penis Club. It also features exclusive, brand new solo material from all three members of Azalea City Penis Club.

We all know how much fun it is to get crap in the mail, so we’d be happy to send you a copy of this promotional sampler (for just £1.50 in the UK and £2.50 elsewhere). The artwork is taken from Owen Jones’s The Grammar of Ornament. The CD itself is plain black on both sides, which is completely stupid as it’s almost impossible to tell which side is up. Good times.

For more information see Summer 2006. To pre-order make your way to the shop.

Azalea City Penis Club drummer Dave Collingwood leads a double life. By night he plays in ACPC, but by day he plays in Gravenhurst (Warp Records).

It is in this latter capacity that Dave and Gravenhurst bandmates Nick Talbot and Huw Cooksley are off on tour supporting Belle & Sebastian. Gravenhurst will open from 5th May to 12th May inclusive (France, Germany, the Netherlands) and on 21st, 22nd and 23rd May (Germany). See the Belle & Sebastian website for details.

Needless to say, you should go and see them if you get the chance. In other news, Robin Allender’s gig at the Louisiana in Bristol this Monday, 8th May, has been rescheduled to Thursday, 11th May with Sebastian Tellier and Amelia Tucker. The headliner for his 19th May gig at Bristol’s Folk House has been confirmed as David Thomas Broughton.