Sarandon's Age Of Reason (45SPEC001)

Here at Revolutions Brewing we are hugely, hugely excited to be doing our first beer to tie in with an album launch.  It was always our intention to brew the occasional beer to help promote albums, we just didn't expect it to happen so quickly!

About The Beer

The beer will be named after the album 'Sarandon's Age Of Reason'.  It will be a well-hopped 4.5% IPA.  We will definitely have casks of the beer available for pubs and we are can now confirm we will also have bottles of the beer.  We have secured the bottling run and it will become our first Revolutions 45s Club release and there will be around 175 x 8-bottle cases available.  The first 50 case orders will receive a free pump clip.  Follow the link earlier in this paragraph to sign up to the 45s Club.  You'll be the first to know about 45s Club beer releases and get priority on additional freebies!

We're also setting up a launch gig in the Leeds which will double as a launch event in Leeds for us and a gig for Sarandon.  We can now confirm it will take place at The Hop in Leeds which is in Granary Wharf immediately next to the train station.  There will be live blues all afternoon and Mark and Andrew will be there to answer questions about the brewery and future plans.  Sarandon and support (TBC) will play in the evening.  Admission is free although we intend to pass the hat round at the end of the gig.


About Sarandon

Sarandon return to the fray with nothing other than a concept album.

Flying the flag for Prog Rock? Maybe.

Still annoyed by Twee Pop? Definitely.

Sarandon’s “Age Of Reason” tells the story of Big Trev, a man frustrated with his lot and determined to change his life.  The album is narrated by The Shend (The Cravats, The Very Things) who plays the voice of the story’s hero.

Musically Sarandon have moved their sound forward. Produced once again by the inimitable Anthony Chapman (Collapsed Lung, Bis, Klaxxons, Ten Benson), the sound is a more mature take on the angular agit-pop of their previous outings. The cheese-wire treble of the guitars remains, the bass thuds and booms and the drums clatter at light speed, but the songs contained in “Sarandon’s Age Of Reason” are more carefully crafted and arranged.

There are songs to make you shout and songs to make you sing.

There are even songs to make you dance.

Sarandon are back with a vengeance.  Back to rescue you all from the mundanity of modern la-la-love-you indie pop.  Other guests on the album include Robert Lloyd (The Nightingales) and Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti).

Sarandon are currently:

Crayola (Colgates, Future Sperm Brasil): Guitar & Voice

Alan Brown (bIG fLAME, The Great Leap Forward): Bass & Voice

Tom Greenhalgh (World Sanguine Report): Drums & Voice

What people have said about Sarandon:

"An undeniable low-key genius." - the wire

"This is articulate, quintessentially British pop." - plan b

"you'll notice it because it's short but you'll remember it because it's blistering." - maps magazine

"Sarandon are awesome, like Big Flame fronted by Billy Childish." - go magazine

"Eternally recording the perfect John Peel Session" - guided missile

"Your songs kill me" - Kramer | Shimmydisc

"Sarandon make Futureheads sound like a marketing exercise for the new Kate Bush LP." - TrakMarx

"The most spastic pop I've heard in a while." - indiepages.com

"Catchy as the flu, incredibly listenable and very, very short." - The Fly

"Sarandon songs consist only of the ‘good bits'." - unpeeled

"Pretty much essential." – unpopular

Discography:

Singles and EPs:

“The Miniest Album” (7 track &”, Run Out Records, 2004)

“The Big Flame” (7 track 7”, Banazan, 2005)

“The Feminist Third” (7 track 7”, Wrath, 2005)

“The June Bride” (7 track 7”, Wrath, 2006)

“Joe’s Record” (3 track 7”, Slumberland, 2007)

“Every Conversation” (2 track 7” split with Phil Wilson, Every Conversation, 2007)

“Other People’s Records” (3 track 7”, Little Car, 2009)

“Spike Milligan’s Tape Recorder” (2 track 7” split with The Membranes, Slumberland, 2009)

Albums:

“The Completist’s Library” (28 track LP & CD, Wrath, 2006)

“The Completist’s Library” (32 track CD, Happy Happy Birthday To Me, 2007)

“Kill Twee Pop!” (12 track 10” & CD, Slumberland, 2008)