Fighting with bouncers, run-ins with the police, exploding vans, drinking til they puke, puking til they drink again - it’s only rock n roll but Blakfish like it. The queens of Midlands-rowdiness have just made two brand new demos available online. The first, ‘Pretty As A Peacock (Fashion)’ can be heard on episode 9 of the Big Scary Monsters podcast. Along with tracks from Pulled Apart By Horses, Shield Your Eyes, Anathallo and more, it can be downloaded from iTunes or as an MP3 from the www.bsmrocks.com multimedia section. The second new demo, ‘Economics’, can be heard at www.myspace.com/blakfish.

In January Blakfish will pack their bags and jet off to lovely Seattle to record their debut album with Chris Common, drummer with the amazing These Arms Are Snakes. Tentatively set for an early summer release, it promises to be one hell of a record.

Big Scary Monsters Records are also celebrating new releases from This Town Needs Guns, Tubelord, Pulled Apart By Horses and Mimas with a free digital sampler featuring MP3s from these four beauties alongside a bonus one from one of their favourite new bands, Native. Download the sampler from the official BSM website.