I Was A Cub Scout: Splitting Up

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I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope

I Was a Cub Scout is a two-man synthpop band from Long Bennington and Collingham, England, consisting of William Bowerman and Todd Marriott.

Save Your Wishes
Echoes
Lucean
Pink Squares
Part 3
We Were Made to Love (Pt 2)
Our Smallest Adventures
Recommendations
The Hunter's Daughter
P's and Q's
A Step Too Far Behind

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This came out last week. It includes the top 71 SMASH "Pink Squares". It's a great album. My favourite song on it is the anthemic "P's and Q's", which is one of my favourite songs of 2008 so far ;D

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I love this band. I've had "Pink Squares" on repeat this whole week. The other two songs of theirs that I have are "P's and Q's" (which I'm getting really into) and "Teenagers" (another great one, but it appears that it's not on the album). I love how mellow they are and the synths are used beautifully.

I really wish this would be released here. I want this album.

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All does not sound good in their latest MySpace blog...

Sunday, April 13, 2008

What on earth is going on?
Current mood: adventurous

hello comrads,

i thought it was about time for a new blog, telling everyone what has being going on and what is being planned etc..

so... details...
we came back from sxsw a few weeks ago with a couple grand worths of equipment gone and with alot of our spirits well and truelly flattened.

It felt like we had travelled however many (20 something) hours for a free, enjoyable kind off... yet very pointless holiday. we all saw some great bands and burnt our skin but thats not really the name of the game.

there has been an ongoing argument within our band with what and who we actually are....
sadley none of us know quite whats going on ever.
this obvious pull down at sxsw got that going a bit too

we have our problems and alot of them are pretty obvious.
if you saw us on the get cape tour you will of noticed we were playing as a four piece. the two of us and two brass... i had a lovely time on this tour.

i find great restrictions in how a two piece is suposedly supposed to function and i never have and never will fully feel comfortable with it.

We have just got back from recording two 'b sides' the first of which is a song i feel outdoes alot of what we are musically and leads alot in what we could be...

i'm overly exited about this song being heard by people who like us as a band, i feel that it will hopfully cut a few opinions and hopfully take it musically to a better place.

it is one of the only times we have ever recorded all the instrumentation unsequenced. which i believe was for the best.
it made me realise how many layers of machine normally would make us a band.
It is 7 and a half minuites of what i have been trying to write from the start for this band in one. and i personally adore it.


anyway, there is going to be changes to our band and what you may percieve us to be.

i hope people will understand these changes and see that it can only better the music. as that the music is all that should matter.

todd x

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

The good news it they posted a new blog entry yesterday with new tour dates, so hopefully there was some resolve.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I'm beginning to think "The Hunter's Daughter" is my new favorite by them. I've been listening to it tons lately. At the same time, with a song as amazing as "Pink Squares" it's definitely a challenge to pick a frontrunner between the two.

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

The next single "The Hunter's Daughter" is released on June 9th on cassette single only!!

AMAZING. ;D

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I Was A Cub Scout have announced their split - but not until they have played one final tour.

The pair revealed the news through a MySpace post made this morning (June 6th) by Todd (vocals, synths, guitars), which reads:

"Hello friends,

Here it goes. Tonight we have decided that I Was A Cub Scout has and must now come to a close. We have had countless problems over the past year or so and with yet more occuring, we feel it best to end on what would seem like a decent note.

We will be honouring all of our uk shows of which we have confirmed with the iTunes festival at Koko with Death Cab For Cutie on July 14th being our last. We will speak more of it all soon, but for now we must tour.

It is a very sad day for us. Thankyou. Todd x"

Those remaining shows are:

June Dates:

6th – Sheffield Plug
7th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
8th – Manchester Academy 3
9th – Leeds Cockpit
10th – Brighton Barfly
11th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
21st – Exeter Phoenix
22nd – Exeter Marquee

July Dates:

4th – Zoo Thousand Festival
14th – iTunes Festival @ London Koko

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Really sad to hear. I'm in love with their album.