2nd Verse, Same As the First

Received in the mail (A FEW MONTHS BACK) a package that looked like a bomb. Turned out it was just a "bomb-diggity" record. Our record to be more exact.

The second pressing of the 7" EP Right Way is now available on our BigCartel store. Follow the link on the right side of the page to order it now.

It's pretty awesome.

Or at least, we like it.

Records being held hostage in Hess' house; begging to be sent to rightful owners...

To the records still held hostage in Hess' living room:

Hang tight, away from heat and sunlight and Jeff will ship you soon enough. Really, he's a reasonable guy and will totally get you all out ASAP. Don't do anything rash and I'm sure that everything will work out.

If you just play it cool, you'll all be heading out through the Brunswick USPS any day now...

For now, get ready for tomorrow's Oregon, UCLA game:

Mix-ups and mash-ups

Malmo-style above. Geoff's face froze like that.

So, we're not necessarily flowing in chronological order right now. Forgive me as I fill in the time between Gothenburg and Poland...

Robert Refuse: The man, the myth, the Polska

This tour wouldn’t have happened without the help of numerous people. We’re profiling these many individuals during the course of the tour.

Tour Profile: Robert Refuse and Refuse Records

Name: Robert Matousiak aka Robert Refuse

Hometown: Warszawa, Poland

Age: 35 years

Height: “Fuck, I don’t know”

Weight “Since I moved to Berlin, more…”

How long have you been doing Refuse Records?

As a distro since 1993 and as a record label since 1996. I’ve been booking shows around Europe since 1994.

Years straight edge: 19 years

Favorite European HC Records: Nations on Fire or Manliftingbanner

Boxers or Briefs: “Yes” (after clarification “the second.”)

Top Five US Punk and HC Records:

Minor Threat

Dead Kennedys: In God We Trust

Youth of Today: We’re Not in This Alone

Trial: Our These our Lives

Insted

Favorite Cleveland Band: “Committed” if you know what we mean, Gordon Solie Motherfuckers.

How did you get into Punk Rock?

“My sister brought some punk rockers with some tapes over, and I was into it immediately. I checked into everything related to punk and hardcore…”

First show: 1989 ten or twelve local Polish bands including Post Regiment who was big in Poland. Tragedia, whom Portland’s Tragedy derived their name.

Last show: Right Idea in Gothenburg Sweden July 22, 2010

Favorite food: Vegan Ice Cream (Homeboy has dropped like ~50 Euros on ice cream in Sweden alone)

Ghosts of Berlin...

So, we've been in town for a day or two each now, and are getting ready for some great shows in Germany and then up in Northern Europe. We've been to the Berlin Wall, eaten some great food, and got all the last minute details sorted out for the rest of tour. Hess enjoyed the in-flight entertainment, and we actually met some colorful people in our German travels that resembled people from the flight. Who's the German below? You decide.

Tomorrow is show time in Berlin. We're playing with Your Fucking Nightmare (CZ) and hoping not to embarrass our homeland too much with our poor German language skills and bad jokes. The good news for RxI collectors is we'll have lots of vinyl and several new shirt designs and colorways. We'll also be playing numerous songs from the "Right Way/Our Way" records. All-in-all the next two weeks should be great.

7" Tour Cover Revealed

A couple things to note:

1. No, that's not a typo -- this 7" is titled Our Way and the Refuse records 7" is titled Right Way

2. Yes, Our Way is also the title of the Discography CD that Refuse released to go along with the 7" Right Way

Oh yeah, it's limited to 50, so chances are good it'll be gone before you get to it. And if not -- get an extra one for me, because I'd like one.

Shipping the Right Way

Just got word from Robert over at Refuse Records that he's received in the complete shipment of the new RIGHT IDEA 7" Right Way and everything is good to go!

Here's the particulars (from the Refuse Records myspace):

Brand new EP contains 8 brand new songs of the Cleveland band. Expect a high-energy straight edge hardcore in the vein of Straight Ahead, No For An Answer, DYS or Youth Of Today. The positive energy, intensity and sing-a-long parts are all there, with the message of enthusiasm, hope and optimism.STRAIGHT EDGE 2010!

Pressing info:

3 test pressings
50 copies of special tour edition, different cover, hand numbered, yellow vinyl (available only on Right Idea European tour)
100 copies of limited edition pre-order version, yellow vinyl w/ Right Idea tour poster
350 copies of regular edition, blue vinyl.

The first press (breakout above) is already almost sold out but hit up Robert and order yourself a copy or 2 of what remains or come out and check the band out on tour to try and score a "Tour Edition" in beautiful Europa!

Added Bonus! We've posted an MP3 of the title track in the sidebar to the right!

Word!

European Summer 2010

Here's the Confirmed Dates:

17.07. Germany, Berlin
18.07. Germany, Hamburg
19.07. Denmark, Copenhagen
20.07. Sweden, Nykoping
21.07. Norway, Oslo
22.07. Sweden, Gothenburg
23.07. Sweden, Lund
25.07. Czech Republic, Rokicany
26.07. Czech Republic, Praha
27.07. Poland, Częstochowa
28.07. Austria, Wien
29.07. Germany, Nunchritz
30.07. Holland, Tillburg
31.07. Belgium, Mol
01.08. UK, London
02.08. UK, Nottingham

Spring to Summer

So, just like intro/changes, we're experiencing our seasonal transition into summer. This means three things:

1. John is playing baseball. You can follow the action here. If you're not a baseball fan, then you can follow the World Cup (Football), or the US World Team Trials in wrestling.

2. We're transitioning our spring line of gear into the summer line and knocking money off of t-shirts, closing out the sweatshirt and taking a buck off each of our 7"s at the webstore. Once this stuff is gone, we'll replace it with new stuff before our tour.

3. Our European tour dates have been finalized:

Right Idea Right Way Tour 2010:

17.07. Germany, Berlin w/ Your Fucking Nightmare
18.07. Germany, Hamburg
19.07. Denmark/Sweden, tba

20.07. Sweden, tba
21.07. Norway, Oslo

22.07. Sweden, Gothenburg w/ Lewd Acts

23.07. Sweden, Lund, tba
24.07. day off

25.07. Czech Republic, Rokicany, Fluff Fest

26.07. Czech Republic, Prague w/ Unrestrained, Regres
27.07. Poland, Częstochowa
28.07. Austria, Wien,
29.07. Germany Nunchritz w/ Ramming Speed
30.07. Holland, Tillburg w/ State Of Affairs, Incarnation

31.07. Belgium, Mol, HC Fest

1.08. UK, London w/ Times Together
2.08. UK, Nottingham w/ Times Together

We're very excited to be playing with Times Together, Incarnation, State of Affairs and all the other bands that we don't get to experience on our side of the pond. Nevermind that we're also on two awesome fests, HC fest in Mol and Fluff Fest in Rokicany. Tons of your favorite European and American bands will be around, so come check us out while you're at it. The dates in red are being finalized and may not be confirmed, so if you can help out, please get after Robert Refuse: refuserecords@gmail.com.

We have a show in June that's TBA in Cleveland, so keep your eyes right here for more info.

Also, the Right Way 7" is making its way to and fro the plant as I type while the Our Way discography of all our recorded material thus far is getting proofed and pressed up as as well. You can expect a big update on that very, very soon. For now, keep it tuned in to Refuse Records, this blog and your HC messageboard of choice:

Refuse Website

Refuse Myspace

Until next time, keep your bike helmets on and your wheels on the pavement.

-Nate

Right Way 2010: European Tour

As you may know, we've been planning a European Tour for the last couple months, and it looks like all of my childhood hardcore music dreams are moving towards reality.

Right Idea: Right Way 2010

17.07. Germany, Berlin w / Your Fucking Nightmare

18.07. Germany, Hamburg

19.07. Denmark, tba

20.07. Sweden, Lund tba

21.07. Norway, Oslo tba

22.07. Norway, Stavanger tba

23.07. Sweden, Gothenburg 24.07. Sweden, Linkoping, Deadfest w/ Earth Crisis, First Blood

25.07. Czech Republic, Rokicany, Fluff Fest

26.07. Czech Republic, Prague w/ Unrestrained, Regres

27.07. Poland, Częstochowa

28.07. Austria, Wien, tba

29.07. Germany, Nunchritz w/ Ramming Speed

30.07. Holland, Tillburg, tba

31.07. Belgium, Mol, HC Fest

1.08. UK tba

2.08. UK tba

So in preparation for this, Hess is pumping iron, I'm going raw foods, Chuck is getting tattooed, John is getting a haircut and Geoff is skating every day. I think we'll be ready by July, especially since Robert at Refuse Records has been laboring tirelessly to help us put out two new releases!

Coming soon to Refuse Records:

Right Way 7": This is the 8 new songs we recorded with John D at Negative Space in January. It's a straight forward hardcore record, you know, a couple colors of vinyl and the clean layout of one John Millin's design hand/mind. It's also the first record we wrote/recorded with Geoff in the band, so you know it's good. You can still hear a new track here.

Our Way Discography CD, one easy-to-find volume of all of our recorded works including rare and b-side tracks and covers. This includes the Demo, Our World EP, the cd sampler, the Right Way record and some b-side tracks from the archives. The idea was to put all of our tracks together for kids in places where vinyl is expensive to ship, the internet doesn't make it easily downloaded, and turntables might not be super common. We hope to have this distributed worldwide, so please get in touch with Robert Refuse if you'd like to carry it in the Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, the Ukraine, South Africa, Fiji, wherever.

To get ready for all of this, we're going to be playing on Friday April 23rd at the Tower with the Basement Boys. We'll see you there. Until then, here's a video:

Right Idea - Right Idea + Clear Your Head from hate5six productions on Vimeo.

MRR Review of the Demo 7"

It’s time like this that make me wish Carl Cordova was still here at MRR - he would know exactly with youth crew bands to compare this to, getting all the spirit of ’88 references in the right places, dotting every “i” and (wait for it) crossing every “x”. But Carl’s not here anymore, so I’ll have to push on and do my best. Youth crew isn’t really my thing - I’ve never cared for YOUTH OF TODAY, BOLD leaves me wanting, and GORILLA BISCUITS puts me to sleep. That said, I like RIGHT IDEA. I booked a show for them in Gilman and they were energetic, enthusiastic, and fucking tight, not to mention being stand-up fellows. Maybe it’s a Clevo thing (who doesn’t love CONFRONT and MEANSTREAK?), but I like their demo a lot. This 7” is a repress of said demo, so if you’re a youth crew fanatic who missed out on the tape, o if you worship at the altar of vinyl, then pick it up like it was loose change.

(XYosefX, “Maximum RocknRoll” #319, USA)

Get your foam fingers, popcorn and drinks...

...and this here slab of wax from our top dude, Robert Refuse of, not Reduce, reuse or recyle but Refuse Records.

We're closing out the items you see here and then loading up with new shirts and a new 7". Get. Pumped.

Peep the official Right Idea webstore here.

Refuse Records 7" Advert

Robert from Refuse Records passed this along to us today. Pretty sweet, and if you haven't picked up one of these yet, jump on it -- it's the songs off the demo but remastered (not to mention everything sounds better on white vinyl).

2nd press is already on the way, too -- so order away!

RIGHT IDEA s/t 7" OUT THIS SUMMER!

You may have or may not have known this was in the works, but nonetheless, the European release of the self-titled EP 7" (the songs originally appeared on the demo cassette here in the states) now finally has had some details attached to it . . .

(And, yeah, I know we don't have a myspace, but it doesn't mean we don't use it -- and here's some proof of that.)

From: REFUSE RECORDS(Birds Of…) | myspace.com/refuserecords

To: * [John] John | myspace.com/johncommitted

Date: May 7, 2009 9:35 AM

Subject: RE: RE: Re: RIGHT IDEA

Body: Hello John
I got all the stuff, thanx [sic] a lot! Right Idea 7" songs are great and I'm stoked to work on this release. Tomorrow I'll go to studio to make shorter space bewteen [sic] the songs. I have to also do small correctness of my adress [sic] on the back cover, but it's just details. Everything looks very good!

I'll keep you posted about everything. I hope to have it out before end of July, on Fluff Fest in czech [sic] Republic.
Is there any shows you're playing this summer? What about Euro tour, any plans?

thanx [sic] for everything and take care!
Robertxxx

So what's that all mean? Looks like the long-awaited European release of the Right Idea self-titled EP 7" will be available this July (before the Fluff Fest July 24-26). Email Robert through the myspaces listed above or go to his site at http://refuserecords.prv.pl/ and get at him for pre-orders, etc . . .

The cover art is above, and here's the back cover:

Don't worry -- the insert will have some new and never-before seen photos, but you'll have to wait for those!

Word!