i like iLiKETRAiNS 22 Aug 2007

At SXSW earlier this year, The Beggars Group took over Emo's and had a showcase. Many of our bands played, and they were ALL amazing. One band in particular however, took many of our breaths away. It was iLiKETRAiNS. When they played, it was everyone's first time seeing them and meeting them and they were all super cool guys and a whole lot of fun....which is funny, because they sing about DARK topics.

We're really psyched that they will finally have a full-length out in the US on October 23rd. It's called "Elegies To Lessons Learnt" and it's like a history lesson wrapped up in an album.

"Elegies..." attempts to illustrate how history repeats itself, and how the human race fails to learn from its mistakes. The album takes on the Great Fire of London in “25 Sins”, an ill-fated round the world yachtsman in “The Deception”, the only British prime minister ever to be assassinated in “Spencer Perceval”, and the Salem Witch Trials in “We Go Hunting”. Other songs cover massacre, the ‘iron curtain’, the plague and madness.

Keep your eyes out for an mp3 soon!

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