Press for Think Fast/Can The Freedom

The press has started coming back from last week - Music Week put us on their playlist, and said we're a tip for next year. And they're pretty much God, so that's quite good...


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One Week To Live still like us - here's their profile and single review.


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And, once again, we're in ZOO magazine. Um.. we're not really sure HOW we're in Zoo magazine, but hey....


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The best thing in OWTL this week

Weekly dance mag One Week To Live says we're the best track they've heard all week - and we're not talking about a remix or anything - THE SINGLE, without any dancification AT ALL, is the hottest track on THEIR stereo..



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BAF in Music Weeek

We're in Music Week! I remember reading that at uni. It's like an industry mag, but I think mainly for PR and office people in the music industry. That's all I know.



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We're in fucking I-D

Look! Us in ID magazine. We are now officially FASHIONABLE. Soon, you'll all be wearing crows on your shoulder and dressing as red indians. The Old Blue Last shall be full of bowl-cut indie kids with viking helmets and fake beards. Almost certainly...



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Tin Pan Alley - Rocklouder Review

They like us they do.

Rocklouder TPA Feature

"As the day progresses we shift from pokerfaces to utter mysteries. When Bolt Action Five come to entertain us a double take has to be made. Dan (vox) looks like a child with a bowl-cut and an oversized (borrowed) green jumper, while Tobias (guitar) looks like a new rave cave man – complemented by drainpipes and a headband to tame his messy, dirty-blonde hair.

Though petite, Dan busts out some phenomenal yelps while moon-walking his way around the stage. Blips and beats whiz around him and intertwine with erratic guitars and intense bass lines.

“We had some technical fuck ups and everyone [audience] was a bit ‘errr’ because they don’t know us,” Dan expresses. “We got here in a rush, so just jumped straight on stage. We didn’t even have time to line check.” We were too hooked on the danceable-ness to notice. Tree Friend Tree Foe was a whirlwind of high hats and dirty effects, with sexy, husky vocals. Meanwhile on the slower side of the BAF spectrum, Can The Freedom carried shrill vocals that rocked us gently on an ocean of genius."

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NME ALMOST LOVES US///

Look! We got in the NME again! They think we sound like Pop Will Eat Itself, only better. Or Enter Shikari, only better. They're wrong, but we're not complaining...

DAZED website

LUCYFUR put us on the Dazed & Confused site! COOOOOL. Only i can't remember the link... Anyhoo, here's what it looks like

The FLY goes All BAFFED///

The Fly suddenly took a shine to us. It was love at first sight, i tells ya. This is all from this month's issue...

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ZOO? How the hell did we get in ZOO Magazine? WTF????

Artrocker review

First NME mention

They like Tree Friend so much, they put us on their old fashioned cassette tape player

Reading review

Ok, so apparently our blood rus in day-glo, but we're forgiving kinda people..

"Soon you will know the name. Because if London youngsters Bolt Action Five keep playing shows like this everyone will be talking about them. There’s nothing amazing about the set up- guitars, drums, bass and synths and four skinny guys in skinny jeans. But when the band click into the ‘go’ position everything changes. Yeah they make a racket like Hadouken or The Klaxons or any other band keeping the corpse of Test Icicles warm do but there are blast beats here and half-second thrash riffs and songs so catchy people are whistling them outside in Reading’s shitty rain and they don’t even know why. Blessed with a frontman who dances and prances about the place like some bastard clone of Noel Fielding, Bolt Action Five play songs that shoot from the stage like lazers. Even when the power cuts out. Bolt Action Five are the band booked for the house party in heaven. Bolt Action Five do electronic power-pop without a hint of insecurity or trend-hopping (their blood surely runs in day-glo) and they should be massive. Go, spread the word. And soon everyone will know their name."

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