Latest News
Latest News
19/03/10 Descendants of Disco - new song and video
Real PD's new video, for the song 'Descendants of Disco' is here! This is the title song from the forthcoming new 8-track Real PD EP, due May 2010.
Download the Descendants of Disco mp3 here
01/01/10 Scores on the Doors - New Album News
Alistair
has completed a new solo album as Scores on the Doors. The 10-track album
entitled 'Recalling Summer in Winter' is now available from itunes, Napster and emusic in the UK and US.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1 Seagram
2 Another Love
3 Complex Love
4 Seeing Red
5 Tiger Towel
6 Food from a Flower
7 I Don't Know How
8 Nice Cake
9 The Old High German Consonant Shift
10 Atmosphere
Recalling Summer in Winter is the twelfth album by Scores on the Doors since 1990, and the first since 2004's Field Trip. For more SOTD information, music, and lyrics, take a look at the Scores on the Doors page here.
01/01/10 Love is a Lizard video now on Youtube
A new video for one of Real PD's most popular songs of the last decade, 'Love is a Lizard' is now live on Youtube. The video includes footage of the band's Chester Racecourse performance from June 2009. The song was first heard on 2007's album 'For Those About to Pop', and can be downloaded for free from the Sounds and Visions page of this site.
25/06/09 Real PD Live at Chester Racecourse
We enjoyed playing at Chester Racecourse last Saturday June 20th - a big thank you to those who invited us!
The setlist was as follows
1 Waking Your Mind Up
2 Summertown
3 Sox on Fire
4 Principles
5 Standing in the Way of Control
6 Dress Code
7 In for the Kill
8 Shining Light
9 Richard Owen's Bag
10 Dancing to a Stolen Beat
11 I Feel Love Closer
12 I Bet Real PD Look Crazy on the Dancefloor
13 Psychoanalyst's Couch
14 Dignity & Excellence
15 Hypnotised Kids Dance
16 Love is a Lizard
17 Seclusion
31/03/09 Real PD on the radio
Claire is in interview tomorrow on Sheffield Live! 93.2 fm April 1st on The LGBT Hour with Sandra Bake and Lisa White between 14:00 - 15:00. Real PD gets some airplay too - Dignity & Excellence gets a spin.
18/01/09 Delia for Download
Real PD's sparkly new version of the song 'Delia' is now free to download from the Sounds and Visions page of the site. Meanwhile the band are all set to rehearse and record new material ahead of a couple of live appearances later in 2009.
22/12/08 PDCast #1 Now Available for Download
Real PD's first podcast is available for your downloadable delectation. Thrill to the sound of Mark and Claire dishing the dirt on the making of the band's stunning new album 'The Republic is Still on Fire'... find it here.
22/12/08 Weird is Normal Video Now on Youtube
Real PD's latest vid has finally hit Youtube and it's notched up a decent number of hits already in its little online life. Whether more of those come from the keywords 'penguin', 'lawnmower' or indeed 'Dorothy' we have yet to analyse. Anyway, here it is, so... enjoy!
23/11/08 The Republic is Still on Fire
The wait is over! Real PD's new album 'The Republic is Still on Fire' is available now for digital download from itunes and Napster worldwide, emusic in the UK and Amazon Digital in the USA.
On the cusp of the band's 25th year, the ten-track album reinterprets several classic Real PD songs as well as showcasing two new compositions in 'Police Dog' and 'Wasabi Curious'. The Republic is Still on Fire is Real PD's fourteenth studio album and includes the full-length versions of recent singles 'Filthy Liquorice' and 'Weird is Normal.'
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. I Don't See Why I Should
2. Delia
3. Police Dog
4. Psychoanalyst's Couch
5. Filthy Liquorice
6. Not This Time
7. Weird is Normal
8. Wasabi Curious
9. Stop Me Dreaming
10. Summertown
20/11/08 Scores on the Doors - new page
Alistair's project Scores on the Doors has a new page here. In what is shaping up to be an exhaustive archive the page features, so far, 100 free music downloads and a bumper crop of song lyrics, beginning with the 7 most recent Scores albums. Alistair has also begun writing and recording a new collection of songs under the Scores moniker for release sometime in 2009, which will be the first since 2004's 'Field Trip'.
13/10/08 New songs for download!
As excitement mounts over Real PD's forthcoming new album 'The Republic is Still on Fire', realpd.co.uk is pleased to offer you exclusive first downloads of two new songs. 'Summertown' is a pop-rockin' reinterpretation of our 1988 anthem, and the epic six-and-a-half minute skanker 'Police Dog' is Real PD's first intrepid step into, er, Dubstep. Well that it what it was supposed to be, anyway. You'll find them over in the songs and lyrics section. Enjoy! And let us know what you think via the Myspace or Facebook pages.
14/09/08 'Weird is Normal' Tracklisting
Real PD's new single 'Weird is Normal' is now available as a free download from our 'Sounds and Visions' page. We hope you like it!
The tracklisting on the CD single, available October 6th will be as follows:
1. Weird is Normal (single edit)
2. Heart-Shaped Box
3. Weird is Normal (album version)
4. Weird is Normal (video)
12/09/08 New Archive Page
Fans of the 1980's incarnation of Real PD will be pleased to know that the extensive new Archive page we have been working on for a while is now live. With detailed notes from Mark and Alistair on the band's first 11 albums, links to 266 free downloads of original material from the era, videos and reviews the Archive is the definitive resource on the (very) curious underground phenomenon which was the early Real PD. It awaits your visit...
06/09/08 More Club Play for Real PD
Thanks to Tease @ Sheffield Hallam Union for giving Dignity & Excellence a spin in the Indie Room on their GLBT launch night, yesterday. D&E had the whole room rocking, apparently... :)
20/08/08 New single and album news
Real PD are set to release a new single in September. 'Weird is Normal' will be available to download from realpd.co.uk and Real PD's Myspace and Facebook pages from September 15th. A video for the song, directed by Adrian Brailsford will also be available.
On the CD single, 'Weird is Normal' will be backed by Real PD's cover of the Nirvana track 'Heart-Shaped Box'.
The single is followed by an October album release. 'The Republic is Still on Fire' is a 10-track collection featuring 8 new recordings of classic Real PD songs from their 24-year back catalogue, plus 2 new compositions. Album release date is still to be decided - we promise you'll be the first to know. The album will be available from Napster & itunes worldwide and also emusic in the UK.
20/08/08 Vintage Videos
Dear viewers - there was once a time when teenage boys wore bow ties and sat in their bedrooms all day prodding nervously at tiny Casio keyboards and strumming acoustic guitars on alarmingly 'open' tunings. Head over to our new improved Sounds & Visions page for some freshly uploaded vintage Real PD videos from the 80's and 90's. Be warned: the past is a strange place to visit.
31/05/08 Real PD on Napster, itunes & emusic
A digital edition of 'For Those About to Pop' is now available to buy or download as part of a member subscription, from the following stores:
itunes and Napster in the UK and the US
emusic in the UK only
The band are currently recording a album combining new songs with boxfresh rerecordings of older material spanning the full 24 years of Real PD's back catalogue. The album will be released later in the year and will debut in the online stores. At least that's the plan! More news, and maybe a single soon.
13/04/08 Real PD Live in Chester
Thanks to all who came to see us at the Cancer Research gig in Chester on Friday. We had a ball. There's a full set of photos over on our Facebook Musician page and we're in the process of uploading some video also. Friday's setlist was as follows...
1. Principles
2. Summertown
3. Dress Code
4. I Bet Real PD Look Crazy on the Dancefloor
5. Mandeville Road
6. I Don’t See Why I Should
7. Delia
8. Lopsided
9. Not This Time
10. Waking Your Mind Up
11. Psychoanalyst’s Couch
12. Heart-Shaped Box
13. Hypnotized Kids Dance
14. Dignity & Excellence
15. Seclusion
17. Love is a Lizard
27/12/07 Available now - New 4-track CD from Real PD: 'Filthy Liquorice EP'
Tracklisting:
1 Filthy Liquorice
2 Muriel
3 High Heel Race
4 I Bet Real PD Look Crazy on the Dancefloor
20/11/07 New single details
Real PD release a new 3-track single, 'Filthy Liquorice' on December 3rd. We're about a year and a half away from a new album so it is safe to say that this is a one-off. As well as the title track, which was inspired by the floods in Sheffield earlier this year, the CD also features 'Muriel', a song which Mark and Adrian began writing during the 'Life on the Edge' sessions in 1987 and which has only now been completed. Which makes it 20 years in the making, non-mathematicians. 'I Bet Real PD Look Good on the Dancefloor' completes the package, and is available on the homepage right now as a little teaser. Enjoy.
10/10/07 A Big
Plug
>
Seminal Sheffield club night Synthetic is back this Friday 12th October for another night of the finest electropop sounds. They have been known to play Real PD. Well OK, it happened just the once so far, but hell, that's enough to make us friends for life. And you never know, it might happen again...
** SYNTHETIC **
A night of classic and contemporary electropop!
@ The Raynor Lounge, Sheffield University SU, Glossop Rd, Sheffield
Friday Friday 12th October 2007
9pm to 1am
Admission £3.50 on the door
...playing all the hits from the likes of - Depeche Mode - Gary Numan -
CSS - The Human League - Kraftwerk - Felix da Housecat - Hot Chip - Hiem
- Cut Copy - To My Boy - Performance - The Modern - Erasure - Goldfrapp
- Ladytron - New Order - Cabaret Voltaire - Clor - The Bravery -
MSTRKRFT - Soft Cell - KHLA - Soulwax - A-ha - Air - Performance -
Bronski Beat - Adult. - The Cure - LCD Soundsystem - Duran Duran - The
Faint - Soulwax - Japan - Echoboy - Pet Shop Boys - St. Etienne - OMD -
Stereolab - Tears for Fears - Ultravox - Yazoo - Fischerspooner - A
Flock of Seagulls - Blancmange - Tiga - Electronic - Visage - Thomas
Dolby - The Associates and more...
For more info', including admission details for non-students and past
playlists,
go to
www.syntheticsheffield.co.uk
; also see
groups.myspace.com/syntheticsheffield
09/09/07 Seclusion CD single details
The second, and final, CD
single from For Those About to Pop is released tomorrow 10/09/07. Cover
art is by our friend Craig. The tracklisting is as follows:
1 Seclusion
2 Kill Billie Vols I & II
3 S Garden
4 Mandeville Road (Acapella Version)
16/07/07 Real PD on Myspace - hoorah!
We have finally got our Myspace up and running. But we need evidence of friends otherwise we're going to get real lonely... get yourselves over to www.myspace.com/realpduk Have a shifty at the fabulous and rat-infested new video for 'Seclusion' while you're about it...
01/06/07 Congratulations Richard and Alison!
Our
Richard and his lovely fiancee Alison are getting married on Saturday June
2nd... congratulations and all the best from Real PD to them in their new
adventure! To celebrate here are a couple of exclusive pics of Alison sadly
failing her Real PD band audition...
18/05/07 International Day Against Homophobia
Here's Mark and Claire at the International Day Against Homophobia Sheffield 2007 earlier this week. Mark says top marks to Claire for a fantastic speech...
11/ 05/07
New album tracks, including the lead track of Real PD's forthcoming single 'Seclusion' are now available in the 'Sounds and Visions' section of the site. There will be more over the coming weeks. There's also an ever-expanding guide to the wonders of the new album written by Real PD themselves here.
Oh yeah, and there's a secret hyperlink to another album goodie lurking somewhere within the site...
21/04/07
New album tracklisting revealed
Real PD's new album 'For Those About to Pop' the band's 13th collection of new material since 1984, is released on April 30th 2007. The album features 17 tracks, including a rerecording of last year's single Dress Code. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Seclusion
2. Ethics Girl
3. Unobtrusive (If I Get Close to You)
4. Donald is Drawing
5. Bullet for My Chemical Toilet
6. Vitamin P
7. Principles
8. Be Who You Are
9. Love is a Lizard
10. Eye Contact
11. Right Up My Street
12. The Banshee Wailed and Nothing Happened
13. Catsuit
14. Dress Code (part II)
15. Hypnotised Kids Dance
16. I Reserve the Right to Change My Mind
17. Downsizing Pluto
Email us at theband@realpd.co.uk for more details on how to buy.
P.S. The next Real PD single 'Seclusion' (as reported 7/02/07) will now follow a few weeks after the album. This is for profound and unfathomable reasons of artistic integrity alone, and is in no way because we haven't finished the video and one of the B-sides yet.
15/03/07
Steve's new do!
No, we didn't believe it either. But it's true. For Comic Relief our Steve has only gone and 'done a Britney'... Life will never be the same as it was. Again.
Hoorah - it's 'Loosely Related Statistics in a Weeny Font' time!
Richard now officially has more hair than the rest of the males in the band put together.
Steve (formerly of the luxuriant mane) has written two very otherworldly and alluring 'transitoires' for the new Real PD album, out next month. One of them is entitled 'The Banshee Wailed and Nothing Happened.'
17/02/07
New pics of the band are in the new photo gallery. Marvel at how the ravages of time leave the Real PD unscathed. Music is our Botox. Baby.
16/02/07
Love is a Lizard
Alistair writes:
The lyrics to the new track 'Love is a Lizard' are now posted in the Lyrics section of this site. Since posting the track just over a week ago, I have decided (as I often do!) that I wasn't pleased with the mix and have subsequently mixed it again. As of today, the new mix is the one you'll hear if you click on the link from the homepage.
So apologies to all those who downloaded the first mix... you have a rarity on your hands should you choose to keep it! Anyone who did download the first mix of 'Love is a Lizard' and can tell me how the lyric differs from the new version will win a complementary copy of 'For Those About to Pop' when the album is released in April. Email your answers to theband@realpd.co.uk And good luck.
07/02/07
Work on Real PD's forthcoming thirteenth studio album continues apace. The new collection will be entitled 'For Those About to Pop' and will have an April 2007 release. The CD features new versions of the songs Dress Code and Catsuit, along with around 14 other gems. (We're still chewing over the track listing. Yeah, we hear a single... but do we got a B side?) Anyway, there just might be a very thrilling and most exclusive track from the album lurking somewhere on the site. Search carefully and thoroughly. Leave no stone unturned. And no reptile unclicked.
A single, 'Seclusion' - which has, like, a video and everything - will precede 'For Those About to Pop'. Excitingly, it features lead vocals by Mark for a change. And, as the good Sheryl once noted, a change can only do us good. More details to come.
18/12/06 First exciting installments of Sandwich in Motion booklet published. See news story from 01.12.06 below for the full story.
01.12.06 Gasp! Long-lost 'Sandwich in Motion' booklet found
The limited-edition-of-one art booklet to accompany (bonkers) 1986 album 'Sandwich in Motion', which has long been missing and revered as a legend (as only a truly lost object can be) has, er, turned up. Turns out it was under a pile of gubbins at Adrian's parents' house all along. Rather thrillingly, the booklet, which comprises lyrics, photos, drawings and collage-type-affairs turns out to be a winning mix of the truly inspired and the utterly crap. Pages are being carefully teased onto a flatbed scanner as we 'speak', and will be reproduced on this very site in the very near future...
04.06 New CD single! New download-only single
'Dress Code' is the first sneak listen to what the PD boys and girl have been up to in 2006. And it might just surprise you...
The song is accompanied on the 2-track single by 'I © Popjustice', the band's hymn to the seminal music website (take a look at www.popjustice.com) and our lament/ rant/ call to arms over the state of pop. This track features both Sean and Richard on guitar and boasts a melody line strangely familiar to anyone who followed the 80s adventures of a fabulously wonky girl group...
In addition to the CD single there's a third, and storming, track available (for the moment) as a download only. You can find 'Principles' in the Sounds and Visions area of the site. Enjoy. It's claptastic...
04.06 The band have started recording fab new material. This album is shaping up to be quite a diverse set, featuring songs with writing credits from Richard, Sean, Claire and Steve as well as the usual songscribbling suspects. Expect an album, oooh sometime over the course of the next year, and a single... imminently!
01.06 Real PD are currently writing material for a new album, their thirteenth studio project. The vibe is collaborative and chaotic.
12.05 The second single from 'Burn Your Flag With Pride' is a Japan-only release of 'Rubbermaid'. The tracklisting for the single which features exclusive B-Sides and a new D&E remix is:
1 Rubbermaid
2 The Ceiling
3 Trees Change Colour
4 Dignity & Excellence
(Miki Mokimoto RadioNoNo Edit)
10.05 The tracklist for the new CD single of 'Dignity & Excellence' is as follows:
1 Dignity & Excellence
2 I Pressurize Your Hair (Real PD vs M*lo DJ Whitelabel Mash-Up)
3 I Put it There
4 Waking Your Mind Up (Electro Single Version)
