The first single to come from The Soviets' EP will be opening track "The Waitress", and the band have been confirmed to shoot a music video with J6 Films on November 22nd. Hear the song in full on the Listen page.

The Soviets' debut EP has been mixed and mastered, and will therefore be added to the online discography in the next day or two.

The EP is titled "Who We Are", and includes "The Waitress", "No Love", and "Turned On".

All writing credit goes to Stephen Cochrane. The songs were arranged by The Soviets and produced by John Elliott at Loft Studios, Newcastle.

Release date TBA, but the CD will be available to pre-order in the near future.

 The Soviets have signed an agreement with Loft Productions LLP to record three songs over 6 days in the next month. Once recording has started various members of the band will be blogging daily on the progress of the recordings, and the tracks will be made available to stream from this website once they are completed in early July.

 As part of the online promotion for next Wednesday's gig at The Cluny (and probably the upcoming gigs under the "Summer at the Cluny" banner) RGR are giving away a free ticket to any Twitter users who ReTweet the promotional tweet advertising the gig.

If you are already using Twitter, all you need to do is follow @recklessgeneral and RT the update, then one of the team will DM you with details of how to claim your ticket.

If you don't use Twitter, set up an account and then follow the steps above.

RGR have had some emails about the gigs listed on the Soviets' Ents24 page, which is showing some erroneous information.

The band have only one confirmed gig in the near future - May 16th at The Cluny. All the information for this gig can be found on the gigs page of this website, as well as our Facebook and MySpace accounts.

We do have a number of dates over the summer pencilled in with The Cluny, which we will advertise once they're all confirmed.

Update (09/06/2009): The Soviets are confirmed to play the following dates as part of "RGR presents... Summer at the Cluny":

Wednesday 17th June - Support from Simpleswan

Wednesday 15th July - Support TBA

Saturday 15th August - Support TBA

Thursday 17th September - Support TBC