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Released in September 2005, one week ahead of the band's second album, this single was available on three formats: CD, 7"Vinyl and a limited yellow vinyl version, each released with different b-sides. Like 'A Kick In The Mouth' before it, it received good reviews in the press but little play on Radio and TV, and although it sold more copies than even its predecessor in its first week, it climbed to only No.62 in the UK charts.
The tracks:
Keep It To Yourself The band's most openly grunge track, envoking shades of both Nirvana and tourmates Mclusky, this is the oldest song on the second album.
Karen (CD only) A cover of a song by Farnborough band Vex Red, recorded with Ryan Maunder at Raezor studios.
Approaching By Stealth (Vinyl only) Another old song that had been demoed for possible inclusion on both of the band's albums.
Victim (Yellow Vinyl Only) An incredibly old song that featured on the band's first demo as Angel, 'Betrayed'
The facts:
Keep It To Yourself was originally called 'Truck'. When first played by the band, it was Guy that sang the backing vocals for the chorus, which went "Take it by myself, ain't nobody else...", but Jon took over when Guy decided it was too much hassle.
It was the first song to be recorded for the album, chiefly because of its being "easy to play".
'Karen' should actually be spelled 'Karin'. Boh!
Vex Red were another band from Farnborough who Reuben shared the stage with many times in the Angel days. 'Karin' was a song that new singer Terry had written for his old band Mushroom, but he brought it over to his new band and they made it what you hear today.
Victim appeared on Pete Cole's Farnborough Groove compilation in the early days of the band and was given to manager Barney in the hope he might give the band some gigs. When the gigs did not appear, Jamie asked Barney, who was not then the band's manager, if he had heard the big rock-out ending of the song, to which Barney replied that he couldn't remember, but that he probably had his head down the toilet being sick by the time it got that far.
The video for the single was filmed, amongst other places, at the chip shop where Jim works and the office above it.
The same chip shop appears in the video for Freddy Kreuger.
The video features a host of friends and family, including director Daniel Fernbach's sister, mum and dad, (who played the dad in the Freddy Kreuger video), Jim's girlfriend Katie, the band's roadie Chris (who doubled as one of the band in the Let's Stop Hanging Out video), a selection of waitresses and customers from the chip shop, and of course, Ryan Maunder.
Jim cooked four ice cream tubs full of spaghetti for the meals of the 'customers' in the restaurant scene, but only one box full was used.
The clock at the start of the video is Jim's actual alarm clock, which was purchased at a car boot sale in Edinburgh when the band were on tour with Mclusky. The tape player doesn't work.
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