The first single taken from the album 'Racecar is Racecar backwards', and the first release since January 2003. It was recorded at Stakeout Studios in Chobham where the band recorded the album with Jason Wilcock. It was released in October 2003 on the Xtra mile/Integrity label, home to Million Dead, on CD and 7" vinyl, a first for the band. It received good reviews and reached number 76 in the UK chart, making it the band's biggest hit to date! Zane Lowe made it his Radio one single of the week, but XFM said that it was 'too heavy' to play. Rock on!

The tracks:

Stuck In My Throat The first of several new songs the band had written for the album in the gap between tours, it was a toss up between this song and 'No One Wins the War' for the first single off the album.

Doll Fin Another old song, an earlier version of which can be found on the band's page at Peoplesound.

Scared of The Police (Live for XFM) A fast frenetic version of the band's first single, recorded at their XFM sponsored show at the Barfly in London with Harpies. This is the first live recording to be officially released by the band.

The facts:

The version of Stuck In My Throat that appears on the single was actually recorded two weeks before the band started making their album. There had been delays in delivery of the microphones the band had bought for the studio to record with, but release deadlines for the single had to be met so in the time they had they recorded the title track and b side Doll Fin with the mics already present and spent the next week making it sound as good as possible.

It had been intended that a different version of Doll Fin with a comedy metal solo (as if the regular solo isn't comedy enough) would be used on the flip side of the vinyl release but a mistake at the record company meant it sadly wasn't included.

The song includes the quote 'you're kitten as a cat' from 'Love Cats' by The Cure.

The band wanted 'What's good for me', an acoustic track with just vocals and guitar to be included as the second b side, but the label disagreed and they instead opted for the cracking version of Scared Of The Police that appeared instead.

A mistake by the label meant that the inlay of the single, which was meant to feature the original photo of Guy and the lyrics to all three songs was left blank. You can see the unused artwork, complete with typos, here [note: this is a massive file and will take a few minutes to download if you don't have broadband]

The band wear white contact lenses in the video for the song, but none of them had worn them before so they enlisted the help of a friend to assist them in getting them in and out of their eyes!

The video is shot in a huge storage shed next to the studio where the album was recorded. It was being used to store a number of large items, but had to be completely cleared for the video. Amongst the items removed were a three piece suite, a boat, and a caravan!