Chinese Telephones

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This band started in the beginning of '04, went on 2 tours (West and East) that Summer, switched bass players between tours, went on a West coast tour the next Winter with a different drummer and a s/t 7", broke up May '05 and recorded for a split 7" and split 12" the next day, got back together for a few shows in late summer with a new drummer, then got back together for good on December 31st '05 with a new bass player. We recorded our full length album in November 2006. It was the only time we didn't record with Ben Woyak (it was with Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan in Fort Worth and Denton, Texas). Summer '07, we did a split with Dear Landlord, and did a short East coast tour with them. In September '07, we got the previous bass player back in the band. The full length album was finally released in November 2007. We toured Japan for two weeks in March 2008 with Blotto, thanks to Yoichi of Snuffy Smiles and got to meet some of the nicest people in the world. We only played a couple more shows that year, including the Fest in Gainesville and Insubordination Fest in Baltimore. On February 26, 2009, we played our "final show" in Milwaukee. It's all over now. Got it? UPDATE: We're playing again, for a little while.

There were 8 Chinese Telephones releases, in this order:

1-a self-titled 7" on Dingus records that is out of print

2-a split 7" with Dan Padilla on Fast Crowd Records

3-a split 12" with the Potential Johns sort of came out on Pizza Pizza Records. Only 100 copies w/ "special" tour edition covers that we photocopied at Kinko's and glued onto Small Brown Bike LP jackets. This has now been re-pressed with full-color covers and label art by Cheeky Git Records

4-a split 7" with Anti-Justice from Japan on Snuffy Smiles records

5-a split 7" with Dear Landlord on It's Alive/ Recess Records.

6-Our LP/ CD is out on It's Alive records. You can order it from many places, including itsaliverecords.com, noidearecords.com, and more. 7-We released a 7" for the Art of the Underground Single series, which included "Game of Pricks" (Guided by Voices cover) and "I Don't Wanna Get Involved" (the Queers cover) which was limited to 350. 8-Our final release is Chinese Telephones "Democracy," on Sandwich Man Records (Justin's "label"), which compiles all of our vinyl-only releases on one cd. available through us, No Idea, Dirtnap/ Green Noise, Razorcake, Interpunk, more. here's a video of us playing "Crying in the Chapel" at Subterranean in Chicago with Jeff Burke on bass.



here are a couple videos of us in Yokohama in March 2008.



here's a video of us at the Fest 6 in Gaineville on 10/26/07 with our friend Jeff Burke filling in on bass. Chinese Telephones



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