Its almost inconceivable but Hood alumni The Declining Winter have written a song to commemorate the 2010 World Cup. It was released on Home Assembly Music on June 14th. The limited edition version has free postcards and specially made band panini stickers Only available here: http://www.homeassemblymusic.com/buy.php Download now available from ITUNES and AMAZON

Some news from The Declining Winter We are thrilled to announce the release of The Declining Winter 'Goodbye Minnesota' vinyl edition. This is limited to strictly 250 copies and comes on 180g heavyweight vinyl in a handmade double fronted sleeve. Each copy comes with an exclusive used postcard and contains a bonus track not found on the original CD version. Orders will be shipped from Friday 16th April onwards. To order please go here Visit The Declining Winter website for all the latest news.................... http://www.thedecliningwinter.com

A small morsel of news in that our long out of print compilations 'Singles Compiled' and 'Compilations 1995-2002' have had a limited re-press ahead of their vinyl release and will be available from March 22 from any record shops that see fit to stock them. PRE-ORDER Singled Compiled Compilations 1995-2002

Christmas is coming and ex Hood person Mark Wright is celebrating by releasing a limited edition EP of festive songs. Hopefully this will bide him time to finish his long awaited LP. Only available from Norman Records.

We received a shipment of 'The Lost You' EP's fro our Australian distributor. These are the last 30 ever so if you want one now is the time. It contains 5 tracks (four of which aren't on anything else) plus a video. We've given them to Norman Records to sell so thats where you need to go.