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FREE DOWNLOAD OF NEW SINGLE

Seasons Greetings!
Now, before we start to tuck in to the turkey, we thought we’d let you in on our annual ‘Ratells Christmas Giveaway!’.
That’s right, GIVEAWAY, which means you won’t be parting with any more of your well earned pennies over this festive season. Here’s how it’s going to work..
Today: Thursday 23rd December

A special Piano version of our new single (Out in 2011) ‘Legacy’ is available here for FREE.
If we get over 100 downloads of the track by Christmas Day 2 special versions of brand new tracks “Runaway” and “Take Aim” will be emailed to you absolutely FREE!
Make sure to download ‘Legacy’ now and spread the love, so that come Christmas Day, Santa won’t disappoint, and there’ll be 2 brand new Ratells tracks waiting to be downloaded, or should we say unwrapped!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all!

Big Big Love,Rudolph, Donner, Blitzen, Commet and Dasher

PS. We’ve still got a couple of our Crimbo Bargain Bundles left, check it out -http://theratells.com

02 Academy Main Stage This SATURDAY - Over 1,000 tickets gone already…

We’re now down to the last 10 or so tickets for this Saturdays Maahoosive gig at the o2 Academy Main Stage.

It’s been billed as ‘Sheffields Biggest Ever Unsigned Night’. There’s 6 bands on and we’re main support to the brillaint TIVOLI.

We still have a handful of tickets left for the gig but these are VERY limited. Tickets are priced at £8 each. We’re in Sheff Town/ Rotherham Town most days this week. So just drop one of us a text on..

Ben - 07792717725
Danny - 07514529367 
Sam - 07823443308

or you can get them online from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/69901

We’ve also now got formspring, where you can ask us any question you like - anonymously (: and we’ll reply. Question us at - http://formspring.me/theratells

Si thi Saturday! xxx

New Songs Lyrics!

Murder From A Broken Heart

And if you, care at all 

It would be best, for you to respect her choice 

Now she’ll be the judge and you the defence

While the prosecution all sits on the fence 

She wanted friendship but you wanted her 

These words you speak while the jury did confer

You said, I know I know your honour 

I know I know you wanna 

I know I know your honour

I know I know you wanna

The verdict wasn’t to plan

So now you are left

You’re left as a broken man

So it’s a table for one cause you just wouldn’t stop

A riverbed waits for the tears to drop

Flash floods and thunder the saint killed the thief

With an arrow through the heart fall down to your knees

But you still say, I know I know your honour

I know I know you wanna 

I know I know your honour

I know I know you wanna

An argument of words not understood

Lost in translation

Because no-one speaks the lost language of love

And if you wish to re-ignite this burnt out city, then please

…give it one more try, for the sake of all mankind 

It might be love

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Quiet voices in our head, telling us we’re being left for dead

They surround us, they surround us

But why, are we always looking for something more

But why, are we always looking for something more

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

We cry mercury, were losing our precious memories

They fall from us, they fall from us

Quiet voices in our minds, telling us we’re being left behind

They surround us, they surround us

But why, are we always looking for something more

But why, are we always looking for something more

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us

Our tears flow free, endless like the city streets

That surround us, that surround us…

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*2 Brand new tracks available for FREE DOWNLOAD!*

After having a lovely weekend spent in The Steelworks studios in Sheffield with wonderful chaps who work there, we have 2 BRAND NEW tracks for y’all, for FREE!

After we all had a few cups of tea, way too much to eat and Rory had “been for a Craig” we finally got the tracks recorded.

Because they sound rather decent and we’ve got a massive gig coming up at the O2 Academy Main Room (Sat 17th April - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/69901) we thought we would treat you and let you have them for absolutely nothing!

• They are NOW available to listen to at http://www.myspace.com/theratells and
• For FREE DOWNLOAD at http://www.theratells.bandcamp.com

Spread the word darlings.

The Ratells xx

** IF YOU STILL NEED A TICKET FOR SAT 17TH APRIL GIG AT THE O2 ACADEMY MAIN ROOM..

Give us a text on

• Ben - 077927117725
• Sam - 07823443308
• Danny - 07514529367

and we’ll come meet you in Sheff town **

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‘Fearful Lullaby’ EP now on itunes + OFFICIAL VIDEO!

Alright Tumbleheads! How are y’all?

Apologies for no posting for a while, things have been pretty hectic recently but FEARFUL LULLABY is finally here!

The EP is now out on itunes and contains 3 tracks, it can be downloaded from http://itunes.com/theratells . If you’d like to hear a preview of the tracks first, they are available to listen to on our BRAND NEW MYSPACE - www.myspace.com/theratells .

‘FEARFUL LULLABY’ OFFICIAL VIDEO is now out too. It can be viewed on youtube on the following link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1DxWNemeRk . Big up to 32nd Records (http://32ndrecords.tumblr.com/) and Northern Film School for their involvement in the vid.

To celebrate the release, we’re holding a good old launch party down at The Grapes in Sheffield on Saturday 6th March. Tickets are just £3 and are available online only from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/69868 . PLS NOTE, THERE ARE ONLY 25 TICKETS REMAINING FOR THIS GIG SO DON’T MISS OUT!

Think thats about it for now, if you could post the video, reblog this etc. etc. on your tumblers it’d be greatly appreciated and we’ll love you very much.

Mwahhh Mwahhh Mwahh,

Ash, Ben, Danny, Sam & Rory xxxxx

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A lovely little update (:

Good evening peoplee (: how are we all? 

Just thought i’d come on and let you know what’s been happening in the world of all things Ratell in the past week.

FEARFUL LULLABY EP -RELEASED MARCH 1ST 2010 (32nd Records)

Emails of the first few mixes of fearful have been flying around all christmas between members of team Ratell and the tune is sounding MASSIVE already!. We’ve just added a bit of the old piano into the track and we’re toying with the idea of chucking in a bit of female vocals too! We’ll keep you up to date with how the tracks are sounding when we hear more, hope you’re looking forward to hearing them!

FEARFUL LULLABY MUSIC VIDEO - RELEASED LATE FEBRUARY (TBC)

The other day we got sent through the first draft synopsis/script for first proper music video for lead track off the new EP - FEARFUL LULLABY. The final script and casting is been sorted out as we speak (:. It’s due to be filmed mid-January and should be released to all you lovely lot during the last week of February. Maybe sort out a tumblr exclusive and release it on here a day before everybody else? So keep your eyes peeled ;)

FREE ACOUSTIC DOWNLOADS OF 2 NEW TRACKS ‘FEARFUL LULLABY’ + ‘SNAKES’

A massive THANK YOU to all who have downloaded these 2 tracks so far, we’ve had over 250 downloads and the total keeps increasing day by day (:. The 2 tracks are acoustic versions of 2 songs which feature on our ‘FEARFUL LULLABY EP’ released March 1st, 2010. If you still haven’t got your hands on these yet, click the following link and post it/tweet it/ re-blog it to all of your mates and we’ll love you forever - http://theratells.bandcamp.com

We hope you enjoy the tracks!

VAGRANTS AND VIRGINS TOUR SPRING 2010

Yes, thats the name kiddas, you heard it here first, We will be embarking on our 1st UK tour during March/April 2010 to promote the release of ‘FEARFUL LULLABY’. Support bands will be confirmed within the next few weeks, along with dates. The tour is planned from 5th March - 18th April and taking in most of England and Wales, to keep up-to-date and be the first to know about where we shall be playing - follow the Vagrants and Virgins Tours twitter page - twitter.com/vandvtour2010

We hope you’re all having a wonderful Christmas and thanks for such a great year, we couldn’t have done it all with out you!

See you in 2010!

Love,

Ash, Ben, Danny, Sam and Rory xxxxx

Another FREE acoustic download for you wonderful lot…

Happy Boxing day! (:

We hope your having a great Christmas so far.

As a thanks for your support we’ve got another free download - this time an acoustic version of the lovely Fearful Lullaby - just head over to http://theratells.bandcamp.com and grab a copy now!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

See you in the new year

Lots of festive love

Ash, Danny, Ben, Sam and Rory
The Ratells

xx

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Right you lovely lot…..

If 250 people go grab the FREE DOWNLOAD of new song ‘Snakes (Acoustic)’ from http://theratells.bandcamp.com by Xmas Eve. Then we’ll send every single one of you who downloaded it ‘Fearful Lullaby (Acoustic)’ on Christmas Day!

We’ve had 60 downloads so far!

If you could reblog/retweet/ tell your friends about this post and get them to download it too, the quicker we’ll get to 250!

Love

Ash, Ben, Sam, Danny and Rory xxxx

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Free Acoustic Download + 30 Special Xmas Presents for YOU!

Good Morning wonderful people!

Free Acoustic Download.
Well yes, as it’s christmas and everybody is busy buying presents for each other, we thought we’d join in the festive fun and offer all you lovely lot a free download!

The track is an acoustic version of one of our new tunes ‘Snakes’ which is off our brand new EP ‘Fearful Lullaby’ which is out March 1st on 32nd Records.

Click the link below to download -
http://theratells.bandcamp.com/


30 Special Christmas Presents.
On top of our acoustic download, we also have 30 other exclusive christmas presents up for grabs (We really are spoiling you now aren’t we!?).

At tomorrow’s (Fri 18th) gig at the cockpit and Saturdays (Sat 19th) gig at the Plug, there will be 30 SPECIAL Ratells christmas presents up for grabs. Each will be priced at £3 and contain lots of personal Ratells stuffs along with a special CD containing a certain never—heard-before acoustic track (Unless you count a half drunken attempt at it on a tram in Sheffield! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys1aFSHtdXk).

Make sure to get your hands on one of these, as there are only 30 presents and when they’re gone, they’re gone!

Be great to see some of you down at these last 2 gigs of ours aswell, as they are our last until April 2010.


Have a lovely Christmas and if you’re not coming to the Plug/Cockpit this weekend, then have a wonderful new year as well and we’ll see you all in April!


Godbless.
Ash, Ben, Danny, Sam and Rory xxxxxx

We need YOU, yes YOU!

Hey all!

Our song ‘Pretty Girls and Wandering Eyes’ has made it into the top 12 in The Sheffield Star’s Limelight Competition and we now need YOUR vote to get us through to the Grand Final.

The prize, if we win, is a recording session at the WORLD FAMOUS STEELWORKS STUDIO’s in which our songs will be recorded and produced by Elliot Kennedy who has worked with Take That, Bryan Adams, Spice Girls Etc. And also the oppertunity to play at Sheffield City Hall as part of the ‘Elliot Kennedy and Star Guests - The Power Of Music’ show which last year included PETER KAY, BRYAN ADAMS to name a few.

HOW TO VOTE:

BY TEXT, text - STAREKL TR (yourname, house number and postcode) to the number… 81800. Text’s cost 25p and you can text as many times as you like

BY EMAIL - *FREE* - In the subject line of the email write ‘Limelight Vote The Ratells’ and in the message include your full name and contact details to promotions@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk ONLY 1 EMAIL VOTE PER ACCOUNT.

For more info - http://www.thestar.co.uk/music/VOTE-NOW-Eliot-Kennedy39s-Limelight.5762233.jp

Once you’ve voted for us Reblog this post and we’ll send you some free merch in the post as a thankyou for voting:)

Cheers guys and get voting:)

Ash, Ben, Danny, Sam and Rory xxx