DEPARTURES - GREEN TURNS TO RED, THEN TURNS TO GOLD
05/02/2012
Stoked to be announcing the details for this! It's going to be released physically and digitally (iTunes, Spotify, Amazon MP3 and the FITA Digital store/ Bandcamp) on Thursday February 9th (next week!). THERE ARE NO PREORDERS this is going straight up for order on Feb. 9th and will be posting out from that day onwards. Package deals may take slightly longer depending on the wait for the shirts, but it still shouldn't be more than a week or so.
The 7" will contain two brand new tracks and be pressed on 3 different colours, as follows:
100 transparent red
150 pale green
250 clear
The transparent red copies will be available exclusively on Departures tour with Heart In Hand which starts February 9th. We will have 25 copies in our store for package deals so if you can't get to one of their shows you got to act fast! You can view the tour dates here:
There will be a preorder tshirt limited to 50 for the package deals (you can also buy it seperately), designed by our good pal Micah! Make sure you check out his work at cargocollective.com/designbymicah
In the meantime, take a listen to the new song Departures put up for stream last month and get ready for this release next week!
Thanks for the continued support, means the world!
ALASKA - WHITE WIDOW.
01/01/2012
Alaska have released their first song for over a year since their split with End Reign, titled 'White Widow'. Personally I think it's their best song to date, and am therefore extremely excited to announce that we will be releasing it along with 3 other new songs on a one sided 12" with an etched B-side! It's due out around Spring, more details will follow as and when!
For now though, please head over to our digital page and stream/ download White Widow for free!
Merch update - New Departures Hoodies/ FITA Beanies
30/11/2011
Quick merch update; we'll have some brand new Departures hoodys available next week, as well as some FITA beanies! Both are being printed/ emboidered this week and will be up for sale soon!
In other news, we will (hopefully) be announcing our next release soon! It's taken quite a while to come together but we're extremely excited about it and hope that you will be too once the details are out! Stay tuned!
NEW ALASKA AND END REIGN SHIRTS/ DEPARTURES & TAKE COURAGE UK TOUR
24/10/2011
We finally sorted out some new merch for Alaska and End Reign after what seems like ages without anything new from either band in our store. Both shirts are limited to 30 and come with a FITA Records backprint. Only £8.00 a piece!
In news for the bands, Alaska finished up recording their new tracks for the upcoming 7" they have due out on TDON Records. It's the heaviest material to date, it sounds incredible. They have a mini tour planned in November, playing shows with Oathbreaker in Brighton, TDON 7 in Manchester and a couple more over the weekend that I can't remember right now, but no doubt they're great too.
End Reign have a tour coming up with Bastions, starting November 7th. Be sure to come out to a show, I think End Reign will be playing some new shit so it's worth coming for that alone!
8th November - Manchester , Retro Bar
9th November - Hull, The Lamp
10th November - Sheffield, South Sea
11th November - Brighton, The Haunt
12th November - London, Buffalo Bar
13th November - Margate, Westcoast Bar
14th November - Birmingham, Actress & Bishop
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Departures and Take Courage start their UK tour tomorrow in Brighton! This is the first tour for quite a while for both bands so please come down to a show and say hi, hang out and have fun. There'll be new merch available too so look out for that! We shall be bringing our distro down, running a little low to be honest but if there's anything you've seen in our store you fancy then save yourself the postage and grab it from us direct!
25th October - The Green Door Store, Brighton
26th October - 27 Club, Torquay
27th October - Live Bar, Truro
28th October - The Old Angel, Nottingham
29th October - The Fenton, Leeds
30th October - The 13th Note Café/Bar
UPDATE
17/08/2011
End Reign 7"s have arrive and all preorders will be shipping this week! There was a slight hiccup at the pressing plant so the green/ black mixes just came out sold green, looks kinda like snot. Snot green vinyl. Awesome.
We have another load of records coming in from Revelation Records from the USA to add to our distro, it should turn up late this week. As it stands we currently have records in store from Loma Prieta, Punch, Maths, More Than Life, Gold Kids and a bunch more. Expect to see 12"s and 7" from these bands:
Oathbreaker
Harms Way
Have Heart
Downpresser
The Wonder Years
Title Fight
Rotting Out
Defeater
Daylight
Bad Seed
War Hungry
Rise And Fall
So we're going to have a shit load of new stuff! New merch is planned too, we have a great design that will be printed soon. Hope you all like it, we think it's fucking rad.
ALSO, Departures/ Take Courage UK/ Euro tour is being booked, expect an announcement on that within the next few weeks!
NEW SHIRTS!
16/07/2011
We decided to reprint our old Thrasher rip for the hell of it and it came out awesome! Huge thanks for Mikee at Vino Sangre for printing them!
Departures 'Forgetting' tshirt has also been reprinted, this time cardinal red on grey shirts. These sold extremely quickly last time and I know some people missed out, so heres your chance to get it!
Both shirts are limited to 30 and can be found in our store
END REIGN PRE ORDERS
26/06/2011
Pre-orders for the End Reign self-titled 7" have gone up!
2 colours of vinyl and a new shirt available HERE
END REIGN 7"
26/06/2011
Test presses for the upcoming End Reign 7" have arrived and sound fucking insane. Very excited to get this record out, they just got off their UK tour with Alaska and anyone who came out to one of those shows know how good the new tracks are. Preorder should go up sometime next week, expect a couple of colours of vinyl and a limited screenprinted preorder cover!
Departures record release show is (finally) upon us; Friday 1st July you can hit The Captain's Rest in Glasgow and catch them, By My Hands, Grader and Wolves at Heart for a mere 5 quid. Not only that, but I'll be in attendence as well. Buy me drinks.
Merch restock for Departures 'Forgetting' t-shirt should happen within the next few weeks on a different colourway. Keep and eye on Alaska too for their tour leftovers!
DEPARTURES 12" HAS ARRIVED
04/06/2011
Departures 12"s have arrived and came out perfectly, couldn't be happier with them! Almost all preorders have been posted out, the remaining few are being sent Monday so all UK orders expect them the same week, Europe and International orders will take a bit longer.
In other preorder news, Xerxes/ Midnight Souls 7"s are due to arrive next Friday. So so sorry for the delay, but it's defintely worth the wait, it is an amazing record from two of the best bands around!
End Reign's new 7" is at the plant as we speak, test pressings are expected June 10 so preorders should be up not long after. There'll be some sweet package deals and a preorder cover so save your pennies for that!
ALASKA/END REIGN TOUR
28/05/2011
Alaska and End Reign start their UK tour in a few weeks! If you're near any of the shows please come out and say hi! It's not often Alaska get to play many shows so nows your chance to see them while they're all free from work and uni! Also bring some Three Hammers cider and pizza for Jacque Read because he's hilarious and deserves it. Both bands will be playing new songs from their upcoming 7"s, and I can assure you that they're bangers!
If anyone can help with the free date we have (Saturday 18th), please get in touch @ fistintheair@live.co.uk. We're looking for anywhere between Brighton and Birmingham!
SALE
21/05/2011
Seeing as the world is ending today, we’re having a may 21st ‘End of the World’ sale. The discount code is RAPTURE, you get 21% off everything in store! It’s only running today, the apocolypse is nigh, hopefully your order will be sent out today but who gives a shit cos you’re gona be dead anyway.
Pick up something nice!
NEWS!
20/05/2011
Departures t-shirts have been printed and will arrive early next week! Everyone who has ordered just a t-shirt, yours will be posted asap so keep an eye on your postbox. Here's how they look, came out pretty awesome -
Also, our good friend Nick at A Short Fanzine About Rocking reviewed When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted. Another great review for a great record! If you haven't seen already, we have a few copies of issue 28 and 29 of ASFAR, it's the best hardcore/ punk zine in the UK and it's only £1.50. Grab one here.
DEPARTURES – ‘When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted’ (Fist In The Air) NICK
Wow, this is something pretty special. While relatively unheralded until now, Scotland’s Departures have well and truly announced their arrival as a band to sit up and pay attention to with this, their debut full-length. With Dead Swans seemingly MIA and More Than Life also decidedly quiet at the moment, there should certainly be space in peoples’ affections for another UK band purveying a similarly despair-driven brand of melody-tinged hardcore and that’s where Departures come in.
Pained, impassioned vocals, tumultuous riffs and bleak melodic passages are very much the order of the day here – a sound that will undoubtedly be familiar to fans of the aforementioned bands, and, it goes without saying Defeater and More Than Life, but any over-familiarity is rendered obsolete by the quality of the songs on offer.
Particular stand-outs include the turbulent ‘Disappointment’ and the more urgent ‘A Life In Pieces’, which together create a killer one-two midway through the album. Meanwhile ‘The View From Below’ serves up perhaps the album’s most frenetic, thrashing moment but is also infused with a plaintive, melodic edge, perfectly illustrating the band’s accomplished and confident performance throughout.
With just 10 tracks, including an instrumental intro, there’s no fat on ‘When Losing Everything…’ - it just goes right in for the kill in a devastatingly effective manner. We may only be half way through the year but I have no doubt this will be one of THE hardcore albums of 2011."
Update.
18/05/2011
Been a while since we posted anything, so here goes:
- Thank you to everyone who’s preordered Departures’ album so far, the response to it has been amazing! It’s truly an incredible album, please take the time to listen to it in our bandcamp/ digital page on our website. Here’s a review to read too.
- Xerxes/ Midnight Souls 7”s are on their way to FITA HQ. They’re coming in from America so may take a little while to arrive, but I would like to think that all preorders will be shipping from us before the end of the month.
- Alaska and End Reign have a UK tour coming up, June 17th-23rd. We still need the 19th booked, if you can help please email fistintheair@live.co.uk!
- We shall be releasing End Reign’s new 7” with Holy Roar, Hemlock 13 and Witch Hunter Records. Due out around June/ July, it’s dark as fuck and features some amazing artwork by Give Up!
- Take Courage have nearly finished writing their debut full length! Couldn’t be more excited about this, their Winter Sessions demo was easily their best work to date, and having heard some of the new songs I know for a fact you’re all in for a treat.
- Departures will be touring late June/ early July. Keep your eyes peeled for news about that. Kent heads, a date is already booked and in the works!
- And finally, you have hopefully noticed that we have a website now! Insanely happy with it, we’ll be running everything from there in the future to keep everything in one place and therefore a lot easier for everyone to access. Check it out! www.fitarecords.co.uk
Thanks for the continued support, it does not go unappreciated!
Departures Pre-Orders are up.
18/05/2011
Finally, this record is coming out. It's taken a lot of hard work from everyone involved and it has completely paid off. Easily our best release to date, couldn't be more excited to get it out!
Preorders include:
Two colours of vinyl
A brand new t-shirt and package deal
Immediate download code
A chance to win a test pressing
The album can be streamed in it's entirity here
PRE ORDER THIS ALBUM HERE
Xerxes/Midnight Souls Split
07/04/2011
Split 7" preorders go up tomorrow at 5pm! So excited for this release, it's an absolute banger!
PunkNews.org will be doing an exclusive stream of it soon!
fitarecords.bigcartel.com
Test Pressings!
30/03/2011
So the test presses for the XERXES | MIDNIGHT SOULS splits are in at Mayfly Records headquaters! That means preorders and pressing info should be up fairly soon. We are stoked beyond belief to be a part of this project; two amazing bands on one record!
Departures 12" is becoming a bit Chinese Democracy-esque (but it'll actually be worth the wait) as it's been sent off for another mastering. It's going to sound amazing though, and a new song will be going up asap!
When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted
22/03/2011
INCOMING
Currently being mastered by Jay Maas @ Getaway Recording.
Songs up FUCKING SOON.
Pre-orders up FUCKING SOON.
05/02/2012
Stoked to be announcing the details for this! It's going to be released physically and digitally (iTunes, Spotify, Amazon MP3 and the FITA Digital store/ Bandcamp) on Thursday February 9th (next week!). THERE ARE NO PREORDERS this is going straight up for order on Feb. 9th and will be posting out from that day onwards. Package deals may take slightly longer depending on the wait for the shirts, but it still shouldn't be more than a week or so.
The 7" will contain two brand new tracks and be pressed on 3 different colours, as follows:
100 transparent red
150 pale green
250 clear
The transparent red copies will be available exclusively on Departures tour with Heart In Hand which starts February 9th. We will have 25 copies in our store for package deals so if you can't get to one of their shows you got to act fast! You can view the tour dates here:
There will be a preorder tshirt limited to 50 for the package deals (you can also buy it seperately), designed by our good pal Micah! Make sure you check out his work at cargocollective.com/designbymicah
In the meantime, take a listen to the new song Departures put up for stream last month and get ready for this release next week!
Thanks for the continued support, means the world!
ALASKA - WHITE WIDOW.
01/01/2012
Alaska have released their first song for over a year since their split with End Reign, titled 'White Widow'. Personally I think it's their best song to date, and am therefore extremely excited to announce that we will be releasing it along with 3 other new songs on a one sided 12" with an etched B-side! It's due out around Spring, more details will follow as and when!
For now though, please head over to our digital page and stream/ download White Widow for free!
Merch update - New Departures Hoodies/ FITA Beanies
30/11/2011
Quick merch update; we'll have some brand new Departures hoodys available next week, as well as some FITA beanies! Both are being printed/ emboidered this week and will be up for sale soon!
In other news, we will (hopefully) be announcing our next release soon! It's taken quite a while to come together but we're extremely excited about it and hope that you will be too once the details are out! Stay tuned!
NEW ALASKA AND END REIGN SHIRTS/ DEPARTURES & TAKE COURAGE UK TOUR
24/10/2011
We finally sorted out some new merch for Alaska and End Reign after what seems like ages without anything new from either band in our store. Both shirts are limited to 30 and come with a FITA Records backprint. Only £8.00 a piece!
In news for the bands, Alaska finished up recording their new tracks for the upcoming 7" they have due out on TDON Records. It's the heaviest material to date, it sounds incredible. They have a mini tour planned in November, playing shows with Oathbreaker in Brighton, TDON 7 in Manchester and a couple more over the weekend that I can't remember right now, but no doubt they're great too.
End Reign have a tour coming up with Bastions, starting November 7th. Be sure to come out to a show, I think End Reign will be playing some new shit so it's worth coming for that alone!
8th November - Manchester , Retro Bar
9th November - Hull, The Lamp
10th November - Sheffield, South Sea
11th November - Brighton, The Haunt
12th November - London, Buffalo Bar
13th November - Margate, Westcoast Bar
14th November - Birmingham, Actress & Bishop
---------------
Departures and Take Courage start their UK tour tomorrow in Brighton! This is the first tour for quite a while for both bands so please come down to a show and say hi, hang out and have fun. There'll be new merch available too so look out for that! We shall be bringing our distro down, running a little low to be honest but if there's anything you've seen in our store you fancy then save yourself the postage and grab it from us direct!
25th October - The Green Door Store, Brighton
26th October - 27 Club, Torquay
27th October - Live Bar, Truro
28th October - The Old Angel, Nottingham
29th October - The Fenton, Leeds
30th October - The 13th Note Café/Bar
UPDATE
17/08/2011
End Reign 7"s have arrive and all preorders will be shipping this week! There was a slight hiccup at the pressing plant so the green/ black mixes just came out sold green, looks kinda like snot. Snot green vinyl. Awesome.
We have another load of records coming in from Revelation Records from the USA to add to our distro, it should turn up late this week. As it stands we currently have records in store from Loma Prieta, Punch, Maths, More Than Life, Gold Kids and a bunch more. Expect to see 12"s and 7" from these bands:
Oathbreaker
Harms Way
Have Heart
Downpresser
The Wonder Years
Title Fight
Rotting Out
Defeater
Daylight
Bad Seed
War Hungry
Rise And Fall
So we're going to have a shit load of new stuff! New merch is planned too, we have a great design that will be printed soon. Hope you all like it, we think it's fucking rad.
ALSO, Departures/ Take Courage UK/ Euro tour is being booked, expect an announcement on that within the next few weeks!
NEW SHIRTS!
16/07/2011
We decided to reprint our old Thrasher rip for the hell of it and it came out awesome! Huge thanks for Mikee at Vino Sangre for printing them!
Departures 'Forgetting' tshirt has also been reprinted, this time cardinal red on grey shirts. These sold extremely quickly last time and I know some people missed out, so heres your chance to get it!
Both shirts are limited to 30 and can be found in our store
END REIGN PRE ORDERS
26/06/2011
Pre-orders for the End Reign self-titled 7" have gone up!
2 colours of vinyl and a new shirt available HERE
END REIGN 7"
26/06/2011
Test presses for the upcoming End Reign 7" have arrived and sound fucking insane. Very excited to get this record out, they just got off their UK tour with Alaska and anyone who came out to one of those shows know how good the new tracks are. Preorder should go up sometime next week, expect a couple of colours of vinyl and a limited screenprinted preorder cover!
Departures record release show is (finally) upon us; Friday 1st July you can hit The Captain's Rest in Glasgow and catch them, By My Hands, Grader and Wolves at Heart for a mere 5 quid. Not only that, but I'll be in attendence as well. Buy me drinks.
Merch restock for Departures 'Forgetting' t-shirt should happen within the next few weeks on a different colourway. Keep and eye on Alaska too for their tour leftovers!
DEPARTURES 12" HAS ARRIVED
04/06/2011
Departures 12"s have arrived and came out perfectly, couldn't be happier with them! Almost all preorders have been posted out, the remaining few are being sent Monday so all UK orders expect them the same week, Europe and International orders will take a bit longer.
In other preorder news, Xerxes/ Midnight Souls 7"s are due to arrive next Friday. So so sorry for the delay, but it's defintely worth the wait, it is an amazing record from two of the best bands around!
End Reign's new 7" is at the plant as we speak, test pressings are expected June 10 so preorders should be up not long after. There'll be some sweet package deals and a preorder cover so save your pennies for that!
ALASKA/END REIGN TOUR
28/05/2011
Alaska and End Reign start their UK tour in a few weeks! If you're near any of the shows please come out and say hi! It's not often Alaska get to play many shows so nows your chance to see them while they're all free from work and uni! Also bring some Three Hammers cider and pizza for Jacque Read because he's hilarious and deserves it. Both bands will be playing new songs from their upcoming 7"s, and I can assure you that they're bangers!
If anyone can help with the free date we have (Saturday 18th), please get in touch @ fistintheair@live.co.uk. We're looking for anywhere between Brighton and Birmingham!
SALE
21/05/2011
Seeing as the world is ending today, we’re having a may 21st ‘End of the World’ sale. The discount code is RAPTURE, you get 21% off everything in store! It’s only running today, the apocolypse is nigh, hopefully your order will be sent out today but who gives a shit cos you’re gona be dead anyway.
Pick up something nice!
NEWS!
20/05/2011
Departures t-shirts have been printed and will arrive early next week! Everyone who has ordered just a t-shirt, yours will be posted asap so keep an eye on your postbox. Here's how they look, came out pretty awesome -
Also, our good friend Nick at A Short Fanzine About Rocking reviewed When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted. Another great review for a great record! If you haven't seen already, we have a few copies of issue 28 and 29 of ASFAR, it's the best hardcore/ punk zine in the UK and it's only £1.50. Grab one here.
DEPARTURES – ‘When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted’ (Fist In The Air) NICK
Wow, this is something pretty special. While relatively unheralded until now, Scotland’s Departures have well and truly announced their arrival as a band to sit up and pay attention to with this, their debut full-length. With Dead Swans seemingly MIA and More Than Life also decidedly quiet at the moment, there should certainly be space in peoples’ affections for another UK band purveying a similarly despair-driven brand of melody-tinged hardcore and that’s where Departures come in.
Pained, impassioned vocals, tumultuous riffs and bleak melodic passages are very much the order of the day here – a sound that will undoubtedly be familiar to fans of the aforementioned bands, and, it goes without saying Defeater and More Than Life, but any over-familiarity is rendered obsolete by the quality of the songs on offer.
Particular stand-outs include the turbulent ‘Disappointment’ and the more urgent ‘A Life In Pieces’, which together create a killer one-two midway through the album. Meanwhile ‘The View From Below’ serves up perhaps the album’s most frenetic, thrashing moment but is also infused with a plaintive, melodic edge, perfectly illustrating the band’s accomplished and confident performance throughout.
With just 10 tracks, including an instrumental intro, there’s no fat on ‘When Losing Everything…’ - it just goes right in for the kill in a devastatingly effective manner. We may only be half way through the year but I have no doubt this will be one of THE hardcore albums of 2011."
Update.
18/05/2011
Been a while since we posted anything, so here goes:
- Thank you to everyone who’s preordered Departures’ album so far, the response to it has been amazing! It’s truly an incredible album, please take the time to listen to it in our bandcamp/ digital page on our website. Here’s a review to read too.
- Xerxes/ Midnight Souls 7”s are on their way to FITA HQ. They’re coming in from America so may take a little while to arrive, but I would like to think that all preorders will be shipping from us before the end of the month.
- Alaska and End Reign have a UK tour coming up, June 17th-23rd. We still need the 19th booked, if you can help please email fistintheair@live.co.uk!
- We shall be releasing End Reign’s new 7” with Holy Roar, Hemlock 13 and Witch Hunter Records. Due out around June/ July, it’s dark as fuck and features some amazing artwork by Give Up!
- Take Courage have nearly finished writing their debut full length! Couldn’t be more excited about this, their Winter Sessions demo was easily their best work to date, and having heard some of the new songs I know for a fact you’re all in for a treat.
- Departures will be touring late June/ early July. Keep your eyes peeled for news about that. Kent heads, a date is already booked and in the works!
- And finally, you have hopefully noticed that we have a website now! Insanely happy with it, we’ll be running everything from there in the future to keep everything in one place and therefore a lot easier for everyone to access. Check it out! www.fitarecords.co.uk
Thanks for the continued support, it does not go unappreciated!
Departures Pre-Orders are up.
18/05/2011
Finally, this record is coming out. It's taken a lot of hard work from everyone involved and it has completely paid off. Easily our best release to date, couldn't be more excited to get it out!
Preorders include:
Two colours of vinyl
A brand new t-shirt and package deal
Immediate download code
A chance to win a test pressing
The album can be streamed in it's entirity here
PRE ORDER THIS ALBUM HERE
Xerxes/Midnight Souls Split
07/04/2011
Split 7" preorders go up tomorrow at 5pm! So excited for this release, it's an absolute banger!
PunkNews.org will be doing an exclusive stream of it soon!
fitarecords.bigcartel.com
Test Pressings!
30/03/2011
So the test presses for the XERXES | MIDNIGHT SOULS splits are in at Mayfly Records headquaters! That means preorders and pressing info should be up fairly soon. We are stoked beyond belief to be a part of this project; two amazing bands on one record!
Departures 12" is becoming a bit Chinese Democracy-esque (but it'll actually be worth the wait) as it's been sent off for another mastering. It's going to sound amazing though, and a new song will be going up asap!
When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted
22/03/2011
INCOMING
Currently being mastered by Jay Maas @ Getaway Recording.
Songs up FUCKING SOON.
Pre-orders up FUCKING SOON.
