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GIANTS to celebrate 5 year anniversary with limited edition book and London show

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Giants - Access All Areas

GIANTS will celebrate their 5th anniversary as a band this year on the 17th of July, and will do so in style with a show at The Black Heart in London at a special birthday gig.

Grappler, Drones and Pints will provide support on the night, and the band will also be selling a very special limited edition book that charts their story so far.

‘Access All Areas’ is a 40 page full colour A5 booklet containing a full recollection of the best, worst, funny, crazy and most memorable times of the band’s career so far. The book is limited to 100 copies and is available for pre-order now.

The band are currently in the studio writing and recording their début album, with all proceeds from the sales of the book helping towards funding the release.

Giants announce March 2014 European Headline Tour with support from Turn And Run

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Giants and Turn And Run European Tour

Giants and Turn And Run will be hitting Europe in March, taking in Belgium, Germany and Holland for five tour dates across the continent, full details of which can be found above.

Giants are currently in the studio demoing material for a new studio album that’s due to drop next year, and Turn And Run’s ‘Blossom‘ EP is currently up for grabs as a part of a mega competition that’s running over on Dead Press right now.

Giants guitarist Jack Longman had the following to say about life on the road in Europe.

On our first ever headline European run that we did in September, everyday was crazy. It was actually quite a hard tour, loads of the shows were last minute and most of the drives were real long, but it was worth it.

I’ve travelled to places and done things that I would never have been able to do if we didn’t tour in this band, meeting amazing people who are fans of our music and playing with bands I had only before dreamed of playing with.

Giants Release Weezer ‘Hashpipe’ Cover for Free Download

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Giants Hashpipe Weezer Cover

UK punk band Giants have recorded a cover of Weezer’s ‘Hashpipe‘, included on the ‘Nevermind The SOUNDLAB‘ covers compilation which is currently available for free download.

The band had the following to say about their decision to record a Weezer cover:

Weezer were always one of our favourite bands when we were growing up, mainly because they did whatever the hell they wanted with their music and their videos and they never took themselves too seriously, which is something we think there needs to be more of nowadays. We had a lot of fun re-working a classic into our own style by punking it up a bit. Hopefully we didn’t completely piss on it for any die hard Weezer heads out there!

Giants’ ‘Hashpipe‘ cover will also feature on the band’s Double A Side 7″ vinyl which is to be released on September 30th, with the 7″ available for pre-order right now from the Giants Bandcamp page.

You can stream Giants’ ‘Hashpipe‘ cover below: