The last day of February was the release date of the latest 7″ on the label. It’s a fantastic 2 track record by the fantastic Play People out of Derby, England, including their catchy hit “Goes Out” on the A side and “Just Don’t”, the introspective piece, on the B side.

This is the second time we worked together, first time was on the sold out compilation “Ever Get the Feeling You’ve Been Cheated?” that came along the Bottle Rocket fanzine. On this team effort they opened the 3″ inch CD with the great “Meet Me Saturday”. Since that day we planned to make a 7″. It took a while indeed. Problems with delays on the pressing plant (it was sent to print at the same time as Hari and Aino) made it to come a bit later than expected! But those things don’t matter, now Play People are on what suits best for them: on plastic, on a black round bit of plastic. The elusive Playmobil gang, who may be the invention of one person, or maybe ten, have a great single in their hands. But will this be the end of the mystery of who really are the Play People? Seems not, maybe the wait will be over when they play their first gig? But none is programmed. I don’t even know their real faces! Maybe the story is true and they were born in a cold German factory? Seems there are not many answers around.

What we do know about them comes from a small press release:

Play People are Ralph, Clint, Nancy and Keith. They were formed in a dark German factory in the spring of 2008. Clint’s the lead singer and plays some guitar, Keith’s on drums, Nancy and Ralph share the rest between themselves, depending on what they fancy doing. Maracas or Rickenbacker? What do you fancy? They live in middle England, deciding the dark German factory was too dark and they settled for cold and rain. They don’t go out much but there’s not much outside, anyway. In September 2008, they released their debut single, “oh what a life…” on This Almighty Pop. They teamed up with Cloudberry Records and the track “Meet Me Saturday” was released on the ep “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” “Goes Out” is the new single released on Cloudberry records, and this popkids, comes out on 7” vinyl.

But of course, what speaks best about them are their songs. So check them out, grab the single, listen to their songs on myspace, show some love. Don’t Stop Indiepop!

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Play People – Goes Out