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Straight Lines was originally conceived by Welsh duo Tom Jenkins and Dane Campbell following the demise of their previous band. The pair collated ideas and wrote enough material for a new album, but strapped for cash turned to Dane’s brother Todd Campbell to help them record the new work at his home based studio.

Todd was soon drafted into the band to play bass and an old college friend of Tom’s turned up two weeks into recording to claim the fourth place in the group, on guitar.

Having recorded their efforts, Straight Lines were signed up by Xtra Mile Recordings, through whom they will release their hard hitting debut album Persistence In This Game in early 2010.

Meantime Straight Lines release the first single to be taken from the album, Versus The Allegiance on December 7th and to promote the new work are busy touring the UK, with support slots with Kids In Glass Houses, Young Guns, Attack! Attack!, The Automatic and the mighty Motorhead. The band will be selling limited editions of the single at the live shows.

Straight Lines November UK dates:

10th 53 Degrees, Preston with Kids In Glass Houses
11th Chinnery’s, Southend with The Automatic
12th New Slang, Kingston with The Automatic
13th Newport Centre, Wales with Motorhead
14th Central Station, Wrexham, Wales with Motorhead
15th Swindon Oasis, Swindon with Motorhead
18th Sigma, Swansea
20th The RAFA Club, Aberystwyth
24th Escobar, Leeds
25th Independent, Sunderland with The Automatic
26th The Brickyard, Carlisle with The Automatic
27th The Grosvenor, Brixton
28th Hammersmith Apollo, London with Motorhead
December
5th Hobos, Bridgend
22nd Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

For more information visit the Straight Lines MySpace page.

The single Versus The Allegiance is released on December 7th as a digital download via Xtra Mile Recordings.