CONTEST: Guillemots Dress & Prize Pack

PREFACE: Due to a dispute with our hosting provider, our account has been terminated and Good Weather For Airstrikes will be going on a brief hiatus until July 5th. This contest is the last of two posts, the second of which will appear early next week, after which our hiatus will begin. I will write up a full farewell post sometime next week that further elaborates on the situation and will reveal what new surprises we'll have in store for you when GWFAS version 2.0 launches in July. To reiterate, we're not going away forever, we'll just be taking a little break while we revamp the site, find a new hosting provider, and get all of our shit together.

Not that anything's going to top the excitement generated by those new Thom Yorke tracks, but I thought I might as well put in a valiant effort by giving away some free stuff. That's right, a contest. I'm not much of a contest guy, but I've been assembling some pretty sweet prize packs (i.e. stealing stuff while my bosses aren't looking and toughing out the lashings when I get caught) and will be giving them away throughout the summer.

The catalyst for all of this is the overwhelmingly awesome Guillemots contest. Not only will one lucky winner win both the CD and 10" gatefold LP versions of Guillemots incredible debut EP From The Cliffs (along with some stickers and postcards and whatnot), that same lucky winner will also win a one-of-a-kind (pretty much) Guillemots dress! The lovely folks over at Evil Needles have been churning out awesome DIY dresses adapted from punk t-shirts for punk rock girls for years, but now they've got their sights set on your indie, Guillemots-loving girlfriend. Fyfe designed the logo featured on the Guillemots t-shirt below, and Evil Needles will be taking that shirt (which is originally an Adult XL) and tailoring it down to fit your measurements, which I will elicit from the winner after he/she is selected. Here's how it works: Evil Needles takes this shirt (follow the link or look at the image below) and turns it into a dress that looks something like this, and then sends it straight to your doorstep, a little bundle of DIY love. All you have to do is enter your name and e-mail adress. That's all. You might think that with a prize pack as awesome as this the qualifications might be a bit more stringent, but yeah, you just need a name and an e-mail adress to win, and the winner will then be selected randomly. If you are a personal friend of mine, you are not eligible for this contest because that just wouldn't be fair, sorry. The contest will close ten days from now on June 18th, and a winner will be announced shortly thereafter (or when we return on the 5th of July, we'll see). Below is the shirt, which was designed by 'Mots lead singer Fyfe Dangerfield himself, which will be turned into a dress and will look a little bit like this or this in the end (except it's made from the Guillemots shirt, obviously).

And one more thing. Did I mention the 10" LP is autographed by the band? Well it is. I don't even have one of those, and I'm over at addVICE section of the office everyday, sucking up to those kids 24-7 like it's my job (which it is). But that's enough talk, here's a full list of all the awesome shit you get if you win, in case you're unable to read anything not presented in list form:

• Guillemots stickers
• Guillemots postcards (featuring the album artwork)
• Guillemots ' From The Cliffs CD, which is only like the best thing ever
• Guillemots' From The Cliffs signed double 10" vinyl
• Guillemots' dress courtesy of Evil Needles

I will contact the winner, at which point I'll need you to give me your/your girlfriend's/your friend's measurements, which I will pass on to Evil Needles, who will in turn do their magic and whip you up a fly-ass Guillemots dress.

Normally, most of my Guillemots posts just end with me throwing up an mp3 of "Trains To Brazil" and telling you how omg it's the best song ever. This time I've got some special treats for you, two exclusive Guillemots tracks, acoustic versions of their two most recent singles, "Trains To Brazil" and "We're Here".

MP3s:
"Trains To Brazil" (Acoustic) - Guillemots
"We're Here" (Solo Piano Version) - Guillemots

And, um, yeah, in case you forgot, "Trains To Brazil" is still the best song of the year.

MP3: "Trains To Brazil" - Guillemots [sooo highly recommended]

I was wholly anticipating Through The Windowpane (still with the preposition-based album titles), out in the UK on July 10th, to be my album of the year (From The Cliffs is my favorite release so far), and while my first few run throughs of it (it leaked earlier this week) fall slightly short of that expectation, it's still an incredible debut full-length and justifies all the hype Guillemots have received as of late. The next single from that album will be a re-produced version of "Made Up Love Song" (out June 19th), and the video is already in roation on MTV2 and VH2 in the UK, but if you know of somewhere on the internet where it's available for viewing let me know in the comments. Good luck to all on the contest, which again, ends ten days from now on June 18th.