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Audio Bullys "Higher Than Eiffel" (featuring Suggs and Barzo) Contest
Courtesy of Cooking Vinyl Records and Audio Bullys Management

After four years away from the album release circuit, the Audio Bullys duo of Simon Franks and Tom Dinsdale are back with their most diversely interesting and creatively unique collection to date. "Higher Than Eiffel" was released on 29th of March to stellar reviews, and the lead single "Only Man" rams you head on with thumping nuevo-disco beats layered with a plantive and wishful lament for a lyrical line. It's good having the Bullys back.

Recorded over a six month spread in a small facilty in Hornsey, North London, no one genre or theme was preferenced above another on "Higher Than Eiffel", their third album.

From Cooking Vinyl Records, the band's label: ‘We let go of any sort of formula we were trying to do before, we were just doing what we really wanted to do. I was getting back into my melodies’ says Si. There was no masterplan, this would be an album that came as it came, genres would be ignored in favour of tunes. As Tom rightly notes, ‘I think most bands have tunes that are different but the tendency is to put together a load of things that are the same for the album but we didn’t want to do that.  The first album has feeling and meaning and that was something we felt we needed to get back’.

The approaches changed according to the songs. So, ‘Twist Me Up’ was a live jam bursting to life with images of ‘Ready, Steady, Go’ podium dancers, incorporating guitar from Si’s brother Jimmy, drums from Terry and a piano top line from Madness’ Mike Barson. More Madness came courtesy of Suggs harmonica on album closer ‘Goodbye’, a ska house tune that is the perfect send off to an album of such diverse but harmonious tunes

So that's the score. That's why we're here. Suggs is back working with Audio Bullys and this time he's brought Barzo along for the cruise. "Twist Me Up" will jack the club scene with its ragged and rough edge while the carnival ska of "Goodbye" harks of the tongue-in-cheek-underwritten-by-seriousness that Madness crafted so well, now mirrored in their internationally-successful musical juniors.

We have three copies of the new Audio Bullys album "Higher Than Eiffel" (courtesy of Cooking Vinyl Records) featuring Suggs and Barzo for this contest. Three names will be drawn using the integer generator at Random.org. The winners of the Higher Than Eiffel Contest will be announced on this page and on the Madness Central Forum. Good luck, twist it up, and goodbye!

Listen to full songs from "Higher Than Eiffel" at the Official Audio Bullys MySpace profile.

"Higher Than Eiffel" on Cooking Vinyl Records is available from iTunes, HMV, Play.com, Recordstore.co.uk and Amazon.