Apologies for the lack of updates to the Failsafe site in recent months (years?)
Its not that we haven't been doing anything, its just that we haven't had a spare moment to write about it.

Here's what we've been doing!

Failsafe Records on Facebook.
Get your news links and discussion fresh on the Filsafe Records Facebook page. You don't have to be a member to read it even. Come and join in at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=276228948054.

Failsafe on YouTube
We've been mastering up and uploading all the Failsafe videos to our YouTube site so come on by and have a look and listen to 25 years of video history as we manage to locate and restore the Failsafe video record. There's also some great NZ music documentaries on there and check out our favorites too as we've bookmarked a number of cool NZ clips for you to check out too. Stop in and leave a message
http://www.youtube.com/user/failsaferecords


New Releases - OUT NOW
2010 saw a few new releases for you to check out.

POP MECHANIX - Now : Then (One Hit Windows) Deluxe Edition SAFE091CD $25.00
POP MECHANIX - Now : Then (One Hit Windows) Standard Edition SAFE091CDJ $20.00

The Legendary Mechanix of Pop present 13 tracks tracks of Timeless New Zealand pop history.
Mastered and selected by Paul Scott in Australia this is a shiny collection of the prime cut singles from the bands career.
The album comes in two packaging options: the Standard jewel case edition for those who just want to get the songs, cover art and liner notes, and the Deluxe edition which is a double gatefold edition with 12 cover art insert postcards with the original singles covers and band photos. Limited edition handmade so grab it while you can.
Also of note - this is a pressed CD, not a CDR. The first 5 albums are CDR because they are very short run discs (100). This one we went the extra mile on so please support our effort by grabbing a copy or 2 for you and a friend.
Tracks are: Now, Radio Song, The Ritz, Jumping out a Window, Holidays, Cowboys, Keep it Up, Brains Are Dumb, Art School Bop, Spanish, Texas, Land of Broken Dreams, Celebration of the Skin


POP MECHANIX - Splash Alley - Lets Get Started SAFE092CD $20.00

Pop Mechanix in their earliest form with Dick Driver out front, energy to burn and  5 unreleased post punk tracks to tear up the stage, alongside amped up versions of their classics. Recorded live at Mainstreet this is an edgy welcome glimpse into this bands full charge start.
Tracks are:- Kamikazi Man, Artschool Bop, Sick of Waiting for Tomorrow, Steve Gilpin, Too Cool for Words, Talking, Spanish, Mr Smooth, Cliche, City Girl - Observation, Brains are Dumb, Money, White Girls, Disco Fever, Now


HOW TO KILL - Like Angels SAFE100CD $20

Failsafe welcomes Christchurch / Lyttelton band How To Kill to the Failsafe fold.
How To Kill play rhythmically propulsive sonic soundscapes of dark beauty, light & shade, space & texture.  It's modern neo-rock, hued in orchestral structures, punctuated by power & grit. These are songs, but songs without words, unsung, vocal. Unscripted - the stories speak volumes. A soundtrack, a picture made from verse of missing words. To call this instrumental music does not convey the stories within. Eight pieces of mood & meaning.

Check out How To Kill gigging around the country in the next year.


New Releases  - IN THE WORKS

We've got a few things that are getting really close to completion.

Kept Secrets - best kept secrets in alternative rock - Compilation 1980-2010

A compilation of picks from the retrogenic series and extra tracks. A companion piece to keeping secrets alternative pop compilation.


Leadleg - Reloaded in Total Darkness - Early EPs & singles

Companion piece to the payola disc, collects the early releases from Leadleg who were previously YFC.


Beat Rhythm Fashion - Beings Rest Finally - early recordings and live rarities 1979-82

Companion piece to the highly successful Bring Real Freedom disc. This is all the earlier material from the Four Stars disc. a lot more dark and post punk.


Pop Mechanix - Lost Tapes - Parallel Universe   

The Rare Zoo album with the original Andrew Snoid Vocals including 3 unreleased tracks that didn't make the original Zoo album. 1982

Pop Mechanix - Box Set

Compiles all 8 plus CDs into one box set with additional videos interviews, essays, complete lyrics and whatever else we can pack into this package.
If you've been following Failsafe's extensive revisiting and discovering of the hidden Pop Mechanix catalogue then you know we're going to be as thorough as it is physically possible to make this the definitive word on all things Pop and Mechanix.
This will be an extremely limited edition (50) collection so if you're interested perhaps drop us an email to book a copy.


Songs in the Key (SITK) - Songs in The Key of Slow

An artists collaboration project with friends of Failsafe this is almost completed and we're waiting on a cool video from our friend International Photographer Frances Melhop to kick this album out to the public. Its a fantastic contemplative record of beautiful melodic pop and we can't wait to show it to you.


Southern Front  Southern Front - Remaster re-release & Unreleased material 

This one is so close we can smell it. We've collected all the material and are halfway through restoring it.
Southern Front were a post punk band from CHCH forming out of the ashes of Evasive Action, Desperate Measures, and Unauthorised.


The Stones - Fad world collection - live and unreleased

This one's been a particularly hard disc to get done. We were privileged enough to be present at many of the band's concerts so we know how absolutely awesome they were beyond their vinyl releases. There was a lot of new material that never made it to released forms. We've got some of it and are still looking for good quality live recordings we can include to make this the definitive Stones collection. If you're sitting on a live recording on cassette please get in touch.


Newtones - New Way - singles, EPs, plus live

We've been working on this one for a while too and with the sad passing of Newtones singer / guitarist Tony Peake late last year it reminds us that we don't have all the time in the world. This one's getting close and we've discovered some material we didn't previously know about to include.


Degrees k - EPs plus - EPs plus out takes

B-sides and unreleased material from this great Christchurch band.