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‘Disco’s Main Squeeze’ Cornershop fting Pinky Ann Rihal

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We are pleased to announce a New Single:
‘Disco’s Main Squeeze’ featuring Pinky Ann Rihal
Produced by Tjinder Singh, Mastered at Third Man Mastering, Detroit
Listen + Watch The Video Now

Release Date: April 20th, 2023
Label: Ample Play Records Cat No: AMP134DD


Tjinder & Benedict of Cornershop were innocently having a cup of tea, at Clissold House above the rose garden when they received a telegram sent to them in error by James Endeacott. Actually it was an email with an album attached. Now when you’re having a cup of tea and get an album sent to you out of the blue in such a manner, it demands you listen to it and despite it being nothing to do with them, Tjinder liked it so much as to ask the folks at Naya Beat Records, California to do a mix of one of the songs.

Things that don’t have anything to do with you can take you to strange places.

Three months later a disco curry was made…with Pinky Ann Rihal doing vocals along with the band of Cornershop, all square ties. L.A. meets London downtown. Why this song from the album? Tjinder thought its playful vocal delivery reminded him of his favourite far right Tea Party supporter Maureen Ann Tucker whom he and his wife had met in Washington Square Hotel, New York.

Video comes courtesy of the expensive daily rate of Delhi’s finest editor of talkies, Dilip Anand. The band in the video is the actual band Pinky Ann Rihal performing on 80’s Channel 4 programme Eastern Eye, it’s not just a gimmick. Special mention to ace and omni present presenter of Asian Magazine programmes Shyama Perera.


Further information please contact: Jamie Woolgar – jamiewoolgar@roughtraderecords.com / 0208 8755189 / 07970538609

Cornershop ‘I’m A Wooden Soldier’ Video

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“It’s a Trojan horse of a song. Images of wooden soldiers are playful and harmless but you are suddenly bombarded with real political issues, colonialism, parked elephants, and reclaiming looted uniforms. “Victory is in peace not war.” Tjinder Singh

With the video director Astrid Edwards took a very punk view on the song because of its guitar lines & played with cut-ups and pre-existing photography and fast moving imagery to put the song back in 70s Britain, to bring out the Bolan boogie of the song.

Cornershop ‘I’m A Wooden Soldier‘ from the album ‘England Is A Garden‘

Here is Astrid Edwards the Director of the ‘I’m A Wooden Soldier’ video to outline her thoughts behind it’s making:

“This particular film is a little homage to the elements and themes of punk fanzines…something close to mine and the band’s collective teenage experience. I’d lurched into teenagehood on a steady diet of hand-stapled Sniffin’ Glue, early ID fanzines and Spare Rib. With that and our current Government in mind, I applied my slightly angry DIY punk ethic creating original artwork, cutting it up into photomontages with good old-fashioned scissors, a scalpel, some glue and a lot of paper with the intermittent re-photographing or old school photocopy thrown in. I then hand animated it, shot, and appeared in it (no budget for a performer) and edited it together myself mostly frame by frame. With some of the more complex scenes I worked with the brilliant designer/animator Sim Tennant in afterfx. It was really free-ing to go back to punk basics, really painstaking but fun – and much like the song, it felt apt and relevant to be working in that way. This is my second collaboration with Cornershop. Both films are quite raw but very different – what’s great is that the band are always so trusting and supportive of my ideas – this one particularly, as it literally came together frame by frame by frame. Analog for the digital generation…” Astrid Edwards

CREDITS: ‘Wooden Soldier’ video – conceived, hand animated, directed, produced, edited by Astrid Edwards Rockmother FIlms

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Additional digital animation: Sim Tennant

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‘Wooden Soldier’ is taken from the Cornershop album ‘England is a Garden’, order your copy via our Ample Play site.

The Making of the ‘Everywhere That Wog Army Roam’ video

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We have neglected this medium for a while, and intend to put a stop to this by quickly writing something.

I thought I should write about the ‘Everywhere That Wog Army Roam’ video from the new album ‘England Is A Garden’.  The song had been earmarked for release a few times, but was put back a few times because the fear of offending those that go weak at the sight of the Wog word.  I mean they are offended by Wog, not the word word, that would be silly.

To take out the harshness we thought an animated video would help soften the hurt, and be a good way to move a lot of ground quite quickly.  As a result, we got in touch with graphic artist Ian Viggars whom we have worked with quite a few times now, over the last few years.  His previous video for us was ‘Double Denim’ where he created a whole musical group of characters to depict double-denim nights, people used to do these things not so long ago.

At a cafe meeting we talked about ‘Everywhere That Wog Army Roam’ which he heard prior, and within minutes many ideas came out.  As we love reggae the idea of a cartooned reggae record cover such as was prevalent with Yellowman or Scientist cover art in the late 70’s early 80’s became the focus.  Character types were decided, and Ian went away to create them.  After a few weeks his ideas were very strong, and excitement began to built.  His big scene was going to be fight between Police and Thieves, but we decided that might be too expected, so the Policemen, whom look very India military to me, join in rather than let all hell break loose, with music being the common denominator.

There are some many nuances in the characters that he brought to life with special effects and humour.  The smoking cricketer is a favourite.  Ironically, I used to have a deputy head that was an amazing cricketer, ex of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Team who smoked a lot of Embassy number1. 

The audio I cut down to keep the video single edit sized, and Ian continued to work hard on putting it all together.  The result was excellent, but we hit a lot of resistance as the Black Lives Matter movement, one which consider most splendid was hitting most streets across the world, and no establishments would really chance putting out the video, and certainly not gamble on talking about it too much.  It seems timing to put out such a song was always going to upset someone’s applecart.

‘England Is A Garden’ Album launch at The Social.

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A simple gathering at The Social to celebrate the release of Cornershop‘s new album ‘England Is A Garden‘ on Ample Play Records.

All welcome, we simply ask people to register & donate £8 to Detention Action.

Detention Action is a human rights charity working on the frontline of immigration detention in the UK – providing direct support to those in detention and campaigning for reform.

All welcome – register via Eventbrite

The album and other Cornershop merch will be available to purchase, accompanied by Special DJs and the bar. We are proud to be holding this event at The Social, which has a history of promoting so many great causes.

Any questions, please get in touch via hello@ampleplay.co.uk.

New Single from ‘England Is A Garden’ album

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St Marie Under Canon is the new single from our forthcoming album, England Is A Garden.

As a garden gate to the album ‘St Marie Under Canon’ starts the walk sounding upbeat in nature, and gracious in chorus, praising St Marie for all of our battles that she has overseen and adjudicated, ending with the modern day warfare of the public address sound system: amplifier, echo chamber, microphone and speaker.  Music through the sound system is the weapon (or should be).  Those that have heard it suggest it puts them in mind of The Stones, Beatles, Velvets and Cornershop!  In taking such a wide net it summarises much of what will unfold in the full album, in which it is the first move. 

‘England Is A Garden’ out March 6th 2020 on Ample Play Records is Cornershop‘s latest “in a series of albums that have mirrored the exceptional story of the band itself” Rough Trade NYC.  It is an album that strides in a sunshine glow, to deliver a full listening experience, bringing songs of experience, empire, protest and humour, steeped in the way only Tjinder Singh would come with.  Boots black…

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Cornershop ‘England Is A Garden’ the new album on ample play records

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Many people have asked what does England Is A Garden mean, what does it stand for? Well, as usual its thought provoker, and whilst you provoke thought it grows on you, whether you like it or not. Or is it that there are many types of garden, and the thought is about which – green and tendered or weed and London brick ridden? Maybe it is a garden with a door that leads you to other albums, for as usual the album is peppered with lines and words that have been used before?

Whilst you are on that thought, here is a Mojo piece that Tjinder just did. If you can work out what he is saying, putting meaning to England Is A Garden.

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New Album & 1st single ‘No Rock: Save In Roll’ video

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Cornershop No Rock Save In Roll

At Preston Polytechnic in 1987, me and Benedict lived on Eldon Street, just off the main artery into town Plungington Road (not too far away from where Bubbley Kaur lived). 

We used to start the night off with a few tins of larger, and then walk a little down Plungington Road to a pub called The General Havelock.  In there we chose a few tunes on their dukebox, of which Stepphenwolf’s ‘Born To Be Wild’ or ‘The Pusher’ were the most requested, before we rolled on to Preston town centre.

So Rock, in particular dirty rock, and back home Black Country Rock were always on our radar and ‘No Rock: Save In Roll’ goes in that direction, even mentioning England’s Midlands, where the Black Country is stationed.

Listen and see the video as a first taste to the new album, ‘No Rock: Save In Roll’, that is to say that there is not one without the other, that rock, for all its focus on death is the saviour of life.

The anvil here is music itself, and a celebration of The Black Country, which gave birth to Heavy Metal that has gone on to influence the world to dirty rock. Whether the streets are lined with pylons or palm trees, the Black Country has allowed us to see things differently. 

The sound here is Heavy Metal from the back of a stage, as we all ride on and await the female backing vocals of our song to come in.

For the sake of clarification we must stress that Bubbley Kaur did not ever join us into town.

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