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Exciting news has escaped from The Contrast’s camp. The new album that the band recorded recently in Leeds under the working title of “Good Luck Charms & Fast Cars” has been given an official title. The design of artwork for the album is underway and preliminary designs are expected next week (unlikely to be seen [...]

So I’m guessing that you think it is all a bit too quiet on thecontrast.net. The band has been locked away somewhere in Leeds working hard on their follow-up album to “Underground Ghosts”. It seems things are going well.
Recording has been completed on The Contrast’s sixth studio album. A total of 15 songs have emerged, [...]

The schedule for the 2009 International Pop Overthrow Festival in Liverpool has been released and I can confirm that The Contrast will be playing 2 shows as usual. International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as it has affectionately become known) is a pop music festival which has been held for the past eleven years in Los [...]

On March 19th The Contrast begin recording their 6th original full length album (if you don’t count Perfect Disguise, which was a compilation album). The recording of the bands first original album for Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records is to take place at Cottage Road Studios in Leeds. Once again, the mixing desk duties will [...]

The Contrast spent nearly a week in New York last week as part of their performance at the annual CMJ Music Marathon. However, they did not limit their activities to the Saturday night gig at Arlene’s Grocery.
They were captured performing a couple of numbers in Union Square last Thursday (23rd October 2008). The last-minute “gig” [...]