*** SUPER SPECIAL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT ***

Well folks, this is something we’ve been keeping under our collective hats for a few months now. We were approached IN SECRET earlier in the year to contribute to a very special album of cover versions of material spanning the first decade of the new millennium. The culmination of ours, and many other excellent artists efforts has now been released courtesy of the record label arm of Lush Cosmetics – this is their spiel:

BEST DAY OF ALL TIME – Welcome back to the noughties: a decade of flip phones, iPods, the rise of the internet and most importantly, some seriously good music.

Curated by Lush Co-Founder and devoted music enthusiast Mark Constantine, he introduces the fifth instalment of his musical autobiographies, Best Day Of All Time. This stunning album features songs originally released between 2001 and 2011, freshly reimagined by a breathtaking mix of established and rising stars.

From pop anthems and indie favourites to folk, rock and everything in between, this collection brings a fresh twist to the iconic sounds of the millennium.

The 34 track compilation is available RIGHT NOW for orders of a double vinyl format, digital download via iTunes and across all the major streaming sites (with the exception of Spotify and Amazon Music). You can find all the links and details right here:

https://cosmeticwarriors.lnk.to/TheBestDayOfAllTime

There is some truly amazing stuff on this, but WHAT’S OUR CONTRIBUTION? I hear you ask.

We looked at the list of songs suggested by the curator and picked the one that we felt would be least appropriate to try. Therefore, you will now be subjected to our rendition of BOOM BOOM POW by Black Eyed Peas

Not only did we piledrive this late 00’s ‘robopop stomper’ into our own image, but we also have the honour of announcing that it’s a collaboration with the wonderful MR B THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER, who most spiffingly spits out rhymes for a couple of verses in his own inimitable chap-hop style, and also plays knicky-knacky-noo on the spoons.

The eagle-eared amongst you may also recognise a hefty amount of the sounds used in this cover version – that’s because we have employed a new technique (for us) of almost completely comprising the arrangement from elements of our own past recordings – actually sampling ourselves wholesale. Literally jacking our own style! On top of that, we overdubbed new elements such as bass guitar, electric drill and all the vocals. We were so thrilled by the results of this approach, that you can be assured there will be a LOT more of this to come…..

As an informal competition with no prizes whatsoever except your own smugness, how about telling us where from our canon you think we got some of these sounds from?

OK, hope this brings you some kind of comfort in these bleak times. Please feel free to share this information far and wide. We very much appreciate the faith that Lush showed in us and relished the creative opportunity it provided.

Kind regards,
Steve/Paul/Julia/Gareth
c/o
The Scaramanga Six

Here are a few scattered shows for the rest of this year. All of them are unticketed – just turn up and join in with us. See you there.

As we see in 2026, here are a batch of live appearances in the cold winter months ahead…all tickets can be found in the appearances page…

Here’s a full list of our gigs from November 2025 to Februry 2026. We are playing all over the place, and with lots of other lovely bands. Many of the gigs are either free, pay on the door or pay what you like. Some have ticket links, wich you can find on our appearances page. All will be ace.

All our videos, past and present, have now been remastered and upscaled to beautiful HD. You can see them all here on this wonderful YouTube playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1AxsbNiswcGcoBw2bZ6S9AbTJSuuklI

Keep your eyeballs peeled for more new videos as we release a steady stream of ‘legacy’ videos for songs we never got the chance to make one for at the time. 

An update of rock activity from your faithful cinematic punkers, The Scaramanga Six. We sincerely hope you are ‘digging’ the GLUT album we released a couple of months back – and as you may know, there is more to come!

We announced back then that the plan was to release the second album ‘DEARTH’ in quick succession, however we’ve changed the schedule slightly – We felt that the ‘shape’ of DEARTH wasn’t quite right so have taken the decision to remove a few of the tracks and instead write and record another set in their place to improve the overall flow and feel of the record. This is the great thing about being truly independent and DIY – we can fiddle around with things to perfect our art, to get things exactly how we want. This amendment should only prove to cause a mild delay to the album’s release and therefore the improved DEARTH will now be scheduled to assault your very eardrums in October this year. Watch this space for more news…

In the meantime, we have an interim EP release based around the balls-out rocker ‘BAD TIME MUSIC’ from the GLUT album which will be available from Bandcamp and all the usual digital outlets on Monday 9^th June. As well as the rocking title track themed around the making the mistake of telling business associates at a networking event that you ‘play in a band’, the rest of the EP will feature a trio of brand new, as-yet unreleased tracks yoinked from the original DEARTH running-order – no sub-standards going on here, just that we felt these ones just weren’t fitting. They were ‘Just Like Nothing on Dearth’.

These tunes will be ‘Thems the LAWs’ (a rock & rolling romp about the nefarious investment portfolios of music streaming platform CEOs), ‘Salted Caramel’ (an 80s prog belter about the ignorance epidemic in the USA) and ‘Russian Dolls’ (an epic and atmospheric builder-upper concerning a tale of a man’s cadaverous and macabre collection of ‘playthings’).

Links to Bandcamp et al to follow on release day + also watch this space for an exclusive featuring the ridiculous new promo video for ‘Bad Time Music’ to titillate both ears and eyes.

Stay GLUTenous!

Steve/Paul/Julia/Gareth

Happy Friday to you all,

TODAY marks the auspicious occasion where we are proud to let loose our brand new album ‘GLUT’. Enormo-thanks to those of you who have already pre-ordered via BandCamp – your downloads should be available right now and those who ordered the deluxe CD will find them winging their way to you for early next week.

GLUT is primarily available via BandCamp here: https://thescaramangasix.bandcamp.com/album/glut

It will also be available via all the usual download and streaming platforms from today, even the evil ones. Please fill your boots with our racket and don’t forget to share the love (or indeed hate) wherever you can.

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In 2025, The Scaramanga Six celebrate 30 years of existence with the release of TWO full-length studio albums. The first of which, released via our own long-running label Wrath Records (via BandCamp) TODAY is titled ‘GLUT’. This will be followed swiftly in July by another called ‘DEARTH’. Recorded together, but two distinct entities, these albums represent their eleventh and twelfth long-players respectively.

GLUT

In the near future, much of human life is nothing more than a fever dream of consumption. Convenience is the main method of governance and effort is considered the enemy of the people. After being repeatedly shown a fantastic promise of both having and eating your cake, the reality is that society is already sliced lengthways, yet somehow expected to live on like a truncated earthworm. Angry people in local newspapers bang their pots and pans as they ascend Mount Stupid, searching for their next English unsettlement.

‘GLUT’ follows on from the frantic murky bleakness of ‘Worthless Music’ (2021) and the sprawling, all-over-the-shop dystopian double-album vision of ‘Chronica’ (2017). However, this year’s new releases actually present the band in a more direct, polished and accessible style, musically. But expect no punches to be pulled in terms of their trademark raw energy and dark lyrical prowess. You’ll find The Six’s many tropes employed wilfully – unapologetic slabs of vocal density, twists and turns of bludgeoning rock & rule, unexpected soulful subtleties and lavish musical maximalism.

As ever, we truly appreciate your support – in these confusing times, it means the world to an underground band hell-bent on plying their art. Since inception in 1995, The Scaramanga Six have existed in a parallel universe where viability means NOTHING, yet art is EVERYTHING. All this time, we continue to plough our zeitgeist-defying furrow, undeterred by trifling matters such as logic, finances or any other metric you’d care to consider. Though loosely operating in the format of ‘cinematic punk rock music’, what remains is a singular entity propelled by willpower alone. We are a life-sentence band, showing very little sign of evaporation.

Take care & be kind

Steve/Paul/Julia/Gareth

c/o

The Scaramanga Six

In our 30th year of rocking, we can proudly announce the launch of not one but two new studio albums. We’ve been secreted away during last year at The Old Cider Press, Fladbury with Dave Draper. The result are two long-players full of the usual mind-flaying cinematic punk nonsense. We have redoubled our efforts. We cannot find a reason to cease.

The first album is entitled GLUT and will be launched in April 2025. Then in July, we will release the second called DEARTH.

Pre-order links, videos and other strangeness will appear in the coming days…

This is the cover of GLUT.

This is the cover of DEARTH. All artwork by the amazing Ben Holden @bjthebear

Hey folks, 
We are once again appearing up around the north of England this coming November/December. Here are the dates:

Friday 24th November – The Grove, Leeds
Saturday 25th November – Vinyl Tap, Preston
Friday 8th December – 1 in 12 Club, Bradford
Saturday 9th December – Puzzle Hall, Sowerby Bridge

A quick word on how it all works for us in getting gigs. We do this in our spare time. In our normal lives we run businesses, have families and generally do lots of juggling. We are also spread around the country. We have a stark choice with what time we collectively have left, which is very little. Either we plot some time for the odd get-together and rehearsal, or get some dates in for recording our next release, or we try and get our diaries lined up for a few weekends to do gigs. Strategic weekends seem to work with a few months notice. We don’t have a booking agent and approaching any venue we’ve never played before is akin to cold-calling. Luckily, we’ve built up some wonderful relationships with other bands, venues and promoters in various places through the years and this occasionally means we get to play gigs in places where people want us to play. There’s no rhyme or reason to this, but suffice it to say, we dearly love playing and gladly do so whenever we can wherever we are asked. So you’ll probably guess that pulling together a couple of weekends of gigs in and around Yorkshire where the majority of us live is going to be easier than a Wednesday night in the South East where four of us would have to schedule two days off from our day jobs. We are always open to playing and love gigging more than anything else in the world. So if you’d like us to appear some time near you, maybe you know a promoter at a venue you would like to hook us up with who wants to take a chance on a little old band that make a total racket one weekend.