The fabulous new 7" single by Catnap I Am Pied Piper, is now available to buy from S&L!

Also, Shock Defeat! are gearing up to release another masterpiece as our tenth release! Stay tuned...

20.11.07 BRITISH SEA POWER

BRITISH SEA POWER play a SECRET intimate gig to preview material from their upcoming album at the Amersham Arms, New Cross on Wednesday 21st of November.

Support comes from S&L faves John & Jehn and Roaring Twenties.

Tickets £10 or £7 NUS/ Amersham Regulars cards - on the door only!

For more details: -- www.amersham-arms.co.uk or www.myspace.com/amershamarms

12.10.07 XX TEENS! XX TEENS! XX TEENS!

SNAKES & LADDERS PRESENTS

XX TEENS
MAC 3000
THE TOTAL DROP
SHOCK DEFEAT!
MORGAN (DOES IT OFFEND YOU YEAH?)

AT THE AMERSHAM ARMS
388 NEW CROSS ROAD
LONDON SE14 6TY

TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER

7pm-MIDNIGHT

£4 ON THE DOOR OR BUY ONLINE FROM http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/event_gc02_2154.html

30.10.07 NEW COMPILATION

S&L is proud to present our second compilation (and ninth release) which comes just over a year and half after our first release back in March '06. The record is called Worthless Originals and is 10 tracks/10 bands, 5 of which we have worked with before, 5 of whom are new to us (and maybe to you too!). The record comes in a beautiful sleeve designed by our very own Eliza Lazy aka Jo Harrison.

12.10.07 XX TEENS! XX TEENS! XX TEENS!

SNAKES & LADDERS PRESENTS

XX TEENS
MAC 3000
THE TOTAL DROP
SHOCK DEFEAT!
MORGAN (DOES IT OFFEND YOU YEAH?)

AT THE AMERSHAM ARMS
388 NEW CROSS ROAD
LONDON SE14 6TY

TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER

7pm-MIDNIGHT

£4 ON THE DOOR OR BUY ONLINE FROM http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/event_gc02_2154.html

23.05.07 SHOCK DEFEAT! EP LAUNCH 30.05.07

The fabulous new single by Shock Defeat! is released through S&L on 30.05.07 at the Macbeth in Hoxton as part of the newly re-launched Lobster Pot night! It's FREE to get in as well and copies of the CD will be given away on the night.

12.04.07 Tickets now on sale

Tickets now on sale for Little Nan Jo Jo Loves.../Rocklands Party. May 5th 2007, 11am-6am. 1 day, 100+ acts, 12+ venues, 30+ promoters.

05.04.07 Artrocker.com said

"The Total Drop's Anna guides the wonderfully DIY label 'Snakes and Ladders' through a fine selection of bristlingly artful releases (Roaring Twenties and Shock Defeat for starters) but with their new single 'Your Excellency / Altitude' out this month her own combo can really make their own mark. It's two tracks charm like the whole of last year's 'Love Is All' album with equal parts spiked post Yeah Yeah Yeahs New Wave and C86 jangling Shop Assistants indie. Along with Leeds' Sky Larkin, The Total Drop are exciting shining examples of future artpop - more Long Blondes than Hot Puppies."

30.03.07 Fat Abbots EP, New Cross 'Crawl'

Rugged Individualism, the third release from the elusive Fat Abbots is released on April Fools' Day 2007 (01.04.07)! The band released two records before teaming up with Snakes & Ladders, their debut farewell album The Fat Abbots are Shit and Dead and the now-almost-legendary Live and Religious.

S&L will host an event at May's New Cross/Little Nan Jojo festival, details here.

08.03.07 TTD in fashion? Trakmarx

The Total Drop are interviewed in the new issue of glossy fashion mag Above. You can see it here.

Trakmarx.com also gave the new single a great review---->!!!

05.12.06 Maps Mag advent calendar

S&L are featured behind today's window on the wonderful Maps Magazine advent calendar. Go here to see!

28.11.06 The Total Drop Single Pre-order

TTD's debut single Your Excellency is NOW AVAILABLE to pre-order through S&L. The CD is just £2 including postage and packaging and comes as a limited initial run of 250 with hand-made numbered sleeves. Go here to get it.

22.11.06 Shock Defeat! press

Shock Defeat!'s fabulous debut single 'How Did We Make It So Angry' is already getting lots of praise! Go here to read the reviews...

24.10.06 Lobster Quadrille Zine

The Roaring Twenties, The Total Drop, Shock Defeat! and Plugs are all included on the covermount CD which goes along with the first print issue of this fabulous music zine! Go here!

05.10.06 Real Tales of NYC

So finally to our week out in the Big Apple, and what a week it was... Firstly The Total Drop played 3 amazing shows at Trash Bar, Arlene's Grocery and Pianos. We'd like to send huge thank yous to everyone who made these nights possible, welcomed us, supported us, especially the guys from JP05, Jesus Speed, The Vandelles and Frances, to the dancing girls down the front, and also to Jasper at Pianos, Jim for setting the whole thing in motion and the barman at Fanelli's.

We got rid of all the CDs we took out there. In fact, our NYC friends can now get S&L label samplers, Total Drop EPs and Shock Defeat!'s debut single in The Cake Shop, Other Music, Bleecker Bob's, Mondo Kim's and Downtown Music Gallery.

So what else? Well, apart from the gigs, we spent the week trekking around the city handing out CDs and flyers, meeting Nick Zinner and Sean Lennon (eh?), doing some underage drinking, looking at Picassos, considering Popeye chicken & biscuits (they're not biscuits), parading with Poles, eating economy candy, buying guitars, spying on neon fortune tellers, having lock-ins with Camus-reading barmen and narrowly missing becoming font-page news (for the wrong reasons) when we were almost crushed by a collapsing crane (no joke, go here for full story). We also scared a crazy thick-spectacled old lady in the room next door when James attempted disco acrobatics at 4 in the morning...

We made some great friends, ate some big food, drank some free drinks. Laughter ensued. Next time we're taking all the bands, world, we're coming for ya!

21.09.06 Radio 1 D.I.Y. label of the week

Snakes & Ladders will be Huw Stephens' DIY label of the week next Wed 27th Sept 12-2am on his new Best of Unsigned programme on BBC Radio 1!

25.08.06 Artrocker CD now out next week-----> half-price CD promotion

The Artrocker 'Labels 2 covermount CD (which we're on!) will now be out next week August 30th. To celebrate we're doing our label sampler S&LCD001 for half-price through this website and FOR FREE at any S&L-related live event (go here for a full line-up).

10.08.06 Snakes & Ladders on BBC Radio 1 / Rob Da Bank

One of Catnap's tracks from Snakes & Ladders S&LCD001 will be played tonight on Rob Da Bank's Unsigned show on OneMusic (Radio 1), 11pm-1am.

06.08.06 Snakes & Ladders on Artrocker DIY labels CD August 16th

Snakes & Ladders is to be featured on the next Artrocker covermount CD called 'Labels 2' and The Total Drop and The Roaring Twenties have one song each, out August 16th. Details as follows:

"Artrocker magazine looks at the labels that matter and finds out what motivates people to run a little label in the face of 20 hour days, bankruptcy and the constant carping of mum and dad to get a proper job.

Find out how the UKs coolest and hottest movers and shakers are changing our musical lives forever. Think about starting your own!

Artrocker celebrates the return of DIY by collecting tracks from ten pioneering independent labels, and presenting them on a FREE CD with issue 43 of the magazine, in the shops August 16.

Featured artists*: Shit Disco-Pistolas - Hot Puppies - Blood on the wall - The Now Need - New Body - Dead Dead Dead William - The Sequins - Korova - 586 - Popular Workshop - Tiny Masters of Today - And What will be left of them - Sarandon - Being 747 - The Theoretical Girl - Collapse - Awful Sparks - MIT - The Roaring Twenties - The Total Drop

www.artrockermagazine.com"

26.06.06 S&L are going to NYC! Shock Defeat single!!

Snakes & Ladders Records are taking The Total Drop to New York City at the end of September for a series of events to promote the label.

So far we have two dates confirmed (29th September @ Trash Bar in Williamsburg and 30th Sept @ Pianos in Manhattan) with more in the pipeline. The aim of the trip is also to get the Snakes & Ladders sampler CD into as many shops as possible, continuing label's slow but steady 'trojan horse' ethos. Watch this space for more...

In other equally exciting news, Snakes & Ladders are to release the forthcoming single from the breathtaking Shock Defeat! to coincide with the S&L extravaganza that will be Plugs Night at Highbury's Hope & Anchor on September 23rd (Plugs + Shock Defeat! + The Total Drop). S&L also plans to release singles by The Roaring Twenties and The Total Drop before the year is out.

Oh, and The Roaring Twenties funked and rocked the sweaty Buffalo Bar last night as part of the weekly Artrocker club night. Gorgeous work boys, pictures up soon!

22.06.06 GIITTV album review

God is in the TV Zine have reviewed Snakes & Ladders S&LCD001!

08.06.06 Artrocker album review

Artrocker album review of Snakes & Ladders S&LCD001

The Total Drop have been added to the bill for next Wednesday 14th's S&L night @ JAMM 261 Brixton Road SW9, joining the fabulous Plugs and Shock Defeat!

28.05.06 Redesigned the website. It's not as pretty but possibly more functional.

Thank you to everyone who came down to the third official S&L event, To D.I.Y. For, last Wednesday 24th May at the Pleasure Unit in Bethnal Green. Thanks especially to the fabulous Chowchow, The Total Drop, The Roaring Twenties and Shock Defeat! who turned a rainy night into a euphoric party. Pics now online.

S&L stalwarts The Roaring Twenties are fast becoming Artrocker radio favourites - and they're playing the magazine's weekly night at Buffalo Bar, Islington on July 25th. Rock 'em boys!

01.05.06 Mayday! Bank holiday!

S&LCD001 has SOLD OUT in Rough Trade (we've now replenished them) both in-store and online, thank you if you bought one xx

Also lovely Maps Magazine review of the record online or here.

26.04.06 Tom and Paul of Artrocker played The Roaring Twenties' A to Markworthy (from S&LCD001) on their Resonance FM radio show on Monday. They talked a bit about the album and label and reckoned that it was worth buying for The RTs alone!

In other news, The Total Drop had a lovely review of their gig at Tatty Bogle in the aforementioned Artrocker mag.

24.04.06 Happy Birthday JLH!

07.04.06 Happy Birthday JCV!

S&LCD001 is now available to buy in store and online at Rough Trade and Puregroove (Holloway Rd). Full list of shops below...

01.04.06 Snakes & Ladders on Resonance 104.4 FM!

Anna and Sam - two quarters of Snakes & Ladders - will be presenting a weekly programme on London's radio art station Resonance FM starting this Monday 3rd April, 1-1.30pm. The series is called Prime Numbers and is a showcase of new music and sound art in association with LCC and Snakes & Ladders Records. Tune in on 104.4 FM London or online at www.resonancefm.com.

29.03.06 S&LCD001 now available to buy at:

Rough Trade, Neal's Yard, London (also online here)

Sister Ray, Berwick St, London

Resident Records, Brighton

Sounds of the Universe, Broadwick St., London

Puregroove, Holloway Rd., London (also online here)

Rounder Records, Brighton

Morph Music, New Cross, London

Rubbish & Nasty, New Cross, London

27.03.06 Snakes & Ladders Records website is now functioning and our first release, S&LCD001, an 18-track compilation of music from London and Brighton, is now available to buy online (through PayPal although you don't have to have an account with them).

The launch nights at Nambucca and The Freebutt last week were really successful, we had quadruple the expected turnout for both nights (more badges available soon), with everyone putting on their Sunday best for S&L. Special thanks to the bands - we had amazing sets from Plugs, Catnap, The Liquor Store, The Total Drop and The Roaring Twenties - to Jo and Liz for doing the door, Jamie for S&L 'brand' biscuits, to James and Stef for DJ antics and to everyone else who came down to reprezent!

Photos from both nights and after-shows online now!