JanuaryJan 16 Friday 09
So the franchising thing has been done, i'm highlighting my ignorance of a band we ripped off. Oh well, who wants to start The Steal 2?
JanuaryJan 14 Wednesday 09
We done tour. It was good. Many thanks to everyone for making all the shows pretty much amazing. If you ever want to know how to put on a show get in contact with any one of the promoters who helped us out, holy crapola they were good.
We were fair to middling, we were …
JanuaryJan 4 Sunday 09
In a hope that we will start as we mean to go on, here is a video of a few songs from our New Years Day Kingston show to get the people up north excited. It was filmed by Treat, he is lovely.
The Steal - 'Kids With Kids' / 'The Steal' from Mike Hemsley on Vimeo.
Party at …
NovemberNov 19 Wednesday 08
Specifically on the Radio 1 Lock up show with Mike Davies.
So recently we went back to the BBC and spent a very plesent day in Maida Vale 4. The resulting live session was broadcast last night at about 2 in the morning. We played 4 tracks on the show (Disconnected, The …
NovemberNov 15 Saturday 08

Hello Friends,
I have just updated our big cartel merch page with a new glow in the dark tshirt design. The design is going to be printed to order on the 2nd December and is available to pre-order for 2 weeks until the 1st December. After that the screen will be cleaned …
SeptemberSep 21 Sunday 08
yep, we're going on tour! i couldn't be bothered to type these out again so i just nicked them from another source... so if you replace 'The Steal' (that's us) with "Our Time Down Here" then you will have a more accurate picture of what's going on in January.
WHO starts …
SeptemberSep 20 Saturday 08
Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat's Ian MacKaye from Mean Magazine on Vimeo.
SeptemberSep 11 Thursday 08
I've got and idea, let's write a song, we'll call it, 'Bright Grey' and you'll sing along.
SeptemberSep 4 Thursday 08
If you're as old as 3 quarters of us are and played in a punk band when you were at an age when it was slightly more acceptable then you will have ventured into the wonderful world of demo cassettes... Running around your house utilising every available recording deck …
AugustAug 29 Friday 08
So yeah.
We called that one Breathe In. Which is something you should do... then hold it until the 29th September. Then do the other one...
AugustAug 20 Wednesday 08
Ok ok ok ok....
So there's this - 
Yup, we're releasing a new album. Near the end of June we wrote the first song on the album while we were waiting for pavey to turn up to practice... that was the first song to be written. We booked the recording a week later for the end …
AugustAug 6 Wednesday 08
JulyJul 9 Wednesday 08
Hi,
So i've been meaning to put something up about this for ages... as always i've procrastinated to the point of ridiculousness so now i'm going to do it when I should really be going to bed.
ANYWAY. As you might have seen/heard we have a split 7" out with a band called
JuneJun 20 Friday 08

Hello friends!
So we have finally got off our arses and released our split 7inch with the band Beat Express. It is
JuneJun 4 Wednesday 08

We are playing a gig on the 3rd of july at the Tap 'n Tin in Chatham in Kent with Fucked Up, Ghost of a Thousand and Tortuga.
ok?
This is the band we're releasing our split with - 
Check them out, it's good shit for your ears.
NEWS ON RECORDS - we have them. you can't buy them yet though. That gig in Kent might be the release party, who knows? i certainly don't.
Go see Dave in Brooklyn, he'll let …
MarchMar 19 Wednesday 08
It would appear that for the first time in almost 8 months all of The Steal will be in the same place at the same time.
We've barely seen each other since our last show back in August. Rich works with kids and we all hate the idea of depriving them of his wisdom so that …
FebruaryFeb 28 Thursday 08
So another band we love have called it quits... They formed purely out of an idea, just from always going to shows and thinking, "I can do that."
They booked a gig without having a band and went from there... and achieved loads in the process. The nicest bunch of guys …