TTD gave a brand new track available as part of Snakes & Ladders' new compilation. It's called Aztechnique and it was recorded as part of some sessions we did recently at Mike Page's The Combination Of...Studio. Three more tracks are scheduled for release later this year.

Also, this site now has a new video section here.

23.05.07 Nuit Americaine

TTD's second single 'Nuit Americaine' b/w 'Something 4 Nothing' and 'YRXLNC remix' will be released through Snakes & Ladders Records next week.

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."

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---->!!!

03.03.07 Artrocker club and SC single of the week

TTD play Artrocker club @ Buffalo Bar, Highbury on April 10th. Details TBC. Also Subba-Cultcha.com have done a great review of 'Your Excellency' and made it their single of the week #14. See it here.

28.02.07 Single Press

Read reviews of Your Excellency here. Artrocker just did one. It's good.

28.11.06 Single Pre-order

TTD's debut single Your Excellency is NOW AVAILABLE to pre-order through Snakes & Ladders Records. 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.

15.11.06 Video Shoot/New Single/Antenna Mag

TTD are shooting our first video (for upcoming single 'Your Excellency') this weekend with DIY video crew RUF.

We also release our debut single, 'Your Excellency b/w Altitude' (S&LCD004) at the end of November through Snakes & Ladders Records.

TTD and S&L are both featured in the next issue of University of the Arts London's new music mag Antenna. Results of the photoshoot online soon. Also a few pix up now from when we played their night at Corsica Studios under the arches in Elephant & Castle.

24.10.06 Lobster Quadrille Zine

TTD are 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

From Snakes & Ladders: "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!"

11.09.06 Arlene's Grocery

We've got another date in New York - Friday 29th September @ Arlene's Grocery, details TBC!

02.09.06 Oxjam

TTD play Bristol Oxjam (Oxfam nationwide festival) on October 21st. Details TBC.

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 Snakes & Ladders are doing their label sampler S&LCD001 for half-price through their website and FOR FREE at any S&L-related live event (go here for a full line-up).

06.08.06 Snakes & Ladders/TTD 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"

We also have a couple more gigs.

And we're currently organising more dates for New York...keep watching.

26.07.06 TTD are going to NYC!

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...

22.06.06 LCC Sound Art Party and TTD Photo shoot

TTD (also the acronym for Terence Trent D'Arby, thank you Jamie Twenties...ahem!) play the London College of Communication Sound Arts end of degree party under the arches at Elephant & Castle's Corsica studios (it's the next Hoxton, ask anyone) with lots of bad craziness, laptops, binaural beats, you name it. £3 for non-students.

We also had a proper photoshoot with Captain Swing the other day, pics will be online soon.

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!

31.05.06 Website redesigned. New photos. New live dates. Summer's here.

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 at the S&L site.

25.05.06 Snakes & Ladders vs White Light @ Tatty Bogle (09.06.06) has been cancelled due to the venue closing down. And TTD at Cafe de Paris (02.06.06) has been postponed.

27.04.06 Artrocker have reviewed TTD at Tatty Bogle. Go here.