Six By Seven
Any Colour So Long As It's Black

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Best of CD with DVD of all the videos and live footage, now at super low price. In 1997 six by seven released their first single ‘European Me’ which the NME described as “one of the greatest debut single of all time”. A great start indeed and the following single, another 7 minute dark and atmospheric grind, called 88-92-96, and became the NME single of the week. Things were going well for the band that’s live shows were quickly selling out, but things were not going to stay like that forever. Somebody once said that life is about timing. If this is so, perhaps six by seven’s timing could not have been worse. They made dark and atonal anti pop promoted by gigs of ferocious volume and attitude. In the year of their third album the NME’s Victoria Segal even proclaimed them as the best live band in Britain after seeing them perform in Paris. They were perhaps ahead of their time. If they were a new band now, instead of releasing their music to an audience more in favour of grooving to Fatboy slim and The Chemical brothers, or numbing out to the blandness of Travis and Coldplay, it may have been a different story.  Who gives a fuck, because nothing in the world can take the place of persistence? Here is the best of the story so far…