"Let's Stop Hanging Out" is the third single by Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

-based rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Reuben

Reuben (band)

Reuben were an English three-piece musical group from Camberley, Surrey. Their music was a fusion of alternative rock and heavy metal, as their songs cover a variety of styles, ranging from heavy and upbeat, such as their 2005 single "Blamethrower" to slower, more melodic songs such as their 2004...

. It was recorded in November 2002 at Jacob's studios in Farnham with Paul Tipler. It was recorded and mixed from start to finish in one day. The b-sides were recorded over night at Air studios in London with Adam Noble, who had recorded some of the bands early demos at the University of Surrey

University of Surrey

The University of Surrey is a university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey in the South East of England. It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was previously situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. The institution was known as Battersea College of Technology...

. It was released in January 2003 on Badmusic and received mixed reviews in the press, but was made Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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 single of the week by Colin Murray

Colin Murray

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 and reached the top of the MTV2

MTV2

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 chart. Presenter Zane Lowe

Zane Lowe

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 invited the band onto his brown couch to tell them personally. Despite this, people in some parts of the country had difficulty obtaining the single in record shops given its relatively low chart position in the first week.

Personnel

• Jamie Lenman - Guitars, vocals
• Jon Pearce - Bass Guitar
• Guy Davis - Drums

Trivia

(From the band's site)

• The title track was chosen by the band as a single because they deemed it representative of their general sound, more so than the previous two singles, Scared of the Police
  Scared of the Police
  "Scared of the Police" is the debut single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben. It was recorded in December 2001 at EMI studios in London with Idlewild/80's Matchbox producer Paul Tipler, and was the first recording to be released with Guy Davis on drums...
  
   and Stux
  Stux (Tell Me It's Alright)
  "Stux " is the second single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben. It was recorded in June 2002 with the band's friend Rob Fisher at Opus Studios in Grayshot, and was released in August later that year in the Bossmusic label. Despite bad press reviews the single reached #86 is the UK charts, the...
  
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• Alpha Signal Five is An old song from old drummer Mark Lawton's time in the band. An earlier version of this was song was amongst the original five songs that the band had demoed two years previously with Adam Noble when he was a degree student.
• Numb At Four In The Morning had been played regularly at acoustic shows and still is today. This version owes its title to the "cold sleepy hours" of the overnight session at Air Studios.
• Jacob's studios, where the title track was recorded, is just down the road from where the band used to practice in a shed on a farm. The band had been there a few months previously to take part in the studio's promotional video http://youtube.com/watch?v=XuC3b5x5ItI, and to jump about in their pool.
• During the recording of the b-sides, Jamie covered his entire left arm and face in gaffa tape, which had to be removed before the guitar tracks were laid down.
• The video for the song includes appearances from members of local Christian rockers Cephas, and Reuben webmaster/Badmusic boss Ric Melia, who had to wear six layers of t-shirts in order to look big enough to be Jamie's double.
• Jamie's new shoes, seen in the first shot of the video, were ruined when they were put in the same bag as the paint used for the tattoos.
• Police were called in on the set of the video after reports of the repeated kidnapping of Guy from the Rockbox in Camberley by three men in balaclavas, who put him down after ten metres and walked back into the shop with him each time.
• The live footage in the video was shot at the Astoria in London.