"Moving to Blackwater" is the sixth 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...

, and the third single taken from their debut album, Racecar Is Racecar Backwards

Racecar Is Racecar Backwards

Racecar Is Racecar Backwards is the debut full-length album by the British rock band Reuben. It was recorded between July and November 2003, and was produced by Jason Wilcock at his home-made studio in Chobham.-Track listing:...

. It was released in August 2004, and was also the first single that Reuben had ever released in the wake of an album. Opinion was divided as to whether or not it was the right choice to follow "Freddy Kreuger", some saying that the band should have released a more immediate single, and some arguing that it was a strong song that ably demonstrated another side of the band's diversity. It received only a small number of plays on radio, and even fewer showings on TV. In spite of this, the single still managed to reach #59 in the UK singles chart, only six places down from its predecessor. It was released on CD and 7" vinyl format, with a special alternative B-side on the vinyl copies.

Personnel

• Jamie Lenman - Guitars, vocals, piano
• Jon Pearce - Bass, vocals
• Guy Davis - Drums
• Jason Wilcock - engineering, mixing and producing, track 1
• Steven Down - recording, mixing and producing, track 2
• Mitty (last name unknown) - engineering, track 3 at BBC Maida Vale Studios for Steve Lamacq's Radio One Evening Session

Trivia

(From the band's site)

• The title track is the newest song on Racecar Is Racecar Backwards
  Racecar Is Racecar Backwards
  Racecar Is Racecar Backwards is the debut full-length album by the British rock band Reuben. It was recorded between July and November 2003, and was produced by Jason Wilcock at his home-made studio in Chobham.-Track listing:...
  
  , written just before the band demoed the album. It was the first of Reuben's singles to feature a live string section. It's also the only other song on the album to feature Neil Lancaster's seven-string guitar playing.
• Ways Of Staying Pure is an old track, a live favourite from the band's old Angel days that has since been more or less forgotten. It was recorded in the same session at Reading College that yielded Glitterskin, a song featured on the previous single Freddy Kreuger. The song was written in one rehearsal, when the band's old manager complained that they hadn't written any new material for some time.
• "Miffy in Auschwitz" is an old band favourite. The song had previously appeared with Doll Fin, Stux and Glitterskin on the Peoplesound.com promo, and this particular version was taken from the band's first Radio 1
  BBC Radio 1
  BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
  
   session in 2002. It is the first track taken from a BBC session to appear on a Reuben single.
• "Enemy" is another Angel track, an earlier version of which can be found on their demo EP. It was the band's first track to be used on a compilation - Afterdarc's 'Packet Of Ten', a collection of tracks from Farnborough based bands. This version was recorded at Jacob's studios in Farnham, which was the first time the band had recorded there since they did the original version of Let's Stop Hanging Out
  Let's Stop Hanging Out
  "Let's Stop Hanging Out" is the third single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben. 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,...
  
   with Paul Tipler.
• After listening to the song, many people mistakenly believe that singer frontman Jamie Lenman actually lives in Blackwater, which was nearly the case during preparation for the album, but in fact his parents decided to move to Ash Vale.
• This single is the first to feature different b-sides on CD and vinyl versions.
• All the vinyl copies were hand-numbered from 1-2500.
• The video http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSLEh2LqwrY for the single was filmed in Brighton with director Dan Fernbach. It was the first video for many things - the first to feature actors the band hadn't known previously; the first to be shot away from home on a specific location; the first to feature no band performance, and the first time the band had their own make-up lady.
• The artwork for the single was put together for production by Frank Turner from fellow Xtra Mile band Million Dead
  Million Dead
  Million Dead were a hardcore punk band from London, UK, active between 2001 and 2005.-History:The band was founded in 2000 by Cameron Dean and Julia Ruzicka, after both came to London from Australia. They were joined by Ben Dawson, who had worked with Dean in a record shop in the city...
  
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