The Trade are five young musicians hailing from the Scottish town of Forfar, who pride themselves on their stomping anthems that are 'fighting to get out' are releasing a new single 'Fight Club' on Monday 24th May .

The band are made up of Ross Milne on vocals, Bobo Martin on drums, Liam Moir on rhythm guitar, Craig Murray on lead guitar and backing vocals and Drew McLaren on bass and backing vocals. Having been together since 2008 they have established themselves quickly in the Scottish music scene and with extensive gigging they have fine tuned their music.

At the end of 2008 The Trade entered the studio to record the thirteen track demo entitled "Empire." 2009 saw the band back in the studio to record their EP "Breakdown”, featuring indie stomper "The Dealer” - the video of which received airplay on the digital TV service "Virgin On Demand."

The Trade have worked with producer Jeff Allen (Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian) at CaVa Studios, Glasgow to record their new single "Fight Club". April 2010 sees the band begin work with Jamie Savage, at the prestigious Chem19 recording studio, on the recording of their album “Lie In The Dark”, which will be released on June 14th.

Check out the video to the new single 'Fight Club'  (did your mother not warn you about playing guitar in the bath?).

Check out more of their songs on MySpace here

The album release will be preceded by a 14 date “Lie in The Dark” UK album launch tour, which will see The Trade take their amazingly catchy tunes nationwide for the first time. Confirmed dates so far include:

21 May 2010      20:00    NOTTINGHAM HOUSE UK Album Launch Tour     SHEFFIELD,    
22 May 2010     19:00    Haworth Arms Album Launch Tour                        HULL,    
23 May 2010     20:00    THE LIBRARY UK Album Tour Launch                  LEEDS,   
25 May 2010     20:00    THE PORT MAHON UK Album Launch Tour          OXFORD,   
26 May 2010     20:00    DEATH DISCO UK Album Launch Tour                 LONDON,    
27 May 2010     20:00    THE SPARE ROOM UK Album Launch Tour         BIRMINGHAM,    
28 May 2010     20:00    ZANIZBAR UK Album Launch Tour                       LIVERPOOL,   
29 May 2010     20:00    DURHAM LIVELOUNGE UK Album Launch Tour   DURHAM,   
31 May 2010     12:00    GEORGE SQUARE                                            GLASGOW,   
2 Jun 2010     20:00    CAFE DRUMMONDS Album Launch Tour               ABERDEEN,   
3 Jun 2010     20:00    THE VOODOO ROOMS,  Album Lauch Tour          EDINBURGH,
4 Jun 2010     20:00    MAGGIE MAYS UK Album Launch Tour                GLASGOW,   
5 Jun 2010     20:00    THE DOGHOUSE, Album launch UK tour              DUNDEE,    
11 Jun 2010     20:00    LEITH FRINGE FESTIVAL                                  EDINBURGH,     
14 Aug 2010     15:00    GIG IN THE DEN                                              KIRRIEMUIR,     
28 Aug 2010     12:00    ROCK AT THE RACECOURSE                          KELSO,