Stiff! Stiffer! Stiffest! A Press Release From The World's Most Flexible Label Tenpole Tudor - The Swords of a Thousand Men (as featured in The Pirates!) (out now, BUY 285) A Stiff Records classic - The Swords of a Thousand Men by Tenpole Tudor - is the opening theme to the biggest new movie this weekend in the UK (and set to be the biggest animated film of the year), The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! The Pirates! is the latest from Aardman Animations (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, Flushed Away) and features the voices of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and David Tennant. The opening theme is Tenpole Tudor's The Swords of a Thousand Men, which Stiff is reissuing as a special five-track EP on iTunes and Spotify. The EP features new artwork, a newly remastered Swords, the original UK and US B-sides and two live tracks: Fashion (recorded at The Marquee) and the band's other monster hit, Wunderbar (recorded on the legendary Son Of Stiff Tour). The movie opens in the US on April 27, 2012 under the name The Pirates! Band of Misfits. The Swords of a Thousand Men EP is available here: iTunes UK: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/swords-thousand-men-as-featured/id513293474?uo=4 iTunes USA: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/swords-thousand-men-as-featured/id513293474?uo=4 Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5fh1WLcCE1ebEwBPTs0OyA Pirates trailer: http://www.youtube.com/user/SonyPicsUK?v=Ho08smK_zSc Swords video: http://youtu.be/O7fYVcg57Ak Stiff Records Press Office Ian Peel email: ian@letitbeep.com www.stiff- records.com facebook.com/stiffrecords youtube.com/stiffrecordsuk