MY GIG WITH MARVIN

Ok fellas, here's the skinny on our next gig:

Good grief! We're delighted to be welcoming back to Nottingham one of our favourite bands:

MARVIN
http://marvin.bandcamp.com/
MARVIN are Emilie, Greg and Fred from Montpellier, France, combining drums, analogue synths, guitars and vocoders. Think Trans Am, Golden, Led Zep, Devo. Part stadium rock, part synth pop, part MAD PARTY VIBEZ. They have been playing 200+ shows a year for the last 5 years all over the world (China?! The Caribbean?!) and it's super exciting to finally have them back in Nottingham.

CANTALOUPE
http://cantaloupe.bandcamp.com/
More synth/guitar/drums action from Nottingham's fourth best, second laziest but first sexiest band. Fresh back from the kind of European tour that gives a man a permanent thousand yard stare, be prepared for tight tropico-sympa grooves and a slightly unsettling air of psychosis.

HANG
Nottingham's hotte$t new band. Transcendental repeato-riffs and primal boogie for fans of all things cyclical.

Tickets will be £5 on the door. This will be part of Chameleon's grand reopening, after they will have been closed to redecorate for all of 11 days! Nick's got a late licence all weekend and there'll be DJs until 3am. Cripes!

See you there xx

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You want a Facebook event? You got yourself a Facebook event.

MARCOS VALLE INVITES YOU TO OUR E.P. LAUNCH GIG!

I'm obsessed with this song (and album) at the moment.

Oh yeah, and of course you need to come to tomorrow night's gig at the Chameleon, Nottingham: 

HELLO THOR RECORDS PRESENTS

A 12" Launch Party

CANTALOUPE
I AM LONOTHE CUSP

With live visuals from KNEEL BEFORE ZOD

£6 pre-order ticket includes 12" and download code!
http://hellothor.limitedrun.com/tickets/81-cantaloupe-12-launch-party-saturday-11th-may-2013

£4 on the door

Also joining us will be Nottingham synth-pop misanthropes I AM LONO:
http://www.facebook.com/ILIKELONO

And shoe-gazing hot stuff THE CUSP:
http://thecusp.bandcamp.com/

And there'll be live visuals from obscure cinema renegades THE KNEEL BEFORE ZOD VIDEO CLUB OF NOTTINGHAM CLUB!
http://www.facebook.com/KNLBFRZD

Yer obligatory Facebook event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/349252181847531/?fref=ts

Bring cake! See you there xx

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This is the only place that you can buy the "Splish/Wet Dog" 12" and copies will be available exclusively at the gig: http://hellothor.limitedrun.com/tickets/81-cantaloupe-12-launch-party-saturday-11th-may-2013. For £6 you'll get into the gig, we'll give you a beautiful 12" single with download codes on the night, plus you'll get an immediate download of Splish, right now. Tickets without the 12" will be £4 on the door only - don't be late or you won't get in!

Following the gig, the 12" will be available for pre-order exclusively from www.hellothor.com from Sunday 12th May until it hits actual record shops from Monday 17th June.

The word is already beginning to spread! We spoke our brains to Mike Atkinson for a forthcoming piece in Nottingham Evening Post this week and Artrocker and Drowned in Sound have picked up preview pieces on our nu choons:

http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/nottingham-alive-blog-6

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4146374-drowned-in-nottingham-14

Oh, and you wanna hear Wet Dog? Left Lion are exclusively streaming it from today:

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/listen--wet-dog-by-cantaloupe/id/5904#.UY04pqLD-z5

Oof! That's plenty for the time being.

11th MAY 2013: WILL BE OFFICIALLY THE BEST DAY EVER

Well, so say us anyway. Oh yeah! This is why:

HELLO THOR RECORDS PRESENTS
A 12" Launch Party

CANTALOUPE
I AM LONO
THE CUSP

With live visuals from KNEEL BEFORE ZOD

£6 pre-order ticket includes 12" and download code!
http://hellothor.limitedrun.com/tickets/81-cantaloupe-12-launch-party-saturday-11th-may-2013

£4 on the door

We are delighted to announce the release of HT016, a floor-filling 12" by Cantaloupe.

Featuring two tracks produced by Fletcher & Wells (Nottingham's answer to Stock, Aitken and Waterman) and a remix by Wax Stag, this sensual slab of vinyl is krautrock taken to its illogical boogie conclusion. Ridiculous, but totally bangin'.

Also joining us will be Nottingham synth-pop misanthropes I AM LONO:
http://www.facebook.com/ILIKELONO

And shoe-gazing hot stuff THE CUSP:
http://thecusp.bandcamp.com/

And there'll be live visuals from obscure cinema renegades THE KNEEL BEFORE ZOD VIDEO CLUB OF NOTTINGHAM CLUB!
http://www.facebook.com/KNLBFRZD

Bring cake! See you there xx

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That's right, advance tickets are now on sale at http://hellothor.limitedrun.com/tickets/81-cantaloupe-12-launch-party-saturday-11th-may-2013. For £6 you'll get into the gig, we'll give you a beautiful 12" single with download codes on the night, plus you'll get an immediate download of Splish, right now. We've purposely held back on sending out promos or uploading Splish onto any streaming sites so that anyone buying a ticket for the show gets an EXCLUSIVE first listen. And as it's the best thing we've ever done (he says, modestly) and may ever do, we're just a tad proud of it. Enjoy!

And yer obligatory Facebook event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/349252181847531/?fref=ts

THIS IS THE NEWS: Splish/Wet Dog 12" on its way!

Bosh!

Christ, it's been quiet since a fantastic gig at the Sebright Arms in London, courtesy of those wonderful Burn The Jukebox fellas. Cheers lads, etc.

It's been so quiet because we've been locked away in the studio, putting the finishing touches to our next release... which will be a fancy black floor-filling disco-tastic 12" which will be HT016 on Hello Thor, to be released this summer, probably in early June.

Featuring two tracks produced by Fletcher & Wells (Nottingham's answer to Stock, Aitken and Waterman) and a remix by Wax Stag, this sensual slab of vinyl is krautrock taken to its illogical boogie conclusion. Ridiculous, but totally bangin'. Splish has been our set-closer for every gig we've played since we wrote it and is everyone's favourite song. Wet Dog is a jazz/dub/acid mongrel that confuses everyone but inspires love in that strange way that only slightly misshapen and quirky crossbreeds can. Both have received the magic Fletcher/Wells treatment, with Wax Stag weighing in his own version of Splish to up the stardust-sprinkled feeling. Needless to say, we're immensely proud of this one.

So we're going to have a party to celebrate it, joined by our good friends I Am Lono and The Cusp. Full details to be posted ASAP, but live! updates! for the event at the inimitable Chameleon Arts Cafe in Nottingham on Saturday 11th May can be found on ye Facebook...

And what after that? Well, we thought we might as well go and CONQUER EUROPE while we're at it. So look out for some TOUR DATES soon, yeah?

MINIATOUR

Dave finally snaps after Simmo smuggles battery-powered keyboard in to tour van

A MINIATOUR (mini-uh-tawr) (n.) (not to be confused with a minotaur, as pictured above) is the kind of tour that is undertaken a band featuring three overworked 30-something office functionaries with limited holiday entitlement . It lasts for four! whole! dates! and isn't even sequential any more.

Yet despite its diminutive stature, it's still a bloody good thing, and we are tickled pink to be engaging in such a venture - especially in such stellar company. We'll be playing four shows with our esteemed comrades and highly regarded members of the IAOWB (International Association of One-Off Wedding Bands) PAPIER TIGRE, all the way from Nantes, France. And a further three with Scotch guitar thaumaturge RM HUBBERT.

Dates are as follows - if you are one of the approximately 17% of the population that live either in London, Nottingham, Manchester or Derby you've really no excuse not to be there.

03 May | The Old Blue Last | London (w/ Papier Tigre)
04 May | Chameleon | Nottingham (w/ Papier Tigre and RM Hubbert)
05 May | Night & Day Café | Manchester (w/ Papier Tigre and RM Hubbert)
12 May | Holy Smokes Festival | The Salt Mill, Derby (w/ Papier Tigre and RM Hubbert)

To get you all aquiver with excitation, here are some fine videos or our touring partners:






See you there!

ANIMATION

Ho!

We have another show confirmed! We'll be playing a rather special show for Nottingham-based cinema club Kneel Before Zod on Friday 30th September at Chameleon. We shall be doing our best to make not only your ears but also your eyes happy via the magic of "visuals". Expect plenty of early computer game console-orientated footage.

KBZ have not only prepared this fine poster, featuring three demonic Nick Cages:

But also this splendid video trailer (!)



Cor lummie, it really is the future. Whatever will they think of next?

Finally, on the theme of all things visually wonderful, here's a splendid animation from 1979 made to accompany "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk. Enjoy!