TORA! TORA! TORA!

Guten tag!

HUGE thanks to everyone who came out to the Teapot EP launch party and made it such a special night. We had an incredible time and Eleanor Lee, Nordenfelt, Azores and Forever Sound were all absolutely brilliant. Thanks too to FourbeatWalk, Hello Thor and our dedicated army of DJs and cake-bakers for making it super-sensual.

Here's a little camera-recorded video from our set:



Now we head out on our debut UK tour over the next week! Come and see us if you're in the vicinity:

03.06.12 | Power Lunches Arts Café, London | w/ Verity Susman (Electrelane), Yola Fatoush, Sacred Paws & Flamingods 
04.06.12 | The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds | w/ Runners & Galaxians
06.06.12 | Bloc Bar, Glasgow | w/ Forever Sound & Ancients 
07.06.12 | The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge | w/ Buen Chico

08.06.12 | KRAAK, Manchester | w/ The FTSE 100, New Hips, Pooch & Arts and Craftwerk

We're also playing Sheffield and Liverpool later in the month - the latter with Damo Suzuki & Mugstar, which we're naturally quite excited about. More on this and much, much more soon...

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!