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?

WELCOME TO 2013

Lads and ladies,

We're back, and it's 2013: what the fuck is going on? We have plans a-plenty, ranging from finishing some tracks for a new 12" that we started recording with Mr Pete Fletcher before Christmas, due out on Hello Thor in early summer, to our first! ever! European Tour! at the end of May. We're planning on visiting Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France, so get in touch if you want us to play near you - we're particularly keen to stop in at Luxembourg and Lichtenstein if we're given half a chance. And anywhere selling half-decent booze for cheap, no doubt. Other grand plans will be unveiled as the year progresses.

But what about UK gigs? Oh yes, we have some grand plans there too. First up, we're reconnecting with old friends Burn The Jukebox to play this gig in the capital city next Saturday:

We have also been promised the following fine things:

+ CAKES!
+ BURGERS! (upstairs!)
+ PINTS!

@ THE SEBRIGHT ARMS (closest tube – Bethnal Green, or BR Bethnal Green/Cambridge Heath, or buses up BG or Hackney Road)

8pm start, £3 o.t.d

R.S.V.P on facebook here.

See you there, yeah?

LIVE VISUALS, YO

Hola!

The inevitable highlight of closing out GameCity7 on Saturday night was playing along to live visuals projected on and above us created and manipulated in real time by members of the audience using a beta version of Tagtool and a couple of iPads. Huge thanks to Urban Canvas and Urban Projections for collaborating with us to organise it, and here's a little showreel to highlight what wonders you missed out on if you weren't there:


Tagtool @ Gamecity 7 from Urban Projections on Vimeo.

POTENT ALPACA TOUPEE

Greetings dear friends and acquaintances,

Did you come to our tour with the incredible Galaxians?  If not, you missed out on 5 nights of ENDLESS BOOGIE and BUSINESS FUNK. Seriously, they were mind-blowing every night and it was probably our favourite run of shows OF ALL TIME. Matt and Jed are fantastic folk and we enjoyed their company as much as their unbelievable chops and jaw-dropping songs. Huge thanks too to everyone who put us on, put us up and generally ate and got drunk with us - you are too numerous to mention by name, but you are extremely dear to our hearts. We all had an awful lot of fun and are now paying for too many consecutive nights of fun by being generally knackered, ill and run down.

BUT NO MATTER! For here is an exclusive set of FREE remixes of tracks from this summer's Teapot EP. And these aren't just any old remixes knocked out by hacks in exchange for grimy money; these are by some extremely talented and special friends; Apalusa, Forever Sound and Moscow Youth Cult. Check 'em out and download to your heart's content:

IMMINENT UK TOUR

Did you know that we're about to embark on a short UK tour with our good buddies Galaxians later this week? There's a Facebook event page here, or check out details of individual gigs below:

Wednesday 24th - THE GREEN ROOM, SHEFFIELD
http://www.facebook.com/events/370736003004312/

Thursday 25th - WHARF CHAMBERS, LEEDS

http://www.facebook.com/events/150596828412569/

Friday 26th - FUEL, MANCHESTER
http://www.facebook.com/events/454034644627605/

Saturday 27th - ONE THORESBY STREET, NOTTINGHAM
http://www.facebook.com/events/434925956544250/

Sunday 28th - OLD BLUE LAST, LONDON
http://www.facebook.com/events/225684324227749/

 

These will be our last live dates for a short while as we finish up on recording and mixing a bunch of new songs that we've been prepping this year. But have no fear! We have grand plans afoot for a handful of live dates in a couple of months and then MOAR TOURING ACKSHUN next year!

GRIN AND BEARD IT

Here's a little something we did one Sunday afternoon earlier this year:


Directed by David Lilley at Loonatik and Drinks:
http://www.loonatikanddrinks.com/

Recorded live at First Love Studio by Peter Fletcher:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Love-Studios/153470198008016

OXJAM - LIVE & LOCAL AT THE LOCK

Aloha!

We had a blast at Music From Elsewhere at the weekend, despite being woefully underprepared for the freezing conditions by the time we got around to playing. We've now just about recovered from a brilliant and exhausting day. Much love to Lancashire & Somerset for hosting us and our huge contingent of fellow performers, friends and family from Nottingham... as well as the fantastic other acts on the day.

NEXT UP: "LIVE AND LOCAL AT THE LOCK", courtesy of OXJAM - at The Navigation, Nottingham on Friday 12th October. We're hugely flattered to have been asked to play an event aiming to raise £500 towards a library. We'll be playing with a huge host of wide-ranging acts, there will be opportunities to choose the tunes between bands in exchange for a donation to OXJAM, and - most importantly - you'll be able to stuff your face with unfeasibly good food courtesy of the incredible Annie's Burger Shack until 8:30pm. Expect to see our stomachs groaning and a smacked-out look of satisfaction on our faces by the time we take to the stage.

Oxjam event page