Thanks to everyone who came to see us at The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen in London on Tuesday. If you weren’t there you missed a great night with excellent supports and DJs and of course our drummer Mr. Atkins dressed as the devil. We all lost pounds in the sweltering heat, but the reception was still marvellous and a good time was had by all.
Next up it’s a pan-European weekend with our second appearance at the Lemonpop festival in Murcia, Spain on September 4 followed by a return to Berlin, Germany to headline Saturday night of Let’s Kiss and Make Up’s Indiepop Days Berlin Festival in Kreuzberg.
Our recent shows in both Spain and Madrid have been amazing so we’re really looking forward to coming back to both countries. Come and see us and say hello
We’re very pleased to officially announce that our next single will be live favourite and Northern Soul barn-stormer ‘Up In Flames’, as chosen by you, the fans, on our Facebook page. If you’re new to us and haven’t got our latest album ‘A Coming Of Age’ yet, then you can listen to the track and read about its genesis on Andrew’s blog.
To celebrate the release of our painfully hot single we’ll be playing our only London date of the summer at the painfully cool Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen on August 10th. It will be a thoroughly indie-pop affair with main support coming from some-very-special-guests-that-we’ll-announce-next-week, second support coming from the just as special but less mysterious The Lodger. Spinning platters on the night will be our old friend Ian Watson from legendary club night How Does It Feel To Be Loved? and Pocketbooks.
We want the night to go down like as house on fire so why not come in fancy dress? The theme? ‘Flames’ of course! There’ll be a prize for everyone who makes an effort, so get your thinking caps on.
After successfully predicting the World Cup finalists, octopus-style, with recent shows in Spain and Holland, we move onto third place with a special acoustic show in Berlin’s Bang Bang Club next Tuesday July 20th. Uraguay, you know where we are.
Finally a big thanks to everyone who came to see us on our recent festival stint and particularly our debut Glastonbury performance which was an absolute dream come true for us all. Thanks to Billy Bragg for inviting us too.
"This is the sound of a band switching from black-and-white to colour. One of the albums of the year, hands down."Simon Price – Independent on Sunday 5/5
And who are we to disagree? You can get it here, here or here or from all your usual physical and digital retailers.
Secondly a big thank you to everyone who came down to Cargo on Thursday and made our album launch a fantastic night to remember. It was the most fun we’ve had at a show for a long time, the new songs went down really well and it was great to meet old faces and new afterwards. So, thank you, you’re amazing.
If you missed us, then never fear, we’re back in Club NME at Koko in Camden at the end of the month. Tickets are available here. We kicked off our jaunt round England supporting The Primitives yesterday in Bristol, which continues tonight in Nottingham. Dates are below.
19 Apr The Bodega Social, Nottingham*
20 Apr Moho Live, Manchester*
21 Apr Fibbers, York*
24 Apr Flapper and Firkin, Birmingham Tickets 30th Apr Club NME, Koko, London Tickets 13 May Firebug, Leicester Tickets 14 May The Great Escape, Brighton
19 June Sala Caracol, Madrid
*Supporting The Primitives
If you’d like to know a bit more about the album and listen to each track in full, then Andrew’s rambling track by track preview is here
Come and say hello if you’re planning to see us on tour and do tell us what you think of the album.
Woah Billy! will be available from Monday 12th April as a digital download, backed with new soaring, country ballad ‘Why Can’t Everyone Be Nice For A Change?’ A limited edition 7″ will be available on 26th April, back with the BBC Radio 2 Record of the Week, ‘White Russian Doll’
Written, shot and cut by Lucky Soul.
Here’s what Andrew has to say about it…
“After blowing our video budget on one too many string sections, we decided to embrace our DIY ethic and shoot one ourselves. Everything from storyboards to sets, lights to animation we did ourselves and the film was shot on a long Saturday in Ali’s front room by guitarist Ivor Sims (who also directed the video for our first single) The video uses some really old Pelham marionette puppets that bassist Russell used to play with when he was a kid. They’re very macabre and have that disturbing Punch and Judy feel so we went for a Grimm-esque narrative with a distinctly non-Grimm disco breakdown.
The plot features the story of our puppet heroine ‘Dot’ and search for her abducted beau ‘Billy’ from her rough cut paper house, through cardboard forests to a ‘Watch With Mother’ style Studio 54, running into a host of weird and sinister characters along the way.
Shooting almost literally on a shoe string was challenging but probably the most enjoyable time we’ve had? a video and despite its low budget we achieved what we set out to do which was to make something very watchable, a little bit silly and a lot of fun.”
We’ve announced the first dates for our spring tour, our album launch,some headline shows and some unusual supports!
April 15th London Cargo – Album Launch
Tickets from Ticketweb
April 18th Bristol Thekla – supporting The Primitives
April 19 th Nottingham Bodega Social – supporting The Primitives
April 20th Manchester Moho Live – supporting The Primitives
April 21st York Fibbers – supporting The Primitives
April 22nd London Bloomsbury Ballroom
– supporting Shakespears Sister
April 24th Birmingham Flapper & Firkin – Lucky Soul Headline
Tickets from SeeTickets
May 13th Leicester Firebug – Lucky Soul Headline
Tickets from WeGotTickets
May 14th The Great Escape Festival, Brighton – The Spiegel Parlour
Celebrating the imminent release of our forthcoming second album, we’re giving away a FREE download of the title track, A Coming Of Age. Simply click on the link below and enter your email address to receive the track.
We’ll be playing our Album Launch at Cargo in London on Thursday 15th April.
Advance tickets available priced £9 from Ticket Web
Full details to follow soon. It will be a special night.
If you can’t wait that long to see us then we’ll be wearing some slippy shoes, falling over and yelling Steeeeeeeeeerrrrrrriike when we play ‘Strike Night’ at The Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes on Thursday 25th February. Details here and tickets here
