ladybeans and gentle folk of That London, presenting our 3rd of 4 shows of PURE AWESOME upstairs at the Garage.
Saturday 18th August
with Playlounge and Her Parents and more tba, + EXTRAS
playlounge have THE BEST SONGS EVER HEURGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH::::::::::
Her Parents is Chris from Internet Forever, Calum from Dananananaykroyd, Will of Stairs to Korea and Sean from being Alcopop Jacks (soberer) brother and sound exactly like what it would be like to get slapped by pure fun. literally that.
we'll announce one more later, BUT here are 3 more reasons why you need to come:
- We now have the upstairs room all night! In no way whatsoever is this an over-reaction towards the overly rude bouncers who clear people out of the room at the end whilst WE'RE STILL TALKING TO THEM. well, maybe a bit, but it means you guys can stick around till 2 and we can DJ and OH SHIT WE HAVE A NIGHTCLUB. so, please take advantage else it'll just be us and the bouncers and a terrible silence.
- We're recording the set. well, Dom's recording the set. If we did it, it would just be on iphone voicememo. and after we've had the chance to add crowd noise from Queen Live at Wembley 86, we'll internet it to you with some pictures like some sort of digital postcard of a night you forgot. Only, you won't forget it cos it'll be awesome, and the only place you'll be able to get a recording of the SECRET COVER we're for sure not going to screw up.
tour excitement! we have been rehearsing hard. we sort of have to cos our heater broke and its the only way to keep warm.
anyway. we are whores.
evidence 1)
we're never going to be one of those bands that cashes in on nostalgia like every other band i loved in the 90s, but we asked about shirt reprinting recently and this was such a winner that we're getting another batch done for tour. We'll put a few on the big cartel store when we get them tho.
evidence b)
The internet (you) asked us to play this song, right. we've never played it before, save for a few hours a few years ago separately recording all the bits. cos it's in the wrong key for our voices AND it has too many guitar parts and, yknow, we've written about 100000 songs since then. blergh.
hopefully by next week we'll have figured out harmonies properly instead of screaming over each other. I updated this post with ticket links and age restrictions of all the shows. how useful.
ANYWAY I DID COME ON HERE to waffle on about our next Birmingham show; in all the hubub we kinda forgot about promoting it up. OOOOPS.
so i made a poster out of lewe's cast offs and 10 mins with ms paint.
+ more fun stuff we'll come to presently. um, when i say fun, i kinda mean "using you to make a video", but the upside is you get to be in our video. also, can everyone bring torches. please. anwaysssssss; TICKETS HERE.
*** error, just noticed it says 14+ on the tickets. and it isn't, it's 18+. blergh. Get in touch if by any chance you brought a ticket and are too young to see our adult porno theatre, we'll refund you and recompense you in some other style***
so, we're still pretty dazed from last week; those two shows were pretty amazing life highlights and an awesome launch for our record.
we have a plugger now, (hi oli!) so you may have heard our new single on The Radio like real bands, or on some tv football montage like The Enemy.
Lewes has recovered two faded sketches, of the views from the window and ship from our record cover. We've made a lush a3 double sided poster out of them, and that is this seasons format of choice. They're super limited cos frankly, posters are a bitch to post.
You'll also get a downloady of The Actual Music,
here is tracklist:
1) You Vs Everything (radio edit)
2) PS, Not Soon Enough
3) Johnny Foreigner Vs The Hipster Garden Party
4) If I'm the most famous (robot) boy you've fucked, then honey, yr in (robot) trouble
Cos we're clearly being criticised for not releasing enough songs, track 3 is an entire live set. Well, an 18 minute set. and we're drunk. and it really was a garden party. in france. but, y'know, it should silence the naysayers who think we espouse quality over quantity.
Anyway, you can only buy it from the Alcopop store from Friday onwards, and Banquet Records in Kingston. New Slang, it has been far too long since we played, so, as a little mini celebration, we're playing you on the 8th December. Think of it as a going away party, we can bore you with our tokyo sightseeing plans.
And, seeing as, according to MTV we're the planets no 5 most talked about band [EDIT - is now 3rd and im not looking anymore], we'd like to present some Music Videos like what mtv used to run. its probably best to click thru to youtube to watch them cos of our painfully thin text field.
You Vs Everything, by Moral Hangover, using footage from Johnny Foreigner Vs London
PS, Not Soon Enough, by Ben Rausch, using footage from our European Obliteration tour last summer.
OKcool, Off to france then. Here's our dates again, SI TU EST FRENCHAIS:
Lille, La Peniche, 24th November
Paris, L'International, 25th November (MAIS OUI , LA DRUM-CAGE!)
L'Orient, Cafe Culturel Mapl, 26th November
Brest, Caberet Vauban, 27th November
and lastly, i'd like to give the cape of Awesome Song Titles back to Andy Falkous. sorry, was just seeing how it looked..
our launch shows are going to be so rad. But! have you bought your significant other a ticket, knowing that he/she doesn't necessarily keep up with those funny little bands you like?
fear not, just download these songs and you can be like, babes, i made you a mixtape. the buy set option just goes to the alcopop store (this isn't really an alcopop release, we just can't let you all rinse our dropbox) so you have to dl each song seperately. don't you dare complain cos this is how i had to buy lifter pullers entire back cat, and this whole saving your relationship act of ours is FREE.
or, yknow, you can just dl it yrself and be alone forever, but with an awesome set of songs courtesy of the bands we're playing with this weekend and strong jack pop...
hey, also, before you hear the exclusive brand new unheard song of ours thats tacked on the end and accuse us of playing nice chords on acoustic guitars, you should know it was made entirely by robots.
k if that wasn't enough mixtape options for you, go here for a free dlable compilation from all of us thanks to Gold Flake Paint, and here to see what i said after WHA?, when Q asked me for a playlist of "bands that were "probably big in japan"
yo! It's compliment christmas round here, so thanks for all the lovely words everyone. I STILL havnt got a copy of the record or the book or the shirt, but i hear noones drowned yet so everythings just great.
i wrote a bunch of stuff about our record and like, WHAT IT ALL MEANS, for DrownedInSound here.
the shirts are all sold out now, but you can still get the record with the book here. When it's all gone then we're going to put it online, but IT WON'T BE THE SAME.
anyway:::::::::
there's been some changes to our party shows this coming weekend.
changes of the GOOD+ kind
London This Saturday 5 - 10pm: Instead of Echo Lake, we have My First Tooth, Pandas & People, and cakes made by internet celebrity Julia Christmas and her mum.
Birmingham This Sunday 5 -10.30pm: Richard Burke is bringing a band. Not just any band, tho, THEE birmingham indie rock band. They're called The Starries. i'm pretty sure this reunion won't mean as much to any of you as it does to me and kel, but they're one of our favourite bands ever. we wouldn't exist were it not for these guys.
obviously we're fated never to sell out in birmingham, even if we have Stagecoach, Screaming Maldini, Calories, Ace Bushy Striptease, and The Fucking Starries supporting us, so, TICKETSSS
- those are nice posters, you are thinking. - they should print them up big and sell them exclusively at the shows.
OH OK THEN. first come first served at shows. if we have any left then a) my hypothetical internal dialogue sensor is bust and b) we'll put them on the merch store. Or paper our studio, idk. look out for another launch show present later this week.
early doors cos there's so many bands, early curfews cos of trains and so on and THESE ARE GOING TO BE THE SICKEST SHOWS EVER so come roadtrip.
well, i so should have posted this yesterday, but, we have a whole weekend worth of fun coming up, here are details lest you feel like, y'know, going out to awesome festivals
pandas and people, then shoes and socks off, then tubelord, then us. OMG is that ever the best thing ever. maybe if hot club replaced us. (l)over the weekend, pretty much everyones playing; saturday is dd/mm/yyyy and sunday is dana, with like, a million other awesome bands supporting. also, dominique james wots made our record is doing a solo set, go and niceheckle him. or on the saturday, you could go see algernon play in the afternoon somewhere, and calories and echo lake at the hare and hounds. i don't think our grey city has ever seen such an awesome selection of bands in such a short space of time. and its tonight! i need to change strings! and sleep!
with support from freeze the atlantic and stagecoach and more and a floor made of astroturf. (l)over the weekend is also dana, the xcerts, our lost infantry, hold yr horse is. we kind of want to go to this too
on the main stage under the futureheads and ash. ash's lighting guy is lighting us, THANKS TOM, and apparently the main stage is outside so yay. because sheffield is the second best city in the country, literally every band ever is playing at some point over the weekend, and its all totally free. jebus.
for one weekend only, let other countries be jealous of our scene. see you there!
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