New Year’s Round-Up
Cheers! Hong Kong In The 60s is one this month! You can help me celebrate with a nice honey and lemon to soothe this dreadful flu.
What with Christmas and New Year and so on, we never got round to telling you about our gig with Misty Roses (brilliant - Sunny Intervals was lovely too); or when we were played on FM radio in Montpelier, France, by Babes In Boyland; or to show off our new song Shadow Of The Bear which is on our MySpace and Last.fm pages; or about the gigs we have lined up for 2008!
Our first show of the year will be Friday 25 January for Scaledown at The King & Queen (1 Foley Street, London, W1P 7LE). Expect good Resonance FM-style stuff here. We’ll give more details when we have them.
Also, we’ll be playing a Fortuna Pop! night in February and Twee As Fuck in April, supporting Fanfarlo.
We can guarantee that these gigs will be exciting as we’re working on a new, high-concept live set. Ambitious! Atmospheric! Please come and see!
La Merienda
Hey! We were played on the radio in Spain! Thanks goes to Agustín Fuentes for playing us on his show, La Merienda, on Radio Extremadura.
Agustín had emailed us a few months ago, asking for a CD, and he was very complimentary about our music on his programme. While talking about us, he mentioned Stereolab, Broadcast and Japanese pop so we’re pretty happy.
You can tune in to La Merienda at 18:07 CET, download shows or subscribe to the podcast. It’s a lovely mix of indie pop and, I think, ideal dinnertime listening.
Misty Roses coming soon
I hope everyone is keeping Sunday 18 November free in their diaries because we’ll be supporting the wonderful Misty Roses at the Enterprise in Camden. Also supporting is Sunny Intervals (Andy from Pocketbooks’ solo project) who Tim will be helping out on some guitar duty.
Misty Roses last came to these shores on tour with Patrick Wolf and the duo are sure to wow (woo?) us again with their dark and sensual Morricone-esque sounds. We’ve been listening to their album Komodo Dragons for that lamp-lit, late-night mood and can highly recommend it. Really, we’d be going to this gig even if we weren’t playing it. And so should you.
The Enterprise is right next to Chalk Farm tube. See www.poplookandlisten.co.uk for more information.
BADGES!
We now have lovely Hong Kong In The 60s badges. If you want one, please email us.
Live: South Eats London, Sat 27 Oct
We are playing live with the wonderful Shimura Curves at the launch night of SOUTH EATS LONDON, “an odyssey through the happier ranges of human emotion in the form of a club night.” Here is what they have to say:
Saturday 27/10 - SOUTH EATS LONDON at The Deptford Arms, 52 Deptford High Street, SE8 4NR: Another new party to blow your neon socks off. Bands, buns, bingo and balloons! Tonight - shimmery pop wonders from Shimura Curves, Hong Kong in the 60s and Dora Brilliant. Party from 8pm-1am with the resident deck monkeys. Free entry all night.
The Deptford Arms is in walking distance of the following stations:
Deptford BR
New Cross tube
New Cross BR
Deptford Bridge DLR
Greenwich DLR
Greenwich BR
Here’s a Google Map. Deptford BR doesn’t seem to appear on it, but it’s actually the closest station to the venue.
There will be a free CD for attendees, featuring tracks from us, Shimura Curves and Dora Brilliant. Free entry x free CD = worth the trip to New Cross, surely?
indiepages.com Demo Of The Week
I’ve just discovered while searching the web that the fantastic indiepages.com awarded us Demo Of The Week last week! I think we will disappear from the page on September 10th, when a new band will be featured. Until then, point your browser here to take a look. If you’re reading this in the future, then don’t worry, you can still see what they said about us, as I reproduce it now:
This trio plays soft, minimal bedroom pop that at times, sound like they could be Stereolab demos. Pleasant and relaxing…
I like how it ends with an ellipsis, as it suggests that the reviewer has so much more to say, but our pleasant and relaxing music has made them drift into dreamland.
You’re very kind, indiepages.com!
Lostmusic gig
The turnout for this was a little sparse, probably because of an enforced venue change late in the day to dreaded South London (am I the only person sad enough to live down here?). However, we didn’t mind, as it was a nice venue, our set went quite well and we got to meet and watch the delectable Mono Taxi. So thanks very much to Trev and Lostmusic for putting us on. You can see some photos of us and the other bands that our host took here.
“Floating like the feathers…”
Thanks so much to Twentyseven Views (the blogging arm of Twentyseven Records) for reviewing Don’t Try. It makes us super happy.
Read it here.
30 August Change of Venue!
The Lostmusic Presents gig with Mono Taxi will now be taking place at The Grosvenor (17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP) and not at the Horse and Groom as previously advertised.
Tickets are still £4 in advance (from We Got Tickets) or £5 on the door. Come along!
Osaka In The 90s
A Taut Line has done a remix of our song Mirror Of Ink and what a sexy one it is. Check it out here on his blog, Travels Without The Sun.
Listen to me, Melora
Join us at the PopArt Comics All Dayer on 2 September 2007 for our first show of the autumn. It’s bound to be fun and we’re busy honing our comic-related covers in preparation. We are not doing Jaan Pehechaan Ho. No way.
Lostmusic Presents…
The venue has been confirmed as the Horse & Groom, Shoreditch, London, and a beautiful gig poster has starting popping up on the internet:
Tickets are £4 in advance and can be bought here: wegottickets.com/event/20089.
The show is being put on by the lovely lostmusic.co.uk.
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