The Clientele & North Sea Radio Orchestra
Last night all three of us went to Cargo to see The Clientele, supported by North Sea Radio Orchestra, and both were spectacular. The Clientele’s new album God Save The Clientele has just come out on Track & Field (Merge in North America), and it’s a peach which we heartily recommend.
Try to see both bands live if you have the chance.
Forthcoming Clientele dates
Oct 18 2007 - Academy 3, Manchester
Oct 19 2007 - Academy, Newcastle
Oct 20 2007 - King Tuts, Glasgow
Oct 21 2007 - Glee Club, Birmingham
Nov 11 2007 - Union Chapel, London (acoustic show, with Kurt Wagner of Lambchop)
Forthcoming North Sea Radio Orchestra dates
Nov 17 2007 - The Roundhouse, London
Dec 05 2007 - Union Chapel, London
(Lovely photo of NSRO taken by Simon Parkin)
Super Pop Art
Things have calmed down a bit now so I’d better give a report about the PopArt superhero all dayer. We were rather pleased about how our covers of Brainiac’s Daughter and That’s Really Super, Supergirl went; we worked on them specially for the gig and it was the first time we played them in front of an audience, and probably will be the only time. Two superhero-themed XTC songs back-to-back - what a concept!
Another first for us: our gig got reviewed. It’s strange to realise that one is public property now. I mean, if you put yourself out there, play live, have websites and the like, then people have a right to talk about you I suppose. It’s just very weird to have strangers do it without any prompting from you!
Anyway, more gigs should be coming up in the autumn so I look forward more reviews.
Thanks to Simon Scott for taking lots of great pictures of us! See them here.
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.
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Mei Yau and I watched something last night that we must recommend to you. It’s a Czech film from 1970 called Valerie a týden divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), and you can read about it on this Wikipedia page.
This story of 13-year old Valerie’s blossoming adulthood is a beautiful and nightmarish haze, told through a succession of disturbing visuals and situations. The film seriously is a trip, and it’s really inspired us. Please look forward to our new vampire/incest direction.
The soundtrack has recently been made available, and we want it. It’s available here and here, among other places.
“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.
A Long Overdue Report
I almost forgot to report back on the the Bloomsbury Bowl gig that we played last week! The venue was great as always and we had some apparently-prize-winning hot dogs there. Organ Morgan, who headlined, were very good too.
I have to say we were rather taken aback by the first public airing of Insignia, a song we’ve had for a while; the new backing track took on a character in a live setting that none of us could have possibly predicted and, frankly, we were ill-prepared for the dance-rock juggernaut that came out of our amps. It was a lesson learned.
Here we are looking pretty cool:
At The Good Ship
Here’s a slideshow of photos from our gig at The Good Ship.
For a full-screen slideshow, or if it isn’t working above, click here.
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