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Last Updated: 11/20/2009

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Thursday, October 01, 2009 
Greetings y'all!
We have extended our Euro-Tour so November now looks like this:..

12th COLOGNE, Luxor
13th EINDHOVEN, Effenaar
14th HAARLEM, Patronaat
15th UTRECHT, Ekko
16th FRANKFURT, Batchskapp
17th STUTTGART, Longhorn
18th MUNICH, Backstage Werk
19th HANNOVER, Faust
20th ROSTOCK, Mau Club
21st BERLIN, Privat Club
22nd HAMBURG, Knust
23rd WUPPERTAL, Live Club
24th ROME, Traffic Club
25th MILAN, Magnolia
26th VERONA, Arci Kroen

Hopefully see some of you there!
Love, Amusement Parks xX


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 
Join us this Thursday at Spaceland to celebrate our successful return to LA from our US tour with Happy Mondays and Psychedelic Furs for a last minute FREE rock show//video shoot! Doors open at 9pm, on stage at 11. Bring flashlights! xX

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 
Hello y'all, and greetings from beautiful Chicago.

We are thrilled to have arrived back on US soil and to be starting our tour today!Xx

This historic day also marks the release on these shores of our new extended player entitled 'Young Fight', which features 2 new tracks, and a cut from each of the 'Out Of The Angeles' EP's, never before released in the land of the free.

It's available in future-techno-takeover-apocalypse-binary format on iTunes HERE, Amazon HERE, and on a charming caveman relic known as the compacted disque. The latter contains 'artwork' that is individually screen printed onto recyclable cardboard 'sleeves' and hand numbered, and are available at shows or for billions of yen from a hard, tight, dusty web-corner.

The 'Young Fight Art' of Joe and Michael:

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We are also intensely jazzed to announce shows in Germany and Holland a little later this year. A lot of which are with our righteous buddies Silversun Pickups, a heroically awesome band of dudes and dudette all must agree. These dates look something like this (with other shows on the continent soon to be confirmed):..

November
13th Eindhoven, Effenaar
14th Haarlem, Patronaat
15th Utrecht, Ekko
16th Frankfurt, Batchskapp*
17th Stuttgart, Longhorn*
18th Munich, Backstage Werk*
19th Hannover, Faust*
20th Rostock, Mau Club*
21st Berlin, Privat Club
*w/SSPU's

In the meantime we shall be finishing our new record shortly, and it shall be released early in the new year, at which time we shall see those elsewhere in the free world!

Thanking you for listening and looking forward to seeing you soon!

Love Michael and Amusement Parks Xx
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Monday, July 06, 2009 
Hello all!
We trust you're well?
So we are very pleased to announce our US dates for September with Psychedelic Furs and The Happy Mondays. These are:...

September
8th: House of Blues, Chicago, IL
9th: Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
11th: Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO
12th: In The Venue, Salt Lake City, UT
14th: Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
15th: Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
17th: Grand Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
18th: Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA
19th: House of Blues, Anaheim, CA
20th: House of Blues, San Diego, CA
22nd: House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
24th: Stubb’s, Austin, TX
25th: House of Blues, Dallas, TX
26th: House of Blues, Houston, TX

We're currently booking our own shows for elsewhere and will get back with those for y'all ASAP! We're currently in beautiful California finishing our new album which will be with you later in the year. Sweet!

Watch this space for ethereal news!
Love, Amusement Parks Xx
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music
We are out in Los Angeles at the moment to start work on the third Amusement Parks album!!!

Whilst we're out here we're going to try out Twitter
so you can now follow us here: 

We're also going to have a go on Facebook
and you can become a fan here: 

Its all new to us so we'll see if either of those work out!

Lastly, we are playing a free show at The Echoplex in LA on June 15th with The Lassie Foundation, Magic Mirror and The Broken Remotes

Its going to be an awesome night off from recording!
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Friday, April 17, 2009 
OK so we are venturing out to play shows around the UK from Sunday! I cannot WAIT to get the hell out of Nottingham and experience the simple and beautiful feeling of being completely surrounded by vague noise and flashing lights, everything's a bit too real at the moment and as we are all painfully aware, reality is at best totally boring, and at worst a non-existent and painfully futile figment of the collective human consciousness' imagination. So yes, back to our natural habitat for a few weeks! The Irish leg of this tour (which happened, confusingly, like two months ago now) was beautiful and epic, so we're really excited about these shows. This may be the last time we play in the UK for a while too, as we are (hopefullly :-/) going to the US at the end of May for the best part of 4 months or something. And we my never come back! So yes, come and see us this time if you're local! We have a couple of headline shows starting Sunday then we join the ace 65daysofstatic www.myspace.com/65propaganda for some dates. They're performing a lot of their new material, so maybe we will too, what do you think?! Then we have a couple of weeks of headline shows. The reason I started this rambling and pointless blog was to tell you about some of the awesome folks supporting us on these shows! We have Jeniferever www.myspace.com/jeniferever playing with us in Derby on Monday, which is wild! They're great and I'm sure most of you will be into them already. We also have our long-time buds and collaborators SWIMMInG www.myspace.com/swimmingband playing in Sheffield and Nottingham. We'll work out something extra specil for those shows! And the London date (the last of the tour) is ridiculous:.. We have Love Like Fire www.myspace.com/lovelikefire from Vegas, just listen to 'William' and you shall see! And also We Show Up On RadaR www.myspace.com/wsuor opening the evening. It's gonna be rad beyond belief! So we look forward to seeing you! Really! We're so so close to having 'Young Fight' mastered and ready to play folks, which is exciting to say the least! Our pal Brain Aubert from Silversun Pickups was kind enough to sing back-up vocals on the first track, and Michael Patterson (BRMC, Beck's Midnite Vultures) has been aptly legendary and mixed the first side. Sweet. So yes we shall keep you posted! Especially those across the pond, we will have dates for you soon! Thanks for listening! Lot's of love.......Michael and Amusement Parksx xx
Currently listening:
A Ghost Is Born
By Wilco
Release date: 2004-06-21
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 

Hello all! We trust you're all well...?
So here are our spring tour dates in full (well, we still may add a couple more to be honest! Keep checking www.apofboard.co.uk if you are so inclined to do so!):..


APRIL
19th Colchester Arts Centre
20th Derby, The Royal
21st Leeds, The Cockpit w/65daysofstatic
22nd Glasgow, King Tut's w/65daysofstatic
23rd Manchester, Deaf Institute w/ 65daysofstatic
24th Leicester, The Charlotte w/ 65daysofstatic
25th Southampton, Talking Heads w/ 65daysofstatic
26th London, Dingwalls w/ 65daysofstatic
30th Sheffield, Fuzz Club

MAY
1st Wolverhampton, Little Civic
2nd Wakefield, Escobar
6th Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire
7th Glasgow, The Classic Grand
8th Nottingham, Bodega Social Club
10th London, The Victoria

The release of the EP has had to be pushed back but we'll have armloads of promo copies for anyone at the shows! Again, keep checking the messageboard for more release details/tracklisting etc! For those in the US we havn't forgotten you and we're in the process of booking our stateside summer shows at the moment!
 
Cool, thanks for listening, be seeing you all soon!
Michael and Amusement Parks x x

Currently listening:
The Trials of Van Occupanther
By Midlake
Release date: 2006-06-05
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 
Hello hello
If anyone is in the Nottingham area next Friday, March 27th, myself and my buddy Mikey are putting on a ZAIREEKA night at The Maze, Mansfield Road.
We have amazing live acts and will play the album in full (see below) all through FOUR PA systems in seperate parts of the venue, creating an unreal sonic experience!
The live acts are....
THe PETEBOX Legendary beatboxing genius www.myspace.com/thepetebox
We Show Up On RadaR Scarily beautiful Folk/Pop www.myspace.com/wsuor
And a noise set from SWIMMInG Who I'm sure you all know! www.myspace.com/swimmingband
Featuring members of FISTS Who are just ace! www.myspace.com/fistsmusic
All perfroming Flaming Lips covers amongst much else...
So yes hope to see you there!
Michael x x
Currently listening:
Zaireeka
By The Flaming Lips
Release date: 1997-10-28
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 
dear cyber friends:
please read the following and follow the link to sign this petition if you havn't already.
it appears that our government is considering introducing new sound level restriction laws based on the morbid views of people who would never consider attending said venues anyway...
"It has been brought to attention that the government wish to consider it a legal requirement in the new tax year to introduce laws insisting anyone applying or re-applying for an entertainment license must have a noise control device fitted to the venue.
It would mean that if the volume got to a certain level the system would cut out. Rubbish.
This will be the final NAIL for ALL entertainment in the UK as the level at which these devices CUT you off is really low. Rubbish.
PLEASE DO NOT INTRODUCE THIS LAW, WE LOVE LIVE MUSIC!"
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoNoiseControl/
indeed, the freedom of the live musician is essential!
big love..............x x x
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Friday, January 02, 2009 

Current mood:  vital
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hope everyone had a lovely festive season!
We have a load planned for next year, but for starters here are our UK and Eire dates for 2009 so far, with more to be added shortly (check here and the message board apofboard.co.uk for up-to-date details):..

JANUARY
29th Dublin, Whelans
30th Galway, Roisin Dubh
31st Cork, Cyprus Avenue

FEBRUARY
1st Belfast, Menagerie

APRIL
19th Colchester Arts Centre
20th Derby, The Royal
21st Leeds, The Cockpit w/65daysofstatic
22nd Glasgow, King Tut's w/65daysofstatic
23rd Manchester, Deaf Institute w/ 65daysofstatic
24th Leicester, The Charlotte w/ 65daysofstatic
25th Southampton, Talking Heads w/ 65daysofstatic
26th London, Dingwalls w/ 65daysofstatic
30th Sheffield, Fuzz Club

MAY
1st Wolverhampton, Little Civic
2nd Wakefield, Escobar
6th Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire
8th Nottingham, Bodega Social Club

Our new EP will be coming out in April, full release info will follow shortly...
Cool thanks for listening and see you all soon!
Love............Amusement Parks On Fire x x
Currently listening:
The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties
By 65daysofstatic
Release date: 2008-04-29
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