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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Good news for us:  Our show at Heaven in London, on the 18th November has now officially SOLD OUT.  WHAM!..

Bad news for you:  If you haven’t got a ticket.....

Good news for Manchester: There are still some tickets left for the Heaven sister show in Manchester at the Academy 2 on the 17th November. 

Bad news for Manchester:  You’ll have to miss Alison Moyet, Lily Allen and Beverley Knight.  All of whom are playing on the same night. All our collective loss.....

Good news for all:  We are playing another show at Matter in London on the 19th December that promises to be quite the shindig.  The 65 Christmas office party if you will.    ....

Bad news for all:  You might miss your own office Christmas party. ....

GOOD NEWS FOR ANYONE WHO THINK THEY NEED A LITTLE MORE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE THE LAST THING WAS A BIT OF A DOWNER:  The wonderful people at Matter are offering a discount ticket to the first 100 65kids who take it apont (good use of the word apont) themselves to be THE KING OF BUYING TICKETS and get one of the first 100.  The secret agent, wizard, magic, discount codeword you need to enter into the secret agent, wizard, magic promotional code box, when prompted, is: 65 Days....

Happy Hunting: ....

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=351243....

More shows are coming in thick and fast and we’ll announce them as soon as we can.  We really do appreciate all the messages from folks asking us to play their hometowns.  We’ll get there.  Keep asking.

One of these recently confirmed is U:MACK Productions 15th birthday party at Tripod in Dublin alongside Battles and The Ex on 10th December.

TTFN.....

65 x

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Thursday, October 29, 2009 
The fifth day.

65 are continuing the popular trend of coercing cooperating sounds into tangible compositions for the purposes of tying them together to achieve a cohesive and wholly listenable experience.

We’re recording an album, int it!?

What’s that all about?

Well…as it turns out, it involves this:
- Spiralling into fits of complete uncertainty mirrored with absolute conviction.
- Many, many, many, computer error messages.
- 22” x 38” kick drums. (depth follows diameter).
- Procrastination and wonder.
- A Roland Space Echo.
- Impromptu meetings.
- Business Toast.
- Ripping off Ingmar Bergman movies.
- HIGH ART.
- Tupperware distortion.
- Accelerated guitar takes due to the stealing of the API 1. Yeah.
- Sounds of A THOUSAND different bands ricocheting between these old   industrial buildings. What would Brunel think?
- Crosswords.
- Cross words.
- Crossed words.
- Building new fx pedals from blocks of concrete. WHAM!
- Paul being taught that good things can come from reverb after all.
- Discovering that ‘17/8 alternating with 16/8‘ is the new ‘17/8’!
- Fresh offline rendering whilst up-sampling to 96hz party times.
- Filling up our brief-but-longed-for post-album sleep time with things that are in no way relaxing.
- Mega Coffee.
- Rhyming Slang.
- Making some good noise.
- MSG hangovers.
- High scores.
- A punch in the chops from the Iron Lady.

We’re getting there.

Keep your pants on.

Jam your Hype.

65 x
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 
Quantise yourself!
 
We've stumbled into autumn and a recording studio. 65 is finally making an album. We are using a producer for the first time. This is something completely new for us, but he has Orbital as the ringtone on his phone and so we trust him implicitly. The recording will be done in our home town of Sheffield once again, specifically 2Fly Studios, run by one of the greatest engineers of all time. Right now he is soldering. Soldering on. 
 
Whilst we are in here, we will endeavour to somehow fuse this clinical future of social networking and constant information flow with a suitable air of mystery and (melo)drama to keep you all up to date on how it is going. We are on Twitter, of course, and are slowly warming up to that. For a band like us it can only be a thing to embrace, however unsettling. And whilst www.65daysofstatic.com will forever remain our uncompromised online home (check the new front page for the various feeds we’ll try and keep updated), we will do our best to spread word as far as we can. We will need your help.
 
(If the owners of the 65daysofstatic facebook group would like to make themselves known to us, now would be the time...)
 
Once the album is finished, then the four of us can revert to the admin positions we are frankly much more comfortable with, and spend our days conjuring up tall tales of 65 grandeur and making quickly-edited films of us in the studio messing with synths to clutter your life up with. 
 
IT'S ALL ABOUT BRAND BUILDING.
 
Someone, Somewhere, in a broken video camera, has footage of a CEO of a huge American record label giving 65daysofstatic a 'pep talk' about how great we are. He calls us a 'lifestyle band'. I think that means people like him can live through our integrity vicariously, or something. We got a tour of their offices in Hollywood when we were out there. They gave us bagels, black coffee and vegan cream cheese.
 
They promised us Pontiac adverts… 
 
Anyway.
2010 is going to be all about touring.
The album will come out, one way or another, and then we will get out on the road and we will eventually be somewhere near you at some point, we promise.
 
The first show of 2010 has been confirmed, in fact, and it is in Singapore on March 13th at the Esplanade. This should give you some idea of our intentions.
 
Jumping back to now, for a moment, and here is what else is happening aside from the making of the new record:
 
NOVEMBER 13TH - A 65DJ set somewhere in Cheltenham. One/Some/All of us will be playing tracks from a laptop at 130bpm in an effort to make people dance. If there are finished 65 tunes to drop by this point, then we'll probably be dropping them. If not, we'll be dropping vodka instead. And by 'dropping', we mean 'drinking'.
 
NOVEMBER 17th & 18th - TWO EXTRA SPECIAL SHOWS IN MANCHESTER & LONDON.
 
The London show is inches away from being sold out, and we never even got round to advertising it properly, so you'd best hurry up and book yourselves some tickets to the Manchester one, yeah?
 
Three Trapped Tigers are main support for both shows, which is basically amazing. First on in Manchester is Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur, first on in London we're still in the process of confirming, but it will hopefully involve A LOT of low end. We also are honoured to have the AGT Rave CRU djing between it all, which will be a glorious thing to behold.
 
They are 'extra-special' shows because we plan to continue playing until every single ear in the building starts bleeding.
 
So.
 
That's what's going on with us.
This mailout was soundtracked by the new Fuck Buttons album. It is excellent. A couple of weeks ago, we saw HEALTH play in Sheffield. They were excellent too.  Who'd thought all this ultra-cool- noise-dance action would prove so popular?
 
Not us.
 
Forever yours, forever-out-of-style,
65.
 

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 

Don’t worry, 65kids. They don’t talk about it so much, but there are clever people looking after us & their Pipeline Crusades are being waged all across the Eastern tundra whilst we sleep, safe in our electric dreams. They are tirelessly securing our future, oil-based energies, to delay the day when power cuts like the one that killed our London show become common place. 

Blackouts! Thanks, everyone who was there, for not spinning-out. Sorry that we couldn’t finish our set. We’ll be back before you know it. In fact, there’s already a 65 DJ set happening in London May 23rd at Macbeths. If you’re into the pre-show cut-up 65 styles, you should come with your best dancing shoes on.

So apart from the reminder in London that darkness lurks, testing the edges of the careless, head-in-the-sand stylings of our 21st century breakdown, the UK leg of the Test Tour passed spectacularly. Thanks to all those who came to see us. It meant a lot.  Thanks to Amusement Parks on Fire for putting diesel in there van & riding stick with us.  Thanks for…Thanks for dancing.  

Right now we’re in the studio. In a couple of days we’re off to Europe to apologise for our inability to speak more than one language & also play some shows. Amsterdam is now sold out. How did that happen!? Answer: People bought them tickets, yeah?!

In other news: we can announce slots at some more festivals: 

Cactus in Bruges, Belgium. 
Square Festival in Borth, Wales  
Bruis Festival, Maastrict, Netherlands. 

There are still more to come. Investigate the shows page to get the specifics on everything posted so far.

That’s it. We’ve done the drums and guitars.  Now it is time to steal all the fx pedals so we can put synths through them instead. There might be a real sense of urgency & excitement in the studio this time round. Or that might just be the fear… More soon. 65.x

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Monday, April 20, 2009 
Dzien Dobry!

65daysofstatic is back from Polska.
We were instructed in English grammar and new ways to drink vodka.
We also tried out some new songs.
Tomorrow the 65 UK Test-Tour begins in Leeds. It looks like this:

There might be excitable & pointless/irregular & reluctant updates to be had here: twitter.com/65dos. There might not. Let's see how that works out.
There's a slowly-evolving flickr thing happening here too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65daysofstatic

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is out today too! Except for anywhere outside of Europe. Availability for you is 'pending'. But it will definitely be happening.
For people those of you who can own it if you wish to, please do. Some album-of-the-week-style convincing here: http://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/65daysofstatic-escape-from-new-york

We will have it with us at the shows, and you can grab it straight from our record label here: Monotreme Records. It should also be available wherever you usually buy/download/absorb sounds these days.

Anyways:

Straight from the Dingwalls show we're headed back to Sheffield to hideout in the studio for a few days, work out what it was we just did played to you and whether it sounds any good when played at a slightly less-loud volume. After that and probably some panic attacks, we jump in a bus and hit the mainland for sunshine, shows and misunderstandings with the Polizei.

Those dates look like this:

May 2nd - Pacrock Festival, Pont-À-Celles, Belgium
May 3rd - Arlon Indoor Festival, Arlon, Belgium
May 4th - Luxor, Koln, Germany
May 5th - Magnet, Berlin, Germany
May 6th - Headcrash, Hamburg, Germany
May 7th - Depot, Leuven, Belgium (SOLD OUT)
May 8th - La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
May 9th - De Regentes, Den Haag, Netherlands
May 10th - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 11th - Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France
May 12th - Abart, Zurich, Switzerland
May 13th - Magnolia, Milan, Italy
May 14th - Spazio 211, Turin, Italy
May 15th - Init Club, Rome, Italy
May 16th - Marche Gare, Lyon, France
May 17th - Guild Hall, Gloucester, UK

That's a nice list.
It has been too long.


See you soon.
65daysofstatic.
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