DO YOU LOVE YOUR LOCAL SKATESHOP? We love ours. It's called LOST ART and they're so awesome that they don't seem to mind when those without jobs spend entire mornings in there talking absolute rubbish, drinking barrels of bitter black coffee.

Our friend Nick Brown who loves pointing cameras at us has started a sweet little youtube channel in conjunction with Lost Art called Lost Notes. So far he's only uploaded a few music clips but be sure to check back/subscribe to see more content documenting the more wonky things that happen in and around our native Liverpool.

I did a small performance of Mark Magill's (SSS, Grampus Eight, Meow Meow) Sea Shanty Number 9. We'll be doing our very own Lost Notes Hot Club de Paris performance in the nearest of futures.



Speak soon,

Love Paul.x

Hello,

We've got a new song out on Copy Haho's Teenage Lust compilation. It's called "Extra Time Then Sudden Death". You can download the compilation by clicking on the link below. It also features songs by lots of our friends and some other awesome bands. The full tracklisting is:

1. Hot Club de Paris - Extra Time Then Sudden Death (written/recorded for comp)
2. Love of Everything - Birds, ,Ice Cream and Whales (Bobby Burg of Joan of Arc/Make Believe)
3. Calories - Drugged
4. Jonquil - Parasol
5. Copy Haho - To Balance
6. Jesus H Foxx - Trying To Be Good
7. Pennines - Bille Jeans
8. Text Adventure - Boobook(David Roy of Dananananaykroyd)
9. Crimess - Yesse Young (Feat. members of Los Campesinos!, Attack+Defend, Picture Books in Winter)
10. Vacations - Hassle with Real (New band from Chin Up Chin Up members)

CLICK HERE TO BUY THE COMPILATION!!!!!

It's only a POUND which is awesome value for that many songs! More new songs from us are on the way. We're quite far through writing a third album and possibly and EP before/after it. We've got 5 songs fully recorded and Al and Paul are in our room today working on the drums for another 4 finished songs.

 

Matthew x

Rachel Unthank's version of Fareweel Regality is currently undoing me like I'm an old threadbare Christmas jumper. Sometimes the right song comes along and snaps me right into that melancholy festive groove. I feel like a snowman sadly melting in his own sentimentality, but at least I know what to buy my mother this Christmas. She's bang into all that Northumbrian stuff.


I'd like to let all you Liverpool kids that we'll be DJing on boxing night at BUMPER and that we'll be playing at KOROVA on New Year's Eve with a bunch of AWESOME LIVERPOOL BANDS like Voo, 28 Costumes, Married to the fucking Sea and My Amiga. I hope hope that we shall see you there.


Here is a brief round up of Hot Club's 2008. It was a strange and busy year but we're pretty stoked on how it went. I've tried to attach videos but I'm not sure if they've worked.
The start of the year is kind of hazy, but that'll teach me to blog more often and appropriately:

HOT CLUB FUCKED UP.


Unfortunately, due to an administrtive error, our first single of this year was our Christmas single from 2007. Some dick somewhere didn't make them in time, and they were thus rendered useless.
Still, at only 300 vinyl copies and hand-stamped sleeves, it is our rarest 7", so why not give yours a spin and celebrate Christmas with smug rosy cheeks?

OUR FRIENDS DRESSED AS GHOSTS. BOATS AND WEED.


We spent the start of the year shooting a bunch of acoustic sessions with some friends on cold beaches, in ghostly pinewoods, nautical cafes and on the back of a rickety Southport shrimping boat. Disco Den who set it all up for us had a decent weed-leaf cap on the whole time he spent sorting shit out for us.
The videos ended up on the second disc of Live at Dead Lake and on THE INTERNET:




WE LIKE B-SIDE TO BE BESIDE THE C-SIDE.


We made up some b-sides and recorded them in a church in our hometown of LIVERPOOL. We finished off bits of Live at Dead Lake that we hadn't nailed in Chicago. We recorded an acoustic EP called THE DEAD LOUNGE.


FALLING OVER AND FEIGNING PAIN.


We released the first single from Live at Dead Lake. It was called HEY! HOUSEBRICK and it was about when people throw bricks into the motorway because they hate their lives.
The video on the other hand was a light hearted affair where we fell over loads and pretended it was real:



DUDE, IT'S NOT A LIVE ALBUM, IT'S A STUDIO ALBUM WITH A LIVE ALBUM'S NAME.


We managed to finally put out our second studio album 'Live at Dead Lake'. Everyone really liked it who knew about it, but it turned out someone somewhere did a bad job of telling all the people who bought our first album that the second one was out. Maybe it was our fault. I'm pretty sure it wasn't, but these things happen I guess. Maybe everyone thought it was a live album and they only thought about it as long as they usually think about live albums. I suppose we're meant to think that studio albums are more worthwhile than live albums, and I suppose that's true if you discount Live at Leeds, The Way the West Was Won, Live in Muenster and Live at Wembley '86.


RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL.


We released our second single from Live at Dead Lake called MY LITTLE HAUNTING. Joe Tucker and I made a video for it.
We had to steal fake tan from a shop called BOOTS and make our hands look like a LADY'S HANDS:



GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR TOWN.


We went on tour for a fucking really long time. We did two month-long tours in the UK and visited places we'd never been before, most notably THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. We toured with Tellison, who are NICE GUYS. We toured with Sky Larkin, who are NICE GUYS. We toured with Sunset Cinema Club who are NICE GUYS. We toured with COPY HAHO who are kind of odd: Their bass player Richard was telling me today that their guitarist Mini, after soundcheck last night, asked if he could put his hamster in Richards flat as he didn't want it to sleep overnight in the car. It's still a mystery as to why Mini thought he'd bring his hamster to a gig in Aberdeen, but I'm trying to figure out the details as I type. Mini hasn't called Richard since but the hamster is in good health, spazzing around on one of those wheels that hamsters have. Anyway, we finished the second tour in the far north at ULLAPOOL, having played STORNOWAY, STIRLING, FORT WILLIAM and INVERNESS. Then we went and toured IRELAND and BELFAST before going back to GERMANY where we had some of the raddest times. Our driver got twatted by a prozzie in Hamburg and merch boy Jimmy got his kecks ragged apart by a traffic cop.


So that's what happened to us.
BY THE WAY:

TOP RECORDS OF 2008:

1.
Deerhunter - Microcastles
2.
SSS - The Diving Line
3.
Maps and Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain EP
4.
No Age - Nouns
5.
Parts and Labor - Recievers
6.
Arthur Russel - Love is Overtaking Me
7.
Horse Feathers - House With No Home
8.
School of Language - Sea From Shore
9.
Waited Up Til It Was Light - Johnny Foreigner
10.
Avenging Force - The Avenging Force

THROW YOUR FISTS INTO THE FUTURE.


That's kind of what happened in 2008. We tour again starting in March 2009. In the meantime we're writing a new record. The working title is 'BREAK DOWN AT DEVIL'S POINT'. BRB.


Let me take this opportunity to wish you all the best during the holiday season. I hope your 2009 is completely AWESOME.


Paul.
x

Wow! We're three dates in and we're having like, THE BEST TIME. So far we've played LIVERPOOL (our hometown) which was awesome because we played with COLD ONES who are simply THE BEST punk rock band at the moment and are a lot like what it would be like if THE BASH STREET KIDS formed a band. Then we played NEW SLANG in KINGSTON which was amazing because the people at NEW SLANG and BANQUET RECORDS are simply the most upstanding folk in UK indie rock. AND we played with SUPER TENNIS who are a great band full of DECENT PEOPLE. And then we played the COCKPIT in LEEDS. It took us 3 hours to get there which SUCKED because it should have taken only an hour but fortunately the show RULED. Thanks to everyone who has come out to point eyes at us so far.


We are completely psyched on playing BIRMINGHAM tonight because we play with THE SITUATIONISTS who contain members of UMLAUT who wrote one of my favourite songs EVER (Lea Green - www. myspace. com/umlautband) and SUNSET CINEMA CLUB who toured with us last time we toured. They're the funniest people. I wonder if their drummer has had his WEED LEAF TATTOO covered with a BIGGER WEED LEAF TATTOO yet? WE'LL FIND OUT TONIGHT, kids.


Take a look at the dates on our myspace or on our NEW WEBSITE (www. hotclubdeparis. com) to see where we're headed next. No corner of the UK will be left unvisited, so we hope to see you at one of our shows SUPER SOON.


the love is maddening,

Paul.
x

PS: I DISCOVERED THE CRAZIEST NICHE ON YOUTUBE!

Dog owners appear to fond of posting videos of their dogs eating peanut butter. As if the world wasn't mad enough:



The comments are even better:

LOL MY DOG LIKES PEANUT BUTTER TOO.

Dearest the kids,

So we're more than halfway through our latest UK tour. We've almost covered the north and the midlands and after Leeds tonight, we're totally headed South. We've had our friends Sunset Cinema Club and Copy Haho along for most of the dates and we hope you've enjoyed pointing your eyes and ears at them as much as we have done every fucking night. Both bands are well sick. Thanks also to Arms at Last, Elle S'appelle, My Amiga, and all others who have helped us out by filling support slots. We're about to play with The Magnificent, Honey Ride Me a Goat, This Town Needs Guns and Pennines and I am beyond-psyched about it. I'd put them all in our top friends but I'm rubbish at Myspack these days.

Thanks loads for coming down and we'll see you in the South over the next few days. Photos and happenings to follow, but for now here's a video of a dude who convereted a guitar into a bong. Twice.



With love,

Paul.x

We're going on tour soon. I've managed to get some amazing bands to play with us too. I'll make a proper list soon but you've got a choice of Sunset Cinema Club, BEAK, Copy Haho, Honey Ride Me A Goat, Jesus H Foxx, Penines, This Town Needs Guns, Futuristic Retro Champs, You Slut and maybe a couple of others if they say yes. It should make for a good line up every night.

We were in London on Tuesday doing a session for XFM for John Kennedy. Chris, the engineer, had a load of new recording gear in there since the last time and it sounds really good. It should be going out in the next couple of weeks. I'll keep you posted as to the broadcast date.

Live at Dead Lake drops in June so make sure you're not a meany who hates music. Go buy it so we can eat food and make more records for your ears.

Should have news of some awesome split 7"s with some of our favourite bands coming soon too.

MCS x