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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 

Current mood:not rude health
Category: News and Politics
for whom the bell tolls,

with heavy hearts and truncated arteries we have to announce a cessation in gigs for 2009. unfortunately our matthew has contracted swine flu and can't currently control himself in any of the key MRS. GREN areas. we also have had to cancel the making of a video for joanna so it wasn't a decision we took lightly.

we massively apologise for not being able to play in hull, edinburgh, sheffield and cambridge but will try our hardest to reschedule these dates for february of next year. if you can't or aren't able to make it in the future then no doubt you'll get a lovely refund. we're trying to sort this out as quickly as possible so will let you know when we know what the craic is.....

ALSO: once he is back on his haunches we'll continue with our advert calendar which has taken a bashing too (matt is our facilitator)...

thanks-a-lot and sorry again.

bashful, woe betide, curled up and remonstrative

x




Currently listening:
Boyz
By Mia
Release date: 2007-07-17
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Sunday, December 06, 2009 

Current mood:clapped out
Category: Friends
Antlers and Deviants,

As the solstice is approaching like a deadening torch battery, we thought we'd say HERE IS OUR MOST SPECIAL PRESENT YET....

After nearly being sick in the Metrocentre on Saturday (Marx/Engels big up yourselves) we devised this plan:

1. We'll make only 50 numbered CDs and uniqueify the artwork for each of them (this has taken me ages......).

2. The tracklisting on them will be secret, but they are our songs in a very different way all recorded live....

3. WHERE WILL THEY BE PLACED, HOW CAN YOU GET THEM....

i. from TUESDAY: 25 will be in this NEWCASTLE OXXXFAM SHOP (where we played!) (hood street near monument) for purchase for only £3, but OXXXFAM is one of the only reasons to have faith in humanity so please go get them... if you'd like to pre-order one to collect in the shop send an email to: littlecometsmanagement@live.com with your name.

ii. if you live OUTSIDE of the NORTH EAST then the first 25 people to email their HOME ADDRESS to robertwilliamcoles@gmail.com will be posted one out for FREEEE to arrive before Christmas Day. But if you do this please go and do something nice for a fellow human before then..... WE'RE TRUSTING YOU.....


BABOUSHKA....
X

Hopefully you'll like this idea, as if you do it might be something we do more and more and more and more....




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Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer
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Sunday, December 06, 2009 

Current mood:broken by shafts of autonomy
Category: Life
  1. because you might invite someone to your house and share biscuits, we thought we should do a similar thing behind today’s advent calendar windoor… so here are lovely audio gems which have changed and augmented our sad and happy lives during the last months… click the links to get transported!
    wild beasts, all the kings men
    this song has lovely geographical placey lyrics and the word darling in a felt context. plus the high-soaring-vocal in the background is like an extra sort of emotional-instrument. it was on jools holland and that… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxN_DawtOw
    grizzly bear, two weeks
    in the month of march when the trees were getting furtive, I heard this song and it nearly made me weep. it’s got lots of reverb and the harmonies are like some classically constructed metaphor for pining. http://...com/y8nf8oj
    deastro, toxic crusaders

    we met randy in bristol, arriving in an actioned breeze of positivity. after watching his one-man-festival each night we realised he was very special, anchored down by songs like this with a special middle eight and lines which hit like pistons: “even the darkest sin has the taste of regret, we can’t be all that bad if we wish we were different”. SPECIALE. scroll down on the player »»»www.myspace.com/deastro
    everything everything, my kz ur bf
    no one hits a high C (as long as it is a major seventh) with as much bombast or window-knacking perfection as these brambles. this is an intricately woven tapestry with more syllables than salman rushdie on speed. also, i can’t work out the bass part which is annoyingly a-tonal. http://www.myspace.com/everythingeverythinguk
    animal collective, brother sport

    aaaaarrrrrggghhhh a mangled-up congealed tangled eton mess of percussive and melodic intent. i got lost inside this song for a week and then realised it had altered me internally. so now i dance from place to place, still mesmerised inside my face. 2nd track down:::::: http://www.myspace.com/animalcollective
    two door cinema club, something good can work

    ow ow ow northern irish accented computerised-african couch-club compote-disco is how to describe it. but it is nice and swoony with a guitar line that you could hang stuff from. also, i think lexxx produced it which is always heavy (like esser and golden silvers). second track ooops ——— http://www.myspace.com/twodoorcinemaclub
    fool’s gold, surprise hotel

    i go to sleep with the radio on when i am allowed and this tiny urchin woke me up. please have a listen to it as it’ll help your feet twiddle through the winter to come. ho ho ho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0wPNow3ymc
    hockey, work

    this is the only song from the whole of this year that we’ve actually worked out to play as a band. matt likes to accompany the bass line with a strut and has grown a moustache in homage to anthony stassi. it grooves like nearly no other, except for fame by bowie which is the greatest thing ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apg180afsVw
    bat for lashes, daniel

    it is on the cusp of demureness and crafts together reverb (which we just *LOVE*), sensuality and crisp electricity. “daniel” pouts bat; as you feel like the world may just end around you. mark says: a tour de force.http://www.myspace.com/batforlashes
    micachu, lips
    we have this on repeat in the van as it kilters gently between sub-saharan meat pop and delectable ramp-grime. dancing in the rain has never felt better, cloisters-abandoned, get-t-t-t-t-t-ting wetter and wetter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEA_xYaLBw

    x





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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 

Current mood:like a wild flower weeping in the morning wind
Category: Automotive
Hello Egregious People

Because we like building in winter and that nobody bought us advent calendars  we thought we'd spread mirth in more poignant-digitale form!

So: we fashioned windows and doors from bytes and have hidden treats behind them.

Yesterday proved fruitful for a new youtube video------- HERRE.

AND TODAY, we are back on the old free-tickets-for-you-lovely-characters bandwagon.

SIMPLY: ONE: scroll down the list, TWO: pick a gig, THREE: send your answer to the following question (and the name of a friend or gallant) to music@littlecomets.com .... then you might win...

---- WHAT IS MATT'S CAT CALLED?

a) Sanchez b) Dickensian Muse c) Nubian Cadis or d) Keith

THE GIGS WORK OUT LIKE THIS:

THU 3.12: Kingston Slang
SAT 5.12: Loughborough Uni w: Rev. and Makers
TUE 8.12: Reading Oakford Social
WED 9.12: Oxford Bullingdon Arms
FRI 11.12: Barnstaple Square
TUE 15.12: Hull Adelphi
WED 16.12: Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
THU 17.12: Sheffield Boardwalk!
FRI 18.12: Cambridge Junction

BASH!

Pots A,B,C and D.




Currently listening:
Veckatimest
By Grizzly Bear
Release date: 2009-05-25
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 

Current mood:skythartic
W4rd,

Without wanting to be too transparent or sound awkward on the phone, while whispering quietly that this is self-EX-PLANET-ary, the title of this blogature kind of says it all.

We've joined the growing hoards and started to extemporise on tumblr. As if facebookmyspacetwitterbeboclanfrack aren't enough already:::::: but 'PPARENTLY it allows one to: EXPRESS WITHOUT THE TOKEN RESTRAINTS PLACED ON (the author) by SEMI-BLOGGING LEXICON-DEFECTANT truncants....

So if you'd like to read this (and other dull utterances like how many grams of sugar mark likes on his bran flakes) there then click here !

NEW-VIDEO-OF-THE-MARKS-AND-SPENCERS-GIG-LAST-WEEK!!!!

Here it is for viewing, somehow the coppers let us go, although Eldon Square security looked like they wanted teeth.


Œ∏◊ıˆ˜

(Mickey's new symbol as he doesn't like letters no more).........




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The Frog and the Scorpion
By Steevan Glover
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Friday, October 30, 2009 

Current mood:thoroughly cheesed off
 Criminals and saunterers,

So::::::::: last week we went and did a lovely little acoustic session with special PETE MITCHELL on da XFM. It is going to be released into the world this SUNDAY (1ST NOV) between 10 and midnight. There will be chatting and music galore. It is very exciting stuff.

If you are near a radio set or a posh telly then tune in to Razor Cuts on Xfm London, Manchester and Digital across the UK. Ooooh that feels dirty (aGUILERA Style).

Also: we should take this opportunity to remind y'all that (as if you didn't already know as we told you on Mournday) ADULTERY is out this week. You can take a virtual trip to the music store to buy it.....

Rightio, after 31 gigs in 42 days we are pretty knacked so I'm going to hibernate before I get prodded.....

See you at the crossroads.

x




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Patrick
By Quentin Blake
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Monday, October 26, 2009 

Current mood:scarred by malevolent peering
Category: News and Politics
ADULTERY;
Out now on Itunes

£0.79p, click to buy
Release date:
26th October 2009
subject: A-DUL-TE-RY out today EVERYWHERE!!!!

Objects,
This is just a verrrrrrrry quick message to let you all know that our little single ADULTERY is available to be purchased from now on this glorious October day like!!!!!
You can get it from the ether of iTunes >>>>>>>
Or in touchable, feelable form from shops like HMV and also little independent ones!
Thanks-a-lot
x
ps. Before the Newcastle gig on Wednesday we are going to raj into Marks and Spencer bakery aisle and try to do a quick song or two before getting manhandled... 6 a clock, if ya want.



Currently listening:
Debussy: Debussy for Daydreaming - Music to Caress your Innermost Thoughts
By Various Artists
Release date: 1995-09-18
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 

Current mood:soiled, or about to be
Category: Blogging
Oh, Palacial Hoards
Come room with me not
For far away, a distant
rumble of thunder,
Concerns me thus.

And so we went on tour with LOVELY HOCKEY (from Portland, OR) and EXCITABLE DEASTRO (from Detroit, MI).

In cumulative form:

"Our aspirations weren't great. We thought we'd get ostracised by the-AMERICANS Aaaaaaargh and also end up killing each other as me and Mark have 'differences'" said Rob. WRONG WRONG WRONG.

But we set off anyway, our newish van resplendent in tack, cavorting along a succession of arid motorways to BRISTOL to play on a BOAT. The owner loves alliteration as all articles appeared alike and we could only order B-items from the canteen. LUCKILY, Matt regaled us with stories of when him and Ben Ainslie used to go yachting on Bents Park. TOSSERS.

Despite screaming expletives and hoards of angst we played a gig and slightly-met Hockey: they seemed caloof (our new word) but then we probably seemed like doom-personified ("my furrowed brow could build cathedrals"),,,,, so fair-is-fair-is-fair after only a night...... THEN THINGS GOT INTERESTING:::::::::::

Randy (off of DEASTRO, off of a plane) used to be a band but 10-hours before he flew across the world, his musical world (in a live sense) disintegrated BUT He-still-decided-to-come-and-play-solo-as-a-cyborg...... plus: despite having never met he became part of our travelling system - immediately attached across the entirety of us for the next 14 days. It was good though as he gave us information on how to speak to 'Americans' so from now on, with our intermerging vocabularies and new-found social awareness we became able to mesh-with-Hockey YEEEEEAAAAAAH RAD! (and they started saying "canny lad" and "mint"..... and "twat" and "knob" and "bell end" [Mickey's influence])....

LIVERPOOL and LEEDS (Tony off of Hockey killed the world at ball-juggling) passed without incident although we discovered that although people from Newcastle sound daft when they say Hockey (massive ending inflexion ho-eeeeeeeeeee), Scousers win hands down ---- hhhhhhhokkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkki. Plus you get washed....

We zoomed home full of abashment, looking up to a day off before Newcastle..... fixing bikes, fish and chips, Italian Opera..... also with RANDEASTRO ensconced in our house, we became transfixed by his story-telling acumen..... children-stealing-penguins-from-zoos etc.

Then after failing to save Hockey from TupTupsPalaceofNOclass we watched people get submerged and left in preparation for SCOTLAND.....

Edinburgh: Hockey were on formmmmm and as sweat dripped from the ceiling we realised that they had some grapes left on their rider so we had a munch ;) hahaha. Normal people in bands steal beer, we covet fruit and vegetation!

Onto Glasgow: last time we came here Mark climbed a car in a feat of garrulous determinance but today a more suave Harle surveyed the city beneath his tepid fingers like a prominent hawk: "tonight this place shall heel to me" he whispered. Little did he know....

So after (and this like everything else, except the Ben Ainslie bit, is TRUE) we witnessed the filming of the new Ewan MacGregor film (screeching cars, explosions, puzzled pedestrians, shit littering the streets - or maybe this is just a new government scheme to explain crime in Glasgow...) we went to the exclusively named venue and played!!!!!

BOOM, CRACK, LOOK AT ME: after the gig Mark can't move his finger:::::::: off to hospital in a taxi, is it broken? strapped up and x-rayed: turns out ok, ask me, back to the van and then we went and scallied with Hockey! Yeah: ice-firmly smashed but at two o'clock we had to drive to Stranraer in preparation for the next bit......

OK, THIS IS PROBABLY BORING.... SORRY.

x




Currently listening:
Mind Chaos
By Hockey
Release date: 2009-09-28
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Monday, October 05, 2009 

Current mood:tonyfromhockeyed
Wash out your mouths,

Oh so you may or may not know that we are making our first release with Columbia on the 26th October of the-cautionary-tale (Adultery).... but like health food it is important that we give you the right information about it!

Songs on it, innit:

Adultery
Mathilda (a new song which we are going to whack on the myspace soon!)
Figures (and we might as well put this back up tooo)
A more refined, melancholic version of Adultery!

How you can buy it-t-t-t-ttt-t-t-t-t-t-t-t:

a_:::::::: In-the-shops on the 26th O-c-t-o-b-e-r     OR      you can pre-order a little copy from here(!) BUTTT be careful because we've only had 1000 made so you might have to be quick....

b_:::::::: Download it from iTunes? (it isn't up there yet!)

IN ADDITION: after the end of our little tour with the-NOISETTES we are going to play a guige in Newcastle on the Wednesday-28th-October (preceded by a gig in a supermarket)..... now::::: the last couple we've down in the upstairs academy have SOLD OUT so you can get some tickets from dis LINK

That is it: going to sleep now as we have to sew our socks together in preparation for Aberdeen tomorrow..... OH-and-going-to post a little tour update blog this week as Hockey was very much fun-n-n-n!

London, Paris, Moscow, Munich
x





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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 

Current mood:feral but not chava feral
Hello-after-a-break,

 We've all been away this week after doing very different things in climates and climbs beyond our control. Luckily or unluckily we've described some of our adventures during this b-l-o-g!

Mark is the most civilised so he went to Lake Como (or something nearly straddling Bergamo, yah, so probably not Como innit?!). H e   partook in activities such as swimming ("I saw a massive snake in the water and I bricked it quick"), perusing art and driving around hairpins in a YYYYAAAARRRRIIISSSS, not a Harris: that is a different story entirely.

The bass player, Matthew Xavier Hall, scandled himself to Egypt where he 'rode' camels with aplomb (we think it was a plastic one) and sunbathed heavily. "i ignored Cairo and the pyramids because they are so passe. What a cliche. Instead i traversed the desert, fox style" he mused.

Micky moved his laptop and mixing gear to Florence for the week but stayed in because he had a snare to tweak.  "None of the buildings were symmetrically laid out and as a settlement it didn't follow Ernest Burgess' Concentric Ring Zone Model so I opted to remain inwards."

In Norway, Robert found himself up a glacier and snapped a crampon. Then it rained a lot so he stays a miserabalist. He was tortured by children on the flight home but otherwise had a steptacular time.

RIGHT: SO *SIGH* with all our hubris inverted we need to let you know now what is coming. Basically we are going on tour from 14th September to 1st October with a band called HOCKEY from the US. Micky is going to have to not be sarcastic for a while which is shame but hey-ho-here are the dates....... we are going to be on early at some and later at others. EARLY ONES ARE MARKED WITH A *

14/09 BRISTOL thekla *
15/09 H'LIVERPOOL academy 2
16/09 LEEDS cockpit
17/09 off-day
18/09 NEWCASTLE academy 2
19/09 EDINBURGH cab. voltaire
20/09 GLASHGOW king tutttts
21/09 BELFASHT spring and airbrake*
22/09 DUBLIN academy*
23/09 off-day in dublin.... ideas?!
24/09 MANCHESTER club academy
25/09 NOTTINGHAM bodega social*
26/09 BIRMINGHAM academy 2*
27/09 OXFORD academy 2*
28/09 NORWICH arts centre*
29/09 LONDON scala
30/09 house party in BRIGHTON
01/09 BRIGHTON digital*

So, wanting to avoid an ignominious end....... We have a couple of tickets for each for free (RRP £8.50 as TK MAXX would say). If you want to COME then send us an email with:

1. YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS
2. NAME AND EMAIL OF YOUR INTENDED GUEST (we need to vet them)
3. WHICH "SHOW" YOU'D LIKE TO ATTEND
4. THE ANSWER TO THIS:  what shouldn't you look in the mouth?
a) the chance to see Hockey
b) a gifthorse
c) free eloquence

OK tara,

Eliot Ness, Jimmy Malone, George Stone (Giuseppe Petri), Oscar Wallace
x




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