Hello.

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It is my birthday today and I am off work making one mental mix tape for this evening!!!! I have Ellie Goulding thrice and Friendly Fires twice on one so a cull is in order...shame.

We had a lovely gig the other night, after being late and stating that we were too poor to buy more than one pint for the whole band, a Mr Steve Lamacq slid gracefully towards us and placed a full pint of beer on the stage for us. Thank you Steve, we owe you a beer.  Also thanks to Mr Lamacq, Serbian Tennis has been on 6 music rather a lot these past few weeks which is fucking great as it was released on Monday so we might even sell more than 9 copies!!!!!  Thank you.

As its winter, my personal fave time of year (well morbid) we will be off to the studio to record some more things, one of which will be Blood on the Motorway (not well morbid) which seems to be becoming a little favourite of our and your by the reception its getting so keep your ears out for that.

I think tonight is our last gig of the year and its a chance for us to say thanks to all the people who gave us help with the single, like people at Hockey and everybody else who held our hands as we bumbled our way into DIY Indie releases!!!!! THANKS!!!!

Right I’m off to find some cheap PSP games.......Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 I think!!!

Bye!!!!

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p.s Shout out to our crazy dancing German friend who likes fosters, FANTASTISCH!

Well we got back Saturday night from our little tour, as we dodged ducks on the motorway and laughed ourselves near to death over our new friend ....Del...., we did a little smile. It was fun going around the country, if a little knackering !!! It’s a shame we personally have to live in an area with so little culture and enthusiasm, surely there most be some money to have something inspiring to look at, just a fucking fountain or a decent public sculpture would be nice, all we have is Rochester cathedral with its McDonalds littered graveyard and a nice bridge into the shithole that is Strood! As crud as our surroundings are, they are also the things that inspire us as a band, so maybe they shouldn’t change???  Answers on the back of an email please Medway dwellers.

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Anyway, Serbian Tennis is out next Monday so go and spend a penny or two on it, it would be much appreciated!!!!

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Love Tom + PP

Xoxox

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Things we have been listening to:

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Ellie Goulding – Under the sheets (about 5 times a day)

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Bellini – Casta Diva (It is the shit)

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Bonjour!

We are currently in a lovely little room in le Birmingham waiting to hear if we even have a show tonight....as I type that ash’s phone rings and the man is on the phone.....the outcome is........private party??? Nice. We have come to expect this bad luck over the last few days, my amp was chuff in so I got a new one, which then blew up last night!!!! Crumbs!!!!  Stu’s car also did a fuck up as we were about to leave so I had to drive in the Tom-mobile. More crumbs.

Apart from that we have had a nice little tour, met the greatest  New Zealand band ever in Bang! Bang! Eche! Who we had the pleasure of playing with on a couple of shows, they are such cool guy’s and they will fuck your mind up big time when you see them live, fucking RAD!!! We love them (even though Charlie broke both my amps.......)  ;)

London was fucking ace, the Fly was actually steaming!!!! I don’t like Wales...at all......the roads are so slow!!!! The scenery is lovely though, you can really take it in as you go 20 mph behind a lorry with one sheep in it. Cardiff is quite the city though. (Hello Holly and Mike)

We go to bath tomorrow then to home, to bed, and the studio.

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What we did:

# got blessed by a tramp who then called us “Cunts” when we had no fags.

# made sand

# gas cabbage

# made friends who we pushed round on a little trolley thing in the biggest backstage ever

# got woken up at shit o’clock in the morning by some old cunt coming into our room with replacement tea bags and cups, who then turned the light on, looked in my fully dilated pupils then said...”sorry wrong room” and left....without turning the light off. Dick.

# getting let down

# crosswords ( pointed 5 letters ends in RP????)

# stalled the car 4 times at least, got lost at least 20

# thinking about things we can’t have.

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What an eventful week, on the radio anyway!!! We have been on 6 music twice.

First was Steve Lamacq finding Serbian Tennis “Odd” – which we take as a compliment!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00npdqx/Steve_Lamacq_02_11_2009/

Then we got a nice 28/40 in the Roundhouse bit the next day

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00npgv4

we have had quite a few requests for it on 6 music overall so thank you very

much, we love you.

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We are soon to go on tour across our dismal little island to find some new places

to sow our musical seeds and meets some new minds to probe!! Come and see us

won’t you.

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Love

PP x

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Things we have been doing:

Watching Sharpe

Enjoying Autumn

Being proper busy at Hockey R

Mozart

We are proud to announce that we will release Serbian Tennis on the 7^th of December through Hockey Records.......YAY!!!

There will be a cheeky little sample up sometime this week.

We are accompanying a Friendly Fires DJ set in Bournemouth Saturday, come on down like rain.

I thought I would put this track up here as a little treat, it is a bit diff, but we like it.

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We are planning a little tour for the winter of this year and will be going all over the place so look out for more info on that. We will have loads of brand new stuff by then as ash mentioned, we are having a bit of a clear out/inventive stage at the moment, trying to condense the bits we love about our sound into something evolutionary. (in Darwin we trust)

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See you soon.................

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Thomas O

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xoxox