MUSICIAN WANTED FOR MOVIE SOUNDTRACK PROJECT

We're looking for a musician with great skills on bass, slide guitar, lapsteel or keys. The style of music is motown, folk, rock 'n roll, ethnic.  Ability to sing would be a bonus, but good playing skills on at least one instrument is a must.  So just knowing how to strum Wonderwall doesn't count. If you're proper good this could be a very rewarding project. Creative input will be welcome. All ethnicities welcome. Americans ok.

If interested pop us an email with 1) a few words about you [current or previous bands, hometown, age etc], 2) your favourite bands, 3) a sample [myspace, facebook?] of your work. You can email clips if it's under 10mb. Don't be shy.

Contact: info@yetigonzales.com

Thank you.

Yx

We've been alerted to this classic video by xmarcyyy. We'd love to see part II.




Meanwhile Harmony has been victim of some nasty virus on his throat which has put him out of action for the last few months.  Here's to him getting better soon.

YSx

In the latest Japanese interview they attempted to turn Yeti into some kind of wannabe mod outfit (with the usual bait of free clothes). Here are the results:

Its a funny old world.

Whilst we stay huddled and hidden in North London, the rest of the world has decided to take an interest in our ramshackle operation

Over in Italy Don't Go Back To The One You Love has just snuck up to number 8 in the MTV Alternative Chart

http://www.mtv.it/music/classifiche/chart_list.asp?id_chart=54

I discovered this when a friend phoned to tell me she'd just seen the video on telly. I was firstly surprised and then plain confused when she informed me she was in Rome. Still, its all good.

And over in Germany the album recently became album of the month on the premiere music website TAZ

http://blogs.taz.de/popblog/2008/08/28/album_des_monats_juli_platz_1_yeti_-_the_legend_of_yeti_gonzales/

We're not sure what it says but we're assuming its not bad.

Elsewhere, Japan is gearing up for the release of The Legend with a special elongated Japanese tracklist:

http://vinyl-junkie.com/label/yeti/

Meanwhile back on the ranch, we're busy polishing the new album. 

That's right, the 2nd album.  The Easy One. Featuring happy titles such as "L'Engineer De Coup D'Etat" and "I've Got a Parrot (On My Shoulder)".  Some new tunes will be aired at Waterrats on October 17th, our last gig before we shoot off. 

Discounted advance tickets available here:

http://wegottickets.co.uk/event/35632

Great support from Rocketeer and Jenny's Birthday.  Club Night follows if you wanna score.

Yeti
x

To the people of Japan:

Yeti will be releasing a new CD in Japan on October 8.  The label will again be Vinyl Junkie. 

More details to follow...

Yx

Here's a mini-rundown of the tracks.  Just about all the instruments were tracked together live, except for trumpets, whistles and piano, onto our tape recorder.


1. OBVIOUSLY

Jangle-jangle.  This is the jangliest song possible.

2. DON'T GO BACK TO THE ONE YOU LOVE

"Turn the lights out, shut the window, burn your old clothes, don't use the telephone...Steal the next car, drive to Mexico."   Windy drama from the Mexican border.  Listen out for Graham's whistling.  Video's on Youtube.

3. TIL THE WEEKEND COMES

The Anti-Weekend song.  All these hip bands wanna big up and brag about their weekends.  Buffoons!  Anyway, isn't Wednesday the new Friday?  Is the Pope black?

4. MERRY GO ROUND

"Me I'm just a stranger, but here they know my name. 
Paid to see the madman in a shiny cage."
Tales from the Van, as they say.

5. IN LIKE WITH YOU

"True baby true, I'm in like with you, but don't ask me if I love you 'cos I wouldn't want to lie to you."
The Anti-Love song.  As in the feeling, not the band (the good one, not The Feeling).

6. SHANE MACGOWAN

Roots music with a legendary title.  Texan-esque ELO ending.

7. MIDNIGHT FLIGHT

"I wake up in the morning and I think it's just a dream
But then I see the bodies on my tiny TV screen
I put my bloodstained clothing in my washing machine
And it cleanses my senses of the horrors that they've seen."
>:->

8. JERMYN GIRLS

"There's no coming down - not when you get so high
You see the Jermyn Girls - live in a distant world."
True story.  If someone offers you drugs on Greek Street, Soho, it's gonna be a tissue ball.

9. NEVER LOSE YOUR SENSE OF WONDER

One day this song will be in an ad for some fizzy drink or chewing gum in a foreign country.  Preferably Brazil, so we can use the Portuguese samba version.

10. REPRISE

Part 2 of Track 2.  Yeti goes semi-prog.  It's what happens if you let the tape run.

11. CAN'T PRETEND

This is the summer in the basement song.  Recorded at 4am.  And it's in Mono!

12. SISTER SISTER

"Hold on tighter to the friends that you made in the life that you once knew."

13. THE LAST TIME YOU GO (6 FEET UNDER)

"Six feet underground, never to be found
This will be the last time that you go."
Don't mess with Yeti, okay?

14. WHO IS GONZALES

???  Buy the album and find out.  It's the one after 909.


Yx

FINALLY......our long-awaited debut album "The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales" - recorded at Eastcote Studios (the birthplace of our first single) 5 months ago - will be released on June 23.  For those bargain hunters out there, we have been tipped off by the ones in the know that HMV is doing a special deal on all online orders (click me).   More details and revelations on the album later, it's apparently being printed somewhere in France right now, which makes sense cos it's in French...

Meanwhile, our new video is now up on Youtube to be scrutinised with the whole world:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Huxuktj64T8&fmt=18

If you like it, forward it to your friends.  'Cos as you must have gathered by now, this band is really rubbish at PR.

love,
Yeti x

Ps: Remember that indie stores (Rough Trade, Cargo Records etc) tend to dispatch orders for small label bands like Yeti much quicker.

Swingers alert...come spend the night with Yeti and friends upstairs at the OBL (apparently "the coolest pub in the world" according to Joe Nme) on Tuesday, June 10.

From 7:45pm to midnight.  Yeti on at 9:40pm.  Great support bands.  See flyer for details.

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First come first serve so be smart and get advance tickets for £3 here - http://wegottickets.com/event/31925

Sincerest,
Yx

Howdyall,

Our Brand new Single "Don't Go Back To The One You Love" will be released on 26th May*.

It will be available on Vinyl for those who like their music extra-retro, CD for those that like their music shiny and itunes for those that like their music to exist only in the ether.  The "hard copies" actually come out a week after the digi, so that's June 2nd for vinyl and CD.

Love and drunken fumbles
Yeti
x

*Our clever marketing people have decided to release the digi first so CDs and vinyls are out a week later on June 2.