Hello Pony fancier,

I hope this finds you in fine fettle. We've got some proper news for a change...

'If These Are The Good Times', our much delayed second album will finally see the light of day on 9th November and should be available via all the usual channels (HMV, Amazon, Play, iTunes, emusic etc). The good people at Maverick magazine have described it as 'a magnificent record'. We're just glad to have finally finished the bloody thing.

I'm not sure if you can really call it a tour (we'll be driving home in the middle of the night and dragging ourselves into work the next day), but we've got a fair few gigs lined up between now and the end of the year:

Sunday 25th October - Oxjam @ The Dragon Hall, ....Norwich....

Sunday 1st November - Start The Bus, ....Bristol....

Thursday 5th November - Lantern Society @ The Betsey Trotwood, ....London....

Friday 6th November - Monkey Chews, ....London....

Sunday 22nd November - The Hope, ..Brighton..

Wednesday 25th November - The Tin Angel, ....Coventry....

Friday 27th November - High Barn, Great Bardfield

Wednesday 16th December - Bitterscene @ The Bassment Club, ....Chelmsford....

Saturday 19th December - Ciarafest 14 @ The ..Portland.. Arms, ....Cambridge....

We've not played a lot of these places before, so if you've got any impressionable friends who live in ....Coventry...., do point them in our direction.

Also, become our fan on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/ThePonyCollaboration

We've not got very many at the moment.

Or follow us on Twitter:

www.twitter.com/ponytweets

We've not tweeted anything yet, but when we do it's sure to be momentous.

That's all for now...

TPC xxx

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Howdy.

Being an 8-piece bastard child band of two cities can have its drawbacks - our masses of screaming, adoring, verging-on-the-obsessive fans in either London or Cambridge often find it difficult to make it to gigs held in their respective 'away' grounds.

As such we've got gigs in both ..Cambridge.. AND ....London.... in early October as part of our ongoing pimp-a-thon for our new album 'If These Are The Good Times', both of which promise to be pretty great.

On Saturday 3rd October, we're doing the Octopus Ride night at The Globe on

Hello, How are you? Good.

Our eponymously titled debut album (arf!) is released on Monday 2nd April. Here's what some nice people have had to say about it:

 'A brilliant and beautiful debut long-player. as a homegrown response to all things 'Americana', this oozes quality and delicate charm' 10/10

Whisperin & Hollerin

'This really is delightfully uplifting and positively charming. Just perfect pop, perfect tunes, perfect production, perfect textures, everything feels just so right. Loaded with warmth and soul and maybe even a hint of breezy Northern Soul in there with the strings and the glockenspiel and melodica and the refined percussion. Positively lazy pop to get lost in for hours and hours - recommended'

Organ

'Everything is in place; these Ponies are going to be at the front of the British Americana race'

Americana UK

'This quintessentially British album reeks of quality. Simply divine'

The Morning Star

Available in all good record shops (although that list may subsequently need to be revised) and on Amazon, Play, HMV etc
 
Go on, treat yourself. You deserve it.

We're also out on tour over the next couple of weeks:

Tuesday 3rd April - The Boileroom, Guildford
Thursday 5th April - The Portland Arms, Cambridge
Friday 6th April - The Glass Onion, Peterborough
Saturday 7th April - The Prince of Wales, Kettering
Monday 9th April - The Grey Horse, Kingston upon Thames
Tuesday 10th April - The Old Wharf, Birmingham
Wednesday 11th April - The Head of Steam, Newcastle upon Tyne
Friday 13th April - The Kro Bar, Manchester
Saturday 14th April - The Sumac Centre, Nottingham
 
With a gig at the Windmill in Brixton to follow...

While we're up in Manchester, we'll also be recording an acoustic session for the Lost in Transmission show on 96.2 The Revolution. This will be broadcast on Thursday 19th April from 10pm to 12am.

That's all for now...
 
The Pony Collaboration

Ahoy there!

Just a little note to remind you that The Pony Collaboration will be playing not one, but two gigs next week. For the laziest band in the Northern hemisphere, this is practically a tour

On Thursday 25th May were at The Windmill in Brixton supporting Immaculate Machine and The Cranebuilders. Both of these bands are ace. Check out:

www.immaculatemachine.com

www.myspace.com/cranebuilders

Heres a map:

http://www.windmillbrixton.co.uk/Location.htm

On Saturday 27th May were at Romsey Labour Club in Cambridge as part of the Amnesty International Big Carnival. Also on the bill are The Beards (theyre supposed to be quite mental), Emily Barker from The Low Country (who we love), The Afro Cuban Hair Styles and DJ Kid Clave. Check out:

www.myspace.com/dabeards

www.myspace.com/emilybarker

Heres a map:

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?cat=h&scale=5000&pc=CB13NL

Dont say we dont look after you

The Pony Collaboration x

www.myspace.com/theponycollaboration

...at least in name. We haven’t played in the same room together for about six months. We’re still speaking though. Just about.

We’ve been making our debut album, you see. This has been a long and sometimes gruelling process, but it is now finished. What happens now is unclear.

Special thanks must go to Marc’s girlfriend, Sarah, for it is their house that we have invaded pretty much every other weekend since June. Thanks for the cups of tea, the constant supply of Heat magazines and for allowing us to get drunk and listen to Deicide in your front room. We couldn’t have done it without you.

I’m not sure about this whole My Space thing, but I’ll try anything once (actually, that’s not at all true). Let’s just see how it goes.

Until next time,

James