So skinny twins is up for download as we speak, on iTunes, napster and all other legite download sites. Go download it, lets fuck off the major record labels with a small unsigned single. 

It seems that we are doing the right thing though, going it alone.  Skinny twins is an independent release with no record label backing.  We have done everything ourselves. 

Alan McGhee, a man who knows what he is talking about ( for those who dont know - signed oasis, libertines manager, glasvegas etc) said this on NME.com recently:

 

Speaking on an XFM documentary about Creation, set to air tonight (July 3) at 10pm (BST), McGee urged bands to go it alone.

"I'd recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they're all fucking rubbish," he said. "You're better off doing it yourself. They're living in the past, it's like owning a tram company or something..."

The only thing that has made this a success for us is YOU GUYS, the fans, the people that matter.  So lets keep making it a success, by downloading it enough times to chart it.  I know it's a long shot but if everyone on pur friends list does it, the single would go top 20.

 

So we're back in England!

Who's at ZOO8 this weekend?

 

 

 

 

The single is available for download on itunes and napster and stuff so get your download on!!!

 

We would very much appreciate it!

 

 

haha

 

Thank you

 

HEROES.xo

Hiii everyone…I've decided to have a night in tonight. I think peoples are off to amnesia but I think if I don't do this blog now I'll forget half the shit that's happened.

I'll go from where we left off.

 

So Birmingham was kind of a success. The four of us travelled back we hung around all day with LMT who are still legends, then we played a gig.

 

After all the bands finished Wiley showed up to fill in for Jay Sean….which was a massive touch.

 

Then this other cunty band tried robbing all our alcohol and when us and LMT wouldn't fill their water bottle up with Jack Daniels they kicked off. Completely out of line. Glasses got smashed everywhere food flew about. Proper ridiculous. Anyway security and the police turned up and escorted us off premises. The police kept the other band for questioning haha. I don't give a fuck if they toured with Weller, they were shit and going bald.

So we went home and then flew back to Ibiza where life is pretty sweet.

 

 

We met Holly from Living TV, she has been wicked and has been taking us out on quad bikes around the island, she took us on the "Ibiza beast" which is a proper fast hardcore boat that tours the island. We saw a door in the cliffs were apparently some ex- school teacher now lives…his name is hermit and he has a picture of Jesus on his front door. Ha. Holly and her crew took us out to a supermarket to buy a barbeque. We bought loads of food and invited loads of people and had a bit of a party on our roof terrace . . .it was tearin.

 

Stuart from the Stuntmen liked it.

 

Today Holly took us parasailing and we've managed to blag free tattoos and stuff for next week…Sweet.

 

Yesterday was really bizarre. We had to go and shoot the promo for the living tv programme which is basically the advert…I think? Everyone who they are following from cross dressers to dancers and from a crazy old party diva with his long black robe and ridiculous demands to his dog with a pink tail and a bird killing habit. REAL BIZARRE!

 

I've managed to upload some pictures but just so you know, after playing one night, the other resident band (hungover stuntmen- shit hot check them out… I'll bang them in our top friends) and us lot got a bit drunk and decided to have a full on glam rock 80's hair metal night with metal t-shirts , hairspray, Jack Daniels and eye make up….we look like fucking idiots but check it out at the end of the blog.

 

So this weekend we're going up to Andy Taylor from Duran Duran's house, we're playing a festival he's putting on at the end of the month and hopefully we can get in his studio and record some new tracks. I'll let you know how we get on. Also, his wife is a photographer and there is loads of her pictures blown up all over the hotel…like this one haha 

          

  As you probably heard we played with The Pigeon Detectives. The gig probably couldn't of gone worse, what with guitars, guitar leads and guitar tuners all deciding to pack up at around the same time…nightmare. We kept it together and it turned out to be a pretty good night!

 

 

 

We bumped into a few old friends we met on the view tour, who are now working with the pigeons. Digby, the oldest and coolest roadie ever stayed up last night, telling me and Jak about his tours with the Clash! Proper Legend.

 

Okay, so I'm pretty much up to speed with things…I'll upload the remaining pictures at the end.

 

If you read this blog and are coming out to Ibiza before Tuesday…come to the One Night Only gig as we are supporting.

 

Come find us about the hotel in the day if you are out here and if not. . .we will be home soon. . .we miss English gigs.

 

Keep telling your friends about the single and also a good friend has made a banner so if you could plaster that everywhere that would be pretty sweeet.

 

The singles getting played on some radio stations and some music channels but pleased keep ringing up/texting and annoying the dj's to play it.  Lets get that shit on Jo Whileys show.

 

 

Thank you,

 

 

HEROES.xo

 

 

p.s. We decided that Ibiza is the home of shit tattoos so to prove how bad they are we'll start taking pictures of proper shit ones and posting them on here….there are some real bad ones!!!

 

Haha

 

I don't know whether to take skin and bone down and put a new song up or not….let me know what d'ya reckon….

Acoustic set by the pool. Everyone leans over their balcony...it's wiicked.

 

So this is our hair metal night.

This is the owner of the best bar in the west end in the middle....He's a dude. haha

The pissed up pole dancing was pretty popular . . .

 

It weren 't too pretty towards the end of the night.

This is pretty much a picture of my brother and I if we had been bought up in the 80's. haha

Jak had a plain white vest. Out of all the words he could of wrote across it...Piss seemed to be the winner?

 

 

These are 3/4 of the Hungover Stuntmen. They are a indie band from newcastle. They are fucking amazing so go dig out their myspace and have a listen.

 

Best sign ever.

Worst sign ever.

 

The green stuff is called WEED KILLER. It's 3/4 spirits and bacardi breezers . . it's pretty nasty!!

 

 

We nearly got lost at sea in these pedlos. they are proper hardwork!

Hellloooo from Ibiza.

 

Sorry there's been a lack of blogage, it's just we've been very busy boys. let me explain..

 

So I'm sat in probably the coolest hotel in Ibiza... Jak's playing one of many xbox's that are just darted about...very handy if you get bored, there are mad blown up pictures around of various bands that have played Ibiza rocks, including one of Aaron haha. Im next to one of a dancers arse . . . Ibiza rocks knickers are goood.

 

So this week has been hectic...everything is going on out here.

 

We landed on Saturday at 5 o clock. our sound check to play the opening party was at 6.

 

We left the Airport and outside were 2 big Hummers waiting for us… a black one and a white one. We got in and had interviews all the way to the hotel. Living TV are doing this documentary about Ibiza and they are basically following us round for the next month, It's cool though…the girl who follows us, Holly,  lets us do cool shit and blags quads and stuff for us for free.

 

So we arrived at the hotel at like 6:20. We managed to get a sound check in in time. . . just.

We then did more interviews…Adam who's been following us around was interviewing us after interviews…it was all pretty mental.

The gig was wicked….although it was pissing down people still came out and had a good time which was cool! George managed to bust his finger open on his guitar and I caught mine on the rim of  my snare so both of us wrecked all our new free clothes with hardcore blood stains…brilliant.

The Enemy were pretty sweet as well. We watched them from the balcony, by the free bar… Spanish shots are the equivalent of about 3 English shots, so everyone was fucked.

After that we jumped in a taxi to the middle of no-where where some people from x-box were staying in a £10million villa. The fridge was filled with alcohol…there was about a thousand rooms… we all just jumped in the infinity pool, it was pretty cold at 4 in the morning haha.

We went out on quads on Monday…Living TV took us to some really nice beach and we went swimming with fish literally about 10cm away from your feet. The quads were amazing, we cained them round some private property then got lost on the streets of San Antonia.

At the end of the day we met two boys from Leicester. They are pretty much the funniest two people ever. Tommy and Del are pretty much our new best holiday mates haha. They've been at all our gigs. Requesting Lionel fucking Ritchie's "hello" every night…throwing us in the pool...(btw Jak's phone got wet so if you want to get hold of him….unlucky haha). Del even stage invaded last night….completely naked. I'll get a picture of em on here soon.

I've  took a few pictures…but iv left my usb thingy at home so when we come back on Saturday to play BIRMINGHAM (ASTON UNIVERSITY w/ KANO, LITTLE MAN TATE and ZANE LOWE) I'll grab it and upload some pictures.

So the single has been sent to all the radio stations so start texting in/ringing up/emailing in and requesting it. Also if anyone can put the video on MYSPACE VIDEOS…that'd be good.

Who saw Mondays sun article on Ibiza rocks…cheeky little heroes pic haha.

Also there is or was something on mtv news so keep an eye out for that maybe?

So yeah, Adam flew back today to start editing the video blog, so hopefully that should be up soon.

And I'll sort some pictures out.  But apart from that…come out to Ibiza, come to the hotel and we'll have a party.

NOTICE: IF YOUR IN IBIZA AND YOU SEE THIS, OUR BBQ PARTY IS TOMORROW IN OUR ROOM….CONTACT US IF YOUR COMIN J

HEROES.xo

Okay one last thing before I go. Hopefully we ar going to do about a weeks worth of touring when we come home to promote the single soooo…

where should we play?

 

So I'm sitting here with my big brother and some of the guys on the internet...I've already wrote this blog once but apparently when you pay £3 for 2hours at etap, they cut you off half way through...and you loose everything?

 

Piece of shit.

 

This isnt really a tour update blog. Ill do a big one after the scotland gigs. :)

 

So firstly the WESTPORT BAR gig is now at FAT SAMS due to demand. Let's smash it Dundee?

 

Also when our colchester gig got cancelled, we got another gig, in york instead but completely forgot to put it on the myspace...

 

FIBBERS    YORK 28th MAY

 

 

Apparently fibbers is a wicked venue so come down and lets tear it up.

 

THE VIDEO!!!!

 

Im uploading the video as we speak to youtube.

 

Our management wanted us to put a clip of the video up on youtube then the full thing on iTunes. But we basically thought that it was a waste of time as one person would pay for it off of iTunes then upload it to youtube anyway.

 

So heres the deal...i'm gonna upload the whole thing to youtube but you lot have to put it on your myspace, get your friends to put it on their myspace, get your mums, dads, grandmas and girls who live in canada who claim they love you to put it on their myspace....i wanna see this shit everywhere, FACEBOOKS, FORUMS, BEBO's....EVERYWHERE

 

The videos gonna start getting reviews in all sorts of magazines and gonna start getting played in shops and stuff.

 

The video goes out in topshop and topman on the 24th may... keep an eye out for it!

 

The single is out on the 30th June.

Put it in your calenders so you dont forget!

Lets hammer it and get that single out there.

 

For every person that gets a mention on Radio 1 requesting the single...gets an album credit...so get texting, ringing and emailing!

 

 

cheers,

 

Heroes.xo

 

 

I'll leave you with this;

 

Let me knowwhat you think.xo

 

Alright!

It was between Throbbin Hood and Shindlers Fist. 

So... 

The last blog was in Southampton I think so I'll pick up from there I guess.

 

The Joiners was fucking tearin. Everyone had it, Southampton was jumping. Sweat on the walls, sick on the floor, drinks flying about, shoes flying about, bodies getting thrown about and the chicken fillet things girls put down there tops to make there tits bigger getting flung at the stage!

 

Was one of the best gigs of the tour so far. We got some serious super fans down there, thank you Southampton,

 

We then went to Exeter and played with an amazing American band from San Diego (which is French for a whales vagina). Dirty Sweet, check them out, it think they are here for a few more days? We ended up swapping a load of merch so everyone got a clean tee. Ha!

 

After Exeter we had a day off, but someone in Torquay was throwing this mad birthday party. 1100 glow sticks on the floor, the ceiling plastered in helium balloons….and it was an underwear party. After a lot of free drink, a cheeky little set and a lot more free drink we decided to follow everyone else and go camping after.

 

Turns out that there was about 4 tents and 20 odd people, so another taxi journey later we ended up in a girl form the parties flat. To be fair, she didn't have a clue what was going on, who we were and every 5 minutes she'd ask us if we were staying or not and convinced herself we were all laughing at her…when we was asleep. After she got over that she went and licked the mirror for a bit then went to bed.

 

When we left, we was all feeling like shit. We said our thank yous and goodbyes and to be honest I think she still didn't have a clue why we were there in the first place.

 

We played stoke on Monday. On a Monday night, stoke is the place to be. Sugarmill was packed. We definitely sold the majority of merch, signed tickets, shirts, arms, shoes, then had a fucking wicked gig. There was more stage diving and crowd surfing then….a gig where a lot of people stage dive and crowd surf? We love you stoke!

Leeds last night was amazing. After the show we went to a rave club night thing. Jager bombs are a good choice, we got kicked out for being too drunk 15 minutes before closing…some bouncers are massive wankers.

 

Tonight we're in Wolverhampton. Come down if your about the area! Its gonna be wicked!

 

So we now have a release date for skinny twins. It comes out on the 30^th June. So get your download on, buy a cd, buy a vinyl…fuck it do one of each, yeah?

 

Also start hassling radio stations to play Skinny twins. Phone them, text them…save the number in your phone and annoy Jo Whiley everyday? Haha

 

6Music on 64046

 

Radio 1 on 81199

 

XFM on 83936

 

Virgin Radio on 81215

 

I think that's about it.

 

I'll leave you with a few pictures and the artwork for Skinny Twins.

 

Keep sending ideas of porn titles for the blogs. Theres only

so many good ones we've seen heard of, off our seedy

mates. Haha. I like this game!

 

Also check the guardians website we are featured band of the day, heres the link.

 

http://music.guardian.co.uk/newbands/story/0,,2279694,00.html

 

I'm off to finish my sausage roll and drink my probably warm milk now. Tour foods shit!

 

 

Haha

 

 

HEROES.xo

 

 

 

This is the artwork...yeah they made the cover ha

 

 

 

 

Our new van is carpeted all over so we got a load of velcro and just launch our phones at the walls.

 

 

Gettin our stuff in is like tetris...this is sam..he's a nob.

 

 

The chalk board was a good buy!

 

 

This is the new van. Westwood would be proud of how pimped it is!

 

 

I'll leave you with a random picture. 8p noodles are goood!

 

 

right i know we are still waiting for skinny twins to come out of the can, but it will be soon, keep an eye out ... but we want to put something together with your help.

Inspired by Olivia, a 3 year old girl jumping on a bed singing brixton stories, we want you to do something similar.

So get you and your mates together. come up with an idea of what you want to do, record it phone or camera and then upload it to youtube. Send us the link to it with the names of the people in the video. Then when we have enough we will put it all together into a video for brixton stories.

People have already been asking us for the ideas but we want you to come up with them. So it could be you just in your bedroom, alone, in front of your PC, watching a bit of you porn, singing brixton stories, or taking the piss out of something that pisses you off ... NO HOLDS BARRED ... we all like a good laugh so the funnier the better!

Just get your ideas in as soon as possible because once we have enough stuff we will put it together.

here is the link to Olivias little performance!

http://www.youtube.com/v/k1v38jD7oSY

Sam helped with the opening line of this blog…

 

"what up possy cru"

 

Anyway…we're currently on the motorway cruising down to southampton…listening to AC/DC in our new van (which compared to our old van is pretty pimped- we have a sub woofer the lot!) I'll get pictures up asap.

 

 

 We bought a shit load of Velcro and now everyones phones, wallets, baccy tins, deodyrant and even lighters are covered in it so when we get in the van we all just launch our shit at the carpeted ceiling and hope for the best. No broken phones as of yet..although I did try throwin mine at the side directly above the open window…not the best idea iv ever had.

 

haha

 

Sorry for the lack of myspace action…we are trying but theres only so much you can do on a mobile phone and some venues are tight and don't have wi-fi. ha

 

 

So yeah… so far the gigs have been going well! Apparently tonights gig is sold out so if your from Southampton, you better fuckin have it tonight!

 

Reading last night was sweet. We played with a band called The Vice (who are real good so check them out). After the gig, the bass player from the band had a house party…we rolled up expecting a dirty little student flat …we were wrong! The house was fucking huge! Mink couldn't help himself and had to beat the host at pool. Ha.

 

The video is all done for the skinny twins single. We got a preview of it last week. It's the bollocks, it'll be up on here within the next couple of weeks definitely. It's absolute carnage. Well done if you were on top floor at the tap that night.

 

Sam (ak-80) is on tour with us till the 16^th I think. He's taken it upon himself to give out a "star of the day" award. Here's a little idea of how you can win.

 

Jak- won it on the first day for working really hard and carrying his 8 x 10 bass amp down a  load of stairs by himself.

 

 

Mink- won because  he played well on championship manager and actually did his job on tour…for once.

 

 

Aaron- won because Chris isn't on tour till the 11^th so Aarons been left to do all the driving…he's the man.

 

 

Nick- Nick/Dick off of Trial of Fifty lost his job a few weeks ago so he's decided he'll just come on tour for a week. He won last night because he got fucked up, had it at the gig and had a cheeky graft on all these posh birds last night.

 

So theres quite a few ways of winning and the prizes are pretty sweet. Tonight is the prize giving of hero of the week. Fun times…

 

I think that's about it. I'll try uploading the pictures now.

 

Keep an eye out on the myspace  'cause the video could go up anytime now.

 

Also, we met a bloke called Adam at the Lily Allen show, who has basically decided to come on tour with us for the last week  and then fly out to Ibiza filming us for like a daily video blog. Should be pretty sweet!

 

Right I'm going cause I have about 8% battery left!

 

Get involved and keep checkin the myspace for new videos/blogs/gigs.

 

Get hooked up on our bebo, facebook and reverbnation aswell as getting stuck in on the forum…(all the links are on our page somewhere.)

 

Get to as many gigs as you can and go fucking mental. We're selling off our t-shirts to make room for new designs so get your shirts fucking sweaty or ripped or just lose them and buy some merch. ;) We got mixtape cd's we're flogging too!

 

 

Keep it really real.

 

Love,

 

HEROES.xo

 

 

Sam says "word to your doggy mothers home

boyzzzzzz"

 

He's a cunt…

 

xo

 

 

p.s. If you noticed...we are naming the blogs after brilliant porn film names...if you can do better then us..leave a comment and it'll be the next tour title!!!!!

 

 

Here are the stills from the video shoot the other week, should be done soon :)

So basically, you may or may not know we are releaseing Skinny Twins  at the beginnig of May!!!!

We’ve recorded a fresh version this week and it will be available to download (making it chart eligable ;]  ) along with vinyls and cd’s :)

 

We’ll give you more info on exact dates when we know.

But the video for the song is on thursday (april 3rd) at the tap n tin.

Its just gonna be a massive piss up,  we’ll be playing, hopefully you’ll be going mental!?! ...and mink and bird will be getting far too much attention all day via cameras!

SO if you wanna be in the video....make sure you book work off, skive it, quit your jobs or just simply fuck college off and be down the Tap n Tin in chatham.

There’ll be Boooze!!

(...may we suggest a bottle of cheap wine or white cider for the journey down...for a laugh!?!)

Keep an eye out for bulletins of times to be there and get wankered.

Lets fucking smash it.

 

Who’s coming?

 

HEROES.xo