Hi everyone,

Just a quick update to let you know a couple of shows over the next couple of months, and to let you know about this year’s Indietracks festival in July.

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Saturday 30 May
Pocketbooks + The Good Gods! + The Noughts and Crosses Band
The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4RL
Nearest tube: Angel or Farringdon
Doors 8pm - Tickets £6
www.myspace.com/gooniteclub

We think this will be the 50th Pocketbooks show, so we hope you’ll join us to celebrate the occasion. It will also be a kind-of launch for our single and album, and it will be a ‘welcome home’ gig for Dan and Emma , who will be arriving straight off the plane from their holiday in the States.

If you’d like to come along for a cheaper price of £5, please email your name (or as many names as you like!) to pocketbooks@gmail.com

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Tuesday 9 June
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart + Trailer Trash Tracys + Pocketbooks
Madame Jo Jo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street , London W1F 0SE
Tickets are sold out, but a limited number will be available on the night.
www.myspace.com/whiteheatmayfair

We’re very excited to be playing with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart again. The atmosphere at their Lexington gig last week was electric and they sounded amazing.

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Friday 24 July to Sunday 26 July
Indietracks Festival

This year’s Indietracks festival will be headlined by Camera Obscura, Emmy The Great, Au Revoir Simone and another headliner to be announced shortly. The festival takes place on a 1950s steam railway in the Derbyshire countryside, and festival-goers can ride the steam trains, visit the farm and watch bands playing on the outdoor stage, in a locomotive shed, in a church and on the trains themselves!

Elefant Records are curating one of the stages this year to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Other bands playing include Lucky Soul, La Casa Azul, BMX Bandits, Butcher Boy, The School, The Frank and Walters, The Smittens, Cats on Fire, Rose Elinor Dougall and ourselves!

Last year’s festival was a wonderful experience and we’re really excited about this year’s line-up. There’s more information at www.indietracks.co.uk

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Thanks very much to everyone who’s picked up our album so far and also to everyone who’s come to see us play recently.

Hope to see you at one of the shows! 
Andy, Dan, Emma, Ian and Jonny x

Hi everyone,

To celebrate the fact that ourselves and The Loves are releasing new albums, we're heading off on a joint tour in April. We're visiting some towns we haven't played in before, so we're really looking forward to it. Here's the details:

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Friday 3 April - London
Secret Knowledge presents...
Pocketbooks + The Loves + The Give It Ups

Brixton Jamm, 261 Brixton Road, SW9 2LH
Tickets / Last.fm 

This gig is also the same night as How Does it Feel To Be Loved? in Brixton. So, the plan is that the bands will finish at a reasonable time, and then everyone can go and have a dance afterwards at HDIF. Perfect!

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Friday 10 April - Manchester
Pull Yourself Together and It Sounded Better In My Head present…
The Loves + The Bobby McGee’s + Pocketbooks + The Lovely Eggs

The Black Lion Hotel, Chapel Street, M3 5BZ
Tickets / Last.fm

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Saturday 11 April - Hull
DiY Hi5 present…
The Loves + Pocketbooks + The Rocky Nest

The New Adelphi, 89 De Grey Street, HR5 2RU
Details / Last.fm

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Sunday 12 April - Newcastle
Fake Indie Label presents…
The Loves + Pocketbooks

The Head of Steam, 2 Neville Street, NE1 5EN
Details / Last.fm


Our debut album 'Flight Paths' isn't officially available until July, but we'll have some copies on the tour, and you can also pick up an advance copy from How Does It Feel To Be Loved?.

And you can download a free song from the album, Fleeting Moments, free by cutting and pasting the following link into your browser:
http://box.net/shared/7sxzjar66h

Last weekend we played at the wedding of our friends Mark (our former guitarist) and Ruth. It was a fantastic day in the Devonshire countryside, and we jumped at the chance to play some classic wedding covers. We'll leave you to guess what we played! Here's a picture of us looking smart instead:



Hope to see you at one of the shows!

Andy, Dan, Emma, Ian and Jonny x

We're very excited to be able to let you know the details of our debut album, Flight Paths. The official release date will be 13 July, but the label is posting out advance CD copies now. You can order a CD from How Does It Feel To be Loved?
 
One of the songs, Fleeting Moments, is available to download free from:
www.box.net/shared/7sxzjar66h 

Here's a preview of the album cover. All the artwork was designed by our friend Kris, who, among other things, writes the fantastic Heaven Is Above Your Head blog.


 
The album was recorded over five days at Soup Studio, which is located under a wonderful ukelele shop near Brick Lane in London. It was recorded by Simon Trought, who has also recorded albums by The Wave Pictures, Darren Hayman and loads of other bands that we love. We're really pleased the album is coming out in the spring, as it feels like a springtime album. As you can imagine, we were really excited to be recording these songs in the studio, and we hope this comes across on the record.
 
We picked mostly new songs for the album, some of which you might recognise from our last few gigs. There's also a couple of our favourites which stretch back to when we first started out as a band. The full tracklisting is:
 
1. Footsteps
2. Fleeting Moments
3. Camera Angles
4. The Outskirts Of Town
5. Cross The Line
6. Skating On Thin Ice
7. Sweetness And Light
8. I'm Not Going Out
9. Every Good Time We Ever Had
10. Paper Aeroplanes
11. All We Do Is Rush Around
 
We had a fantastic time recording it, and we're really looking forward to playing these songs at our gigs in April. We really hope you enjoy the album and the free download.

Andy, Dan, Emma, Ian and Jonny

Popfests have been running in the States in one form or another since the mid-1990s, so it’s wonderful that the people at Spiral Scratch, Fortuna Pop! And WIAIWYA have taken up the baton for London. The line-up up is as follows:

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Thursday 26 February @ Jamm (Brixton)
Pelle Carlberg (Sweden)
The School
Pocketbooks
Let’s Whisper (US)
DJ: How Does It Feel to Be Loved?

Tickets for the Thursday show are available from: www.wegottickets.com/event/44470
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Friday 27 February @ The Buffalo Bar (Islington)
Tender Trap
Zipper
Betty and the Werewolves
Allo, Darlin’
DJs: Fortuna Pop! and Cosy Den (Sweden)
You'll need a Popfest 4-day pass to come to the Friday night (see below).
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Saturday 28 February @ The Macbeth (Hoxton)
Comet Gain
Milky Wimpshake
Help Stamp Out Loneliness
(most of) The Smittens (US)
Liechtenstein (Sweden)
Action Biker (Sweden)
The Loves
Town Bike
The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut
DJs: Spiral Scratch, Half My Heart Beats (Glasgow) and more!

Tickets for the Saturday all-dayer are available from: www.wegottickets.com/event/43627
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Sunday 1 March @ The Salmon and Compass
Julian Henry and Harvey Williams (playing songs by The Hit Parade and Another Sunny Day)
Gregory Webster
The Middle Ones
DJs: The Hangover Lounge (Tim, Ben, John)
You'll need a Popfest 4-day pass to come to the Sunday (see below).

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Over the weekend, there will also be a disco, films, a pop quiz, a CD swap and more bands to be announced. To find out more, please visit the London Popfest website.
If you'd like to come to the whole weekend, please pick up a London Popfest 4-day pass from WeGotTickets.


Today we braved the snow to hand over our final album masters and artwork to the printers. On the way we saw the best snowman ever:



Hope to see you all at Popfest!
Andy, Dan, Emma, Ian and Jonny x