I am, as you might guess from the title, doing some gigs.

If I could understand the "add Shows" thing here I'd put them there, but I don't.

So I won't.

Anyway, the first one is on the 21st of March at The Windmill in Brixton. as part of the Bad Friday alldayer along with 7 or so other bands including Responsible Adults and Let's Wrestle.

My band for that one shall be Keith Totp (and his minor uk indie celebrity allstar backing band)

This is a band made up of people in other bands who aren't busy doing things.

So far it has 14 members, and includes 7 or so guitars, stylophones, saxophones, accordians and other various things.

We probably won't fit on the stage but we WILL be amazing :-)

So come to that.

In fact even if you live in another country you should probably come to that as I imagine it'll be a one time thing, never to be repeated, like the birth of christ!

There's also a barbeque.

After that on the 17th of April I'm playing The Ruby Lounge in Manchester.

The band for that one shall be me, a drum machine, and maybe someone else doing something else.

So that adds a bit of an air of mystery to things.

There are 3 other bands playing including The Indelicates, who are amazing, so it'll be a good night and you'd be FOOLISH to miss it.

After that, or maybe some time around that, I shall be touring the country, starting in The Dublin Castle in London and radiating out like a coiled spring until I eventually end up cold and alone, but drunk and happy, somewhere in Scotland trying to decide on taking the train or flying back to London

i shall fly of course, but it's nice to feel green by pretending there's a chance I might take the train.

So, come to them all.

Take care,

Keith Totp xx

I got reviewed by the lovely people at The Sunday Experience :-)

I quote,

"Flip over for two slabs of riotously sarcastic curmudgeon pop from the mighty hand of Keith TOTP. Keith - by all accounts - is a real top bloke, when he's not helping out other bands (such as the Indelicates -see above) and participating in various bands he can be found on his all to brief coffee breaks on his own in front of a recording device casually knocking out the odd caustic nugget of side splitting pop before he's dragged off on his next general good guy assignment.

'I hate your band' is one of those ditties that you feel will win much support from all those living outside the M25 catchment area (along with a few within it n doubt) who will all breath a collective sigh of relief and think 'about fecking time that someone had the brass balls to stand up and shove two fingers up to the LN scene'.

Raw, primitive, agitated, sarcastic and painfully true 'I hate your band' is an anti - LDN anthem - in point of fact a dig at the one dimensional guitar bands that certain rags seems to namedrop weekly with quotes such as 'like jumping on a fat man in a tight white suit' (will I like this then? - although that was admittedly attributed to Buen Chico who we quite like - just to straighten the record). All delivered with a life ebbing away futile and wearisome ambivalence that recalls a seriously twisted and bitter Wreckless Eric with Lou Reed designs backed by a youthful and acerbic sounding Half Man Half Biscuit taking the whole scene in his sights for a right royal kicking.

'Girl' over on the flip (and we've bloody checked this) is sadly not the Lennon and McCartney stalker callers favourite ditty of yesteryear though that said there is a subtle Beatles-esque vibe about this that mainlines directly to the Moptops 'and your bird can sing' and 'you won't see me' - think upon it as a bitterly delivered melodic missive delivered by a scuzzed and fuzzed up Macca - love the parting 'bitch' retort - and it also features whistling which we feel here is always the mark of class. Go buy."

If that's convinced you, and it should, then go buy it from here

http://www.filthylittleangels.com/SHOP.html

:-)

x

released on Filthy Little Angels here

I Hate Your Band

It's good, so you should.

xx