Well hello! we've just embarked on a UK tour with 7 dates round England and Scotland and it was awesome tour great job! we met loads of really brilliant people (thanks brilliant people). We have recently reduced our line up and also had 3 new songs to test out on the road so were keen to gauge the reaction of crowds elsewhere, and from what we can gather things went down like a storm!
- sat 18th we started with a squat (491 Gallery) in London in leytonstone where we played to a crowd who all loved to dance at any age, there were definitely a few kids and elderly folk amidst the scenesters moving like they meant it. highly recommended gig venue for those who go to london to play shows, check it out; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/491_Gallery
- We left on Sunday morn for the Lake stage at Latitude festival where we had a very pleasant dressing room equiped with stocked bar and food which was heavenly. On stage we were introduced by Huw Stephens and we really enjoyed playing the show (see video below), luckily for us it started raining a little as we were about to come on and so loads of people gathered under the canopy of the stage for shelter and ended up loving the dance vibes, thanks to Olli and Huw (and Steve Lamacq) for the big ups on our forthcoming Maidavale session and the radio plays, we were really chuffed with how things seemed to happen in tandem with us moving around the place. At Latitude we also had a chance to catch Casiokids, Thom Yorke, !!!, The Vaselines and a bit of the Gossip before settling down for an unforgettable night's sleep in a tent, or near a tent :-)
- monday morning we then headed back to london for a show in 93 Feet East where we played after eating many bagels from the fabulous bagel shops of brick lane (video below)
- then off to a subversive beer den in Derby where we were treated very well (thanks Callum and Red) and once we convinced the manager to turn the bright white interior lights off, the sultry dance urchins emerged from the static high-brow math-rock fans and the dance party began!, even the math rock fans struck wild poses.
- to Leeds next where we met up with sexy Rich who took us to the cavernous Royal Park Cellars where we played a great show with a couple of nice bands, particularly S.A.A.P.S.S who debuted that night and showed exciting potential.
- In Edinburgh we had the first ever experience of playing in the middle of a club night. Jim (our new joint-best-friend along with Rich from Leeds) stuck us on at 1.30am in Cabaret Voltaire on a club night and it was savage! with the way our beats and persistent double bass action is at the minute it worked very well for wired-drunk dance urchins who spewed their lungs out and made the place actually drip with sweat. If anyone has any footage of this and reads this please upload it or send us a picture - that was insane..
- Next night we played in Sneaky Pete's, a really great little custom venue in Edinburgh where Times New Viking had played recently. We played a short set and were kind of relieved to be first on and enjoy watching other bands and have a few drinks that night. We stayed in a flat that night where our friends seb and sheena had moved in for a month and experienced a couple of the freakiest cats we'd ever seen, here's a picture of one of them;
Good fucking times.. more of that to be done sooner than later! Well, we have a good few gigs lined up around ireland at various festivals and venues over the next month so come and dance with us if you can, plus we're gonna be focused on making these new songs come alive in the studio and taking things further into the depths of kraut-dance-noise-band than we've ever been before, so watch this space for our take on awesome music great job.
Keith Square