April 2012
12 posts
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Parties over
It’s Monday morning, and, in the spirit of Andrew WK we’ve spent all weekend at one long series of house parties. It hasn’t quite been Party Till You Puke, as they were all fairly civilised affairs, but they were an incredible experience - being invited in to people’s homes and meeting all kinds of folk.
There can be no better way to spend a weekend. Here’s a photo...
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Oxford Show Coming Sooooon
We are back on the road again this weekend after we had such an awesome time playing the living room shows about a month back. We got lots and lots of requests so we have tried to do as many as we can this time. Mostly in Oxfordshire, but we are performing Friday evening, Saturday brunch, Saturday afternoon snacks, Saturday early tea, Saturday evening and Sunday evening. You might well see a white...
Home please
Yesterday was spent in the van. All of it. Basel is a long long way away from Oxford. It nearly got very interesting when our key snapped in half just 150 km outside of Calais. Some cunning carjacker skills got the thing at least as far as England, where a wizard fixed the problems and gave us a new key while we waited. Some people. Evidence is here:
Anyway, none of this is very important....
No Sleep until Basel (which is tonight, so that's...
The sun is shining in the beautiful city of Heidelberg. Well, the outskirts of Heidelberg. The hotel is just out of the city centre, but I imagine that it’s sunny there too. Last night was (and I hate to sound repetitive) awesome. Thank you to everyone who came down and who screamed, cheered and made a lot of noise. We had a brilliant time. In fact, all the shows in Germany have left us...
Truck!
Hey-yo. You over there. Just wanted to quickly say hi. And to let you know that we’re ok, having just got into Heidelberg for our last German show of the tour. We’ll give you a proper update tomorrow. Last night in Nurnberg was immense, and we can’t wait for tonight.
But let us also tell you that we’ve been confirmed for Truck this summer. The line-up is huge, I’m...
Sensory deprivation
Hello folks. We’re in Nurnberg, or Nuremberg to you if you speak English. The venue is called MUZ. It is brilliant, and a Jack Russell is wandering about my feet as I type. Can’t wait to play tonight.
The German leg of this tour is already at the halfway point, and the gigs we’ve played have been unforgettable. On Easter Monday, we crawled out of our beds in Oxford at 6am,...
Your place?
Yo everybody,
After a nice little rest weekend, we’ve literally just arrived in Europe with clean underwear and washed hairs to play our last five shows of this tour. Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who’s come to see us, bought our stuffs, allowed us to cramp their homes, and generally made us feel welcome in towns that we don’t know all too well. We feel super lucky...
And Stretch
So we are home for a few days, after 11 gigs straight. Not bad going we think. Time to wash, eat chocolate and sleep before heading off to Germany on Monday morning. Can’t wait. S’gonna be a hoot.
Liverpool and Cardiff were a blast. Shout out to all the bands we have played with over the last couple of days for being awesome. Liverpool especially blew our minds. We were lucky enough...
Blizzard Kings
After a night of heavy and violent snowstorms in Newcastle, we woke to an announcement about the coming summer. We’ve been added to the already fantastic Kendal Calling line-up, alongside the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Maximo Park, We Are Scientists and loads of others. Check it out:
So yeah, that’s pretty sweet. Grab some tickets while there are still some left from...
Sheep is for the Week
(Photo of the Oxford Truck in-store show by Sam King http://smkng.tumblr.com/)
So, t’was Manchester last night, which was a whole lot of fun. The show was in a pretty small but beautiful wood panelled room in The Castle Hotel (neither a hotel nor a castle) but still a really great show to play. It’s got a pretty good reputation too and serves amazing beer. Elbow beer actually. Elbow...
Safe as houses
Waking up in our own beds and having scrambled eggs - this is a good way to tour. The Oxford show, the single launch if you want to call it that, was last night. We played in our local record shop, Truck Store, and then in two private parties in living rooms. Invading people’s personal space and forcing them to listen to you in total silence is a great way of meeting new folk.
Here is a...
