I’m afraid We’ve got some bad news. We’re having to pull the November Tour with LaFaro.
Robins been offered an amazing opportunity with his work at Ride Magazine, which means he’ll be away in November, whilst it’s hugely gutting for us as a band he’d be a fool to miss it so we have to stand by and support him.
As for Lafaro, they have been offered a really good tour in Europe, so it makes sense for them to do that.
Sorry to anyone intending to make any of the shows! really we are!
We’ll be back in the new year though, with a new album and everything!
We may have a couple of shows before the years out, and there’s whispers of a Christmas show too.
So we’ve not written on here in quite a while, sorry!
We’ve been working hard on the album, and at our day jobs, and on going on holidays!
Anyway, back to business. We’re doing a short tour in November with our Irish chums Lafaro
If you haven’t heard them then get on it, they are RAD!
Here’s the dates…
05-Nov-11 HARTLEPOOL, THE RED ROOM (free entry)
06-Nov-11 EDINBURGH, BANNERMANS
07-Nov-11 GLASGOW, CAPTAINS REST
08-Nov-11 NEWCASTLE, TRILLIONS
09-Nov-11 NOTTINGHAM, THE MAZE
10-Nov-11 LONDON, OLD BLUE LAST
11-Nov-11 *TBC*
12-Nov-11 LEICESTER, FIREBUG
We should have some new T-shirts too, and we’ll be playing some new tracks from the album.
However, if you can’t wait till November, and you live really far away from us down in the west CHECK THIS!
Oct 07 Buffalo Bar. Cardiff
Oct 08 White Rabbit. Plymouth
Oct 09 Mango Tango. Falmouth
-Fri 22nd July – Westival @ West End Centre, ALDERSHOT, Hampshire.
(Pyramid Stage – 7.40pm)
w/ Danananananakroyd, Johnny Foreigner, The Xcerts, Stagecoach + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
-Sat 23rd July – Redfest, REDHILL, Surrey.
(Main Stage – 1.15pm)
w/ Futures, Lower Than Atlantis, We Are The Ocean, Canterbury + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
-Sat 23rd July – Sausagefest @ The Links, FLEET, Hampshire.
(Outside – around 4pm)
w/ Shield Your Eyes, Nope, Falenizza Horsepower + more… MORE INFO – FREE ENTRY
-Sat 23rd July – Good Weekend Festival, WOODMANCOTT, Hampshire.
(Outdoor Stage – 10.15pm)
w/ Art Brut, Hot Club De Paris, Jumping Ships + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
1. So football was fun, we did better this year and got through the group stages (read all about it) and picked up an award for the most improved side, nice one! Massive thanks to BSM Kev for organising it, Stagecoach for being the best team mates and the three Matts that played for us. Playing with The Xcerts on Friday in London was also ace (and absolutely rammed), great band… and check out Rosa Valle, first time I have seen them and thought they were pretty sweet.
2. Still working on the album, but we have now created ourselves a deadline with Gordon Mills being booked in for mid-July to track the drums, SWEET.
3. Handful of summer ‘festival’ type shows and ‘festivals’ to play. Contemplating playing an ‘only-songs-that-have-been-played-on-the-radio’ set, quite proud of the fact that we have enough and probably the closest thing we have to a ‘greatest hits’ (ha if only they were hits!). But yeh, will be playing some songs we haven’t played in AGES. Check out the dates and links below.
4. A video of a school boy getting nailed in the face with a baguette.
SEE YOU SOON!
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-Fri 1st Jul – Swanfest @ The Swan, IPSWICH, Suffolk.
w/ Johnny Foreigner, These Monsters, Astrohenge + more… MORE INFO
-Sun 10th Jul – Sweet Beans All-Dayer @ Vibe Bar, LONDON.
w/ Her Name Is Calla, Tall Ships, Talons + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
-Fri 22nd July – Westival @ West End Centre, ALDERSHOT, Hampshire.
w/ Danananananakroyd, Johnny Foreigner, The Xcerts, Stagecoach + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
-Sat 23rd July – Redfest, REDHILL, Surrey.
w/ Futures, Lower Than Atlantis, We Are The Ocean, Canterbury + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
-Sat 23rd July – Good Weekend Festival, WOODMANCOTT, Hampshire.
w/ Art Brut, Hot Club De Paris + more… MORE INFO – TICKETS
To coincide with this year’s 5-a-side tournament, Big Scary Monsters are putting on a gig and releasing a compilation to raise money for the Bobby Moore Fund. The compilation has our track ‘Starts and Ends’ on it (plus a load of other sweet bands) and can be bought for £5 on CD, £12 with a t-shirt or pay-what-you-want as an mp3 download. The gig is at the Old Blue Last in Shoreditch this Friday with The Xcerts, us, Rosa Valle and a surprise secret guest. It’s free entry but a percentage from the bar is going to charity. Be rad and help a good cause!
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1. Tangled Hair – I’m Calmer Than You Are
2. †Hymns† – A Punch To The Temple
3. Delta/Alaska – D.L.O.I
4. Three Trapped Tigers – Noise Trade
5. Tall Ships – Ode To Ancestors
6. The Xcerts – I Am Home
7. Johnny Foreigner – I Heard, He Ties Up Cats
8. Big Success – Pete Sadler (To The Max)
9. Shoes And Socks Off – Made
10. Stagecoach – Ice Age
11. Tubelord – If Muji Made Lovesongs (demo)
12. Shapes – Allure A Whore
13. Talons – Impala
14. Hold Your Horse Is – Starts And Ends
15. Rosa Valle – Needles to Say Nothing Really Mattress (I’m Declaring Judy a Nemesis)
16. Brontide – Jura
17. Mimas – Relationship
Just finished our short run of dates with Ute, thanks to those who came to the shows, those who put us on and thanks to Ute for being ACE people and an ACE band!
Below is a video of us playing the Windmill in Brixton… nice!
Next up!
We have a team in this years BSM 5-a-side football tournament with Stagecoach again! Looking to improve on last years performance of 2 scored and 23 conceded in 3 games, that can’t be too hard to beat surely?! Either way, the night before we are playing something we are slightly better at with the Xcerts and some secret special guests we are told. It’s at the Old Blue Last in London. It’s free entry and it is to raise money for charity, you should come. Check it out here. Best football video ever and poster below.
Thanks to all these lovely people for donating and downloading our live album so far…
Alex Petersen, Alex Winter, Andy Clark, Ben Tyson, Chris Casselden, Chris Pearce, Christopher Fishlock, Dane Beesley, Daniel Barnett, Daniel Swift, David Kostilek, David Marrington, Donna Kurylak, Dörte Thyes, Elliott Morris, Francis Newall, Gavin Heggs, Greg Gilbey, Gregory Pritchard, Jackie Chan, Jacob Dennis, James Jarvill, James Moore, James O’Shea, Jamie Kendall, Jamie Simkin, Jason Overend, Jonathan Harper, Kaylie Tester, Keiron Calder, L W D McKenzie-Caunt, Leo Janson, Lewis Clark, Liam Richardson, Lucy Fernandez, Mark Callaghan, Martyn Essery, Matthew Evans, Morag Mackenzie, Nick Venables, Olivia Griffiths, Rhys Firkins, Richard Heaven, Richard Pope, Richard Taylor, Ryan Barham, S M Blythe, Sam Atkinson, Stephen Fairfield, Toby Watton, Tommy Sutton, Tony Cannings, Zeyad Ahmad.
You are all champions! (If we have missed anybody off, please send an angry email of complaint…) If you would like to be added to the list of champions, well then, that is super easy.
7 out of 10 songs down for the album, Robin is disappearing for a week to take photos of BMX types in all types of places and then we TOUR with the mighty Ute. Get your cheap advanced tickets here if you live in Portsmouth, Birmingham, London, Bristol or come see us for free in Derby.
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HYHI
P.S. Some people are coming to film us at our pre-tour band practice, so there might be some videos up on the interweb soon of new and unheard songs… then again their might not.
