careless talk & sinking ships.

Fly TV.. Acoustic / bontempi session...

2009-05-17T14:33:00.001-07:00

Whilst in our nations fair capital sometime last week or the week before, we popped into The Fly's courtyard to entertain people with a merry song and dance from our van (which me and craig liken to He Man's 'Battlecat')

voila!

The Fly - White Belt Yellow Tag 'Tell Your Friends It All Worked Out' FlyTV In The Courtyard on MUZU.

The Fly - White Belt Yellow Tag `It`s A Long Way Don`t You Fall Behind` FlyTV In The Courtyard on MUZU.

NEW LIVE DATES...

2009-05-17T13:53:00.000-07:00

More live dates...

20th May - (i.e this wednesday) @ The Scala - London - supporting The Red Light Company

18th July - Lattitude Festival - Henham Park in Southwold

25th July - Truck Festival - Oxford..

ta ta...

justin

BLOGGAMAGEDDON PT 5 - TOURA! TOURA! TOURA! + OTHER NEWS

2009-05-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

Evenin..

so instead of banging on about this and that and how we're all about being in a band and all that...heres some quite simply breathtaking images from the recent shows..radio thingy's...and other ermmm things. and a list of shows we're doing in June...Innit.

first up...heres the dates!

Tue 2nd June York Fibbers supporting The Joy Formidable
Thu 4th June London HMV Forum supporting The Gaslight Anthem
Sun 7th June Middlesbrough Music Live Town Hall Stage
Mon 8th June Nottingham Bodega
Tue 9th June Bournemouth Ibar
Wed 10th June Bristol Louisiana
Thurs 11th June Hertford Marquee supporting People In Planes
Sat 13th June Oxford Cellars
Mon 15th June Swindon the Vic Inn
Tue 16th June Northampton Roadmender
Wed 17th June Cheltenham Frog and Fiddle
Thu 18th June Leeds Cockpit
Fri 19th June Liverpool Kerova
Sat 20th June Manchester Ruby Lounge With The Temper Trap

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so we went on a little tour to get tight enough to rule with an iron fist.

found the ultimate light snack / confectionery cross over fusion hybrid.

did some radio session stuff at NME Radio..

wore sunglasses inside...at night...

reworked an all time favourite track with an all time favourite artist for the JD Set gig..(www.thejdset.co.uk)

watched a lot of...

listened to some...

and...

and

that is all.

Justin

BLOGGAMY PT 4 - EP OUT TODAY!

2009-05-14T15:20:00.000-07:00

Afternoon..

Today (30th march) our first ever silky smooth piece of vinyl was released...

it looks exactly like this..

its super limited and comes with a CD in it too..and for all digital lovers its up on Itunes too..

its available in pretty much every part of this fine kingdom..

links / places below...

http://itunes.apple.com/..WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/..viewAlbum?id=306548110&s=..143444

play.com:
http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-..Download-Album/4-/9261634/You-..re-Not-Invincible/Product.html

HMV:
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/..simpleSearch.do?searchUID=&..pGroupID=1&adultFlag=false&..primaryID=1&..simpleSearchString=white+belt+..yellow+tag

amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/..product/B001V65FEI/ref=dm_sp_..alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1238407656&sr=..8-1

and real shops..

......

HMV

TRANSIENT RECORDS LTD T/A

ACTION RECORDS

BEGGARS BANQUET RETAIL LTD

FIRST RHYTHM RECORDS

RECORDSTORE

VERSATILITY LIMITED

R.P.M MUSIC

UPLANDS BOOKSHOP LTD

AVALANCHE GLASGOW

BANSHEE RECORDS

JUMBO RECORDS

NORMAN RECORDS

REFLEX

SISTER RAY (2008) LTD

THE LEFT LEGGED PINEAPPLE

APE ENTERTAINMENT LTD

CRASH MUSIC COMPANY

STAND OUT

ECLIPSE CORPORATION LTD

MUSIC MANIA LTD

OFF THE BEATEN TRACKS

ONE UP (MR R G BIRD)

POWERPLAY DIRECT LTD

RECORD SAVINGS

ROUNDER RECORDS

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p.s weve been out and about doing some little shows here and there recently. theyve been "mint" and theres loads more coming up... details on ze profile.

so....ermmm enjoy!

p.s i changed all the myspace tracks. ace.

cheers
justin

US ON YOUR RADIO (18TH MARCH 9PM RADIO 1)

2009-05-14T15:19:00.000-07:00

Evenin'

Some live action from us from Maida Vale...
On ze wireless tomorrow night (WED 18TH MARCH) from 9pm on Huw Stephens show on BBC Radio 1.

One day we'll be crunk enough to make it onto Westwoods show. One day..

Boom!

BLOGGAGE PT 3 - PRE ORDER THE EP / STUDIO / ETC

2009-05-14T15:18:00.002-07:00

Hola,

first things first... Our first ever release, the quite simply pretty damn ace "Your'e not Invincible" EP will be out on March 30th (10" Vinyl & Digital Download)

... thats exactly 16 days from today.

This limited edition 10" Vinyl can now be pre- ordered here..

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/..productdetail.jsp?productPK=..unittest-..RWMcL0tSVTOn9lRZpN3IEb-1

we cant wait, as this also means we'll be properly out and about doing "concerts" very very soon... (we'll be sticking all the dates up for forthcoming shows very soon)

Aside from this weve been mostly doing the following...

finishing the record...

We made the album in Doncaster....at an amazing studio which not many people know about (check the studio vid on the profile)produced by our very own hands... and its right now being mixed by the esteemed produced mixer and all round thoroughly nice chap Chris Potter..(who mixed "youre not invincible" for the Ep...)

everything was going swimmingly throughout the making of the record apart from one day when, in a split second it was ruined by this..

in a what can only be seen in hindsight as an exceptionally flawed move, we switched from listening to the only cd that was in the car (Friendly Fires record) to Ken Bruce on Radio 2 on the way in to the studio. He's no Wogan.

Anyhoo, we tuned in at the exact time of the half time verse section in Cliff Richards "Wired for Sound" which initially is a pretty smooth bit of tunesmithery, but in the end turned out to be responsible for ruining a day in the studio, nothing worked after this...and no amount of unlimited tea & toast from the all day breakfast Doncasters premier Bar & Grill "Relish" could change this.

Apart from this day we're never going to get back again we cracked on and finished tracking record with ruthless and brutal efficiency...stopping only for the following.

thats about it..

BLOGGERY - PT 2 VIDEO/MAIDA VALE/DRUMMER

2009-05-14T15:18:00.001-07:00

mornin'

so since the last post weve pretty much been doing this...

signed a deal with the lovely folks at distiller records..

made a video for the forthcoming ltd edtion ep "You're not Invincible" (10"vinyl and digital download available 30th march...) its on the profile.. it was made by my brother James who makes amazing moviefilms... He can be found / contacted here.. jameslockeyfilm@googlemail.com / vimeo.com/jameslockeyfilm

popped in to radio 1

and recorded a session for Huw Stephens @ Maida Vale...

this session also doubled up as our first ever gig, which was pretty ace.

Aswell as "batting it out of the park" it was a good place to introduce our uber drummer and all round multi instrumentalist and general likeable chap Tom Bellamy. Formerly of The Cooper Temple Clause, Tom will be mostly playing drums and anything else we can get him to play at the same time for all our live shows.
he looks like this...

Tom also has a properly nice old school executive cruiser of a car.

aside from all this weve been mostly doing the following...

eating here.

Santo (amazing Mexican place - portobello road - Skirt steak burrito. immense.)

playing this.

and this..

Tom on the other hand is a bit more old school than streetfighter II champions edition and has mostly been playing this..

next week we head back into the studio to finish the record..

by that time we'll probably throw a load of confirmed live dates up on the myspacetwittterfacebookbebovimeospotifyyoutubularbellsinternet.

mint.

any questions?

cheers.

justin

BLOGGERISATION PT 1 - EP etc...

2009-05-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

Howdy,

We've been downright shockingly bad at this whole blogging situation... so after much thought between all two of us we decided that one of us, me, should start the bloggery.

so here goes...

first up for those who are sick of the demo's we have up, weve got a bona fide proper real life release coming out on March 30th , in the form of a lovely slab of 10" vinyl and digital on Distiller Records.

it will look a lot like this...

Tracklisting is...

1. You're Not Invincible
2. News
3. Picture all the same
4. Song about growing

We're pretty much nearly at the end of the sessions for the album too, so am sure we'll be sticking up some new tracks at some point soon...check the studio video on the profile...although it seems like all we've been doing is smoking / drinking tea / growing hella beards/ sitting in dimly lit rooms, we have actually been stupid busy making things sound "mint". Hopefully you'll agree when you hear Invincible on the 10"..which was "Hottest record in the world" tonight on Zane Lowes show on the beeb. on the wireless. which is also mint.

Whilst all this has been going on weve also been getting our live shit together by adding another member to the set up so we can hopefully rule with an iron fist when it comes to shows..
More on that very soon, as well as live dates and all other details and goings on... of which there are plenty. Far too much for one blog.

ta ta for now.
justin.