Monday, 7 September 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
ANOTHER RESOUNDING SUCCESS
Looking forward to tour. Never mess with a fat kid in a wheelchair.
"Lovvers were my least favourite band of the whole Festival. Cynical and pointless, their pretend "couldn't care less" was completely out of place in the context of enthusiasm and commitment shown by all the other bands on BBC Introducing Stage (see below). Even the attempt to humiliate a member of the audience rebounded. That's how it looked to me."
The records been getting some positve feedback aswell,
"The received wisdom is that certain labels can do no wrong, Factory, Creation, Warp, Sub Pop; these were/are surely more cultutal bastions than commercial enterprises, forging ahead on the ship of impeccable taste, never failing to spot genius in the making anfd doing it all for us so we don't have to."
So far so good......
"With a roster containing amongst others The Cribs, Bloc party and Conor Oberst, you could argue that a similar logic applies to Wichita. You'd be wrong of course because based on OCD Go Go Girls, The Lovvers are about to prove that even imprint supremo DICK GREEN and his team are failible after all."
"How does it sound? Like it was recorded inside a shed, excluding the pointlessly mystifying use of a rolling timpani on the intro - with child like riffs copied from "Lets play indie punk #101" and distorted vocals that resemble two crackheads (that must be the double tracking) screamining the contents of a chinese menu at each other across Times Square. Tellingly, they toured with other micro scene acts like Times New Viking and Wichita would like us to believe they're the very spirit of 1976's talentless-optional DIY aesthectic. But for every New Order, there was a Shark Vegas, so please Dick, pull the other one!"
Who are Shark Vegas anyway? Answers on a postcard! (Why do you never hear that phrase anymore?) The internet has alot to answer for.
"Lovvers were my least favourite band of the whole Festival. Cynical and pointless, their pretend "couldn't care less" was completely out of place in the context of enthusiasm and commitment shown by all the other bands on BBC Introducing Stage (see below). Even the attempt to humiliate a member of the audience rebounded. That's how it looked to me."
The records been getting some positve feedback aswell,
"The received wisdom is that certain labels can do no wrong, Factory, Creation, Warp, Sub Pop; these were/are surely more cultutal bastions than commercial enterprises, forging ahead on the ship of impeccable taste, never failing to spot genius in the making anfd doing it all for us so we don't have to."
So far so good......
"With a roster containing amongst others The Cribs, Bloc party and Conor Oberst, you could argue that a similar logic applies to Wichita. You'd be wrong of course because based on OCD Go Go Girls, The Lovvers are about to prove that even imprint supremo DICK GREEN and his team are failible after all."
"How does it sound? Like it was recorded inside a shed, excluding the pointlessly mystifying use of a rolling timpani on the intro - with child like riffs copied from "Lets play indie punk #101" and distorted vocals that resemble two crackheads (that must be the double tracking) screamining the contents of a chinese menu at each other across Times Square. Tellingly, they toured with other micro scene acts like Times New Viking and Wichita would like us to believe they're the very spirit of 1976's talentless-optional DIY aesthectic. But for every New Order, there was a Shark Vegas, so please Dick, pull the other one!"
Who are Shark Vegas anyway? Answers on a postcard! (Why do you never hear that phrase anymore?) The internet has alot to answer for.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
SCOTLAND
We're playing two shows with DIVORCE in Scotland this week, plus a free show in Leeds tomorrow. After that we're playing READING/LEEDS Festivals. Should have all our US dates sorted soon so keep an eye out for those.
Monday, 10 August 2009
BAGS.
Our first full-length record comes out today, who would have thought? National AD campaign aside, we've been told that the CD will be availible in a week or so but if you want vinyl then it should be in shops from today. We'll have them at shows from wednesday. We're playing 2 shows. First is at PUREGROOVE at 1pm. Second is at BARDENS from 8pm with HIPSHAKES & STRANGE BOYS. If you come to puregroove and buy an LP you get a bag with it.
Infact if you buy the LP from any of the following places, you also get a bag. So Rough trade east and west, Piccadilly Manchester, Banquet Kingston, Resident Brighton and Norman Records mailorder aswell. In other goings on, we've been recording some stuff for some new releases. We went into Rear House in NYC (see below) and hope to release what we recorded there for our fall US tour. We're also gonna be featured on this FLIPPER compilation that Dominio is putting together and the OIB 7inch is out AUGUST 30th.
Aside from records we are slowly confirming shows for the rest of the year, we're going to be on tour from Sept 17th and this will include UK, Ireland, Europe and America all in one big hit. We'll post all the dates here when there done, otherwise double click the LP cover on the right and it'll take you to the shows we currently have booked! Over and out.
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