If you have your hair cut in Toni and Guy or buy your clothes in Topshop/Topman
have a listen out for Rude Boy and I Get It Wrong, both are now on their
regular playlists. It could be a good way to impress your friends or even a
date I would imagine.
We are having a jolly time here in Reading writing new songs and keeping our
fingers crossed for a summer of festivals. We missed the football the other night because we had a gig
in Canterbury which was an especially big
sacrifice for Andy but one that we have become accustomed to in the past five
years.
Coke/iTunes in Germany are using Rude Boy for a couple of months or
so on their website as part of some kind of campaign, to them apparently,
we are 'the sound of summer'... hopefully it will help things over
there. In France the label did a lovely job on press
and we got a whole bunch of reviews sent across..the only problem is that we
can't understand them. GCSE french only takes you so far. Apparently it's gone
down well, we're hoping to get out there to play at the end of the year. In America, Rude boy is being given a
hammering on a bunch of independent and alternative radio stations thanks to a
wonderful lady called Liz who has been doing some radio plugging for us.
In the UK Shifty Disco have come up with one of their legendary tour ideas
(roughly every two years we have a label roadshow/tour type thing). This time
they've taken their inspiraton from Come Dine With Me(!).. its the Come Play With Me Tour!
Here's
a line from the press release: "The bands will take it in turns to host a show whilst the others
grade them out of 10, from the pre-show promotion to the rider and of course
the crowd on the night, the bands will be doing their utmost to impress each
other. The whole tour will be filmed in a tongue-in-cheek,
reality-show documentary style and the end result will be streamed on the
Shifty Disco website at the end of the week."
Read
more about it here:
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_news.php?id=3993
Tickets are on sale here:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/find/artist/come+play+with+me
I think that is about all for now. We hope that life is treating you well,
dan, jess, gra, andy and james x
Some brand new reviews:
"endearingly
awkward... couldn't be more triumphalistic if they soundtracked Brandon
Flowers taking a unicorn for a victory lap round a paddock"
NME"the band are definitely firing on all cylinders, get into them now before everybody else does"
Clash"this
band delivers. If the Pixies shacked up with The Arcade Fire and then
threw in a bit of Bloc Party for good measure, 'In My Head It Works'
would be the hybrid love-child. ...twinkling, mesmerising with enough
grunge sensibility to give this band the edge."
RockSound"As
bold and big-hearted as The Waterboys in the Grand Canyon, it's
vaulting ambition meets ruddy big choruses coming the other way.
...roars majestically. Intriguing moments of punk interrupt... it's
classy anthems aplenty."
Channel 4, Planet Sound
"it's
really very good. ...the elegiac nature of the lyrics and the soaring
guitars of the del Rios make this a stadium-friendly unit-shifter which
owes a debt to many, from Arcade Fire to Simple Minds. If the race is
on for successful rock with balls and brains, then it's already been
won"
AU"Akin to Editors, Interpol and White
Lies....Floor-tom heavy with a rolling bass the guitars are
alternatively choppy then floating on a Chameleons-like tide of
echoing, chiming, glassy effects."
Q
