gigs.recording.bowling

its been an age since I´ve done this and for that I apologise. We´ve been ridiculously ridiculously busy this month.

So as a catch for this large interim here are som things which have been good. Three trapped tigers at Bardens a while back was a visceral experience. utterly amazing in every way. Darren Hayman was also ace. Excellent friends Percival had an amazing launch with some of the best menswear I´ve seen for ages. Check out there video lookbook below, directed by the very visionary Alex Turvey.

Percival from Alex Turvey on Vimeo.

Anyway. This week we played with Bertie Blackman at Hoxton Bar and Grill. It was a fun show but we had about 10 minutes to enjoy it before we were out of the venue and driving to Wolverhampton to record with Gavin Monaghan at Magic Garden recording studios. Was the best experience in the world. He has made the songs sound massive. Literally massive.

A large portion of time was spent in bowling alleys in between takes. The end stats basically line up as Glenn having the highest score, me the most victories and graham getting turkey which is pretty fucking exciting.

So yeah - an ace time was had and the tracks are sounding so fucking wonderful I can´t wait till they´re mixed which should be soon hopefully. Tomorrow we´re playing with Bertie Blackman again, this time at the Barfly. Should sell out so either come early or let us know if you want come

Tonight I really should be seeing The New Wine at Oyä´s (its either that one or å this one) night at koko tonight but exhaustion has somewhat taken over.

House

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NEW MONTHLY SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

Check out our new monthly spotify playlist here!!

It´s got some ace bands and lots of our friends on it, including Erland and the Carnival, Three trapped tigers, Haunted stereo and Portasound.

Hope you enjoy!!!

House

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the Hamptons.southampton.the luminaire.london

I've been less active on this blog as of late, but that's because we've been so busy lately! seriously! going to work feels like time off at the moment.


This weekend we played in southampton for day 1 of a ones to watch weekender curated by our lovely lovely friends haunted stereo. The line-up was fairly eclectic and I quite enjoyed the little phillestines. They're from sawth london - I think we're going to start a bit of a gang war with them.

After the show we piled into our van back to my mum's house (which is only 10 mins from southampton), back to relative luxury and am abysmal lack of quality television - seriously, someone needs to sort tv out, although admittedly it was 2 in the morning. The next day the van for some reason wouldn't start. Fortunate that we weren't in some travelodge car park - but ultimately a fairly sizable ball ache. we spent the rest of the morning watching blazing saddles till the RAC man arrived, sprayed hair spray over the engine and somehow got it to work. that is 100 per cent what happened.

So somehow got back to london to play day 2 of the platforms: live ones to watch show. Platforms: live are excellent promoters - really really lovely people which in this current musical world are an extreme rarity - and while their next show at the union chapel for owen pallet (formerly known as final fantasy) has sold out I'd definitely recommend getting tickets for their next Owl's parliament show as soon as possible- though I don't know if they're out yet...


anyway it was a wonderful lineup to be playing with, and head and shoulders the best band I've seen, not just this year but in quite some time, were Erland and the Carnival. So much so I purchased their album - how rare is that these days. it comes out next week on full time hobby but I haven't listened to it yet. their live show was well ace though - wonderfully skewed trippy proggy stomping folk, kind of like mystery jets meets the wicker man...maybe. anyhow they're on tour in feb and supporting wild beasts in march. def check them out!

so now we have 3 days off before we in the house of strange studio where great acts like noah and the whale (who I'm thinking maybe should have had the award for best album of 2009), mumford and sons and emmy the great among others have recorded before us.

Lots of love.

House
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2010!!!

So its 2010! did it pass with any event for you? I spent it in a strange oslo mansion with a group of norwegian comdians...it was very odd.

I think this is going to be a very exciting year for us. This month we've got a show in southampton at the hamptons on the 16th followed by a show at the luminaire on the 18th. and after that we're in the studio with a lovely man called ash whose made a load of bands sound amazing including mumford and sons, noah and the whale, three trapped tigers among others. And thats just january...

see you soon.

House
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Video blog - pt2

album of the year

Friends! I was completely wrong about the album of the year...I'm so sorry. It's blatantly and without question Other truths by Do Make Say Think. One if not the only cd I have physically purchased this year...that can't be true...i think it might be. Anyway they've been one of my favourite bands for the last how ever many years and while it's not a drastic departure from what they've always been doing they're still visionaries in their field. They're one of only a handful bands who actually survived post-rock's lethargic pathetic implosion and come out of it a better band. anyway the album is dead ace. the bass lines are insane and dual drumming is as usual fantastic.

Also ace at the moment is drummer of oxes band frenemies who i complete forgot about. Their second album is a piece of l-fi genius that will probably never be afforded the acclaim it deserves -but I'm loving their new(er) down tempo dancable sound.

Anyway good stuff to look forward to this weekend include dansette dj set at 93 feet east and friends from way back teen sheikhs at bardens on sunday. see you at either of those.

House

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We are the dogs*

* title change jeion's suggestion...

...we played with dogs at the camden underworld last night who its completely fair to say are one of the nicest bands we've ever had the pleasure of playing with. It was a pretty damn fine end to a wonderful year and the show was fantastic!

so that's it for 2009. roll on the 2009 lists of what was great and expect the 2010 ones on what will be. when i think back to stuff i've enjoyed this year I think the girls album was pretty ace and is one of the few i keep returning to - i know that's not particularly original...i think with the advent of spotify i've been rediscovering so much of what i used to listen to in the past, and that's really been the soundtrack of 2009.

Live, rather unsuprisingly if you read this blog, consistently portasound and not cool (who have incidentally just new tracks up on their myspace) have been the best bands I've seen time on time, so they share the award for that. I've literally no idea what 2010 will sound like...it feels so unknown at the moment...I'm not even certain the dead certs willl be sucessful next year...we shall see.

in other news publicist at bardens the other night was an amazingly visceral experience. we were all huddled round him while he played in the middle of the dancefloor with nothing other than a srobe light to illuminate us all.

lots of love. See you over the festive season.

House

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side by side in perfect harmony

We played the flowerpot last night. it was ace! Loads more people turned up than we were expecting and we had a really fun show. Sadly emmy couldn't make it down to dj so Euan (aka younghusband) who plays in emmy's band did instead. and while it's true i may have turned his laptop off by accident at one point, causing the room to be dropped into silence, he pretty damn good.

But look what i found today



Amazing! clearly this had to be purchased.

Anyhow - as mentioned we're playing the underworld next Tuesday. You can get tickets here but they're going quick so get them soon.

xx

SSS@the flowerpot, the underworld and other january dates

We're playing the flowerpot tomorrow in Kentish town and it's free. We should be on stage around 9 and our good friend emmy the great is djing throughout the evening. Come down and say merry christmas and happy new year and help us celebrate what has been a long and exciting year.


Next Tuesday 15 December we're playing the Camden Underworld with Dogs so if you can't make it tomorrow then come down to that. It's been a while since I last went to the underworld. It was to see bullet union who were incredible if anyone remembers them.

And then in the new year we're getting lots of exciting things lined up so check this space. The next two immediate dates are at the hamptons in southampton on the 16th for a gig curated by our friend's haunted stereo (and the venue is only 30 mins from my mum's house). And then we're back to london on the 18th for a gig at the luminaire which is always great to play.



Also - I'm not sure if i mentioned but I saw nathan fake play and he rearranged my brain it was so good.

See you tomorrow.

House

The Fly...The New Wine

We played the Fly the other night with 4or5 magicians and live like lions. It was an ace gig and ridiculously hot. there was roughly about 700 lights pointed at our faces on stage and it got to the point were i got topless. graham got topless. people were shouting for caroline to go topless. people were shouting for me to put my top back on. it was all very exciting.



And yesterday graham and I went and saw The New Wine play at the 229. My fucking lord they were good. Firstly they're amazing, secondly they're flawless musicans, thirdly they're from norway so they''re well cool and well hot, and fourth they're amazing. They're total bergen talented good time vibe music in the style of whitest boy alive and kukkmuthafucka. and on another note bergen is amazing.

SSS W/ 4or5 magicans @ the fly...a busy week

We’re playing tonight at the fly in new oxford street with 4or5 magicians, along with live like lions. I’m looking forward to hearing both as I’ve heard good things. For any last minute additions to the guest list email ben@livelikelions

Anyway, we’ve been well busy this last week. On Wednesday we played in Worcester with the alarmingly good between us and the fire. Be sure to keep an eye for them if they come your way as they are well worth it. After this we were meant to have a show on Thursday but unfortunately that had to be postponed. This meant we had a somewhat tedious time in the van having to go all the way up and back in one day for the gig but Graham and I passed the time blasting Les Savy Fav tracks and air drumming to the blood brothers. Then on Friday we played an amazing party with of our friends Shock defeat, kleinzite (spelling?) and man-flu (who despite their atrocious name were incredible). I have to say my favourite were kleinzite and can’t wait to see them play their next show. Sound like whitest boy alive with the most effortlessly amazing tech drums you ever did hear.

Then the next day Graham, myself, and bobby of telegramme fame indulged in a gentleman’s pub crawl of east London’s finest pubs where along the way we bumped into our friends in portasound, televised crimewave and kasms.

It’s been a very full week.

House

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SSS @ the firefly - worcester - weds 18 nov

Look at this amazing poster! we´re playing our first ever out of town show in worcester with the wonderful between us and the fire and the enigmatic richard clarke this wednesday 18 november. Its at the firefly for the chaps at the task in hand and its free entry!!

I think we´re all looking forward to trying to fit the mountains of equipment we own into our van. plus it´ll be one of the first ever gigs we´ll be away from the SSS wags/habs so that should be interesting...

house

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Portasound - Press Red For Burt Bacharach

I was at a warehouse party in hackney wick this halloween which our very good fríends portasound were playing. It was one of the best parties I´ve been to in an age, while portasound were absolutely amazing. they were literally 1mm from blowing the speakers throughout most the set but fuck that.

As if to celebrate their qualiy their new track is available for free download on nme.com today. And it is literally amazing.

house

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Last Night...

We played catch in shoreditch last night and it was bloody ace time! we'd made a few changes to the set and had reworked a few songs and the result really paid off.

It was without question one of my favourite gigs we;'ve ever done, I think there was some unamity on this fact as we discussed over it excellent vietnamese food after the show.

I didn't get much of a chance to listen to the other bands but there seemed to be a lot of promise in what I heard of demontre (and not The Demon Tree as Jeion thought they were called, and which is incidentally an excellent name for a metal band)



And on this spooky note anyone at a loss this weekend there's an ace halloween party in hackney wick with music coming from both Portasound.

Our next show is in Worcester at the Firefly for the lovely people at the task in hand.

house
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Made from plastic

The guys from Made from plastic have written some rad things about us.

Check their blog out! It's got loads of good things on there, not only including us.

House
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Tues 27 Oct @ Catch, Shoreditch w/ Air Castles

Friends! We're playing at Catch in shoreditch this Tuesday 27 October with Air Castles




They've had some ace reviews from rock sound so this should be a pretty ace gig. We're on early so get down early.

House
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Trash kit @ the pictures

Last night I walked all of 25 metres outside my front door to see Trash Kit at Bardens who were playing the pictures monthly night there.

They were fucking ace - insanely interesting all girl dancable no-wave magic. Also they feature an ex-member of electrelane so blatantly they're amazing.

House
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Want to party with us?

Featuring Dansette Junior and Live Like Lions - the latter of which are on tour at the moment so check them out if you get a chance...

House
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Video killed the....er

Click on the video link on our site God damn you. We have something to tell you that you may not already know!

SoSaySo from Michael Page on Vimeo.

Jeion
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Another form of relief

The very nice people over at Another form of relief have blogged some wonderfully complimentary things about us. Check out their site.

House
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