The Futureheads Tour

Hello everyone!

April 28th - May 13th. Officially the longest tour we've ever done in the UK. An amazing experience. Playing in front of huge crowds in towns and cities we've never been before. It was amazing to be able to push our music in new places where people may not of heard of us before.






Thank you to everyone single person that came to see us, turned up early, spoke to us, applauded us or bought CD's & Vinyl. Oh and an extra special thanks to the one man booing us in Birmingham! You know who you are!


It was a pleasure to be on the road with The Futureheads, a band we have loved for years, and consider to be an big influence of ours.



We also met and toured with The Postelles and Frankie & The Heartstrings! Sharing horrific Travelodge stories, mass amounts of Strongbow and a few games of, 'blast the ball into the van door as hard as you can' were just a few of the many highlights on this tour.





"Classic Paul Musco, booting the ball into the water in Bristol"

Middlesbrough opened our eyes to the 'Parmo' which was incredible. Sharing half a Parmo in the back of a van drunk with the person to your left, whilst our tour manager is in the front sober, devouring one to himself. Again, classic Paul Musco. I think we came to our senses after eating so much fast food, and decided a Pieminster in Bristol was the healthy option.




A special Thank you...

For those of you that know us well, you may of noticed that for a few dates in the middle of the tour Pete went missing. He was in Denmark with Uni. So our good friend Evan, helped us out by standing in for him and did a fantastic job! His very own band 'Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear' will be playing along side us for the first time at our single launch next Friday. It's going to be a great night!

You can find details about the single launch here: http://tiny.cc/qb8b4





All in all the past 3 or 4 weeks have been a great experience for us and we have loved every second of it. We are working hard at the moment promoting this new single and writing away in rehearsals trying to put together a new album.

Hope to see all your faces at the single launch or at another show soon.

Thank you to everyone again.

Sped xxx

(p.s. mon the Gloucester fans! #dadsontour!!)

Home for Summer...

We have just moved our home studio back to our sunny hometown of Marple, and are currently recording and writing new material all the time.

Sweating it out to tape machine with numerous cig breaks... here's a few pictures to prove were not just getting hammered over the summer :)

sped

Everybody... get in line

Making Flippy Floppy,

we did, wif callum

Dutch Uncles - Making Flippy Floppy (with Calum dananananaykroyd) from Land Wolf on Vimeo.

Bloggeration! All Good Things Must End, So Ride Them While They Last . . .

MUY BUENO...

...was the tour with our now dear friends DANANANANAYKROYD, they is lyke wellgud beast ov pipple. After a high speed burn around the UK we are all sad to have to leave the road and go back to our dreary shitty depressing excuses for lives . . . egg sucking dogs would (should?) quiver in their thyroid-lined boots. . . literally just harvesting thyroids for boots. It's the TRUTH!

GIG BREAKDOWN:

CAMBRIDGE: Knockingly convex brontosaurus flying off the shelf like a stooled bedpan

LONDON: Like a gonorrhea infested face towel (but the reverse)

MANCHESTER: Beef dripping spitoon, no i'm not... not this time.. COLONEL!

LIVERPOOL: Christmas presents delivered by some leprous distant relative. In a good way!

NEWCASTLE: Melodica, lasagne, chicken, expensive-in-its-day television, pies, pint of pasta, nudity, offices, "don't forget to tidy before you leave", rum, visitor's guestbook (destructor's guestbook), vom, happy chippy, girls, Belgian hippopotamus, pizza hut mis-administration, Zac Efron 17 AGAIN, Y'alright man and Binny, Stonking babe in Pizza Hut with 80's hair that somehow looked contemporary, X-rated video featuring penises (but in a good way!).

GLASGOW: Just like we left it; ablaze!

EDINBURGH: Ghost tour chicken soup

And that, Ladies and Gentlepoos, is the Truth! Now, sit back and wait for success to hit you in the eye like a money shot from Lexington Steele. Leave it like it was and it will remain. And gain! Mainly gain.



Very truly yours,

DU :?

(31/01/09 Club Academy) You know that feeling...

...when its 1:30 am, you've soundchecked at 5:30 pm and you're sitting drunk in a venue 15 minutes before you go on stage and including the 5 band members and friends there are about 8 people in the room?

Usually this feeling is a very ominous sign pointing to the torment of playing to 3 people (ironically when we seem to play best and have the most fun). Anywho, who would have thought on this occassion, 15 minutes after this sinking feeling first surfaced a crowd assembled and led to a bloody hoot of a show. Also pleased to announce that 11/8 does work at 2:00am, kind of like night nurse but with less Gregory Isaacs' jingles.

x

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