2012: Thanks & Thoughts

So 2012 was the year we finally released our second album "Twin Beds" it was an awful long time in the making but we hope you'll agree it was worth the wait.

It's not the easiest climate to release a record into and we can only thank those who've been kind enough to stump up there hard earned cash for a copy.

Perhaps the person we have to thank more than any other is Trev from Odd Box Records he put out the album and put a whole heap of faith and effort into us. People like Trev work tirelessly to promote bands purely because of there love for what they do and Odd Box and other Independent labels really do need your support

We must also thank Ed & Rain at Bad Sneakers Management, sadly we have now parted company with Bad Sneakers as they look into other projects outside of music. Over the years they have been wonderfully kind to us and we really would not have been able to do it without them.

We've played some amazing gigs this year, Indietracks in the pouring rain and our album launch at The Lexington spring to my mind, but I can honestly say I enjoyed everyone we played this year. Thanks again goes to you lot for coming out, we've played to some incredible crowds this year and we're very thankful to all the promoters who've been kind enough to have us.

Looking forward following a bit of a break lately, we're going to be reconvening early next year to start work on some new tracks. Currently we have no plans as to what will happen with these but we'll keep you posted and i'm sure they'll find there way out there for you all to hear one way or another.

All that's left is to wish you a very happy new year, and we'll see you all in 2013

Sam/TRTP

I thought i'd share some links to people and things who've played a part in our 2012. You really should check  them all out if you haven't already

Odd Box Records
Indietracks Festival
Owl & Mouse
Sam Airey
Just Handshakes (We're British)
London Popfest
Making Marks
Allo Darlin'
Golden Fable
Scared to Dance
Sounds XP

Fika & Odd Box Present

Our next London show is going to be a collaborative effort from the fine folk at Fika Recordings and our own home Odd Box Records

Also on the bill  all the way from Norway will be Fika's latest signings Making Marks, check out their ace video for the track Hard to be Good

                                

As well as Making Marks we're also going to be joined by Owl & Mouse who were kind enough to play our album launch earlier this year and need little in the way of introduction other than to remind you they're very good indeed!

It all takes place on the 19th of September at The Underbelly in Hoxton

Tickets are available now from We Got Tickets

Allo Darlin' Support

We're delighted to announce that the excellent folk at Holy Smokes have asked us to support Allo Darlin' on the Derby leg of their forthcoming tour.

Like us Allo Darlin' released their second album earlier this year, and have been making waves all over the Indiepop world. We've shared bills but not stages with them at both London Popfest and Indietracks so it'll be a delight to play with them once more.

Head over to  http://www.allodarlin.com/  and give them a listen, you shan't regret it...

It all takes place on the 1st of September in the Silk Mill Museum which we're reliably informed is the world's first factory building as well as a stunning  and unique venue.

Tickets are available now from http://www.seetickets.com/Event/HOLY-SMOKES-PRESENTS-ALLO-DARLIN-GUESTS/The-Silk-Mill-Museum/651934

Fieldview Festival Announcement

Very sad to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances we've had to cancel next weekends show at Fieldview Festival

Our apologies to the promoters and anyone who was hoping to see us, we hope you still enjoy what promises to be a brilliant event and hope to be back playing shows in the area shortly

Fieldview Festival

We're delighted to announce we're playing at this years Fieldview Festival in Little Somerford (Wiltshire) alongside the likes of Lucy Rose, Let's Buy Happiness and Kyla La Grange. 

The festival takes places from the 2nd-5th Auguest. All the details and tickets are available for just £50 over at www.fieldviewfestival.co.uk

To listen to the other bands who are playing head over to http://soundcloud.com/fvfestival/sets/fieldview-2012-playlist/

New Single, New Video

We're delighted to join forces with Clash Music to launch the new video for our forthcoming single "Every Morning And For The Rest Of Our Lives"

So head over to Clash Music now to see the fabulous work by our drummer come video maker Ben Waddleton.

The single is coming out on Odd Box Records on the 30th of April and is the second single taken from our album "Twin Beds" which is widely available now

Indietracks Festival

We're delighted to announce that we're returning to Indietracks Festival this year as part of a cracking line up with the likes of Allo Darlin', Veronica Falls & Gordon McIntyre (Ballboy) with more acts still to be announced

The festival takes place from the 6th-9th July at the Midland Railway Center in Derbyshire.

For more information and to purchase tickets for the festival head over to The Indietracks Website

Earlybird tickets are currently available for just £60 for the entire weekend

New Gig Dates

So we had a great time out on tour, album launch at The Lexington was particularly spectacular and this weekends London Popfest capped it all off brilliantly.

The album should now be widely available online and via independent record stores...and we hope all of you who've been kind enough to buy it are loving it. It'll be getting a full and complete release on March 5th and should be on iTunes and all those sort of places by that date. 

Onto some new news we've confirmed two new dates for March.

Firstly we're heading up to the midlands (an area we've traditionally played far less than we should have) and playing The Leicester Indiepop Alldayer at The Firebug on the 24th of March along with a great line up, all the details available here

We then play another great show in London. The brilliant Leeds folkster Sam Airey was kind enough to ask us to play at the launch of his new EP at The Slaughtered Lamb, all the details for that one here

Twin Beds...Out Now!

So the day has finally come when Twin Beds becomes available to the world

It's been a long time in the making, and the process could easily be summed up as difficult second album syndrome but we've come out of it with something we're immensely proud of and can't wait for you all to hear. You can hear a preview of 3 tracks over HERE

You can pick up a copy direct from Odd Box Records by clicking HERE

Or we'll be selling it at our shows starting with tonight's album launch at The Lexington with the wondrous support of Womans Hour & Owl + Mouse.

We then take in Leeds, Bristol and Cardiff (dates are on the side of the page) going to be great to get out and play some shows once again.

We'd just like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made this  happen especially Trev at Odd Box Records, Richard Formby who produced the record and our Bad Sneakers Managers Ed & Rain.

Welcome

Welcome to our new look blog the place to be for all the latest updates on everything related to the band. Should hopefully be a lot prettier and a lot more user friendly than it's previous incarnation

As well as launching this we're involved in a whole host of new online endeavors the links of which should be just to the right of this post. ----->>

So for all things musical head to Bandcamp, for a long list of stuff we like that we've found on the net go to Tumblr and to just hear us wittering on about queues in bars and the general state of the world head to Twitter.

Pre Order Available Now!

So the good people of Odd Box are of course putting our new album "Twin Beds" out in February and the best place to buy it is straight from the source itself...and guess what you can do that now!

Head over to Odd Box now by clicking HERE and you can pre-order it now