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The band are now on tour in Europe, follow them daily via Twitter.com/weareskylarkin

Hallo Deutschland!
In der Vergangenheit haben wir bisher leider immer nur sehr kurze Abstecher nach Deutschland gemacht.
Ab Mittwoch sind wir aber endlich
für 5 Headlingshows zurück und können es kaum erwarten.

Auf meiner To-Do-Liste stehen u.a. das White Trash in Berlin (ein Muss!), in München dazu kommen, einen Döner zu essen und in Köln in die Bar zu gehen, in der Neil Los Campesinos, Lovvers und ich, beim letzten Mal den Barkeeper dazu genötigt haben, Pop-Punk (vorallem Punk-O-Rama 4 und 5) zu spielen.

Johnny Foreigner – momentan meine absolute lieblings Live-Band, wobei ich aber Dananananakroyd leider noch nicht live gesehen habe..) werden uns auf der gesamten Europa-Tour begleiten.

Wir werden Limited Editions und Vinyls unseres Albums, die neuen T-Shirts und Buttons, sowie RIESIGE auf Leinen gedruckte Tourplakate im Gepäck haben.

Unsere Tourdaten findet Ihr weiter unten. Tickets gibt es bei eventim, ticketmaster (ehemals Kartenhaus), sowie an allen lokalen Vorverkaufsstellen.

Ein herzliches Dankeschön geht an unsere Freunde von WhiteTapes. de für das Übersetzen dieser kleinen Nachricht.

Wir freuen uns darauf Euch nächste Woche zu sehen!

Doug

25 Feb 2009 20:00
Gebäude 9 Köln

27 Feb 2009 20:00
Molotow Hamburg

28 Feb 2009 20:00
Manufaktur Schorndorf

1 Mar 2009 20:00
Ampere München

3 Mar 2009 20:00
Magnet Berlin

(Danke whitetapes. de für den Übersetzung)

21st March 2009 @ The British Music Embassy, Latitude 30, 512 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, Texas (12.00 – 3.00) featuring Yorkshire acts Wild Beasts, Sky Larkin, Talk To Angels, Paul Marshall and Rolo Tomassi…..

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Team Lark and Douglas Adams have worked at getting the bands t-shirt site off the floor this weekend, please enjoy. You can click here and enjoy. What lovely looking models.

Hey,

to take a break from shooting music videos in New York the Larks have decided to fly to…

LA….

Oh yes, LA to shoot the new video.

If you’re in LA and free on 15th March then email over your name, a phone number and age to: skylarkin@maneaterproductions.com

Team Lark x

Well well well, the Larks caught up with an ITN interviewer a few days ago photos above, youtube video below. Ahoy!

The Larkins celebrated the launch of their album with a night out with their record label at the Cribs’ show in London on Tuesday night, bless them, despite nursing celebratory hangovers all headed to Rough Trade in London’s East End for an instore performance. The band as usual thrust into each and every track with charm and energy personified. The wonderful Anika was there to shoot the show:

Sky Larkin – UK Tour Diary Part 1 from Sky Larkin on Vimeo.

Paul Monteverde on Vimeo.

Follow Paul on Twitter – twitter.com/citra78

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Holy Moly, today’s the day! Our debut album The Golden Spike was released into the wild after being hand-reared in captivity. If you see it wandering around your local record store or digital music outlet, we would appreciate it if you would give it a good home as we are rather attached to the little blighter. (Look, here it is hanging out with Van Morrison)

There are about 7 million people we have to thank for this occurance, we are tallying up the list at the moment but (as well-documented cheese-brains) we will inevitably forget someone essential so THANK YOU ALL for helping us make a freakin record, its been a long journey on our dreamboat.
On Wednesday we are doing a free instore at Rough Trade East at 7pm on London’s Brick Lane, see thee thurr?

After that, I’m jumping on the train to fair Cardiff to go be a guest on the lovely Bethan Elfyn’s Radio One Introducing show (I am told you can listen online if you aren’t in Wales)

Then on Thursday I am DJing at two different places with Jen of’off’Kruger Magazine under the guise of our new DJ duo Midwife Crisis. It will be probable carnage and I’ll probably get tipsy and play French Kissing In the USA so don’t say I didn’t warn you. My phone has just died so I can’t actually tell you where (the ramshackle nature of Midwife Crisis is difficult to hide) but I think one of them was Buffalo Bar. Is that a place in Cardiff? I shall go ask Jen…

aaaaaand if you want to read the Sky Larkin UK tour diary for Clash Magazine click right on this here sentence.
phew!
night night
k x

http://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_of_what/

It could well be. Read more here on the Lipster

Plus there’s a great interview over at Ragged Words with the band

Sky Larkin are well-travelled sorts, accustomed to taking their effortlessly breezy indie-rock on the road. And right they are to do so, for it’s a treat for the ears and no mistake.

The Leeds-based trio’s debut album, ‘The Golden Spike’, is out this week on Wichita – look for a review of it on ClashMusic.com soon. The band’s Katie Harkin – lead singer and guitarist – very kindly kept an account of the group’s January 2009 UK jaunt, published below as one of our semi-regular Tour Diary features.

The tour finds Sky Larkin playing alongside the similarly excellent Pulled Apart By Horses, a domestic act you’re sure to be reading more about on these pages over the coming year. Read, listen, learn, enjoy… go see ‘em, yeah?

Read more….

By the satisfying thud of a weighty item dropping through the letterbox. I live in a flat however, but I imagine if you do sleep within earshot of your front door then it’s even better.

If you’ve ordered something off ebay then it’s pretty good. But what if you haven’t ordered anything at all? Most of the time it’ll be something shit like that pair of socks you left at your dad’s at christmas, but verrrry occasionally it’ll blow your tiny, half awake mind.

Like this morning, when I woke up to this

… and nearly shit myself.

How nice is that ey? It looks better here

What I’m trying to say is – Go out and buy it now, because then you get the digipak version. It has GOLD on it. The writing is in GOLD. that’s GOLD people.

It’s not on the Jewel case or even the vinyl.

It’s a thing of beauty people, get down your local record store and get it.

or…

Puregroove / Rough Trade / Coalition / Wichita. Support your local record store and order it from one of those or, go BIG and use Amazon and HMV

There’s also iTunes, and other digital stores.
Oh, and look at the itunes store on Monday.
Something wicked this way comes
D $TORM

Hello fellows,

Still enjoying the snow? I don’t know about you but I think I might actually be getting a little sick of sledging… A terrifying thought I know, I’m sorry.

Anyway, I just thought I’d pop in from the cold and say hello (again) and thanks to everyone that came to the our shows on the Huw Steven Presents Tour along with Pulled Apart By Horses. It was chuffing brilliant, every single night. Check out these awesome snaps of us playing at the awesome ICA in London by the awesome Anika, here. Awesome.

We’re this very moment finalizing all the plans for our next great adventure around Europe with our old pals Johnny Foreigner. I believe we’ll be calling at:

Paradiso, Amsterdam – 22 Feb

Fleche D’or, Paris – 23 Feb

Witloof Bar, Botanique, Brussels – 24 Feb

Gebaude 9, Cologne – 25 Feb

Molotow, Hamburg – 27 Feb

Manufaktur, Schorndorf – 28 Feb

Ampere, Munich – 1 Mar

Mascotte, Zurich – 2 Mar

Magnet, Berlin – 3 Mar

Rust, Copenhagen – 5 Mar

Garage, Oslo – 6 Mar

Debaser, Stockholm – 7 Mar

I cannot wait. Seriously. Usually its nice to have a few days of nothingness after a spurt of shows (particularly shows as mental as the Brudenell Social Club on the last night!) but within 24 hours I was raring to go again, I’m getting all fidgety just typing about it.

But there’s more! After that we wing it over to Texas for a week of beautiful sunshine and beautiful barbeque, oh and amazing shows by amazing bands from all over the world at SxSW 2009! Expect blogs galore gushing about every band we see and hear…

Anyway, we’ve got even more things to look forward to. I have it from reliable sources that our copies of The Golden Spike are in the post at this very moment! I managed to snatch a quick glance at one in Jumbo the other day but fought the urge to buy our own record because I reckon the world might have imploded or something like that, plus I’d possibly look like a bit of a tit.

Righto, I’ve got hot chocolate to drink and a fire to sit beside. Oh yes.

Stay warm and see you soon,

Nest x

Holy Moly!

My legs are more bruise than skin, my mind is blown and my brain cannot yet compute, but I know that if the Huw Stephens Presents Sky Larkin and Pulled apart By Horses tour was a muffin, it’d be as awesome as this one

(from itsnicethat.com)

tour diary, photos and a rockumentary shot by my own shaky hand (with far too many X-treme close-ups) shall surface soon. We larks shall hibernate for a wee while and surface with trinkets to say THANK YOU for making our hearts a-glow.

katie
xxxx

Thanks to Anika, this is wonderful.

Sky Larkin were brilliant at the ICA. Pulled Apart By Horses were incredible too. Ok, we’re biased at Team Larkin.

Tracklist:
Pica
Antibodies
One Of Two
Somersault
Summit
Octopus 08
Fossil, I
Matador
Molten
Beeline

Keep a track on the twitter streams during and post the live shows

Anika In London blog post

Ps – check the myspace as new instores at Crash and Rough Trade have been announced!