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Smarts was recorded in one day in Wales with our Golden Spike amigo John Goodmanson. It just so happened that for 24hrs our paths crossed, so we decided to use the time to reignite our musical flame. It’s certainly the loudest number we’ve created, so as a counter point we also recorded an acoustic version of Matador back home in our Yorkshire writing space; The Crypt (NB, an actual crypt). This version of Matador features upright bass, downright slinky drums and a hundred year old pump organ with pleasingly wobbly pipes. We invite you to download them for free and hope to see you at a show this autumn before we go into hibernation to write Sky Larkin 2.0 - Sky Larkin

Download the digital single of Smarts by clicking on the image below. All in all to celebrate a new Sky Larkin tour across mighty counties and cities of the UK and across the Atlantic to Canada and America with Katy, Rosa and Olly of Peggy Sue – see the gig list here

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Hello world,
It’s a fine day indeed for all involved when we can finally unveil a beautiful set of American and Canadian tour dates for us, supported, and supporting (alternatively) Peggy Sue

We’ve been racking our brains trying to think of a heeeelarious pun for the name of the tour, following on from our personal best “Losky Camperlarkinos!” (our first tour ever, with Los Camp! and we all know how long ago that was).
So far we’ve got as far as Peggy Sue.S.A. If you’ve got any ideas then let us know.

Here are the dates as they stand, with more dates to add hopefully, particularly on the East Coast.

(Boston anyone?)

I actually can’t wait for these, especially the Chicago show – last show of tour, and all of our first experience of Halloween, US style. Costumes will be made on our side, so let’s see some from you as well yeah?

14 Oct |  KCRW presents @ Spaceland, Los Angeles, California
16 Oct | Hemlock, San Fransisco, California
17 Oct | TBC, Seattle, Washington
18 Oct | Neptoon Records Instore, Vancouver
18 Oct | Pub 340, Vancouver
21 Oct | Sidewalk Cafe, New York, New York
28 Oct | Cameron House, Toronto, Ontario
30 Oct | Painted Lady Detroit, Michigan
31 Oct | Halloween Party@ The Whistler, Chicago, Illinois

Here’s some video of Peggy Sue in action.

AMAZING scenes.

Byyyyee,
Love Doug.