+ Sky Larkin +

we played a show for xbox and they done put us inside the machine!

On a scale of 1-rad this is pretty much a 9 (-1 for how excited I got about it. nerd.)

Right, I’m off to buy Left for Dead 2, awesome.

nx

festive news everyone- (almost) all cd albums in the wichita online shop are £5 in the xmas sale.

crimbo prezzie bargains a plenty, plus you also get the added warm
fuzzy feeling that comes with buying directly from an independent
record label. mmmm.
http://www.wichita-recordings.com/shop/music/albums.html

includes
The Cribs, Espers, Simian Mobile Disco, Peter Bjorn and John, Conor
Oberst, Those Dancing Days, The Dodos, Bloc Party, The Bronx, Yeah Yeah
Yeahs (Master EP), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Los Campesinos!, Sky
Larkin and more.

enjoy!
we’ve got our thermals ready and are headed back into the crypt. thank you to everyone who made our london show this week so special, we’ll surface with new noises soon we promise. see you on our final jaunt of the year with Los Campesinos and The Cribs. Wichita-tastic.
stay warm
katie
xx

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The final action of a hectic but prosperous 2009 for Katie, Nestor and Doug will see them joining The Cribs on their UK tour in December. The band will be joining Los Campesinos! and The Slits (in Doncaster) on the quartet’s huge, end-of-year shows.

A fortnight before these shows, the band will be playing a special one-off headline show at the Hoxton Bar & Grill, East London in conjunction with Levi, as part of their 5-night stand. Support for the night comes from MPHO and Beth Jeans Houghton.

SMARTS is still available to download for free from just over here

November
19th London – Hoxton Bar & Grill – Levi’s Five Night Stand

December
2nd Birmingham – Academy w/ The Cribs
3rd London – Brixton Academy w/ The Cribs
5th Doncaster – Dome w/ The Cribs
6th Edinburgh – Corn Exchange w/ The Cribs

Team Larkin
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THANK YOU to all the lovely folks we met whilst on tour in America with Peggy Sue.

Huge gratitude to all- whether you came to a gig, lent us an amp, turned a blind eye to seven people showering in one hotel room, brought us unpronounceable shots mid-set, fed us Superman cake or did anything else that contributed to a wonderful tour.

It was also our first experience of touring in such close quarters with another band so it was doubly fortunate that we got on so well with Peggy Sue. They’re a great live band and I’m so excited to hear their album it borders on giddy. Sickening eh? Well if I’m Lyin’, I’m Dyin’. It was amazing fun rambling around the continent as a duo of power trios, so thanks to all that enabled that to happen.

Huge props also to our tour managers Ben and Scuba Steve. There were some truly heroic drives on this tour, and we only ended up teetering on an incline beside railroad tracks by a pile of bones picked clean by a mountain lion in the middle of the night that one time. No photos of that event exist (but I SWEAR every word of the story is true), but here are some snaps from the last night of tour- our first experience of American Halloween in Chicago.

We parked outside Wrigley Field and pretended to be in Vieuphoria for a little while…

…hung out with Superdog…

…wandered the streets of Chicago enjoying Halloween houses…

…and made our way to our venue (The Whistler) where one of the barman greeted us dressed as LARRY DAVID

The doorman;

BILLY MAYS

Tour managing us had however taken its toll on Ben

A few days earlier we found a large selection of hospital scrubs in a Salvation Army in Ann Arbor, so we decided to honour Chicago and perform as the zombie Cast of ER. Pumpkins were carved and dutifully smashed and how we ever made the 7am check-in for our flight home I’ll never know. We have some exciting news as to how we’ll finish the year that will be revealed soon, until then, THANKS AGAIN Y’ALL

katie, Dr Matthews and Dr Adams

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A grand in-depth interview with Nestor, Katie and Doug. It covers Doug remixing Johnny Foreigner, the Crypt, touring around America and Canada with Peggy Sue, Awesome Pals and the bands plans for the next 5 years.

ES: Earlier this year you encountered Nardwuar The Human Serviette. How did you all first come to discover him? Is he really that famous all the way out in Britain?

Nestor: No, no, he’s not popular there at all. Katie had this DVD that she had ordered of him, so whenever we were in London, we would all watch it together. This crazy man going around interviewing all of these really cool bands that we really liked.
Katie: I had searched for bands on the internet and came across him, and I ordered DVDs of him from the internet. It was the thing that we would throw on in London and say “Hey, come watch this guy interview Snoop Dogg!” We had asked people in Vancouver if they knew him, and someone got back to us and we spent our whole day with Nardwuar.
Doug: We tried that in Toronto with Kenny and Spenny, but nobody really knows those guys. SOMEONE must know those guys.

Read the full interview over here