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Yeah, biggggggggg news, you can pre order our album on CD or Vi-motherfucking-nyl from
the wichita shop and in reward for this you’ll get the full album in MP3 played live at our beloved Brudenell social club in Leeds.
And to follow that… Videos of these sessions from the thegoldenspike.co.uk (RSS Feed) to come in the weeks leading up to the album release (February 9th).
If I were you I’d go and do this right now, it’s only £8 for CD, or £12 for Vinyl (limited run) and I would. The artwork is mint, check it below, and click on it to go to the artists’ site (they are mintER).
So enough of all this linkage anyway, it’s dinner time. Thanks for making this year so much fun, hopefully next year will be even better.
Oh, one more thing. Happy new year…
Love from Doug
x
Also known as Anika In London must be one of the busiest gigoers in London town. Anika popped along to see Sky Larkin at PureGroove back in October and wrote a review on her blog (and took some ace photos). She posed some questions to the band and here’s the response….
5 things you’re excited about in 2009?
KATIE:
1. Roaming over more of the world to see new and familiar faces and pastures.
2. The release of The Golden Spike so we finally have a document to share
3. Moving to the seaside (I’m moving house)
4. Reading and writing as much as possible
5. Root Beer
A ‘challenge’! Can you think of two sentences that rhyme to describe your band?
KATIE: We make noise. A girl and two boys.
You have a new record coming out in 2009, which you recorded in Seattle with John Goodmanson, what was the recording process like?
KATIE: We spent a week at Death Cab for Cutie’s studio (they kindly lent us drums and amps as we came over with just our baggage allowance of guitars) and a week at John’s place. The recording process involved lots of ice coffee (katie), Red Mountain Dew (Nestor) root beer (katie), PBR (Doug) and 35 cent ramen noodles.
OMG. do we hav a treet 4 u guys.
two things,
1) we’re not doing any vinyl for the bee line single (that’s the 26th of January, fact fans). I KNOW. it made me feel a bit ill as well, but we’re actually doing something even better. maybe.
WATCHES. yeah, really sexy swatch style watches. with lyrics on. and clear straps. when we get one ourselves we’ll stick a photo up.
If you go here then you can pre order the watch and get a couple of mp3s sent to you right now. snazzy huh?
I’d honestly recommend getting one quick because it’s the only physical release we’re doing of the single (you will be able to get the mp3s in January mind..)
2) so, on the 26th of January (when the single comes out) we’ll be in Glasgow as part of our Huw Stephens sponsored headline tour, with Pulled Apart by Horsesand local supports to be announced.
Here are the dates;
22 Bristol, Louisiana (tickets) / 08713 100 000
23 Cardiff, Barfly (tickets) / 0844 847 2424
24 Nottingham, The Bodega (tickets) / 08713 100 000
26 Glasgow, King Tuts (tickets) / 0844 999 990
27 Manchester, Night & Day (tickets) 0161 236 1822
28 Oxford, The Bullingdon (tickets) / 0844 477 2000
29 London, ICA (tickets) / 020 7930 3647
30 Brighton, Audio (tickets) / 01273 606 312
31 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (tickets) / 0113 245 5570
Hopefully see you at a couple, we’ll hopefully have new shirts and stuff to sell as well.
I think that’s all for now.
Thanks ants, Thants.
Doug
x
Hello!
We are in belgium and we played at the botanique tonight with los campesinos and lovvers, it was the first night of this tour of europe we have embarked on.
The botanique is a beautiful and unique venue, as the name suggests its an old botanical gardens and is real perdy.
As we are sharing a van with lovvers (who are truly loveable rogues) there’s a 8:me dude:me ratio in the van. So I decided to go for a walk round the botanical gardens to let the smell of stale boy farts air from my clothing. As I walked around a small lake outside I spotted a nest with GIANT eggs in which looked like somerhing out of the jurassic park incubator scene. Isn’t it a bit chilly to be laying eggs? Is there some belgian megaswan I am unaware of? my mind was blown, now its time for sleep, see you soon amsterdam, germany and italy!
Kxx
Katie x
Hello everyone,
just a note to send some halloween tricks and treats, yum. We’ve just got home from our trip to CMJ which was superfly. We venutured further north for some top secret fun but snowstorms meant our internal flight was cancelled and it was dramarama in order to get back to JFK in time! We made it to our flight home thanks to the wonderful Jill who drove us through the night over ice and snow, what a lady!
have a great evening, we hope its spooktacular!
love Douglas Obama, Nestor McCain and the ghost of Katie Harkin
x
and here’s something truly terrifying….
sadface.
we’re getting a flat bed lorry back to Leeds from up here in Glasgow so we’ll still be able to play Brainwash festival tomorrow, thanks Barry the AA man!
Horse the Van is dead, long live Horse the Van.
k xx
…like this!
It was great to have a few days in Berlin to soak up the city, on our last visit with Mr O we only spent a few hours there before we had to haul ass to Calais to get our ferry.
Popkomm was great fun and it was a pleasure to be able to meet up with Wichita/City Slang/Co-op friends new and old.
In other news, thanks to everyone who sent me well wishes, a day of sitting in the dark in my PJs helped my eyes get back to near normality, though I still look like a Panda-Vole.
also , have you seen THIS? schwing!
love and understanding
KEH x
