19/11 | Hoxton Bar & Grill, London, Levi’s Five Night Stand (headline)
02/12 | Birmingham , Academy with The Cribs
03/12 | London, Brixton Academy with The Cribs
05/12 | Doncaster, The Dome with The Cribs
06/12 | Edinburgh, Corn Exchange with The Cribs
NEWS!
First, a quick update from the Crypt.
I found this keyboard on the street in Williamsburg, and it sounds like an 80s Juno, just so Ju-No. (rofl)
Writing is going super well, and to celebrate we’re piling into the back of our (not very well) van and playing some shows round the country.
Needless to say, we’re taking some amazing bands with us, details to be announced.
Get your tickets (for some of the shows) here.
05/09 | Fell Foot Festival, Lake Windermere, Cumbria
26/09 | Bradford, The Polish Club
27/09 | Derby, The Royal
29/09 | Bristol, Cooler
30/09 | London, Cargo
02/10 | Tunbridge Wells, Forum
03/10 | Aldershot, West End Centre
05/10 | Aberdeen, Café Drummond
06/10 | Glasgow, Classic Grand
07/10 | Newcastle, Mr Lynch
10/10 | Manchester, Night and Day
And finally, 3 words.
SMARTS 21st September.
Dougx
Sky Larkin are currently holed up in ‘The Crypt’ (indeed, sounding equally as exciting as it does sinister) somewhere near Leeds writing and demoing some new songs. It’s about time that this pigeon delivered some news or escapades following the release of Antibodies earlier this summer – so here we are. Katie has become quite the talent at twitpicking (read, sending pictures via Twitter) of their rehearsal space at the Crypt, so you really should keep an eye on Doug, Nest and Katie over there, or here
Speaking of Antibodies, through an act of brilliant amnesia it appears that 3 copies of each cassette have turned up in Puregroove in London – so if you missed out visit here.
In other news, we recently asked for some questions for the band – we had quite a response and only three of them were rubished on grounds of inappropriacy – if you have any more questions please email us here or leave a comment below, or fire one over the interwebs at us on Twitter.
The band are playing a slew of shows in the next fortnight – including one added just today – a joint headline show with the magnificent Fight Like Apes at New Slang, Kingston – all details below.
July
17th Belgium, Dour Festival
18th Netherlands, Utrecht, Tivoli
19th Suffolk, Latitude Festival
23rd Kingston, New Slang w/ Fight Like Apes
24th London, Lexington
26th Oxfordshire, Truck Festival
more shows and Festivals in August and beyond – check The Myspace.
Our amps have been on holiday and they sent us some pictures;
Ok, so that isn’t technically true. Those beauties are from the 1968 Fender Musical Instruments catalogue, but don’t they look like they’re having a nice time? Amps deserve a holiday too.
We’re taking our holiday time at home to enjoy un-restricted legroom, familiar faces and regular mattresses. Though we do miss the road and as always root beer is never far from my mind.
We have also been spawning new compositions, most of which are pretty untamed at the moment, but there are a couple we may be able to coax into making an appearance at our Lexington show on the 24th of July…or maybe a festival or two if we’re feeling brave.
keep on rockin’ in the free world
katie
x
Greetings and Salutations,
Yesterday we larks descended into a crypt for some demo-lition.
Exactly what we did and why shall have to remain a veiled secret for a few more days, but we’ll HAPPILY be releasing the tricks from our sleeves soon…
The crypt is a space normally used by some musician pals of ours in a secret location in Yorkshire, they have kindly let us creep in to get some new ideas together. The previous occupant was a Sunday School so there are plenty of children’s handprints and mildly terrifying murals to keep us on our toes. Oh and the founder of the church is entombed in an alcove about four feet behind Nestor’s drum stool.
Today’s soundtrack was unfortunately a little less enjoyable, as it most memorably consisted of the unholy crack of a wisdom tooth being removed from my dental ensemble. Ouch.
Didn’t realise I was drooling blood until I was halfway down The Headrow in Leeds, god bless local anaesthetic.
I have been looking through the recent larkin archives (lark-ives?) to distract myself from both the pain and my hamster-cheeked appearance. The strange fruits of this labour can be viewed below. Enjoy this hastily (and woozily) assembled collection of visual Life Scraps from the last few months. It also includes a glimpes of our cryptology…
katie x
You can now purchase the Sky Larkin album ‘The Golden Spike’ from iTunes and Insound – great news to you guys that have been emailing us! You also get special bonus tracks!
Download the album from iTunes USA
Order the CD from Insound
One of Sky Larkin was recently on holiday in the Far East – what a surprise to find The Golden Spike in HMV Singapore….Sky Larkin are officially global.
If you’re North America based then you can get it in CD format here or on itunes US.
buy buy buy.
First up is Sky Larkin hanging out with the infamous Nardwuar in Vancouver. Narwuar is nothing short of fascinating / utterly bonkers and almost the definitiion of ‘cult figure’..
Greetings and Salutations,
We larks have returned to roost and the charity shops of Leeds are currently composed entirely of my old belongings (being on tour for 6 months has taught me to haemorrage).
Our newest news has a rather fetching leafy tinge to it; we can happy to announce we are playing two festivals in rather green and pleasant corners of the UK.
Firstly, we are returning to Latitude Festival (thanks to BBC Introducing for having us last year!) which is set in leafy Suffolk. It has a nice lake and free gondola rides and Grace Jones is playing. Neat-o.
This time we shall be appearing in the Sunrise Arena on Sunday, click the logo for more info/line-up/tickets/etc…
Secondly, we have been asked to headline the lovely Fell Foot sound which is “set in a beautiful woodland glade overlooking Lake Windermere, with excellent camping areas, lighting, running water, good toilet facilities, and homemade food.” Plus it’s only 22 quid for three days and our awesome pals Copy Haho are playing so it’s gonna be ball.
click click click:
come on down, it’ll be tree-mendous
(SORRY)
katie x
You’ll like this. Many thanks going out to David in Dananananaykroyd
Naturally and quite rightly this was first posted on the genius AWESOME PALS blog
New gig alert. New gig alert! London, Lexington venue on July 24th. More news over on www.whitelightfriday.com
Sky Larkin were asked to rework a track off the latest Bloc Party LP ‘Intimacy’ – ‘Ion Square’ – Katie suggests the song naturally sits as an ‘end of the night anthem’ but also a ‘lullaby’.
You can buy the Sky Larkin track as part of exclusive album content only on iTunes
y’all!
Our Great Escape Festival show shall commence 8:00pm at The Honeyclub
on Saturday, we are sharing a bill with old pals JoFo and lovely scots Idlewild as part of the Drowned in Sound showcase. Huzzah!
dear sun, please shine
kx
greetings and salutations,
the antibodies tapes have now been birthed! I hope your tapedecks are smiling. There are now some snaps of the making of the video in our gallery for you to have a gander at
aaaalso, the itunes bundle of Bloc Party’s Intimacy Remixed includes a Sky Larkin version of Ion Square, its a quiet little number recorded in LDN.
http://www.blocparty.net/blogparty.html
bonza!
1. Ares (Villains Remix)
2. Mercury (Herve is in Disarray Mix)
3. Halo (We Have Band Dub)
4. Biko (Mogwai Remix)
5. Trojan Horse (John B Remix)
6. Signs (Armand Van Helden Remix)
7. One Month Off (Filthy Dukes Remix)
8. Zephyrus (Phase One Remix)
9. Talons (Phones R.I.P Mix)
10. Better Than Heaven (No Age Remix)
11. Ion Square (Banjo Or Freakout Remix)
12. Letter To My Son (Gold Panda Remix)
13. Your Visits Are Getting Shorter (Double D Remix)
14. Ion Square (Sky Larkin Remix) ** iTunes ONLY
15. Ares (Foals Remix) ** iTunes ONLY
we’re experiencing the first stretch of non-locomotion in four months and slowly rebuilding our bodies; nestor is regrowing the skin on his hands, I’m letting the bruises on my legs evaporate and douglas is getting a haircut.
We’re also PLOTTING hard, and our sleeves have plenty of inhabitants up them.
BUT have no fear, we are not falling off the face of the planet, we’ll see thee at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton this Saturday. and then at more festivals that we’re not supposed to tell you about yet….
smell you later
katie x
We believe there are still tickets, please go to cityshowcase.co.uk
Team larkin.
Well folks, Team Larkin can finally confirm some details on Antibodies and the wonderful cassette the band have created. Pre-order the cassette now and you’ll receive an instant download of all the content on Side A (nice to say Side A in these digital times). We’re all very excited by this release and hope you feel the same – the artwork has been designed by Mr Jack Hudson and with the band ensuring this is a very personalised release, there are three different artwork covers! Suffice to say, these are expected to sell out instantly!
Side A
01. Antibodies.
02. These are the Bones of Traits and Traitors.
03. LtoR.
04. Matador (Lull’s Channel Switch Remix).
05. Antibodies (J.Xaverre Remix).
06. Keepsakes (Cereal Remix).
Side B
01. Hark to Heart; A Word In Your Shell About Antibodies and Land Art. (created by Katie)
02. Ten Minutes. (created by Nestor)
03. Real Attempts at Internet Dating. (created by Doug)
**
The band continue to tour tour tour, tonight is The Rakes in Camden Town, London before Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Dublin and onwards…check out the full dates on Myspace or here
And if you haven’t yet seen the video to Antibodies, click on the image below for just under 4 minutes of wonder.
Love
Team Sky Larkin x
HELLLO world, it’s been a while, huh?
We’ve been a bit busy, being jet lagged, getting chest infections and being supportive to very drunk boys who get thrown out of our shows and lose their friends.
We’re currently on tour with the rakes, although we missed Glasgow and Newcastle because of Katie/Tiny-Tim’s chest (phwoar!) infection (oh), but we have some of our own dates coming up, Like…
30th April, Fibbers, York
1st May, Sub Club (for Hinterland), Glasgow
2nd May, Cockpit (for Live at Leeds), Leeds (Just after Fight Like Apes. PARTY)
3rd May, The Victoria, Birmingham (all dayer with Sunset Cinema Club!)
5th May, Academy 2, Dublin
6th May, Aunt Annies, Belfast
8th May, The Farmhouse, Canterbury
16th May, Great Escape, Brighton
23rd May, Korova (if it’s actually been opened again) (for sound city), Liverpool
Fibbers is our first yorkshire show for a while, and I don’t think we’ve ever played there, so come down and make it a memorable one (just not for the wrong reasons).
tickets are available from all the usual places.
And so, onto this “Exciting Opportunity”.
We’re wanting people to ask us some questions. That’s it. ANYTHING goes, literally, we just get bored when we’re not on tour, and when we’re on tour you get a bit bored of speaking to the same people every day so come on, spice up our lives.
I’ve got an iron constitution so don’t be shy, send them over to
skylarkinanswers@gmail.com
or our myspace / twitter / facebook
If you want an individual answer (Katie and Nestor know about art, I know about music technology and cooking) then just stick one of our names in the subject line.
We’ll strive to answer every question, but none about African fortunes or bigger penises.
Please note: THE BEST QUESTION WINS A PRIZE. Probably some goodies and a copy of each of the three versions of the antibodies cassette, with 3 individual covers drawn by Jack Hudson. You should see them, they’re sexy. This is even more insentive for those of you outside the UK, because we’ll post the tapes to you for free and everything, and I don’t think they’ll be available in stores anywhere else.
if you need any tips I recommend one of my favourite sites EVER answers.yahoo.com
see here
I’ll blog about the states at some point, maybe when these next few weeks are over and I have 13 hours on a plane to Singapore to contend with.
Finally, this is what I’ve been feeling like for the last week or so
Please, please, no questions about Susan Boyle
BYEE,
Douglas x
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