New Album!

Believe what you read on The Girls Are!

We're putting out our second long player "Twin Beds" via Odd Box Records on February 13th.

We can't wait for you to all hear it, it's been a long old time with numerous hold ups we wont bore you with the details (in a few words illness/line-up changes/finding a label...we can't even blame creative differences!)


We've also confirmed our first show for 2012 and we're delighted to say it's going to be as part of London Popfest on Sunday 26th February.

We'll be back soon with more info about new singles, videos and tour dates for next year. Basically it's all very exciting

Lyrics - For the curious and for those that plain don't know what Sophie and I are singing about

New Video 'Sleep' Launched

Salut, much talk of imminent songs and albums on this page over the last year (s), complications occured, now dealt with and here is the first installment of our fresh new beats. 'Sleep' is taken from forthcoming album 'Twin Beds', and is produced by Richard Formby, who is responsible for Wild Beasts really rather good 'Two Dancers' and 'Smother' albums. It is a song inspired by Paul Auster's novel 'Man in the Dark', and indirectly Rihanna's 'Rudeboy'.

To purchase your download or a beautiful vinyl please visit this place

The cover image for the single was taken by our very own - guitarist and photographer Jon Stanley Austin. His first publication unsurprisingly sold out but keep an eye on his website for future projects.

Keeping things in the family, myself and drummer Ben Waddleton have co-directed the new video for 'Sleep' which we filmed in the ipso facto beautiful St Ives, Cornwall and the quietly rewarding Dalston, London. Ben, who also co-produced 'Lovers or Something Like It' and drummed up moving images for Pulled Apart by Horses, lives virtually here
Watch, listen, share, embed, 'shake it' a little.



Did I mention the B side?

'From the Crowd' recorded during the This City Draws Maps Sessions. Hear it here.

Eternal gratitude,
Yours,
Jonny

"Sleep" Single Launch Party

We'd like to take this opportunity to invite you all along to a rather splendid gig to celebrate the upcoming release of our new single "Sleep" on the 14th of June at The Lexington in London.

Sleep is the first track to be taken from our second long player "Twin Beds" which is due later this year.

We've been lucky enough to put together an incredible line up for the evening with two our favourite bands so I thought i'd take this opportunity to tell you a bit about our wonderful support acts for the evening.

PENGILLY'S


Pengilly's are so impressive that Tom Robinson gushed "it's so lush, and gorgeous and original and fresh and heartfelt that it just blew me away".

We agree.

www.myspace.com/thisispengillys
www.twitter.com/pengillys


DEAR WINESBURG


Dear Winesburg write beautiful and intricate folk-based songs that never fail to move. They have been described as "a fine interpretation of traditional-sounding folk. From every fluttering violin note to every guitar string delicately plucked, it shows off musicianship that is heavily accomplished" and we endorse that 100%.

www.myspace.com/dearwinesburg

Electroacoustic

Afternoon all,

So what have we been up to?

A lot of planning is going on for our new single, we're working on the new video pretty much as we speak. We recently took some new press shots as well, we're just starting to get some of the results back, above's a teaser shot...

At the weekend we played a show at the Enterprise in Camden, a very interesting line up all in all. Arriving to see one of your fellow bands in a moddish punk band with a lot of attitude and the other is a (very musically impressive) rock-metal band is a bit odd when you're a somewhat fey bunch like us. That said seeing Shakey step up to the plate and play a frankly staggering improvised rendition of "we will rock you" during the second bands soundcheck will live long in the memory of all who witnessed it.

Our next show is back on more familiar ground playing at one of my favourite London venues the Slaughtered Lamb with a couple of rather excellent bands firstly fellow graduates of the Leeds scene Arthur Rigby & The Baskervylles and secondly Canadian Poet, Story Teller, Musician and Singer-Songwriter Tanya Davis.

It should be a great night, so hopefully a lot of folk will come down.

Sam
xxx

P.S: Our very own Trumpet Crumpet Sophie appeared on Loose Ends on radio 4 this weekend with her other band Shady Bard, want to hear what her trumpet sounded like blown in Bill Bailey's face...have a listen HERE

And then 2010 ended and we only just noticed...

Evening Rosiettes,

It's been a long old time, too long, I do hope you're all well and that. I'm pleased to report that for once we are!

Anyway so this is a sort of summary piece - 2010 this happened, 2011 this is happening sort of affair. Won't waffle on too long and take up your vital leisure time (apologies to the night and evening shift workers, nuff respect to you all!)

Anyway 2010 was a bit of a slog for us as a band but ultimately fruitful in some ways. So what did we do in 2010? Well, we finished our new album for starters. Recorded with Richard Formby in Hall Place studios in Leeds, it's since been mixed, mastered and generally played around with and you know what? We reckon it's done!

We're all really happy with the results and very proud, like parents of newborns or supporters of successful sporting teams I would imagine but I don't know much about either of those things.

What else did we do? More a list of things we didn't do I guess, we didn't play enough gigs for you all, we didn't play any festivals and we didn't talk to you very much (I guess we didn't have much to talk about but we're very sorry anyway, consider this the start of a beautiful new friendship) and we didn't release any records.

We're hoping to change all of this in 2011!

So what are we planning/working/plotting you ask? Well with the album in the bag we're working out just how we're going to release it. We're being creative and working on videos and artwork. We'll hopefully have some of that sorted out soon and we'll start showing you the fruits of our labour.

Our next single is going to be a track called 'Sleep' (those of you with incredible memories will remember a version of it being played on Marc Riley but it has to be said it's had a bit of a revamping since those days), details about it will follow as and when we know them.

We're beginning the process of playing more shows as we speak, in fact we're playing one on Thursday on a boat on the thames

Space for this one's going to be pretty limited as they're a bit worried about tipping the boat over or something similarly disastrous so we'll be following that up with a show on far drier land, returning to the Camden Enterprise on March 19th for another show

Sorry for all the London-centric gigging but we'll hopefully be getting out and about a bit more later in the year, and we're always open to offers...

Anyway I shall leave you with some entertainment in the form of a wonderful video which has been inspiring us lately



A belated happy new year to all you lot, hopefully see you very soon indeed,

much love,
Sam
x

Oh, also every year I pick my ten favourite albums and put them in a list - i'm a bit of a cliche that way, but for those who are interested (that's none of you!)

10. I Like Trains - He Who Saw The Deep
9. The Walkmen - Lisbon
8. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
7. Eels - Tomorrow Morning
6. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
5. Best Coast - Crazy For You
4. Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
3. Warpaint - The Fool
2. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now
1. The National - High Violet

photo evidence

the gig. Photos by good friend and super photographer - Jacob Lillis














The antics leading up to the gig. Photographs by me, Jon Stanley Austin. (not including the ones with me in)