Video of the day (Pagan Wanderer Lu - Chemicals Like You)

A while back Andy (Pagan Wanderer Lu) sent a twitter appeal for couples to star in his new video. I regret we didn't go now. The result is a really, really lovely video.



Pagan Wanderer Lu on myspace

Video of the day (Pagan Wanderer Lu - Banish Negative Thoughts)

Pagan Wanderer Lu is playing the next Records Make Great Pets evening on 16th July at the Betsey Trotwood. I've seen him play a bunch of times, most recently supporting Allo Darlin' and The School at Bush Hall in March. He's always a lot of fun and brings loads of interesting, weird-looking electronic gadgets along.

His new album was released a few weeks ago and below is the first video from it.



Pagan Wanderer Lu official website (with plenty of free mp3's)

Next Records Make Great Pets show!! 16th July!!

I'm putting on another show!!!!!

LET'S WHISPER (http://www.myspace.com/letswhispermusic)
Dana and Colin (from The Smittens) also play as Let's Whisper, one of the nicest, softest and sweetest bands around. They have a new EP coming out soon on WeePOP! Records and Camila has assured me that it will be ready for this show, so we're super happy to welcome them back to the Betsey Trotwood for their only (I think) London show this year. Expect plenty of smiling and bouncing.

PAGAN WANDERER LU (http://www.myspace.com/paganwandererlu)
Pagan Wanderer Lu is Andy. With his collection of exciting electronic gadgets he writes intelligent and catchy popsongs. Some people call it folktronica, I just call it awesome. He released his second album European Monsoon earlier this month on Brainlove Records and we're just mega excited to hear those songs live. Yay!

MOUSTACHE OF INSANITY (http://www.myspace.com/moustacheofinsanity)
The first London show since February, Moustache of Insanity play some sort of Casio-pop-bleep-boom mess about extremely important things like cheese, freckles, amazon wishlists and Jonathan Richman. Like Let's Whisper they have also released an EP (now sold out) on WeePOP! Records.

You should definitely come along. Indiepop disco with Scared To Dance and WeePOP! DJ'S afterwards as well!!! Yay!

tour monkeys

So, we just finished our first "tour", if now three shows in a row is enough to deserve the tour label. First, we played at The Wilmington Arms in London on Thursday. It was a strange show, not the type of night we normally play. I like to think that we confused the hell out of the "strangers" in the audience. They didn't really know what to make of us, which I kind of like. It felt awful up on stage, but after speaking to people it would appear that we did alright.

On Friday we headed to Manchester for a show at veggie café FUEL, organised by Dan and Hannah of the lovely Pull Yourself Together. This was a completely different affair. A lovely venue with a lovely and receptive audience. We sold a bunch of CDs and got some good feedback. Woo! Also playing that same night were the lovely uketastically bearded Jam On Bread and technically impressive 8bit-button-pressing-electro-folk troubadour Pagan Wanderer Lu. They're both great, so it was a brilliant night. We stayed up a bit too late, drank a bit too much and looked at disturbing pictures of Burt Reynolds on the internet.

After sleeping far too little we stuffed our faces with sandwiches from Greggs and set off towards Edinburgh for a show at the infamous Henry's Cellar Bar. Apparently the toilets from the upstairs pub used to leak and drip down onto the stage. Nice. They had sorted this issue though and the night went without any "incidents". Also playing were Conquering Animal Sound, who completely blew my mind, and Cancel The Astronauts who pretty much rocked my socks off.


On Sunday we had been in talks about playing a BBQ in Manchester, but after getting up too late and getting lost among sheep and Scottish mountains we aborted that plan.


Now I'm absolutely knackered, but all in all, the first Moustache "tour" was a success. Hurray!