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tenniscoats postscript

Tenniscoats in Brighton / Photo by Greg Neate

Thanks to everyone who came out and saw Tenniscoats play across the UK and everyone who made the shows possible…

Saya and Ueno had a grand time and hopefully we can get them back here for more shows next year.  In the meantime, they’ll be joining Tetsuya Umeda at Cafe Oto on the 28th of June and playing together with The Pastels on a short tour in September including a spot at the Moseley Folk Festival.

The Balky Mule

I’m going on tour next week playing drums for The Balky Mule. Should be much fun.  If you haven’t heard it you should check out The Length of the Rail n FatCat.  Its a lovely bunch of songs with some fantastic home-style production – hushed drums, mono-synth and lo-fi sprawl.  i dig it big time so its super fun to be going out and about playing the songs.

Dates are:

  • Sunday 03 Union Chapel Bar, London
  • Tuesday 05 The Wheatsheaf, Oxford (w/ Ute)
  • Wednesday 06 The Rainbow, Birmingham Presented by Black Forest Audio (w/ Walt Shaw)
  • Thursday 07 The Shakespeare, Sheffield
  • Friday 08 The Common Place, Leeds (w/ Rosie Taylor Project and Model Warships)
  • Saturday 09 The End, Newcastle (w/ Michael Marwood and Balao)
  • Sunday 10 The Captain’s Rest, Glasgow w/ Over The Wall
  • Monday 11 The Bowery, Edinburgh (w/ Over The Wall)
  • Wednesday 13 Half Moon Herne Hill, London
  • Thursday 14 The Water Margin, Brighton FatCat night @ The Great Escape w/ The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Brakes
  • Friday 15 3B’s, Reading [Free show]

the slow expansion

i’ve just order the above. a plan b model 13 dual timbral gate…  to fill the glaring VCA type gap in my modular with something interesting.  can’t wait!  also picking up an AS multiple to help with making the most of the small number of modulation sources…  should all be fun stuff.

wow

a big thanks to everyone who came out on wednesday night and made it such a sweet good time.  extra thanks to matt, pas, byron, noriko and lawrence for playing, will for being a totally great guy to work with, hamish and keiko for running the most comfortable venue to be and play in london, and last but not least, Carina for helping keep shit together, running the merch stall, filming, baking cake and being generally wonderful.

Such a privelege to play to a sold out cafe oto with a good bunch of friends.

I’m just listening back to recordings and will salvage what i can from the sets to share with folks.  if anyone has their own recordings/pictures etc then drop me an email: john@inventingzero.net  – Carina was filming on lawrence’s camera, so hopefully we can get some of that up on youtube in the new year when lawrence is back from the amazon!

Cheers!

J.