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….And the nights are drawing in like well worn strings, we thought we’d give you a little reminder of things on our general horizon:

WORRY EP

This cared-for collection of songs gets released on the 12th December and you can order it from here. It’s recently been added to the 6 Music and MTV playlists so hopefully you’ve managed to hear it round and about. If not then the video is »»» here.

Also, we’ve made an acoustic video for the B-side HIS THUNDER. Shot in a tunnel under the Tyne, it’s quite a poignant tale of domestic abuse. Visuals…

For musicians like us on little labels every single expression of your love is crucial. We enjoy creating songs and playing live and really rely on your support to do that, so if you like it please give it purchase. :)

LIVE DATES

These are listed below but the current one looming is the NEWCASTLE date, our last headline show of the year, at NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY on SATURDAY DECEMBER 10th. You should be able to follow this link to buy tickets — http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=471649&interface=littlecomets — The day before we’re playing at KOKO in London for the NME giant xmas party, so head down and see us if you are southern or London-centred.

Also, our April tour is now on sale. We were pretty overwhelmed by the last run of headline dates so help us make this lot even more special (bleurgh haha):

Apr21:  GLASGOW  Oran Mor (t)
Apr22:  MANCHESTER  Academy 2  (i)
Apr23:  LEEDS  Cockpit   (c)
Apr24:  BIRMINGHAM  Academy 2    (k) 
Apr26:  LONDON  Scala     (e)
Apr27:  NORWICH  Arts Centre      (t) 
Apr28:  BRIGHTON  The Haunt       (s)

A LITTLE BIT MORE

Keep an eye out for this year’s advent calendar starting in the obvious place. It’ll be less work intensive for us but more prizeful for you.

Thanks-a-lot

Father, Son, Holey Spirit

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I’m a mat and I still retain

Accumulated stories of the tawdry years

I’ve been stamped out by rum-fuelled boots

The brute, us hiding under stairs.

Waiting for his thunder to hit

Waiting for his thunder and thinking is this it?

Waiting for his thunder to shout

Waiting for his thunder to tire itself out.

So I lie flat, in sheets worn thin

By his sublimations that reside within

For I’m the truth, the two in ten

That suffer at the whims of the weakest men.

Waiting for his thunder…

Each bruise I use as a chronicle of all that you gave me now

And every scar a reminder of the power that you had

The saddest part about the darkest hours

The implication that the fault was ours.

Waiting for his thunder…

Any greetings like?

Just to say firstly, thanks to everyone who came to see us over the last week. The four gigs were absolutely brilliant and despite the occasional argument about which service station to stop at we had an amazing time…

So much so that we’ve decided to announce another tour in APRIL 2012… it’ll be around about the same time as the new album, so you’ve got a plenty of time to get your ticket sorted out.

The dates are below… if you can’t wait until then we’ve also just added a NEWCASTLE headline date for DECEMBER 10TH.

10/12 NEWCASTLE Northumbria University (tickets)

20/04 GLASGOW Oran Mor (tix)
21/04 MANCHESTER Academy 2 (ticks)
22/04 LEEDS Cockpit (tickos)
23/04 BIRMINGHAM Academy 2 (tickays)
26/04 LONDON Scala (ticketoes)
27/04 NORWICH Arts Centre (ticketsies)
28/04 BRIGHTON The Haunt (tickets)

Thanks a lot,

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Hello everybody,

We haven’t been home much this year and feel like we have especially neglected our fellow north easterners recently. Split Festival was brilliant but only reminded us of how special our last gig at NORTHUMBRIA UNI (we actually felt like a proper band, it had lights and everything).

So to finish off our headline dates for 2011, we’ve decided to play another gig in our favourite venue on SATURDAY DECEMBER 10th. It’ll also be the first chance we get to play songs from our new album at home….

Tickets will be available from 9am on Tuesday 4th October at the following link….

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=471649&interface=littlecomets

Maybe see you there, if not tickets for Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and London are just about still available for October.

Tara,

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So I sink into my ercol, and greet you from the tumbling stirrups of this well worn seat…

Anyway: what’s going on with us? Well: we are busy touching the finishes to our new EP which hasn’t got a title yet (but the rejected pile includes - Smell the Glove, and What My Life Would Have Been Like if I Was Christian Bale).

In the meantime we are doing the following live gigs:

IN OCTOBER: 

16: BIRMINGHAM Academy 2 (tockets)
17: GLASGOW Oran Mor (tickets)
18: MANCHESTER Club Academy (teckets)
19: LONDON The Garage (tackets)

If you absolutely can’t wait until then, then we suggest that you enrol in one of the following UNIVERSITIES that we’re going to do a brief fresher’s week tour of in SEPTEMBER: 

22: CARDIFF CF10 SU
23: SHEFFIELD C Pod
24: STOKE The Lounge
28: LEEDS The Met Bar
29: BIRMINGHAM Bar 42 
02: NEWCASTLE Union Bar

* i think you can only come to these gigs if you are a member of the uni, but i was asked to put them on this blog so i’m just doing as i’m told :)

That’s it for now, we’ll have some new music for you soon. just hope that you like it. And by the way, we are up in SUNDERLAND for SPLIT FESTIVAL this weekend. Please come along as it is nicely organised and full of lovely bands.

Measles, Mumps and Rubella

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i’ve been singing gibberish live for the last few months but now the lyrics are finalised so i thought i’d share them with you…

her silhouette

is bleaker than a cigarette

on a tuesday morn

when i feel humanity slip

from broken hands down to her hips

realising

lethargy in both her eyes

and as the sun emancipates the dawn

her tanlines cackle with the power of

the allegory.

for a man

he’s deeper than the sundarbans

and the whistful way

that he could hold her stare

leaves heartache hanging in the swollen air

and as they fall apart

in separate beds

he carves “forever”

in the cheap wooden bedstead

realise

bitterness in both her eyes

and the way his words could strip

the walls she’s climbing

i worry about the way she lay

too much worry, worry, worry, worry.

he holds her down,

everything is anguish now

with the shallowness of every breath

he waits until she is bereft

realise

nothingness in both her eyes

and the way his words have stripped

the walls she’s climbing….

answers on a postcard.

AM/PM CHECK IT,
That is the new Hoxton greeting apparently. People there are like totally banal about time, redefine it, make it work for you. Anytime is treat time, yah?
Anyway, whilst Mickey has been plugged into a computer making drum sounds the rest of us decided to found a shop. Me and Matt have also wanted to open a sandwich shop so we took the first step by opening an online one here….
http://littlecomets.bigcartel.com/
Unfortunately we don’t do food, just T-shirts and bags at Primark prices, only we don’t exploit people to make them…. we wanted to call it “ANY SHOPS LIKE?!” but this seemed to lack direction.
Soooo, have a browse and a click.
The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit (Matt shotgunned Holy Spirit because it is most plausible, just)
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“Any Plans Like?” said Adam Cameron, and so it stuck.

We’ve actually got plenty of plans for the summer and so we thought we should share them with you. We’re currently in our sturdy van on the way to Stranraer to catch a ferry to BELFAST (our second favourite city) and before a truckers breakfast this message is getting furiously typed.

The first plan is to finish the GOMEZ tour we are currently on, the dates left are as follows:

18.06  BELFAST Spring and Airbrake

19.06  DUBLIN Olympia Theatre

20.06  BIRMINGHAM Hoomv Institute

21.06  LONDON Roundhouse

Beautiful.

After that, we’ll be intertwining recording and bijoux festivals for the remainder of the summer. We’re going to try to record at least 8 new songs and start to play them to you post-August. Just in case you’d like to come along to one of the festivals then peruse this list and DO!

09.07 WAKESTOCK Abersoch (North Wales)

10.07 LOUNGE ON THE FARM Canterbury

23.07 BEN AND JERRY’S Manchester

24.07 BEN AND JERRY’S London

05.08 BELLADRUM Ullapool

06.08 SHEEPSHEARER’S FESTIVAL Pickering

07.08 IGNITION FESTIVAL Newcastle Upon Tyne

12.08 LEEFEST Bromley

13.08 SUMMER SUNDAE Leicester 

26.08 LEEDS FESTIVAL Leeds

27.08 READING FESTIVAL Reading

17.09 SPLIT FESTIVAL Sunderland

After Leeds-Reading we’re going to take a week’s holiday to Scotland/Matt’s holiday home/Mickey’s fruit garden before planning how to release an album quickly and playing these four headline shows:

16.10 GLASGOW Oran Mor

17.10 BIRMINGHAM o2 Academy 2

18.10 MANCHESTER Club Academy 

19.10 LONDON The Garage 

That’s it really, we’re planning on being a three-legged table for quite a while as the physics of it work - we’ll just screw in an extra bit of wood when we play live.

Hope that is ok,

love from:

liberté, égalité & fraternité

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Hello penguins

After our recent gig alterations we’ve recovered sufficiently to be able to say that the mighty Gomez (one of Matt’s favourite bands) have kindly let us play with them on their June tour!

The dates are looking like dis, looking like dat:

09.06 BOURNEMOUTH academy 10.06 BRISTOL academy 11.06 LEEDS met uni 12.06 Day off for pies and rest 13.06 Another day off 14.06 MANCHESTER academy 2 15.06 CAMBRIDGE junction 16.06 NEWCASTLE academy 17.06 Travel to Ireland 18.06 BELFAST spring + airbrake 19.06 DUBLIN olympia 20.06 BIRMINGHAM hoomv institute 21.06 LONDON roundhouse

Absolutely beautiful! Hopefully see some of you there….

Citroën, Peugeot and Renault x x x

Hello everybody,

Despite having a remarkably good weekend at Camden Crawl, we woke up on Monday morning to a really bad ringing in our ears….

Due a combination of factors, Mark has decided to leave the band for a life of gainful employment. He has worked really hard over the last few years and is a tremendous performer both on and off stage, so we wish him well as he scoots off towards the sunset. Unfortunately, this means as we haven’t been able to find a replacement in time, we’ll have to POSTPONE our MAY headline dates in GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, BIRMINGHAM and LONDON until we can rehearse the set with a new drummer.

We’re sure that we’ll have a new person in place to be able to fulfill all festival dates across the summer, and ahead of recording some new songs in the next couple of months.

We’re very sorry and massively disappointed not to be able to play these gigs but all tickets will be valid for the rescheduled dates. Moreover, if any of you have booked hotels or travel that you will lose money on please let us know and although we’re too cash-strapped to pay you, we’ll make something lovely for you as compensation.

The NEW dates are as follows, hope you can still make it:

16Oct   BIRMINGHAM  Academy 2

17Oct   GLASGOW  Oran Morrrrrrr

18Oct   MANCHESTER  Club Academy

19Oct   LONDON  Garage 

Lots of sorry love,
Little Comets
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