Vanity post

I'm trying to write our new updated biography, with a view to getting some tasty gigs and sexy airplay in the new year, and I realised that we have some rather nice press quotes which I hadn't put up here. So now I will.

'Truley fantastic!' - Suck My Left One Radio

"The effect this performance has had on the Southend public appears akin to some sort of fever that's spreading rapidly and causing people to break into epic speeches....You need to see this band and catch the fever too!!"

- Noisyzine! ..

"They're sweet musical niavety with reckless abandonment" - Richard Thompson (not that one)

"Overall, not the best band in the world, but at least they're making the effort!" - Level 4 magazine blog here

We were Band Of The Day! Look here

"I've been told to ask you to stop now. That's not the kind of music we were looking for." Costa Coffee, Colchester.

"Not everyone was gay in 82" - Tom Robinson

'82 Works as social commentary as much as it does retro new-wave. Flying Lizards -meet- The Waitresses with nice better guitar riffs.' - Metro Underground internet radio

"I think they're great" - Indie Mp3

"They're such musos" - Eddie Curry, Pheonix FM.

The full A New Band a Day review is here, please google their site and support them though X: 

>I like surprises. Well, to a point – those, “darling, I’m pregnant,” shocks don’t get easier even the 14th time around – but as a rule, happy accidents and unexpected pleasures are the best bits of life.

Bands that spring a tasty surprise make me want to hunt them down and smother them to death with hugs, such is the prevalence of charmless, bland bands. So, usher in quietly Today’s New Band, Ten Tigers from Southend, whose songs veer from spazzy-punk to contemplative-campfire singing, and don’t give a monkey’s what you think.

For example: their song Superlucky is a simple, crunchy, yelpy, sharply-female buzzfest that sounds like it’d be a great song to open a gig with. It’d set out the stall, to use football manager’s parlance, and everyone would know exactly what to expect. Except their other songs aren’t even like it at all, or even like each other. Possessing the shortest attention span in pop, song ’82has a verse that’s a bold attempt to rescue the Wah-Wah pedal from Blaxploitatio-clichés, before strolling into a lovely, heavy, yomping chorus of “Everyone was gay in 1982″. It goes without saying that Runaway andSunny Shades are altogether different again (a summertime lilt and the aforementioned campfire sunset sing-song respectively).

They’re hit-and-miss, but that’s a given – it seems an ingrained part of Ten Tigers’ nature. So what if you only like half of their songs? It’s better than having middling feelings towards a band that treads a carefully safe route. A sensation of swinging between love and hate makes you feel alive, dagnammit, so ponder their songs here!

The '82 video is here!

The video to '82 is here! Many thanks to everyone who took part - in no particular order : Ste McCabe, Maria and the Gay, Dee and Dan from Death of the Elephant, Chris Davison, Andy Superduck, Richard, Malc, Dave's dragons, Sophia and Arnold Schwarzenegger. M made it with additional camera work from CK, Phoenix FM, Manda and Dom. Please feel free to repost!


Untitled from Emma Reed on Vimeo.

Album preview

Well, there's no point lying, we're not going to have the album done in time for the launch party this coming Friday.  But we're going to celebrate anyway, dagnamit. And we do have 4 tracks all mixed (by CK) and mastered (by John Hannon) and you can listen to them here, and hopefully on some radio stations pretty soon. There will be a mailing list at the launch party, if you give us your email address we'll send you a coupon for some money off the album when it does finally 'drop', as well as an update on the new date and maybe even a free gift for being so patient.

Superlucky

'82

The Tiger Who Came For Tea

Christmas on Prozac

Tiger tiger tiger tiger

Amusing article we get a mention in :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nowplaying/2011/05/too-many-tigers.shtml

Launch poster

Surprises

Phoenix FM/Creative studios have just put up a whole page of video and photos from our session we did for them back in the winter at midnight!  We were a bit sleepy as you can probably see but what an ace set of footage, thanks guys!

http://www.phoenixfm.com/2011/02/13/24-hour-creative-sessions-ten-tigers-2/

Also, we can now formally announce that our debut album Milk Teeth will be out on the 9th December, available as a CD or download.  We're having a launch party at the Sunrooms and supporting us on the night will be our friends Ste McCabe and Art Gruppe.  Here's what the front cover will look like

Any Love is Good Love

So here it is, our track for the Any Love is Good Love compilation M has been compiling with Ste McCabe.

Ten Tigers - Any Love is Good Love

There are 19 tracks covering many different styles, including riot grrl, lo-fi, dance, indiepop, spoken word, and some things we don't have names for. The idea of the CD is to get people talking about homophobia and transphobia, which are somewhat hidden issues in our society.  Sure, we are now seeing more gay characters on TV and it's not such a taboo as it used to be, and with civil partnerships there has been a move towards making 'gayness' more mainstream and visible.  But jibes based on sexuality are commonplace, in a way that racist jokes (thankfully) are not. Violent attacks against gay or trans people seem to be hitting the news every day - on one hand, at least they are being reported, but we really aren't going to settle for such low achievements.  Ten Tigers believe that everyone has a basic right to be an individual, and that they should not have to defend that right to anyone. We are all made up of thousands of different elements which make us unique, and to single out one facet of a person and treat them badly because you don't understand it is a complete waste of the opportunity you had to meet the rest of them.  It is everyone's responsibility to challenge prejudice, and not just to get angry but to sit down and talk with people about where their negative feelings and actions are coming from.  If these topics are never discussed, then how can we expect kids to grow up feeling at ease with them? Things which are kept secret seem alien and threatening to us all. There will always be people who feel that homosexuality goes against their religious beliefs, or that it is a world they would rather avoid, but there doesn't always have to be people who carry around so much anger that they feel the need to take it out on others.  We need to get everyone talking and diffuse the aggression.  Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism....these things are not bogeymen, waiting to leap out and attack.  They are just realities that some people live with.  Historically they have been dirty secrets, scandals, crimes, mental diseases. We can't expect the whole world to suddenly flip from these memories and think in a new way.  But we can start the tap dripping.

Who's with us?

http://www.facebook.com/AnyLoveisGoodLove

Big Gay Weekend

Oh my stars, what an amazing weekend! On August 19th/20th we teamed up with Ste McCabe and Maria and the Gay (please check both acts out if you haven't already) to storm the Cornerhouse in Cambridge and Toska's Temptation, a night held at the Sundowners club in Margate to mark Toska Wilde's 50th birthday.

We hadn't heard or met M+tG before the Friday so it was a fantastic surprise when they hit the stage and blew us all away with their set.  Our own set went pretty well although there were only the other bands and a few pub regulars to hear it, Ste was singing along with '82 from the audience which was quite a boost, and the Cornerhouse is such a lovely venue we had a great time. Poor Amy ('the Gay') got a little manhandled by one of the regulars which we all tried to laugh off, I mean, it isn't actually funny, but short of starting a bar fight, sometimes women have to put up with this crap at gigs.  Sort it out, general public!

After Ste got everyone dancing with his wonderful mix of politics, humour and beats we went outside to checkout M+tG's tour vehicle, a really cute camper van called Bambi.  Manda fell in love with all the mod cons.  I tried to stay loyal to our van Freda, as she's been through the wars lately, but I had to admit my head was turned.  Then we got thrown out of the carpark and travelled in convoy to Manda's house for NICE BISCUITS.  I had promised everyone NICE BISCUITS but not warned Manda, so we stopped for petrol and NICE BISCUITS and had great fun watching Ste's boyfriend Lukasz wandering round and round the petrol station, somewhat drunken, while we played Ennio Morricone to soundtrack him. 

Maria had driven all the way from Manchester that day and it was stupid O'clock by this point so we gave her a cup of sugar with some coffee in it and then drove in convoy all the way back to Tiger Towers. After much chatting, sleep and breakfast Manda helped package some of M+tG's albums, we all swapped badges (our new ones arrived that morning), did a lot more chatting and then realised we were already running late for the soundcheck in Margate. 

Sundowners is situated right on the beach, and it was a beautiful, baking hot day. We got in a fluster getting there and then getting up the stairs, but when we opened the door we were hit by this view and all stunned into silence.

The night was an absolute riot!  We got to see our old friends The Get, who's Lamacq-endorsed single 'Hit!' lived up to its name and caused quite a lot of excitement at the bar, and it was clear as soon as Toska wheeled out his cross-dressing anthem 'Hard as Nailvarnish' that this was a crowd ready to sing along and party! The theme of the evening was 'punk, glam and drag' and there were many different interpretations of this.  The music was great (and varied) and there was a tasty buffet, but the real charm was the fact that everyone was totally free to be who they wanted, and everyone seemed to be really encouraging each other. Manda had our shoes photographed by one lady, my hair by another, all in all we felt like stars. When it came to our turn to take the stage we were very nervous, but Ste, Amy, Maria, and Gary from the Get all started singing and dancing to 82!  It was the best gig moment to date, although I did feel oddly like I was leading an aerobics class. Then, after 'Tiger Who Came to Tea', they started chanting 'Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!' Absolutely amazing.

  

Pauland CK with Gary from the Get, a man who usually gets referred to as our biggest fan :-)

We were then quite hyped up for the rest of the evening, and it was little surprise that the crowd fell for M+tG as much as we did and answered the call for lighters during one of their power ballads.

Ste, I think, was a bit of a revelation to the audience who hadn't seen him before.  He has a real way with words and somehow manages to address the serious issues in a way that makes everyone feel unified, strengthened and positive for the future.  In some ways I guess the whole night was a punkish stand against societies 'norms', but Ste really summed up a lot of big ideas and reminded us that we had a lot worth fighting for.  If someone else had done a similar set it could have been a sobering moment but we were all too busy dancing and chanting his name to be brought down.  It's easy to be angry and dissilusioned but sometimes someone finding the words to express it for you can change your world. 

Toska then arrived in the last of his many outfits to sing his final song, followed by the incendiary 

Louis Drayton (frequently flashed genitals not pictured), and somehow it was all over before 11pm.

Thanks to everyone involved for an amazing weekend, where we got to travel, dress up, be entertained, educated, surprised, intoxicated, licked, worshipped, meet people we'd only spoken to online, remembered things we'd accidently forgotten mattered and most of all made new friends.

Nostalgia part 1

I'm going to put up some reposts from the old My Space blog.  They're better written than anything I churn out these days....firstly, here's part 1 and part 2 of my in-depth report of our gig for Brighton Fringe festival, way back in 2008.  Part 3 was never written.  Maybe I'll try to do that.  Also there's an interview I did at the time.  And some photos.  I'm in an archiving kind of mood.

Brighton blog part 1 (by M)

Current mood:adventurous

Wow.

My head's still a bit fritzed, to be honest, but I wanted to type out some stuff before things get crazy again.

THINGS LEARNED IN BRIGHTON:

5,000 flyers for one gig is simultaneously too many and not enough.

Brighton is not the feminist mecca of England and you will still get your backside groped by the cloakroom attendant at Volks, unless we can get him sacked.

Lydia Lunch is a goddess.

You need the planning skills of Nasa to see even a fraction of the festival.

I actually miss the aggressive frisson of Westcliff when I'm away. Not least because if I'd been in a Westcliff mood that cloakroom attendant would have gone home bleeding.

AMBITIONS FULFILLED IN BRIGHTON

I got to DJ in a club!

I got heckled by Sim Fashoda!

We played '82 in Brighton!

Paul stole one of Paige Mullet's drumsticks!

A beat poet called me 'sister'!

MISTAKES MADE IN BRIGHTON

I actually expected people to eat salad on holiday

I accidently kissed Mel Mullet on the neck when I was aiming for her face

I came home.

Brighton blog part 2 (by M)

Current mood:contemplative

The story of our Brighton gig goes way back to January, when I got a bit bored and decided it would be a good idea. Manda and I met in Brighton and we make little pilgrimages back there about once a year. Playing a gig down there seemed like the most fun idea and being part of a fringe festival an even better one. After giving Soph Noisy very little option the event became Noisy Night Does Brighton and she was soon organising a photo exhibit and goody bags and badges to make the event proper special.

I had to find a venue. Even though the festival was 5 months away, most of the good venues were either booked out or totally out of my league. Volks were advertising on the fringe website as somewhere to hold gigs, so I found some footage of a gig held there on You Tube. It looked noisy and messy and grotty and unpleasant so I decided it would be perfect. Also it has a basement which I figured would be perfect for the photo exhibition. I booked a date early in the month (no particular logic there) but couldn't get a weekend, or even a Thursday, so Wednesday it had to be. I figured this would be OK as during festival season in a student town people go out every night of the week anyway. Plus there would be more competition on a Thursday.

We had to figure a line up. The Machines were a definite from the start, they were the first band we thought of asking and they said yes right away. The we asked Johnny and the Mullets, which was a bit odd as we'd never spoken to them before even though we'd seen them live a couple of times. They were pretty damn keen as well and suggested busking down there to promote the show, which was a top idea. It didn't actually happen, but it was a top idea. Then we asked F451, who were having some kind of creative hiatus stand off which eventually lead to them splitting up, so that was a no-go. Then we simultaneously asked Fashoda Crisis and The Beatroots, figuring we had plenty of time for 5 bands to play given that everyone writes short songs. The Beatroots were so up for it we recorded a video of Miles saying hello to everyone in Brighton, and telling them how much he wanted to play. Then we realised a new Beatroot was going to be born that week so it was a dumb idea. Luckily Fashoda were up for it. They said they were going to bring a minibus full of people! Which was a great idea. It didn't happen, but it was a great idea.



As usual the flyer designing fell to Soph, who did a rather ace job of it, and we had some money we hadn't been expecting left over from the gig at the Ship so we used it to print up 5,000 flyers. Yes, 5,000. This seemed reasonable given that we would be there for a whole week. Unfortunately Brighton council then slapped a flyering ban on the city, pretty much the day after I collected them from the printers. Suddenly things were looking a bit worrying. Steve Machine made us a page on the 'Virtual Flyers' website which was rather cool and the lady who ran it liked our interviews and agreed to feature us on the day.

The period between January and May was mainly one of typing away at the PC trying to promote the gig. Soph and I also took a trip down to Brighton for the fringe launch party, and stayed the next day to flyer the city (by putting stacks of flyers neatly in shops as per the new regs) and put some sample CDs in the record shops to entice people into coming along. We had got stuck in traffic on the way there and so missed Patti Plinko, which was a double tragedy as her shows had sold out by the time we tried to buy them for the festival too. The launch was kind of weird, we weren't really sure what to do with ourselves having arrived late and it wasn't possible to get anywhere near the stage or the bar. They had promised us it would be 'lavish' but it wasn't really, and we had fought our way through abysmal weather to get there. So we went and had a Subway in our B+B and had a look through the fringe brochure. Turned out that a lot of the cool stuff was happening at the end of the month so we were going to miss it. Also turned out that everything was more expensive than we thought and that we were clashing with the Dub Pistols, which was a shame.

People were a bit slow on the goody bag idea, even though we were offering free publicity to bands, none of them seemed to want it. Then The Get stepped up to the table and recorded a special EP as well as digging out some flexidiscs from the 70's. Then suddenly a fortnight before the gig we found ourselves driving round the Essex and Hertfordshire countryside picking up so many CDs for the goodybags that we had to upgrade the bags themselves to it all in. In the need punters got at least 11 CDs, badges, a flexidisc, stickers, flyers, a balloon, some sunflower seeds and even in some cases a t shirt. Fitting 50 of these amazing gifts into the boot of the van was not going to be easy. Also by this point we only had a few photographs for the exhibition. It was a bit strange that no-one wanted to ride our coattails and promote their own stuff, we'd thought that was the one thing we could rely on.

The journey down to Brighton was epic, on account of the QE2 bridge being closed. Luckily Paul Travolta had stocked up on travel games but Freda, our trusty van, has no stereo so also luckily Soph brought a portable CD player. When we arrived at our house was discovered a massive garden and it was decided right away that all the bands had to come back after the show and do cartwheels for our entertainment. It didn't happen, but it was great idea.

Next time: The festival begins.

10 Questions: An interview with Emma Reed of Ten Tigers

Yes, it’s “Noisy Night Does Brighton!” This time our spotlight falls on Emma Reed, lead vocalist and guitarist of Ten Tigers who answers our 10 Questions today. The Tigers are a band with lots of attitude and energy so lets hear from Emma….

1. What inspired you to become a musician and performer?

The desire to keep living as a student, but on the road! Doesn’t everyone want that? To work with their best friends making something unique. In broader terms though I was forced into music at the age of four when my headmistress told me I had no future unless I learnt to play the recorder. Bizarrely, she was right!

2.What is your show about and what should the public expect from your show?

I think the main theme of the evening is energy, we’re billing it as a punk show but that is more due to the attitude than the constraints of a genre. Brighton and Southend both have long love affairs with exciting aggressive and liberating music and that’s something we really wanted to celebrate. There will be lots of short fast songs!

My band, Ten Tigers, play a lot of different instruments and every song sounds very different from the last, so it’s pretty lively and attention grabbing.

Johnny and The Mullets have a more straightforward approach but there’s bits of punk and bits of disco, some heartbreak and some fighting back. They’re a girl band but that’s just anatomy. They gig like crazy at home and always get a good crowd.

Fashoda Crisis have been compared to McClusky, they have a really searing delivery and the most hysterically funny and obscene on stage banter. They suffer no fools! Seeing them live is a bit like a hot blast of air in the face.

And the headliners, The Machines, will probably do their own hype on this site but they’re proper, old school, actually bloody fantastic style trad punk. If that isn’t a complete oxymoron! They’ve being doing it since ‘77 and there’s no sign of them stopping yet, thankfully! It’s quite a varied bag on paper but when you listen to tracks by each band together it makes total sense. We’re all shaking life by the ankles to get at every last drop.

We’re also holding an exhibit in the basement to showcase the work of some of our favourite Essex music photographers, which I’m quite excited about. Many of them never exhibit offline and it’s a shame that no one sees some of these shots because a good photo can change the whole course of a band’s career, the whole course of music history, in fact. Without the musicians there would be no photos, without the photos there would be no legends.

And….. we will be giving away goody bags to the first fifty people through the door to make it a bit more of a special event and to encourage people to come early. My band’s on first so that’s a pretty important angle for me!

3. What is your favourite Festival or Fringe and why?

Well we’re newbies to fringing but Manda, Sophia (who writes Noisyzine) and I really enjoy going toladyfests, there’s a real sense of openess and a desire to seek out the new and alternative. Plus that culture goes hand in hand with workshops and fanzines and cake, all of which can be immense fun! Anywhere that you can try new ways to express yourself or new ways of looking at the world and not be judged has to be some kind of utopia for the human soul. We all need intellectual space, which is hard to find.

4. What’s your best advice for aspiring artists musicians on the Festival/Fringe circuit?

We’ll tell you when we’ve survived this one!

5. What is your funniest experience and also your worst experience performing or attending a Fringe/Festival?

My funniest experience is also my worst experience, I’m just too shy to say!

6. As you travel performing to different festivals/fringes, where is your favourite place to vacation/chill out and why?

As mentioned we’re newbies to fringing but Brighton looks great!

7. Who is the person you most admire and why?

I don’t think it’s good to put all your faith or admiration in one bucket. Everyone human is going to let you down. I think it’s better to look at each person and then try to take on board their strengths. Hmm, that sounds like I’m one of the Borg from Star Trek! What I mean is, you should strive to be your own hero. Form a composite of what you love about others and then aim for it.

8. What is the best tip you have ever been given?

‘If it feels right, do it. If it doesn’t, then don’t.’ My mum said that and then got angry about the consequences! But she was right. It’s the only way to live.

9. What is the best book/s you have read and why do you like them?

Possibly the best book I’ve read was ‘Notice’ by Heather Lewis. It’s a devastating and harrowing tale which is at least semi autobiographical. It’s about a woman who falls between the cracks of life so totally and is just horrifically abused by everyone she meets, which sounds completely unreadable but it’s actually very compelling.

It just goes places and says things which people don’t say, and the constant fear of how much actually happened to the poor girl makes you feel you have to read on. You have to stay with her as if that will somehow protect her from what might come next. The author committed suicide though. The character is very universal even though she’s living an unusual life, she feels like your daughter, your friend, your enemy, your crush, your little sister. It’s horrible and I’d never lend it to anyone but it’s also completely wonderful.

10. If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?

We’d all go back to the barter system. Although that might make Ebay a bit harder to use….

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 6:49 am  

Photojournalism

This is us at the moment

And this is us in August

I should probably mention that we're on the look out for gigs in September and December, if anyone would like to put us on.  

Stop! Hannon time.......

On the 27th June we took a new step and went into a pro recording studio for the first time ever, in order to speed along our new track for the Any Love is Good Love album.

We went to 'No Recording', the home of John Hannon who is a bit great and who has recorded M before for the Lost Harbours' album, he's recorded lots of famous people too but we know you don't care about them. 

The process was a massive relief for CK, who normally does the bulk of our recording duties and all of the mixing.  Here is is smiling because someone else is doing the hard work. 

We finished the drums, rhythm guitar and some nifty bongos, all in record time, and even had chance to ponder the scenery.  There was a horse!  And a pink wheelbarrow.  Oh, if only it were always this laid back! 

Of course poor Paul was drumming and strumming his little heart out, although I think he still has a lot of fun.  And John seemed to survive the Tiger experience, which is just as well, as he has plenty more work to do on songs for pretty much every decent band in the area. Top bloke! 

Tomorrow Manda is coming to Essex for a marathon recording day in our home studio. I hope it's not either too hot or stormy, don't want lighting noises on all the tracks!

In other news, Frieda the band van is suffering somewhat, we had to pull out of our gig at the Haymakers because two third of us couldn't get there.   We have two gigs booked in August but we're not going to book any more between now and then until she's up and running.  Which gives us more time to get the recording out of the way at least. 

Ladyfest

Last night we played Ladyfest Essex, which was handily in Southend.

It was organised by our friend Hayley and all proceeds went to Refuge.  A lady from Refuge did a talk earlier in the day and explained that two women a week are killed by a current or former partner in the UK, and that women's charities get a fraction of the money that people donate to donkey sanctuaries.  I don't think we can blame the donkeys, though. They are rather cute.

Manda was right next to a giant fan which made her look rather dramatic

We were mightily impressed by the super friendly Candy Panic Attack

Scarlet Echo had a drummer with no sleeves

Death of the Elephant were fab as always, here is Dee wearing a necklace 'M' made

M and Sophia Noisyzine also ran a stall with crafts and zines and we took £44 for the charity which was pretty impressive. We also debuted our new song 'Trinity'.  Soph took a video!

Thanks to Hayley and everyone who made it down, and Bill the overstretched soundfella. 

Ain't nobody here but.........

Last bits of recording for Milk Teeth are taking place, against a backdrop of personal life dramas and germs as per usual.  No animals were harmed during the making of this album, but it was tested on Manda's chickens, who like to peep through the window of her shed while we're recording. Egg production has been unaffected so it can't be too bad.

Next gig Ladyfest Essex, http://ladyfestessex.wordpress.com/
which is only £3 to get in and all proceeds go to Refuge, M will have a stall there selling crafts and zines with Sophia  Noisyzine as well.  We're hoping to unveil new song 'Trinity', get there early so you don't miss us or the wonderful Art Gruppe.  We then return to Cambridge on the 22nd June.

This weekend we have started work on our song for the Any Love is Good Love compilation, which is a CD put together by M and Ste McCabe to raise awareness of homophobic and transphobic violence.  Why, 'transphobic' isn't even in the spell checker, that's how much this CD is needed.  Our track will be an exclusive, and other confirmed artists include the Lovely Eggs, Das Wanderlust, SaltyLips, Pocket Gods, Stella Zine, The Get and Toska Wilde.  We're also looking forward to playing a gig in Margate in August with The Get and Toska, so it's going to be a busy and varied summer.  If you're on facebook and would like to help us spread the word about this compilation, here's the link. http://www.facebook.com/AnyLoveisGoodLove  we need everyone to help make us much noise about it as possible, so that we get a chance to talk about the reasons behind it.  It's going to be released through Cherryade records in September and we've got some sleevenotes written by Peter Tatchell, all a bit exciting!

Stay safe in the sun

TT X

Creative

My my, listened to the first airing of our session for Phoenix FM. It's fair to say we winced a bit in places, but being sandwiched between They Might Be Giants and The Beatles is probably a once in a lifetime experience! 

Cambridge!

Yes!  We have finally played Manda's hometown!

We had a fantastic night at the Cornerhouse, it's such a nice pub!  The audience was really good and we had a laugh with the other artists, who tonight were:

Tom Burgess

The Tiger MCs (for the last time, at least for a while)

And Karmadillo

Shown here performing a song about a zombie. 

We got Tom to take a photo of us with Tiger MCs, as it was the last gig of our tour, sob!

Now we're going to lock ourselves away until the album is finished, we're not far off now, just need to get some drum parts done which is proving difficult with everyone's busy work schedules.  In the meantime we'll be tuning in to Phoenix FM to hear our session on Wednesday evening, hooray! 

Gift Shop

Last Saturday we took part in this

http://www.phoenixfm.com/story/4665.php

Basically a marathon recording session in a gift shop.  Phoenix FM were recording 24 sessions in 24 hours, and we played the witching hour slot, with live versions of Sunny Shades, Runaway and 82 (with special sax solo just for the night). It was actually a really nice space to play in, and we had a rather good time.  We were photographed an interviewed and all the footage will see the light of day soon, once the crew has had time to sleep!

Seeing as it was in aid of the Essex Wildlife trust and I wanted a souvenir, I purchased a small giraffe keyring.

If you follow this link to our bandcamp page you can download the acoustic version of Superlucky we did for our last session for Phoenix, many moons ago, for free.

http://tentigers.bandcamp.com/

Lovely Eggs

On the 6th Feb we had a gig at the Railway supporting the Lovely Eggs!  Also on the bill were Plantman and Tumble Dryer Babies.  Everyone was ace.

 I managed to take some photos.

Although as you might expect Audie's ones were a lot better, although somewhat hampered by the dark stage

And the venue was totally sold out!  Although obviously that was the Lovely Eggs, not us.

And Eddie Curry took a video of Superlucky.  Thanks sir! 

And someone else caught us fluffing the start to Sunny Shades