Spring update

Hey there everyone, hope you're all well. Got lots of little bits and bobs to report.

We are very honoured to report that one of our badges has snuck into the Thames Delta exhibition at the Beecroft in Leigh on Sea. The exhibition celebrates the strong musical heritage of Southend and the surrounding area and most of the people featured have been signed and successful and documented, so it is a bit of a sneaky coup. The exhibition carries on until the 16th June and entry is free. The Beecroft is closed Mondays. We've also had some airplay thanks to the inimitable Ms Toska Wilde,

http://www.mixcloud.com/SonicDiary/sonic-diary-103-part-1/

 As part of the promotional lead up to our next gig, Toska's Temptation in Salford. We've never been to Salford before so we're rather excited. ROAD TRIP!

Also we're just about to launch our own internet radio show! http://www.mixcloud.com/Ten_Tigers/

Jenson Button

Hooray, our song Jenson Button has arrived to herald in the start of the new F1 season!

You can download the track for free from here: Bandcamp

HEY! YEAH!

We have a new song! And not just written, but recorded and available for free download from this coming Sunday, 18th March, start of the new F1 season. It's our ode to our current favourite driver, Jenson Button. He's exciting to watch because he's great at overtaking and zooming to the front from the back of the pack, also he is good at driving in the rain when other drivers often struggle, so he tends to liven things up a bit without crashing or going off the track and generally putting himself out of the race like Montoya used to (although we loved him for it). Anyway it'll be available from Soundcloud, Bandcamp and Last FM. and probably directly from our website as well. M has also made a video for the song, it's rather silly.

Nearly forgot....

Oh yeah, M also did a little solo thing, although not that solo as Paul did some drumming on one of the tracks. It's a departure from TT or Lost Harbours stuff, just some things she wanted to get out of her head, all recorded on a dictaphone with minimum takes and no real gameplan.

http://soundcloud.com/pettaluck/sets

Russia

So, for as long as anyone can remember, M has been pretty much obsessed with all things Russian.  Right now there's all sorts of upheaval over there, although the election at the end of the week seems to be unlikely to change much at all. But, this is a music blog, so I shall focus on the two points most salient to our band.

1) On the downside, there's the new law in St Petersburgh which is sort of like section 28 (the law in the 80's which stopped people 'promoting' homosexuality) only a lot bigger and scarier. Strangely this story doesn't seem to be being covered by the BBC online but you can find it elsewhere. It's all pretty ludicrous - basically you either pretend that gay and bi people don't exist, or you have to mention that we're all sick and evil.  They seem to have gotten the word 'gay' confused with the word 'vampire' or something.  The upshot is that you probably shouldn't email a copy of '82 to your comrades anytime soon.

2) Unless you comrade is one of these ladies and you have a safe address for her.

http://pussy-riot.livejournal.com/

Pussy Riot are amazing.  And they've got a track on the free comp I blogged about below. We are honoured to share that tiny scrap of history.

In all seriousness I'd like to get some copies of the Any Love album into Russia when it's released but it's a pretty big fire to prod.  It's important to remember that no one is free until everyone is free, no-one is equal until everyone is equal. Things can sometimes get tough in the UK due to prejudice but at least it isn't officially state sanctioned. Anymore. A lot of people had to fight to change that and the fight for many rages on.

We have been compiled!

riotgrrrlberlin.tumblr.com/compilation02

We're on this ace FREE compilation of riot girl and generally girly focused musics.  Our track is the album mix of Superlucky which hasn't been available before.

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!