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"New album Nights Out, out now!"
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 | Are you a aspiring filmmaker? | Il y a 198 jours | ||
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| Our track 'On Dancefloors' has been included for this year's BBC Electric Proms 'New Music Shorts', where £5,000 is up for grabs to make a music based short film inspired by the song, The winners will be shown at the festival in October. Visit the link if to submit your film! http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/2... | ||||
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| Topman CTRL | Il y a 295 jours | ||
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| Next month sees the launch of Topman CTRL – a new music site that invites a different act each month to take charge. Kicking off on March 2nd with Metronomy as the first Controller, Joe and co will not only be programming a gig with some of their favourite acts, they'll also be revealing their deepest darkest influences across music, film, literature and a whole lot more. In Joe's own words: "Topman CTRL is a great chance for me to go out and see some bands that I really like. The best part is that I also get to force people to hear the music that has influenced me, or at least force them to read about my influences. I plan to be in everyone's face for a month.” You'll be able to check it out right here (http://www.myspace.com/topmanctrl) | ||||
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| "Nights Out" is just £5.99 this month. | Il y a 305 jours | ||
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| February only! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M... | ||||
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| SUPERCALI – LOS ANGELES, 19, 21 & 28 JANUARY 2009 | Il y a 305 jours | ||
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| GABRIEL METRONOMY'S TOUR BLOG Wha did Diddy did? http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... He did West Hollywood, bitch! http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... I absolutely love this place. Does that make me a terrible person? http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... Pools, parties, plastic tits and palm trees. I want to live like this until my friends and family intervene. http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... I never imagined I’d say this, but I think Metronomy have switched allegiance. Bye bye Brooklyn, hola Beverly Hills! The East Coast is just too cold this time of year, and everyone there is way too uptight. Chill, guys! We made a little base camp in Hollywood at the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel , which is really cute and has a diner called ‘Swingers’ downstairs. Allegedly it’s THE Swingers diner – in LA, everywhere is allegedly THE somewhere from a movie. Anyway. Our publisher and old pal Shiner came along for the ride – he said he had to help with the guestlist or something. He assured us the reason he came along definitely wasn’t to hang out in the sunshine and drink cocktails. Thanks for the help Shiner! http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... We also got the chance to spend some time with Stephen's old buddy Duncan. He lives in a beautiful house with his wife Madonna and daughter Ruby, and he's converted the poolhouse into a boy's bunker complete with Scalextric set. Living the dream! Madonna cooked us some amazing barbeque food on our first night in LA, and we were able to hang out with them a whole bunch during our trip. Thanks for the hospitality guys! http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... Good times all round, then. We DJed at the Standard Hotel (where there’s a model lying in a booth behind the reception desk all night long), and played two shows, one little party and one big show, at the most beautiful venue: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... We’ve got a load more photos from LA but basically they’re all of us getting drunk so they’re pretty boring. Look out for us on LastNightsParty.com or whatever. All I can say is, thanks LA, you killed it for us, we’ll expect to hear back from you about the screenplay we dropped off. In the meantime, here’s a photo of a mural of Billy Crystal to keep you going till next time. Adios amigos! http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... | ||||
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| OUR SPECIFIC COAST ADVENTURE – USA, 20–28 JANUARY 2009 | Il y a 305 jours | ||
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| GABRIEL METRONOMY'S TOUR BLOG http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... Woo hoo! We’re back in the home of the brave! Gimme an MSG sandwich with a xanthium gum chaser, to go! The food here is so pervertedly more-ish that I’m like the dog in the experiment that keeps pressing the ‘deliver food’ button with its paw until its stomach explodes. This little morsel was served up at the Black Bear Café in Yreka, California, a stop-off on our brutal 20 hour drive from Seattle to LA. I should have held up a 20p to scale – that plate is about the size of my torso. Seriously though, there’s been a bit of a sea-change here since last time we were here. There’s a new guy at the helm and now everyone’s friendly and you don’t have to pay for anything in shops and all drugs have been legalised. We were actually in Las Vegas for the inauguration, but it didn’t seem to impinge on anyone’s conscience there too much. They were too busy HIGH ROLLING! http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... Here’s lucky Joseph with the money he won. Me and Oscar, of course, lost heavily. Plus ça change, eh? Vegas is basically everything everyone’s told you about - I don’t need to go into it here. It was the first stop on a trip up to the heartbreakingly beautiful Pacific North West. You go from the America that puts you off your drink by bragging to you about how many Spring Break titties he’s squeezed, to the America that you want to put your arm around and say, “hey, you were all right all along, weren’t you?” You go from this: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... To this: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... Now, call me a pussy fag homo liberal, but I’d like to buy this sign a beer. Portland Oregon is rad. It’s where our driver, Sean, lives and it’s like a little stab at utopia nestled in Ewok-land style countryside. Vancouver, likewise. Seattle – ditto. Good times and thanks to everyone who came to the shows and made them so special. I think an honourable mention here should go our touring partners, the Mae Shi. http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m... Hanging out with them is like going on a stag weekend with the cast of ‘Yo Gabba Gabba!’ It was so nice playing with another novelty band. LA next – that gets a blog all of its own. Pip pip! | ||||
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| Our Duggie | Il y a 318 jours | ||
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| Australia Please see the Australia photo ablum (Photo 1 Australia) Look at Oscar, ignoring Jørn Utzon's graceful, expressionist Sydney Opera House and the sights of beautiful Sydney Harbour. He's on the lookout for something, I'm sure of it. (Photo 2 Australia) Is it the much-maligned Ibis he seeks - the scavenger bird and scourge of Sydney, cousin in temperament to the familiar seagulls of Oscar's native Brighton? There sure are plenty of them at the Botanical Gardens, where Oscar is roaming. Watch out Oscar - he'll steal the sandwiches from your picnic rucksack quicker than you can say 'Jack Robinson'! (Photo 3 Australia) Or is young Oscar in search of some authentic antipodean sustenance - perhaps a sizzling sausage fresh from the outdoor barbies of Bronte beach? We were treated to a bbq by our promoters, Popfrenzy. We swam in the sea, sank a few beers, had a great time. Mmmm - smells good, doesn't it Oscar? - but no, that's not it. (Photo 4 Australia) Maybe it's novelty he's after - something reminiscent of home, but just that little bit different? Maybe he's shunning the chicken sausage in favour of a Whopper meal, this time not from Burger King - but from Hungry Jacks. I think not - that's just a little bit too weird. I can tell Oscar's in the mood for a real hunk of beef. Wait - at last! Here he is now! (Photo 5 Australia) Phew! Quite the head turner, eh ladies? Quite the windswept go-getter! I'll admit it - it wasn't just Oscar; all of us in Metronomy got in a little bit of a tiz over Douglas Lance Gibson, Promoter's Rep: Our Duggie. A man's man from rural New South Wales, rugged and golden, but with an encyclopedic knowledge of all kinds of obscure indie bands with lots of 'V's in their names. Pretty much the perfect guide to Oz. Duggie accompanied us on our three date tour of Australia - Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. With him on board, how could anything have gone wrong? We had a ball. Thanks to everyone who came to the shows - hopefully we'll see you later in the year, Down Under. PS - Sorry ladies: Our Duggie's taken! | ||||
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| AUCKLAND'S KNOBBLIEST KNEES - NEW ZEALAND, 9-13 JANUARY | Il y a 331 jours | ||
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| Hey hey folks! Welcome to Auckland's knobbliest knees competition - we are officially the southern hemisphere's whitest, pastiest poms! Can you guess who's who? I can see you're wondering why there are four sets of pale legs here - Metronomy are Joseph, Gabriel, Oscar and... who? Have we got a 'touring drummer'? Nah! Too much chatback. Have we employed a comely merch girl to attract that extra tour lucre? No chance, we're not that smart. Instead, we've brought along Stephen, our manager. Stephen has been doing a great job of managing us from his private hotel rooms so far this tour, while we all share. Honestly, our career would probably collapse if he wasn't here to help us drink all the free beer. He'll be playing a bit-part role in these blogs over the coming weeks, I'm sure. The shows in New Zealand were super-fun. Thankyou, people of Auckland and Wellington! We played both shows with our old friends The Teenagers, who were finishing up their year long world tour. It was an honour to play with them. Here they are with loads of hot girls on stage. They're good at making that happen. What are we doing wrong?After the first show me and Joe DJed at a club and everyone had a chance to let their hair down. Song of the night? I would say Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison. Still underrated.We were lucky enough to have a couple of days off after the show, so we could explore. We had lunch in a fancy winery cafe on Waiheke Island. It's basically an otherworldy paradise. Jealous yet?If that's not enough, it even had an olive grove with its own herd of Alpacas standing guard. Oscar thought he'd died and gone to heaven. If you ever get a chance, go and see the Alpacas roaming free over the South Downs near Glynde in Sussex. It's in Oscar's personal 1000 Things To Do Before You Die, along with 'updating your myspace'. See you again soon! This time in Oz! | ||||
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| THE BUTT STILL REMAINS - JAPAN, 5-8 JANUARY | Il y a 331 jours | ||
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| I’ll give you one guess where we are: No, silly! It’s not the set of Blade Runner! We’re in Tokyo, Japan. It’s the start of our five-week world tour. Exciting! We stayed on the eighth floor of a hotel that overlooks the famous 5-way pedestrian crossing that you sometimes see on videos of the city. Usually the people walking across are sped up and it looks really exciting and futuristic. When we saw them they were at regular speed. It wasn’t too disappointing, it still looked cool. Now, for first-timers like us, arriving in Japan is a total mind-fuck, but the people are so friendly and polite, and try to alleviate your addled brain with nice thoughts like this: This was waiting for me in my hotel room. It contained two individually wrapped bananas, a delicious clementine, and an apple and a kiwi fruit that I can only describe as being of nightmare proportions. Huge. You’ll notice that they jumped the gun slightly when thanking me for the ‘hard work and fantastic performance’. Seeing how scrambled my brain was at that point, I could have just taken the fruit and bolted. Despite the looming, neon-covered skyscrapers, multi-level highways, constant, blaring advertising and so on, it’s the little differences that get you. For instance, cleanliness really is taken very, very seriously. Oscar is thinking he might name his emo band after this sign. In Japan we’re lucky to be hooked up with some pretty next-level industry talent, who have managed to get our album out and about, and raised lots of interest in it. We’re with one of the biggest live promoters around. They look after huge stadium acts but still found time to look after lil’ ol’ Metronomy real well. The following night they had Ne-Yo coming through town – amazing! We took the once in a lifetime opportunity to send him a personal message. Ne-Yo, if you’re reading this (which I know you are), we hope you enjoyed the CD! Write us back! You’re welcome anytime for tea and nightmarish apples! It’s not just the major labels and huge promoters who are important to us in Japan. In fact, our best Japanese buddy is an amazing woman called Haruka, who has a record shop and café in Harajuku named Escalator Records. If you’re English and you like music you should drop by for a coffee and a delicious Japanese curry sometime – she’ll make you feel right at home! And so to the shows. Everything they say about visiting Japan as a band is true. There are fans waiting outside with presents (thanks, Ayumi!), the venues are super-clean, and the fans are super-attentive. Our two shows were with Late of the Pier and they were great fun. There’s only one place I know that makes Faley look like that. JAPAN. See you again soon! | ||||
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| Bebo competition! | Il y a 360 jours | ||
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| Hey Bebo This is your chance to get your hands on a vinyl and Metronomy tee shirt, we have 5 pairs to give away! To enter, just reply to this blog post and quote the FIRST line sung on our new single 'A Thing For Me' (hint: watch the video!). Winners will be picked randomly! Good luck! Metronomy xx | ||||
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| New video for 'A Thing For Me' now online! | Il y a 364 jours | ||
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| Check out the 'A Thing For Me' video here on Bebo. The single is out Monday on digital and vinyl. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uYB2Mq... | ||||
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