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"Standing Next To Me"

EXCLUSIVE UK/EUROPE/USA TOUR DATES RELEASED!6/30/08
 
The Last Shadow Puppets are proud to announce the tour dates for 2008...

In addition to their festival appearances at Reading and Leeds 2008, The Last Shadow Puppets are pleased to announce that they will be performing further UK shows in Portsmouth and Oxford in August and Glasgow, Sheffield and London in October.

All tickets for UK shows will go on sale on Saturday 5th July at 9:30am.
Max. two (2) tickets per person.
Buy online at www.festivalrepublic.com / www.gigsandtours.com / www.gigsinscotland.com or call 24hr CC Hotline: 0871 2200 260.

The band will also be performing in France in August and further European dates in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and Holland will follow in October. The band will conclude their tour with two shows in America; New York and Los Angeles.

For the full schedule of shows and details of how to purchase tickets for all dates please see below:

AUGUST:
19 Guildhall, Portsmouth
14+. 14-17 year olds must be acompanied by an adult Tel: 0871 231 0821
www.festivalrepublic.com
In Person: Guildhall Box Office

20 New Theatre, Oxford
14+. Under 16's accompanied by an adult Box Office Tel: 0844 847 1588
www.newtheatreoxford.org.uk
In Person: New Theatre Box Office

22 Leeds Festival SOLD OUT

24 Reading Festival SOLD OUT

26 Olympia, Paris, France Online: www.olympiahall.com / www.fnacspectacles.com

OCTOBER:
15 Circus, Stockholm, Sweden Online:
www.ticnet.se

16 Vega Main Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Online:
http://billetlugen.dk/index.php?lng=2

17 Tempodrome, Berlin, Germany Online:
http://www.kartenhaus.de

19 Cirque Royale, Brussels, Belgium Online:
www.livenation.be / www.proximusgoformusic.be

20 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland Online:
www.ticketservice.nl / www.paradiso.nl

Tickets will be available at Ticket Service, Post Offices,
Free Record Shops, GWK offices and the VVV's.

22 Academy, Glasgow
14+.Under 16's accompanied
by an adult Box Office Tel: 0844 4999 990
Online: www.gigsinscotland.com
In person: Tickets Scotland

23 City Hall, Sheffield
14+ Box Office Tel: 0114 278 9789
Online: www.gigsandtours.com
In Person: City Hall Box Office and Jacks Records

26 Hammersmith Apollo, London
14+ Box Office Tel: 0844 844 4748
Online: www.gigsandtours.com
In Person: Hammersmith Apollo Box Office and Stargreen Box Office
30 Grand Ballroom, New York, USA Details of how to purchase tickets to follow

NOVEMBER:
3 Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles, USA Details of how to purchase tickets to follow

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New Single6/8/08
 
The Last Shadow Puppets release their second single from their recent number 1 album 'The Age Of The Understatement' entitled 'Standing Next To Me' on Monday the 7th of July 2008.


The single features 3 exclusive, brand new tracks from The Last Shadow Puppets and will be released on 2 x vinyl 7"s, CD and via digital download with formats as follows:

1.
7"
A. Standing Next to Me
B. Gas Dance

2.
7" 2
A. Standing Next to Me
B. Sequels

3.
CD
1. Standing Next to Me
2. Hang the Cyst
3. Gas Dance
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Album5/8/08
 
How good is the album...? Best song etc.
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Track Listing - Vinyl Single (Age Of The UnderStatement)4/21/08
 
1.The Age Of The Understatement
Decided
To sneak up away from your stomach
And try your pulse
And captured
What seemed all unknowing and candid
But they suspected it was false

She's playful
The boring would warn you be careful
Of her brigade
In order to tame this relentless marauder
Move away from the parade

And she was walking on the tables in the glass house
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind
Subtle in her method of seduction
The twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene
Unfittingly dipped into your companions
Enlighten them to make you see

And there's affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

Affection to rent the age of the understatement
Before this attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

And my fingers scratch at my hair
Before my mind can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here
Is enough to make the sweat go cold.

2.In The Heat Of The Morning
The blazing sunset in your eyes will tantalize
Every man who looks your way
I watched them sink before your gaze
Seniorita sway
Dance with me before their frozen eyes
I'm so much in love
Like a ragged soldier catching butterflies

No man loved like I love you
Wouldn't you like to love me too
In the heat of the morning
In the shadow of the doorway
And I'll tell you I love you
In the heat of the morning

I'll tie a knot in rainbow's end, organise the breeze
Light my candle from the sun
I'll give you daylight for a friend
I'll do all of these
I'll prove that it can be done, I'm so much in love
Like the little boy who races with the wind

No man loved like I love you
Wouldn't you like to love me too
In the heat of the morning
In the shadow of the doorway
And I'll tell you I love you
In the heat of the morning

In the heat of the morning
In the shadow of the doorways
And I'll tell you I love you
In the heat of the morning.
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Track Listing - CD Single (Age Of The UnderStatement) 4/21/08
 
1.Age Of The UnderStatement
Decided
To sneak up away from your stomach
And try your pulse
And captured
What seemed all unknowing and candid
But they suspected it was false

She's playful
The boring would warn you be careful
Of her brigade
In order to tame this relentless marauder
Move away from the parade

And she was walking on the tables in the glass house
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind
Subtle in her method of seduction
The twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene
Unfittingly dipped into your companions
Enlighten them to make you see

And there's affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

Affection to rent the age of the understatement
Before this attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

And my fingers scratch at my hair
Before my mind can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here
Is enough to make the sweat go cold.

2.Two Hearts In Two Weeks

3.Wondrous Place

I found a place full of charms,
A magic world in my baby's arms.
Her soft embrace like satin and lace -
Wondrous place.

What a spot in a storm,
To cuddle up and stay nice and warm.
Away from harm in my baby's arms -
Wondrous place.

Man I'm nowhere
When I'm anywhere else,
But I don't care,
Everything's right when she holds me tight.

Her tender hands on my face,
I?m in heaven in her embrace.
I wanna stay and never go away ?
Wondrous place.

Man I'm nowhere
When I'm anywhere else,
But I don't care,
Everything's right when she holds me tight.

Her tender hands on my face,
I?m in heaven in her embrace.
I wanna stay and never go away ?
Wondrous place.
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Track Listing - Album4/5/08
 
1. The Age of the Understatement
Decided
To sneak up away from your stomach
And try your pulse
And captured
What seemed all unknowing and candid
But they suspected it was false

She's playful
The boring would warn you be careful
Of her brigade
In order to tame this relentless marauder
Move away from the parade

And she was walking on the tables in the glass house
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind
Subtle in her method of seduction
The twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene
Unfittingly dipped into your companions
Enlighten them to make you see

And there's affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

Affection to rent the age of the understatement
Before this attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

And my fingers scratch at my hair
Before my mind can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here
Is enough to make the sweat go cold.

2. Standing Next to Me
You want to have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through and you're open to the truth
I hope you understand
And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me

The one you fell for
But it's seemed you deny
And you laugh at yourself again and again
But as you drink to the thoughts she'll remember you
maybe tomorrow

And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me, is standing next to me.
Is standing next to me

You want to have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through, then you're open to the truth
I hope you understand

And your love is standing next to me, is standing next to me
Is standing next to me, is standing next to me.

3. Calm Like You
I can still remember
When your city smelt exciting
I still get a whiff
Of that aroma now and then
Burglary and fireworks
The skies they were alighting
Accidents and toffee drops
And thinking on the train

Oh, he was young, in the frost
No regard for the cost
Of saying his feelings
In the moment they were felt
And if he was calm like you
Locked up inside of your loops
Then he'd know for well
That all he had to say was
All he had to say was goodbye

Summertime made promises
It knew it couldn't keep
The fairytale was climbing up
A mountain far too steep
Colouring the pictures
With your loyal hand
Now I am craving heartbreak
While you're making your demands

Oh, he was young, in the frost
No regard for the cost
Of saying his feelings
In the moment they were felt
And if he was calm like you
Locked up inside of your loops
Then he'd know for well
That all he had to say was
All he had to say was goodbye

If he was calm like you
Locked up inside of your loops
Then he'd know for well
That all he had to say was
All he had to say was goodbye

4. Separate and Ever Deadly
When we walked the streets together
All the faces seemed to smile back
And now the pavements
Have nothing to offer
And all the faces seem to need a slap

There's an unfamiliar grip
On an unfamiliar handkerchief
Attending to the tears on cheeks
I wouldn't notice
With you no matter how vicious the grief
Her expression was damp and crooked
Grabs onto my throat and won't let go

Won't let go
Won't let go
Won't let go

Save me from
The secateurs
I'll pretend
I didn't hear
Can't you see
I'm the ghost in the wrong coat
Biting butter and crumbs

There's a handsome maverick
You don't talk about to keep me calm
And I can't help
But try create diversion???
Pulls you back onto his arm

Please don't tell me
You don't have to darling I can sense
That he painted you a gushing sunset
And slayed
Their pink panthers in your defence
He stands separate and ever deadly
Clings onto my throat and won't let go

Won't let go
Won't let go
Won't let go

Save me from
The secateurs
I'll pretend
I didn't hear
Can't you see
I'm a ghost
In the wrong coat
Biting butter and crumbs

5. The Chamber
Leave yourself alone
Leave yourself alone
(Leave yourself alone)
Can't you see
You're only here
To be torn apart
Based upon
And nothing else

So leave yourself alone
Leave yourself alone
Tell your wasted time
Tell your wasted time
Tell your wasted time
That I am worse

And I would wish they'd all
Give him a chance
I owe apologies
So tell your wasted time
Tell your wasted time

It's torture
Locked inside the chamber

Cornered by yourself
Cornered by yourself
(Cornered by yourself)
You must admit
That you are the instigator
Hanging on to arguements

And your cornered
By yourself
Cornered by yourself

It's torture
Locked inside the chamber
Lost inside the chamber
Locked inside the chamber

6. Only the Truth
Only the truth
She reckons she holds.
Only the truth
She reckons she holds.

The way she walks,
Is scripted and taught.
Don't give her an eye or she'll sniper your mind.
You can see by her hands,
She's been there before.
She brings up the glass,
As if to bring down the mass.

Only the truth
She reckons she holds.
Only the truth
She reckons she holds.

Climbing the stairs,
As if to follow her prayers.
Her golden laced boots
May stop you right there.
Hand on your arm,
As she greets all your friends,
Twist of a line seems a bitter end.

Only the truth
She reckons she holds.
Only the truth
She reckons she holds.

The girl with many different strategies,
That wakes the walls,
And curse them to their knees.
She's in the one by the river bank,
So it's easier for her to drown you.

And she claims,
Oh, she claims...
It's only the truth
She holds in her hands.

7. My Mistakes Were Made for You

As subtle as an earthquake I know,
My mistakes were made for you.
And in the back-room of a bad dream she came,
And whisked me away, enthused.

And it's as solid as a rock, rolling down a hill,
The fact is that it probably will, hit something
On the hazardous terrain
And we're just following the flock, round and in-between
Before we're smashed to smithereens, like they were.

And we scrambled from the blame
and it's the fame that put words in her mouth, she couldn't help but spit them out.
Innocence and arrogance intwined
In the filthiest of minds

She was bitten on her birthday, and now
A face in the crowd, she's not
I suspect that now forever, the shape, she came to escape
Is forgot.
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting, and give her less than everything
Around your crooked conscience she will wind.

And we're just following the flock, round and in-between
Before we're smashed to smithereens, like they were.
And we scrambled from the blame
And it's the fame that put words in her mouth, she couldn't help but spit them out,
Around your crooked conscience she will wind.
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting, and give her less than everything,
Innocence and arrogance intwined.


8. Black Plant
He bit your lip
And on the tip
Of your tongue
Was your view
The heavy belt
With how you felt
In ways
That tilted you

The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie

Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say
Why would you say

You said there
Was a nagging lack of smiles
Went dancing on your back
Tenderness a plenty book
That wasn't what you craved
His whole thin heart desire
Start to make demands
And he adored you
Would be a fool
To make your plans with her

Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you

When it's just one
Of many bullets
You will bite
While waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light

The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie

Why?
Why would you say sorry?
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry?
Oh, why would you say sorry?
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry?

9. I Don't Like You Any More
I don't like you anymore
And fallen for the phone again
Enticed me for a second time today
Only for me to realise the same

I don't like you anymore
Cracked and your face is changing
You're going down the old route
But I can't let your repeat and repeat it again
The sound of your voice
Is piercing my patience
As you turn through the midnight corridors

Can we keep in your resent
Retire to the setting a hint
Drying in an old familiar cast
Twitching as I fear it's far too late

Cause I don't like you anymore
I don't like you anymore

I don't like you anymore
Cracked and your face is changing
You're going down the old route
But I can't let you repeat and repeat it again
The sound of your voice
Is piercing my patience
As you turn through the midnight corridors

And there's stuff in the corridors
There is no escape from these
No offence to your trap and be your disease
Well you are just a something to cease
And you swear that you think that you tease
But you pout which is about
And your final lie can be described as fine
It can be described as fine

10. In My Room
In my room,
She'll get to you

Could I turn on a lie
Impress unknown eyes
Humour absorbs the thoughts
Churning the motionless talks
Seeing things for a second glance
As she turns through her magazine

In my room,
She'll get to you

Could I turn on a lie
Impress unknown eyes
Humour absorbs the thoughts
Lift up your snorting heads
Played like dancing fools
Turning the tension round
Building up silent sounds

Just another day
All in my room
Struck out like before
All in my room.

11. Meeting Place
The colder the night gets,
The further she strays.
And he doesn't like it,
Being this way.
And she tried so hard to steer away from the meeting place,
But her heart had led her there.

She clings to his consciousness,
Wherever he lays.
He struggles to sleep at night and during the day.
He's worried she's waiting in his dreams to drag him back to the meeting place.
His love had left him there.

Where her voice still echoes,
I'm sorry I met you darling,
I'm sorry I met you.
As she turned into the night, all he has was the words,
I'm sorry I met you darling,
I'm sorry I left you.

For weeks they had strolled around,
Playing the fools.
They knew the time would come and time would be cruel
Because it is cruel to everyone
He's crying out from the meeting place
He's stranded himself there

12. The Time Has Come Again
The time has come again.
Slowly walking down the steps,
To where she would have been,
If only they were seventeen.

Waiting patiently,
Stood between a fraying seem.
Hiding from himself,
As well as everybody else.

Without permission his face became red,
He thought that he'd learned how to not to get upset.
From folded notes in envelopes,
Meet me beneath the moon.
Don't go too soon.
She went too soon.

The time has come again.
Slowly walking down the steps,
To where she would have been,
If only they were seventeen
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