Hello all you beautiful people.... the wait is finally over... after years of blood, sweat and tears our debut album 'Attack Of The Hundred Yard Hardman' is finally out NOW !!!! So run down to your local HMV, ZAVVI or any good record store and pick up a copy....

It features singles, 'If You Wanna', 'Disco Dancer' and new single 'Better Anyway'... also faeturing guest vocalists Saffron from Republic and Chewin' The Fats very own Tom Urie... plus a special appearance from Micko from the great Larrikin Love.

We have also just released 20 extra tickets for our London album launch show, and still have a few tickets left for our Glasgow show. They are both gonna be amazing and i can now reveal Saffron from Republica will be making a special live appearance on new track 'Dj In The Corner'....

So pick up a copy of our cd today and come along and join our celebrations at our exclusive album partys :-D

Hope everyone is well,

Matty xxx

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey ! How is everyone? We are just back from shooting the video for our new single which is going to be live favourite 'Better Anyway'. I'm really excited about this as everything for it is looking wicked ! We have settled on the artwork for it which is running in conjunction with If You Wanna and Disco Dancer and the image on the front will be relative to the video.

It will be running in the same format as the lst two releases with cd and vinyl with one b-side on the vinyl and two on the cd. These tracks are 'Up All Night' which is a fun track with little nod to franz and the Specials and the other is a onemanband style song called 'Road Back Home' which is a nice contrast from the the two other tracks.

We have also just filmed the video for Better Anyway. We wanted the fun and energy in the track to come across in the video so this time we have upped sticks to Blackpool for a couple of days where we enjoyed the sights and sounds of Britains version of Las Vegas... Lol... So expect lots of lights, teddy bears and of course Blackpool Rock !!! Heheh...

We will have samples of the new tracks and vid being uploaded over the coming time... we have one last scene to film tommorrow in London so its still work in progress but i know you'll love it ;-) Heheh

We are just getting ready to play in Banbury tonight at the New Flyer and also have another London gig on Tuesday at the Borderline in Soho... Its a charity night in conjunction with myspace called 'Bollocks To Poverty' so you know what to do. 4 great bands, lots of drink, dancing and 'Bollox To Poverty' style shennanigans :-D Hope you can make it along and support a great cause..

Hope everyone is well,

Much love,

Matty xxx

Well all the hard work has paid off and we have just entered the Indie Chart at number 3 with our new single "Disco Dancer'...

The Top 5 is looking a little like this....

1. British Sea Power - Waving Flags (Rough Trade)
2. White Stripes - Conquest (XL Recordings)
3. Parka - Disco Dancer (Jeepster)
4. Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker (Domino)
5. Kills - Ura Fever (Domino)

Other artists this week in the indie top 20 are Jack Penate, Reverend & The Makers, Pigeon Detectives, Dizzee Rascal so its fair to say we're pretty chuffed with it heheh.

After arriving back in London at 10pm last night from a mental weekend in Glasgow it was straight into our home studio to start programming the parts to our two new b-sides.... fallin asleep with my guitar in my hand at 3am lol. Woke up at 10 and straight back in to demo the rest of the tracks, put down some vocals, guitar etc and then we're off out to rehearsal tonight at 9pm til midnight to rehearse them in then in the studio in West London to record them for the next single TOMMORROW MORNING AT 11am lol..... No rest for the wicked heheh....

Thanks again so so so so much for everyone who bought Disco Dancer and has been coming along to the shows... it has been mental... Loving it !

Great start to 2008 :-D

Oh can also reveal our new single out in just over a month is B-B-B-B... heheh

Thats all the clues i'll give away at the moment lol... Am sure all hardcore Parka fans will know what comes next though heheh...

Cheers
Hope everyone is well,
Matty xxx