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the notwist

2008-07-23 13:00:21

Following a chain of youtube linked videos eventually led me to this...

i've never heard of them even though apparently they've been going for about 20 years but i love it

yeah!

Guillemots is almost an anagram of summer

2008-07-16 17:10:28

Hello to the world of the world. We've all gone and had holidays last week - in Italy, France, Greece and Ireland respectively. You can try and figure out who went where if you want but in all honestly that would be a waste of anyone's time. It just isn't important. Get out of the shop and don't come back. Now. Lovely times were had by all though.

Anyway, we're back in a sort-of full-throttle log flume of a mini-tour this week, with a lot going on. Thursday, coming, as ever, after Wednesday, is the day before Friday and on this Thursday we're playing at Koko as part of the I-tunes festival. If you don't make it down you can hear the whole gig on XFM and watch highlights on ITV2, and the gig's also available to buy from next week on I-Tunes - possibly making it the most exposed gig EVER, except maybe Live Aid. But it should be a really good night, we're hopefully having someone very special come and join us for a song too, and Lykke Li is playing before us and by all accounts she's definitely worth seeing.

Then we get on our funbus and head to Suffolk for the wonderful Latitude Festival. We're playing our main set there on Saturday, in the Uncut Arena at about 7.30, but prior to that, on the Friday, we're gong to be headlining in the Film and Music Tent, improvising a new soundtrack to David Lynch's pretty disturbing but pretty amazing film 'Eraserhead'. This is in collaboration with Future Cinema, and the whole night they're putting on will have films and suchlike themed around David Lynch's work. Performances start at 9.30 and we should then be on at 11.00. God knows what we'll end up playing, we have no more idea than you, but if you're at the festival you should come and watch the film and hopefully the noises that we make will add something to it rather than make you leave in a huff and puff of despair-tinged smoke. We're really excited about doing something like this, it's a bit of a one-off really.

Also, on the Saturday, at 6.15 PM we're also doing a live session for Loose Ends on Radio 4, and on Friday I might also pop up on someone else's stage else like a deranged jack-in-the-box. But I might not, or I might resemble a cuckoo clock more than a jack-in-the-box. Or a criminal. Or someone on the wrong stage. Time will tell us something.

Then ,to end this weekend of frolics, we're going to the beach at Weston-Super-Mare on Sunday. The idea originally was just to have a swim and then fuck off back to London but Channel 4 are now planning to do a festival there called T4 On The Beach so we're going to stay and play a couple of songs. Maybe in swimwear. Would you rather see Greig or Arista in swimwear? Don't answer.

So hopefully you can make it along to some, nay all of this, and follow us on our summer jaunt. And either way, pack suncream and if you don't want to wear shoes then for God's sake remember socks because the ground can bite. Or just wear sandals. Or espadrilles. I do.

Fyfe

Catch Guillemots... Off-Guard

2008-07-15 09:51:02

Good news - you can now watch exclusive live videos of Guillemots performing on The Off-Guard Gigs Bus.

Click here now to see the band performing a quite literally rocking rendition of 'Get Over It', along with many other live favourites and an exclusive face-to-face interview with the whole band.

Win Guillemots Tickets

2008-07-11 16:48:59

As part of the iTunes festival, taking place at the amazing London venue Koko, this month, Guillemots will be playing a special show on July 17th (details of the show are being kept secret at this time, but the band are planning something exciting).

As a dedicated visitor of Guillemots' website, you are entitled to enter the draw to win a pair of tickets to this special event.

All you have to do is answer the following question:

Guillemots lead singer is called:

1) Fyfe Dangerfield
2) Fyfe Penfold
3) Fyfe Smith

Click here to enter

As a winner you will be entitled to 2 tickets to the event (unfortunately tickets do not include travel and accomodation).

I Met The Walrus

2008-07-05 13:15:48

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk

The Stick Wars Animation

2008-07-03 23:55:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8xK0nX3FI

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

2008-07-03 23:54:13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

TAke mE hOmE

2008-07-03 23:52:56

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHZIMZUwfmY

ANYONE GOT A PHILICORDA?

2008-07-01 23:07:25

I've just played a little organ called a Philicorda. It's made by Philips and it's fucking amazing, it basically sounds like THE organ you hear on loads of classic late 60s records but it's tiny and could fit in anyone's bedroom. And it has built in reverb. I'm a bit obsessed with reverb. It is sound porn. So basically, having never known these things existed, I now am desperately searching for one. Iin the name of Mahooboo, if anyone knows of one that is for sale, anywhere in the world, please email at fyfe@guillemots.com

ta!\\

Tall & Small

2008-06-24 23:55:17

The face of defeat on a broken baby
Stood up stitched up by the sound of insomnia
While away all aching hours
Aching for a town crier
But a town crier's never there,
Just flickers in dusk.

The town crier was never your imaginary best friend
Sat in separate shapes
Separate cars, separate roads
Separate forms ..
Druft and drift in furtiveless hope
Til some soul speaks slowly -
"This is nothing and no place"
And a congregation of leaves falls in Autumn Square.
A wedding of leaves on the floor in the Square.

Shame-faced happiness is coming into town
The elephant's waddling back from the brink
Poor old elephant all dirty and brown
Waddling back forth forth back across town
Someone call the police and give them something to do
Someone call the police give them something to do.

Not frozen in fire or burnt in the snow
Closer to believing in unfrozen ice
Wriggling on all fours like a desperate pet
Going, going, gone to the man in the tails.
Wriggling onwards til the forest is sleeping
Til the wind is near bleeding
Til the unseen owl's etched on the frame of a window that nobody looks through,
Not now any more.

The windowless door
Slams the windowless door

"We're not falling or dimming, not falling or dimming
But two blunt magnets locked forever in sleep"
A forgettable tune as the power ran out
And you ran down the hall and fumbled for light that would not come.
And will not come
And does not dance
And will not display

Not falling or dimming
But driven instead by the corner of love
And the centre of doubt
You reach out in the night for the touch of something
Suffer in silence fearing words that might sting
Roll up and plump for the comfort of knowing
That everything's warm when you're earthbound and known.

And everything's cold when you throw and are thrown.
So pity the brave man who throws and is thrown.

Janet Loxley

wabehr jfj >> boff?

2008-06-24 11:03:04

we sat on a boat in the faroe islands eating fish soup with some of metronomy folk last year if i remember rightly - at G! FEST! - but i've only just got round to hearing what they sound like. and what they sound like is good

skip onto the pebbles and dance dance dance

like a monkey in a cage that's come undone for romance!

ASK! BUY! BORROW! BEG!

___________())(_____

Today we've been at the MTV studio...

2008-06-20 14:19:43

[click to enlarge]

Listen to This

2008-06-18 21:38:44

for it is gorgeous

On The Hop

2008-06-17 17:32:14

The next day, the band will then proceed to hop all the way back to London from the festival, sat on the back of giant - and highly opinionated - frogs. They may stop at service stations on the way, but this is all dependent on whether the police service of the UK feel that they can offer the band a suitable "frog protection scheme". The frogs, after all, must feel confident that they can cope with motorway conditions, or we're all going to end up in the slimepit!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Most important of all, you gotta keep on rocking", said the chief Frog.

"Well if you stop jumping on my balls that'll be a start" replied Doris, abruptly.

It was to be another whole year before the frogs found God and formed their own church, and, of course, their own God, who they called Mama Frog.

Now let's rock with a monk's haricut

At The Hop

2008-06-16 16:22:57

On Sunday July 6th Guillemots will be going rural for an appearance at the Hop Farm Festival in Kent.

The event is planned as a totally unbranded, sponsorship-free festival that aims to return live music to its roots.

And, with a line-up also includes Neil Young, Primal Scream and Laura Marling among others - it's guaranteed to be a fine day out.

Here are the full details:

Sunday July 6th - Hop Farm Festival, Paddock Wood, Kent (More Info)

in France land

2008-06-06 16:34:37

We're in France. I would like to say that earlier on I saw a baguette running down the street and the sexless bageuette caught my eye and said "about time you lot were back in town, I've been wearing out my Thin Lizzy LPs in anticpation. . .sign me crust will ya?" // but this of course did not happen.

We had a nice meal in the caff over the road earlier on .. the French know how to do lunch .. .and are very much looking foward to playing here again. French audiences always seem to be amazing, they listen intensely and then clap like crickets. But I shouldn't say that before the show - mabe there'll be a mass walk out or everyone will throw creme caramel at us. I hope not.

In the cafe earlier I somehow found myself in the position of being the main French speaker in our party. I did my best. I want to speak French properly - I could do it if I lived here for a month or two I think. Or if I took a course, I guess, but time is always running away from me.

Got up at 4.30 this morning and thus am pretty incoherent. If you live in Paris come to watch us!

Merci beaucoup et merci encore...

Fyfe

Win Guillemots Union Chapel Tickets

2008-06-06 12:30:07

On Saturday 21st June Guillemots headline XFM's Longest Day show at London's Union Chapel.

The full set will be broadcast live on the station, but you could be right there experiencing it first hand. There are 35 pairs of tickets up for grabs on the XFM website and all you have to do is answer one very simple question to have a chance of winning.

Click here to visit the site and enter the competition, but please bear in mind you must be 18 or over to enter, and that the competition closes on June 17th at 12pm.

mCloRdmAgRaO

2008-06-06 00:20:51

hERe I m LearNInG hOw To Play The gUItaR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A82eP57ERcs

Guillemots At iTunes Live

2008-06-04 17:57:58

We're pleased to announce that Guillemots will be putting in an appearance at the latest must-attend event in the UK festival calender; iTunes Live.

Fyfe and the band will be playing on July 17 in the history-rich environs of London's KoKo, ably supported by Lykke Li.

Would you like to know more? Would you like to read an exclusive Q&A with Fyfe? Would you like to win tickets to EVERY SINGLE iTunes Live show?

Then click here.

Clash Tour Diary

2008-06-01 11:13:39

Read about all the current news from Guillemots tour on Fyfe's blog at clashmusic.com

See Fyfe Interviewed by Channel 4

2008-05-30 10:44:01

Where you'll hear about an unfortunate incident with a girl, a leather jacket and some dog poo channel4.com/music

'Falling Out of Reach' Out Now

2008-05-27 17:56:28

Just a reminder to all that 'Falling Out Of Reach' is OUT NOW.

If you click here or go to our myspace you can order all three formats for just £5, you can also get it in all good record shops of course and on itunes by clicking here.

For a small taster of the live show click here to check out a video of Fyfe performing a piano-only solo redition of the new single.

Take the Studio Tour

2008-05-27 17:53:10

Watch the video below to treat yourself to an Arista-guided tour around Guillemots' East London studio...

'Falling Out Of Reach' Is Almost Out, Doctor

2008-05-21 16:36:34

Hey all... so we're really getting back into the swing of touring now, we've loved the gigs on the UK tour so far... and had a great time doing the Live Lounge for Jo Whiley too.

Just a quick note to tell you about the B-sides for 'Falling Out Of Reach', which is OUT ON MONDAY...

'Trick Of The Light' - the new song on the CD - is the track we wrote and recorded in a day for Q - they called it 'Seabirds' but we kind of went and changed the name, didn't we?

'The Face We Deserve' - on the regular vinyl - was recorded in the wee small hours and you can tell... it's for Alison Hamilton, who won a competition of ours ages ago... that was the title she came up with. And we finally got round to recording it a couple of months back. We're all really into it, it's not really like anything we've done. Very rough and dark.

And then there's the instrumental of 'Last Kiss', on the picture disc, which we heard back by chance and thought we had to put it out. It kind of sounds like a 1970s cop drama theme tune or something. It would sound good in a club. So you can dance around your room and pretend you're a badass.

The other B-side on the cd is the album version of 'Falling Out Of Reach', for the uninitiated amongst you.

So there it is... out on Monday... go get it doctor:

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/productdetail.jsp?productPK=unittest-1znwv791fitZfg8eqN3IEb-13

Love,

Fyfe

Guillemots 'Black and Gold'

2008-05-20 11:17:47

Hear and see the Radio 1 Live Lounge Session

2008-05-19 18:29:58

Guillemots performed on Jo Whiley's show this morning with a version of new single, 'Falling Out Of Reach' which is out Monday, and cover of Sam Sparro's 'Black and Gold'. Here it all and see the pictures by clicking here

New Guillemots Merch Range Now Available

2008-05-16 15:59:04

To celebrate the beginning of Guillemots UK tour, there is a new range of merch available in the Guillemots shop right now. There are 4 T-shirts, one designed by each band member, a coaster set and more to come.

To check out our new items all fair trade and ethically sourced, click through to the shop now.

Alternatively pick up your items from Connie on the merch stand at Guillemots shows over the next few weeks along with some tour EXCLUSIVE items only available from her.

BBC Radio 1 One Big Weekend

2008-05-13 16:02:55

For those who didn't attend you can see their full live set from Maidstone by clicking here.

Spot the malfunctioning guitar in "Get Over it'.

For more live Guillemots you can check out where they are going to be and buy tickets in the Live section.

News on exclusive new merch coming soon, so keep checking back or make sure you are at the upcoming gigs for some special tour only items.

Guillemots in the Live Lounge

2008-05-13 14:39:41

Don't stray far from the radio this Monday afternoon (May 19th) or you'll miss Guillemots on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge.

Tune in to Radio 1 at midday to hear Guillemots performing a live version of new single 'Falling Out Of Reach', plus a surprise cover...

Guillemots In The Green Room

2008-05-08 14:18:52

This Sunday (May 11th) sees Guillemots taking time out from their hectic schedule to hang out in The Nokia Green Room on Channel 4.

The all-access music show goes out at 1:40 pm Sunday on T4, so don't forget to tune in for some live Guillemots action. Not sure it will be that interesting although a great performance and Kelly Rowland chats up Magrao, whilst Late of The Pier dance round a maypole. For that alone you should watch!

The show is repeated at 7.30 pm on The Hits, and again on the following Saturday (May 17th) at 9.55 am.

Check out The Nokia Green Room Blog for more info.

Give 'Em A Spin

2008-05-07 16:57:57

US-based Spin Magazine has placed 'Get Over It' in the very respectable position of No. 3 on their "Songs You Need to Download Now" list...

http://digital.spin.com/spin/200805/?pg=33&pm=2&u1=friend

Thanks for that!

Guillemots Tour Kicks Off This Week

2008-05-06 14:42:42

It's been a long time coming - and we know you've all been waiting so very patiently - but this week Guillemots finally board a tour bus and head back out on to the road.

The band can't wait to reconnect and give you guys a taste of the new album in a live setting.

Guillemots will be on the road throughout May/June with their own shows where they will be playing exclusive versions of current material and generally showing why they received a Brit nomination for Best Live Act last year.

For a full rundown of the band's upcoming shows and the final remaining tickets, head over to the live section now.

oops!

2008-04-30 22:11:19

Hello,

Arista here, I just wanted to apologise to anyone who may have emailed me via the website in the past few months. I had a hotmail malfunction and only just realised half my mail was in my junk folder...Ok (I've finally written on our website woohoooo!)

Arista

Watch The 'Falling Out Of Reach' Video

2008-04-28 18:05:25

The long-awaited video for 'Falling Out Of Reach' - featuring Britain's greatest living thespian, Sir Ian McKellen - is finally available for your viewing pleasure in the video section.

Click here to watch it now.

Don't forget you can share the video with the whole wide world by embedding the video on your own web pages thanks to the video player's built-in embed code. Go forth and spread the word!

The single 'Falling Out Of Reach' will be released on Monday 26th May. Stay tuned for more details coming soon.

rIghT,SoWhAtAReYouTHinKInG?(Official traileR)

2008-04-28 00:07:02

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-sK-HBH8lk

Falling Out Of Reach Enters MTV2 chart at 6

2008-04-24 20:44:39

Thanks to all those that voted you can continue to vote for the song and help the band climb the chart by going to http://www.myspace.com/mtvtwo

GO TO THIS GIG ON SUNDAY

2008-04-24 10:44:40

So this Sunday afternoon there is a gig that you should all go to if you have a chance. It's the Love Music Hate Racism Carnival in Victoria Park, London, thirty years on from the original Rock Against Racism Carnival, which featured The Clash, amongst many others. I always feel very insipid trying to write or talk about big issues - it's clearly not a great skill of mine - but you'd have to pretty thick to not see how revolting racism is. I feel really proud to be living in a city like London that is incredibly multicultural - that's one of the reasons I moved here in the first place, to be somewhere that you can soak up all kinds of cultures and influences - and it's so disappointing when organisations like the BNP speak of this multiculturalism as a negative thing. And I suppose that's why music is so often connected with political issues, because it's such a unifying thing, above and beyond the petty human differences that some certain people and groups like to prey on.

So please come along and show your support if you can - the gig's free, there's going to be loads of great music and by coming along you're saying that you find racism intolerable, which is a really important statement to make. And - I won't say "most of all" because that would obviously not be true - but you get to see Ed Larrikin and myself bluffing our way through a classic cover version with Drew McConnell's band Helsinki.

For information about the gig click HERE

See you there hopefully

Fyfe

Guillemots to play Radio 1 One Big Weekend

2008-04-22 21:20:36

Guillemots will be playing on the 'In New Music We Trust' stage at the event. Taking place in Kent this year on Saturday May 10th, for more details, including how to register for tickets, go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2008/lineup

Vote for 'Falling Out Of Reach' New Video

2008-04-18 18:27:53

It's on MTV spanking new and features the amazing Sir Ian Mckellen. Please vote by going http://www.mtv.co.uk/myspacechart

Thanks

rIghT, sO wHat are YOu thinKing?

2008-04-17 11:40:52

http://audience.withoutabox.com/films/rightsowhatareyouthinking

heLL's ElevaTor

2008-04-17 11:39:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gnu_NT7R9A

Blue Skies, White Skies

2008-04-14 16:26:40

... news rolls by with panda eyes ...we're going to be playing with REM this summer, at some stadiums. I'm trying to write that as flippantly as possible but it does seem a slightly odd sentence to be typing casually. But anyway, it's mad but true, we're supporting REM at their four UK stadium shows this summer -

24th Aug LCCC, Manchester
25th Aug Millenium Stadium, Cardiff
27th Aug Rosebowl Southampton
29th Aug Twickenham Stadium

It's us, then Editors, then REM. So that should be interesting, as well as pretty damn exciting.

We're also playing the Hop Farm festival on July the 6th with Neil Young, which means I finally get to see one of my favourite living songwriters play live. And we're also playing at Wireless, third on a bill that goes Morissey, Beck, then us. Who's next? Playing on a boat with Tom Waits? Reforming the Birthday Party with Nick Cave?

We had two days free a week or two ago and finally had the time to just get in a room and improvise, and in a couple of three hour sessions we came up with what could turn into maybe ten or fifteen songs. It's been quite full on recently, figuring out the best way to play some of the songs from "Red" live, figuring out various technical things, it was so great just to play in a room and make some new stuff up. That's how we're going to make our third album. Us in a room playing live. Maybe a tambourine overdub here and there. . .. That's the plan anyway. Ideas are being hatched. .

Really looking foward to the May tour though, it'll be great to get into a run of gigs - we haven't done that in months. It's like a car needing to get into fourth gear or whatever it is to really get going. Actually that might be an awful analogy, I had endless lessons but was still useless and not got to the stage of taking a test. My teacher told me to turn right at a roundabout once and I literally just turned right and nearly killed us. Was a bit embarasssing.

More from us soon anyway..

Fyfe

2001: A Space Odyssey Dawn Of Man

2008-04-09 11:10:31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdoA3AJ6zGE

Guillemots play Motel Mozaique Festival

2008-04-04 10:35:36

Guillemots will be playing on Friday April 11th at the Rotterdam Festival. They will be playing at Midnight, (so strictly speaking April 12th) in the main room, The Shouwberg. See www.motelmozaique.nl

Guillemots Album Goes Top 10

2008-04-01 12:14:08

'Red' entered the UK album chart at Number 9 this week.

Clash, Bang, Whallop!

2008-03-31 15:23:08

Guillemots will be headlining the return of the Clash Club at 93 Feet East on Saturday, April 5th.

For more information go here Fyfe, Arista, Greig and MC. will be rocking a SPECIAL CLUB SET in the live room alongside Hot Club De Paris and The Bookhouse Boys, while DJ support comes from Art Brut's Jaspar Future an the residential Clash DJs.

It's a rare chance to see Guillemots in a club setting so click here to get your tickets now.

Sunshine Through The Rain

2008-03-31 11:44:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHususa_mL4

'Lots of men came back drinking hard'

2008-03-30 17:57:53

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlA2ESoss2o

aBsurdA

2008-03-29 22:22:05

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Q7ZKH7G4A

Badgers

2008-03-29 00:06:41

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/

Jonathan Ross' Radio 2 show Tomorrow

2008-03-28 18:54:49

Listen in from around Noon to hear them bang their way through an acoustic version of 'Get Over It' and here exclusive first play of new single.

New track online NOW!

2008-03-28 16:42:38

So we wrote and recorded a new song in 24 hours for Q magazine a few weeks back, and it's online now .. at the link below

http://news.q4music.com/2008/03/guillemots_record_a_track_espe.html

You can see a full feature on it in the new issue of Q Magazine, in which, amongst other things, I allegedly claim to be able to "write a song in the time it takes to tune a guitar". Now I have to say that I have no recollection of saying this, though it would be fantastic if it were true. I can possibly write a song in the time it takes to eat a sizeable hot meal. Possibly. But anyway, this aside it's a nice piece to have in a magazine so, like, get it. And the song's cool, so yeah . .go listen.

BYE

FYFE FROM GUILLEMOTS

Cinema helplines..

2008-03-25 15:21:02

I was just informed of this by the robot computer woman:

"No Country For Old Men. Includes strong violence and graphic carnage".

Classic....

RED: A MEMORY A SONG A SHILLING

2008-03-25 15:05:58

KRISS KROSS

- Making a whistling keyboard sound for the end of song out of my girlfriend's voice. Sampling could form its own church as far as I'm concerned. You can make a sound out of ANYTHING. ANYTHING..

BIG DOG

- Channelling the spirit of George Michael whilst recording the vocals; subsequently having to remove one squeal that sounded a bit like Michael Jackson being startled by a dog, but nowhere near as good.

FALLING OUT OF REACH

- Arista recording the bass whilst sat on the lap of a hugely excited teddy bear, well, lion really, called Leo, who lives in our studio and has had a crush on Arista for a long time. He gradually began to do more than just sit. You could tell he was bricking it but he did his best to act cool. It's all been filmed.

GET OVER IT

- Driving around London at 3 in the morning with Adam, who recorded the album, playing the song stupidly loud and doing in-seat dance actions that were somewhere between Victor Meldrew, road rage, and Animal from the Muppets.

CLARION

- Finally getting to have a pipa on a track of ours. I am obsessed with the sound of the pipa. It's a Chinese mandolin and kind of sound like Studio Ghibli movies look.

LAST KISS

- Being away for a few days, coming back and hearing this track which seemed to have come out of nowhere. Greig had recorded the drums on his computer with two microphones. This is the way forward.

COCKATEELS

Finally getting to play disco guitar on something. I did it when no-one was looking.

WORDS

Asking the brass and wind players who had come in to improvise around a few notes for the end of the song, expecting it to be a little effect that would last a few seconds, and hearing them make this beautiful cloudy sort of noise that I could listen to for hours.

STANDING ON THE LAST STAR

The intensely divisive nature of Greig Stewart's Ping-Pong Beat. It caused arguments. It nearly caused wars. It used to be in before the start of the song but we got rid of it. Which I think was the right thing to do. Having said that, I am a firm supporter and believer in Greig Stewart's Ping-Pong Beat. Amen.

DON'T LOOK DOWN

Getting Christopher Cundy to come down from Cheltenham to, essentially, impersonate a foghorn at the start of the song.

TAKE ME HOME

Magrao somehow managing to make a guitar sound like stars disintegrating. Well I think that's what it sounds like anyway. It's the last thing you hear on the record and one of my favourite sounds ever.

And then it was done, it was in the shops, and the world spun once more on its axis.

Kind regards,

Dangerfield.

'Red" out now - part II

2008-03-24 16:26:02

Just to add to what Authority said below, it was recently proved SCIENTIFICALLY that the tracks on our new album are "gorgeous Guillemots goodness" - that's not just talking it up. Apparently they made a bunsen burner turn into a daffodil or something when they were being tested.

So it's like musical nutrition, right? A sort of sonic multivitamin tablet, but much cooler.

This is the news.

Fyfe

'Red' Out Now

2008-03-24 09:35:05

Guillemots second album 'Red' is released today.

It's eleven tracks of gorgeous Guillemots goodness including current barnstorming single 'Get Over It'.

We think you'll like it - click here to order from Amazon and here to download from iTunes.

RRRROOOOCCCCKKKKK!

2008-03-21 23:54:51

Some pretty exciting news..

2008-03-21 13:23:39

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/gandalf-goes-pop-in-indie-vid-debut/3037959596

Guillemots All Over The Box!!

2008-03-18 16:15:48

In case you missed the Album Chart Show
www.thealbumchartshow.com/blog/category/thisweek/

or Sound
www.bbc.co.uk/sound

Below are the upcoming TV performances:

Friday 21 March
21:00 - Lily Allen & Friends - BBC3

Saturday 22 March
09:54 - T4 - C4
12:40 - Lily Allen & Friends - BBC3
12:45 - Album Chart Show - C4

Sunday 23 March
12:30 - Hollyoaks Music Show - C4
01:05 - Lily Allen & Friends - BBC3

Monday 24 March
10:25 - Hollyoaks Music Show - C4

BUY GET OVER IT! YEAH! BUY IT!

2008-03-17 11:52:48

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7296000/7296960.stm

this is the real me. eveything else has been deception and lies. i'm sorry.

fyfe

Time To Get 'Get Over it'

2008-03-17 10:15:11

Guillemots finally return today (March 17th) with the release of the first single from their eagerly-awaited second album 'Red'.

'Get Over It' is yours to own today on CD, two 7" singles and download.

Buy all 3 physical formats from recordstore now and pay just £5. Click here to take advantage.

Here's the tracklisting:

CD
1. 'Get Over It' (Album Version)
2. 'Throw Me A Sun' (Non-Album Track)
3. 'Me Diz' (Non-Album Track)

7-inch #1
A. 'Get Over It' (Album Version)
B. 'What We Have' (Non-Album Track)

7-inch #2
A. 'Get Over It' (Album Version)
B. 'This Is The Last Ride Tonight' (Non-Album Track)

And here's Fyfe's track-by-track rundown of what you can expect:

"We're genuinely really excited about the B-sides for 'Get Over It'. There's four in all, two on the cd, and one each on the two 7-inches, all co-produced by Jonas Raabe of Dibidim.

'Throw Me A Sun' - (CD): This is the first B-side we've ever done that felt like it could have been on an album had we done it at a slightly different time. At one point we were even thinking about making it a double A-side with 'Get Over It'. . I think it came as a total release for us all after the intensity of making 'Red' last year. It all unravelled really quickly, from an "Astronaut Beat" of Greig's .. the vocal is just a first take and a double track - I love doing things where you just sing once and that's it. Arista double tracked her double bass too, which sounds great, and then Magrao came up with this brilliant guitar loop to go over the last part of the song... it was really fun to make, and it's one of our favourite Guillemots songs already. I suppose it's quite stadium-y sounding in some ways, but there's a roughness, scracbooky sort of feel to it too. So, yeah... it's a big B-side for us.

'Me Diz' - (CD): Magrao sings this one. We basically finally got round to writing some music for the winner of the 'Made-Up Lovesong' lyrics competition - from about a year and a half ago! (I'm surprised she didn't sue us) - and ended up doing this sort of Pulp Fiction meets Bossa Nova track, with Magrao finally playing the matchbox (when he answered my ad getting the band together, he mentioned that he played matchbox but I'd never heard him until now) and me doing my best Chris Rea moves on the guitar... or something. I'd sung the lyrics that Adele Hammond, the competition winner, had written, but then afterwards we were listening to it as an instrumental and Greig said he thought Magrao should sing something Brazilian on it. He took a bit of persuading but then ended up getting up and making the whole thing up on the spot, in one take. It's a beauitful vocal, there's bits in it that get the hairs on the back of my neck up every time I hear it.

'This Is The Last Ride Tonight' - (Picture Disc 7 inch): Again, this came from Greig Stewart's massive beat library... This is our take on very monged club music. We would dance to music like this, even if no-one else did. Personally speaking, a friend of mine has been going to a lot of strange clubs recently, such as Bangface and Braindrop - and I WANT this to be the music they play in them. . . Magrao was at the desk for most of this, piecing it together, and we got in our friend Sonny McCaskill to add some vocals. He was the only man that could have done the track justice. Sonny remembered a fairground in Scotland where a steward-type would wander around as the place was closing, shouting "This Is The Last Ride Tonight" in a thick, whirring Highland voice... and so this mysterious fairground gatekeeper is immortalised... in our depraved version of techno. It all makes sense if you think about it.

'What We Have' - (7 inch): Greig, Arista and I improvised the music for this one live... I'd had one or two ideas for a sort of 50s-style ballad that I wanted to try out. I'd been listening to 'Coles Corner' by Richard Hawley a few days before - I hadn't heard it in ages and had forgotten how great it was, so I suppose that was in my mind too. But anyway, we did the music live and I tried singing live too but couldn't get into it and went home in a bad mood shortly afterwards. A few days later, Greig and Jonas put it on and it sounded so much better coming back to it fresh... but the vocal still sounded very poor, for want of a better word - so I scribbled some lyrics down for half an hour and then did another take, and really enjoyed it, and that's it - any overdubs beyond the vocal felt like they'd ruin it. We were using this old valve microphone and it kept overloading, which I love the sound of - proper old style distortion. I suppose it's a song about mood swings and learning to appreciate someone before they're gone... I really like it. It's probably one of the vocals of my own that I'm happiest with."

Get Over It on BBC Sound

2008-03-16 14:01:04

Watch it again here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sound/shows/show19/video/?076

Times Podcast

2008-03-14 21:05:36

Myself and Magrao are the guests on this week's Times Podcast - we talk to Mr. Tom "Bombdog" Gatti about unusual croissants, being unfashionable and why we make the music we make.

It was recorded early in the morning, which manifests itself in different ways - with MC, it just makes him sound even more laid-back and cool than usual, with me, I think the coffee had gone straight to my head and I sound like an hyperactive kid that's eaten 3 packets of Smarties. Still, it's always nice to do an interview where you actually get asked interesting questions ..

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/audio_video/podcasts/music/article3548021.ece

Alan

2008-03-14 18:47:52

Unpack that you sack of shit...

Get Over It OUT MONDAY / Amazon Comp

2008-03-14 17:04:04

So, Get Over It is out on Monday. It would be funny if it got to number one. Okay. .. it's unlikely, but it would be funny. And singles don't sell half as much these days so it's easier innit. So just, like, get everyone you know to buy Get Over It and let's see what happens. I mean, it's the 21st century so they can just pay 79p and listen to the goddam thing within a minute and stay in bed the whole time and they've helped our cause for the cost of a small flapjack in Costcutters.

If you need more of a Get Over It fix, you can hear a pretty cool version of it that we recorded for Zane Lowe, in the disguise of Annie Mac, the other day - there's an interview with Arista and I and we also do a version of Big Dog, another song from the album, and play a couple of very good songs by other people. You should be able to hear it until next Wednesday here:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/zanelowe/

And here, should this still not quench your thirst for scuzzy bass and me straining my voice, is us playing it live in our studio control room a month ago. This version is officially the SWAMPY one and can be seen on our podcast.

click here

But all this aside, we're genuinely really excited about the B-sides for Get Over It. There's four in all, two on the cd, and one each on the two 7-inches, all co-produced by Jonas Raabe of Dibidim.

Throw Me A Sun - (CD): This is the first B-side we've ever done that felt like it could have been on an album had we done it at a slightly different time. At one point we were even thinking about making it a double A-side with Get Over It. . I think it came as a total release for us all after the intensity of making "Red" last year. It all unravelled really quickly, from an "Astronaut Beat" of Greig's .. the vocal is just a first take and a double track - I love doing things where you just sing once and that's it. Arista double tracked her double bass too, which sounds great, and then Magrao came up with this brilliant guitar loop to go over the last part of the song. . .it was really fun to make, and it's one of our favourite Guillemots songs already. I suppose it's quite stadium-y sounding in some ways, but there's a roughness, scracbooky sort of feel to it too. So, yeah... it's a big B-side for us.

Me Diz - (CD): Magrao sings this one. We basically finally got round to writing some music for the winner of the Made-Up Lovesong lyrics competition - from about a year and a half ago! (I'm surprised she didn't sue us) - and ended up doing this sort of Pulp Fiction meets Bossa Nova track, with Magrao finally playing the matchbox (when he answered my ad getting the band together, he mentioned that he played matchbox but I'd never heard him until now) and me doing my best Chris Rea moves on the guitar.. or something. I'd sung the lyrics that Adele Hammond, the competition winner, had written, but then afterwards we were listening to it as an instrumental and Greig said he thought Magrao should sing something Brazilian on it. He took a bit of persuading but then ended up getting up and making the whole thing up on the spot, in one take. It's a beauitful vocal, there's bits in it that get the hairs on the back of my neck up every time I hear it.

This Is The Last Ride Tonight - (Picture Disc 7 inch): Again, this came from Greig Stewart's massive beat library.. This is our take on very monged club music. We would dance to music like this, even if no-one else did. Personally speaking, a friend of mine has been going to a lot of strange clubs recently, such as Bangface and Braindrop - and I WANT this to be the music they play in them. . . Magrao was at the desk for most of this, piecing it together, and we got in our friend Sonny McCaskill to add some vocals. He was the only man that could have done the track justice. Sonny remembered a fairground in Scotland where a steward-type would wander around as the place was closing, shouting "This Is The Last Ride Tonight" in a thick, whirring Highland voice. . and so this mysterious fairground gatekeeper is immortalised . . in our depraved version of techno. It all makes sense if you think about it.

What We Have - (7 inch): Greig, Arista and I improvised the music for this one live. . I'd had one or two ideas for a sort of 50s-style ballad that I wanted to try out. I'd been listening to Coles Corner by Richard Hawley a few days before - I hadn't heard it in ages and had forgotten how great it was, so I suppose that was in my mind too. But anyway, we did the music live and I tried singing live too but couldn't get into it and went home in a bad mood shortly afterwards. A few days later, Greig and Jonas put it on and it sounded so much better coming back to it fresh.. but the vocal still sounded very poor, for want of a better word - so I scribbled some lyrics down for half an hour and then did another take, and really enjoyed it, and that's it - any overdubs beyond the vocal felt like they'd ruin it. We were using this old valve microphone and it kept overloading, which I love the sound of - proper old style distortion. I suppose it's a song about mood swings and learning to appreciate someone before they're gone. . I really like it. It's probably one of the vocals of my own that I'm happiest with.

As ever, there are many enticing deals around regarding your purchase, such as the old chestnut "BUY ALL 3 FORMATS FOR A FIVER" - go to our myspace for link through to store www.myspace.com/guillemotsmusic

You can also win 2 tickets to a performance we are putting on for Amazon. it will be an acoustic gig at our London studio on April 4th - there is one pair "going" by going here Click Here. . . beats going to the dogs dunnit.. . there may or may not be "drinks and nibbles" at said event, but either way it should be fine.

You can ALSO watch us on Lily Allen's Tv Show on Tues 18th March on BBC 3 at 10:30PM then again on Fri, Sat and Sunday - so TUNE IN YEAH?

And finally, - -- - HA HA! THERE ISN"T ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY! HA HA HA HA HA H!

xxxx Fyfe

Zane Lowe Session on Radio 1

2008-03-12 17:05:52

Tune in from 7PM on Radio 1 to hear 3 live tracks recorded at BBC Maida Vale and an exclusive interview with Annie Mac.

You can listen again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/zanelowe/

NEW TOUR, NEW BLOG, NEW GUILLEMOT NEW NEW NEW!

2008-03-08 11:44:34

Hello all, hello.

THIS IS THE NEWS: i'll try to write in a brief, informative style. As you can see our new website is up. It's early days yet, so there's not loads of details up etc, but we'll be continuing to add to it over the next few weeks. Still, something to be getting on with.

Tickets are now on sale for our NEW UK TOUR in May/June - just go to the shop on our website and you can get tickets there ahead of them going on general sale on Wednesday. . . . . There'll be some seperate Irish / Northern Irish dates to be announced soon too.

On our podcast, we're "going audio" this week, as me and Greig waffle our way through some nuggets of information about each song on "Red" - possibly demonstrating why we're not public speakers but you might as well have a listen anyway. So subscribe to the podcast here . . . if you haven't already. You can do that through itunes.

We are on a TV programme called "Sound" on BBC 2, this Saturday 15th March. Playing a song or something. Probably our new single "Get Over It", that would be logical. Said song has also given us our first A-list at Radio One, which is quite exciting. Greig and I did a couple of days of regional radio the other day that involved a lot of driving around in a cab and heard it come on Radio One a few times. One time, we were at some traffic light and we both, very sadly, started looking round to see if we could see anyone in any other cars singing along to it. There were quite a few cars. But, um, no-one was singing along. Everyone looked very bored.

We're also going to be playing Lily Allen's TV programme the week that the single comes out, that's the week of March 17th on BBC 3, shows a few times over the week

We're also going to be on Zane Lowe's show on Radio 1, doing a Maida Vale session on Wed 12th March, so listen in....

And Get Over It - THE VIDEO - is also Number 7 in the MTV2 Chart at the moment. So thanks to those who voted so far and vote for it more yeah, lets barnstrorm this joint and get it to ONE.

And to those of you coming to these 3 upcoming shows - thankyou! We've been rehearsing solid for the last two weeks, figuring out how to play some of the new songs and re-arranging a few of the old ones. We're nervous but excited about playing live again... so see you in a few days if you're there.

And we have found our replacement for Mr Alex J Ward - a wonderful sax player and singer called Ruth Phoenix, who's a friend of Jonas, our keyboard tech man and co-producer of our new B-sides, more of which in the next mailout. So yeah, if you're at the shows, give her a big cheer. And thanks to everyone else who's emailed us about that, we heard some really great singers that we never knew about.

Finally - for anyone who fancies staying in listening to some noises tonight, my other band Gannets have a session on BBC Radio 3 tonight, 11.30 pm - Friday - or yesterday night if you don't get this til Saturday. IN which case, fear not, you can hear it back online for a week. Here's the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzon3/pip/ua5lf/

THANKYOU! Fyfe

New Photos!

2008-03-07 11:11:08

Check out the gallery page HERE for more pictures...

New Video - Get Over It

2008-02-27 19:19:26

Video for the brand new single 'Get Over It'

Vote for Us

2008-02-20 20:07:53

THIS IS WHERE WE ASK YOU TO VOTE FOR US... AND CHECK THE VIDEO FOR 'GET OVER IT' MAGRAO DIRECTED

Hello all... so Marc Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie on BBC RADIO TWO are putting 'Get Over It' up for their Pick 'n' Mix listener vote thing tomorrow (Thursday night, that is). I'm not explaining myself very well - basically it's a sort of Record of the Week thing for next week but you have to vote for it. It's all about the vote. Don't take note, just vote. No need to gloat. We're all in the same vote boat. Vote with your throat. Well don't actually, vote here as of 10PM tomorrow (Thurs)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffemaconie/picknmix.shtml

Now I used to listen to both Mr Radcliffe and Mr Maconie as a teenage nippet, on their respective Radio 1 shows, so this is all good, and we always have fun when we go into to do sessions for them, so... um, yeah. That's not really relevant to the voting bit, but there it is all the same.

So is anyone else as excited as me about seeing the Klaxons play 'Umbrella' with Rhianna at the Brits?!

-Fyfe

We Are Rocky And We Are Ross

2008-02-15 20:07:34

Hello all, this is a quick note, a quick note. We're on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross tonight, tonight, tonight. We're playing 'Get Over It', which is all well and good, but this pales into mundane insignificance when I tell you that the principal guest on the show is Sylvester Stallone. Who, incidentally, now has a promo copy of our new album.

There will be a Guillemots / Rocky film. There WILL. He was a very nice man too, just so you know.

Also, you can watch three of us making idiots out of ourselves HERE.

Mc Lord Magrao managed to retain his dignity, being "otherwise engaged" that day.

OKAY I AM GOING NOW THANK YOU.

FYFE

Hello World of Electricity

2008-02-09 20:07:03

Hello world of electricity, this this is Fyfe. We've been having a lot of fun recording B-sides for 'Get Over It' over the last week or two; we've done an Ep's worth of stuff, and none of it really sounds like anything we've done before.

Anyway, someone is playing bad boogie-woogie piano next door, which is somehow reminding me to get onto the point of this email. We're going to be having a few podcast things coming up online over the next few weeks, and here's the first. It's on iTunes, but for some reason there's quite a complex, scurrying-around sort of method to getting hold of it at the moment... so, scurry on...

- Open iTunes
- Select "Advanced" from the top menu
- Select "Subscribe to podcast" from the drop-down list
- past in the following URL: http://www.polydor.co.uk/guillemots.xml

And all shall be well... actually, while you're on iTunes, you should all do this aswell:

1. Type "Dibidim" into the search box. An album called 'Riders' should come up.
2. Ask yourself if you can afford £7.90.
3. Decide that, on reflection, yes you can.
4. Download 'Riders' by Dibidim.

It's an album by Jonas, our keyboard tech, and my body double, and his friend Jeron, and it's really brilliant. Amazing to fall asleep to, listen to in a slightly fuzzy state, or, strangely, listen to in the bath, if anyone actually still has a bath these days. I mean, most people are too impatient to wait for the taps to run in this technological age of instant gratification. Still, they'll probably design an iBath soon.

Anyway, download it.

Right, watch out for a possible upcoming collaboration between us and Sylvester Stallone... have a good weekend

Fyfe