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Live Dates
28 August 2008 Hey guys, Again, thanks so much for the awesome response and if you want to go on the 1st or 3rd (or both), best email in about those quick. 27 August 2008 Hey everyone, Due to circumstances COMPLETELY out of our control the KOKO gig has been cancelled. Unfortunately the promoter is unable to return the booking fee, we are so sorry about that, especially as practically every ticket for the event had gone. SO We're going to do a FREE three day residency at the Fly (36-38 New Oxford Street) for all you people that were planning to travel miles and miles to come and see us, and of course for those of you who live very close too. :-) So come on down, the dates are September 1st to 3rd, we'll have some great support acts and we'll be changing the set around every evening as we now have a billion songs that we want to play (well, not quite that many but you get the picture). The shows will now be Age 16+. To ensure entry email: pipettescontest@nettwerk.com with 'The Fly' and the date you want to attend as the header (put +1 in too, if you want to bring a friend). We'll email a confirmation back to let you know you've got in, though we'll also be holding some tickets back for the door so if you don't get a confirmation email, still head over. We appreciate that even a three day residency at the Fly is not the same as a gig at Koko, so we're really sorry to all those who will miss out, though the Fly gigs will be very intimate and fun affairs, so we hope you can make it over. Also, me and the girls recorded The Shoe That Fits yesterday with a great lady, Nicole Jenkinson and we're putting all the files up on myspace.com/thepipettesremix for anyone who'd like to try and remix the song. We'll include the best on a cd that we'll make for our tour in October along side a few others that we're getting our mates to do. Good luck everyone! Oh, the tour in October (and one show in September). It's very exciting, around the UK and coming to a town near you, here are the dates (more to come soon): Thursday 11/09/08 Kingston New Slang Gwenno xx 19 August 2008 Free London show! The Pipettes 8 August 2008 SO! First things first, thank you to everyone that was at the gig we played for POPSTARZ on Saturday night, it was AMAZING, one of the best so far, it was boiling hot but I don't think I've ever seen as many people dance at one of our gigs. We're playing again this Sunday morning (!) on the seafront in Brighton, hope to see some of you there, I know it's early but NERD are playing later on so I think that more than makes up for the early start. ;-) The KOKO gig that was on the 11th has been moved to the 2nd of September, you can get tickets, from August 11 here and tickets for SOLFEST, which we're playing on the 23rd, here Hope to see you there and make sure you come over and say hi if you see us! It's been really amazing to play shows again, we're all desperate to get back on the road, I think we'd forgotten how much we love touring. I miss the shows, the venues, the record shops, the food and drink and falling asleep drunk in a bed that resembles a coffin. I really cannot wait to do it again. We're hoping to put something together before the year's out, it'd be great to do some small shows around the UK, we really are starting again and it's bloody brilliant! Everyone seems to really like the new stuff, we've enjoyed playing some of the old stuff too and it's been good to get some exercise! Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see and we'll keep you posted... Gwenno xxx
24 July 2008 Hi guys We've some gigs coming up in the next month or so, so just thought we'd fill you in so if you want to you can come say hi to us and check out some new material (and older songs too, of course - the same but different). Brighton Concorde 2 - August 2nd - Part of gay pride, should be great fun and we're really happy to play as part of such an important celebration. Brighton seafront - August 10 - "Vodafone TBA in Brighton", on bill with McFly, the Streets and N.E.R.D. It's a free gig for Vodafone customers but we have a bunch of free tickets to give away too (whatever mobile network you're on). We have 20 sets of 3 tickets to give away to the first 20 people to email pipettescontest@nettwerk.com with Vodafone comp as the subject. Vodafone need the following information to issue the tickets so make sure you include it all: *Name Winners will get their tickets issued to their mobiles and will need to have WAP enabled on their phones to receive the tickets. Get there for around 10AM (it's an early one for us!) and keep in mind that Golden wristbands to enter the golden circle right at the front will be given on a first come first served basis. Koko - August 12 - Free concert as part of the launch of The Compass, a new internet music channel . Obviously it's great to open up increasing avenues for broadcasting bands and music as music only seems to be worthy of being broadcast at stoopid o'clock at night on domestic television these days (yes, we know most of us have spangly HD TV sets these days, Monster Bobby doesn't even have a television at his house!). Not exactly sure how to get free tickets, we'll let you know when we find out, though an internet search is bound to be more informative than us. Solfest, Carlisle - August 23rd - who wouldn't want to go to a festival that had Supergrass, Roisin Murphy and Chas and Dave on the bill? We would also like to point out that DJ Scotch Egg (http://www.djscotchegg.com) has a new album out .. records (home of Lightning Bolt and other noisey sorts) and it's amazing! Also go check out 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' (http://www.angusthongsmovie.com/intl/uk) when it's released as it has a song of ours used in a proper 'cinematic moment', which brought a tear to all our eyes when we saw it and congrats to friends Restlesslist (http://www.myspace.com/restlesslist) for getting Huw Stephens' record of the week/month (not sure) when it came out last month as it is, indeed, a brilliant record. Lots of love, hope to see you in the future. The Pipettes 9 June 2008 Hey , 9 June 2008 Hello, it’s the other new pipette here, Anna. How are you? Anna xx
12 May 2008 Hello everyone!! This is new Pipette Ani! I was just sitting down watching 'Homes under the hammer' eating some marmite (I love!) on toast when I suddenly thought I should maybe introduce myself as the only introduction you've had is that funny ol' pic floating around from the Bestival Bandstand gig with Mark Ronson. I could perhaps start there, it's as good a place as any ey? OK, so it is the Wednesday before the gig (which happened on the Saturday) and we get a phone call asking if we would like to do this gig. First of all we were all a bit apprehensive, the opposing factors being 1)eeeek!! scary, 2)it's in three days, 3)we're yet to debut, 4)Help!, 5)not one finished dress!! However we just thought 'WHY THE DEVIL NOT?!?!?!' We figured the main focus wouldn't be on us so in a way it would take some of the pressure off the first gig. You all have to bare in mind that us newbies have been fans of 'The Pipettes' like everyone reading this, so the thought of actually performing one of the old classics (aye it was 'Because it's not love) was pretty daunting. So it's now the day of the gig which incidentally was an amazingly hot day. The sound check at 1pm went delightfully smooth so we were pretty darn excited though discovering about the 1am curtain call was pretty pants. The whole place was incredibly decorated in Alice in Wonderland related bits, it was like something out of an upper east side New York party scene (I can't help it, I love 'Gossip Girl'... I'm on episode 4!). The queen of hearts was walking around, a couple of cards in tow, playing croquet, there was a group of ladies dressed up as pensioners, one of which was chasing around after her 'out of control' hoover and another having trouble keeping her stockings up... it was quite the tea party! OK, so we've come to the bit about the "bunny ears" (I prefer to call them "HARE bands".... ) It was about five minutes before the show started and there was a ritual and very uplifting "hey guys, let's make this show great.." kinda thing happening when everyone noticed that we had no fancy dress (heavens, we thought our dresses would be enough!?) We were each handed these hare bands, and though slightly hesitant we put them on. The connotations of these silly old props (though regretfully) was not at the front of our minds.... it was our first gig and eeeeeeeeekkk!? I was just thinking... what is the dance?... I don't know the words...aaaaahh!. Yes, in hindsight we should have given it a second thought but really... a permanent fixture? come on guys! Anyhoo, to the important bit... the song and the singing... dare I say we did it pretty good. WINNER!
Love Ani x
Outside the venue
On bloody stage
Sunshine Wan 9 May 2008 Hey, Stuff on YouTube that we like: The Glitter Band (Love in the Sun) Super Furry Animals (Hey Venus) DJ Rubbish (Armageddon Session Vol.2: Live from the Bunker) Cassetteboy (Carry On Breathing) Spånka Nkpg feat. Marit Bergman (She Can't Love You) Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King (Love Come Down) The Spinners (Could It Be I’m Falling In Love)
By the way we have a new t-shirt for sale:
It's available online from mamstore.co.uk (At last count, we think there are 16 ex-Pipettes out there)
2 May 2008
It's been a tough few months for everyone involved and we got this from Sandrine in the post the other day and it really did make our day. Thank you to everyone who's been supportive, and to Sandrine in particular for the picture! love, 2 May 2008 Here’s what we've all been enjoying lately: The B52s Ela e Gata - 'You Can Dance' Cameo - 'Word Up' Prince Liquid Liquid Bobby's been reading... Gwenno's been reading... Ani's reading The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy Anna's been singing "I Will Survive" at Shabaret 18 April 2008 The Pipettes have two new members, Ani and Anna. We are demoing up 20-25 new songs, with an eye to recording a second album in the Summer. We want to tell you all about them, but we’re very much head-down working on new material at the moment.
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