DIOS fridge advert!

'Valentine' is featured on a 15 second advert for a DIOS fridge!

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The School on tour with The Boy Least Likely to in March!

Whoopee! Come along and say hello! x


Mon 16th - LEEDS Cockpit 7.00pm Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.seetickets.com Info: www.thecockpit.co.uk
The Cockpit, Swinegate, Leeds LS1 4AG Tel: 0113 244 1573


Tues 17th - MANCHESTER Night & Day 8.00pm Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.nightnday.org/detail.php?list_id=1648 Info: www.nightnday.org
Night & Day Cafe, 26 Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M1 1JN Tel: 0161 236 1822


Wed 18th Mar - GLASGOW King Tuts 8.30pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.kingtuts.co.uk
King Tuts, 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RL Tel: 0141 221 5279


Thurs 19th - NEWCASTLE The Cluny 8.00pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketweb.co.uk
The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne NE1 2PQ Tel: 0191 2304474


Fri 20th - NOTTINGHAM Bodega 7.00pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.thebodegasocialclub.co.uk
The Bodega, 23 Pelham Street, Nottingham NG1 2ED Tel: 0115 9505078


Mon 23rd - BRIGHTON Audio Ages: 16+ Tickets £6.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Info: www.audiobrighton.com
Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton BN2 1TL Tel: 01273 606 906


Tues 24th - BRISTOL Louisiana 7.30pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.thelouisiana.net
Louisiana, Wapping Road, Bathurst Terrace, Bristol BS1 6UA Tel: 0117 9265978


Wed 25th - SOUTHAMPTON Joiners 8.00pm Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.joinerslive.co.uk
The Joiners, 141 St Mary Street, St Mary, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 1NS Tel: 02380 225612


Thurs 26th - LONDON Cargo 7.30pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £7.50 adv from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Info: www.cargo-london.com
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3AY Tel: 0207 7393440

Italy!

We had such a lovely time in Italy! We've just got back after not much sleep on last night (about 2 hours) before our early flight!

Our first show was in Forli at the Diagonal Loft Club, with lots of people dancing, singing along and inserting their own handclap sections! Lovely to meet you all!

The DJ also played lots of current UK indiepop bands that we love like Their Hearts Were Full of Spring, Pocketbooks and The Hermit Crabs..

Pescara was at the Mono Spazio Bar which was ace, where Pete + the Pirates and Parenthetical Girls were also about to play..

After Pescara we tried visiting Rome! We managed to get about 1.5 hours there and found the Collesseum, but didn't have enough time to go in. It was very hot and we ate lots of icecream!

We also saw lots of nuns in Rome, here's a photo of some of them at the services - smoking nuns!

We had loads of fun at Extra Alt Club in Recanati, cool music in both rooms and a huge venue with great sound on top of a hill. 4 pizzas! We met lots of lovely people, there was a very large merch queue! Thank you to Circus Worm for letting us use their equipment..

Next was Feedback in Foligno on a Saturday night - you people are crazy! A clubnight run by the fantastic Paola superstar, it all got a bit busy and clubby after we played so we left you all to it! Again, we went to the town centre and ate lots of icecream. This is where we met Ji-Jo!

The last show was in La Limonaia Music Club in Fucecchio, another venue on top of a hill, which looked like a wedding reception from the outside. We stayed in a monastry in a bridge which is now a hostel.

Many thanks to Chiara + Matteo from Organetta for arranging the tour and to all the promoters for looking after us with great shows, food and accommodation. xxx

Interview

Here's an interview Liz did with crazewire DE, translated for you by Google:

www.crazewire.de

As you can see, it doesn't quite translate properly but you get the idea!

Latitude

Huw Stephens invited us to play the Lake Stage at Latitude 2008, we had an amazing time - the festival is so well organised and it's good to see people putting in effort to organise something so unique to all the others. We brought some balloons but couldn't get them all blown up in time, it's a lot harder than it looks! Plenty ended up in the crowd though.

We want to say thanks to Phil who worked at Latitude for helping us put our tents up. For the record everyone we are capable of putting up tents, but it was great having someone there to check you're ok, all the staff were really helpful.

We saw ace bands on Saturday + Sunday like Soko / Noah and the Whale / Grinderman / Breeders / Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam / Blondie / Lykke Li / Wave Pictures / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Johnny Flynn.

Here's the lovely crowd, look at you all! And here's the Voluntary Butler sign lady too! And Harri playing kazoo on Shoulder.

THANK YOU to Huw for allowing us and some other really great up+coming bands to play at Latitude without having to go through a silly battle of the bands friends voting process like all the other festivals seem to be doing these days or to suck up to someone who knows someone who knows someone etc.. . it's the only UK festival we were asked to play this year (all the others just didn't reply!) so we really really appreciate being given a chance - THANKS HUW! xxx

We Love Spain!

The School recently spent a weekend in Spain where they met some very lovely people.

We played Murcia Sound Festival, alongside bands like Speedmarket Avenue, La Casa Azul, Kula Shaker, The 1990s and The Psychedelic Furs, and Liz fell in love with some crazy Japanese popmusic.

After that we played Brixton Windmill with The Foster Kids, Silence at Sea and The Spencer McGarry Season, with Chris OffBeat djing. We all went up on a bus and saw Dexter Fletcher at the traffic lights.

Me, Josh, Ceri + Harri also recorded a session for Selector Radio, (see Liz + Josh with the Big Brother sign below).

Then we had some lovely press + record cover photos taken by Alison Wonderland, then went to Norwich and played Queen Charlotte with The Foster Kids and The Middle Ones, they were great! And we met lots of elephants in the streets of Norwich, apparently there are 52 of them..

Radio Sessions

Hello, it's been a busy week for people in The School.

We had 3 lovely radio sessions, a couple of interviews and a gig with Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter (and some Wave Pictures) who were performing Hefner songs at Clwb Ifor Bach.


The School with Tom Robinson at 6music, London 13th June 08 - Josh, Ryan, Liz, Harri, Tom, Ceri.


The School with Alan Thompson at Radio Wales on the Evening Show, Cardiff 16th June 08 - Josh, Alan, Ceri, Liz, Steph, Ryan.

Let It Slip + Tour Dates

The 'Let It Slip' EP will be released on Elefant Records, 16th June 08 and we'll be touring in June/July!



You can pre-order from several places, including www.elefant.com/bands/the-school along with Amazon and Zavvi.


TOUR DATES

If you want to fill in some of these dates please contact us at theschoolband@hotmail.com

- 19th June - OXFORD Bullingdon Arms
- 20th June - MURCIA SOUND FESTIVAL, Spain
- 26th June - Selector Session (recorded)
- 26th June - LONDON Brixton Windmill
- 28th June - NORWICH The Queen Charlotte
- 4th July - NOTTINGHAM Lee Rosy's
- 5th July - tbc
- 6th July - EDINBURGH Bongo Club
- 7th July - SHEFFIELD The Redhouse
- 8th July - LEICESTER The Charlotte
- 9th July - MANCHESTER Night & Day Cafe
- 20th July - LATITUDE FESTIVAL, Suffolk


more to be added shortly!

UK TOUR DATES

TOUR DATES:

25th Oct - CARDIFF - Spillers Records **FROM 5PM FREE**
26th Oct - STOKE-ON-TRENT - The Glebe
27th Oct - MANCHESTER - The Castle **FROM 2PM AFTERNOON GIG**
28th Oct - GLASGOW - Twisted Wheel
31st Oct - CHELMSFORD - The Basement
1st Nov - LONDON - Brixton Windmill
2nd Nov - LONDON - The George Tavern
3rd Nov - BIRMINGHAM - The Island Bar
4th Nov - DERBY CHARITY GIG - The Vic Inn
10th Nov - CARDIFF - Huw Stephens’ Swn Fest, UWIC Howard Gardens
28th Nov - LONDON - Catch
29th Nov - WORCESTER - Marr's Bar
30th Nov - NORTHAMPTON - Labour Club
1st Dec - LEEDS - Carpe Dium
7th Dec - BRISTOL - Louisiana
17th Dec - CARDIFF - Dempseys (upstairs)
16th Feb - MADRID - Elefant Records night, more details tba

SEE THE FULL DETAILS/TIMES/COSTS/LINE-UP HERE