The School

Coming soon..

2012-02-01T22:57:00.003Z

We've been filming the videos for our new single!

First from the new album will be a double a side single with 4 tracks on limited edition 7" vinyl and digital download, out in March:

Never Thought I'd See The Day

When He Kisses Me (Jonathan Richman cover)

Where Does Your Heart Belong?

I Wouldn't Know What To Do (The Honeydrips cover)

The new video for 'Never Thought I'd See The Day' will be up online in March, then the video for 'Where Does Your Heart Belong?' will be up online when the album is out shortly afterwards.

Our new album is called 'Reading Too Much Into Things Like Anything' and is 29 mins 12 tracks long! We'll post up more news on all that shortly - speak soon! x

A Little Christmas Message

2011-12-23T03:01:00.002Z

Here's Liz wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and talking a bit about the new album.

It'll be released in the late Spring 2012 on Elefant Records and is called 'Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything'.

In the new year we'll release a double a-side single with 4 tracks on. 'Never Thought I'd See The Day' is the lead track (video coming soon!), then the aa-side is 'Where Does Your Heart Belong?'. There are also 2 b-side covers - one is of Jonathan Richman, the other is a song by The Honeydrips. That'll be out on limited edition 7" vinyl & download.

We'll be touring the UK in April/May and then hoping to get to Europe, the USA and hopefully some more far off places from the summer onwards.

See you soon, have a great Christmas & happy new year! x

I don't know what I've found.. but I know what's just begun..

2011-07-19T22:48:00.002+01:00

We're recording our new album next month!

In a studio in North Wales with David Wrench.

We'll see you all on the other side! x

For sale!

2011-03-25T00:22:00.003Z

We've just done a merch check and we're running low on some items, so get in there while you can!

- 'Loveless Unbeliever' LP vinyl - only 14 copies left!

- T-shirts - only 11 left! Red S/M, Blue S (generous sizes)

- All I Wanna Do - limited edition 7" - only a handful left then sold out!

- Let It Slip EP (CD)

Email us if you want to buy anything! x

Goodbye The Loves

2011-02-12T16:57:00.004Z

We're sad to say goodbye to our old friends THE LOVES who play their retirement show tomorrow, Sun 13th February at The Lexington in London.

Without The Loves there would never have been The School, and I would not have become a promoter. It feels like part of me has died.

When I was in The Loves we played 4 John Peel sessions, including one from Peel Acres. We supported the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at The Garage, we played CMJ in New York, and we shared the stage with some awesome bands like Of Montreal, The Cribs and The Soft Boys.

Funfacts aside, the years I had in The Loves were some of the best of my life. Good times, good music and meeting some of the nicest people on the planet.

Simon Love helped me write some early songs for The School - he composed most of 'All I Wanna Do' when I only had a rough tune, he wrote the heart-wrenching lyrics for 'I Want You Back' and verses for recently released track 'Tell Me'. He gave me the confidence to record our early demos and convinced me that our music was worth making.

If you're not familiar with The Loves, I would suggest starting with the following tracks which are some of my favourites. You'll find them on i-Tunes, from Fortuna Pop or possibly eBay. Their albums are called 'Love', 'Technicolour', 'Three' and 'Love You'.

THE LOVES - recommended listening:

She'll Break Your Heart

Little Girl Blues

Chelsea Girl

Boom A-Bang-Bang-Bang

I'm Gonna Get F**ked Up

Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!

Love

Xs and Os

Honey

Goodbye

I My She Loves You

She'll Break Your Heart... Again

Summertime

You Don't Have To (cover)

Sweet Sister Delia

One-Two-Three

Love Song #7

That Boy Is Mine (School cover!)

Bubblegum

December Boy

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas

2010-12-21T02:55:00.002Z

So it's nearly the end of 2010 and we're a very happy School indeed, we got to release our debut album 'Loveless Unbeliever' on our amazing label Elefant Records, which has already started appearing in loads of 'Best of 2010' lists alongside Proper Famous Bands.

We worked with some great people, played with some lovely bands and spent some time in some far-off places..

We've got one last new track for you before Christmas - 'Tell Me' was recorded at the same time as 'Loveless Unbeliever' but with the intention of being released as a little extra sneaky song between albums.

The track is available on Elefant's new compilation 'Space Escapade' from

Elefant Records / i-Tunes / Spotify / Deezer.

If you're in the UK it's also available for a short period as a free download from 7digital - but if you can't get it through any of the above don't worry you can still listen to it on our MySpace page

We hope you have a very lovely Christmas and we'll be back with a brand new album later in 2011! xxx

The School in Concert on Spanish TV

2010-12-15T03:17:00.002Z

Watch us performing a whole live set on Spanish TV here! http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20101207/conciertos-radio-3---the-school/954573.shtml

Thanks Spain!

2010-09-16T01:20:00.003+01:00

Thanks Spain we love you! You looked after us so well..

There are loads of photos of you crazy lovely people on our Facebook page, tag yourselves!

See you in Madrid 20th Nov x

New video!

2010-08-26T16:51:00.002+01:00

Here's our video for 'Can't Understand', directed by Tom Readdy and featuring the DRA Collective dancers. Enjoy! x

SPAIN!

2010-08-25T01:20:00.005+01:00

We're playing 2 festivals in Spain! In between we'll be hanging around in Murcia writing some of the 2nd album.

If you can't make those though we're also playing Madrid on 20th November.

Hope to see you there! xx

Rock'n'Roll High School

2010-07-12T01:15:00.003+01:00

We played a charity show at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff this weekend, so decided as we'd played here recently that we'd do a Ramones themed set.

We didn't have time to get together as many songs as we'd hoped originally, so unfortunately some of your favourites will probably be missing! But this is what we played:

Rock'n'Roll High School

That Boy Is Mine (new School song that sounds a bit Ramonesy)

Sheena Is a Punk Rocker

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (School style)

Judy is a Punk

Let's Dance

Hoping and Praying (Ramones style)

Rock'n'Roll Radio

Blitzkrieg Bop

All I Wanna Do (Ramones style)

Baby, I Love You (School/Ramones style)

Liz's DJ Setlist from How Does It Feel To Be Loved?

2010-07-05T02:53:00.003+01:00

Liz was guest DJ at How Does It Feel To Be Loved? in London and this is what she played.. x

Veronica Falls - Beachy Head

Vivian Girls - John, I'm Only Dancing

Donna Lynn - I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls

Saint Etienne - Who Do You Think You Are?

The Vaselines - Molly's Lips

Eux Autres - The Deadball Era

The Gentle Waves - Weathershow

Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve

Magnetic Fields - Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side

Lucky Soul - Lips Are Unhappy

The Supremes - When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes

Lulu - I'll Come Running

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Let's Make This Precious

The Nazz - Open My Eyes

The Sonics - Witch

April March - Chick Habit

The Tammy's - Egyptian Shumba

The Rev-Lons - After Last Night

Allo, Darlin' - Dreaming

Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man

The Supremes - Baby Love

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Let's Hang On

Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

Hefner - Hymn for the Cigarettes

Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill

Cinderella - Baby Baby (I Still Love You)

The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache

The Zombies - Friends of Mine

The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me

Dusty Springfield - I Only Want to be With You

The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love

The Crystals - Da Doo Ron

Belle and Sebastian - Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie

Velocette - Get Yourself Together (French version)

Pretty in Pink (limited edition vinyl..)

2010-05-29T03:48:00.004+01:00

Yesterday was a very happy day for us, we just discovered that MOLLY RINGWALD is somehow a fan of The School!

The actress from Breakfast Club / Pretty In Pink / Sixteen Candles (and more recently US TV show The Secret Life of An American Teenager) featured 'All I Wanna Do' in her top 15 Celebrity Tunes.

"This song just makes me feel happy. It's very young. You just want to hold hands with someone while you listen to it."

You can read more here..

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Also yesterday EVERETT TRUE posted 'All I Wanna Do' as his Song of the Day!

"It's still a mightily lovable sob of pop".

Everett True's Song of the Day

Couple of UK shows..

2010-05-29T03:28:00.004+01:00

Hello lovely readers, sorry we've been a bit quiet on here recently..

We've got 3 UK dates in June, details below. We're also planning a European tour so keep an eye out for announcements.

We'll also have a brand new video for you very soon!

xxx

Friday 4th June

MANCHESTER - Saki Bar

with Hexicon & support

8pm

Young Adult Friction presents..
Saki Bar, 2 Wilmslow Road, Manchester M14 5TB

Saturday 5th June

WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL - CHELTENHAM

with The Lightning Seeds, Beth Jeans Houghton, Goldheart Assembly, Piney Gir..

2pm
Buy tickets here

Sunday 6th June

CARDIFF- Buffalo Bar

with Hexicon / Red Shoe Diaries / Joy Collective DJs girl group special

7.30pm

Loose presents..

Buffalo Bar, 11 Windsor Place, Cardiff CF10 3BY

£5 adv WeGotTickets / £6 doors

Is He Really Coming Home? - New Video/Single

2010-03-25T13:23:00.002Z

Here's the video for our new single 'Is He Really Coming Home?' out at the end of May 2010 on Elefant Records, directed by Tom Readdy, taken from our debut album 'Loveless Unbeliever'.

hope you enjoy! x

How to buy our album

2010-03-05T11:32:00.002Z

Our debut album is here! Sorry for the delay.

'Loveless Unbeliever' will be available to buy on CD, download & limited edition red vinyl from:

- us on our UK tour in March

- Elefant Records / Spain / Korea / Mexico / Canada / USA in April

- UK / everywhere else from May

To read more about the album you can visit the Elefant website

TRACKLISTING

1. Let It Slip
2. Is He Really Coming Home?
3. Valentine
4. I Want You Back
5. Is It True?
6. I Love Everything
7. Can't Understand
8. The One Who Left Me
9. Hoping and Praying
10. Summer's Here
11. Shoulder
12. All I Wanna Do
13. I Don't Believe in Love

Tour Dates!

2010-01-27T11:27:00.010Z

Here are our tour dates so far! We'll keep updating this with more info shortly x

Sat 6th March - CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach album launch
with Allo, Darlin' / Pagan Wanderer Lu & Super Kawaii POP! DJs
The School presents.. album launch.. followed by The Vinyl Vendettas
7.30pm 18+
£5 adv from TicketWeb / Spillers / Diverse
Clwb Ifor Bach, 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff CF10 1BR

Thurs 11th March - SHEFFIELD The Stockroom
with Allo, Darlin', The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut, The 10p Mixes
Invisible Guitar Solo presents..
£5 adv from WeGotTickets / £6 doors
The Stockroom, Leadmill Road, Sheffield S1 4SE

Fri 12th March - EDINBURGH Wee Red Bar
with Allo, Darlin' / Django Django
Fresh Air presents..
£4 adv from WeGotTickets
Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF

Sat 13th March - GLASGOW The Flying Duck
with Allo, Darlin' / The Social Services
Half My Heart Beats presents.. followed by an indiepop disco
7.30pm 18+
£6 adv from WeGotTickets
The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G2 3AU

Sun 14th March - ABERDEEN The Tunnels
with Allo, Darlin' / Deportees
AGP presents..
7.30pm 14+
£5 adv from TicketWeb
The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen AB10 1BF

Mon 15th March - NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Head of Steam
with Allo, Darlin' / Brilliant Mind / Mansfield Holiday
8.00pm 18+
£5 adv from TicketWeb

Tues 16th March - LEICESTER Firebug
with Poppy and Friends / Pagan Wanderer Lu
Twesta presents..
8.00pm 18+
£4 adv from WeGotTickets / £5 doors
Firebug, 1 Millstone Lane, Leicester, LE1 5JN

Fri 19th March - CHESTER Telford's Warehouse
Adam Walton presents..
18+
free entry before 9pm, £4 after 9pm.
Telford's Warehouse, Canal Basin, Tower Wharf, Chester, CH1 4EZ

Sat 20th March - BIRMINGHAM The Victoria
with Pagan Wanderer Lu / Falling and Laughing
The Autumn Store presents.. followed by an indiepop disco
8.30pm 18+
£4 entry
The Victoria, 48 John Bright St, Birmingham, B1 1BN

Sat 27th March - LONDON Bush Hall
with Allo, Darlin' / Pagan Wanderer Lu
7.30pm £7 adv from TicketWeb / £8 doors
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London W12 7LJ

Sun 28th March - BRIGHTON The Prince Albert
with Foxes! / Pagan Wanderer Lu & support
Put It On presents..
8.00pm 18+
£5 adv from WeGotTickets / £6 doors
The Prince Albert, 48 Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4ED

Wed 31st March - CHELMSFORD The Bassment
with Allo, Darlin' / Pagan Wanderer Lu
Bitterscene presents..
8pm 18+
£4.50 adv from WeGotTickets
The Bassment, 16 Wells Street, Chelmsford Essex CM1 1HZ

Let Me Be the Fairy on Your Christmas Tree Tonight

2009-12-21T00:46:00.004Z

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here's a little gift from our lovely label Elefant Records.

Thanks for all your support this year.

We hope you spend Christmas with the one you love, and we'll see you in 2010! xx

Polaroid for Christmas 2009

2009-12-13T17:08:00.004Z

Here's another Christmas compilation we're on!

Download it from the Polaroid website x

12 Days of Christmas - Indiepop Compilation

2009-11-23T23:28:00.004Z

HarriSchool and RichSchool have teamed up with Businessman Records to release an indiepop compilation - The 12 Days of Christmas.

The tracklisting is:

1. The Loves - Christmas All Alone (just like the partridge blues)

2. Littly My - When the Turtle Dove've Flown Away

3. Them Squirrels - Three French Hens

4. Brontosaurus Chorus - Calling Birds

5. The Rocky Nest - Five Golden Rings From The Hi 5 Kings

6. Sweet Baboo - I Can See Geese in Your Eyes

7. Allo, Darlin' - Silver Swans in NYC

8. Speedmarket Avenue - Where Maids are Queens

9. The Bobby McGee's - Ladies Dancing (on eastbourne pier)

10. Silence at Sea - Lords Keep Leaping (snatch sweetness from the bleakness)

11. Lucky Delucci - Pipers Piping

12. The School - Drummer Boy

BUY A COPY HERE for just £6 (also available from the above bands at gigs and Spillers Records).

Find out more here x

Have Yourself a Very Cherry Christmas..

2009-11-06T19:25:00.004Z

The beautiful Cherryade Records are releasing their 5th Christmas compilation on 15th November 09, and we're the opening song!

'Let Me Be the Fairy on Your Christmas Tree Tonight' is a special track, home-recorded by our former guitarist Ceri Frost. In true Mariah Carey style it's about longing to be with a loved one at Christmas. Oh, the dilemma..

Cherryade have a special deal to pre-order the compilation for just £6! or all 5 volumes for £18.

ORDER A COPY HERE!

TRACKLISTING

1. The School - Let Me Be The Fairy On Your Christmas Tree Tonight
2. Das Wanderlust - Someone To Pull Crackers With
3. Allo Darlin' - S P A C E Christmas
4. The Lovely Eggs - Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas
5. The 10p Mixes - Christmas Number One
6. Fever Fever - Little Drummer Boy
7. Detox Cute and the Beauty Junkies - Unhappy New Year
8. Sparky's Magic Piano - The Escape From Aled Jones
9. Persil - Dear Santa
10. Mia Vigar - What the Hell
11. Tiger MCs - The Way That You Arrived
12. Hearts! Attack - It Was Christmas That Killed Us
13. The Gresham Flyers - Mistletoe Misadventure
14. Foxes - Christmas Gifts
15. The Bobby McGee's - Sub Santalales
16. Shrag - Stop The Revelry
17. The Hi-Life Companion - Brockweir Winter Reverie
18. Doris and the Jumpers - Murder Under The Mistletoe
19. Humousexual - Come Take My Hand In Winter
20. The Shrieking Violets - Jethro (Song For)
21. Rebecca Wilmott - A Christmas Echo
22. The Pocket Gods - KFC (Kentucky Fried Christmas)
23. Master Solo - The Last Xmas Of Achiebald Sterling
24. Everett True - A Christmas Tale
25. Marble Krusher - Summer Toys (Winter Version)

Planning a trip with you..

2009-11-06T13:38:00.001Z

You may / may not be excited to hear that we're currently booking our album tour for 2010!

We'll be playing the UK in March, followed by Germany, Italy and Spain in April.

But don't worry if you don't live in any of those places, we'll be exploring a bit further from the summer onwards!

Keep an eye here for new tour dates xxx

You make me hear music..

2009-11-06T13:31:00.002Z

'And Suddenly' is featured on the Rough Trade Indiepop 09 compilation released 9th November 09!

We're sat alongside some absolutely wonderful people, I wish we could all travel the world in one big tour bus..

You can order it here.

1 tullycraft - the punks are writing love songs
2 the faintest ideas - nosebleeders on the track
3 love is all - wishing well
4 girls - morning light
5 vivian girls - moped girls
6 the girls at dawn - never enough
7 veronica falls - beachy head
8 cause co-motion - you lose
9 betty and the werewolves - david cassidy
10 pocketbooks - fleeting moments
11 los campesinos! - you! me! dancing!
12 shrag - hopelessly wasted
13 the boy least likely to - the summer of a dormouse
14 the school - and suddenly
15 play people - goes out
16 celestial - somedays we are
17 moscow olympics - no winter, no autumn
18 liechtenstein - security by design
19 minisnap - leave it to you
20 sad day for puppets - marble gods
21 dum dum girls - longhair
22 the legends - seconds away 23 the manhattan love suicides - clusterf*ck
24 the pains of being pure at heart - 103
25 the bobby mcgees - l.o.v.e/: a masonic youth

Yo, También Soundtrack

2009-10-29T13:52:00.006Z

The soundtrack for Yo, También is now out on Elefant Records, it's by Guille Milkyway from La Casa Azul through Elefant's new 'Elefant Film Supervision' project.

There are 2 of our tracks on there, and we're featured on the trailer. The film has been a huge success in Spain so far, we really hope it'll be released in the UK, but if not it'll be out on DVD in February. We've seen it, it's beautiful and we only cried 3 times, so make sure you watch it too.

Buy the Yo, Tambien soundtrack from the Elefant website.

Tracklisting

01. The School - I don’t believe in love
02. Giorgio Tuma - Dedicated to Timmy the whale
03. Guille Milkyway - En la playa 1
04. La Casa Azul - Yo también
05. Manzanita - Te amaré
06. Guille Milkyway - En el restaurante
07. Guille Milkyway - En la playa 2
08. Guille Milkyway - Separación 2
09. BMX Bandits - I can wait forever
10. Giorgio Tuma - G-Lombardi magic rollercoasters
11. Guille Milkyway - Tema de yo también
12. Guille Milkyway - En el puente
13. La Casa Azul - Yo también [Con Silvia Sanz - Niza]
14. Guille Milkyway - Huída
15. Camera Obscura - If looks could kill
16. Nick Garrie - On a wing and a prayer
17. Guille Milkyway - Tema de amor
18. Guille Milkyway - Que te quiero
19. Giorgio Tuma - Ml Db (Mary Louise song)
20. Rózsák - De man devla
21. Beef - Fin de año
22. La Casa Azul - La revolución sexual
23. The Gentle People - Plastic city
24. Souvenir - Ta-machine
25. Fitness Forever - Albertone
26. Guille Milkyway - En la azotea
27. Guille Milkyway - Separación 1
28. The School - Kiss you in the snow
29. Guille Milkyway - Feliz navidad
30. La Casa Azul - Yo también [Instrumental]
31. Guille Milkyway - Tema de amor final
32. Los Monkys - D&B

Let me explain..

2009-09-09T20:33:00.001+01:00

RELEASES

Our album release date will be announced very soon, it's going to be in Jan/Feb 2010 now so we have enough time to promote it. We're truly sorry to have kept you waiting so long.

In the meantime we've just found out that 'And Suddenly' (our cover of the Left Banke out now on Slumberland Records as a split single with George Washington Brown) will be featured on an indiepop compilation from Rough Trade - more details coming soon!

YO, TAMBIEN

You can hear a couple of our songs in the film 'Yo, También' ('Me, Too') which is about the life of Pablo Pineda (who stars in the film), the first European with Down Syndrome to achieve a university degree. We're honoured to be part of such a beautiful film, it's out in October 09. Hopefully it'll be in an independent cinema near you soon..

Here's the trailer, which features 'I Don't Believe in Love' from the Let It Slip EP, a duet between Liz and our old drummer Rob, who is now better known as The Voluntary Butler Scheme. xx

Say you'll come out..

2009-09-09T20:31:00.003+01:00

NEW UK SHOWS ANNOUNCED

We've got some new UK shows announced:

Fri 30th Oct - LONDON Buffalo - Pic'n'Mixx launch night with The Lovely Eggs/MJ Hibbett/The Grave Architects/The Peryls - lots of mix cds. 7pm £5 adv from WeGotTickets

Sun 15th Nov - NOTTINGHAM Bunkers Hill - A Fog of Ideas & A Layer of Chips presents an indiepop alldayer with Tender Trap / The Rocky Nest / Allo Darlin' / The Just Joans / Standard Fare / Mascot Fight / Red Shoe Diary / Of Mice and Mental Arithmetic / Cosy Den DJs - 3pm-10pm £8

Fri 27th Nov - MANCHESTER Star & Garter - Shake It Shake It presents.. with Little My / Help Stamp Out Loneliness + lots of dancing afterwards.

More details on our myspace page x

Spend some time in some far off places..

2009-09-09T20:01:00.008+01:00

WE LOVE YOU MURCIA!

We miss you already.

Here's a review on NME-Europe.

It's been such a long time..

2009-08-24T18:56:00.003+01:00

Sorry we've been so quiet, we were making an album and enjoying the summer..

We have a little single out called 'And Suddenly' on Slumberland Records, it's a one-off that won't be on the album.

The other side features George Washington Brown (Pete Gofton, aka Johnny X from Kenickie).

You can buy or download it from the Slumberland website / Amazon / i-Tunes / Rough Trade.

We'll be announcing our album release date and UK tour shortly.

See you all soon xx

DIOS fridge advert!

2009-02-12T18:37:00.002Z

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

You can watch it here:

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

2009-01-26T23:32:00.002Z

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!

2008-10-27T17:32:00.000Z

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

2008-08-05T17:48:00.001+01:00

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

2008-07-21T22:28:00.000+01:00

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!

2008-07-02T19:33:00.001+01:00

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

2008-06-17T22:07:00.001+01:00

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

2008-05-17T16:13:00.001+01:00

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

2007-10-18T12:49:00.001+01:00

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