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2010-04-18T00:31:00.003+01:00

...You Watched Him Grow...

2010-03-13T14:55:00.004Z

Another night in Camden yesterday, this time at Camden Rock. We got to play a lot of brand new songs which seemed to go down a treat but it was one of our oldest songs which has been captured here...

If you didn't know, that was our song 'Far' and if you were

thinking, "yeah that was really good, if only I could listen to a

studio recording of that song!", well just use the player at the

side of this page.

4 Questions

2010-01-28T23:49:00.005Z

One of our new songs 4 Questions is now up for you to have a listen and a dance to on the little player over there. Its also up on our myspace and website too.

Lots of singing isn't there. Let us know what you think.

speak to you soon bye!

What we've been up to...

2009-12-22T09:55:00.005Z

So we've been locked away working on new songs and here in all its muffled glory is pretty much a first take of one of them. Doesn't Olly look like he's enjoying it...

Yeah, sorry for the bad audio but you can get the general idea, right?

Old Skool Snaps

2009-11-04T11:46:00.002Z

We are currently recording some new songs in Milk Studios in East London. Here are some photos taken with Andrew's Polaroid camera and how fitting and precious they are after realising that the last ever batch of Polaroid film produced was to reach its sell by date on the very evening the photographs were taken!

See here for more details, 'Polaroid: Exp 09.10.09’

But before you get too upset, read on. Thanks to the excellent work by those involved with the impossible-project we can hope to see a Polaroid comeback sometime in 2010.

We'll let you know how the recording went when we go back in to finish tomorrow night but so far its sounding great!

Saturday in Camden

2009-08-16T16:47:00.003+01:00

Look here! This is our song Kicking Stones live at the Enterprise in Camden Town last Saturday night.

As always, thanks to everyone who came and to Criminal for putting on

another great night!

You can read all about this song in a previous post here

Cheers!

2009-04-30T20:55:00.009+01:00

Thanks so much to all of you that came to The Good Ship in Kilburn. Have a drink on us!

We really do never fail to have a brilliant time at that place.

We are very excited about a new song we played that resulted in a lot of positive messages from people and hope to have a recorded version of it available as soon as possible. We'll keep you posted. yea.

We will be back in the area quite soon, in fact, as we'll be playing at Power's on Friday 26th June.

An offer you 'cant refuse!

2009-04-30T20:37:00.004+01:00

Check this out! You can now be a complete cant (a fan of applicants, obviously) and let everyone know about it by getting yourself into one of these fantastic t-shirts. There is pretty much any colour available so you be as creative as you like and go and order one now...

Head to the applicants site for details.

Kicking Stones

2009-03-13T00:50:00.003Z

For some reason I always picture a ruddy faced Dr. Samuel Johnson when I imagine him kicking that stone in anger. In response to the philosopher George Berkeley's view that we can only directly know what exists from our perceptions and have no way of knowing if what is actually 'out there' exists, Johnson famously kicked a stone stating, "I refute it thus!". The beauty of this is that although many people did think Berkeley was insane and despite it being so contrary to common sense it is impossible to refute his theory.

On the subject of Samuel Johnson, he really hated puns, believing that they are the lowest form of humour. Well, if a pun is the lowest form of humour, poetry is much verse. ha see what I did there. I'm really sorry.

Anyway the point of all this is to let you know that Fuzz Valentine have a new song called Kicking Stones and we will be playing it live so come and see us!

Harajuku!

2009-03-12T11:55:00.004Z

We just played a brilliant night called Harajuku!

It was a really interesting night put on by the lovely innovators at Criminal Records. We got to play with some great bands. For me, and for most of the crowd i think i can safely say, the absolute pick of the bunch were No Cars.

They were so much fun and had some great songs complete with Bob Dylan style placards and even a naked dancing guy at the end!

Life in the Bus Lane

2009-03-12T09:31:00.006Z

Here it is, the long awaited debut album from Applicants! How exciting!

11 Track CD Album - also available to Download
GRRRCD20 - Released: 4 August 2008 on Brainlove and Tigertrap Records

After releasing ear-busting singles 'Crappuccino' and 'Hypochondriac' through Brainlove Records, Tigertrap hopped on board to co-release their debut album in 2008. Debut album with delightful artwork designed by Fidel Villeneuve.

TRACKLISTING:
Crappuccino, Party Hat, He's a Man, Hypochondriac 2, Filthy, Pigbag,
Pocket Dictionary, Gameshow, Enjoy your Pizza, Times New Roman, History has been kind to Spike Milligan, Cock Harris (Secret Track)

BUY NOW FROM TIGERTRAP RECORDS

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+ to add to the bus lane spirit you can also get one of these splendid oyster wallets!

Glasvegas juggernaut

2007-12-12T12:53:00.000Z

So this is the band every label in the land is falling over themselves to wine and dine and sign. Glasvegas
Daddy's Gone is a pretty good single and because every band is trying to sound like George Formby at the moment its actually quite refreshing. Still, is anybody sure about the name?

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

2007-12-06T15:53:00.000Z

As a public service broadcaster BBC Radio One is finally doing a public service and throwing its weight behind Malcolm Middleton's quest for Christmas number 1.

Blitheful Malcolm's brilliantly festive 'We're All Gonna Die' will be released on December 17th and William Hill has already reduced the odds from the original no hoper of 1000/1 to a hot 12/1.

As if contributing to the battle against another year of an X Factor yawnfest christmas number one wasn't enough, the 7" comes with artwork by David Shrigley! yeah!
You can watch the Christmas session for Colin Murray's show on the Radio One website or head to www.wereallgoingtodie.co.uk for details and a listen.

If nothing else the former Arab Strab man and his team have proved that with a little clever marketing its still possible to compete with the megabucks and thats enough to give us all a bit of hope (before we all die alone, all alone).

myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton

Whenever i hear it i'm always reminded of The Gambler by Kenny Rogers.

This is Great

2007-11-27T17:32:00.001Z

I like this band. They are called Johnny Foreigner and are from Birmingham, Digbeth, i think. I'm always surprised at how few bands come out of Birmingham considering its supposed to be the second city. I don't know how lively the Birmingham scene is right now but i hope this is an indicator. These are exciting and sound nothing like The Twang.

Here is the video for Sometimes in the Bullring...

Their debut ep 'Arcs Across the City' came out yesterday on Best Before Records.
www.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner

Do buy this single

2007-11-09T17:18:00.000Z

When Bob Dylan made the video for Subterranean Homesick Blues it was pretty clear he was trying to get something across. After using the most advanced technology known to man his prescient message becomes apparent.

So there. And you can't disobey Bob Dylan, unless he does an ipod advert, something like that.

Seriously though, do buy it.

myspace.com/applicants