Last day of the tour. We had a great show.

(Photos by James Grainger, Natalia Urazmetova and Yori)

After rehearsing solidly for most of March, this week saw us back out on tour around the UK. First night in Cambridge was a confidence booster thanks to a very enthusiastic and excitable crowd.

Following the cancellation of TNPs’ gig in Manchester on Monday, we ended up having a rather relaxing day at the city’s XFM studios for our session with Inspiral Carpets’ almost legendary keyboardist Clint Boon. Shortly after our arrival we discovered the table football, er, table, and were introduced to a healthy selection of cold beers from the adjacent fridge. Dom turned things around from my initial pounding of his team to win 2-1 overall in a best of 3 matches.

On Tuesday we headed up to Newcastle to see our good friends at Get Involved. We stayed in a flat above the venue which was amazing. I left the aftershow party to go to a house party across town and ended up sleeping on a sofa about the size of a shoebox.

The next day some of us went to ogle such magnificent inventions as the Yamaha Teniri-on in a local music shop, then headed off to York for a very enjoyable and surprisingly well attended homecoming-gig-of-sorts at The Junction. Most important discovery of the evening was that Rocky bars should be on our rider ALL THE TIME.

Unfortunately we have pretty much forgotten to take any photos, but rest assured we’ve also had fun in towns such as Sheffield (see below), London, Portsmouth and Birmingham with our friends Forward, Russia and new friends Errors (ace instrumental band from Glasgow). A couple of underage gigs in Doncaster and Leeds (with Operator Please) went slightly awry but can, I suppose, be written off as educational (ie. kids hate us).

Here’s a photo of us frolicking on the beach in Portsmouth taken by our lovely soundman Dan Kiener:

We still have some shows left on this tour which you can check on this website or on Myspace. Have a look.

Comin atcha from my new MacBook on a stolen Wi-Fi connection at my Dad’s house,

Rory / Grammatics xxxx

(Live photos by Gary Wolstenholme)

Last night our session for Radio 1 was aired on Huw Stephens’ show. Here’s the place to go if you want to hear it again. Tell us what you think, we haven’t heard it yet!
Grammatics

Unfortunately the Manchester gig at Night and Day scheduled for next week is cancelled. We don’t know why. Luckily we have another gig in Manchester at Academy 3 with Forward, Russia later in the month - have a look at the Live page for details.
Rory

Hello,

I’ve added ticket links for some more of the These New Puritans tour dates (which I’m REALLY fucking excited about). People have been asking about age limits and unfortunately it looks like most of them are 18+, so sorry to all our underage fans but hopefully we can catch you all soon. Puritans’ album is incredible and so far seems to have been pretty under-rated so do your bit and buy it . Don’t forget our new single either, which is available now on iTunes and released physically on Monday 21st April.

We’re looking forward to hitting the road again and re-commencing our secret daily tour competition - all will be revealed in my autobiography in 10 years’ time.

Inbetween the TNPs gigs we also have a few dates on our friends ¡Forward, Russia!’s tour and a few one-off headliners of our own - have a look at the Live page for more info.

Generally misbehaving,
R / Grammatics xxxx

Hello there, thanks for taking the time to visit our brand new website. This site is going to become the place to be for first dibs on all Grammatics news on tours, releases, lyrics and exclusive content. I’m going to keep this brief but leave with a quick shout out to the wonderful Mikado Media for creating this site. Enjoy! Owenx

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=28246517

This is incredible. Laura has agreed to sing on our album…I couldn’t be happier…

In other amazing album based news, we’ve asked stunning Leeds noisenik Napolean IIIrd to run amok on a track or two…you know this can’t really fail to rule…Check him out too - www.myspace.com/boney3

Recording will commence with Lord James Kenosha in June…

I don’t know why I love you, but I do…Owenx

Sorry for yet another blog, there’s just quite a lot to tell you about lately.

If you want to pre-order the single that is now coming out on Mon 14th April you can do from here.

As you may have seen there is a video up on our A/V page. It is our first video and was directed by a lovely chap called Marcus Macauley ’on location’ at Tadcaster Grammar School which Owen and Rory both attended. I do hope you enjoy.

x

http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=5437

Owenx

http://www.artrocker.com/node/1254

Enjoy, Owenx