We’ve not long been back from stuffing our faces with sausages wrapped in bacon and toasting the new year, but that’s not stopping us from getting out on the road as soon as we can.

As you can see we’re supporting The Futureheads on their UK tour throughout January. This is going to be our first ‘proper’ tour, ‘proper’ meaning that we’ll be away from home for long periods of time, staying in hotels of an eve and hopefully getting sandwiches and those little carrot sticks and dips when we get to the venues. To say we are excited would be a statement. A true one!

We’d love for anyone reading this to come along to any of the shows and say hello as essentially that is the main reason we are in this band, to meet fabulous new people in places that we’ve only read about in books. Like Hatfield.

You can buy tickets by clicking here and even though they’re at unions, you don’t need to be a student to come.

Also, watch out for our own headline shows to be announced very soon and don’t forget that our new double A-side single ‘D.I.L.E.M.M.A’/'Polar Swelling’ will be released on a Monday in March. Your guess is as good as ours.

Much Love.

d/GRAMMATICS x

p.s. We were very kindly mentioned in this weeks NME in their trends for 2008 feature. Supposedly things are going to get ‘grander’ this year which is good news all round.xxx

As I have now departed from the shore of the sea of Grammatics I would like to say my own fond farewell. Being in this band has been the most exhilirating and exciting venture for me and I have so many happy memories which will keep me smiling for years to come.

My personal highlights have been… playing Leeds fest in my big sunglasses as the sun set; recording over in Bridlington in a room with a mezzanine and a grand piano and laughing as Dom did a strange crotch dance and we played crazy golf on a cliff top; watching 11 year olds boogie on down to a Grammatics set in Dobb Cross Village Hall; getting the fright of my life trying to keep Dom awake as we drove back from Newcastle to York in the van; in the early days trying to learn my parts from Owen and Rory humming variously and incoherently and marvelling as Dom learnt whole drum parts from Owen singing “De-gah-de-ga-de-gah-duh-de-da-da-de-daa-de-daaah”; winking at Trevor when my mic stand would swing out of control on stage; relying on Rory to reposition my fringe for photoshoots; looking at Owen across a cold, crowded rehearsal studio and marvelling at his amazing, wonderful, original, artistic (you get the drift) way of doing everything he ever does.

I’ll miss it all, but only as a band member. I’ll be there on the front row of many gigs to come, getting to enjoy what most of you have enjoyed…

Love love love

Rebecca, ex-Grammatics.
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High Voltage, the much lauded, Manchester based fanzine has run a flattering ‘Introducing’ piece on Grammatics which you find by following the link below…

http://www.highvoltage.org.uk/fanzine/fanzine26.pdf

They also run a cool little independent label and you check their releases here

Much Love.
xxx

For those of you that don’t know, our wonderful, fabulous, talented, generous and down right gorgeous cellist, Rebecca Dumican, is leaving Grammatics.
She has an unhealthy obsession with teaching young girls and boys about the English language and we wish her all the luck in the world.
She will be playing with us one final time this Wednesday 12^th December when we support The Sugars at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.
Anyone close to the band will know just how much she’ll be missed and we’d love for as many people as possible to make it down on Wednesday for the farewell.
Her replacement, Emilia Ergin, is already practicing with the band and will play her first live show in January ‘08. She’s Swedish, she’s absolutely insane and she’s unbelievably enthusiastic and talented. We’re very lucky to have her.

In other news…

We’ve finished recording the new single, a double A-Side featuring Dilemma and Polar Swelling. Recorded with our old pal James Kenosha at his Bridlington studio, the tracks are sounding so good I’m not quite sure how we’ve pulled it off.

The single will hopefully hit the shops around the end of February and will once again be available on 7″ and to download. As you can probably tell from the gig listing on the front of the Myspace we’re also booking dates around that time to promote it, including a few Club NMEs.

We’ll let you know when anything else exciting happens and hopefully see you soon.

Much Love

Dom.
Grammatics.xxx

Hey Folks…go to http://discover.drownedinsound.com/articles/2462315 for an interview with Dom and I…check it! Owenx

Evening campers! What a lovely day it has been. The pornographically gorgeous 500 7” vinyl of ‘Shadow Committee’/'Broken Wing’ arrived at the Dance To The Radio office today…Dominic and Ali Valium are hand-numbering the sleeves AS WE SPEAK. Anyhow, we are galaxies from disappointed.

In the pipeline -

The first review to come in for DTTR’s new compilation, ‘Out Of The Woods And Into The Trees’, appeared online today on whisperin & hollerin….check it -

http://www.whisperinandhollerin.co.uk/reviews/review.asp?id=5019

The comp hits the shops October 1st. We’re all becoming Americanised. I stubbed my toe whilst getting in the bath this morning and screamed ‘MUTHAFUCKA!’. This upsets me…It should have been a ‘Balderdash!’ or ‘Double-drat!’. The compilation will arrive in record outlets on October the first…

We’ve decided to bite the bullet and design some swag for you lot to consider purchasing. We’re thinking of getting American Apparel t-shirts and have some tasty designs in mind…the minute we have a minute when that minute doesn’t contain busyness we’ll get busy on some designs. Watch this muthafuckin’ (my)space.

We had a couple of nice mentions in the new NME student guide (free with NME this week) and a great review on Drowned in Sound for our Leeds fest exploits. Check it -

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2345378

This has been Tha Grammatique…x

Hello all,

We are lucky enough to be releasing our debut single in the next few weeks on Leeds independent record label, Dance To The Radio. It is a one off, limited edition pressing of 500 hand numbered 7” vinyl. This hopefully means that…

A. It will sell out rather quickly and
B. One day it will be worth more than it’s original value of £2.99

As well as the vinyl, both tracks will be available to download from iTunes wherever you are on the planet.

The A-side will be ‘Shadow Committee’, set opener and live favourite for some time now. The B-side is a revamped version of Owen’s oldie, ‘Broken Wing’.

This release is the culmination of months and months of hard work and we’re over the moon to be releasing two tracks and artwork that we’re so proud of. Grammatics kudos go out to the Pravda boys - Matt and Andy, and ‘5th Grammatic’ James Kenosha for helping us on the path toward sonic enlightenment! Kudos and thanks also go out to the ever wonderful George Coppock for his photographic help in realising the visual side of things…

The single is set for release on Monday 22nd October. PRE-ORDER HERE: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10002656&pType=1

We’ll let you know a.s.a.p. where it will be stocked.
We’ll also put one of the tracks up on Myspace in the not too distant future so keep an eye out for that.

For now you can let the wonder of image take over and have a peek at the single sleeve…

Hope you enjoy.
Xxx

Just a quick update on Grammatics developments this week…

- We were ‘On The NME Stereo’ in this weeks NME…a lovely little write up it was too. Go buy/steal/read in CO-OP (the world’s WORST supermarket, whilst we’re on the subject) or something.

- Our new single, ‘Shadow Commitee’, was played by Huw Stephens on Radio 1 on Wednesday night. Dance To The Radio’s Ali Valium was the ‘tipster’ on the show and waxes lyrical on da Grams and Tics. Go listen here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/huwstephens/

- Thanks to everyone who came over to the Dance To The Radio stage last night to see us open Leeds Festival 2007! We had an absolute blast and look forward to hopefully seeing a lot of you again tommorow teatime.

WORD, Owenx