'ALL SUMMER LONG'

'ALL SUMMER LONG'
Out Now. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/all-summer-long-harry-love/id566837522

HS TPS Report 5

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 DRAWINGSDRAWINGSDRAWINGS 

Went to see Faris Badwan (of The Horrors...) new exhibition. Really great. Particular favourites being a drawing of ‘The World In Colour’ (see it small below) - think thats what the name was (if you go you can check for us). He has lots of intricate drawings from his sketchbooks and some original paintings and drawings on 'German Paper'... Go and delve into his world, down at the Strand Gallery... http://www.farisbadwan.com/creaturesofcolour.swf

   



We are currently doing some work on some new songs which we may well play live at the London Birthdays show next month. A first taste of album 3! Also a new very special single coming up... HS




DON'T FORGET ALL OUR NEW SHOWS COMING UP!! 

BIRTHDAYS, DALSTON, LONDON. 6TH OCT 
ORAN MOR, GLASGOW. 14TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER. 15TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
DINGWALLS, LONDON. 16TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 

 And then on tour with TIM BURGESS... All details here... 
http://hatchamsocialofficial.co.uk/shows/

THE HS TPS REPORT 4

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 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?! 

A Short film is being made inspired by our last album "ABOUT GIRLS" by director Oliver Guy watkins. It will be premiered at our London show on the 6th of October, at Birthdays, Dalston.

DON'T FORGET ALL OUR NEW SHOWS COMING UP!! 

BIRTHDAYS, DALSTON, LONDON. 6TH OCT 
ORAN MOR, GLASGOW. 14TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER. 15TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
DINGWALLS, LONDON. 16TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 

 And then on tour with TIM BURGESS... All details here... 
http://hatchamsocialofficial.co.uk/shows/

The HS TPS Report 3

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Here is a remix we did of the song South Pacific by the band Is Tropical. You can download it. We used a bunch of Commadore 64 samples and some tape delays, it was fun.


On/Off Music

Have been thinking about how working on computers making music effects the outcomes, how it creates space in a different way from Tape or other more limited/enclosed recording mediums. Here are some thoughts:  

Computers work upon a binary system of 0’s and 1’s, on and off commands. Written into complex languages that enable multiples upon multiples of commands to build large levels and seemingly linear spaces. Although with the complexities and possibilities within modern computers, a fact that they seem as part of every process as a hand or a knife, the basis of using computers does seem to fall back into On or Off.

Let me explain what I mean and how it seems, to me, to effect the process and product of music. To start with think about when we listen to Brigette Fontaine ‘Coma a la Radio’. When we listen to a piece like this we know it was recorded onto a tape, tape uses a linear process of recording information and works pretty much by holding memory shapes in rust of voltages representing sounds, these are continuous and limited in the tape length. It is always recording something, or at least always has something on it, the tape exists whether you record or not, so you can be sitting with record on and then bring in your sounds and the sound of you not playing was also being recorded. It appears that with computer recording, although in essence this is possible (to work with computer DAWs -Digital Audio Workstations- as if ‘to tape’) it lends itself to work in a different manner - after all there is no track limit or start or end of the ‘tape’. So unless you strictly emulate the approach of tape based recording you end up recording (or editing) in and out of points of tracks. This is all fairly obvious to you I expect - yes its a computer, yes they are not linear in a ‘real’ sense.

It creates a music of On and Off points. Listen to Nicki Minaj for a perfect example of how this can be felt very audibly. It leads us to make music where things start and stop in very definite ways, where we know EXACTLY when something is starting and when the space it inhabits ‘disappears’ from the whole world of the song/track/whatever.

Obviously there are elements of the visual reliance that is very heavy, now that we can zoom in on any wave-form or bar-count and cut/edit/syncronise to our hearts content but I don’t want to go into that.

Little bubbles of non-existent realities emerge, composed out of numbers, into thin air and then, pop, pop, they are gone and the space never existed. 

I am not interested in whether this is better or worse, only that I find it worthy to think about when creating music, the way that the process can dictate so much and also how regimented you can become (which may be perfect for you) by sticking to a computer recording process. It is a very much On and Off soundscape.

Toby

The HS TPS Report 2

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Have been reading a little of Verlaine and wanted to share one with you, you may not know this:

The Innocents ‘Paul Verlaine’

(Fêtes Galants: Les Ingénus)

High heels fought with their long dresses,

So that, a question of slopes and breezes,

Ankles sometimes glimmered to please us,

Ah, intercepted! – Dear foolishnesses!

Sometimes a jealous insect’s sting

Troubled necks of beauties under the branches,

White napes revealed in sudden flashes

A feast for our young eyes’ wild gazing.

Evening fell, ambiguous autumn evening:

The beauties, dreamers who leaned on our arms,

Whispered soft words, so deceptive, such charms,

That our souls were left quivering and singing.

You love him too, right?

Look Sessions

A few months back we went to SXSW festival in Austin Texas (yes it was amazing in the Motel and the Frat Parties), while we were there we played an acoustic session for an Look Sessions (looksessions.com), here is us playing an acoustic version of Like An Animal for them:

For those of you who entered our competition for tickets for our autumn tour, playing with Tim Burgess, you will have received notification today if you won. Congratulations! Going to be fucking great  tour.

HS

Truth and Validity

What makes a lyric valid? What makes a song meaningful? To live your life so as to experience something less ordinary or to give us the space to understand the road less trodden and muddied? To live your life on the edge of knowing what you are doing. Letting the gods roll you around in fates gardens. Do these pills sharpen our pencils and sight? We dive into ourselves and those we know in a quest for something deeper than the surface rubble. In a need for more than the usual cheap tricks and alliterations. For some truth that sets the soul alight that burns the crystals of hope and deep sensitivity. Is it just a case of something to catch the eye, but then why bother? Stick by me we can mine the deepest mines, we can find the real precious metals down there, we leave the fools gold for the shiny happy people.

ABOUT GIRLS OUT TODAY!!

Yes,it's finally the 2nd of April,which means our new album is out! We're very excited about this.
You can order your copy right now from Rough Trade http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=348924 ,from the Fierce Panda online shop http://www.fiercepanda.co.uk/shop.php?release=430 or from itunes (only £5.99 on there,bargain!)

Also don't forget our tour starts today,we'll be playing pretty much everywhere over the next month so make sure you come to see us! If you fancy joining us at our very special album launch at Cargo in London you can get yourself some very cheap advance tickets right here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/160127

BRAND NEW VIDEO FOR "I LOOK LIKE A GOD WHEN YOU DANCE WITH ME" BY HORROR DIRECTOR BRAD WATSON

Pre-Order The New Single Here: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/i-look-like-god-when-you-dance/id509115531

Day three Austin...

So we are in Austin for SXSW, day three, in a Motel on the Highway and about to head into town for a BBQ. If you have ever stayed in a Motel in Texas you will know how cool it is, like a road movie life moment. We have a pool but its not really hot enough to use in the morning and we are out all day mostly. Finn and David are asleep, sleeping off a day of light beer, free cocktails and beer cans the size of a small mans head. Yesterday we managed to get down to the Lexington showcase and catch a bit of Ringo Deathstar, miss the Jesus and Mary Chain show (now there was a queue!very very disappointed), miss the Cold Specks show we hoped to see (kind of clashed with an interview we were doing) and walk around a lot. (yes we will do better today!) We also spent a large amount of time on buses. One of the best things we did was a show at a cool little cycle shop up the other end of town called Waterloo Cycles. Swell guy, Michael, who owns Waterloo Cycles has a large collection of REM T-shirts. Riley has taken about a million photos and we will post some of the best soon. On day 1 we met the legend that is Nardwuar (www.nardwuar.com) and we are going to try and catch his show with Andrew WK. The best thing about Austin is the green and space, wooden houses and friendly locals, the worst is the only food seems to be drive in fast food and getting around can take a LONG time. Its Finns birthday today so I guess this is a pretty cool place to find a cake... Toby

"ABOUT GIRLS" TRAILER No.TWO

OMG!! We've reached 114%!

Thank you so much everyone,you've been amazing! if you haven't had the chance to pledge yet but would like to fear not: there are still 22 days before the campaign ends so you can still get your hands on a few treats

Now watch the trailer!!


http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/hatchamsocial

Love HS x

FOUND IN THE WOODS 1 & 2 up on YouTube

Just uploaded all the tracks from the limited "Found In The Woods" Mini Albums 1 and 2 that we released back in 2007...all up on YouTube now so for all you who could not get a copy you can hear the tracks from back then. Here are our favourites...

MERCY SINGLE

Hello

Just a quick bit of news:

Toby has been working on a collaborative project with a female singer, called 'Mercy'. The first single 'Sleepwalker' is out today for free download via the cool new Cool For Cats digital club. Go and get a copy and see if you like it. Thanks
http://coolforcatsrecords.bandcamp.com/

Cover Songs and Other Texican Gongs

No actual gongs here.  Anyone going to SXSW (Festival in Austin)? We will be staying in the little Motel a little way away from the main festivities...well we had a house swap but it fell through last minute (they decided they could not go on holiday or something annoying. Idiots.)...Last time we went we stayed in the tallest Hotel and had a swimming pool on the roof, ahh the good old days, we looked out at all our minions...There will be lots of bands to see, I think Flats are going this year and SCUM, both good London bands worth going to see. Let us know if you have any recommendations. Actually we have some passes on our Pledge thing if you need/want (Pledge Music Pre-order of album thing)...

We were on the Squeeze blog/site thing Packet Of Three today, or yesterday maybe, that was pretty cool. They mentioned our cover of the If I Didn't Love You track. We have done a couple of covers now, all for the pledgers, been interesting. So far Crystal Stilts Through the Floor, Hefner Greedy Ugly People, Squeeze If I Didn't Love You, Horrors Scarlet Fields. I think we will be doing a couple more, trying to do some of our contemporaries and a few odd older ones that you would not usually associate with us - or maybe you would, who is to say...actually not that long to go now on the Pledge Campaign...

Have a look out for the Pre-Order for the Electricity In Our Homes album. Great band. Their album is up for pre-order now on Itunes and such like I think. Was lucky enough to get an early copy of the album on vinyl and play it at home the other day. Good times.

Keep up the good work.

New Years Letter - W H Auden



O Unicorn among the cedars,

To whom no magic charm can lead us,
White childhood moving like a sigh
Through the green woods unharmed in thy
Sophisticated innocence, 1655
To call thy true love to the dance,27
O Dove of science and of light,28
Upon the branches of the night,
O Ichthus playful in the deep
Sea-lodges that forever keep 1660
Their secret of excitement hidden,
O sudden Wind that blows unbidden,
Parting the quiet reeds, O Voice
Within the labyrinth of choice
Only the passive listener hears, 1665
O Clock and Keeper of the years,
O Source of equity and rest,
Quando non fuerit, non est,29
It without image, paradigm
Of matter, motion, number, time, 1670
The grinning gap of Hell, the hill
Of Venus and the stairs of Will,
Disturb our negligence and chill,
Convict our pride of its offence
In all things, even penitence, 1675
Instruct us in the civil art
Of making from the muddled heart
A desert and a city where
The thoughts that have to labour there
May find locality and peace, 1680
And pent-up feelings their release,
Send strength sufficient for our day,
And point out knowledge on its way,30
O da quod jubes, Domine.31


Don't forget we still need money towards our new album, and you get loads of extra exclusive updates when you pledge (as well as the album before the general public)...Recent updates invclude cover songs of the Horrors and Crystal Stilts, album demos, studio videos, lyrics, notebook ideas, artwork sketches...

Toby, Finn, David, Riley