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Bucket Of Blood video! New album The Birthday Of The World out October 9th

EXCLUSIVE!! Hatcham Social: Ketamine Queen...

Hatcham Social: Ketamine Queen

In the first of an exclusive preview series, 

Hatcham Social release their self-made 

art movie for ‘Ketamine Queen’. 

Each of the six films the band have 

made to accompany their new album 

will be published on River’s Edge – 

one per week, 

with commentaries from band members.

CLICK THE LINK BELOW...
http://riversedgejournal.co.uk/hatcham-social-ketamine-queen/

'CUTTING UP THE PRESENT LEAKS OUT THE FUTURE' OUT NOW!!

Our new album 'Cutting Up The Present Leaks Out The Future' is out now! Go grab yourself a copy on Vinyl, CD or Download...

Banquet Records:
http://www.banquetrecords.com/OGEN045

Rough Trade:
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/79855

iTunes:
http://tinyurl.com/o7p97co

Latest single 'Lion With A Laser Gun'...

Last Night

Photo by Slowgun from our show last night at the Islington Assembly Hall

'Lion With A Laser Gun' / 'Confessions Of An English Opium Smoker'

Buy now on iTunes here: http://tinyurl.com/q78n5tz

NEW SINGLE EXCLUSIVE ON CLASH MUSIC

Clash Music exclusive for 'Lion With A Laser Gun'
Go listen...

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/exclusive-hatcham-social-return

"MORE POWER TO LIVE" VIDEO

MORE POWER TO LIVE. DIRECTED BY DAVID BLANCO.



OUT NOW ON iTUNES HERE: http://tinyurl.com/prgfzvk

Hamburg cool building we played in...

France, Germany, Austria and back to UK

Last week we took a great trip out through the tunnel under the sea in our splitter van with our instruments to play shows in Paris, Cologne, Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin (did I miss one or two?). We went on this tour as the support band for Tim Burgess and the Anytime Minutes.

Our friend and super TM (that's touring lingo for Tour Manager) Jake picked us up at 5 30 in the morning in Leytonstone where some of us live and we travelled through to Paris on the Eurostar. I am fond of the way that you can feel the van move and yet you look out your window and see no movement - because you are sat inside a van inside a train carriage.

We played La Fleche d'Or in Paris, which we have played a few times before. If you have never been there, its an old railway station with a train track running underneath and a sort of David Lynch interior. All the windows in the back room have been smashed up by kids throwing stones up from the train tracks. We met a great couple who told us they used Hatcham Social as part of their wooing rituals. Good work.

Some Photos: Sound Of Violence

We also got a really great review in Paris, but cannot find it right now so will post later...

Here it is: Hatcham reviewd in Paris and all that

Next we traveled into Germany and Austria and at some point through Czech republic....as far I remember...we slept a night in a hotel in Prague and when we crossed into the border...it was like entering some strange land of brothels and casinos and restaurants with Dragons on top - need to find out the name of that town it was pretty unusual.  Oh yeah and before that we got held up by the police for an our while they looked at the van with torches and asked for 40 euros...

We had an amazing show in Munich and the sound was so good there - we must play that venue again.  Vienna was cool but thunder and lightning heavy heavy.

The final date was in Hamburg and an incredible building, a big WW2 concrete Bunker. Sound man there was a great guy, loved his underground music and analogue gear. Met some guy who said he was putting us in paper the next day.

At the end we came back to London on a super long 15 hour last day journey(!)

We sold lots of merch which was great, so thanks everyone, hope to come back out soon!

For all our Latin American fans, here is a link to UK Rock Radio with free sampler downloads:

UK Rock Radio Sampler

Kendal Calling

We are very pleased to be playing Kendal Calling!

'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/

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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

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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