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...