23rd April double header

Yo,

Quick update - 23rd April, we're now playing two shows that night.

First we will hit The Cricketers in Kingston-Upon-Thames at 8pm - as the first band on at an awesome show supporting Unfun (Canada), Teen Rebel Dope Fiends and Canons and Tanks. Sadly we'll have to leave and miss the other (great) bands....

Then...

We will pop over to Dorking to play a Dorktown Punks show supporting more awesome bands in the form of The Static Age (USA) and Brothers, sadly we will miss the 2 first acts at this show, but you should get there early.

Then...

We will have a little sleep.

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A Few photos from The Cobblers Thumb show a few weeks back

Just a few photos from the show the other week. It was fun, but I do not enjoy my face in 2D format. Thanks to Miri Glavin for these pictures....

Not much!

Firstly - Thanks to everyone involved with our last two shows. Lil Household Name Recs for Wednesday's show in Brixton and Karl Rebellious Jukebox for asking us to play on the Friday in Brighton. Both were really fun shows. Attack! Vipers! were incredible in Brixton (and I know Tony said Worn in Red were too, but sadly I had to miss them to get back to Brighton for work the following day) and enjoyed Wake Up Dead (Ace sloppy garage pop-punkrock, really fun!), The Hillmans (new Brighton Rockabilly/Rock'n'roll) and Little Ease (Garage / Hardcore newbies) on Friday.

And...Thanks especially to all our friends and people who packed out Brighton show on Friday and especially to those who said nice things to us, we all had a seriously great night. There's a live video my friend Jim recorded from Friday of the song 'Fun Vacuum' - on our facebook page - type THE DEAD BEAT into Facebook and you'll find us.

So, what next? - write some new songs. 1 or 2 will be played at our next show on Friday 23rd April in Dorking with Brothers (ace garage punk from Exeter), Killington Fall (Post-rock, sounds great - never seem em, looking forward to it), The Static Age from America, and Fun Alf! - doing his one man acoustic thing.

If we record any passable live demos at any of the next practices will post them up here.

See? not much!

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News from the practice room....

Ola,

We've been practicing all our songs with our new drummer Dave - and he's pretty much up to speed on all of them now - bar one song 'You have no idea'...which still needs a bit of polishing before it's gig-ready.

The other 'fairly new one' provisionally known as 'Cats in bins / Monsters' - (me and Tony can't decide on a title we both find acceptable....) is good to go for the shows next week....AND we have even found time to write a completely new song provisionally titled 'Kill the beat' which we're ironing out and will likely be ready for April/May shows...(and hopefully recorded with the songs above plus 'This Skewed Logic' at some point between now and the summer)...

Next shows are next week -

Brixton for a Household Name Records show w/Worn in Red (US), Attack! Vipers! and Regimes.....on the Wednesday 9th,

and Friday 11th will be a tiny Brighton show in the Cobblers Thumb pub with Little Ease (ex break the habit type + ex cutting class type + others I don't know, doing shitty limits / sauna youth style poppy garage punk) and Skintight Jaguars (rock n roll beasts from London).

That's pretty much it, for now.

Show update

Friday 11th Feb 2011: The Hobgoblin, Brighton, w/Silent Front, Solomon Grundy, Cautionhorses
Wednesday 9th March 2011: Brixton Windmill, w/Worn in Red (US), Attack! Vipers!, Regimes
Friday 11th March 2011: The Cobblers Thumb, Brighton, w/Little Ease, Skintight Jaguars
Saturday 23rd April 2011: Railway Hotel, Dorking, w/Static Age (US), Brothers, Porches + more
Friday 20th May 2011: The Fighting Cocks, Kingston, w/Gin Panic, Great Ancestors + 1 TBC
Wednesday 27th July 2011: TBC
Thursday 28th July 2011: Canterbury TBC
Friday 29th July 2011: Santiagos, Leeds TBC
Saturday 30th July 2011: Nottingham TBC
Sunday 31st July 2011: Bang Bar, Basingstoke (Bitchfest Festival 2011) w/Great Ancestors + more TBC

Recording and Merch ideas in the pipeline.

Lovely, lovely, things.

Shows and stuff....

So, as Tony above said....and more...

Friday 11th February, Brighton, The Hobgoblin w/Silent Front, Solomon Grundy and Cautionhorses

This is Adam's last show with us. Sad times.

Friday 11th March, Brighton, The Cobblers Thumb w/Skintight Jaguars and Little Ease (ex. Break the Habit and Cutting Class new project...) playing the Rebellious Jukebox night. Free entry show, and DJs til 2am.

Saturday 23rd April, Dorking w/ Brothers, Porches and more Tba.

Then...a July mini weekender / tour! (Tbc)

Wednesday 27th July - Tbc
Thursday 28th July - Canterbury Tbc
Friday 29th July - Leeds
Saturday 30th July - Nottingham
Sunday 31st July - Basingstoke

We should have a new Demo/EP out sometime in May/June.

That's all for now.

First post!

hi there and welcome to The Dead Beat blog. first of all, the myspace page will not be used from now on, so we can be contacted through this page or our bandcamp page using our gmail.

our bandcamp page can be found at http://thedeadbeat.bandcamp.com/.

secondly, we've got some gigs coming up:

11th February @ The Hobgoblin, Brighton with Silent Front, Solomon Grundy and Cautionhorses

23rd April @ The Lincoln Arms, Dorking with Brothers, Porches and more - possible bank holiday all-dayer.

lastly - we're looking for more shows, esp around March/April time. get in touch if you can help out.

in the meantime, heres a video of us taken by Ian Chaddock of the awesome Strike A Chord blog, at last years K-Fest:

thanks for reading

THE DEAD BEAT