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thickarms wrote:FREDDY! will keep you posted when we are playing although you are moving away sppn (need to talk to you soon babe)

Yeah I move to Scarborough on the 17th! It's my own lazy fault for not coming to see you already to be honest. I'm pretty sure I can get a direct train to Leeds anyway... or you could come to Scarborough with it's thriving music scene.

music with massive balls. what the world needs.
HELL YEAH!!!

Pat.

The 12" is now available for pre-order, they were supposed to arrive last tuesday but there's been a fuck up at the plant delaying it for a month
all pre-orders come with immediate downloads. Never had anything I've recorded released on vinyl, gettin' excited!

You can pre-order it from Faux-Discx: http://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/hookworms

or if you don't have paypal you can order it from Gringo: http://www.gringorecords.com/releases.p ... de=WAAT046

some upcoming gigs too:

03/11/11 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/Pure X

04/11/11 - The Silk Museum, Derby

05/11/11 - Power Lunches Cafe, London w/Trogons

10/11/11 - Test Space, Leeds - Golau Glau Exhibition Launch

12/11/11 - Constellations Festival, w/ Yuck, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Wild Beasts, Leeds

10/12/11 - Deaf Institute, Manchester w/Peaking Lights

13/12/11 - Madame JoJo's, London w/The Men

Still available to order from the links above and also from the lovely lovely folks at Norman Records.

Julian Cope said some nice words:
"Meanwhile, there’s a fabulous’n’gleaming tumult building over in the Reviews Section as Leeds quintet Hookworms’ 12� EP comes to yet another climax on the Head Heritage stereo. Damn, it’s been heavy rotazione this past month or watt? Released on Gringo Records, this 4-track release is an epic 26 minutes of sub-ZABRISKIE POINT ambient road-movie heat haze-on-the-road sonic wipeout of the post-Loop variety, and propelled by an elliptical ‘Fender bass’ player from the Michael Henderson soul school. Swee-ee-eet. All of this is infused with such urging’n’urgent almost Ray Charlesean vocal MC-ings from their singing keyboardist MJ that these three dronehead guitarists become Lynyrd’s Allen Collins, Gary Rossington and Ed King to his Duane Allman. Whew! That said, these two near classic sides of vinyl were highly aided by the canny juxta positionings of the songs’ order, both sides designed to plateau then rise then plateau then rise, on and on and fucking on. Do not miss this Shoegazing Skynyrd, brothers’n’sisters."

NME (lolol) gave us their 'tip of the day':
"I think Leeds is on fire right now. Eagulls, Spectrals, Wet Nuns, Heart Ships…there are LOADS of great bands from there or thereabouts, and today's tip Hookworms should most definitely be added to that list.

I've waxed lyrical about Peaking Lights before, but I can't help but draw comparison to them and this fivepiece. This is no bad thing, and if you're in Manchester on December 10 I'd urge you to check them both out, on the same bill, at the Deaf Institute. Cool gig, that.

Anyway, back to Hookworms. One of them plays in Spectrals, but they sound nothing like the fragile output Louis Jones specialises in. They're all about eight-minute wig-outs, but there's a punkiness to their stuff that sets them apart from the sea of fellow psych-wannabees right now. Check out the gobbiness of the second track here, called 'Teen Dreams', for instance"

COOL SHIT. We are all incredibly greatful of the money and effort Gringo and Faux Discx have put into this release, please help them break even! Cuddles will be sent to anyone who buys one

Amazing, dude! Congrats on the great writeups.

cool!

thank you! it's so nice that people seem to be taking a genuine intrest in this bad and buying our music, so much gratitude for these people

i've seen the name about a wee bit on my travels, i noticed the guy from a negative narrative (not sure what his name is) talking about you on twitter the other week, he seems to like you.

ah yes! he was DJing at an exhibition we played at. Nice guy!

that might have been what he was talking about, now you mention it.

great reviews and love hookworms

Love it. Fits well with the stuff I'd listen to in 1970+ (e.g. Gong "Camembert Electrique", Pink Floyd "Meddle")

I spotted you made The Guardian's New Band of the Day - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/de ... -hookworms

result!

Missed this thread, i'll check this out later! Brilliant reviews

lorez wrote:I spotted you made The Guardian's New Band of the Day - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/de ... -hookworms

result!

I noticed that when it appeared, someone must've tweeeeeted it.

stewart wrote:

lorez wrote:I spotted you made The Guardian's New Band of the Day - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/de ... -hookworms

result!

I noticed that when it appeared, someone must've tweeeeeted it.

i retweeted the guardian tweet. seems thickarms are getting a bit of attention at the moment which is pretty cool

I'm late to this particular party. But I like this.

god, i've been reet behind on the forum recently, just lurking about due to an overwhelming amount of college work.

thank you for all the support dudes! The Guardian thing was great and a bit of a suprise!

Currently recording new stuff and playing a lot around the UK in the few months:

17/02/12 - O'Connells, Middlesbrough w/Broken Arm

18/02/12 - Nice 'n Sleazy, Glasgow w/Pheromoans & Broken Arm

19/02/12 - The Prince Albert, Brighton w/The Men

21/02/12 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/The Men

28/02/12 - The Harley, Sheffield w/S.C.U.M & Bo Ningen

02/03/12 - the Boat Club, Nottingham w/Cold Pumas

03/03/12 - British Wildlife Festival, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/Cold Pumas

22/03/12 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/White Hills

12/07/12 - Sound Control, Manchester w/Wooden Shjips (FAO: LOREZ!!!)

DO AN SCARBOROUGH.

Will do my best to get along to sleazy's.