2010: The Year of The Tiger

A belated happy new year to all of you out there reading this. 2009 was a great year for the Tigers, in which we released two singles, an EP, were included on numerous comps, made videos, took photos, toured the UK and got to know the inside of the van perhaps too well. We want to thank everyone who made this all possible, everyone who came to see us, bought the records, asked about the t-shirt (coming soon) or in any way made us feel that being in a band was definitely a worthwhile thing to do.

But enough looking back, it’s a new year and a new decade and we’ve kicked off as we mean to go on with some new recordings (also coming soon) and a handful of great gigs, including an epic return to La Flèche d’Or in Paris. We were there this time last year and going back really felt like a bit of a continental homecoming. The crowd was incredible (see pic) and fully responded to all requests for “mains en l’air!”. It was great to talk to everyone after the show and we can’t wait to come back and see you again.

Now we’re back in the studio with Andy Spence putting the finishing touches to what will most likely be our next EP. It’s sounding great and we can’t wait for everyone to hear it.

We have a string of live dates coming up (see here) including a visit to Brighton’s legendary Concorde 2 on Friday and an invitation to play SXSW in Austin, Texas in March which we are over the moon about (although this is rather dependant on us raising the funds to get there so all donations from mystery benefactors should go to cat@interbase.co.uk via PayPal — seriously!!).

We’ve also been documenting our adventures in a series of photo diaries lovingly put together by our own Jamie Harrison — you can see the start of this on our new Tumblr page, and the rest will be updated as we go along.

On Thursday we’re celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Tiger with Dazed & Confused and Tiger beer (appropriate) so come down to Chinatown and break open a fortune cookie with us…

x

Well what a month it’s been - October is the cruellest month (well, after April), especially if you’re in a band. Cruel to the body and mind and liver because you really can’t ever do enough gigs even if you do one every day - there are fields of fresh young students out there [...]

NME 03 October 2009
WHAT’S ON THE NME STERO - Ten Tracks To Check Out This Week
In other news, we’re included on the upcoming Kitsuné Maison 8 sampler (out Nov 16), tracklisting below:

01. French Horn Rebellion - Up All Night
02. The Drums - Let’s Go Surfing
03. Siriusmo - High Together
04. Le Corps Mince de Françoise - [...]

MY TIGER MY TIMING
I AM THE SOUND EP - out 19/10/09

PREORDER HERE
Limited edition 6-track CD EP exclusively through Pure Groove. They say “An ace new band from south on the river. An extremely danceable indie-beat flavour in the shape of Hot Chip, Tom Tom Club and Architecture In Helsinki, and we’re happier than a [...]

This Is Not The Fire is going to be included on Modular’s upcoming Leave Them All Behind III compilation (out August 7th) alongside the likes of Calvin Harris, MGMT, Golden Silvers, The Juan Maclean, Simian Mobile Disco, Florence and the Machine, Passion Pit, The Invisible and loads more wickedness…
Full details here…

When we supported VV Brown at Club NME KOKO the other day we were asked by NME.com to make a video blog about our experience.  It’s online today…
“We like My Tiger My Timing at NME. The New Cross electro types gave us a free track on the Daily Download a while back, so when we [...]

Photo: Lærke Feld Andersen
Hey everyone,
We’ve been away for a couple of weeks (although it seems like longer) writing and recording some new tunes, working on our live set, welcoming back Blur, saying goodbye to the King of Pop (we actually got the news whilst doing guitar tracks in the studio)…
The past few months since we [...]

We’re really excited to be playing the main stage at Warwickshire’s Monarchy Festival on Saturday 4th July supporting The Happy Mondays, Supergrass and Reverend & The Makers.
It’s a great line-up and we wanna share it with you, so we’re giving away a pair of passes to the festival. All you have to do is [...]

Check us out on this video from when we played The Rumble Strips’ Topman CTRL gig in Cardiff… x
Topman CTRL Live highlights - The Rumble Strips

FILTHY DUKES SINGLE LAUNCH
Tonight we’re playing at the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen with Filthy Dukes celebrating the release of their new single ‘Messages’.
Doors are half 7 and we’re on at half 8 so get there early.
ZERO dB CAMPAIGN
On less of a party note, we’ve recently been involved in the Zero dB campaign [...]