Radio 1, album sessions, Isle of Wight Festival…

May and June have been our busiest months so far this year and there’s still more to come…

After an amazing tour of Germany (thank you everyone who came and supported us, we love you) we hit Stag & Dagger festival (erm…) and then made the picturesque drive up to north Wales to play Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Bangor.  It was an amazing day for us, massive thanks to Bethan, Huw, Tom, Jen and all at BBC Introducing.  There’s some live footage online here:

After that, Anna paid a quick 5* visit to Primavera in Barcelona (joining our engineer Joe on tour with the Dum Dum Girls)…

…and then we came back and made a start on sessions for our debut album!

Week 1 was all about the drums, and we hired in a gorgeous vintage kit for the occasion, as well as borrowing a whole heap of Joe’s sexy analogue gear and a sweet old school mixing desk.  We’re self-producing with Joe engineering and it’s already sounding amazing.  We’re taking a really organic approach to the sound this time around – it was great having a whole week to just focus on drums, getting great takes and trying to keep the live feel of what we do.  Live we’re definitely a rock band and we want this album to reflect that…

Work is going to continue over the summer and by October we’re going to have 17 tracks of beauty and wonder (not sure yet how many will be on the album) – some we have been playing live for a while, but we also have 7 brand new tracks which no one has ever heard, so we are absolutely champing at the bit to get these out into the world.

At the end of a long week of drumming, we headed off to the Isle of Wight Festival to play the Strongbow Stage alongside out buddies Is Tropical and Crystal Fighters (we’re gonna make a supergroup called Tropical Tiger Fighters or something).  It was an amazing weekend full of tutus, fairy titten, old puss, tents, bowtime (hard earned), sunshine, and great music and we can’t wait to do it all again with the same line-up at V Festival in August.

Big love,

Tigers x

Upcoming Dates:

17 Jun 2010 Gallery Launch @ Ginger Moo
20 Jun 2010 Modular Presents… @ The Lock Tavern
25 Jun 2010 Proud, Camden
20 Aug 2010 Strongbow Stage @ V Festival
28 Aug 2010 Festibelly
18 Sep 2010 Lemonfest

We’ve just got back from an amazing week touring in Germany – we’ve made friends, eaten heartily, drunk copiously and driven fast on the autobahn.  And also played some blinding shows.
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who welcomed us and made the tour possible – especially Santiago, Felipe, Alex, Emma, Nils [...]

This week we hit the road for Germany, we’re playing 4 shows in Berlin, Hamburg, Darmstadt and Heidelberg – we’d love to see all our German friends there, let’s make it a party!
12/05/10 Berlin – White Trash Fast Food
13/05/10 Hamburg – Astra Stube
14/05/10 Darmstadt – Schlosskeller
15/05/10 Heidelberg – Halle 02 (Physical Feeling Festival w/ Zoot [...]

We’re really pleased to announce that we’ve been invited to play on the BBC Introducing Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Bangor on Sunday 23rd May.
We’re blown away to be playing on a line-up that includes some of our favourite bands of the moment, including Vampire Weekend, Paramore, Django Django, Delphic, Ke$ha and JLS! [...]

Super cool Paris band Fortune have just released their debut album ‘Staring at the Ice Melt’ and to celebrate they’re giving away a FREE remix EP featuring their lush version of our tune ‘I Am The Sound’ alongside tracks by Phoenix, Pony Pony Run Run, Rubin Steiner and Axe Riverboy.
We’re loving what they’ve [...]

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. [...]

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…