2010: The Year of The Tiger
February 8th, 2010
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
