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…

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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 all rosy cheeked and waiting to be kissed on the lips.

But it has also been kind to us – we released out second single ‘I Am The Sound’ and our first EP, got our songs on some great compilations and radio shows, played endless gigs, heard ourselves in Topshop (Anna career highlight) and started to feel like we actually exist in the real world outside of the pubs, chippies and betting shops of the New Cross Road.

So what next? Well we’re heading back into the studio this month to start work on what will be our second EP for around March. We’re also heading to Europe in the new year – can’t wait to get out there and practice our GCSE chat up lines and out of date swear words.

But before all this, we’re rounding off the year with a live album recording c/o Boxcars Production at Highbury’s Buffalo Bar on Sunday 29th. Come and make crowd noises and be part of the record.

This week we’re also really excited to be involved in the launch of Electric Minds‘ A Tribute To Arthur Russell tribute album. The record comes on CD (12 tracks) and also sampler 12″ LP (4 tracks). Our cover of Arthur’s Arm Around You appears on both (our first vinyl release!).

You can buy both formats online here: Vinyl / CD

To celebrate, Lovebox and Electric Minds have put on a huge event this Friday 27th November at the Relentless Garage in Highbury, 7pm-4am.

Time Out says: “London festivallers Lovebox and secret disco partystarters Electric Minds team up to launch this tribute (cover) album to the late disco artist Arthur Russell over three rooms. A screening of Matt Wolf’s ‘Wild Combination’ kicks things off, plus a reading with Tim Lawrence from his new Arthur Russell biography, followed by live sets from My Tiger My Timing + Killer Whale and nuff disco DJ sets from the likes of Maurice Fulton, Dolan Bergin, Yam Who?, Faze Action, Hot Blood, Tom Findlay (Groove Armada), Bill Brewster and the Loose crew. You won’t know which room to choose!”

I’ve heard there’s gonna be popcorn too…

Tickets here!

Kitsuné Live Session at MySpace HQ

A few weeks ago we played a stripped-down set at the MySpace offices in London with Crystal Fighters and Chew Lips in support of the new Kitsuné Maison 8 sampler (which we’re all on). Below you can see some excerpts from our performance…

My Tiger My Timing MySpace Session

MySpace Today | MySpace Video

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 – Something Golden
05. Midnight Juggernauts – This New Technology
06. Heartsrevolution – Dance Till Dawn
07. Logo – Junocide
08. Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk (Moulinex Remix)
09. Slagsmåklubben – Brutal Weapons
10. Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix)
11. AMWE – Friction Between The Lovers
12. Jolie Cherie – Star
13. Chew Lips – Salt Air (Alex Kapranos Remix)
14. Delphic – This Momentary
15. Memory Tapes – Bicycle
16. Parallels – Find The Fire
17. Nottee – Control
19. Crystal Fighters – I Love London
20. My Tiger My Timing – I Am The Sound

And also the Electric Minds 12″ tribute to Arthur Russell which we’ll be helping launch at the Highbury Garage on Nov 27…

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 dog with a bone to be doing this beautiful extended EP in conjunction with them. Ones to watch.”

A few weeks ago we wrote about our next release. Here are a few more details…

I Am The Sound EP will be released through Pure Groove Records on a limited edition (300) CD EP with specially designed artwork and some brand new tracks. It’ll be avaliable exclusively from the Pure Groove store in London or from their website from October 19th 2009. You can pre-order now.

The lead track will also be released on simultaneous download through Silver Music Machine with some specially commissioned b-side remixes.

We’re also really excited to have songs included on the recently released Modular Leave Them All Behind III and Pure Groove 3 samplers, check ‘em out on our Music page.

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…

“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 heard they were supporting VV Brown at Club NME KOKO in London we thought we’d get them to report back from the night.

This is their homemade video of the night. If you ever wondered what it’s like behind the scenes at London’s best indie night, and what it feels like to walk out onto that legendary stage, this will reveal all.”

Check it out: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=138&p=6863

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 released our first single This Is Not The Fire have really been an amazing adventure. We’ve been all around the UK, played so many gigs we’ve lost count, worked with some wonderful people (to whom we send our endless love) met some great bands, been on the radio, seen our name in lights (well, chalk at least) and got to know the service stations of the Great British motorways (shout out to Fleet). We also want a chance to say thank you to everyone who has come to a show, welcomed us to their town, downloaded the tune, DJed our song, hit us up online, bought us drinks or generally shown us love, you know who you are and we love you right back.

So if you’re with us then here’s the next episode…

We’ve recently been working on our second single and it’s now finished and sounding massive.

It’s called I Am The Sound – produced once again by the brilliant Andy Spence – and it comes out on September 14th on download through Silver Music Machine and also on limited edition CD EP through Pure Groove Records.

We’re really excited to be able to put out a physical release this time, and to be working with a label which has such an incredible back catalogue (in the past year alone, The Joy Formidable, Your Twenties,
Mystery Jets, Ipso Facto, Frank Turner, Peter Bjorn & John, The
Phenomenal Handclap Band, Little Boots, Baddies, Patrick Wolf) and a real vision and love for making great records. From the track-listing to the artwork and packaging this EP is going to be something worth having in your hand; a genuine artifact.

We can’t wait for you to hear this new tune too (plus additional new material which will only be available as part of the EP) and we’ll be announcing details of a launch party in the coming weeks, but until then we have loads of live dates, including Club NME @ Koko in Camden on 17th July and King Tut’s in Glasgow on 6th August, so come down and say hi…

My Tiger My Timing
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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 send us an email to be in with a chance of winning:

tigers@mytigermytiming.com

Or sign up to the mailing list:

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In other news, we’re currently taking a couple of weeks to write and record some new material and then we’ll be back on the road. Exciting news about a new release coming soon…

EYEZ ON THE HORIZON…

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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 against music torture.

No, it’s not the latest Scouting For Girls record, this is a really serious issue and we’ve filmed a 5 second silent protest for their website, alongside lots of other interesting people including Elbow, Massive Attack, Julie Christie and Jon Snow!

Check it out:

Zero dB Silent Protests

Love x