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

Thanks to everyone who came down to see us last night at Clwb Ifor Bach, especially everyone who knew the words, you made it a great night for us, diolch yn fawr Caerdydd.
Special thanks to Rumblestrips for inviting us and to Golden Silvers and Everything Everything.
The van journey back was full of love and vomit [...]

We’re giving away a free download which is being featured on MySpace Music Specials. It’s a remix of our new song ‘Ask Your Heart’ (you can currently hear our own ‘Echo Mix’ version of the song on our MySpace player or download it exclusively from NME.com’s Daily Download) by Japanese artist Lalory and you [...]

You can get an exclusive mix of our new song, ‘Ask Your Heart (Echo Mix)’ only on today’s NME Daily Download.
They say:
“Proof once again that the fabled New Cross scene is thriving (hey – one band every two years [Bloc Party, Art Brut, Klaxons] counts OK?), let us introduce 2009’s brightest hopes from the creative [...]

Last week we recorded 4 songs for John Kennedy’s Xfm Xposure live session…just listening to the radio and it’s been announced for broadcast tonight…can’t wait for everyone to hear it.
Tune in on 104.9FM or online at www.xfm.co.uk between 10pm and 2am tonight (Tuesday 2nd June).
Also we’re supporting Post War Years at their album [...]

Last week was maybe our busiest yet (apart from maybe when we did our GCSEs but y’know, double maths was hardly a riot), did an Xfm session, played live, presented a radio show and then on Saturday we played at the IndigO2 arena supporting Calvin Harris. Which was fun.
Into June and trying not to [...]

My Tiger My Timing are doing a Diesel U:Music Radio takeover LIVE TONIGHT 6-7pm, check it out here.
We have also just recorded an Xfm Xposure session for John Kennedy. Sounds massive, can’t wait for everyone to hear it…

Live Tiger action in June:
03/06 – Post War Years album launch @ The Lexington, London
10/06 – [...]

We’ve returned from the Great Escape with salt in our hairdos and sand between our toes…Ocean Rooms on Friday night was a riot, Brighton is our second home so it was lovely to get back there and breathe the sea air. And to top it all we also got to hang out with Hot [...]

Like most other bands in London, we have migrated south to the seaside for Brighton’s Great Escape. We’re on tonight (Fri) at Ocean Rooms at 8.45, see you there…
Salt? Vinegar? Open or wrapped?
But you pay extra for the little wooden forks these days…
MTMT x

We want to send massive love to Glasgow for showing us a good time at Hinterland and the Pig and Butterfly tearoom for making us feel at home with square sausages and amazing soup. We didn’t feel too homesick though because there were lots of familiar faces in town and we ended up late [...]

We’re really excited to be playing at Glasgow’s Hinterland Festival tomorrow and Friday… Tomorrow we’ll be at The Arches (supporting The Fall) onstage at 7:50pm and Friday we’ll be at the School of Art, onstage 9.50pm (this is a change of time from the printed programme). See you there x