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

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

Beautiful weekend in Manchester, shout outs to Blow Out, Chorlton, Leila, Sian and co, Adam (for letting us crash at his) and his mates (for letting us crash their party). Big love!
In Dazed & Confused this week. MOTD here we come…

“…Their debut single, This Is Not The Fire , came out a few days ago, and it sounds distilled, concentrated – it’s electro with its bones showing.” – Dummy Mag interview with Jamie and Anna

“…I went to see Joe Hot Chip’s first post-Little Boots production project, My Tiger My Timing. They’re far from shit and [...]

We went to the BBC 6 Music studios to chat to Nemone yesterday afternoon about Fisher Price musical equipment, The Thompson Twins and our new single. You can get the clip here…

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Anna and James will be chatting live to Nemone on BBC 6 Music today at 3pm, tune in on DAB or online…
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“…a breathtakingly chic brother-sister combo…crazy synth glocken-spiel-ly noises and kick-ass guitar spins the momentum enough to propel Anna Vincent’s sultry vocals into the stratosphere. Classic. Perfect. Pop.” – Artrocker
“…’This Is Not The Fire’ produced by Andy Spence of New Young Pony Club, is confident enough to abandon disco-punk strictures in favour of something more buoyantly [...]