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 recorded a live set at the Barfly last week for John Kennedy’s XFM Xposure Live and it’ll be broadcast tonight sometime between 10pm and 2am – tune in kids!
Coming atcha from the studio today and tomorrow…recording massive Balearic sounds with Andy Spence, wait for the summer, I Am The Sound!
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OUR FIRST SINGLE!
We’re really excited to announce that our first single ‘This Is Not The Fire’ is out TODAY on Silver Music Machine. The song is available on download only through , Amazon, Napster and more.

MY TIGER MY TIMING
THIS IS NOT THE FIRE
SILVER MUSIC MACHINE

FREE MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD
To mark the occasion we’ve put our heads [...]

Our first single ‘This Is Not the Fire’ come out today on Silver Music Machine. The song is available on download only from April 6th 2009 through , Napster and more. To mark the occasion we’ve put our heads together with the label and knocked up a mixtape to celebrate the release of [...]

Lots of updates for you from Tiger HQ…
HOT CHIP!
We’ve just come back from the studio where we recorded 2 new tunes with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, we’ve heard an initial mix and we’re really excited, can’t wait for you all to hear them!
NEW TIGER!
We’d like to welcome Seb Underhill, our new synth player, our [...]

“My Tiger My Timing are going to be huge. You just know this. Whether it’s because their debut single was produced by Andy Spence of New Young Pony Club, that the press are drooling all over them already, or, how quaint, you actually listen to the music.
Debut single This Is Not The Fire is a [...]

The fabulous Nemone played ‘This Is Not The Fire’ yesterday on her BBC6 Music show!
Tracklisting here
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“…From the Cray Brothers to the Sex Pistols, snarky London accents have a knack for expressing contempt for the powers-that-be. Despite a band-name that reeks of “scene”, My Tiger My Timing’s debut single This is Not The Fire has the makings of a summer hit….” – etnobofin
(and you can pre-order our feelbad hit of the [...]

OUR FIRST SINGLE ‘THIS IS NOT THE FIRE’ IS OUT ON APRIL 6TH (DOWNLOAD) BUT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE US FEEL REALLY LOVED YOU CAN PRE-ORDER IT RIGHT NOW FROM SILVER MUSIC MACHINE, JUST CLICK THE LINK BELOW!
WE ALSO HAVE 2 BRILLIANT REMIXES AVAILABLE TO ORDER BY TRONIK YOUTH AND DJ WIRE.
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My Tiger My Timing’s debut single ‘This Is Not The Fire’ is up for Single of the Week on Radcliffe & Maconie’s programme on BBC Radio 2!

Our debut single ‘This Is Not The Fire’ is up for single of the week on Radcliffe & Maconie’s programme on BBC Radio 2! If we win we get played every day next week.
But first we have to win this week’s Pick ‘n’ Mix voting and we’re up against some tough competition.
So we need you [...]