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And the beat goes on

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

It’s becoming more and more clear that the Donutsh are like the US Mail, or a glacier; a force which moves when you’re not looking and which is quite impossible to fight against or stop in its tracks.

The “We Are All Strange Jane” EP has been scoring some fab (and possibly even gear) responses. Take TV Smith, for instance — a musician whose vegetarian Doc Martens we are not worthy to moisten with our tongues: “Deliciously odd, totally convincing, I love it!” Or DJ Alan Dorey of Forest FM: “What a fine EP it is: the production is first class, the sound has been well mixed and it’s clear that the band are a pretty tight unit and know what they’re up to.”

Alan will, incidentally, be putting his money where his mouth is and playing us in his show, adding to other radio stations such as Camden Unsigned, XRP Radio (for whom we did a live session a few weeks back) and Federal Radio (where we regularly feature in their Top Ten unsigned artists as voted for by listeners).

So if you haven’t already headed over to Bandcamp to get your copy, do it now — act without thinking! It’s a mere £3, which won’t even buy you a frappucino in Starbucks these days… http://donutsh.bandcamp.com/ is the address you’ll be needing for that.

Another way to get it is to come to one of our gigs, and we have two of those coming up within the next week:

Friday 28 September: The Artisan, 11 Hall Lane, Chingford, E4 8HH (8pm); £5 with flyer (get it here). Easiest way to get there by public transport is a bus to Chingford Mount, and it’s right by Sainsbury’s.

Wednesday 3 October: Camden Rock, 18 Kentish Town Road, London NW1 9NX (8pm): also £5, and you don’t need to bring a flyer, but we’ve done one anyway ‘cos we like doing flyers. Right by Camden Town tube, this one. Other bands include JJ Appleby, Montego Bay, Stroke Of Luck and Dewa — all more or less alt-rock.

We shan’t remind you to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, because you’re all sensible people and do that already, right?

Until next time, sugar-pies!

Double punch!

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

LEFT HOOK: As you may have seen on Twitter/FB we’ve been roped into an ultra-short-notice gig this week, because we’re so crazy keen like that: Monto Water Rats, Kings Cross. Thursday 22 March, 7pm. Supporting one of our local heroes here in Walthamstow, Rob Pyne, formerly of the Rifles and now with his new project, Last of the Troubadours. Should be a blast! Post a comment here, or click on the Facebook event, to confirm attendance, and we’ll add you to the cheap door list at £4, cor blimey, guv, how do they do it so cheap?

RIGHT CROSS: We got impatient — not to mention we were running out of excuses to give some of you who kept asking when they could buy downloads of the EP — so the answer is: now. A proper sales/merch page on this site will appear shortly (when our wonderful webmistress isn’t in the throes of moving house) but meanwhile, go to our Bandcamp page and you can download We Are All Strange Jane, or any portion thereof, for a wholly nugatory and derisory pittance. As the Bastables put it, “If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too.”

Holy crap, here it is 2012 already

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Must be time for us to swoop down and cram another news update into your open ears like a worm down the throat of a baby bird.

First off — on Saturday 4th February, we play the Monto Water Rats at King’s Cross in the evening. This is actually the first gig we’ve had on a Saturday rather than on a school night, so no excuse not to come to it. There are scads of bands on all evening if you want to make a night of it, with The Deltorers headlining. It’s eight pounds on the door, BUT if you tell us you’re coming (or even may be coming) in advance, we’ll put your name on the Cheap List with the promoters and if you get there by 7.30pm, that’ll cost you just six squids. Leave a comment here, or click the button on Facebook, or talk to us or… something.

There should be at least one or two new songs which will see their first performance at the Water Rats, by the way, including “Demon Core”, our story of the Los Alamos nuclear scientists who were killed in a criticality accident while working on a nuclear warhead with… a screwdriver. (Srsly.)

Meanwhile there’s lots of interest in the “We Are All Strange Jane” EP, including (gosh) some radio play, especially from the highly esteemed XRP Radio‘s Thursday Breakdown show. The 4 tracks will, therefore, be available on Bandcamp very shortly; watch this space. In addition, in a fit of hubris we’ve had some snazzy T-shirts printed up with the EP cover design, white on black. These will also be flogged on the Bandcamp page shortly, but meantime, if anyone can’t wait, here’s a SPECIAL OFFER: email us (info@donutsh.com) saying “OMG I want a T shirt” and it’s yours for a flat tenner, including postage anywhere in the world. Cuttin’ our own froats, aren’t we, guv. Awright.

More gigs should be in the pipeline after this one, so keep ‘em peeled.