Archive for the ‘songs’ Category

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.

Just a quick update

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Don’t forget that we’re playing the Standard at Walthamstow on 10th November. As you’ll recall the Standard is closing down after a long and very honourable career as a live music and comedy venue, and we’re very glad to have squeezed in a final gig there to say goodbye to the dear old place. For those of you who may be pondering coming from a little way off, the Standard is the easiest venue in the world to get to; you take the Victoria Line tube to Blackhorse Lane, come out of the station and it’s staring you in the face. There’s now a flyer on our website which, if you print it off and bring it along, will get you in for a fiver rather than £6. (Despite what it says, we don’t suggest hauling 250 roubles along…)

“What about those studio recordings you were doing?” you cry. Aha, we say. Two tracks are done, but there’s still just a tiny bit of work to do on the other two… Watch this space for a few days if you want to find out details of all four tracks, and be able to listen to them. There’s some other news associated with this too, but that’s also still under embargo for a few days more…

Christmas…

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

…would appear to be a good time for writing new songs.

Doubtful whether any of them will be finished, sanded down and polished enough for the Walthamstow gig on 20 January, but in the not too distant future watch our shows, or possibly the jukebox on this page, for any or all of “Drive On, Driver”, “Celebration Consternation”, “Goodbye, Charlie Potatoes”, “Awfultown”, “Barbecue” and “The Other Ronald True” — this last being a more than usually cheerful little ditty regarding a prostitute-murdering madman in 1920s London. Let nobody say that our songs don’t have a broad mainstream family appeal.

Our intention remains to make our First Proper Recordings in the very near future.