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June 2008 - THE THRILLS AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Hello everyone! Just letting you all know that we’ll be in Australia for the Teenager Tour in June 2008, and are looking forward to some great nights and shows. It’s been a while since we have been down that part of the world (early ’05) so it’s safe to say we cant wait to get back.
17th October 2007
You may have noticed we were not on Transmission last week. They moved the shows around without telling us! However, the good news is we are on this week instead. Tune in to Channel 4 at 11.30pm on Friday 19th our Street Gig.
US FANS 10/16 LEAK: The Thrills (MTVu)
‘Teenager’ is almost here! Hear the entire new album from the The Thrills before you can buy it exclusively on MTV2’s The Leak!
23rd September 2007
You can see some photos from the video shoot at this website: www.padraicmcmahon.com and if you haven’t seen the new video yet, you can watch it here.
Also, we can announce the winner of the Flickr competition. There were loads of dodgy haircuts, awkward poses and 80s clothes but there can only be one winner. Congratulations to Annie Marriott for her great picture called ‘Post-gig Musings’, she will receive her own personalised version of the album using her photo.
31st July 2007
The Thrills appear on a new compilation. ‘TheSaturday Sessions’ - The Dermot O’Leary Show, a double CD featuring Dermot’s favourite bands from his R2 show.
They play ‘Nothing Changes Around Here’ (live) on a new compilation album featuring music from Dermot O’Leary’s Radio 2 show.
Other featured artists include Lily Allen, Magic Numbers, Amy Winehouse, Beck, Massive Attack and the Kings of Leon.
27th July 2007
We’ve played some fantastic sessions for
Tiscali and AOL recently...
24th July 2007
Our new album is out in the shops today.
16th July 2007
Our new single is out in the shops today. We’re playing some instores this week - have a look below! You can get “Nothing Changes Around Here’ from...
- Amazon
- HMV
- iTunes (radio edit)
- iTunes (acoustic)
- Recordstore (3 formats for £3)
21st June 2007
We shot the video for Nothing Changes Around Here on Brighton Pier. I believe it’s just been uploaded onto YouTube. The idea was all Kinga’s (the director) and it was an inspired choice. English sea side towns have that great mixture of innocence and melancholy (which was perfect for the song). Sad and lonely yet full of old fashioned merry go rounds, candy floss and lights. Blur and Morrissey often referenced these places and I guess it was also a nod to that. As it turns out, we’re also playing lots of these British seaside towns on this current tour. As a result we’re walking on stage to Morrissey’s Everyday Is Like Sunday most nights.
Most of the venues on this UK jaunt are deliberately off the beaten path. Last night we played in Lancaster Library (cue humorously propped books on stage i.e. song-writing for dummies, piano — a beginners guide etc…). On Friday we play Full Sutton maximum security prison at the request of it’s deputy governor, Gareth Sands. It houses some of the most difficult and dangerous criminals in the country. It’s a few miles outside York. Russell, our agent, reassuringly mentioned in the email with the offer that they’ve only had two serious full scale riots in the past. I really hope the gig goes well and that they enjoy our songs.
The Wireless Festivals were fun. We woke up in the bus on-site at Hyde Park. We could have been in Reading. Air were great. So were The Bees. Album tracks can be hard work at festivals let alone brand new songs. Never the less, an out-of-tune guitar for Big Sur aside, we pluckily reintroduced ourselves to the festival circuit. We kissed some babies and then rushed to the Proud Gallery in Camden to play our second gig of the night. At half eleven that night we almost cancelled it. Half the gear hadn’t arrived from the festival. The other half wasn’t behaving itself. It was a chaotic mess. It was easily one of our best gigs.
The Leeds leg of the Wireless Festivals was a typical British outdoor affair. Leeds had been poured down upon for four days. It was extremely wet and muddy. Festivals without the sun are a true test of the human spirit. Thankfully the northern crowd were great despite the elements and responded enthusiastically to the The Midnight Choir and Nothing Changes Around Here. The contrast between the London and northern leg was marked. Gone were the free skin products and sun glasses. Gone were the free hair cuts. Also gone was the glossy wooden finish to the backstage toilets and framed random pictures of men in top hats hovering over the sinks.
Conor