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We are playing a number of Glasgow shows in support of our new EP, The Eighteenth Emergency. We're incredibly excited, firstly, to have the opportunity to play at the wonderful Langside Hall in Shawlands on Saturday 6th October with our friends Cats On Fire and The Just Joans. Tickets are available online here:- http://www.wegottickets.com/event/20983 And in person from Tickets Scotland on Argyle Street in Glasgow and Monorail Records on King's Court in Glasgow. Tickets are £6, subject to booking fee. Before this show however we have a number of small (and free!) cafe dates! Please check our myspace:- www.myspace.com/butcherboymusic For full details. A further short UK tour will follow later in October. We really hope you can make it out to see us! *** We will be playing on Phoning It In on Thursday, 3 May, at 7:30pm EST and 12:30am BST (so it's Friday 4 May in the UK I guess...). You can read a little more about the show here:- http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=34264778 You can hear the show on 88.1FM in New England, or you can listen online to the show here:- Unfortunately, we won't be in Boston. We'll be in my hoose. But it'll be really good fun, nonetheless! *** We will be playing a number of shows in support of the release of Profit In Your Poetry. Details are:- Saturday 17 March 2007 - RoTa, Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11. This is an afternoon Rough Trade show, beginning at 4pm, and entry is free. Friday 6 April 2007 – The RAFA Club, 27 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3. A Good Friday show with tea and hot crossed buns at our favourite Glasgow venue… entry is £4 and all proceeds go to support the RAFA Club. Doors are at 9pm and we hope to show a short film as support, with SpitFire DJs playing until 1am for dancing after our set. Wednesday 11 April 2007 – The Raynor Lounge, Sheffield University Union Building, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10. With Monkey Swallows The Universe and Chris and Gill from Offbeat DJing after the bands. Starts at 8pm and entry will be £4, with tickets available on the door on the night or from the Union Box Office or Jack’s and Forever Changes record shops in advance. Thursday 12 April 2007 – Jabez Clegg, 2 Portsmouth Street, Manchester M13. With Amida. Friday 13 April 2007 – The Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London NW6. Details below… Come and see us play if you can! *** *** We are playing in London again, on Friday 13 April 2007. We're delighted at the prospect of playing at the beautiful Luminaire Theatre in Kilburn - you can read a little about the venue here. Support is from Finland's Cats On Fire, and one more act to be confirmed. Tickets are available here, for £6. *** Tickets for our show at The Windmill in Brixton have now sold out. All being well, we'll play in London again in April - we hope you can make it! *** We are very pleased to say that we will be making our London debut at The Windmill in Brixton on Friday 9 February 2007. You can buy tickets here. *** We are delighted to confirm that our debut album will be released on the How Does It Feel To Be Loved? label on Monday 5 March 2007. The album will be distributed by Cargo in the UK, and will be released through Darla in the US later in the year. You can, however, buy it direct from our label on pre-order - please go here to do that. On Monday 12 February 2007 we are releasing Girls Make Me Sick as a download-only single. You can buy it through iTunes or through Indie Store - the Indie Store link is here. Three tracks will be available - Girls Make Me Sick, Permanent Past Tense and Arbor Day. Basil and Sophie made a wee film for the song and you can see it here. *** We are very proud to say that we will be playing at Glasgow's wonderful Britannia Panopticon Music Hall on Saturday 2 December 2006. The Panopticon is at 113-117 Trongate, and doors are at 7:30pm. We hope to show a short film before our performance. As the Panopticon is not licensed there will be no alcohol for sale but tea, coffee and muffins will be available. Entry is by donation - all proceeds go to the Panopticon Restoration Fund. For more information on the venue please visit http://www.glasgowmerchantcity.net/britanniapanopticontrustvaults.htm *** We are both excited and honoured to have one of our songs included on the new How Does It Feel To Be Loved? compilation The Kids At The Club, released on Monday 11 September. Our song, Days Like These Will Be The Death Of Me, was recorded in April with Geoff at CaVa. The song will also be on our album which will be released in March 2007. For more details, please visit http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/hdiflabel.html *** We are very pleased to say that we have finished recording our album. All of the songs were recorded with Geoff Allan at CaVa Studios in Glasgow between April and August. The tracklisting is: Trouble and Desire/ There Is No-One Who Can Tell You Where You've Been/ Profit In Your Poetry/ I Could Be In Love With Anyone/ I Lost Myself/ Girls Make Me Sick/ I Know Who You Could Be/ Fun/ Keep Your Powder Dry/ Days Like These Will Be The Death Of Me We have decided to call the record Profit In Your Poetry, and we are hoping to release Girls Make Me Sick as the first single.
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