The Hottest Box

So on the 27th of January we played our first gig of 2010 at the brilliant new live music venue in Pretoria - Hotbox Studios. Angie was there with her sneaky little camera and took some sneaky little snaps, click on the images above to see them bigger...

This weekend we're playing an all ages show in Johannesburg - check out Desperate Youths & Bloodthirsty Babes on Facebook.

Q & A

PS - Click on the picture to enlarge!

A little while ago we are asked by Locally Whipped magazine to interview CrashCarBurn, a pretty well known band from Johannesburg and be interviewed by them. Here's the result. Pity they left out our best questions, so here are the outtakes! And CrashCarBurn, if you're reading this, you're still welcome to answer them!

Do you think there's any chance we could be friends? Like, we could hang at eachothers' houses, send eachother funny SMSs, plan fun group activities for the weekends, like a camping trip, I've got a tent and everything.

Your band name is quite scary. Discuss.

Okay, the CrashCarBurn tourbus is hurtling down the highway at 130kmph, ahead of you is the Desmond & The Tutus tourcorolla - broken down on the side of the highway. Can we have a lift back to Pretoria? Come on, it looks so spacious in there and, wait, is that Kanye West in there? Come on, it's like 32degrees out here, please guys. Oh and can we borrow some money?

What do you think of our band? Not bad hey?

Look what I found!

Back in 2007 after we recorded the first version of our album Tuckshop (which we ended up scrapping, long story) we sent some seps to our good old pal Paul Holden, who you may know as the King of Town. A little while later he sent us this crazy cool remix of our song Pictures.

Desmond & The Tutus - Pictures (King of Town Nite Version)

Since then a lot has happened, as you know Paul's epic remix of Kiss You On The Cheek became world famous when the dudes at Tigersushi found it and released a nice little 12" single of it, Paul has moved to London and his remixes of The Detachments, Phenomenal Handclap Band, They Came From the Stars We Saw Them oh and Franz Ferdinand are securing him a spot in DJ history!

Check out all his remixes and stuff here at the King of Town Soundcloud page. Become a King of Town fan at his Facebook fan page. And purchase a copy of the Kiss You On the Cheek single from Tigersushi or online at Beatport.

Adventure!

Yes, we drove all the way to Cape Town to do one gig. Check out our adventure here.

Nice Big Cape Town Party.

Hey dudes and dudettes, we did a pretty sweet show in Cape Town last weekend at The Assembly. Thanks to all you guys that came out to jive, it made for an excellent last gig of the year.

As usual the dudes from We-Are-Awesome were there being, well, awesome and taking totally sweet pictures. Above are some select moments of photographic genius, click here for the whole album and here for the rest of their stuff.

Tomorrow I'll post some of our own pictures from the weekend.

Japan Launch!

Here's a little snap from our launch in Japan, unfortunately we weren't able to fly over for the fun, maybe for LP2!

Thanks Flake Records for the release! Thanks all the remixers for putting such a cool little spin on our songs! And thanks all our Japanese pals for enjoying the Tuckshop!

PS: Check out the 80Kidz remix of Kiss You On The Cheek here!

Our New Penpal:)

So, some fancy pants journalist got in touch with us and said that she was interviewing the man himself, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, could we write him a letter? So we did. And we got a reply, well a reply from his office so it kind of counts! Click on the images to enlarge.

PS: Japan special edition release date: 6 December! Included brand new remixes by 80kidz, A&na, Soccerboy, Love & Hates, Small City and Cubismo Grafico...

Remixes! Crazy Rebel by The Sound

So another Tuckshop remix found its merry way into our inbox this morning. And low and behold, it might just be one of the best we've had yet. The Sound is from Cape Town, and have done a bunch of awesome remixes for some great local bands like kidofdoom, Fokofpolisiekar and aKing.

We're all suckers for electro remixes, and this is proper dancefloor thumper. Make sure you check out The Sound's other mixes at the MySpace.

Crazy Rebel (The Sound Remix)

UPDATE! The Sound and Codec teamed up on another remix specially for our Cape Town and Stellenbosch EP parties, you guys!

Pictures (CODEC Vs The Sound Remix)

If you're new to our blog, click here to download all the other remixes and if you're a remixer click here to make your own remix!

Keep checking back here, because we'll be putting up some of the remixes of the tracks on our new EP soon.

Urban Electric! 1 August!

We're playing at Urban Electric this Saturday, crazy nice line up. Be there! We're up at 23:30. For details check out their website.

"_______ & The ____" New EP Launches 30/07/09!

Yip, we've got a new EP coming out on Thursday! And if you want to get your hands on one of the limited edition copies of this grand piece of music history (don't know what made me say that, sorry) make sure you get to one of our launch parties happening all around South Africa.

Details and everything at www.andthe.co.za

30 July - Pretoria - Tings & Times

7 August - Grahamstown - The Scout Hall

8 August - Port Elizabeth - Jester's Alternative Club

14 August - Johannesburg - Hilson Park Bowling Club

20 August - Potchefstroom - Picasso's DPK Donderdag

21 August - Bloemfontein - Postponed

28 August - Cape Town - Mercury Live

29 August - Stellenbosch - Klein Libertas Theatre

5 September - Durban - The Willowvale