The Day.

End of another great year, thanks all for a fantastic 2008. It's a real privelage to play music and have people listen to it. Thanks for everything. Happy holidays.

Here's a little end of year treat, some pics from one of our very first practices ever. Look at all the littles! (photos: Megan Dinnie)

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The Desmonds

November!

Thank goodness! Some better looking flyers this month!

Here's what we're up to in November: 21st - Picasso's in Potch, 22nd - Mystic Boer in Bloem, 28th - good old 88 in Johannesburg.

"Kiss You On The Cheek" Released This Week on Tigersushi Records!

So as some of you may know, this French label called Tigersushi is releasing the Kiss You On The Cheek single. They sure are, and the vinyl was released this month along with the insanely awesome King Of Town remix and people all over the world are loving it.

Phonica Record Store in London said this about the record:

"Hands down Desmond & The Tutus is the best band name I've heard in ages and, happily, this single 'Kiss You On The Cheek' is deserving of such a wonderfully monikered creator. It's unashamedly cheesy, sunshiny electronic house indie pop gear - with harmonicas and everything..."

And the nice guys at Tigersushi said this nice thing about us:

"Super friendly guys from Pretoria making African tinged post punk, like the Rapture in Tanzania."

Anyway, you can download the tracks at Beatport. Or order it directly from Tigersushi.

Tuckshop!

After an excellent launch tour, we're happy to announce that our very first album is in stores now. So if you're one the lucky 50 million people that live in South African you can head into your nearest Look & Listen store and grab a copy of Tuckshop. But if you're one of those sorry suckers that live elsewere in the world you'll have to wait until it's on itunes or emusic or the pirate bay.

Remix! Richard III Mixes

Johannesburg-based Richard The Third sent us two great remixes, he totally electrofied our two sweetest, cutest songs!

Desmond & The Tutus - Saggy Bottom Speedo Swimmer (Richard III Mix)
Desmond & The Tutus - Dancing With The DJ's Girlfriend (Richard III Mix)

His mix of Dancing With The DJ's Girlfriend will appear on his first full length album, Third World From The Sun. Check Richard out at his Facebook goody, you can listen to some other tracks from his album and maybe tell him that we say hi.

Remix Time! Crazy Rebel (Gaetan Remix)

Straight outta France, electro crunk DJ Gaetan whipped up this massive electrobanger remix of 'Crazy Rebel'.

Desmond & The Tutus - Crazy Rebel (Gaetan Remix)

Go here and remix a Desmond & The Tutus song of your choice. Check out all the remixes by clicking here. Tell Gaetan how awesome you think he is at his myspace.

Keyboard Rebel Remix & Cover

There are Desmond & The Tutus Kids scattered all over the world, and the latest remix comes from some Manchester natives, our good internets pals, Keyboard Rebel.

They've remixed an old favourite that didn't end up on the album after all.

Desmond & The Tutus - Bup Pah (Keyboard Rebel)

And! As a special little bonus surprise for all you purist Desmond kids, the Rebels threw together this tasty little number - a cover of another classic Desmond & The Tutus track that also didn't make it onto the album.

Keyboard Rebel - Dancing With The DJ's Girlfriend

Here's the nice little story behind how this cover came into being, as told by Mike Bray of Keyboard Rebel.

"Thought you might like this one as well. Just had it through from our sound engineer, he blagged us some extra time when we were in the plush studio he works at, but only on the proviso that we use it to lay down a version of this, his favourite Desmonds song. A couple of hours later sat at a massive piano and a ridiculous old-school organ, voila.."

Why don't you go to Keyboard Rebel's myspace or their record label's website and buy their very nice album? Go there now.

Peter (Cutout Collective Analogue Vs Digital Mix)

Here's another remix, this one done by Johannesburg bitsy bytesy laptop lads Cutout Collective.

Desmond & The Tutus - Peter (Cutout Collective Analogue Vs Digital Mix)

Tell Cutout Collective how much you love them by clicking here. And make your own remix here.

Kiss You On The Cheek (Cobra Krames Club Mix)

To celebrate the fact that our album's finally done, we've decided it's time to release the hounds. By hounds of course we mean remixes.

If you'll think back a couple months, we posted the seps up for every- and anyone that wanted to add their own little spin to the Desmo jive. So the remixes have been rolling in and we're only posting up the ones that we like; because well, it's our bandwidth and we'll cry if we want to.

Without further adue, here's something cooked up by Cobra Krame$.

Desmond & The Tutus - Kiss You on the Cheep (Cobra Krames Club Mix)

Visit Cobra Krame$ Myspace by clicking here. And click here if you'd like to download the seps to your favourite Desmond & The Tutus song and do your own little remixio.

We'll be posting a new remix every day or two till the launch parties, so bookmark this link and don't miss a single slightly out of time remixed beat.

Shirts!

Here's an old shirt from a show we did not long ago at Tings n Times. Party on.