Archive for May, 2009

Los Campesinos! would like to extend their congratulations to Manchester United Football Club for winning a third consecutive English Premier League Title. Well done lads.

Izaak Mills – Saxophone, Flute Samantha Boshnack – Trumpet, Flugelhorn Eric Corson (The Long Winters) – Backing Vocals Jherek Bischoff (The Dead Science, Ribbons)- Upright Bass, Trombone, Backing Vocals Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) – Vocals, Panning Today has been one of my favourite days in the history of Los Campesinos!. On the penultimate day of our [...]

This morning we had the awesome opportunity of an office and warehouse tour of Sub Pop. Obviously, Sub Pop is one of the world’s greatest labels, and incredibly important in the history of what the people call ‘indie rock’, let alone North-West/Seattle music. I suppose by now we’ve been in a fair few different record [...]

I had previously promised myself that I would play no instruments on this record. Live, I step up to the plate and do my best impression of somebody playing glockenspiel, or occasionally keyboard, but I am totally aware of my limitations and that Tom could play whatever would take me half a day to nail, [...]

Our friend R Taylor makes music under the name Sparky Deathcap (I’ve been wanting to blog about him for a while, but have kept forgetting to ask him if I can host a couple of mp3s (Sparky, can I host a couple of mp3s, please?)) has recently started a website for the visual side of [...]

Only 5 more days left in the studio before we head back to the UK, and I realise any information on how the actual recording is going, has been pretty sparse. So I’ll endeavor to fill in some gaps here: It’s going great, thanks. Currently I am sat in the ‘lounge’ area as Tom bashes [...]

Has been sighted in various places including a tunnel in Paris in 1997, a hair salon in Los Angeles in 2007 and a studio in Seattle. BE CAREFUL HE IS VERY ANNOYING AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS!

I love drums!! We’d have to record 4 albums here to be able to use everything here!

Expect a lot more of this from now on:

Spent the week sitting at your computer, listening to music and watching the Inbetweeners? Xiu Xiu 95 Hefner 89 Kenickie 84 The Field 33 The Broken Family Band 29 Yoñlu 26 The Singing Adams 25 The Aislers Set 22 Girls 20 The Microphones 16 Some Notes: 1. Almost entirely down to that incredible bootleg I [...]