It is our great pleasure to announce our return to the wider-North America in the New Year. Dates are as follows, with just a few more to be added in due course.

1/20 Paradise, Boston MA (18+)*
1/21 Lee’s Palace, Toronto (19+)*
1/22 Lee’s Palace, Toronto (19+)*
1/23 London Music Hall, London (19+)*
1/24 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OH (ALL AGES)*
1/25 Skully’s Music Diner, Columbus OH (ALL AGES)*
1/26 Bluebird, Bloomington IN (21+)*
1/27 Metro, Chicago IL (ALL AGES)*
1/28 The Sett At Union South, Madison WI*
1/29 Varsity Theater, Minneapolis MN (18+)*
1/31 Bluebird Theater, Denver CO (16+)*
2/1 Club Sound, Salt Lake City UT (ALL AGES)
2/3 Electric Owl, Vancouver BC (19+)
2/4 Neptune, Seattle WA (ALL AGES)
2/6 Wild Buffalo, Bellingham WA (21+)
2/7 Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR (21+)*
2/8 Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR (21+)*
2/10 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA (ALL AGES)*
2/11 Echoplex, Los Angeles CA (18+)*
2/12 Casbah, San Diego CA (21+)*
2/15 Club Dada, Dallas TX (ALL AGES)*
2/16 Fitzgerald’s, Houston TX (ALL AGES)*
2/17 The Parish, Austin TX (ALL AGES)*
2/18 The Parish, Austin TX (ALL AGES)*

* with support from PARENTHETICAL GIRLS

TIX available from THIS LINK from 10am (America Time) on December the 6th.

Without saying too much, I am currently working on a reasonably extensive Track by Track guide to our recently released album Hello Sadness.

Subsequently, I am interested in answering any (/some) specific questions any of you may have about specific song lyrics/details of songs/musical or instrumental or recording intricacies etc.

If there is anything particularly that you are intrigued by/interested in, then please fire questions at

askheatrash@gmail.com

New issue (finally) shipping late this/early next week.
Please, if you have changed address since your subscription, email new postage details to

askheatrash@gmail.com

If you do not inform us of any change and an issue is sent to the wrong address then we are not culpable if you never receive your copy, as we have limited quantities of the ‘zine. I trust you understand.

Thank you for your patience with this. Issue #3 will be a lot quicker in coming.

It’s been a while in the making, as well you know, but finally, Heat Rash #2, entitled ‘Conversations‘ is imminent.

This edition’s coverstar is Neil Campesinos! illustrated beautifully, as ever, by our man Rob ‘Sparky Deathcap’ Campesinos!.

We’d like to think the content of this issue is a lot more ‘meaty’ than the first. It’s a good’n.

Accompanied by a 7″, the artwork and tracklisting is as follows:

1. Dreams Don’t Become You
A collaboration between Tom Campesinos! and Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls.
2. I Love You (But You’re Boring)
A cover of Gareth’s favourite song by his favourite band, The Beautiful South (featuring backing vocals from Gareth and Kim’s Dad).

Thanks for your patience on this (most of you, couple little bitches but yanno). We’ve had a much busier year than we anticipated, but as promised, every subscriber will (obviously) receive four issues. It’ll just take us a little longer than anticipated.

Now, if you don’t mind, we’re just away to finish packaging the last of your Hello Sadness pre-orders…

As prelude to our forthcoming run of November rock concerts we will be treading the boards at CAMDEN BARFLY, LONDON in a MATINEE PERFORMANCE on SUNDAY 6th OF NOVEMBER.

This shall be a very intimate show in our nation’s capital, with only 200 crowdspaces available.

Tickets go on sale 9am on the morning of Monday 31st October and cost a measly £5.

You can buy said tickets from the usual outlets.
(Play ticket company roulette by selecting to click on the word ‘the’ or ‘usual’ or ‘outlets’ above)

We have been assured it will be ‘vibey’.

OR IF YOU ARE A HEAT RASH SUBSCRIBER, we have a limited number of FREE TICKETS for you. To get one of these, email askheatrash@gmail.com with the subject “Camden Barfly”, your full name and proof of your Heat Rash credentials. Be quick, obv.

TO SUM UP

Los Campesinos!
@Camden Barfly
14+
Sunday 6th November, Doors 1pm

A timely reminder that at the time I press the ‘publish’ button on this blog post you will have but 3 more sleeps until your last chance to pre-order Hello Sadness from us (the cut off date being Friday 14th October)

We’ve put together a pretttty decent pre-order bundle, we believe, which includes a CD of demos recorded for our first album, all those many years ago. The CD, which is cleverly named Hold On Now, Youngster… The Demos has a tracklist as follows:

The International Tweexcore Underground
Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
Drop It Doe Eyes
Death To Los Campesinos!
…And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison
My Year In Lists
Knee Deep At ATP
We Are All Accelerated Readers
No Tetris
How I Taught Myself To Scream

Please note the inclusion of a never before heard song (unless you came to one of our first 5 gigs or something), entitled ‘No Tetris’. This CD is only available by pre-ordering this album bundle we have going on, so don’t come whining to me if you miss out, y’hear? Also worth mentioning, if you pre-order you WILL get the album before release date.

Go order by clicking below, if you fancy.

We are very happy to announce the first single to be taken from our forthcoming album, Hello Sadness, will be its title track.

Click through the image above or the lyrics below to be linked through to stream the track.

Furthermore, a reminder that you only have until the 14th of October to pre-order our new record. Do so in the form of the exclusive bundle, or just the CD/Vinyl on its own and you will receive the album before the ‘release date’ (which is November 14th) and before our November shows, even. Click below to go to the store:

Speaking of shows…don’t miss out on these. We’re very excited to be playing songs from Hello Sadness for the first time (as well as ‘All The Hits’).

7 November – London, Kings College SOLD OUT
8 November – Brighton, The Haunt
9 November – Cardiff, The Globe (16+)
10 November – Glasgow, Oran Mor
11 November – Leeds, The Cockpit
16 November – New York (NY), Bowery Ballroom (18+)
17 November – Brooklyn (NY), Music Hall Of Williamsburg (18+)
18 November – Philadelphia (PA), Union Transfer (16+)
19 November – Washington DC, Black Cat (16+)
24 November – Tokyo, Unit Daikanyama
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BUY TICKETS

It is our great pleasure to gift you BY YOUR HAND, the opening track from our forthcoming full-length, Hello Sadness. Just click on the artwork above and it shall be yours.

And we done gone made a video for the track too.

We’re also incredibly happy to announce some new UK/US/JPN tourdates, which will see us play the songs of Hello Sadness live, for the first time. Unless states otherwise, these shows are all ages.

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7 November – London, Kings College
8 November – Brighton, The Haunt
9 November – Cardiff, The Globe (16+)
10 November – Glasgow, Oran Mor
11 November – Leeds, The Cockpit
16 November – New York (NY), Bowery Ballroom (18+)
17 November – Brooklyn (NY), Music Hall Of Williamsburg (18+)
18 November – Philadelphia (PA), Union Transfer (16+)
19 November – Washington DC, Black Cat (16+)
24 November – Tokyo, Unit Daikanyama
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Tickets for these shows are available direct from us, for cheaper than the usual ticket outlets, on sale from 2pm on Thursday 8 September. Just head over to our gigs page.

Conceived in Girona, Spain earlier this year, under the watchful eye of producer John Goodmanson, Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process.

By Your Hand
Songs About Your Girlfriend
Hello Sadness
Life Is A Long Time
Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)
Hate For The Island
The Black Bird, The Dark Slope
To Tundra
Baby I Got The Death Rattle
Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. II

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As an incentive for you to get in early and pre-order your copy, we’ve put together what we consider to be a pretttttty impressive pre-order bundle, only available direct from Los Campesinos! and for a limited time. This includes:

Click below to PRE-ORDER