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tuesday 1st july 2008 exciting updates coming... we're nearing the end of recoding our first album!! ready to start mixing, so at the end of this month it'll all be complete.. release date will be in the new year, but with a couple singles coming out before. the first is out soon on 4AD (our new home since Too Pure and 4AD combined last month) the A side is Work Day and the b side a new tune called 'Take Apart'. Have just uploaded Work Day to our myspace page. hope you enjoy listening. we filmed a video for it last week which was lots of fun, haven't seen the outcome just yet but think it's going to be a good one. it does involve us as puppets.

 

monday 9th june 2008 gig in bristol this coming sunday, 15th june, at the Thekla.. a really nice venue on the river. we'll be on in the afteroon on the main stage area inside the boat, on around 4 or 5 i think. all the inforomation is on the flyer below.. thanks, matt

 

 

thursday 1st may 2008 happy to say we've just comfirmed to be playing the bbc introducing stage at radio 1's big weekend festival in mote park, maidstone, kent on saturday may 10th. we'll also be playing a free gig in masidstone at the loft in the week leading up to this on the 6th may.

tomorrow, we're excited as wer'e going back to maida vale to record a new session for rob da bank, it'll go out on his show late on sunday 18th may.his show is great, always worth a listen.

 

sunday 20th april 2008 bit of bad news, next sunday's gig at the islington bar academy (supporting charlotte hatherly) has been cancelled. sorry for any inconvenience - hope to see you in may at madame jojo's, in soho!

 

wednesday 9th april 2008 the session recorded for jon kenedy at xfm went out on his show last night, 8th april between 10pm and 1am. we only found out at the last minute and were at the venue to play a gig so could update this sooner, sorry. email him here: john.kennedy@xfm.co.uk and ask to hear it again if you missed it (or if you didn't miss, but feel like hearing more, we'd still be very grateful!) we managed to catch the last two tracks in the van on the way home!

 

friday 21st march 2008 anyone who came the tunbridge wells gig last night and missed us becuase we played first please email if there's ever another gig you'd like to come to and we'll make sure you can get in on the guest list for free. we're sorry, definitely not our choice to play first! email: ithugsback@ithugsback.co.uk

 

tuesday 11th march 2008 both sides of the new single, 'other cars go' and 'little steps' are now up on the bands myspace page to listen to: www.myspace.com/ithugsback

 

monday 18th february 2008 available to order in our shop now... a extremely limited hand made set of our first four singles, our fourth single & the cd e.p gathering all singles together.. roll up roll up :-)

 

saturday 16th february 2008 it's been a while! first, two exciting things, we have a new single coming out in march. its called 'other cars go' and its my favourite so far.. long and noisey and different from the others, i think! also coming out is a cd of both sides of all four limited edition 7" singles so far, all tracks remastered at abbey road and sounding great, that'll be available in the next month.

for past couple of weeks we've been working hard on the first part of recording for the album, it's starting to come together which is exciting.. we've off to the south of france next week to finnish the first few tracks.. when we get back we're playing some shows with monade, then start a run of gigs in our home county of kent before a uk tour with Lowgold... have just put the dates upon the gigs page, hope you can make it to one! matt

 

wednesday 23rd january 2008 we're playing in london tomorrow night at the water rats in kings cross, should be fun. we're onstage about 8pm, also playing are Banjo or Freakout, School Of Language and Wild Beasts. We're excited to say that we're supporting Monade at the Borderline in London at the end of next month, just before a new single comes out.

 

monday 6th january 2008 bad news today. we're very sad to say our gig supporting Monade in Paris has been cancelled today. we still hope to get to Paris and hopefully other parts of Europe before summer.

 

friday 4th january 2008 happy new year! just couple of quick updates, new london gig at the water rats in january, and a flyer below for our first trip to sheffield which we are very much looking forward to! lastly, an interview with us can also be found on Fake D.I.Y.

 

tuesday 11th december 2007 our new single is out now!

a side: early evening
b side: saving

limited to 500 7" vinyl copies and out now! number 3 of the Too Pure Singles Club.
Available to buy from our online shop now for £4 (inc. postage & packing)

 

 

thursday 7th december 2007 two gigs in london next week, the last ones of the year i'd guess, first is on wednesday 12th supporting Miracle Fortress at The Metro. The second is on Friday the 14th & here's all the informaion:

Date: 14th December 2007
Venue: The Fly
Address: 36-38 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1EP
Doors: 8pm – 2am / Cost: £7

ALL MONEY RAISED GOES TO THE ANTI-TRAFFICKING ALLIANCE
- TACKLING SEX TRAFFICKING, SUPPORTING ITS SURVIVORS -

Line-up: Charlotte Hatherley, Adrian Sherwood, Dot Allison, It Hugs Back, Freddie Stevenson
DJs: Alex Paterson (The Orb), Electrelane, Anjali, The Early Years, Sinqueso Sisters, The Broken Hearts

tickets can be bought here: http://www.barflyclub.com/theflylondon/whatson/event/13662.aspx

 

 

monday 3rd december 2007 we're onstage at 7.30pm tomorrow so please come early!! should be a fun one, rehearsal was good today. its good waking up to a chocolate in the mornings isn't it?

 

friday 23rd november 2007 new london gig comfirmed, supporting The Good Life, from Omaha, Nebraska and on Saddlecreek record at the Borderline on Tuesday 4th December. we'll be onstage early!

 

friday 16th november 2007 we're off on tour tomorrow for a week! exciting stuff, i'm sure i'll write too much about it when we return.. here's our new tour wagon. currently called bertie or earnie. whichever you prefer. have good week and hope to see you out and about if we're coming near you, matt

wave if you see this coming

 

 

monday 12th november 2007 yesterday was good!! i hadn't been back to birmingham for ages, it was good to see it again, i surprised at how much i could remember. here's some pictures!

this was the view from right outsite the venue...

 

this was the venue!

 

this was on the other side of the shopping centre next to the venue

 

this is dimitri, paul & jack looking miserable. the said they did enjoy it. honestly.

 

here's jack & my nice danelectro. & the annoyingly low lamp shade i kept hitting my head on.

 

& the there's jack at the spaceship.

 

 

saturday 10th november 2007 tomorrow we're in birmingham, not only is it free, it's also dimitri's birthday!!! doors open at 7.30pm, we're onstage at 10.30pm at the yardbird, which is rght here: Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HJ

we also have some our first ever it hugs back tshirts being made, there's not going to be very many and we're taking them away with us on tour so if you'd definitely like let me know before we head off next week! i'll put up some better pictures once we have the actual shirts here! all can be found in our shop! perfect for christmas stocking fillers i've heard. hope you're having good weekend. matt

p.s. does anyone have a van they'd like to sell us?

 

 

wednesday 31st october 2007 happy halloween! good news, we're off on tour around the release of our new single.. these are the dates so far, london date is still to be confirmed, going to be good!

sunday 11th november at the yardbird, birmingham (headline show - free entry!)

sunday 18th november at oran mor in glasgow, scotland (supporting New Pornographers)

monday 19th november at the faversham in leeds (supporting New Pornographers)

tuesday 20th november at the academy 3 in manchester (supporting New Pornographers)

wednesday 21st november at trinity in bristol (supporting New Pornographers)

thursday 22nd november at the thekla, bristol (supporting Scout Niblett)

sunday 25th november at zodiac @ the academy, oxford (supporting Scout NIblett)

 

friday 19th october 2007 new gig next week if you're in london, we're supporting new york's 'vampire weekend'.. i'm yet to hear them so can't say to much but it's at the borderline which is quite a nice place, next to foyles on charing cross road. we're on at 8.30 and doors open at 7pm... got to be better than last nights london show!! have good weekend, matt

 

friday 12th october 2007 few things to read if you have some spare time.. one recent interview here at rockbeatstone webzine, with some good questions too! one older one is here at playlouder. have updated the 'Carefully' single page with a few more reviews that have come in, let us know if you spot others!

hope you have good weekend, matt

 

thursday 11th october 2007 News of our third single and first for Too Pure can be found on the music page... the a side is also available to listen to now at our myspace page. it'll be out just before christmas!

Couple other small bits of news, there a few new interviews that'll upload later and in the last Too Pure podcast (episode 8) there a nice live acoustic version of latest single 'Carefully' recorded in their office last month, the monthly podcasts have been really good, recommend listening anyway!

Few new gigs about too, next is in London at the Metro on the 18th october.. Doors at 8pm and entry is £5, its right next to tottenham court road station

See you about soon, matt

 

monday 8th october 2007 Fear Of Theydon's 12" remix EP featuring a nice reworking of our song 'Soft Spot' was released today on Sunday Best. its available to buy in all good record shops and from the record labels website for £4.99, right here >> Sunday Best Shop <<

 

monday 1st october 2007 we're all very excited to say that last wednesday evening we signed to too pure. we're going to begin recording for our first album soon and are too excited to explain!

 

monday 17th september 2007 its been a busy week! but definitely a fun one. thursday's Too Pure Singles Club launch in london was one of the most fun gigs in a while... the sound was clear on stage, we played a noisey new song and it felt like the people there wanted to listen! Vera November's set was really great and i recommend you have a listen!

After two hours sleep, we set off across the country to play at the end of the road festival in devon. Also playing on the friday were Yo La Tengo and Scout Niblett, two bands who we all like a huge amount yet none of us had seen live... both were really fantastic. We stayed for the rest of the weekend, saturday was a little dissapointing to me, i enjoyed the bees, was left a little bored by the super furry animals, the concretes were not what i remember,think the loss of there original singer might have had a really bad effect and i enjoyed my sad captains who i'd known about for a while but had yet to see. Sunday was better, jeffrey lewis sounded good, although i had a someone pass out and fall right on to me half way through his set, i didn't like that much. Jonny flynn sounded good too, and howe gelb started sketchy and ended brilliantly! two weekends in a row of camping is just about enough for me for sometime i think, i definitely prefer a matress for a bed. or maybe just being inside whilst asleep!

i hope you've been enjoying our single if you've picked up a copy, we still have some here with us if you haven't got one yet, all the ordering things are below or just

>> HERE <<

We've been booked for some shows supporting scout niblett in november.. we're getting to go back to bristol again, this time we will make sure we get to last showing at the planetarium on time and back to oxford, this time playing somewhere othere than the port mahon. very excited about both! her new album is out soon and its fantastic, as to be expected! here are some pictures i took (expect for the ones we're playing in!) from our travels..

 

 

monday 10th september 2007 Our 2nd Single is released today!!!! here's all the information, there are only 500 copies of the 7" so be quick, we dont have too many left already...

A Side: Carefully / B Side: Sometimes The Sun

Released 10/09/07 / Safe & Sound Records / Distributed by Vital

Limited Edition 500 hand numbered 7" Vinyl & Digital Download

Receive a Free MP3 Download of both songs and 'it hugs back' badge when purchased through this site

(if you dont have a paypal account, email: ithugsback@ithugsback.co.uk to order your 7" single, alternative payment methods can be arranged)

Also available in all good record shops up and down the country!

 

 

tuesday 28th august 2007 today we went to abbey road to master our third single, it was an amazing and slightly surreal experience.. jack split tea all over the place and time seemed to move faster than anywhere else but it was great! here are a few pictures...

 

 

 

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