10/04/08 Don’t Get Lost or Hurt’ is finally complete and
in the hands of the manufacturing planet out in France. Here’s
a sneak peak at the cover:
The tracklisting
is confirmed as:
1. So Young
So Beautiful
2. Plough Through
3. Happy Lovers / Friends Forever
4. It’s Time to Wake Up
5. Maybe You Could Save Me
6. The Unpopular Future
7. Good Times
8. Hole In The Sky
In tour news, I’m
heading out for a couple of shows with my good friends Los Campesinos
and Lovvers at the Tunbridge Wells Forum, as well as
shows at club NME Luton and the Boring By The
Sea Festival with Good Shoes and Lightspeed Champion. Make
sure to check www.myspace.com/lonelyghosts
for the latest tour dates.
Love,
Lonely Ghosts x
26/03/08
At the
beginning of May i undertook a small tour. for this i put together
an all new lonely ghosts live line up featuring Leesey (from HSCS),
Laura (Transfere Project / The Humanity) and Luke (Hey There Kizuki
/ ex-Not Katies). The plan was to learn the songs, jump in a
car and head off to see what happened. It was pretty rad fun.
The first gig was
a bit of a warm up at the Windmill in Brixton. It was
good for the first show but I think there were nerves all round. It
was all a bit eeek! but we got through it in one piece.
Gay Against You and Munch
Munch... both great bands and lovely people. Because the show had been
cancelled earlier Luke had made plans to look at wedding venues and
so couldn’t come which meant i had to play the bass. This was
a nice change for me. The sound guy was really stoned but the sound
was pretty boombing. We ate at pizza king and i doubt his royal heritage.
It was a really fun show. I drank a ton of coffee on the drive home...
this coffee consumtion will continue over the next few days resulting
in caffeen hangovers every morning. Gross.
Luke is back in
action the next day and we go to Maidstone. The gig is at the arts uni
(at least i think thats what it was) and we have quite possably the
worst sound ever in the history of sound. All backing tracks
came out of the PA in white noise form. The gig was also in
a dark canteen. Despite all of this the show was really fun as we played
on the floor and had loads of room to do whatever we wanted. I hadn’t
noticed at the other gigs Lauras amazing shape throwing but tonight
i got the full force of it. She becomes my new guitar hero. A drunk
dude with white-boy-dreadlocks has an ironic dance. I stare him out
until he leaves. Later we see him projectile vomiting outside the building...
good stuff. Also good was Pseudo Nippon who played a rad set.
Friday
is another show with Gay Against You, this time in Weymouth.
This seemed like an odd town to play as everyone i spoke to would say
’why are you playing weymouth?’. BUT, it was actually really
cool. Nice venue, good line up, nice people. On the way to the gig we
discover so many wonderful things from Lukes pop punk past... play shows
with Good Charlotte? YES!
We set up on the floor again
and have to belt through the set as things are running late. We get
5 songs in and it was a banger. Go Weymouth!
Gay Against You are fantastic tonight and manage to undress the audience,
throw fake snow at them and get people wriggeling around on the floor.
Now that’s a show!
doom claw w/ giant
cardboard egg
We go for
a trip to the sea in Southampton. It’s all very wholsome.
biker biker biker
biker biker grove
Every time
we get in the car on this tour it starts to rain. This happens
big time on the way to Birmingham. It’s super shitty. We play
the Sunflower Lounge which is a really cool little venue. The 2 other
bands are actually solo performers and it’s all pretty and nice
and i get the fear about playing loud tunes and going down like a lead
balloon. Thankfully it goes down good and by the end of the show we
are on the floor dancing in peoples faces. So much fun... driving back
to Brighton in the rain wasn’t as much fun. COFFEE!!!
The last
gig is supporting Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in Brighton which
is rather exciting. After doing shows with little or no stage
and playing on the floor it’s very strange being so high up above
the crowd. But it is good. Leesey, Laure and Luke bust out shirts saying
’Denneys Girls’ on the back. It’s all very
tasteful.
Videos
of the Brighton show:
March:
Happy Lovers /
Friends Forever:
Thanks to everyone who saw
us play.
Love,
Lonely Ghosts x
02/03/08
One
Inch Badge Records are incredibly proud to announce the release of Lonely
Ghosts debut mini-album ‘Don’t Get Lost or Hurt’.
Since Tom first stumbled bleary eyed out of his bedroom studio with
a CD of demos in 2006 we’ve watch him grow into the avant-pop
behemoth that he is today.
Having
toured all over the world with Help She Can’t Swim, Tom
is focused upon emulating his success with Lonely Ghosts.
With tours being planned throughout the UK for March and May, as well
as a tour of the United States and his debut full-length release already
in the can for release before the end of the year, Lonely Ghosts are
setting course for an incredibly active year ahead and we’re
all exceptionally proud to be involved with such a phenomenal talent.
This page is set
to become the blog homefor Lonely
Ghosts where in the following months leading up to the release of his
record Tom will be keeping you all informed about the progress
of his recordings, shows, tours, comic book and record collecting and
anything else that he cares to ramble about.
Here are a few
quick snaps we took of Tom in the studio in Southampton
with Justin Callaway, The Tumbledown Estate
and Leesey from Help She Can’t Swim:
Leesey Help She
Cant Swim and Lonely Ghosts in the Studio
Lonely Ghosts Leesey
Help She Cant Swim and Studio Jack
