Hawky-talk woman,
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P.S. Who wants to jive like it’s 1945?

P.P.S.  Here is a tiny piece of The Guardian with strong eyebrows…

Video by Rob Luckins & Jake Hawkins aka The Red Red. Our thanks to The Search Museum, Gosport, UK and to Matt De Tisi, Lydia Wolfe, Luisa Ricci and Rob McDaid for their kind assistance in making this video. Fine acting courtesy of Justin Randall, Joy Stevenson and Victor Tobutt.

A thousand thanklings too, to absolutely everyone who voted in the Amazing Radio Audition poll (we’re waiting on the final count) and to all who have digitised their opinions in the name of new music; Alphabet Bands, It’s My Kind Of Scene, Slow Show (kiitti!), The Von Pip Express, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side, Musika, Brighton Music Blog, I Found Music, This One’s Different, Just Music I Like and, last but not least, this wonderful post by Breaking More Waves.

Further still/jive-hawking,
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P.S. The track is still available to download for nowt over here.

Looking for deeper meaning in the lyrics of The Buggles,
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P.S. The owls are not what they seem. Look out for them tomorrow…

Presenting our soft musical furnishings, in the form of “Further Still”, which premièred on The 405 today before making an appearance on Electronic Rumors, Hand Clap Movement, Wonky Sensitive and Faded Glamour. Ta fellas. The song is available as a free download below, so help yourself pop pickers…

Further on,
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In the meantime though, you can listen to us on Sentric’s February Music Podcast below (30:33 if you’re lazy), catch a glimpse of our best happy face impersonations on their site or exercise your eyeballs with a couple of articles that we formed in our brains for a nice chap at Session Blogger. For the article about Sleigh Bells, press ’1′. For the rant about sexism in music, press ’2′.

For all other enquiries, please leave a message on the 25th of March, when we’ll be premièring our new track, “Further Still”…

Hawkward,
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P.S. To paraphrase our buddy George Michael, if you’re looking for pastlove…

Additionally, the kind folkers at Hype Machine have featured our “Creatures” on their January playlist, alongside the rather wonderful CHVRCHES & Empress Of. We’re at 16.22 but all of it is golden. Pour into your earholes (serving suggestion)…

Transmission end. For now…

Tug boats-n-harmony,
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P.S. Where’s the nearest Bureau de Change?

It can only mean one thing…Happy January to you and yours! What a fine transition it has been as well. We finished ahead of The xx and Grimes to be XI (that’s eleven by the way) in Hype Machine and Tom Robinson’s delightful unveiling of the most blogged acts in the UK on BBC6Music; our Christmas cover has reached over 12,000 plays on SoundCloud,  plus we owe Azealia Banks an apology too for pinching her It’s My Kind Of Scene crown. Sorry about that. To contribute to this, we also played at being guest editors for Right Chord Music, picking some of the finest tunes from 2012, including tracks by Us Baby Bear Bones and Trust. Ah, we remember it like it was yesterday…

Ultimately though, it’s about when a man and woman love each other very…erm, or maybe some new songs, yes? Fret not chumlings, they’re on their way…

Configuring strategically placed trumpets,
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P.S. We are still looking for a private taxidermy collection. Dial ‘F’ for Facebook if you can help…

Romanticised supermarket advertisements promise gilded, glistening turkey-scapes of wonder. Angry brigades cry out in tinsel-covered furore over stolen indie classics being re-contextualised for the festive season. A whole pack of mince pies gets consumed during the John Lewis advert and effs are sent out into the ether for making us into a blubsome, sentimental shipwreck.

Let’s simplify things and go back to 1944. Taken from the musical Meet Me in St. Louis, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is sung by Judy Garland’s character to her distressed younger sister upon learning that their family may be forced to move out of their home. A performance by Garland to World War II troops followed, moving many to tears.

So, here’s our take on this popular yuletide chanson, complete with heated Coronation Street samples…

Thankyules also to all the folks who have come along to our live offerings this year and to those lovely chums who have featured our music on their blogs, helping us to be one of the 15 acts of “The Blog Sound of 2013 poll” long list. Fancy. Speaking of which, have a read of these festive scribblings from Brighton Source, It’s My Kind Of Scene, Breaking More Waves, Brighton Music Blog, The DaDaDa, Music Broke My Bones, New Statesman and The Von Pip Express - and of course, have yourself a merry little Christmas now…

Onward,
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Available exclusively from Southsea’s own fantastical pie and music hub, Pie & Vinyl. No purple, spandex or gold symbols in sight though, just glorious plastic wheels of sound, avec buildings from the local area. They are £10 each. That also gets you a signature and a lovely Curxes stamp on the reverse. Spiffing.

Elsewhere, we have been pleased to receive some wheely (groan) nice comments about our recent animated video for “Spectre”. Step forward Artrocker, Breaking More Waves, Deer Brains, Faded Glamour, wizards of Aus It’s My Kind Of Scene, Strong Island and Pompey Pop. We digitally salute you/kiss your faces through the Internet. Not only that, but we’ll be joining Mute’s own treasure Polly Scattergood on her Portsmouth and Brighton dates. More info here or go yonder for tickets.

Righto, back to recording that Christmas song…

Decking the halls with static,
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