Lots of shows coming up

So we had a nice month off there but are back in business this month with a whole bunch of goings on such as:

17th Feb - Academy, Dublin w/British Sea Power
17th Feb - Whelans, Dublin w/Sea Pinks
18th Feb - Spring & Airbrake, Belfast w/ British Sea Power
19th Feb - Ulster Hall, Belfast  w/ Sleigh Bells, Ghost Poet
26th Feb - No Being Weird @ The Victory, London w/Let's Wrestle, Proper Ornaments
27th Feb - Popfest@ The Lexington, London w/14 Iced Bears
4th March - White Light @ The Lexington, London w/Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Standard Fare
21st May - The Menagerie, Belfast w/Chain and the Gang


Plus a couple more to be confirmed also, watch this space...

BBC Radio1 introducing session

If you live in England or northern Ireland, tune into radio1 introducing with rory mcconnell tonight (sunday) from midnight to listen to an interview and live session we recorded with tracks from our forthcoming debut lp which will be out in April.

And a cover a very special song...

SLR130/TLV042 release party

THE MENAGERIE
UNIVERISTY ST
BELFAST
FRIDAY 17 DEC 2010

GIRLS NAMES
CHARLES HURTS
(www.soundcloud.com/charleshurts)
DJ JOHNNY CARBERRY (Dirty Talk club)
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dirty-Talk-Club/122226294503058)

Doors 9pm/£4

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/
http://toughloverecords.com

****We will have a small number of records to sell so come down early to purchase your copy. Only 600 were pressed and is almost sold out****

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185157591498168

Just been added to the bill...

The Wedding Present
So Cow
Girls Names

Sunday Nov 28 2010
Stiff Kitten, Belfast
9pm/ £15

SLR130

out this week
http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/156

New Single, "I Lose"

Girls Names - "I Lose" by Tough Love

Proud to announce our new single, "I lose" which is to be released as a split 7" with the awesome Brilliant Colors taking on the flip with their track, "You Win". Get it?

This is a co-release with Slumberland in the US and Tough Love in the UK and will also feature on our debut LP out early next year.

All info right here.

London Again

We're off to London for a long weekend. Haven't been since May, so if you're about town pop down to the shows. Really looking forward to seeing the bands we're playing with and also seeing Blank Dogs on Saturday and Naked On the Vague/Grass Widow/Wetdog on Sunday! Beats a wet weekend in Belfast. x

Imprint this on your mind

Want to hear some new songs from a our forthcoming LP? Well then get a listen to a live session we recorded with Simon Mateer at MFR Studios for Imprint this on Your Mind, a local podcast based here in Belfast. By the way the LP will be out through Slumberland(US) and Tough Love(UK) in the new year. News on a very special split 7" to come trés soon.

Check out the Podcast here.

Young & Research

Our UK Label Tough Love has released a free 15 tracklabel sampler which features a live session version of our Julee Cruise song, Falling (above). Also included are Sea Pinks, Weird Dreams, Cymbals and Prize Pets to name but a great few. Download it at Tough Love's bandcamp now.

Sea Pinks out now!

Hey Neil here, some of you might like to know I have another project called Sea Pinks and that I've just put out a tape/download album on Cass/Flick which you might like to buy and listen to. Or maybe not. Either is ok with me X

New La La Vasquez

Our old tour buddies La La Vasquez have 3 new songs on their myspace from their upcoming 7", soon to be released on the consistently great Sex is Disgusting label. 'Kill' and 'Williamsburg' were always my live favourites so it's great to hear them finally committed to tape, literally. Kudos to Henry from Lovvers for working the mix-magic in his studio.

Making the Magic

Claire took some photos of us mixing the LP the other week. I suppose we'll have to break some news soon...

S>F>S>G>S>

Take a flip over to our fellow Captured Tracks Alumni chums Silk Flower's blog to see some cool pics of their latest visit to our Irish shores. As can be seen a fun packed weekend was had by all, featuring Sea Glass collecting in Dublin (see pic above), Joe Greene's cat - Kitty Twist, Patrick Kelleher, Peter and Jamie Wolves, the normally unstoppable super human party force that is Mark Reid finally succumbing to 2 nights without sleep, Kerry and Ali B, John Maus Graffiti (Oh Yeah!), the invention of Pass the Rock and myself hung over trying to hold down the worst veggie fry i've ever eaten. They insisted on going to Maggie Mays, please take note that i highly recommend not going there!

Falling (Twin Peaks Theme)

Live rehearsal video by Chris Chris Scherer of Falling by Julee Cruise. We recorded a live session of this today with Simon Mateer at MFR Studios, Belfast. More on that soon.

Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) by Girls Names from claire miskimmin on Vimeo.

Felt Corner and The Make Up Manifestation

How cool is this? Dragon Records, Belfast's newest rekkid shop not only stocks the best records in town (including some of our last copies of our Captured Tracks EP) but has probably the coolest wall display ever. That's right, a 10 albums in 10 years Felt sleeve wall. Not only that, there's also a pretty cool The Make Up wall as well with rare posters, one of which came direct from K records a few weeks back to complete the collection. Rumours of Lawrence and Ian Svenonious flying in to officially open their respected altars have not yet been confirmed... or denied!Good excuse for some videos then.

Black Tambourine Mix

On Friday past Black Tambourine curated a special mix for BBC6 Music's Tom Ravenscroft and amazingly included Girls Names, which can be heard here.

The mix starts at: 1:44:30. The tracklisting:
1. Girls Names- Don't Let Me In
2. The Mayfair Set- I've Been Watching You
3. I Was A King- Norman Bleik
4. B.C. Camplight- Couldn't You Tell
...5. David Bowie- Kooks
6. The Clientele- I Wonder Who We Are
7. Richard Hawley- Hotel Room

Now that's a bit far out...

Hopefully some photos up from our show with Calvin Johnson up soon!

Saturday , Just a reminder

Doing It for The Kids

Shooting Stars

Yes!!! It's back on the Beeb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t3yfy/Shooting_Stars_Series_7_Episode_1/

And who could forget Christmas with EC? Very wise words from a very wise pop singer...

Brothel Creepers

Have a look at this performance on The Knocking Shop of Lawrence which we recorded one hung over Sunday morning in May at The Stag's Head bar in Dalston, London. This was probably the hottest little room in the world. Nathan Barley meets the Young Ones i suppose.

This track will be on our LP which is to be released on ??????????? Records before the year's out. All will be revealed soon!

THE KNOCKING SHOP EPISODE 2 PART 3 from the knocking shop on Vimeo.