Download our Christmas EP!!!

Hi everyone,

It’s been two years since the release of our self-titled first album and now we are getting ready to release our second!


Since the first album came out, we've been cooped up in rehearsal studios and crammed in each others’ living rooms, trying to mould the perfect follow up. The introduction of new drummer Dave Wade Brown in 2009 meant we had to find our musical feet again and really think about how we wanted it to sound.

We spent last year travelling to and from Halifax to work with producer Richard Mcnamara and now with all the other elements in place in 2011 we can finally release it. Yeehah! We consider this album as a fresh start. Whilst still retaining the poppy vibe of the first album, the second lends itself to something more melancholic and contemplative.


There will be a single early next year, and plenty more to follow after that, but in the mean time we’ve made you a Christmas present! We trotted off to Real World Studios in Bath last week and came back with three brand new tracks (separate to the album) to make up a special free download Christmas EP we have entitled "Birdsong", and it's out now!


To get it, all you have to do is head to our web site (link to www.thomastantrum.co.uk) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Tantrum) and sign up to our mailing list.


Everyone who does that gets the EP as a free download. The first 50 people to sign up to the mailing list will also get sent the EP on CD, as well as a Christmas card signed by us all. The second 50 will be sent the signed Christmas card.


We hope you enjoy the tracks! Have a great Christmas and we’ll see you all soon

Thomas Tantrum x

Macha Jewellery competition

Hello everyone,

I was asked to pick the names out of a hat for the Macha Jewellery Competition winner!



and the winner was Mary Tafuri all the way from Washington! congratulations Mary!

I adore Macha Jewellery, the necklace i'm wearing in the photo is my absolute fave and it's called the nico necklace

http://www.machajewelry.com/fine-jewellery/fine-jewelry/nico-necklace?vmcchk=1

I also got sent a free necklace in the post as a prezzie yipeee!

merry christmas everyone (nearly)

mega xxx

yo. so, it's day 3 at real world studios and we're finishing the last song (birdsong) now; got tomorrow morning to put on the finishing touches and make it sound lovely. we put down 'face the music' on monday, and 'the beauty contest/lonely eyes' yesterday. these tunes are gona make up the tracklisting of the free christmas card ep we've been talking about, which is available soon.










photos (c) dave wade brown [1,2,4] and Megan Thomas [3]

happy sunday. we're going to real world studios (http://www.realworldstudios.com/Recording_Studios) tomorrow to record the christmas ep. looks amazing. we'll keep you posted on how it unfolds... x

i took some pictures in the snow today when i went out to buy some cigarettes. a posted a few below this; blogger was being a pain so i couldn't put everything up.
here are some of them (next two posts) anyways.....

photos (c) dave wade brown

photos (c) dave wade brown

photos (c) dave wade brown

Christmas E.P.

help pick our christmas e.p. cover, please. in late december, we're gona do a limited physical release of 3 or 4 tracks and we need artwork.... xxx

photos (c) dave wade brown

we're doing the artwork for our christmas ep tonight. might have to ask you to make a decision for us....watch out for cover ideas in a short while....

co-existential ....feat megan (clip) by dj nitrus

co-existential ....feat megan (clip) by dj nitrus

ThomasTantrum: "The Hot Hot Summer"

ThomasTantrum: "The Last Kiss"

Oxjam gig and onwards

hi everyone (all five followers)
things are going to kick off for us pretty soon we have a plan of action and it looks like we're going to be releasing a christmas ep (which we haven't recorded yet) but a protools rig is on the way to us and then we can experiment with demos and post music on here on a more regular basis!
after the christmas ep we will be releasing our first single in aaages which is called 'Sleep' and then another single in line with the album release. There's still an awful lot of work for us with artwork etc but it shouldn't take too long i hope.
ANYWAY here are some photos from the show we played the other night. we are rubbish at online promotion we need to get better apparently. so here goes.

































apologies if all of these are halved but i don't know how to do the resize code thing. dearie me.

will write more soon.
megan.

David Bowie

hahahahaha

mega x

Truck Fest, Who's Jack and more tracks on Soundcloud

YES, on Sat 24th July, we will be playing the Barn stage at TruckFest. Which promises to be great once again this year TEENAGE FANCLUB WOOP!

This is a proper festie, no advertisment, no bullshit. Just good old live music and the local Vicar selling homemade ice-cream

Full line up.....http://www.thisistruck.com/truck-festival-lineup.aspx

We are also featured in the latest issue of who's Jack Magazine (who we will be playing a gig for @ Proud Galleries, Camden on 28th July) Check it out here.....

http://www.whosjack.org/issue-38-july-out-now/ (pg 52-55)

And finally a couple of fresh(ish) songs to feast your ears upon. Recorded live in the Manchester BBC studio.

Visit our Soundcloud page at...

http://soundcloud.com/thomas-tantrum/tracks

Fun with a capital 'F'

xxx

Who would win in a fight? An Otter or a Cat?

Cats have more of a vicious streak, so probably the cat. Although the otter would win in the water hands (well, paws) down.

Ask me anything

Can you spend Irish Money in the UK?

Northern Ireland still uses pounds sterling, while southern Ireland has moved to Euros. Northern Irish pounds ARE legal tender in England but you will rarely see them. Although we played a show in Belfast last year then flooded the Hamptons cash till with Irish notes on our return.

Ask me anything

How soon is now?

There is a curious looking fellow over there with gladioli in his back pocket. He may have the answer.

Ask me anything

When are you going to send the Unsigned Show some tracks? :) myspace.com/unsignedshow

There is a free download of our new song 'The Last Kiss' on www.myspace.com/thomastantrum, let us know if you want to hear more

Ask me anything

Have you seen my keys?

They're in the bird feeder.

Ask me anything

formspring.me

Ask me anything http://formspring.me/ThomasTantrum

LONDON SHOWS

Yo, it's been a while since we graced our nation's capital (besides electirc ballroom a few weeks ago, but that was a bit different).

DO YOU DIY PART 2@ The Old Queen's Head, Islington, this coming Monday 31st May.





AND....

The Lexington on June 14th with our friends The Lovely Eggs.

Tickets here.

Xxx

Free download of a song we recorded last year. Check it out at http://soundcloud.com/thomas-tantrum/the-last-kiss

or at myspace. www.myspace.com/thomastantrum

Hopefully more free songs, album previews soon, until then, happy sun time.

BBC Brighton

photos (c) ali marchant. x