Thomas Tantrum

Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole (Martha Wainwright cover)

2011-06-02T12:12:00.001-07:00

I used to busk this song on Winchester High Street and people used to walk past and be appauled at my potty mouth. OH WELL.

Only Human on keyboard - early morning hums

2011-06-01T05:02:00.000-07:00

very scratchy and i look like the village scruff? yep 10 points! BOOM

x

Adele the most powerful woman in music??? hmm

2011-05-27T00:33:00.000-07:00

the fact that Adele has apparently "rewritten the music rule book this year with the stratospheric success of her second album . . In an industry that increasingly struggles to sell its physical product" leads me to believe that it's the particular audience that Adele attracts that has made the difference.
No offence to Adele, I really do like her voice and her songs but I think the agegroup she attracts might largely consist of the 40+ bracket, and these people come from a generation where they aren't as confident with torrent sites and illegal downloading and when there is a song they like on the radio - they actually go to a shop and buy it! shock horror!! I know a lot of mum's and grannies who like Adele and enjoy listening to her in their car's and at Sunday BBQ's! My thoughts aren't based on fact, just on opinion which is based on personal experience.

Also, the fact that she has so much money behind her means that there are probably a whole roomful of monkeys dedicated to shutting down any illegal leaks they see cropping up 24 hours a day. Now I can't say this for sure because I don't know anything about torrent sites and quite frankly the evil viruses scare me off. This is just what I thought when I read the

The 2011 Guardian Music Power 100

this morning. ho hum pedigree chum. tata for now x

It's Like Drums - Lyrics

2011-05-14T05:35:00.000-07:00

Alex Dale asked me to post these lyrics up so here they are. megan x

You're like drums, you keep the timing
I hear them beat, when you're breathing
You know sums like the back of my hand
So tall in your boots, when you're standing there

You're my drum, you're my drum

You're my drum, I hear drums, you're like drums, I hear drums
You're like drums, I hear drums, you're like drums, I hear drums

When I'm close to your body,
I hear them beat when you're breathing,
What you hiding in that hair?
You're like drums, you keep my timing

You're my drum, I hear drums, you're like drums, I hear drums
You're like drums, I hear drums, you're like drums, I hear drums

Oh mon cher, tu es mon tout
mon couer bat pour toi
sans toi, je suis perdu
moi et vous en rouge et bleu

You're my drum, I hear drums, you're like drums, I hear drums
You're like drums, I hear drums, you're like drums, I hear drums

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2011-05-08T08:54:00.001-07:00

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2011-05-08T08:53:00.003-07:00

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2011-05-08T08:53:00.001-07:00

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Whiteboard Music Interview!

2011-05-08T03:46:00.000-07:00

Interview : Thomas Tantrum

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The latest Whiteboard Project feature is dedicated to Thomas Tantrum. The project met up with Megan and Dave (x2) in Hoxton Square for a beer whilst they got busy with the pen and board for one of our best photo-based interviews yet.

If you have somehow been trapped under a rock somewhere quiet for the last few years, Thomas Tantrum, a Southampton-based 4-some, combine, as their name suggests, some top notch contrasting cute-to-angry indie-pop. With a sophomore record on the horizons we cut to the Q’s they won’t be getting asked in the following weeks.

To accompany your quick-read, do listen to their latest offering ‘Sleep.’

Now onto the interview ….

1. To warm-up… Please draw what you’re best at drawing.

2. So how has the music industry been treating you?

3. What would you say has been the best thing to happen to Thomas Tantrum yet?

4. Can you draw & label a pie chart for me, labeling what goes into making Thomas Tantrum music?

5. Pick the ideal film and moment for a Thomas Tantrum song.

6. What record do you recommend readers buy?

7. Thomas Tantrum in 5 years?

8. The whiteboard is your advertisement tool. Please please promote yourself here.

9. And lastly … A message fan your fans?

free indie demos cd with every purchased album from a record store!

2011-04-28T11:02:00.000-07:00

DIY » News » Thomas Tantrum » Posted 28th April 2011, 3:45pm

Thomas Tantrum To Support Independents With Forthcoming Release

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Independent record store shoppers will be rewarded with bonus material

Posted 28th April 2011, 3:45pm in News, Thomas Tantrum | By DIY News Desk

Speaking in an interview with DIY yesterday, Thomas Tantrum revealed their plans to support independent record stores through the release of their forthcoming album.

The record, which is due out in June, will come accompanied with bonus material when bought in independent shops.

Drummer Dave Wade Brown said of the project, "We're mainly getting singles and b-sides together, and just loads of extra stuff like bonus tracks for the Japanese release and iTunes. It will be finished pretty soon though because you've got to hand all of the stuff over weeks and weeks in advance. "

He continued, "We're doing this bonus CD for indie record stores so if you go and buy the physical release from an independent you get one. We haven't decided how many tracks yet and we've got about three weeks to do that. So hopefully we can write some new stuff and do some alternative versions. If people go and buy that, they'll get basically a double album."

Frontwoman Megan Thomas says that the new material is a little different to their debut, "Our second album is quite different to our first album. The first album's like, "yeah, here we are, we're really poppy" but the second one's a bit more melodic and a bit more dream-pop melodic-escape."

The band are getting ready to tour with Glasvegas for the second time but are unphased by the differences in their sounds, with Megan saying,"it's nice to have a bit of variety".

Bassist Jim Shivers continues, "You do get a couple of lads that heckle out but overall, it's surprisingly ok."

You can catch Thomas Tatrum playing with Glasvegas next week:

MAY
03 MANCHESTER, Academy
04 CARDIFF, University
06 BOURNEMOUTH, O2 Academy

yes 'tis true. We are giving away a free cd full of demos we have written in the past couple of years. some are pretty darned scratchy, others could pass for album quality. We don't have a tracklisting yet but will let you know soonly. getting really excited about releasing dodgy recordings of songs for some reason.

who is coming to see us on tour eh?!

get yourself some tickets we're gonna be shit hot xxx

Band Of Skulls Sleep Remix

2011-04-12T06:51:00.000-07:00

Check out the wicked remix Band of Skulls did for our song Sleep

super cool.
I hear they are in the studio recording their second album now so keep your eyes and ears peeled for their next offering!
Things are pretty slow in sleepy southampton but the sun is out and there's a lot to be done in preparation for the album.
We're currently thinking about the music video for our second single "Hot Hot Summer" which is due out in June. It's a bit of a cliche that it's called hot hot summer and it's out in the summer. but it wasn't intentional, and the song is actually about the winter. bit confusing i know.
We will also be announcing some last minute shows over the next week or so. we also have a 2/3 week tour in june i'm not sure if it's been announced yet or not.
anyway, till next time chaps

x

Sleep B- Sides!

2011-04-07T13:52:00.000-07:00

It's like Drum's is my secret favourite song

x

irrational fear of pick 'n' mix

2011-04-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

So I had a freaky dream the other night that i was stuck in Woolworths with lots of pick 'n' mix chasing after me and demanding that I eat all of them before I can leave.
This has been haunting me ever since and now I was in the WHSMiths the other day bulk buying some biro's in and what should I come across but a whole row of the horrid little sweetie things. I couldn't even bring myself to buy the biros after that. as a result now I can't find any pens to write with. bastard little pick 'n' mix.
hopefully this fear will subside along with my fear of lifts, injections, slugs and anteaters.
I might write all my dreams up here actually. I always start writing a dream book but then loose it and have to start another.
megan x

favourite youtube video at the moment?

2011-03-31T06:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fznO7oJr3Hc david miatt hitting himself in the head with his own guitar at 4.54

Play

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Bulgaria, new york, band biog

2011-03-31T04:53:00.000-07:00

we haven't been very proactive on the old band blog because we've been all over the shop. The boys have been in Bulgaria helping our good friend Joe Parker record his new album (which is going to be amazing) and i've been in new york just wandering round checking out the sites and i LOVED IT. i think i might move there when i grow up/get rich. people are so happy there and just rap at ya as you're walking down the street. and i got called a "home girl" a few times. I like being a home girl but i'm not entirely sure what it means? Does it mean you stay at home if you're a girl? or does it mean they like me and want to take me to their home to be their girl? well whatever it means I'm glad that I am one. I think. gonna post some photos up in a bit and I think Wade will be posting some of his amazing photos of bulgaria up too.

Anyway I wanted to let you know that we have a brand new band biog to accompany our brand spanking new album and you can read it here

http://www.thomastantrum.co.uk/2011/03/30/read-our-new-biog/

it might be a bit premature because you haven't heard the album yet but it kind of explains the story of how the album came about/was written.
see ya soon ma homies (in an american accent)

megan x

Megan will be on Jon Holmes' 6Music show this Saturday evening

2011-03-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

Megan will be on Jon Holmes' 6Music show this Saturday evening!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/jon-holmes/biography/

New RAC remix and other stuff

2011-03-18T06:37:00.000-07:00

hiyarrr

so we received a new remix for "sleep" today and it's up here now and available to download

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Thomas_Tantrum/music

what do you think of it? i think it's a smasher. got a kind of Cure "close to me" vibe.

so it's a rainy day here in southampton which is my favourite weather ever and it's making me happy. The boys have all vamooshed off to Bulgaria to record on Joe Parker's new album and I have just received the mastered version of our new album so I'm going to put my headphones on and go for a long walk. Maybe stop in at some charity shops and find some treats. I'm off to the Big Apple on tuesday and I just can't wait. It will be my first time in America. Any tips for places to visit? I think I will be staying in Williamsburg but I'm not sure yet because I've still not booked any hotels.

Anyway let me know what you think of the RAC remix

m x

A warm welcome, our new single video and free gigs this week

2011-03-09T09:47:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

This is the first mailing list email from us to you! First of all thanks everyone for signing up and we hope you really enjoyed the Birdsong EP we gave away over Christmas. You can still download it now, so tell your friends by sending them the link http://www.thomastantrum.co.uk/

Since then we have made a music video for our new forthcoming single "Sleep" which is going to be released March 27th. You can watch the music video by clicking here.

It's a kind of tongue-in-cheek take on the song and involved spending hours sitting on an office chair pretending to be on a rollercoaster made out of bed carriages. Pretty random.

When "Sleep" is released to download on March 27th, it'll come with two new b-sides called "It's Like Drums" and "Children Of The Night", plus remixes from Band Of Skulls and RAC as well as an old school extended version.

Sleep and insomnia are recurring themes which run throughout the album; that of dusk, dreaming, the moonlit soirée...

Keep an eye out on our official site, Facebook and YouTube as we’ll be posting video blogs in the coming weeks where you can hear more about where the songs from the album came from and stories from our recording sessions

Anyway, as for live performances, we are playing a show on Thursday this week, March 10th, at the Old Queen's Head in London and its free. If you want to come along, we'll be playing tracks from the new album "Mad By Moonlight" which is due to be released in June. It's been some time coming, but we're really happy with the album now and can't wait for it to be released. It’s more of an album this time round, as opposed to just a collection of songs. It's still a party album like the last one, but with more of a twilight vibe running through it (not in the vampire sense). Also playing at the show will be fellow Southamptoners Oresteia who are absolutely ace - you can check them out here: http://www.myspace.com/oresteiaband

In addition to this, we will be performing live acoustic versions of the songs at Oxfam Music in Southampton this coming Saturday, 12th March, this is a free gig and more details can found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195790307115728 It's an Oxjam event and we will be joined by other local talents.

Then on Sunday, we'll be playing a show in Asgard Tattoo Parlour also in Southampton, tickets are only £4.00 and more details can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196625120366382 So it's a whole weekend of music fun!

Hope you're all doing well and look forward to seeing you at some shows very soon.

xx

about our first email update

2011-03-09T00:00:00.000-08:00

Hello darlings,

just throught i'd copy and paste our first email update here on this very blog . but you should sign up for our mailing list over here

http://www.thomastantrum.co.uk/

on our bloody good new website. pretty fancy huh. i will shut up now or else i will be repeating myself again in the actual mail out. i woke up far too early so i am just ranting. rant rant rant. shut up megan. aaah sweet insomnia.

Hi everyone,

This is the first mailing list email from us to you! First of all thanks everyone for signing up and we hope you really enjoyed the Birdsong EP we gave away over Christmas. You can still download it now, so tell your friends. Just forward this mail and tell them to click http://www.thomastantrum.co.uk/

Since then we have made a music video for our new forthcoming single "Sleep" which is going to be released March 27th. You can watch the music video by clicking here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQgyeTt5Yw

It's a kind of tongue-in-cheek take on the song and involved spending hours sitting on an office chair pretending to be on a rollercoaster made out of bed carriages. Pretty random.

When "Sleep" is released to download on March 27th, it'll come with two new b-sides called "It's Like Drums" and "Children Of The Night", plus remixes from Band Of Skulls and RAC as well as an old school extended version.

Sleep and insomnia are recurring themes which run throughout the album; that of dusk, dreaming, the moonlit soirée...

Keep an eye out on our official site, Facebook and YouTube as we’ll be posting video blogs in the coming weeks where you can hear more about where the songs from the album came from and stories from our recording sessions

Anyway, as for live performances, we are playing a show on Thursday this week, March 10th, at the Old Queen's Head in London and its free. If you want to come along, we'll be playing tracks from the new album "Mad By Moonlight" which is due to be released in June. It's been some time coming, but we're really happy with the album now and can't wait for it to be released. It’s more of an album this time round, as opposed to just a collection of songs. It's still a party album like the last one, but with more of a twilight vibe running through it (not in the vampire sense). Also playing at the show will be fellow Southamptoners Oresteia who are absolutely ace - you can check them out here: http://www.myspace.com/oresteiaband

In addition to this, we will be performing live acoustic versions of the songs at Oxfam Music in Southampton this coming Saturday, 12th March, this is a free gig and more details can found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195790307115728 It's an Oxjam event and we will be joined by other local talents.

Then on Sunday, we'll be playing a show in Asgard Tattoo Parlour also in Southampton, tickets are only £4.00 and more details can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196625120366382 So it's a whole weekend of music fun!

Hope you're all doing well and look forward to seeing you at some shows very soon.

xx

what is better, the smell of fresh baked bread or fresh cut grass?

2011-03-01T08:57:00.003-08:00

fresh grass. what does that say about me?

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If the Internet and TV didn't exist, what would you spend most of your time doing?

2011-03-01T08:57:00.001-08:00

inventing it

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How to avoid talking to people you don't want to

2011-02-25T03:12:00.000-08:00

came across this on the old you tube and plan to try it out on saturday night at Southampton's finest, Lennons nighclub!

thanks Jenna Marbles.

mx

Do you PING?

2011-02-23T05:34:00.001-08:00

We do!

It's something new to Itunes I think.
Anyhow why not follow us here

http://c.itunes.apple.com/gb/profile/id-17106

and join in the fun. embrace the many new ways of accessing music on the internet.

We'll be posting the details of our April tour up here in a few days so come and check back.
x

NME Exclusive of our new music video!

2011-02-15T06:31:00.000-08:00

You can watch our new music video for "Sleep" exclusively on NME.COM now!

go take a look

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/new-music-videos/784536906001

megan x

New Single, album and tour details!

2011-02-11T01:46:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!

We have news about our new single "Sleep", the first release from our second album "Mad By Moonlight".
You can have the first listen of it on our official Soundcloud page (http://soundcloud.com/thomastantrum) taken from the 6music play by Marc Riley the other night. Have a listen and don't forget to follow us on Soundcloud too. We'll be
posting more music there very soon....

AND you can hear another track from the album, "Cold Gold", thanks to the nice people at Music Week and their Soundcloud.
Listen to it here - http://soundcloud.com/music-week/thomas-tantrum-cold-gold.

Let us know what you think of both songs!

Since the release of our first album in late 2008, we enlisted new drummer Dave Wade Brown and have been locked away writing the “difficult second album” for forever it seems. There is a definite shift in style since our first album.
We think the tracks are more melodic and melancholy, yet still upbeat and happy if that's possible? Both “Sleep” and the album were produced by our long term collaborator Rik MacNamara.

Inbetween writing and recording we've managed to play some shows though including a tour with the lovely Band Of Skulls and also some low key appearances at festivals such as Truck and Offset. Hopefully there will be a lot more of that coming
this summer!

Over Christmas we spent a few days at Peter Gabriel's studio in Bath and recorded an ep entitled “Birdsong” which is still available to download FREE from here - www.thomastantrum.co.uk. All you have to do is sign up for the mailing list and
then that way we can keep you up to date with the release and any shows or tours.

We're sorting out more gigs right now. We'll let you know when and where soon as we can, but in the meantime, we've confirmed March 10th at the Old Queen’s Head in London.

Thanks everyone :)

meg xxx

Listen to a brand new track as featured in Music Week!

2011-02-07T03:49:00.000-08:00

hey you lot,

here you can listen to a brand new track of ours called "Cold Gold" as featured in the latest edition of "Music Week".
Let us know what you think of it.
Megan x

Thomas Tantrum - Cold Gold by Music Week

"Sleep" Music Video Shoot

2011-02-04T11:35:00.000-08:00

Hiyar, here are some photos taken from our music video shoot. hope you like them and all that jazz. the video is coming soon! Our single is going to be released March 27th. megan x

most beautiful ever

2011-01-18T05:23:00.000-08:00

megan x

Happy New Year

2011-01-06T12:02:00.000-08:00

Hello dearies, and a happy new year to you! Thanks for everyone who downloaded our Christmas EP and we hope you enjoyed it! If you haven't done so yet you can still download it here

http://www.facebook.com/thomastantrumofficial?v=app_6009294086&ref=ts

...we're busy organising the music video for our new single, coming soon . . xx

Download our Christmas EP!!!

2010-12-15T01:12:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-11T02:43:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-08T10:59:00.000-08:00

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]

2010-12-05T02:41:00.001-08:00

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

2010-12-02T14:05:00.001-08:00

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

2010-12-02T13:43:00.000-08:00

photos (c) dave wade brown

2010-12-02T13:04:00.000-08:00

photos (c) dave wade brown

Christmas E.P.

2010-11-24T15:21:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-24T13:51:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-01T05:01:00.001-07:00

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

ThomasTantrum: "The Hot Hot Summer"

2010-11-01T04:47:00.000-07:00

ThomasTantrum: "The Last Kiss"

2010-11-01T04:45:00.000-07:00

Oxjam gig and onwards

2010-10-31T11:41:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-28T01:50:00.000-07:00

hahahahaha

mega x

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

2010-07-06T05:47:00.000-07:00

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?

2010-06-01T08:14:00.001-07:00

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

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Can you spend Irish Money in the UK?

2010-06-01T07:38:00.001-07:00

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.

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How soon is now?

2010-06-01T07:02:00.001-07:00

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

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

2010-06-01T06:56:00.003-07:00

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

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Have you seen my keys?

2010-06-01T06:56:00.001-07:00

They're in the bird feeder.

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2010-06-01T06:23:00.001-07:00

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

LONDON SHOWS

2010-05-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

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.

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2010-04-13T02:17:00.000-07:00

photos (c) ali marchant. x

Ice Queen and hermits.

2010-01-08T04:04:00.000-08:00

hello I am going to write my first blog entry! funtimes. This first week back to normality can be such a drag but i've not really done much at all and really enjoyed it. Well I have in fact been 'doing things' just in the small vicinity of my house, popping out rarely into the death threateningly slippy ice to buy soda water (the drink of the gods. Anyway it has been good because I have been writing lots of songs. I think it's something about the snowy weather that inspires me. I love the winter, in fact I could just stay here in this house and season all year. I make myself sound like the ice queen in Lion, the witch and the wardrobe!!

isn't Aslan just a dream???? I used to fancy him when I was little which i know sounds a bit weird but it's actually not at all. In fact I still fancy him now. He's got that fathering nature which is oh so attractive. admittedly, yes, he is a lion but whatever he's hot!!!!

ANYWAY i'm just ranting now. We're all really excited about this new album. I think we're going to be releasing a single early february if all goes well and doing a small tour with that. I'm not sure when the records out yet though we're looking to put it out on a label rather than our own label this time. It's really frustrating though because we all want to get out there and play again as soon as possible it seems like forever ago that we were on tour.

Anyway bye byeeee whoever is reading this which is probably no one. xxxxx Megan.

2009-12-28T05:22:00.000-08:00

Some photos from the Barden's show a few weeks back. Thanks to Pumaparded. Well, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Love from Dave Wade Brown x

2009-12-19T02:26:00.001-08:00

I suppose whilst we're on the subject of Christmas parties I should mention the Sotones party at Andy and Anja's (Haunted Stereo) last night...

I forgot my camera again but Storm took some photos...anyhow, if you don't know, Sotones is a Southampton label that was started way back when as Popfiction by me and my lovely brother...DJing, putting on bands, getting free booze. It was pretty good. Then, some more organized types came along and turned it into something to behold and, as I type now, they've got a distributor and PR and all sorts of good shit!

Well, last night we celebrated our good fortunes, such as 0.54% of Q's track of the day in 2009 and a wonderful time drinking and watching R Kelly in the office. There's nothing finer than having your own office in which you can drink as much as you want and smoke all day..

Here's a picture of Joe Parker, who is stepping down as Sotones MD in March I think. He's done a lot over the past 2 years to get the Southampton DIY scene going. Love you Joe. Dave Wade Brown x

photos (c) dave wade brown

2009-12-18T05:39:00.000-08:00

photos (c) unknown

Morning lovers...it was the launch night for Joelle Jerome yesterday, a beautiful grunge inspired womenswear label from Dalston, London. Have a look and buy some lovely clothes here . So, we were at Barden's Boudoire in Dalston, played with LA LA VASQUEZ and ELEANOR SEABIRD. Tried out a lot of new songs and went pretty, pretty, pretty gooood (photos soon I hope). Met up with the managers...think the plan is to get a single out for February (not necessarily from the album), we're not sure which song yet but you'll know soon enough I suppose....also, we confirmed one final session, 4 more tracks, for the new record so it will definitely be finished by the end of January.

Man, that drive home was sketchy, too. I absolutely love the snow (it's been years cos i'd been living in Spain for a while and I don't remember it snowing in Barcelona...) but when it settles on the motorway and you're sliding everywhere, watching trucks and madmen (and women) in cars flying past and not all the seat belts work in the van it's pretty fucking scary...mind you, I don't think (Lonely) Joe Parker (he's giving away a free track every day from 1st December until 25th i think, have a look), Pete or Dave Miatt noticed. Love has to go to Mark for getting us back alive. I wish I'd had my camera, really wana take some snowy pictures but it's all melted this morning.

photo (c) dave wade brown
One more thing, our own beautiful Dave Miatt was track of the day in Q magazine this week with his folk-inspired and beautiful 'Jackie Paper' solo project (?)....is it a solo project? Anyhow, I am well proud. Love Dave Wade Brown x

2009-12-08T14:07:00.000-08:00

so, we got back from the studio (the pic above is the view from one of the doors there) on friday night and we've got 16 songs down now for album 2. we've one final recording session in january and then we gona mix it and get it mastered. we'll let you know how it's going...

had a few days to hang out since...my sister drove me, my old man and the dog to the beach yesterday. it was nice to get some fresh air and forget about writing songs for a day... dave x

photos (c) dave wade brown

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