I HEART's continental shifts...
I HEART HIROSHIMA
Brisbane's I Heart Hiroshima have spent the past month plus coming to terms with an expansive Europe... having spent a large portion of their time on continental Europe with The Rakes and more recently with Maximo Park they now parade through with a swag of their own headline shows. Having caught their inspired set at LA TRABENDO in Paris as special guests of Maximo Park last week the band had the crowd falling into their garage of rhythmic intoxication... and we even shared a pizza after. Then under the warming wings of summer they drift back over to the UK for a second run of dates that will rattle bones and shake psyche's.
As Andy Gill (Gang of Four) starts mixing their next album in London things are getting a little hot under the collar... and once complete they head home to finalise the new album and then start touring again across Australia...
In the meantime new UK single Got Bones/Crime makes its place on britannia radio waves... getting plays on BBC1,2, and more with Jonathon Ross and Steve Lamacq... and many more.
Witness the band's travelogue as revealed on the tour blospot - http://ihearthiroshima.blogspot.com
Sunday 24/05/09 Dot to Dot Festival @ Various Venues, Nottingham by Chris Reynolds Tuesday, May 26, 2009
I Heart Hiroshima are no less impressive at the same venue. The Aussie 3-piece are a heady mix of Biffy Clyro guitars and Futurehead rhythms. They take their lead from frontwoman-cum-drummer-cum-goading queen Susie Patten who has more charisma than anyone else on stage at the whole festival. The result of all of this is a collection of short, fast paced pop tracks with a complimentary running commentary from Susie throughout. She even takes to teasing (or possibly bullying whichever way you view it) guitarist Cameron Hawes into changing the set, much to the amusement of the packed audience.
EURO/UK TOUR exploits continues...
SAT 16 MAY - THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton, UK "Artrocker showcase"
SAT 16 MAY - THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton, UK "Artrocker showcase"
SUN 17 MAY - VERA Groningen, The Netherlands with The Rakes
MON 18 MAY - MELKWEG Amsterdam, The Netherlands with The Rakes
MON 18 MAY - MELKWEG Amsterdam, The Netherlands with The Rakes
THUR 21 MAY - BARFLY, Camden, London UK
FRI 22 MAY - LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY, Bumper, Liverpool UK
SAT 23 MAY - DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL, Bristol UK
SUN 24 MAY - DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL, Nottingham UK
MON 25 MAY - TWISTED WHEEL, Glasgow UK
TUES 26 MAY - NIGHT & DAY, Manchester UK
SAT 23 MAY - DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL, Bristol UK
SUN 24 MAY - DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL, Nottingham UK
MON 25 MAY - TWISTED WHEEL, Glasgow UK
TUES 26 MAY - NIGHT & DAY, Manchester UK
MON 1 JUNE - LE CARGO CLUB, Caen, France with Maximo Park
TUES 2 JUNE - LA TRABENDO, Paris, France with Maximo Park
WED 3 JUNE - MAGAZZINI GENERALO, Milan, Italy with Maximo Park,
THUR 4 JUNE - THE GREAT RANG TENG TENG, Freiburg, Germany
FRI 5 JUNE - FRI-SON, Fribourg, Switzerland with Maximo Park
SAT 6 JUNE - KOFMEHL, Solothurn, Switzerland with Maximo Park
TUES 9 JUNE - GLEIS22, Munster, Germany with Gregory and the Hawk
WED 10 JUNE - MOLOTOW, Hamburg, Germany
THUR 11 JUNE - MAGNET, Berlin, Germany
FRI 12 JUNE - EXHAUS, Trier, Germany
SAT 13 JUNE - ROTOWN, Rotterdam, Holland
TUES 16 JUNE - BPM, Nantes, France
WED 17 JUNE - 1929, Rennes, France
SUN 21 JUNE - FREEBUTT, Brighton, UK
TUES 23 JUNE - ARTROCKER at BUFFALO BAR, London, UK
THUR 25 JUNE - THE ROYAL, Derby, UK
FRI 26 JUNE - KOROVA, Liverpool, UK
SAT 27 JUNE - BARFLY, Cardiff, UK
TUES 30 - THE BOWERY, Edinburgh, UK
WED 1 JULY - KING TUTS, Glasgow, UK
I HEART HIROSHIMA REBEL PLAYLIST AGAIN!!! VOTE NOW!!!
Okay things are hotting up in the UK for I Heart Hiroshima as summer comes to swing it warm wings over all... and new EP Friends with Swords with singles from Tuff Teef Got Bones and Crime is grabbing plenty of hot fun.
So with love and ease we ask for you easy love to vote for us here....
'Got Bones' is up for the Rebel Playlist this week on Steve Lamacq's 6 Music show. The feature pits three songs against each other in a public vote with the winning track receiving a play from each daytime show the following week. This would be fantatstic to get and if you could get everyone you know to click on the link below to vote for it that would be great. The voting has started already and closes midnight on Sunday. Regular myspace bulletins, facebook updates and all that stuff would help greatly, we'll get everyone to vote our end too!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/ - scroll to the bottom of the page to vote.
IHH supports Skateistan
I Heart Hiroshima are stoked to spread the word about Skateistan;
Afghanistan's first dedicated skateboard school which aims to breakdown
social, ethnic and gender barriers through the art of skateboarding". http://skateistan.org
Check it out dudes!!!
Check it out dudes!!!
I HEART HIROSHIMA UK exploits
I HEART HIROSHIMA
Earlier this month Susie, Matt & Cameron boarded flight SQ326 bound for Frankfurt to start an absolute thrilling spree of shows across Europe and the UK...
So far they have found themselves swept up by adoring crowds In Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, France and Netherlands, selling large amounts of CDs and shirts at all shows... and earning the praise of their generous hosts THE RAKES.
Brisbane's I Heart Hiroshima now fill their weeks up with more shows in the UK after the Euro dates with The Rakes with their first on Saturday past in THE HOPE at THE GREAT ESCAPE .
In the meantime I Heart Hiroshima are making more friends picking up a return set of European dates with MAXIMO PARK... plus more dates in Germany, Holland, France and the UK.
As they travel on their merry way through this new uncharted territory witness their travelogue as revealed on the tour blospot - http://ihearthiroshima.blogspot.com
During this time Andy Gill will be mixing their next album in London aiming for a September release... the guys have had the great fortune to witness Gang of Four play at The Great Escape on the weekend in Brighton. In the meantime new single Crime/Got Bones makes its place on UK radio waves...
EURO/UK TOUR exploits continues...
SAT 16 MAY - THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton, UK "Artrocker showcase"
SAT 16 MAY - THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton, UK "Artrocker showcase"
SUN 17 MAY - VERA Groningen, The Netherlands with The Rakes
MON 18 MAY - MELKWEG Amsterdam, The Netherlands with The Rakes
MON 18 MAY - MELKWEG Amsterdam, The Netherlands with The Rakes
THUR 21 MAY - UK, London, Camden Barfly
FRI 22 MAY - UK, Liverpool, Bumper - Liverpool Sound City
SAT 23 MAY - UK, Bristol - Dot To Dot Festival
SUN 24 MAY - UK, Nottingham - Dot To Dot Festival
MON 25 MAY - UK, Glasgow, Twisted Wheel
TUES 26 MAY - UK, Manchester, Night & Day
SAT 23 MAY - UK, Bristol - Dot To Dot Festival
SUN 24 MAY - UK, Nottingham - Dot To Dot Festival
MON 25 MAY - UK, Glasgow, Twisted Wheel
TUES 26 MAY - UK, Manchester, Night & Day
MON 1 JUNE - LE CARGO CLUB, Caen, France with Maximo Park
TUES 2 JUNE - LA TRABENDO, Paris, France with Maximo Park
WED 3 JUNE - MAGAZZINI GENERALO, Milan, Italy with Maximo Park,
FRI 5 JUNE - FRI-SON, Fribourg, Switzerland with Maximo Park
SAT 6 JUNE - KOFMEHL, Solothurn, Switzerland with Maximo Park
TUES 9 JUNE - venue tba, Munster, Germany with Gregory and the Hawk
WED 10 JUNE - MOLOTOW, Hamburg, Germany
THUR 11 JUNE - MAGNET, Berlin, Germany
SAT 13 JUNE - ROTOWN, Rotterdam, Holland
TUES 16 JUNE - BPM, Nantes, France
WED 17 JUNE - 1929, Rennes, France
TUFF TEEF out in the UK on Valve/Weatherbox.
Features GOT BONES, CRIME and PUNKS.
PINK FROST available on iTunes now.
Tour compile EP FRIENDS WITH SWORDS also available.
Gent, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Stuttgart
Welcome to our tour blog! This is a place where you can feel like you can hug us even though we are really far away.
We landed in Frankfurt on Friday night with no hassles and left the next morning in our turbo-awesome-super-box Van en route to Belgium to a) pick up gear and b) to hang with our tour managers buddy Chris. Driving in Germany is fucking weird at first.....you have to get used to driving on the right hand side of the road and then you have to comprehend going 150km/hr on the Autobahn and still have crazy people fly past you. It took a lot of getting used to. The journeys have been really nice; short and picturesque. Here is a sweet photo I took from the van:
Gent is a really fucking cool city. When we got there it felt like everyone was just hanging out, at bars, or in coffee shops around the castle, walking their dogs along the river or chilling in a guided tour boat. That night we went to the craziest bar..........there were 250 types of beers that it sold, one of which was called Quacks. It was served in the most horrendously massive glass and in order to collect you drink you needed to hand over a shoe....as collateral.
Apparently a lot of glasses go missing. Drinking ONE of these made us all very fuzzy and made us need beds stat.
The next day we drove to Dusseldorf to play our first show at a club called "Zakk". We met The Rakes all of whom we're lovely, dressed well and smelt like roses on a Spring morning. They have this bad-ass tour bus which we are very jealous of....I haven't taken a photo yet but I will. They asked us where our tourbus was....we shrugged and looked at the ground coyly.
The show was really fun and the crowd receptive. As you may know, I talk a lot of nonsense in between songs at shows, and I was scared that I didn't have this security blanket on this tour as noone would understand me, but so far people have understood us for the most part. That night we stayed with two rad girls Kristina and Doro. We met them through the wonderful world of Myspace....it really is a place for friends. We listened to Telepathe, Hate Rock and Handsome Furs while drinking some highly recommended Dream Tea. It was a blissful night and we were so lucky to meet such lovely ladies (esp. me because being around boys all the time can be hard work).
The next day was back to Frankfurt where we played in Batschkapp. We played on a stage that had some pretty crazy predecessors: The Gun Club, Jesus & Mary Chain, Nirvana and our hometown legends The Go-Betweens to name a few. The show was amazing! We sparked TWO circle pits......TWO! I don't even know how that happened! We even had a german heckler = best! After the show our host took us to a bar in downtown Frankfurt, the inhouse DJ was amazing and super cliche, he was complete with beret and played the strangest array of music ranging from Midnight Oil to The Bloodhound gang. We stayed at a rad loft apartment with our new friend Annika and slept off our groggy heads.
this is too long isn't it? I've never been good at editing.
Last night was Stuttgart in this fucking awesome underground venue called "Rohre". It was made up of all these crazy tunnels and was really damp and weird. Our manager had told us that when he was there in the nineties with Regurgitator a bunch of kids took too much acid and ecstacy and got lost in the maze of tunnels! We played it safe and layed of the hallucinogens.
Ok this will do for now. We will write again soon......i'll get the boys to do a blog or two so you don't get bored with my inane ramblings, k?
Big lurve.
Susie IHH
IHH 3 go on Thrilling Spree of Shows in UK!
IHH ON THE UK!
I HEART HIROSHIMA meets the United Kingdom in a thrilling spree of shows!
Brisbane's I Heart Hiroshima fill their weeks up with more shows in the UK after the Euro dates with The Rakes. Sparked off after a near riot at Rics midnight on Good Friday, the threesome made a run for it announcing more UK shows in a wanton display of gratitude. Before their dis-embarkment in late April though... 2 more nights of audience massacre at RICS this Friday and next... playing treats from the brand new second album due out after returning from Europa later this year. More UK and Euopean fare to come soon as.
Thu 21 May UK, London, Barfly
Sat 23 May UK, Bristol - Dot To Dot Festival
Sun 24 May UK, Nottingham - Dot To Dot Festival
Mon 25 May UK, Glasgow, Twisted Wheel
Tue 26 May UK, Manchester, Night & Day
Also Pink Frost took a stumble of overloaded downloads at iTunes but link to earth should be re-established by the morrow. Stay calm.
iTunes, three J's and Twit.....what?
Three things:
We heard of this whack new fandangle internet service called Twitter and all these 16 year olds said that we couldn't be cool unless we have one so, naturally, we followed their advice. So here we are on Twitter
Our lovely pals over at Triple J's Home and Hosed have written a sweet little blog about us and all of our goings on right here. Aww cheers palz
Also, our cover of The Chills' song "Pink Frost" is now available as an iTunes download for most places in the world.......except the UK - it will be available to you guys in the coming months though so plz don't fret.
Ch-ch-check it out. I think it is even on the "whats hot" section of the Australian iTunes, this is really saying something. We have been taking tips of how to be hot from some hip young things like Gabriella Cilmi, Zach Efron and Jonas Brothers. Shit has clearly paid off.
Download Pink Frost on iTunes HERE!
We heard of this whack new fandangle internet service called Twitter and all these 16 year olds said that we couldn't be cool unless we have one so, naturally, we followed their advice. So here we are on Twitter
Our lovely pals over at Triple J's Home and Hosed have written a sweet little blog about us and all of our goings on right here. Aww cheers palz
Also, our cover of The Chills' song "Pink Frost" is now available as an iTunes download for most places in the world.......except the UK - it will be available to you guys in the coming months though so plz don't fret.
Ch-ch-check it out. I think it is even on the "whats hot" section of the Australian iTunes, this is really saying something. We have been taking tips of how to be hot from some hip young things like Gabriella Cilmi, Zach Efron and Jonas Brothers. Shit has clearly paid off.
Download Pink Frost on iTunes HERE!
EUROPE TOUR WITH THE RAKES
We are very excited to announce our European tour with The Rakes!!!! We will be scooting back to the Uk to play Brighton's Great Escape Festival mid tour before finishing of our dates with the Rakes dudes in Holland. Stay stuned for more dates to be added in Europe and our own UK shows
ihh
THE RAKES/IHH TOUR + GREAT ESCAPE MAY 2009
Sun 3 Germany, Dusseldorf, Zakk with The Rakes
Mon 4 Germany, Frankfurt, Batschkapp with The Rakes
Tue 5 Germany, Stuttgart, Rohre with The Rakes
Wed 6 Switzerland, Zurich, Abart with The Rakes
Fri 8 Italy, Bologne, Covo Club with The Rakes
Sat 9 Austria, Linz, Posthof with The Rakes
Sun 10 Germany, Munich, Backstage Hall with The Rakes
Tue 12 France, Toulouse, Bikini with The Rakes
Wed 13 France, Paris, Elysee Montmartre with The Rakes
Thu 14 France, Tourcoing, Grand Mix with The Rakes
Fri 15 France, Strasbourg, Laiterie with The Rakes
Sat 16 UK, Brighton, Great Escape Festival
Sun 17 Holland, Groningen, Vera with The Rakes
Mon 18 Holland, Amsterdam, Melkweg with The Rakes
IHH @ RIC'S
Last gigs before Overseas tour!
10th, 17th and 24th April at Ric's. See you there!
IHH IN UK...
Ok, so I Heart Hiroshima is going to the UK in late April till June to play heaps o' shows and hang out!
We are looking for places to stay in London to save some cashola......if you know of anything that might be suitable for one, two or three of us for any period of time please let us know!!
you can email us here: weareihh@gmail.com
we start recording the new album next week and we can't wait for you to hear it
love luff love
love from susie, matt and cam
IHH x x
We are looking for places to stay in London to save some cashola......if you know of anything that might be suitable for one, two or three of us for any period of time please let us know!!
you can email us here: weareihh@gmail.com
we start recording the new album next week and we can't wait for you to hear it
love luff love
love from susie, matt and cam
IHH x x
I HEART NEWS....
I hear new horizons... after stand out performances on Sunset Sounds Brisbane Riverstage with Santogold, The Grates&Franz Ferdinand; then the Big Day Out in Sydney and the Gold Coast, a special theatrical indulgence at the Roundhouse for the launch of the 2009 La Boite season; and a offer to play with The Streets last week at Tivoli... Susie, Matt & Cameron squeeze into a local house studio for the next month to lay down a bunch of tracks for their second album outing... subject to an overseas mixing once tracked and ready (more on that later).
They have also been invited by Artrocker to play The Great Escape in Brighton on the back of all the recent UK interest on radio, in the media, from record labels, and tour promoters... and along with a minor London relocation on the cards will be a stopover to play some Italian dates at the request of an Italian promoter who is a fan of the band's first album... but before this series of episodes IHH will make a quick stop here and there to build up the coffers for all this sweet sweet travelin...
FRI MAR 6 - WOOMBYE PUB, Sunshine Coast
3 Blackall St Woombye (opposite Woombye Train Station) Doors 8pm
With specials friends JOE LALLY (from the incredible Fugazi) and local up and comers DZ.
SAT MAR 7 - THE ZOO, Brisbane
They have also been invited by Artrocker to play The Great Escape in Brighton on the back of all the recent UK interest on radio, in the media, from record labels, and tour promoters... and along with a minor London relocation on the cards will be a stopover to play some Italian dates at the request of an Italian promoter who is a fan of the band's first album... but before this series of episodes IHH will make a quick stop here and there to build up the coffers for all this sweet sweet travelin...
FRI MAR 6 - WOOMBYE PUB, Sunshine Coast
3 Blackall St Woombye (opposite Woombye Train Station) Doors 8pm
With specials friends JOE LALLY (from the incredible Fugazi) and local up and comers DZ.
SAT MAR 7 - THE ZOO, Brisbane
Tickets from Rocking Horse www.rockinghorse.net, thezoo.com.au and usual Oztix outlets. Doors 8pm. With specials friends local up and comers DZ and GOOD GOD
THIS WILL BE A SWEET BAG OF FUN...
IHH @ BDO
"I HEART HIROSHIMA will bring their effervescent musical hurricane to the BIG DAY OUT in 2009. This Brisbane three piece of two guitarists and a drummer emerged from a series of audacious house parties in Bris-vegas and in 2007 released their debut album Tuff Teef. Wear your heart on your sleeve with I HEART HIROSHIMA as they serve up a sonic layer cake of pop punk deliciousness at BDO!"
Gold Coast Big Day Out, January 18th
and
Sydney Big Day Out, January 23rd
SUMMER FESTIVAL LOVIN'
Gold Coast Big Day Out, January 18th
and
Sydney Big Day Out, January 23rd
SUMMER FESTIVAL LOVIN'
IHH on BBC, UK!
'Punks' is in the running for the Rebel Playlist on Steve Lamacq's show on BBC 6 Music. If we win we'll be played across the station all next week. So we need as many people as possible to get online and vote from 6.15pm UK time today.
So get on down to Steve's
page and scroll down to the bottom of the page to vote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/
Lets turn London town into a love of Punks!
Susie Djing tonight..
FUCK YEAH. Expect B.I.G, Phil Collins, Martha + The Muffins, Womack + Womack, Pet Shop Boys, Hendrix, Boney-M.....etc etc etc. Let's party. Spod. Bear Attack. Jack Shit (syd). Maximum Blade (yours truly).
