Moustache of Insanity About | News | Gigs | Releases | Media | Flyers | Contact 24th February, 2010 So, we are slowly but surely coming out from hibernation. We're still taking things a bit slow, but at least we now have two shows coming up....and they're both in the US of A. Yaaaaaaaaay! Yes that's right, we're playing at the New York Pop Fest and we're pretty damn excited about it. We're also playing at least one other US show with Allo Darlin' and The Smittens. Yay again! Yay! /Nik 27th January, 2010 Had the very first Moustache session last night. We finished recording our cover of The Punks Are Writing Love Songs for an upcoming American Tullycraft compilation we've been asked to be on. Bill laying down some rockin' bass parts last night. Yay! That's about it at the moment. Waiting to get confirmation for some awesome things that are a bit up in the air, but as soon as we know, I'm certainly gonna share it with the world. /Nik 19th January, 2010 OK, so the line up for the show in February has been confirmed and it's a cracker. Yay! Tickets are available from wegottickets.com /Nik 18th January, 2010 Happy New Year, kids! It's been a quiet start to this Moustache year, but now we're ready to get going again. First show of the year should be at Bardens Boudoir on 9th February. It's a fundraiser to help our dear friends Allo Darlin' raise some money for their trip to Austin, Texas in in US of A. They've been selected for the mega festival that is South By South West, which is rather exciting. Well done, darlin's! The line-up may or may not be a bit hush-hush still, so I won't give too much away...but one thing is certain..it will be awesome, so come down to Stokey. Yay! We've also started working on our Tullycraft cover and will hopefully be finishing off the recording in the next week or so. I have no idea when this tribute CD will be out, but last time I checked a bunch of awesometastic bands were involved. The last EP keeps getting downloaded and the last time I checked it was pushing 250 downloads! Thanks you guys! This is pretty amazing for us, so I think we'll just leave it up there. We will still make hard copies at some point soon as well. So there. I think that's about it for now. /Nik 16th December, 2009 This is it, the last post of the year. And I bring good news, freebies even. Our new EP was finally revealed to the world on Monday and so far the response has been great. It was downloaded 50+ times in the first 40 hours, which is pretty awesome, we both think. DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE 'POSTCARDS TO STRANGERS' EP FOR FREE Let us know what you think and as usual, feel free to share the link or individual songs on blogs etc. Yay! That's all for now. See you all in 2010. Have an awesome Christmas/New Year/Whatever! /Nik and Bill 11th December, 2009 We're playing at the Duke of Uke this evening! It's the launch party for the awesometastic new Allo Darlin' single and we're super excited about being part of that! Yay! Duke events are always alot of fun, so you should definitely try to come down for this one. Remember the shop is tiny, so get there early to guarantee entry! Doors at 7:30 ish. And best of all, IT'S FREE!!!! /Nik 9th December, 2009 It's December! That means the annual Santa visit is just around the corner. He's a good guy, so there should still be time to work yourselves of the naughty list. Me and Bill are pretty safe, I think. But, we'll try to stay nice just in case. We played our last show of 2009 last week. It was at Proud Galleries in Camden and alot of fun, but a bit weird. Big stage, big sound and a shitload of pictures of the Kings of Leon on the walls. Hmmmm. Not really my thing. Anyway, thanks to every that came down. In August we did an acoustic live session for Off The Beaten Tracks in Edinburgh and they have finally put the session up on their website. You can watch the session here. It actually turned out ok, much better than expected. And we get a nice write-up as well. Yay! We're having our last recording session/practise of the year, which means the new EP should be ready next week!!!! I'll let you know. /Nik 19th November, 2009 Just a quick not to say that tonight's show has been cancelled. Apparently Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes have pulled the plug on all live music. That's about it. However, all is not lost. We are playing at Bardens Boudoir next Wednesday (25th Nov) together with New York legends of craziness, Dufus. It should be an awesome show, so come down and join the fun. /Nik 3rd November, 2009 The EP is taking shape. We've now recorded four songs and with any luck we'll get another two down this evening. I'm also starting to get excited about the artwork and stuff. More details coming soon. Two shows coming up in the next month. On 19th October, we're playing at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes. For this show we've been given some cheap advance tickets to sell, so if anyone would like to save a few quid send us an email and we'll sort you out. I think the cheapo ones are £5 from us. On 3rd December we're playing at Proud Galleries, which should also be an awesome show. Hopefully the EP will be finished in time for these shows. /Nik 7th October, 2009 So, we have a gig tonight. It's at The Star of Bethnal Green (formerly The Pleasure Unit), which is quite a rockin' place. You should come down. It'll be fun. In other news, we recorded a rather shouty version of Postcards For Strangers last night. It sounds cool, I hope. So, yes. The work on the next EP has begun. Woo-zaa. /Nik 29th September, 2009 Last night we had our first band practise for at least two months. It was messy and not terribly productive, unless drinking a case of beer and eating sour strawberry laces counts as productive, in which case it was an extremely successful practise. We made a start on our contribution for the upcoming Tullycraft compilation and it's pretty random. Will be interesting to hear what it sounds like in a sober state. Anyway, tomorrow we're going to Northampton for a show at The Nook Cafe. If anyone's in the area, please drop by and join the fun. Woot! /Nik 22nd September, 2009 This morning I found out that some Moustache footage from Indietracks can be found on youtube. Check Recordsmakegreatpets for more details. The clips are from our second set on the train and there's the whole of Imagine and the messy ending of I Like These Shoes. Haha. /Nik 10th September, 2009 It's very quiet in Moustache land at the moment. Bill is busy being a pop star, so we're taking it a bit easy. If you're going to End Of The Road you can see him playing bass with Darren Hayman on the main stage at some point. I have written a bunch of new songs and hopefully we should be able to get a recording session sorted for the beginning of October. Until then, I guess I can entertain myself by making songs on my laptop. I've put two songs up on my other myspace. One of them is Yellow T-shirt, which is an old Moustache song that we used to play live back in the olden days. We recorded it once, but something went wrong, so it was kind of buried and we haven't touched it since. Anyway, the other day I re-recorded it on my own in my living room. So there. /Nik 3rd September, 2009 Scottish freebie street mag The Skinny has gone from friend to foe in the space of two issues...or perhaps this last thing was just online...how would I know? I don't live there. In their preview of the Retreat! Festival they name-checked us as having "clearly the best band name ever", which was all jolly good. Unfortunately, they weren't too impressed with our performance in Edinburgh. Not only did they call us confusing and describied our singing as "at times face-stretchingly uncomfortable" they also managed to accuse us of writing "comically about killing squirrels". Read the whole thing here. Hmmm. /Nik 1st September, 2009 The gig at the Buffalo Bar on Friday went really well. We didn't miss up too much and didn't argue that much. Woot! What the hell is happening to us? Thanks to everyone who came/said nice things/bought CD's etc. photo by Emma Hall Someone else also took some photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/acb/tags/moustacheofinsanity/. We don't have anything lined up until the end of the month and with Bill being super busy in September with Darren Hayman things it'll most likely stay that way. We're still hoping to get together to do some recording at some point, though. /Nik 27th August, 2009 A couple of things. We are playing in Northampton on 30th September. My only previous experiences from Northampton are from selling (well, trying to sell) garden furniture in a shopping centre. Hopefully, the gig will be more fun. I'm pretty sure it will. When we played in Edinburgh the other week, I did an interview with Fresh Air student radio. I also played 16,000km live in the studio (first time ever without Bill). You can listen to the interview and song here. We also recorded a session for Off The Beaten Tracks, a web-video-session, similar to The Takeaway shows in France. It was fun and we almost got killed by a crazy junkie. The session should be up in the next month. I'll keep you posted. Also, just thought I would share some links to two completely random sites where we've been mentioned recently: The National (Dubai newspaper) Amnesty blog It's all very strange. Yes. The moustache works in mysterious ways. /Nik 24th August, 2009 I thought maybe it would be useful to have a news section. Or, well, perhaps not useful...but at least it would be something that actually changed on this website. Perhaps. Like today I put up three flyers on the flyers page. Woot! How would you have known that if I hadn't told you? The wonders of the internet. /Nik