[ Le Chat Noir ]

[ Thursday 15-05-08 ]

We are finally back in England after 3 weeks on the Continent that saw us travelling through 7 countries and playing some great gigs - as you can imagine, we're very tired and spaced out today, so apologies to anyone who we don't reply to personally right now - we have a huge backlog of e-mails and messages and we'll do our best to get on to them ASAP!

Our priority now is to finish working on the large number of half-finished songs we have, so expect to hear some new sounds on our Myspace player shortly!

Whilst we were in Belgium we picked up a new run of shirts, and I personally think they're brilliant - very good quality printing and I hope you'll like the design too! the shirts can be had for 15 euros each with free P&P, or alternatively as part of our new special offer - a t-shirt, Deadwood CD and a nice vinyl sticker for 25 euros, also free P&P!

We still have some of our other t-shirt design available too, and if you like you can do the deal and take that t-shirt instead - it's up to you!

Please look on our Myspace page for more details.

I'll write more very soon when we're a bit more awake - expect lots of photos and a tour diary update soon!

Teddy
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[ Friday 11-04-08 ]

On 6th April, Le Chat Noir signed a contract with Jason Jarman at Hold 'Em Management. We're very excited to be working with Jason and we have lots of big and exciting plans for the coming months. When we return from our trip to the continent in mid May, we are planning to go to a studio and record three tracks, one of which will be selected to have a video made.

Jason can be contacted via e-mail - jasonjarman666@btopenworld.com - or via his mobile (07973479389).

Here's to a productive and exciting few months ahead!

[ Thursday 03-04-08 ]

We are thinking of going into a decent studio to rerecord 3 tracks for promotional purposes.

We need to decide which 3 tracks are best for this - we have a fairly good idea of our strongest tracks, but I thought I’d also ask the opinion of the people who matter most - our fans!

We’d really appreciate it if you could message or e-mail us telling us your 3 favourite LCN tunes.

Thanks a bunch, we look forward to hearing your responses!

[ Tuesday 01-04-08 ]

We’ve not been very active since coming back from Belgium, and with good reason - Eileen has been in the USA for 2 weeks visiting her family and taking a much-needed break. I’ve also had a bit of a chest infection, so all in all it was a good chance to take some time out from the hectic world of music.

Now Eileen is back and raring to go and I’m on the road to recovery, so things will be back to normal shortly!

We’re working on new material and some other exciting news up our sleeve, so keep checking back and stay in touch!

I was trying to think of a good April fools joke to play on everyone, but didn’t come up with any good ones!

[ Saturday 15-03-08 ]

We have new t-shirts for sale in a limited run of 100! Check out the shop section - when they're gone, they're gone!

[ Tuesday 11-03-08 ]

Well, after being stuck in Dunkirk overnight due to the terrible weather, we are finally back home - tired, in need of food and showers, but happy! We had a great tour of Belgium, we played in some great venues to some great people and made lots of new friends along the way!

Thanks again to Mark and Diane for really making us feel at home, we can't wait to see you guys again in April.

Videos, pics, tour diaries etc to follow, once we've slept for a few days!!!

[ Monday 25-02-08 ]

2 days ago we played a new venue called Tiggas in Exeter. It was a fun gig, with lots of familiar faces present - great to see so many people we've met locally through our music all in the same place, as well as some old friends! It'll be our last local gig for some time, as we're off to Belgium in 2 days and when we come back Eileen is off to the states to visit her family for a while. When she comes back, we will return to Italy and Belgium again, so it's going to be a busy few months for us overseas.

Our gallery section has undergone a revamp, with some new photos from our opening gigs of 2008 added. Once again, we're indebted to Stuart Gardner, our good friend, photographer and one of our most dedicated fans - personally, I feel the photos he took at The Hub in Plymouth on the 13th are some of the best yet. They really capture the dark, pseuo-gothic B-movie flavour of our live show! I also have to compliment The hub for being one of the few venues at this level who really know what they're doing with lighting and stage atmospherics! I wish every gig could be so well-lit.

In other news, last week I engineered and produced some demos for some good friends of ours at The Cat's Cradle - please check out Cara's Crimson Chords, who are also labelmates of ours on Garage Sale Records. I'm quite proud of the job I did, very vibey recordings in the vein of PJ Harvey's 4-Track Demoes!

This may be our last entry until we return from Belgium, so goodbye for a while and we will be back with lots of stories and photos soon!

[ Friday 08-02-08 ]

We played in Exeter (The Hub) and Torquay (The Rock) over the last few days, after not doing any local gigs in a long time. Both gigs were a lot of fun, with decent crowds and a good atmosphere!

At the Hub it was great to share a stage with our friends Supenik again, as well as the wonderful Akiakane - the first time I've seen a Japanese punk band live, after listening a lot on the internet! They were everything I expected and more - energetic, joyful 70s punk fused with 60s pop harmonies. It was hard not to grin! Supenik had one of the fattest sounds I've heard from them yet, credit to Alex at the sound desk for another sterling job.

The Rock last night was our first ever gig in Torquay - the 'English Riviera', replete with its incredibly tasteful concrete cows and plastic palm trees! Not your first choice rock'n'roll destination, but we were pleasantly surprised by the venue - a great setup, good stage, and there was a nice crowd. The only downside was constant monitor problems that plagued all the bands who performed. We had a lot of fun, cheers to George from The Rowmance for inviting us at short notice!

Lastly, thanks again to Stuart for being our superfan1-cum-roadie-cum-photographer, and most importantly, friend!

Here's hoping next week's gig in Plymouth will complete the triumverate of good gigs in our local cities!

[ Tuesday 22-01-08 ]

"If you like your Pixies in a crunched-up cowboy hat and Hank Williams on speed..."

I love the internet and its profusion of wonderful podcasts - if you look hard enough you can find one for the most obscure crossover niche... looks like we found ours (or were found BY them - can’t remember how actually!)

Click here and check out the OUTLAW PUNK COWBOY PODCAST - episode number 75 opens up with The Bone Collector!

In other news, we're now confirmed for a return tour in Italy in early May - keep checking back for new dates!

[ Monday 07-01-08 ]

It's 2008! The early part of the new year has so far been taken up by frantic recording!

After much thought, we decided we'd revisit our debut limited edition album as the source for our next release. Loty of people have asked over the past months whether Tales From Silver City will be releleased ever, but we have decided that an entirely new version of the album would be more exciting.

Over the past week we've put down all the drum tracks for the all-new recording, which we are probably retitling Return To Silver City for this new release. Although it will feature the same tracks as the original, the rerecordings are shaping up to be quite different - a lot has changed in a year, we've both grown so much as musicians. We've played those songs at 100 gigs so unsurprisingly we made a few adjustments along the way!

We're excited about how it's coming along, I promise we'll let you all know as soon as we get some of the new versions online! We are hoping to have the album ready by the time we go to Belgium in late February, but if not then we'll definitely release it in March.

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