The Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) Video:
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ABOUT US. A brief History:
Henry and The House of Lords are Brothers. Oliver met Henry in Technology and Control GCSE lessons at Ashby School. All three boys liked to "show off". They started to play in a band in the attic of Oliver's house. The band was named "Simple Pastoral Existence", this was not a good name.
Their first recorded gig was at The Bull's Head on Ashby de la zouch high street. The date is not known. Their second gig was Loughborough Battle of the bands in South Park, Loughborough, August 3rd 1997: SPE came third and Henry and House's mum made Spagetti Bolognaise for everyone.
A gap. Then at the end of 1999 The band reformed on the outskirts of Oxford. They were then called "Ponyclub". They bought a vocal PA and some Microphones and practiced upstairs in the local village hall. Downstairs there would often be other organistations meeting: Tuesday was the Morris Men (The same morris men as seen in TYK's "Hollow line" video), Friday was Bowls, Monday would be Amateur dramatics and Wednesday would sometimes be The wildlife organisation who would have slide shows about Herons and St John's wort.
The first gig was in Oxford in 2000 at the Jericho Tavern, supporting a band called "Mattress". There were 21 paying punters. Arguably Ponyclub's best song was called "Picky Sticky", The chorus went "She left food on the table" - it was about a girl with an eating disorder.
In 2001 Ponyclub were offered a small record deal (ie, no money at all but some recording time) with Oxford's indie label Shifty Disco. At this point Ponyclub were forced to change their name and became "The Young Knives" because there was a man with a proper record deal and album calling himself "Pony club" (with a space).
In April 2001 they recorded a 7 track mini album called "The Young Knives ...Are dead". NME gave it 6/10 and nothing more was said. Shifty Disco ran out of Money and TYK were left to fend for themselves.
They started playing Gigs wherever anyone would have them. Their favorite places were "The Grapes" in Sheffield; "Royal Park Cellars" in Leeds; "Moles club" in Bath and "The Bull and Gate" in Kentish Town.
Then in 2004 they released their own demoed album "Nolens Volens" as it looked like no record label would ever had them. Then in 2005 they were got a manager and he tricked Transgressive recirds into signing them. Then it became now and there was rejoicing.
alright young knives, im a huge fan, however, can you please tell me the lyrics to Working Hands!?!?! I dont know them and its one of my favourites. Cheers, keep up the good work!!!
How's it going? Freaking long shot, but does Henry ever remember sending 'Moira M' a text to wish me good luck onstage at a battle of the bands, once? (which i won!)
No? Oh well..
Only if you've got a minute, check out my new band's music. We're a folk-hop band (acoustic guitar, folk violin, freestyle rap). Let us know what you think! If you're in a hurry, then go for our new one 'Calm Surface'.
Side 1 Crocodiles - Hollow Hollow Eyes [previously unreleased in the UK] Mazes - Summer Hitz (Main Dykes) Golden Grrrls - Duane Denison [exclusive track] Cheatahs - Lycanthropy
Side 2 Cold Pumas - Day Monk Night Monk [exclusive track] La La Vasquez - Don't Rush Me The Hipshakes - Not Like I've Had Before Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt
XYZ MAGAZINE THIS MONTH: Speech Debelle / The XX / Dizzee Rascal / Camera Obscura / Skindred / DJ Yoda. Check out our website to read the October issue AND past issues of XYZ Magazine online!
The October issue of Fan the Fire Magazine is out now featuring The Invention Of Lying, Up, A Serious Man, Inception, Up In The Air, The Soft Pack, Lissy Trullie, Hockey, Wolfmother, Paramore and Editors plus art features from The Little Friends Of Printmaking, Arielle Nadel and Huseyin Yilmaz and style spreads by Lauren Ward, Carl Heindl and Matias Troncoso, plus much more.
im very pleased to be included on your list, appreciate the friendship. awesome music and great tracks, btw. 'current in the river' caught my attention. keep the music flowing...
I went to your show last night and would like to express my delight as seeing you again. It was indeed delightful.
You may think that no one cheered for your encore but really we were saving our energy for your last song as you had already said you were coming back. The set was a great mix and the new songs sound fabulous.
I hope you come back soon because I for one would really like to be delighted in your presence again.