Liverpool on Friday and contemporary internet usage

OH HAI GUYZ.

We're playing a show in Korova in Liverpool on Friday. It's a fiver. It starts about 9pm. Possibly a little earlier. It's Alasdair's birthday. My friend is making cookies. We're playing new songs. We have some MERCH. There are plenty of full-colour posters for you to steal, you fucking penny-and-dime cheapskates. Come, party, get wild upon the wilderness.

JUST NOW:

We did this thing called "SIGNING UP TO TWITTER."

Is it any good? I keep reading about it in the weekend Guardian supplement whilst wishing that Birchill was still the columnist. BRING BACK BIRCHILL! Maybe I could update our new Twitter account with that very sentence, along with copy and pasting these paragraphs into our myspace blog, facebook, blogspot, bebo, friendster, faceparty and news page of our website.

So yeah, come read brief sentences that we think of and add us or whatever:

http://twitter.com/hotclubdeparis

I hope you're all well.

Paul.xxx

LOST NOTES

DO YOU LOVE YOUR LOCAL SKATESHOP? We love ours. It's called LOST ART and they're so awesome that they don't seem to mind when those without jobs spend entire mornings in there talking absolute rubbish, drinking barrels of bitter black coffee.

Our friend Nick Brown who loves pointing cameras at us has started a sweet little youtube channel in conjunction with Lost Art called Lost Notes. So far he's only uploaded a few music clips but be sure to check back/subscribe to see more content documenting the more wonky things that happen in and around our native Liverpool.

I did a small performance of Mark Magill's (SSS, Grampus Eight, Meow Meow) Sea Shanty Number 9. We'll be doing our very own Lost Notes Hot Club de Paris performance in the nearest of futures.



Speak soon,

Love Paul.x

THURS dAY FRIDAY JOAN OF ARC SUMMER

Hey the kids.

Look at the weather! Have you seen it? It looks a little bit like THE SUMMER.

We are playing some shows! We have played some shows! Three out of four of those shows have been with/will be with JOAN OF ARC who as some of you may know are a completely AWESOME band and part of the reason why HOT CLUB DE PARIS exist.

Thanks to those of you who turned out to see us and them and Johnny Foreigner at Fighting Cocks in Kingston last week. We had as much fun as we always do in Kingston.

Thanks to those of you who came to see us, The Heebie Jeebies, Blacklisters and that other band that sounded a bit like DOG EAT DOG at the Harley in Sheffield on Sunday.

Tomorrow (THURSDAY 4th JUNE) we are playing with JOAN OF ARC again at the Independent in SUNDERLAND. As some of you Sunderland kids know, we swerved our last show there, which is something we hardly do. Sorry about that. But we're back! TOMORROW! SRSLY.

And then on Friday we play with JOAN OF ARC and SHIELD YOUR EYES in our hometown of Liverpool at the Kazimier. I think this one might be one of the best Liverpool shows ever, so be there.

Just think, it might be as good as the first time Mates of State dropped jaws at the Slaughterhouse, or when the original line up of Dananananananananaykroyd destroyed Korova, or seeing Minus the Bear get their knickers in a twist at Heaven and Hell whilst Broomo from Walk the Plank played his guitar upstairs, dressed as a pretty convincing Rocky. It might be as good as the Down and Outs first ever show or when Architecture in Helsinki delivered the goods at the Masque, or when Enablers stormed through their journey on the hottest day of the year sometime during the 24/7 days. It might be as good as Lungfish! Municipal Waste! The Wow when the Magnet was tiny!

Just as a side note; Remember when you used to be able to watch a Deep Elm band everyday of the week?

OK. HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON.

Paul.x