Chewing on Tinfoil

19:44 29th Jan 2012

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Tags: Chewing on Tinfoil Uk Tour US Tour Bomb the Music Industry Vic Ruggiero The Max Levine Ensemble Kudrow Jim Locket and The Solemn Sun Leftover Crack Oi Polloi Less Than Jake

2011

2011 was a pretty good year for us.

In January we embarked on a short tour of the North East of America. We got to play in New York, Boston, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Baltimore and New Jersey. Taking in gigs with Bomb The Music Industry!, Vic Ruggiero, Kudrow, Steady Habits and The Max Levine Ensemble. All great, accommodating, people.

The North East in January is unfuckingyieldingly cold though. We thought, since Ireland is always cold, that we’d be prepared for it. But I very nearly gave up on life in Boston.

Then on St. Patricks Day we went to The Hive Studios and recorded T-Shirts With Big Writing Aren’t Cool for our split 7inch with Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun. (Most attractive band we’ve played with to date.) (Sorry Vic)

This lead to a short UK/Ireland tour in support of the 7inch. We were able to play the main stage at 2000 Trees in Cheltenham.

Here is the video that was made for T-Shirts:

We then were able to support Less Than Jake in Dublin, childhood Stu was pretty impressed.

To finish it off we supported Leftover Crack on a 2 week UK tour. Also getting to play with the legendary Oi Polloi.

End of Tour photo here:

I have a load of polaroid photos from these tours I should really scan in. We really appreciated getting to do all these things. A lot of people helped us out by letting us sleep on their floor/feeding us/bringing equipment. Hopefully we’ll be able to do even more stuff in 2012. Plans are in motion. We’ve started demoing new material. On the 7th of February we will be showcasing that in Whelan’s.

Cheers.

14:14 25th Jan 2012

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Come to our rock concert you guys!

We’ll be showcasing all our new material for our up-coming EP at this!

23:02 15th Jan 2012

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Anonymous asked: Do you guys play in any other bands?

Yes. Sos plays in Crows and Anto plays in Hero In Error.

19:59 14th Jan 2012

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Reblogged from wechasethewaves

wechasethewaves:

This is my friend Justin covering a Chewing on Tinfoil song, another song I don’t know, and an Against Me! song. He is the best dude.

21:31 26th Dec 2011

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Reblogged from themaxlevineensemble

themaxlevineensemble:

NEW MUSIC VIDEO!! ADVENTURES IN PETSITTING!!

We played with these lads in January. Check ‘em out.

00:10 11th Dec 2011

myfavoritesynapse asked: Is Get Rich or Try Dyin' a concept album? I've noticed a lot of repeated lines throughout the songs.

It wasn’t intend to be, no. But after we had the first 10 songs or so that we felt we had to record (if even for the sake of documenting them) we tried to write around them a little bit. So Get Rich was kind of written in two parts. Some of the lines are repeated because we were looking at them in a different way, since we were nearly a new band by the time the album was finished.

20:49 10th Dec 2011

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Reblogged from yanbourke

yanbourke:

Actually did some post-processing on this one, for once. Just warmed it up a bit because the people’s skin tones had somehow come out almost like a black and white photo.

Whelan’s gig crowd