tag:usthemgroup.com,2005:/blogs/ttng-news?p=68TTNG News2019-03-07T07:45:35-08:00US / THEM Groupfalsetag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/56720712019-03-07T07:00:10-08:002021-11-07T03:57:26-08:00TTNG Announce Return to US with Animals Tour 2019<figure data-orig-width="518" data-orig-height="728" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/d84cd31ec7247e78515f4e695107fcb5/tumblr_inline_pnyxv5eSwo1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="https://ttng.band/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be returning to N America in celebration of <i>Animal</i>’s<i> </i>10 year anniversary with special guest, The Kraken Quartet, on select dates.<br>Tickets available at <a href="https://ttng.band/" target="_blank">https://ttng.band/</a></p><!-- more --><p><br>TTNG Animals N. America Tour 2019 w/ The Kraken Quartet<br>MAY 31 Chicago, IL @ Chop Shop *<br>JUN 01 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck *<br>JUN 02 Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th St *<br>JUN 03 Austin, TX @ Barracuda<br>JUN 04 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada<br>JUN 06 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge<br>JUN 07 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic<br>JUN 08 Los Angeles, CA @ Highland Park Lodge Room<br>JUN 09 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill<br>JUN 11 Portland, OR @ Lola’s Room<br>JUN 12 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret<br>JUN 13 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon<br>TTNG ONLY *<br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/54836292018-10-23T14:32:53-07:002018-10-23T20:45:23-07:00r/indieheads - [AMA ANNOUNCEMENT] TTNG on Wednesday, October 24th @ 1:00 PM EST!<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/9qqci1/ama_announcement_ttng_on_wednesday_october_24th/?fbclid=IwAR1AK0XVxChBoLo0Qgn9AMu1hrB0FyBhb9S3CtMKqzovowX-3MUiyR4bSso">r/indieheads - [AMA ANNOUNCEMENT] TTNG on Wednesday, October 24th @ 1:00 PM EST!</a>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/54570672018-10-05T10:19:59-07:002018-10-05T15:15:20-07:00TTNG “Animals Acoustic” // OUT NOW<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1024" data-orig-width="1024" style=""><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/f57a01531c05414e88de19efb8eb477a/tumblr_inline_pg4z35ZjIE1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2282513746/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=2ebd35/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/animals-acoustic" target="_blank">Animals Acoustic by TTNG</a></iframe><br>“Animals Acoustic” is out everywhere today. Stream / order <a href="http://smarturl.it/TTNG-AA" target="_blank">HERE</a><br>Animals Tour info and more available at <a href="http://ttng.band/tour" target="_blank">ttng.band/tour</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/54478722018-09-28T11:03:20-07:002022-05-10T22:04:36-07:00TTNG Premiere Track “Baboon” Off “Animals Acoustic”<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdjOOAtQGPCE"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/djOOAtQGPCE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TTNGuk/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARByyb6hUd7j8FB2yZdymqbAQyg619xMxsaIgZbaAwXiohABz-4KYX1CrfCr3amjABJEHr7JXIov2shs&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCPTMqOmTxdU5LgN-tH3B8vRU4TErZMt34Wu5C7eMme1XnFosjrw2L9up-JWSVqlEHhEvUFCGj63mditoU3Tul9zJM4xw0efW5qvmGA_OyoYmRNBk9oMIKN-9T_Cu9mZNC-WTNTVhQLZWg0IuFgWjJsY451gx94vMDWRD8bi6IH03QRX9YEbfI" target="_blank">Ttng</a> share track “Baboon” off their forthcoming release, “Animals Acoustic” – out everywhere Oct 5th. N American preorder <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/ttng" target="_blank">HERE</a> // EU/UK preorder <a href="https://ttng.band/merch/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><p>Visit <a href="http://ttng.band/tour" target="_blank">ttng.band/tour</a> for tickets to their 2018 Animals Tour</p><!-- more --><p>UK Dates:<br>OCT 02 Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford<br>OCT 03 London, UK @ The Garage – SOLD OUT</p><p>US Dates:<br>OCT 09 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge *+<br>OCT 10 Ferndale, MI @ Loving Touch *+<br>OCT 11 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *+<br>OCT 12 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB *+<br>OCT 13 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom *+<br>OCT 15 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *+<br>OCT 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar *+<br>OCT 17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *+<br>OCT 18 Washington, DC @ DC9 *+<br>OCT 19 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall *+<br>OCT 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *</p><p>Prince Daddy & The Hyena *<br>The Kraken Quartet +</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/54387612018-09-21T11:02:03-07:002018-09-21T15:30:21-07:00Support Announced for TTNG Animals 10th Anniversary Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="480" data-orig-width="480" style=""><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/a62f509cb0bd3f573edd99da57ee1eab/tumblr_inline_pff3197ZZ21qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://ttng.band" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be joined by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/princedaddyandthehyena/" target="_blank">Prince Daddy & The Hyena</a> and <a href="http://thekrakenquartet.com/" target="_blank">The Kraken Quartet</a> on all tour dates. Tickets and more info available at <a href="http://TTNG.band/tour" target="_blank">TTNG.band/tour</a><br><br>OCT 09 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge<br>OCT 10 Ferndale, MI @ Loving Touch<br>OCT 11 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace<br>OCT 12 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB<br>OCT 13 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom <br>OCT 15 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall <br>OCT 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar <br>OCT 17 Philadelphia , PA @ First Unitarian Church <br>OCT 18 Washington, DC @ DC9<br>OCT 19 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall <br>OCT 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (w/o The Kraken Quartet)<br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/54196602018-09-07T10:29:47-07:002018-09-07T15:30:19-07:00TTNG –“Dog” Acoustic Version // Track Premiere + Lyric Video<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F0Y3nQcDXWr8"><iframe id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Y3nQcDXWr8?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" allowfullscreen="" width="540" height="304" frameborder="0"></iframe></figure><p>Check out the new track “Dog” from the upcoming <a href="http://ttng.band" target="_blank">TTNG</a> <i>Acoustic Animals </i>album. This track features work from Nate Kinsella and The Mivos Quartet<br></p><p>Pre-Order or Stream here: <a href="http://smarturl.it/TTNG-AA" target="_blank">http://smarturl.it/TTNG-AA</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/53613902018-07-25T10:54:07-07:002018-07-25T11:30:55-07:00TTNG reunite with original vocalist for ‘Animals’ acoustic LP & 10th anniversary tour<figure data-orig-width="318" data-orig-height="116" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/761449593fbdf22af2c4957416cf9048/tumblr_inline_pcfo5x515B1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1600" data-orig-height="902" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/dcf41901e24f6862adb7615ccaa8fc24/tumblr_inline_pcfo6ldJYd1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Article by Andrew Sacher via <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/ttng-reunite-with-original-vocalist-for-animals-acoustic-lp-10th-anniversary-tour/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Vegan</a><br><br>British math rockers <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ttnguk" target="_blank">TTNG</a></b> (fka This Town Needs Guns) are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2008 debut album <i>Animals</i> this year, and they’ve got some big plans for the occasion. They’re releasing an acoustic re-working of <i>Animals</i>, which they made in collaboration with <b>original vocalist Stu Smith</b>, who sang on <i>Animals</i> but left the band in 2011. The new acoustic album also features contributions from <b>Nate Kinsella</b> (Birthmark, American Football, Joan of Arc, etc), <b>Yvette Young</b>(<a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/covet-releasing-lp-on-triple-crown-stream-glimmer/" target="_blank">Covet</a>), <b>Mivos Quartet</b>, and <b>The Kraken Quartet</b>. We’re premiering the new acoustic version of “Gibbon,” which stays pretty true to the original, but also clearly has its own distinct vibe. In this form, it actually kinda reminds me a little of Iron & Wine. Listen and compare it to the original below. <i>Animals Acoustic</i> comes out October 5 via <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> (<a href="http://smarturl.it/TTNG-AA" target="_blank">pre-order</a>).</p><!-- more --><p>TTNG are also going on an <i>Animals</i> 10th anniversary tour, where they’ll perform the album in its entirety, and Stu Smith will be joining the band for the tour too.</p><p>There’s a NYC show on <b>October 16 at Brooklyn Bazaar</b>. Tickets for <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ttng-animals-10th-anniversary-tour-tickets-48351593919" target="_blank">that show</a> and the whole tour go on sale Friday (7/27). All dates are listed below,<br></p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fn02AXylaC0A"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n02AXylaC0A?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p><b>TTNG — 2018 <i>Animals</i> Tour Dates</b><br>OCT 09 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge<br>OCT 10 Ferndale, MI @ Loving Touch<br>OCT 11 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace<br>OCT 12 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB<br>OCT 13 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom<br>OCT 15 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall<br>OCT 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar<br>OCT 17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church<br>OCT 18 Washington, DC @ DC9<br>OCT 19 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall<br>OCT 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade<br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/53613912018-07-25T07:00:08-07:002018-07-25T11:30:55-07:00TTNG Announce US Tour 2018 // Animals 10th Anniversary<figure data-orig-width="2000" data-orig-height="2828" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/d0179c1c0c9a1c01052b291b1328ec65/tumblr_inline_pce2esvB091qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://ttng.band" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be performing Animals (original version) in full with Stu, their original vocalist in the US on the following dates:<br><br>OCT 09 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge<br>OCT 10 Ferndale, MI @ Loving Touch<br>OCT 11 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace<br>OCT 12 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB<br> OCT 13 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom <br>OCT 15 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall <br>OCT 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar <br>OCT 17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church <br>OCT 18 Washington, DC @ DC9<br>OCT 19 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall <br>OCT 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade</p><p>tickets and more info at <a href="http://ttng.band" target="_blank">ttng.band</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/53053712018-06-19T10:59:24-07:002018-06-19T16:01:51-07:00TTNG Final Week on US Tour<figure data-orig-width="810" data-orig-height="1242" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/344019cf596f90c036d4e406e18ff0e9/tumblr_inline_pal0drKxl81qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>This is the final week TTNG will be on tour with Chon, Polyphia & Tricot.<br>Tickets at <a href="http://superchonbros.com" target="_blank">superchonbros.com</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/52043192018-04-26T11:54:02-07:002021-08-18T00:22:51-07:00Win 2 FREE tickets to the Super Chon Bros 2 Tour. All tour dates...<img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/b731aafeb5cf35f9d12d6145d1fd7302/tumblr_p7t362mCui1qc3ixxo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Win 2 FREE tickets to the Super Chon Bros 2 Tour. All tour dates will feature <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TTNGuk/" target="_blank">Ttng</a> in support of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/musicofchon/" target="_blank">CHON</a> with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Polyphia/" target="_blank">Polyphia</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bakuretsurecords.tricot/" target="_blank">tricot</a>. <br>**Visit <a href="http://superchonbros.com/contest" target="_blank">superchonbros.com/contest</a> to see how you can enter**<br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/51171302018-03-07T15:00:33-08:002018-03-07T20:45:41-08:00Official Super Chon Bros Tour 2 PLAYLISTMusic from CHON,...<iframe class="spotify_audio_player" src="http://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Auser%3Achon%3Aplaylist%3A3F08fOmvdjr9ZvhPluhmRc%3Fsi%3DzOpktYX6Tz2T58pQwQknpw&view=coverart" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" width="540" height="620"></iframe><br><br><p><b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/chon/playlist/3F08fOmvdjr9ZvhPluhmRc?si=zOpktYX6Tz2T58pQwQknpw" target="_blank">Official Super Chon Bros Tour 2</a></b><i><b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/chon/playlist/3F08fOmvdjr9ZvhPluhmRc?si=zOpktYX6Tz2T58pQwQknpw" target="_blank"> PLAYLIST</a></b><br></i>Music from CHON, Polyphia, TTNG & Tricot<br><br>Tour info @ <a href="http://superchonbros.com" target="_blank">superchonbros.com</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/51141612018-03-06T10:36:49-08:002018-03-06T11:30:39-08:00TTNG 2018 US Tour w/ CHON<figure data-orig-width="835" data-orig-height="1280" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/0851756433b7571d5c79cf4e286c891e/tumblr_inline_p54y0r0nJb1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>More info @ <a href="http://ttng.band/tour" target="_blank">ttng.band/tour</a><br></p><!-- more --><p>MAY 24 Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues<br>MAY 25 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues<br>MAY 26 Mesa, AZ @ Club Red<br>MAY 27 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater<br>MAY 29 Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues<br>MAY 30 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues<br>MAY 31 New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blue<br>JUN 01 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade<br>JUN 02 Tampa, FL @ Ritz Ybor<br>JUN 03 Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues<br>JUN 05 Charlotte, NC @ Underground<br>JUN 06 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage<br>JUN 07 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<br>JUN 08 New York City, NY @ Playstation Theater<br>JUN 09 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club<br>JUN 12 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues<br>JUN 13 Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall<br>JUN 14 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues<br>JUN 15 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater<br>JUN 16 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater<br>JUN 17 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre<br>JUN 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ Complex<br>JUN 21 Seattle, WA @ Neptune<br>JUN 22 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom<br>JUN 23 San Francisco, CA @ August Hall<br>JUN 24 Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/50628062018-02-05T11:27:00-08:002022-04-04T03:45:25-07:00TTNG Masterclass @ Small Pond<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="679"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/daf122a6d226067f33338942f1232ee8/tumblr_inline_p3ozcd9RtZ1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/new/ttng.band" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be hosting a masterclass in Brighton, UK @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smallpondrecordings/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">Small Pond</a> // Apr 29 // 11AM-1PM</p><p>More info <a href="http://bit.ly/2Ej2PIF" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/50332062018-01-19T13:10:14-08:002018-01-19T16:01:13-08:00TTNG ANNOUNCE EU/UK TOUR 2018<figure data-orig-width="1200" data-orig-height="1697" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/a1a458696dfce9a853bf108541e6117b/tumblr_inline_p2tmq7pef11qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>More info @ <a href="http://ttng.band/tour" target="_blank">ttng.band</a></p><!-- more --><p>APR 07 Paris, FR @ Supersonic<br>APR 08 Lyon, FR @ Le Farmer <br>APR 10 Zurich, CH @ Dynamo <br>APR 11 Modena, IT @ La Tenda<br>APR 12 Umbertide, IT @ Cinema Metropolis<br>APR 13 Milan, IT @ Cox 18<br>APR 14 Zagreb, CR @ Močvara<br>APR 15 Budapest, HU @ Dürer Kert <br>APR 17 Prague, CZ @ Kasárna Karlín <br>APR 18 Berlin, DE @ Zukunft am Ostkreuz<br>APR 19 Hamburg, DE @ Astra Stube<br>APR 20 Cologne, DE @ Subway Club<br>APR 21 Luxembourg, LU @ Kulturfabrik (OOTC Festival)<br>APR 22 Bruges, BE @ De Kelk<br>APR 23 Dover, UK @ The Booking Hall<br>APR 24 London, UK @ Borderline<br>APR 25 Leeds, UK @ Temple of Boom<br>APR 26 Glasgow, UK @ The Classic Grand <br>APR 27 Leicester, UK @ The Cookie<br>APR 28 Brighton, UK @ The Arch (Bad Pond Festival)<br>APR 29 Exeter, UK @ The Cavern<br>APR 30 Bristol, UK @ The Exchange</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/50197312018-01-11T14:06:57-08:002018-01-11T20:15:56-08:00Hong Kong charges dropped against TTNG // BBC<figure data-orig-width="84" data-orig-height="24"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/98bdfc5e645d8ef129a9d2be71887a29/tumblr_inline_p2evyyMLSG1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="660" data-orig-height="371" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/fcf4e50123b9183fe1fb9f68c002e3ab/tumblr_inline_p2evzumEQR1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><i>Full article via <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42602184" target="_blank">BBC</a></i><br></p><p><a href="http://ttng.band" target="_blank">TTNG</a> said they were “delighted and relieved” to announce no further action would be taken<br></p><p>A British band arrested in Hong Kong over alleged visa offences have had the charges against them dropped.</p><!-- more --><p>Oxford’s <a href="https://ttng.band/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> were held after a raid in May by police and immigration officers at a warehouse venue in the Kwun Tong area.</p><p>Since returning home, a crowdfunding campaign raised £7,800 to pay for further plane fares to and from China.</p><p>Now the band have said on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TTNGuk/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf" target="_blank">their Facebook page</a> that no further action will be taken.</p><h2>‘Incredible support’</h2><p>In a statement TTNG said they were “delighted and relieved” that charges made by the Hong Kong authorities had been dropped.</p><p>The band added that they wanted to say “an enormous and sincere thank you” to their fans for their “incredible support both moral and financial over this difficult period”.</p><p>US musician Mylets, who was touring Asia with TTNG, has also had the charges against him dropped and said on Twitter: “Thank you everyone.”</p><p>Under Hong Kong immigration law, the two acts could have been charged with working without the required permit, a crime punishable with a prison sentence or a hefty fine.</p><p>TTNG, formerly known as This Town Needs Guns, were part of the UK’s noughties math rock scene which also included fellow Oxford band Foals.</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/49512992017-11-27T15:27:16-08:002017-11-27T16:15:39-08:00TTNG to play Bad Pond Festival 2018<p>We’re excited to announce <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will play <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/310471952800602/" target="_blank">Bad Pond Festival 2018</a> <br></p><figure data-orig-width="1080" data-orig-height="1080" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/6ee89d9c8ce212f416c1d03de4b6daf9/tumblr_inline_p03nq3SZiw1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/48231372017-08-23T10:49:22-07:002017-08-23T13:00:53-07:00TTNG ‘Disappointment Island’ Sale + Live Video for “Whatever, Whenever”<p>Take 20% off all <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a> <a href="https://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">‘Disappointment Island’</a> <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/ttng" target="_blank">gear and music</a> now through Sept. 15. Huge thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/milktimeproductions?sw_fnr_id=451024338&fnr_t=0" target="_blank">Milk Time Productions </a>for the video of <a href="https://youtu.be/Lgi1GLBxeSQ" target="_blank">‘Whatever, Whenever’</a> !</p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lgi1GLBxeSQ" width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/47022922017-05-09T12:47:00-07:002017-05-09T12:47:02-07:00TTNG Prank // Bandwagon<figure data-orig-width="534" data-orig-height="146" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/4b13f10e40a2efd47f77ee848910b299/tumblr_inline_oppas09oZN1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1920" data-orig-height="430" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/f9f35c7491cb53f8996a96056c729f3b/tumblr_inline_oppas4Wlcs1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1920" data-orig-height="960" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/812750d9603d77af0a85bbbbd42c81e7/tumblr_inline_oppas7tfWS1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>What started as an innocent hoax played on my former fiancé — now wife, don’t worry — turned into a pretty amazing post-wedding gift when British math-rock band TTNG dedicated a song on stage to us newlyweds. </p><p>Lemme explain. A week or so in the lead-up to the wedding, it was announced that two of Sargent House’s math-iest acts — TTNG and one-man project Mylets — would be playing in Singapore come May 6th, as part of <a href="https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/kittywu-records-compilation-singapore" target="_blank">KittyWu Records’ 10th-anniversary festivities</a>. As a passing jest, I told my former-girlfriend/fiancé-now-missus that its unfortunate that the lads will be playing on the same day of our wedding.</p><figure data-orig-width="1700" data-orig-height="1133" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/0c37540a6f5e2abc82a16db3b303cea0/tumblr_inline_oppaszDsJ81qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>In her infinite wisdom (and boundless stress from arranging a DIY wedding reception) she didn’t check their concert date. Even Daniel Peters, editor of this site, got in on the joke, prompting her to go into the deep end. Deep enough for her to seriously concoct plans to ditch our reception at night AND send out a tweet to TTNG that hey, they should <i>totally</i> come by our wedding to play a song or two. </p><p>That was a signal that the joke went way too far, and she reacted in an appropriately <i>displeased</i> manner once I told her about that we were just pulling her leg. She broke off the wedding soon after, and I regret everything. </p><p>I kid; we had a nice enough ceremony by the sea with lots of our favourites from TTNG’s <i>Animals</i>. All was eventually forgiven (I think), but the whole prank got the attention of the Oxford lads, who then made a proper shout out to us during their show at Esplanade’s Annexe Studio. </p><p>Full article <a href="https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/ttng-mylets-singapore-concert-gig-review-kittywu" target="_blank">Here.</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/47022932017-05-09T12:40:07-07:002021-06-22T23:11:38-07:00TTNG and Mylets Manila Show Review // Bandwagon<figure data-orig-width="534" data-orig-height="146" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/4b13f10e40a2efd47f77ee848910b299/tumblr_inline_opp8kxYqiG1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1844" data-orig-height="398" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e829291b49bd68d72446dbf2ca8cbb0a/tumblr_inline_opp8l1emhQ1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="2344" data-orig-height="1170" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/44cf4103579db6445a9129e8712fc63e/tumblr_inline_opp8m0Sqnk1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“I would like to dedicate this to a dog we met yesterday, who was very gracious about letting us bother him,” said Henry ‘Hank’ Tremain as he introduced their closing song for the night.</p><p>It wasn’t the first dedication the <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a> bassist/vocalist had made, as every song the band played was peppered with a shout-out to someone they’ve encountered since landing with Mylets in Manila two days before their show.</p><p>In many ways, TTNG + <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> Live was like a typical gig in Manila. Produced by A Spur of the Moment Project (ASOTMP), the concert was held at 19 East in Sucat on a post-holiday Tuesday night, and also featured ASOTMP’s very own Tom’s Story and tide/edit, themselves fairly known names in the local indie scene. The crowd was made up of fans of all four bands, or at least folks who were predisposed to be, which meant barely anyone set foot outside the venue once the show began. It was a practice in quality over quantity, both in terms of audience and lineup.</p><figure data-orig-width="1920" data-orig-height="1280" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/508dea1f790e314a8a03a7f0f3527a03/tumblr_inline_opp8v7EJkF1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1920" data-orig-height="1280" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/819b885c835d9b721d7ae4311565bf22/tumblr_inline_opp8voVH0L1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Full article and more pictures via <a href="https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/gig-report-ttng-and-mylets" target="_blank">Bandwagon.</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/46339042017-03-16T22:00:12-07:002017-03-17T07:16:52-07:00TTNG // Mylets, 2017 Tour of Asia Dates<figure data-orig-width="552" data-orig-height="781" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/3adc6e66e58d55f848103922e87a99ea/tumblr_inline_omxhtd0YCn1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>We’re happy to announce an Asia tour Asia this Spring. <a href="http://myletsmusic.com" target="_blank">Mylets</a> will join us on most dates.<br>Tickets available <a href="https://ttng.band/tour/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>4/25 Osaka, Japan @ Conpass<br>4/26 Nagoya, Japan @ Club Upset<br>4/27 Tokyo, Japan @ Fever<br>4/28 Tokyo, Japan @ Fever <br>4/29 Yokohama, Japan @ F.A.D *<br>5/02 Manila, Philippines @ 19 East<br>5/03 Taipei, Taiwan @ APA Mini<br>5/05 Singapore, Singapore @ Esplanade<br>5/06 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia @ The Bee Publika<br>5/07 Hong Kong, China @ Hidden Agenda<br>5/10 Guangzhou, China @ TBA<br>5/11 Shanghai, China @ TBA<br>5/12 Beijing, China @ TBA</p><p>* TTNG ONLY<br><br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/45343912017-01-02T14:57:29-08:002017-01-02T15:16:52-08:00TTNG Interview // Birthday Cake For Breakfast<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="64" data-orig-width="699"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/65e41ecd66b44a88ae54b7e7f85255be/tumblr_inline_oj6apiYALq1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="466" data-orig-width="563"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/de8465adf004c2ca04497ad06c1cb883/tumblr_inline_oj6ci9hAQ31qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>I’m stood backstage at<a href="http://www.arctangent.co.uk/" target="_blank"> ArcTanGent Festival</a> with math-rock heroes <a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG </a>and – first question in – rather than using words to express his feelings following their performance on Thursday evening, drummer Chris Collis highlights the Birthday Cake For Breakfast smiling dog (above) as a visual representation. Vocalist and bassist Henry Tremain and guitarist Tim Collis erupt in laughter, Tim adding further explanation.<br>“For the listener – Picture is dog with Birthday Cake, looking gleeful.”</p><p>Having had time to adjust (with Henry suggesting that TTNG would be the dog in the situation, the cake being the audience), Tim reflects further on their performance – commenting at one point that it was likely their best ArcTanGent set to date.<br>“No, it was great. Really great to play in the UK again, ‘cus I guess it’s been a while.” He says.<br>“Yesterday’s response was fucking incredible, like seriously.” Adds Henry. “One of the new songs we have this quiet build up and everyone was clapping along. It was pretty amazing.”</p><p>It’s fair to say that ArcTanGent is becoming a regular entry in the social calendars of those with a penchant for math/post/alt-rock and everything in-between. Growing in size year upon year, the organisers outdo themselves when curating incredible line-ups every time. TTNG have become a staple of the festival, having appeared at three of its four outings, matching the likes of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar/?fref=ts" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mybshwll/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Maybeshewill</a>.<br>“We had a break, caught our breath and then we came back to eat some more audience members.” Laughs Henry.</p><!-- more --><p>Much like TTNG are becoming a regular fixture of ArcTanGent, so too is the inevitability that the weather will be foul. This year’s festival featured particularly outrageous weather. Almost at Monsoon levels, Fernhill Farm gave Manchester a run for its money with the amount of downpour. It almost made watching bands and drinking beer unbearable…<br>“It’s getting wetter and wetter each time.” Nods Tim.</p><p>The spirit of the attendees is always high, mind, and tents are always suitably rammed whatever the weather. Though the main stage has a slight ‘open-air’ issue, as many found out whilst watching Russian Circles a while back.<br>“The first one was awesome, then the second was crazy wet…” Adds Henry. “I remember seeing Russian Circles and getting totally drenched.”</p><p>Prior to their return to UK soil and triumphant showing at ArcTanGent, TTNG had been stateside on a run of North American dates throughout August and July with the likes of Lite, <a href="http://myletsmusic.com" target="_blank">Mylets </a>and GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! A mammoth journey through America, made even sweeter with a number of dates across the run selling out. The secret?<br>“Well we actually have a fan base over there…” Says Henry with a laugh. “It was a good tour, the sales were a lot better than we were expecting – the pre-sales beforehand had us kind of worried. We were feeling like that’s gonna be our last trip out to the states, but it actually went completely in the other direction.”</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="421" data-orig-width="554"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/d383c3d1a6f5a5e6ef7e1e708d42d86d/tumblr_inline_oj6cjaOt3l1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Sargent House mainstay and running mate of both <a href="http://asiwyfa.com" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a> and TTNG (as discussed recently with the former in <a href="https://birthdaycakebreakfast.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/a-proper-festival-everyone-can-call-their-own-an-interview-with-and-so-i-watch-you-from-afar-at-arctangent-2016/" target="_blank">this interview</a>), Henry Kohen a.k.a. Mylets was along for the ride during their stay in America. There’s an obvious bond between both bands and Henry, the younger Kohen popping up regularly on their various social media accounts whenever they’re in the US. It’s almost as if both bands have taken him under their collective wings, though TTNG jest that it’s likely the other way round.<br>“I think he’s pretty much an integral cog in our machine.” Say Tim of Henry. “He’s awesome to have on tour. He has a multi-functioning role on tour, so he TM’s and drives, plays and techs. It’d be really difficult to do it without him actually. He’s awesome and his music’s great so it’s always cool to play with him.”<br>“He writes these amazing compositions on the fly in the van…” Adds Henry with a laugh.</p><p>This is again another period of the interview which would benefit from video evidence or similar, with the trio sharing a laugh reminiscing about the songwriting talents of both Henry’s through the use of a music memo app on an iphone, allowing them to write such improvised van hits as ‘Mummy’ and its sequel ‘Daddy’. A suggested special improvised song for Birthday Cake For Breakfast using said app sadly never materialises.</p><p>Away from improvised van recordings, the North American Tour coincided with the release of the band’s third studio album, ‘Disappointment Island’. Recorded live to tape over a ten day period, the trio got together at the infamous Electrical Audio studios in Chicago with Greg Norman, before it was mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac. It was actually in America where TTNG got to shape the eventual album, during a tour with The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die and Foxing. Though the album itself had some uncertainty in the lead up to its completion, as Tim explains.<br>“I think it was good to get it done, for sure. I think there was a time before that we weren’t sure that it was gonna happen. It was kinda pressured to do it like that…” He says. “We kinda just went for it – it’s gotta be done by that time, so… It was helpful to have that.”</p><p>“We had kind of finished writing just before the tour and then we used the tour to rehearse the material, get it tour ready so that by the time we were in the studio, we’d kinda ironed out all the kinks and actually learned how to play the songs well enough, with enough energy.” Says Henry. “I think throwing them out in front of an audience is the exact environment where the pressure’s on where you have to get better and play them… I’m sure it led to some right stinkers during some of those shows, but it helped the album.” He laughs.<br>“Possibly another reason why we didn’t think anyone would show up for this tour – hey, here’s the new stuff and it’s all terrible.” Adds Chris with a smirk. “But no, it was a good method. Psychologically I personally felt actually ready to be in the studio, wherein other times it’s just chaos and being really anxious. Sort of knowing that – ok, in theory this is ready, I can play this – was a huge benefit going into the studio.”</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFGC8gQ-YLEU"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FGC8gQ-YLEU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>Cramming everything into these ten day sessions clearly proved fruitful, though potentially took years off lifetimes, as the mention of their experience in the studio is greeted by a slight sense of dread between the three-piece. Flashbacks of the whip being cracked visible in their eyes.<br>“Stressful.” Confirms Chris when approached on the subject. “I found it stressful.”<br>“I found it incredibly stressful throughout, because the last thing to happen is the vocals.” Adds Henry. “That, for me, is a massive stress. The bit that I really enjoy, which is playing the music bit, was really enjoyable, but there was still this high pitched violin string running in the back of my mind. I was still tense throughout. But, having said that, Electrical Audio where we recorded it is the best place. I absolutely love that place, it just feels like home. Greg, who’s our engineer, is one of the best humans ever. Made us feel totally at home and he’s just funny as fuck. I was having a really bad time doing the vocals, but he’d always manage to say something down the headphones that would put shit in perspective and make me feel good again.”</p><p>“Get your head together!” Says Tim with a laugh, before summing up his own experience. “It’s kinda nice as well, because it was a fairly long tour before that, so it wasn’t a very sterile studio at all. It would’ve been weird going to that sort of place after quite a stressful tour. It was really homely, so it was kind of a really cool place to chill out – for the most part. I know I had an easy job, I only had to do one thing, so I had a pretty good time.”<br>“I felt kind of bad at the end of the session, I felt like I was moving out of home.” Adds Henry with a laugh.<br>“It’s got a really nice, homely vibe to it so it’s very relaxing.” Agrees Chris. “Which is good obviously, when you’re in a somewhat pressured environment or situation, I should say.”</p><p>Disappointment Island marks the first TTNG album recorded as a three-piece. Following the departure of lead singer and guitar player Stuart Smith and bass player Jamie Cooper over the years, the band transformed and Henry, Tim and Chris carried on as a trio.<br>“It’ll be the last” Comments Chris with a laugh when we discuss the album being put together as a trio. “No, it was great. We’ve been a three-piece for a long time, but obviously trying to play that first album that had four people on it was difficult. So this was great.”</p><p>With more room to breath, this allowed for more experimentation, including a new instrument busted out by Henry (though sadly not a ‘Daxaphone’, much to the chagrin of everyone in the band).<br>“Yeah dude, check out the Daxophone. It’s a real instrument.” Laughs Henry. “But yeah, I built this six-string bass baritone guitar that I play, and it was nice to actually – instead of using it to play the space between guitar parts and bass parts – to actually write for that instrument. It was super fun.”</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="193" data-orig-width="520"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/1405f4eacfcb6637a8a818bb1b60e6bc/tumblr_inline_oj6cnqB9Sc1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Teasers for Disappointment Island began showing up online in early May in the form of picturesque little vignettes, accompanied by the outline of an island and coordinates. Brilliantly, <a href="http://feckingbahamas.com/news-every-ttng-teaser-so-far" target="_blank">Fecking Bahamas not only kept track of each individual video but looked up the coordinates online</a> and pipped TTNG to the post regarding the album name (as did a fair few other not-so-lazy fans). The title itself goes back a number of years, with Google acting as inspiration. Much like the artwork that adorns its cover, Disappointment Island was something the trio were unable to forget.<br>“I’ve always wanted to visit.” Confesses Tim with a laugh.<br>“As soon as you find a place like that, there’s so much mystery behind that name.” Adds Henry. “I found it on google earth probably about six/seven years ago, by chance ‘cus I was working as a graphic designer in a print company. We had a slow period, so I would just fly around the planet, checking out Tokyo’s rail networks and then just checking out how big the Pacific Ocean is…”<br>“Turns out it’s pretty big.” Smirks Tim.</p><p>As anyone with access to YouTube, Google Earth or countless time-wasting platforms will attest, it’s relatively simple to become obsessed in pointless searches and get lost down a rabbit hole. This became Henry and his virtual flights across the globe, becoming obsessed with minuscule landmasses in the middle of the abyss. It was one such search that resulted in the discovery of ‘Disappointment Island’.<br>“We’ve kind of been joking about it for a while. After the session we recorded with Greg, we went out for some drinks. Tim suggested it jokingly as a title and then it’s like – that’s hilarious, no wait it’s actually kind of perfect. The more we thought about it, the more it made sense.”<br>“It all ties in with quite a few things.” Adds Tim. “I guess Henry can back this up, but perhaps lyrically on some of the topics and subjects he’s writing about. It’s pretty neat really, which is the total opposite of the previous album, which was just random chaos but seemed to also work out.” He laughs.</p><p>Similarly, the aforementioned striking artwork for Disappointment Island was practically found out of various fruitless google image searches, trawling through the internet in search of inspiration. The intricate, slightly oddball work of Ukrainian artist and illustrator<a href="http://www.zablotska.com/" target="_blank"> Irena Zablotska </a>came as love at first sight for the trio, with Henry commenting that the decision was made as soon as they’d caught sight of her work.<br>“She’s incredibly talented.” He says. “There’s some amazing character to the work that she does. We went through and we found that illustration and thought it was perfect for what we wanted.“</p><p>At the time of writing, TTNG have finished off their year with a trip to Japan to play with Lite – the cherry on top of a monumental 2016. Their current line-up is stronger than ever, with the trio highlighting this through Disappointment Island. Throughout the interview, the Collis siblings and Henry are joyful, taking the piss and are clearly a tight-knit group. All is going swimmingly then? <br>“We all put on brave faces for these kind of interviews…” Jokes Chris as the others laugh. “Things are going really well. We wanna write some new music I think.”<br>“I’m saving up for a Daxophone.” Grins Henry.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGwuFaiS88H4"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GwuFaiS88H4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p><a href="https://birthdaycakebreakfast.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/interview-ttng-talk-disappointment-island-arctangent-and-a-prosperous-year/" target="_blank">(via Birthday Cake For Breakfast)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/45145952016-12-16T14:00:01-08:002016-12-16T15:05:09-08:00TTNG On The Alternative’s Top 30 Of 2016<figure data-orig-height="170" data-orig-width="170"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/9dd91c8e1177ef737e81d37efba13e4a/tumblr_inline_oiaswaaol81qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1200" data-orig-width="1200"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/d8b09a7c70527fa66d82b63644937e79/tumblr_inline_oiasxk2ZdE1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="204" data-orig-width="1358"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/bc44ae6d83b8c9f4a60f504914a5b79c/tumblr_inline_oiasxuBfk51qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>15. <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a> - <i><a href="https://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a><br></i>This album has proven to be one of my favorites to just lay back and enjoy the music. I don’t have to be anymore, I just lay and listen. At times I imagine the idea of an island being filled with such disappointment that this is the soundtrack, and I am the island.</p><p>For a full list go to <a href="http://www.getalternative.com/staff-list-seans-top-30-albums-2016/" target="_blank">The Alternative</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/44237132016-10-17T17:45:32-07:002022-05-31T00:46:07-07:00Just Announced: TTNG To Play Forever Alone Festival in Mexico City<figure data-orig-width="741" data-orig-height="62" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/3579d6faf411c6bf198642a30715978b/tumblr_inline_of7wfm6HHn1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="443" data-orig-height="293" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/1a947ac8d02a8e8ae1a62a1b77c63a6d/tumblr_inline_of7wg59mbB1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> has just been confirmed to perform at next year’s <a href="https://sadfest.boletia.com" target="_blank">Forever Alone Fest</a> 2k17 along with <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> labelmate <a href="http://www.myletsmusic.com" target="_blank">Mylets</a> and other great acts to be announced soon. This is the first time TTNG and Mylets will play Latin America!</p><p>Revista Picnic (Voo Doo) has written about the announcement and other acts, read the article (in Spanish) <a href="http://revistapicnic.com/forever-alone-iii-voodoo/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><figure data-orig-width="513" data-orig-height="510" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/45a5803459ad68d3421a0ed4edf296ca/tumblr_inline_of7wf9kEK41qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/43930272016-09-27T12:07:42-07:002017-01-12T06:15:56-08:00TTNG premieres “Sponkulus Nodge” Small Pond Session on Musical Mathematics<figure data-orig-width="976" data-orig-height="42" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/223e15c5d976541edbf20b2a3b9b41cd/tumblr_inline_oe6fchgaNG1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="999" data-orig-height="470" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/84640dc6dc358d17d9b2ed9269f34e5b/tumblr_inline_oe6fcnUXrX1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>So, <a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> are pretty good right?!</p><p>What is there to say about a band like TTNG that hasn’t already been said a hundred times? Oxford. Math rock. Time signatures. Cats – you get the picture… They’re an undisputed institution. And rightly fucking so, because they’re incredible.</p><p>But, before you start chatting soppy shit about Stu and Animals, and how ‘Aardvark’ is the best thing they’ve ever done, let’s get one thing straight. <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a> is some of the band’s best work. Period. So post that on your Facebook group.</p><p>Part of what makes Disappointment Island so good is it’s overwhelming authenticity. Recorded live, straight to tape, TTNG’s new album isn’t just a great record because of its songs, it’s also a great album because of how close it brings TTNG’s live and recorded sound. See perfect example below:</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFGC8gQ-YLEU"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FGC8gQ-YLEU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>Taken from their session with Brighton boys Small Pond, ‘Sponkulus Nodge’ showcases just how far the Oxford 3-piece in the past few years and how relatable their most recent record is. Now, for the love of god can we have a UK tour please!?</p><p><a href="http://smallpondrec.co.uk/" target="_blank">Find more sessions from Small Pond</a></p><p>Words by Andy Crowder</p><p><a href="http://musicalmathematics.co.uk/watch-ttng-perform-sponkulus-nodge-in-small-pond-session/" target="_blank">(via Musical Mathematics)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/43854532016-09-22T12:42:13-07:002017-01-12T06:15:55-08:00TTNG Interview // Myspace<figure data-orig-height="53" data-orig-width="148"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/651855d2c4f61b73e005487a1e36dabc/tumblr_inline_odx7tgDc0x1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="399" data-orig-width="1140"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/5d9ebb75549b252329008353b938a8cd/tumblr_inline_odx7uxB04p1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>“Tina Turner’s Nipple Gravy!” all three members of <a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> respond enthusiastically when asked what their favorite fake name is for one of the UK’s biggest math rock bands.</p><p>Henry Tremain, Tim Collis and Chris Collis used to be known as This Town Needs Guns, but the ironic humor in the band’s name was lost as the trio became more famous, and they didn’t want to be confused for a decidedly pro-firearm group. Rather than switching gears entirely, the band’s well-known abbreviation became their official moniker. </p><p>“There are some legit rivals for the name on social media, like The Three Nice Girls and The Travel Network Group,” guitarist Tim Collis says with a smirk. “We get tagged in all sorts of stuff on social media. That’s the real reason we changed it: to do better on social media and to confuse our fans. Beside that, there’s a big chat and spiel we can go on, but it’s not a big deal.”</p><p>But that was almost four years and a pair of releases ago. These days, TTNG’s touring the world in support of July’s Disappointment Island and has built a fanbase spanning continents. But today, they’re still shaking off the jet lag and tracking down their instruments as they stroll into L.A.’s Mohawk Bend for a bit of lunch before their U.S. tour kicks off in two days. Of course, it’s a lot cheaper for TTNG to go out to eat on tour these days than it was for the first couple of tours.</p><p>“When we first started, there were five people,” Tim says as he bites into one of the four seared ahi tuna sandwiches at the table. “Then there were four, and then when we did 13.0.0.0.0 it was a transitional period. This is the first time we’ve been comfortable and written as three for the whole record.”</p><p>“I’m just looking forward to the next record as a two-piece,” jokes vocalist and bassist Henry Tremain. “We’re going to have to draw straws to see who gets cut.”</p><!-- more --><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGwuFaiS88H4"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GwuFaiS88H4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>While some bands may struggle losing two members over two records, the guys in TTNG believe the downsizing has actually improved their sound. Tremain plays a modified bass to bridge the melodic gap of not having a second guitar, and each of the members believe that they have more space to shine individually as a trio. In a genre crowded with the most complex multi-guitar riffs and layered sounds, it gives TTNG a unique sound both on record and during live shows. </p><p>“It’s nice to have that variety rather than a tonal range for the entire album,” Tremain says as he crunches down on a fresh-made potato chip. “There are sections when the bass is missing, and then when the bass comes back in and you have some low frequencies it changes the feeling of the album. It gives variety and contrast, and I think contrast is super important for keeping music interesting.”</p><p>Over the course of the next few months, TTNG will find out just how an American audience feels about Disappointment Island during their live shows across the country. By the end of the year, they’ll have spanned most of the world with their new material in venues big and small. But while many bands dream of being able to tour internationally and have fans fill their concerts, the guys in TTNG are at the point where they appreciate the little things after over a decade of existence.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="525" data-orig-width="700"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/3c666153be6bf0a7f505dfb1542696cf/tumblr_inline_odx819jstL1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>“It’s always fun to come [to the U.S.] and see everyone,” says drummer Chris Collis between fries. “It’s also nice to be out here in sunny California where the weather is beautiful. We haven’t had much of a summer back home in England, so the weather is a factor.”</p><p>“I’m just looking forward to avocado,” Tremain adds as he stares at his sandwich.</p><p>Although the sunshine and guacamole may not follow the band everywhere they go, there’s little doubt that TTNG will continue to be one of the biggest names in math rock for years to come. From Albuquerque to Ireland, Philadelphia to Japan, they’ll be continuing to dine on patios anytime the sun’s out and crack jokes on each other regardless of temperature.</p><p>And for those still wondering what TTNG could possibly stand for these days, Teenage Tutant Ninja Gurtles and Tar Trek the Next Generation are two of the band’s other favorites. It’s pretty tough to beat Tina Turner’s Nipple Gravy though.</p><p><a href="https://myspace.com/article/2016/9/22/ttng-name-change-math-rock-free-lunch" target="_blank">(via Myspace)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/43842302016-09-21T14:50:36-07:002016-09-21T19:17:23-07:00Little Elephant Live Session // “+3 Awesomeness Repels Water”<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCLt0JP0g4i0"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CLt0JP0g4i0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p><a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> recorded a live session with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/littleelephantrecord" target="_blank">Little Elephant</a> in August. You can check out the first video for “+3 Awesomeness Repels Water” now, featuring <a href="http://myletsmusic.com" target="_blank">Mylets</a>.</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/43257102016-08-15T10:49:55-07:002021-05-20T04:20:20-07:00TTNG Small Pond Session debuts on New Noise Magazine<figure data-orig-width="260" data-orig-height="90"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/5b5cef64fcb68308dbb433196a460513/tumblr_inline_obypd5zVep1qbzv4w_500.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="683" data-orig-height="529" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/fdd9f8391e80d79f566c7ae7a91d7e55/tumblr_inline_obypdfV91b1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of <a href="http://ttng.net/" target="_blank">TTNG</a>‘s live performance of their song “Coconut Crab” for <a href="http://smallpondrec.co.uk/" target="_blank">Small Pond Session</a> (watch it below). The track is taken from the band’s latest album Disappointment Island, available now through <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>. You can check out excerpts from each track off the album below the video, as well as purchase it <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com/stores" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Small Pond Session comments on having TTNG in the studio:</p><blockquote><p>“We were stoked to host TTNG for a live show in Brighton alongside Tangled Hair & Delta Sleep, and even more excited when they agreed to pop down to our recording studio and film a session for one of the tracks from their new album ‘<a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a>.’ We’re all big fans of their technical ability and song writing, and they’re just great dudes!”</p></blockquote><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGwuFaiS88H4"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GwuFaiS88H4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p><a href="http://newnoisemagazine.com/ttng-coconut-crab-small-pond-session/" target="_blank">(via New Noise Magazine)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/43177152016-08-09T17:03:32-07:002022-05-11T07:15:16-07:00photos by Andrea SchollnickIt’s a humid night in Nashville as TTNG steps on stage, patiently...<figure data-orig-width="508" data-orig-height="122" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/7e7901b101f60db780f51881f198dfa7/tumblr_inline_obo2o47lWI1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="722" data-orig-height="461" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/4815238de2c0e1086162be2964e221f4/tumblr_inline_obo2oaoJsH1qbe5i0_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><i>photos by Andrea Schollnick</i></p><p>It’s a humid night in Nashville as <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a> steps on stage, patiently preparing to start the show. The crowd stares toward the group, anticipating the frantic fingering and snazzy riffs they have come to know and love from their favorite British math-rockers. As TTNG melds into their zone, the club becomes vibrant. Then almost as soon as the first song ends, silence falls across the crowd, but the energy still buzzes over the crowd, intently focused and waiting for the next tune.</p><p>“You guys are quiet,” singer Henry Tremain jokes while tuning his six-string bass.</p><p>Almost instantly his words are met with deafening screams and scattered woos.</p><p>“No that’s a good thing!” Tremain chuckles. “It means you’re paying attention.”</p><figure data-orig-width="200" data-orig-height="300"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/fe5cf74210c135f2ee22ad16972499cf/tumblr_inline_obo2pdXaqr1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://highlightmagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IMG_4904.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p><p>A “Fuck Yeah!” is launched from the back of the crowd, validating Tremain’s comments.</p><p>The upbeat demeanor and pleasantries of TTNG reflect that this isn’t their first rodeo, and that the boys cherish their career and workspaces. Having just released their third record, <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a>, the band feels more comfortable than ever, and feels that not much has changed when the traditional narrative of a new album assumes otherwise.</p><!-- more --><p>“We don’t feel as though much has changed, we’re still the same people doing what we love and if we have we haven’t noticed” said guitarist Tim Collis.</p><p>Nonetheless, the growth has been inevitable. TTNG’s abroad popularity has increased tremendously, and Nashville’s response to the group has been overwhelmingly positive. The band also acknowledges that the response to the new record has been delightful.</p><figure data-orig-width="300" data-orig-height="200" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/655868a0f6c3d60b510e8315b2fbdd7a/tumblr_inline_obo2qpz8WD1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>“The response to the record has been great. We’ve been hearing mixed perspectives on tracks and the album which has created some positive discussions among fans,” said Collis.</p><p>As the evening winds down, and TTNG gears up for their final tracks, The High Watt begins to rumble as a nearby train chugs past the venue.</p><p>“We love the trains, it makes us feel like we’re back home, only this time we get to see them and they’re not above our heads,” Tremain says, smiling.</p><p>The idea of home seems to resonate with TTNG, because for them, home is not only the UK, but the stage underneath them, and with the people in front of them.</p><figure data-orig-height="300" data-orig-width="200"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/0a42d4717331f76f55ebebafa1c8fc09/tumblr_inline_obo2s0u0Rc1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://highlightmagazine.net/2016/08/05/review-ttng-make-themselves-at-home-at-nashvilles-the-high-watt/" target="_blank">(via Highlight Magazine)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42941442016-07-25T12:36:51-07:002021-02-08T22:36:56-08:00TTNG Los Angeles live review // Grimy Goods<figure data-orig-width="746" data-orig-height="132" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/d0cdc875e509b9d82b5e225e116c9b63/tumblr_inline_oavy57mswo1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="654" data-orig-height="461" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/ace784e9edba2eba3a21cf70e0be0828/tumblr_inline_oavy60lHeO1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="647" data-orig-height="72" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/2664cad942891fdd3816cbee56f8403e/tumblr_inline_oavy6hzVwp1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Words & Photography: <a href="http://www.grimygoods.com/contact/about-grimy-goods-music-blog/" target="_blank">Danielle Gornbein</a><br></p><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a>, formerly known as This Town Needs Guns came on stage. These Oxford gents were cheered on by fans of all ages. Frontman Henry Tremain takes on lead melodic vocals and bass, while brothers Tim and Chris Collis cover guitar and drums. The three-piece prove top of their game when it comes to technical stylings. Beginning their set with a track from their recent album release <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a>, TTNG were just warming up. The set didn’t even get to track number three before they broke a guitar string. Taking the time to grab a new one, fans anxiously stood by waiting for this magic to continue. They really are just that, magical. From any spot in the crowd, you caught people swaying with their eyes closed, hands up to the ceiling, even some tears being shed… all the feels were present.</p><p>Disappointment Island is TTNG’s third full-length studio album and most definitely not the last. These guys take such pride in their work and it shows through their deliverance. Well done, gents.</p><p><a href="http://www.grimygoods.com/2016/07/25/ttng-photos-review-teragram-ballroom/?nggpage=2" target="_blank">See full photoset at Grimy Goods</a></p><!-- more --><figure data-orig-width="1000" data-orig-height="668" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//65.media.tumblr.com/49dcad123bbfaf58e8e1736f9f9ff6e5/tumblr_inline_oavya4kgUe1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1000" data-orig-height="668" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/cd9d07565e28526474a6e67357fd54af/tumblr_inline_oavyaiiHwH1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1000" data-orig-height="668" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/a56d21cbd48a1a737610c97cb4312d11/tumblr_inline_oavyau9zSd1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1000" data-orig-height="668" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/270f3daa6f7d559e198af9d1334538a7/tumblr_inline_oavyb3WJXf1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.grimygoods.com/2016/07/25/ttng-photos-review-teragram-ballroom/?nggpage=2" target="_blank">See the full photoset at Grimy Goods</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42703032016-07-08T12:01:59-07:002017-01-12T06:15:51-08:00TTNG’s “Disappointment Island” is out today<figure data-orig-width="2000" data-orig-height="2000" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/5d128029d87055334def9f34fa09beac/tumblr_inline_oa0aj4jJlB1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">TTNG</a>’s third album, <i><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a></i>, is out today. You can find it in LP & CD (<a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/ttng" target="_blank">US $ - ships worldwide</a>, <a href="http://sargenthouse.awesomedistro.com/artists/ttng" target="_blank">UK £ - ships to UK/EU</a>) or digital formats (<a href="http://smarturl.it/TTNG-DIsland" target="_blank">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://open.spotify.com/artist/0Va70G0IR4lhBkJcvjlXBA" target="_blank">Spotify</a>).</p><p>TTNG will be touring the US in just a few weeks, kicking off in San Francisco on July 21st. After playing their last show on the US run, the band flies back to the UK for <a href="http://www.arctangent.co.uk/" target="_blank">ArcTanGent Festival</a> and a show with toe, Steve Strong, and Yonen in Dublin. All tour dates can be found below - tickets are available <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p><b>TTNG Disappointment Island Tour 2016</b></p><p>Jul-21 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside<br>Jul-22 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom<br>Jul-23 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic<br>Jul-24 Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock Live<br>Jul-26 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress<br>Jul-27 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad<br>Jul-28 El Paso, TX @ 5points Patio #<br>Jul-29 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada #<br>Jul-30 Austin, TX @ Sidewinder #<br>Jul-31 Houston, TX @ The Raven Tower #<br>Aug-02 Nashville, TN @ High Watt *<br>Aug-03 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Purgatory) *<br>Aug-04 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 *<br>Aug-05 Washington, DC @ DC9 *<br>Aug-06 New York, NY @ Studio at Webster Hall *!<br>Aug-07 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry *<br>Aug-09 Boston, MA @ Great Scott * !<br>Aug-10 Hamden, CT @ The Space !<br>Aug-11 Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose #<br>Aug-12 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme #<br>Aug-13 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean #</p><p>Aug-18 Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent Festival<br>Aug-20 Dublin, IE @ Button Factory w/toe, Steve Strong, Yonen</p><p># MYLETS supporting<br>* LITE supporting<br>! GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! supporting</p><p>See what people are saying about the album below - </p><figure data-orig-width="260" data-orig-height="90"><img src="//65.media.tumblr.com/0527a7eeb894820fb9d1c13675fb0006/tumblr_inline_oa0f73KSYa1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“TTNG take their care and sorrow into intelligent orchestrations that embrace complex patterns and don’t take them too far. They let them ride out into this realm of calm and deliberate palettes, making <i>Disappointment Island </i>more fun to be around.” - <a href="http://newnoisemagazine.com/album-review-ttng-disappointment-island/" target="_blank">New Noise Magazine</a>, 4/5<br></p><figure data-orig-width="200" data-orig-height="200"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/213b4c20c89f86abe9039b40f3c44cad/tumblr_inline_oa0fapm3Dz1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“TTNG has always been one of the few math-rock bands to have an innate sense of melody—something that’s improved after playing with the likes of American Football and rubbed off on tourmates like Tera Melos—and jams like “Coconut Crab” suggest that maybe there’s a benefit to knowing all that music theory.” - <a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/bowie-reissues-blink-182-heres-whats-coming-record-238118" target="_blank">A.V. Club</a><br></p><!-- more --><figure data-orig-width="723" data-orig-height="44" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/f240c5558f9e7599ad0c5212e6f6b806/tumblr_inline_oa0fcwLEVr1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“Shifting time signatures and interlocking rhythms that join guitar, bass, and drums are established from the opening moments of “Coconut Crab.” With a melodic but conversational delivery, Tremain suggests “Just simply paraphrase all that you’re feeling into tiny bite-sized bits/Squeeze them tight so they might fit.” With more than one or two music terms in the lyrics, he could well be talking about the song’s arrangements, where drums are brisk and syncopated, and oscillating guitar fills in gaps (“It’s not that easy, you must admit”). Things get nerdier on “Bliss Quest” and “Destroy the Tabernacle!” with their focus on marking time and instrumental breaks. In contrast, on tracks like “Consoling Ghosts” and “Whatever, Whenever,” hectic rhythms take a back seat to the singer’s falsetto and the songs’ overall melancholic tone.” - <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/disappointment-island-mw0002948667" target="_blank">AllMusic</a><br></p><figure data-orig-width="539" data-orig-height="50" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/f1501e213d1fde9b342b587664689ae4/tumblr_inline_oa0fe4PvJX1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“The longest track, “Whatever, Whenever,” showcases the best of TTNG: dextrous and experimental strings, sparing reverb and Henry Tremain’s falsetto, matched to complex guitar picking that’s at once impenetrable and calming. They keep to the formula, with pleasing results. “Consoling Ghosts” is a parade of vibrato guitar atop a rollicking beat that drummer Chris Collis lays into with galvanizing, pulling pace. His guitarist brother Tim is as much of a presence on Disappointment Island as Tremain’s voice. Although the lyrics are often sad, the theme is still sardonic. “Bliss Quest,” for instance, ends with what sounds like a busy signal, and most songs feel playful despite sorrowful lyrics.” - <a href="http://exclaim.ca/music/article/ttng-disappointment_island" target="_blank">Exclaim.ca, 8/10</a><br></p><figure data-orig-width="840" data-orig-height="109" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/87c7259e00a5a1835a8104e39c362509/tumblr_inline_oa0fg3hs7U1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“They are subtle masters of their craft, piecing together intricate bars of odd meter with such flow that it’s impossible to get lost. When I’m not paying too much attention, I just notice that the album sounds good. When I sit down and get cozy between the riffs and rhythms, however, <i>Disappointment Island</i> becomes a work of art, full of technicality I’d never otherwise have heard.” - <a href="http://www.slugmag.com/national-music-reviews/ttng-disappointment-island/" target="_blank">Slug Magazine</a><br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42639932016-07-05T10:58:00-07:002017-01-12T06:15:51-08:00TTNG streaming new album “Disappointment Island” on The Independent<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="61" data-orig-width="401"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/4e20e9f05e1c9c95462283f200b0cea9/tumblr_inline_o9urw6bhBE1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="930" data-orig-width="1240"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/7d9cf9ddf5027ae2feeacdf82c2ea4f8/tumblr_inline_o9uryiTBbH1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="165" data-orig-width="904"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/d6e3edd56d2fd0aa6e8fef3f9b6a93e5/tumblr_inline_o9urypOQQg1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><i>by Remfry Dedman<br>photo by Nick Sayers</i></p><p>The long-awaited third LP from TTNG (FKA This Town Needs Guns) is finally released on 8<sup>th</sup> July via Sargent House, and The Independent are exclusively streaming it three days before official release. Disappointment Island is the first album to feature the band as a trio after former bassist Jamie Cooper left in 2011 and was written in two sessions two years apart. One session took place at the beginning of 2013 and the other in 2015, with the band entering the studio to record later that year. Disappointment Island was recorded live to tape over 10 days at Chicago’s pre-eminent Electrical Audio studios by Greg Norman (Mclusky, Russian Circles, Pelican) and mastered by Shellac’s Bob Weston and, unbelievably, is named after a real uninhabited island off the south coast of New Zealand. Employing barely any distortion or guitar effects, the supremely intricate technical playing of guitarist Tim Collis makes for a beautifully wistful yet mathematically elaborate bedrock for bassist / vocalist Henry Tremain’s mellifluous tones and drummer Chris Collis’s atypical drumming patterns.<br></p><p>The artwork was created by Ukrainian artist and illustrator Irena Zablotska. ‘She’s a great artist’ says Chris. ‘We came across her artwork quite randomly one day. We always wanted to use it as the album cover, even before we had the title for the album. In fact, we had joked about Disappointment Island for quite a long time after we saw it on a map. When we were discussing possible titles, Tim remembered Disappointment Island, and at first we said ‘there’s no way we could call it that!’ But the more we let the idea sit, the more we liked it. It seemed to bring everything together really well - encapsulating the artwork, the lyrical content, and our struggles and stresses getting the album written and recorded. Recording live to tape was very pressured - trying to get all three of us playing perfectly all the way through was quite a challenge! In the end I am very proud of what we achieved and this album would not have happened without the great encouragement and support of our loved ones.’</p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ttng-disappointment-island-exclusive-album-stream-a7119901.html" target="_blank"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="458" data-orig-width="568"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/27ccae0fed1adb73df2622990b75a135/tumblr_inline_o9us29qf5b1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Click HERE to stream the new album and read a track-by-track analysis of the album by drummer Chris Collis.</p></a><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ttng-disappointment-island-exclusive-album-stream-a7119901.html" target="_blank">(via The Independent)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42434622016-06-22T11:17:33-07:002021-04-21T23:01:12-07:00Consequence Of Sound premieres new TTNG track “Sponkulus Nodge”<figure data-orig-width="170" data-orig-height="112"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/b1940980820fc23125be4844213b2ab2/tumblr_inline_o96qit1sV91qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="807" data-orig-height="537" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/49e342fed2d5eeaf4e005eb44292cdd8/tumblr_inline_o96qj52Bys1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1178" data-orig-height="114" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/dcf13aa69eccca54dde8d07ee8317296/tumblr_inline_o96qjcMaGr1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="823" data-orig-height="32" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/71831e92b7ab5938ce26a07636a38036/tumblr_inline_o96qjjgurb1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> (fka This Town Needs Guns) know a thing or two about navigating complicated pathways. Their music has always been a labyrinth of math rock, filled with knotty rhythms that would seem to defy the melodies of the vocals. But the complexity extends beyond the recorded music right to the processes of actually getting it onto tape. They’ve been working on their follow-up to 2013’s <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/130000" target="_blank">13.0.0.0.0</a>, this July’s <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a>, since before that last album was even released, and finding time to work out their intricate compositions wasn’t easy.</p><p>“With various touring commitments interspersed between the writing of [Disappointment Island], it was a difficult process to work through,” guitarist Tim Collis tells Consequence of Sound. “Snatching weekends here and there to try to rehash and complete draft versions of songs finally allowed a few more structured ideas to be completed for Hank [Tremain] to work on vocals. Partway through 2014, [drummer] Chris [Collis] and [I] managed to take a little time to try out some new riffs, working some of them into what would become this track, ‘Sponkulus Nodge’.”</p><p>All that patient perseverance paid off, though, as the song Collis discusses above proves. “Sponkulus Nodge” is a heady twister of a track, bass lines dropping down like water from stalactites into a pond rippling with Collis’ impossible guitar licks. Yet despite this cavernous vibe, there’s an open air quality that lifts it up on the assurance of Tremain’s vocals and the other Collis’ tripping drums.</p><p><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/06/ttng-share-intricate-new-single-sponkulus-nodge-listen/" target="_blank">Listen to “Sponkulus Nodge” HERE.</a></p><p><i>photo by Nick Sayers</i></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42195072016-06-08T10:29:39-07:002017-01-12T06:15:50-08:00AV Club premieres new TTNG track “Coconut Crab”<p><figure data-orig-height="200" data-orig-width="200"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/213b4c20c89f86abe9039b40f3c44cad/tumblr_inline_o8gqsjfl2A1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2751" data-orig-width="4134"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/4586a7b34f461dbc6362d41e64088881/tumblr_inline_o8gqwsJZgM1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><i>photo: Nick Sayers</i></p><p>Oxford’s <a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> (a.k.a. This Town Needs Guns) has been working up dashing math-rock compositions for over a decade, but it’s always avoided being pigeonholed. And on <i><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a>—</i>coming July 8 on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>—the trio’s offered up its most accessible, pop-minded batch of songs yet. <i>The A.V. Club </i>is premiering the album’s opening track, “Coconut Crab,” below, and it shows TTNG at its most streamlined. Guitarist Tim Collis still concocts inhuman riffs, the likes of which make it hard to believe he’s the band’s lone guitarist. It makes bassist-vocalist Henry Tremain’s ability to find space for sing-along melodies all the more notable, as he flutters atop the ornate composition and never lets the song’s knotty rhythms get the best of him. Tremain also wrote a lengthy explanation of the song’s genesis, along with demos of the track, all of which can be found <a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/ttng-makes-math-rock-danceable-coconut-crab-237864" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268028881&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe></p><p>Pre-orders for <i>Disappointment Island </i><a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/ttng" target="_blank">are available now</a>.</p><p><b><a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/ttng-makes-math-rock-danceable-coconut-crab-237864" target="_blank">Visit AV Club to read about the origins of the song and hear early demos</a></b></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42174282016-06-07T08:02:51-07:002016-06-07T08:46:35-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6DfLcKbRl1I?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/42113102016-06-03T08:00:10-07:002016-06-03T12:16:35-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eUrYtylGtnY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41983072016-05-26T11:43:00-07:002017-01-12T06:15:50-08:00TTNG announces US tour<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="5221" data-orig-width="3421"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/3dc477d65d45ca5f1ae8a6b722ff78f5/tumblr_inline_o7sqvzoHRu1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> have just announced a full US tour in support of their upcoming album, <i>Disappointment Island</i>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/liteband/" target="_blank">LITE</a> will be playing direct support on select dates. Then TTNG returns to the UK to play ArcTanGent Festival.</p><p><i>Disappointment Island</i> will be released July 8th. Vinyl and CD pre-orders are available now at their <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/ttng" target="_blank">US $ store (ships worldwide)</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.awesomedistro.com/artists/ttng" target="_blank">UK £ store (ships to EU)</a> along with t-shirt bundles.</p><p>See a full list of shows below. Tickets and info available <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p><b>TTNG LIVE 2016</b></p><p>Jul-21 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside<br>Jul-22 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom<br>Jul-23 San Diego, CA - The Irenic<br>Jul-24 Scottsdale, AZ - Pub Rock Live <br>Jul-26 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress<br>Jul-27 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad<br>Jul-28 El Paso, TX - 5points Patio<br>Jul-29 Dallas, TX - Club Dada<br>Jul-30 Austin, TX - Sidewinder<br>Jul-31 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall <br>Aug-02 Nashville, TN - High Watt *<br>Aug-03 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Purgatory)*<br>Aug-04 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506*<br>Aug-05 Washington, DC - DC9*<br>Aug-06 New York, NY - Studio at Webster Hall*<br>Aug-07 Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry*<br>Aug-09 Boston, MA - Great Scott*<br>Aug-10 Hamden, CT - The Space<br>Aug-11 Pittsburgh, PA - Smiling Moose<br>Aug-12 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme<br>Aug-13 Chicago, IL - Subterranean</p><p>* LITE supporting</p><p>Aug-18 Bristol, UK - <a href="http://www.arctangent.co.uk/" target="_blank">ArcTanGent Festival</a><br>Aug-20 Dublin, IR - The Button Factory w/toe, Steve Strong, Yonen</p><iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265459973&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41945162016-05-24T09:02:03-07:002017-01-12T06:15:50-08:00Noisey announces new TTNG album, premieres “A Chase of Sorts”<figure data-orig-width="175" data-orig-height="61"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/6a8b1402798360edf2e6741ded121b79/tumblr_inline_o7ousx0tgO1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="640" data-orig-height="426" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/853655fcc5ce5758e467e411a3bf188f/tumblr_inline_o7outcVAEJ1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="598" data-orig-height="138" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/08b80cddfb30043c710a6c2589a670f9/tumblr_inline_o7ouurogvt1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>The first time I met Henry Tremain it was 2004, the year <a href="http://ttng.net" target="_blank">TTNG</a> formed. Back then, the Oxford-formed “math-rockers” were known as This Town Needs Guns and Henry wasn’t in the band—he was simply answering an ad for a spare room in the house I lived in in Norwich. He was wearing a Braid pin, so I figured he was alright and let him move in. We lived together that year, and he started playing in a local band called Saleontomorrow. I was running a local zine called Backlashat the time, and released the band’s first EP as a cover mount. After a year, I moved to London, and some 12 months later he moved into a spare room that opened up. We spent about five years there, in which time he started playing in a band called Pennines before joining This Town Needs Guns as vocalist, replacing original singer Stuart Smith. Soon after, he moved back to Norwich in order to be able to afford to be the band, and I moved to New York. Since then, the trio—completed by brothers Tim and Chris Collis (guitars and drums, respectively)—have been over to the US a number of times and it’s a sheer joy to see them play to an increasingly devoted fan base. The release of the band’s third full-length, <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/disappointment-island" target="_blank">Disappointment Island</a>, seemed like a good excuse to catch up with my old friend and see what’s up and what’s changed for him since he joined the band—besides the band name and the lineup, obviously.</p><p><a href="http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/TTNG-a-chase-of-sorts" target="_blank">Listen to a song from the album, “A Chase of Sorts”, and read an interview with Henry Tremain HERE.</a></p><!-- more --><p><b>Noisey: First things first. Why did you call this record Disappointment Album? Er, I meanIsland! Are you setting yourselves up for a fall?</b><br>Henry Tremain: Disappointment Album—that’s about right! But exactly. I don’t know. You can look at it in many ways, but it’s pretty funny making an album called Disappointment Island.</p><p><b>Is the band still fun, even though it’s become a more professional pursuit for you? I mean, you get to tour the States and Japan and other far-flung places, so that must be great.</b><br>Well, I still think my favorite part of music is the writing and the creative process. The touring thing is something I’ve come to learn to enjoy—or at least learn to not hate so much. But yeah, it’s still enjoyable, but I guess it’s very different to bands in the past where it was just jamming really. And it’s difficult, because we can’t be freely creative because we all live in different places in the country and can only get together when there’s an agenda, I guess. We actually have to schedule time to write or schedule time to rehearse or record.</p><p><b>But I imagine, with the style of music you play, that could almost be more liberating—you can do your own thing by yourselves and then send it to each other.</b><br>That’s a really good point. The first thing we did for this record was book a rehearsal space in Brighton, and there was a load of pressure for us to write. We moved into a tiny little room—like a bedsit—on the coast and every morning at ten we’d go to the rehearsal space and we’d be there all day and have a full working day until the evening. And I think because there wasn’t enough space, because we didn’t get our own time to work on things, it got stagnant very quickly and it felt like we were going nowhere. It was a pretty depressing time! But we ended up writing a lot of material that at the time we thought was absolute crap but then, having had months away from it and reviewing it, quite a lot of it was quite interesting—and we’ve used most of that on the record!</p><p><b>So actually it wasn’t time wasted after all!</b><br>No. But I think it was only allowed to be finished off by the fact that we had that space away from it.</p><p><b>So how much did that stuff change between when you were writing it down in Brighton and when you were recording the album in Chicago?</b><br>Lots of the stuff we wrote in Brighton got thrown away and at least half, if not more, of the record was written after. But there were probably two tracks which hardly changed since we jammed them in Brighton. And the rest of it was taking a riff, restructuring it and writing different parts for and around it.</p><p><b>Which songs were those?</b><br>“Bliss Quest” is pretty much unchanged from the jam version that we recorded, and “Empty Palms”.</p><p><b>I was hoping you were going to say “Sponkulus Nodge,” because I wanted to ask what the fuck that means!</b><br>It’s unchanged from a working title. Tim is an absolute riff machine—he just writes and writes and records them so he can tab them out so he can remember how to play them. So his computer hard drive is just full of all these riffs, and each time he creates a riff, he gives it a silly name. “Sponkulus Nodge” was a name we just enjoyed too much to use another one!</p><p><b>What about “In Praise Of Idleness”? It sounds like a hark back to the times we lived together in Norwich and London… let’s be honest, you spent a lot of time being idle. How’s your work ethic now? Is it better? Does it have to be?</b><br>I’ve got lots on, so I’ve been working constantly, but I wish I was working towards something that would give me some sort of financial stability.</p><p><b>Do you think that’s ever going to happen with this band?</b><br>Oh no! [Laughs]</p><p><b>Have you guys all resigned yourselves to the fact that this is just a passion project? Because a lot of people love you, and you do so well in so many parts of the world. I don’t understand how it’s not even a little bit sustainable.</b><br>Well, it isn’t! I always think there’s slight gap between the perception of the band and how well the band actually does. We played a show in Brighton recently with some friends of ours recently—Delta Sleep and Tangled Hair—and both bands made jokes about how the crowd should stick around to see us play because we really need the help, making the joke that we are an established, successful band. In the crowd’s eyes we are, but actually, last time we played in Brighton we played this tiny little bar and it was half-empty. So in the UK we just don’t have any following.</p><p><b>But then you come over here and it’s full of really devoted fans. I remember the first time I saw you at Mercury Lounge and the crowd was insane.</b><br>Yeah. We have really passionate fans and in a major city there’s enough people to fill a venue, but outside of New York or Philadelphia or Los Angeles or Chicago, we’re playing smaller venues to no people!</p><p><b>Well, it’s all about the art, not the money.</b><br>Exactly!</p><p><b>Given what you said about not making any money from this band, what are your hopes for this record? You’ve named it Disappointment Island, but you must have some hopes for it.</b><br>I don’t think so! I haven’t really thought about it. I don’t think it’s an ambition for the record to do well. I don’t know. Why do bands record music? What’s that all about?</p><p><b>Let’s ask that question. Before you joined this band you’d sit at home and you’d play these riffs and you had fun doing that. So there’s something in the art of creation that obviously stimulates you somewhere…</b><br>But why do we feel the need to record them and put them out there?</p><p><b>So you’d rather they’d just exist on a computer at home or something?</b><br>I don’t know. I’m obviously doing it, maybe for an ego thing or for attention. Who knows?</p><p><b>But it’s nice to have a record of the things you create so you can look back in 20 years and say “Hey! I made this! It’s part of my life.” It captured a moment or a series of moments.</b><br>Like a photograph. You get to record it and look back on it. But in that case you’d record it keep it on your computer. You wouldn’t publish it or get a record label. So I have no idea. But I certainly don’t have hopes that the record’s going to do well, if you know what I mean.</p><p><b>Let’s talk about your name change. In 2013, you switched to the abbreviation TTNG instead of using This Town Needs Guns. What effect did that have on the band? Was it hard to do?</b><br>In terms of success, like we were talking about, it was a dumb thing to do. I don’t think it was a commercially sensible thing to do because there are quite a lot of people who don’t realize we’re the same band.</p><p><b>And you did it just before 13.0.0.0.0. came out, which was released as This Town Needs Guns, but then you were touring it as TTNG. Which could be a little bit confusing if you’re dumb.</b><br>Well, I mean, who knows what TTNG stands for! I think it’s a dumb name. And I don’t think TTNG is an ideal name, but it’s a way of us not having that original name that I think is really not very nice and keeping a link to the older material. But it’s not ideal. I think abbreviation names are pretty dumb, generally. It’s weird how some bands like AFI and some acronym bands manage to do okay without needing to explain what it stands for. I imagine a whole lot of AFI fans don’t know what that stands for.</p><p><b>Did you find people were generally okay with you changing it? Or were there some purists who took offence?</b><br>Absolutely. I think there was an assumption that we were doing it for ulterior motives. I think there’s a lot of cynicism generally about bands and I think people assume that if a band is doing something it’s to make themselves more successful or commercially viable. I think there was an assumption we were under pressure from the label or something to be more PC and people would make these assumptions and write about them and not take the time to read what we’d said about them.</p><p><b>The funny thing, like we’ve said, is that this is the first record you’ve recorded all together from start to finish and it is the first record you’ve made as TTNG, so it is a fresh start in a way. But I love how the time periods of all those things totally overlap. It’s kind of making a mockery of that idea of changing things with a specific purpose in mind.</b><br>Right. And I think the band’s had a nice progression, and if you listen through the years to all of the band’s output, there’s a similarity that follows through it, but it’s clearly changed quite a bit.</p><p><b>I was going to say, this definitely sounds… not more poppy, because it’s not, but it definitely sounds less “math-rocky” even though those math-rock tendencies are still very much there. They’re not as salient—they’re a part of it, rather than the focus of it.</b><br>Absolutely. Time signatures, like any compositional device, the more you use them the more comfortable they become. They become second nature and it’s not a conscious effort, it’s just another flavor to songwriting.</p><p><b>By the time you get to album number seven, you’ll be three-chord wonders!</b><br>I do think the term “math-rock” is really elitist. I mean, bands like Radiohead are always messing around with time signatures, but they’re not considered to be math-rock.</p><p><b>So are you trying to shed that title?</b><br>We never embraced that title! It was thrust upon us. I don’t think it was appropriate, but I guess the meaning of math-rock has changed, so maybe it is appropriate!</p><p><b>I mean, everyone always calls the Kinsellas math-rock, and everyone always mentions the Kinsellas when they describe TTNG’s music, so you know! But that must get a bit wearing after a while, as great as they are.</b><br>I think a lot of those bands have been huge influences on us, but I do find the whole Kinsella band thing a little frustrating, because although there are a couple of dudes who have the surname Kinsella, there are other people and other bands who don’t have the surname Kinsella who are probably more influential.</p><p><b>You never know—they might start calling it Tremain-core soon. I quite like that.</b><br>[Laughs] I don’t! </p><p><a href="http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/TTNG-a-chase-of-sorts" target="_blank">(via Noisey)</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41928072016-05-23T08:00:16-07:002016-05-23T08:46:48-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QpZdJ5LIzBk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41898052016-05-20T08:00:38-07:002016-05-20T10:32:27-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zKy8NtsdFj4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41866262016-05-18T08:56:46-07:002016-05-18T13:03:06-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1wwAayH-iW0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41828062016-05-16T08:08:26-07:002016-05-16T10:03:08-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t0BzmcT9JgE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41777592016-05-12T08:01:43-07:002016-05-12T09:16:40-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ji7-qHhGc3Q?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41770922016-05-11T13:35:05-07:002022-02-07T09:04:48-08:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SIxUG1DVtpQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41739502016-05-10T09:03:04-07:002016-05-10T11:46:33-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oF0Cfra63Hw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/41727152016-05-09T10:35:23-07:002016-05-09T15:32:30-07:00Video<iframe width="400" height="225" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VDb1mMBYzy8?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/40062562016-01-25T10:49:13-08:002017-01-12T06:15:45-08:00TTNG announces co-headlining Europe tour with Foxing<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1400" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/a315a2861a7f2610ef74d0305f002941/tumblr_inline_o1iuf6r5mS1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://ttng.net/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be joining <a href="https://foxingtheband.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Foxing</a> for a co-headlining tour in Europe starting this April. Two of the dates are Foxing ONLY. Tickets are available <a href="http://ttng.net/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. See below for a full list of TTNG shows.</p><p>Apr 20 - Amsterdam, NL @ Winston<br>Apr 21 - Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang<br>Apr 22 - Berlin, DE @ Uncle M Fest<br>Apr 23 - Munster, DE @ Uncle M Fest<br>Apr 24 - Antwerp, BE @ JC Kavka<br>Apr 27 - Manchester, UK @ Sound Control<br>Apr 28 - Glasgow, UK @ Audio<br>Apr 29 - Norwich, UK @ Owl Sanctuary<br>Apr 30 - London, UK @ The Borderline<br>May 01 - Southampton, UK @ The Joiners</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/39723382015-12-17T12:56:03-08:002017-01-12T06:15:45-08:00Behind the Scenes in Philadelphia with TWIABP and Foxing // Dec. 4<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="142" data-orig-width="690"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/cbbf6a75ddf6236ca7bc687ae605b21e/tumblr_inline_nzis823CNP1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="546" data-orig-width="970" style=""><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/8e12614214782c889b50384d854f375b/tumblr_inline_nzis9lan5A1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/behind-the-scenes-with-ttng-and-friends-in-philadelphia-145" target="_blank">The 405</a> captured the last (and very special) show of tour featuring <a href="http://www.ttng.net" target="_blank">This Town Needs Guns</a>, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, and Foxing in Philadelphia at Union Transfer. Check out the full gallery below.</p><p><i>photos by <a href="http://www.hojunyu.com" target="_blank">HoJun Yu</a></i></p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1498" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/d316314c1ecca027f66513f9fffcbe5c/tumblr_inline_nzisaf1CPP1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000" style=""><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/f8a0436dee2fc9df32de581ed37a411a/tumblr_inline_nzisaystFz1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><!-- more --><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/6eaa5f657434ea1b62106bef157bf46f/tumblr_inline_nzisbhtzQS1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/5c45cb18b0aa473f2e3a5379ca083e5b/tumblr_inline_nzisbujHPu1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000" style=""><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/12a12650d5aa1257f0ae39fc63b24c25/tumblr_inline_nzisc9puen1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/a0e00399c994842c17ca5ed5eb6b219f/tumblr_inline_nziscpJC3m1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/8ae115e0e1a305655d167707bbae8b1b/tumblr_inline_nzisdaZo8F1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/05e860752dd866843d68e557c842997f/tumblr_inline_nzise47Q2H1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1498" data-orig-width="1000" style=""><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/6dbe4c4b02f7294e0dd4f78d9818c6bf/tumblr_inline_nziselZE2I1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/b5c3aeaa8ff7d2c69a8f7452ff2c462e/tumblr_inline_nzisevrhAw1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/adebc9fcf764bc6b27f352d5c50b558b/tumblr_inline_nzisf8Lj5T1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/15aa860c1e7428d3e7523ffb0ebc6e85/tumblr_inline_nzisg291Ma1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="563" data-orig-width="1000" style=""><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/221d08a4410003aab226b73d12b376e0/tumblr_inline_nzisguD8UH1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000" style=""><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/eb3e561ed619dbc62b90ff7189cc62bb/tumblr_inline_nzishfm7u71qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="563" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/49190ef322dac6eaa5d066138f855c72/tumblr_inline_nzishtQydf1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/0a93e6cccfc183653ebb47c37e7d3c79/tumblr_inline_nzisicBFtR1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="563" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/93e21f0e0370d679d1b7df8ad584889e/tumblr_inline_nzisippqsa1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="668" data-orig-width="1000" style=""><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/79a83cfbe5be1fbfec4304fcff031ad6/tumblr_inline_nzisjhuj8V1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/39121192015-11-03T11:40:50-08:002017-01-12T06:15:43-08:00TTNG US Tour starts Wednesday, 11/04<figure data-orig-width="2048" data-orig-height="1174" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/c3b887b204cc92688607f8775f5410cc/tumblr_inline_nx97gl0nBy1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://ttng.net/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> kicks off their US tour tomorrow, playing with The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Foxing, and Brightside. TTNG is playing second in the lineup, so be sure to come early to shows so you don’t miss them.<br>A full list of shows can be found below, and tickets are available <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/ttng" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p>After the tour, the band will be recording a new album to be released in 2016.</p><p>TTNG US TOUR 2015</p><p>11/04 - Newport, KY @ The Southgate House Revival<br>11/05 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement<br>11/06 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme<br>11/07 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean - SOLD OUT <br>11/08 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry<br>11/10 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater<br>11/11 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court<br>11/12 - Reno, NV @ The Holland Project<br>11/13 - Portland, OR @ Analog Theater<br>11/14 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret<br>11/15 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project<br>11/17 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Shop<br>11/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy Theatre<br>11/20 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge<br>11/21 - El Paso, TX @ Mesa Music Hall<br>11/23 - Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N Grill<br>11/24 - Austin, TX @ Sidewinder<br>11/25 - Houston, TX @ Walters<br>11/27 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade<br>11/28 - Nashville, TN @ The End<br>11/30 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel<br>12/01 - Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St<br>12/02 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar<br>12/03 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br>12/04 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<br></p><figure data-orig-width="524" data-orig-height="810" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/daa28d3c072f7118c79d5771a84c179e/tumblr_inline_nx97twWgNR1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/38325022015-08-25T10:23:46-07:002017-01-12T06:15:41-08:00Fall Tour 2015<figure data-orig-width="3300" data-orig-height="5100" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/19cc9feabfeca8e74796425118314f58/tumblr_inline_ntneixOrpZ1qbe5i0_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>We are happy to be coming to North America this Fall. Touring with <a href="http://theworldisabeautifulplace.com/" target="_blank">The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die </a> and <a href="https://foxingtheband.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Foxing</a> alongside <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brightsidepgh" target="_blank">Brightside.</a></p><p>Sadly we will not be able to make the first and last two shows as we are off to record an album.</p><p>Dates below: Go <a href="http://www.ttng.net/" target="_blank">here</a> for ticket links. On sale tomorrow, Aug 26th at 12pm local time</p><p>11/2 - Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder *<br>11/4 - Newport, KY - The Southgate House Revival<br>11/5 - Columbus, OH - The Basement<br>11/6 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme<br>11/7 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean<br>11/8 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry<br>11/10 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater<br>11/11 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court<br>11/12 - Reno, NV - The Holland Project<br>11/13 - Portland, OR - Analog Theater<br>11/14 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret<br>11/15 - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project<br>11/17 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop<br>11/18 - Los Angeles, CA - Roxy Theatre<br>11/20 - Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge<br>11/21 - El Paso, TX - Mesa Music Hall<br>11/23 - Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey Bar N Grill<br>11/24 - Austin, TX - Sidewinder<br>11/25 - Houston, TX - Walters<br>11/27 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade<br>11/28 - Nashville, TN - The End<br>11/30 - Richmond, VA - The Camel<br>12/1 - Morgantown, WV - 123 Pleasant St<br>12/2 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar<br>12/3 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg<br>12/4 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer<br>12/5 - Ithaca, NY - The Haunt *<br>12/6 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair *</p><p>* no TTNG</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405032015-04-14T10:36:36-07:002015-06-13T15:32:41-07:00A Little Somethings Going On...<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbsUEQzxefKU%26feature%3Dyoutu.be"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bsUEQzxefKU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></figure>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405042015-02-02T11:03:00-08:002017-02-04T17:08:53-08:00TTNG To Support American Football in the UK<figure class=""><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/2b3f9b6af03ee046883832497cbe173e/tumblr_inline_niyfblwKmV1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/T_T_N_G" target="_blank">TTNG</a> are pleased to announce support for <a href="http://americanfootballmusic.com/" target="_blank">American Football</a>’s sold out shows in the UK!<br></p><p>All dates and details below.</p><p><a href="https://www.bandsintown.com/TTNG?came_from=74" target="_blank">TTNG </a><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.tumblr.com/%3Cscript%20type='text/javascript'%20src='http:/widget.bandsintown.com/javascripts/bit_widget.js'%3E%3C/script%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http:/www.bandsintown.com/TTNG%22%20class=%22bit-widget-initializer%22%20data-prefix=%22fbjs%22%20data-artist=%22TTNG%22%3ETTNG%20Tour%20Dates%3C/a%3E" target="_blank">Tour</a><a href="https://www.bandsintown.com/TTNG?came_from=74" target="_blank"> Dates</a><br></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405052014-12-20T16:17:35-08:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00Restless Cities Interview with Tim Collis <p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/eeeaea3fce903a10e0ba6cd77e0a3d81/tumblr_inline_ngwobn1UKR1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8562/15870423778_5ee909629f_o.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="15870423778 5ee909629f o Conversations: TTNG" /></p>
<p class="textserifsmall">On the night of <strong><a href="http://www.ttng.net/" target="_blank">TTNG</a></strong>‘s last show of their 2014 US Tour, I was able to spend time with their lead guitarist and founding member Tim Collis. For those of you who don’t know <strong>TTNG</strong> (formerly This Town Needs Guns), they are a 3-piece rock band hailing from Oxford UK and are currently signed to the superb indie label, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>.</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><!-- more -->The band has been around since 2004, influencing fans and inspiring musicians around the world with their unique and emotional sound. Beyond their recent name change, they also experienced a line up change as well, with the departure of rhythm guitarist and vocalist Stuart Smith (replaced by Henry Tremain of <em>Pennines</em>), the addition of Tim’s brother Chris on drums (replacing Matt Bennington), and the departure of bassist Jamie Cooper. You would think with so many changes that the band’s sound would suffer or that their fan base might dwindle, but the change has only seemed to make their sound tighter and they are more popular than ever. <strong>TTNG</strong> is only just scratching the surface of their sound, with a new release in the works and their sights set on global domination.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> First, I’d like to say that you guys are honestly one of my favorite bands so this is a great honor to be able to sit with you to ask some questions.</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: Awesome, thank you man!</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Your album <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/130000" target="_blank"><em>13.0.0.0</em></a> was your first album with the current TTNG lineup. Now that you’ve had a little over 2 years in the formation, what has the experience been like?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: Yeah, it’s been great actually. I think when you have a major lineup change you are kind of apprehensive about it, I guess with anything where there is a big change it’s kind of about being apprehensive. Yeah, Henry has been playing with us for like 3 years now at least, and it’s been going really well. He’s totally taken it in his stride, he’s such a great musician he doesn’t make it look difficult in terms of transition.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Any talk of expanding again to a 4 piece to include a bassist, or are you is remaining a 3-piece your preference?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: We’re pretty happy as a 3-piece, the dynamic seems to work really really well. I don’t know what it is, but 3 seems to be a really good number to work with, not just in terms of personal lives and less people to have to organize and so on, but musically we seem to be able to bounce ideas around a lot quicker. And that is no sort of disrespect or negativity towards having more members, but it just seems to be have been a very a really smooth process and it’s been very natural.</p>
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<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Are you working on/planning to release a new album soon, and if so, what can we expect from this upcoming release?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: Actually yeah, at the end of this tour, so like tomorrow, we are going to <a href="http://instagram.com/thefarmfamily" target="_blank">the Farm</a> that the label <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> owns, a couple hours outside of the Los Angeles. We’re probably going to be doing some demos for some new stuff and we’ll hopefully get an EP together for next year. Well, we’re thinking an EP, but it could be more.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Any specific thoughts or ideas for this new EP in terms of your overall sound?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: I mean, it’s nothing sort of drastically different. I mean it’s early days, so I guess these demos will sit in a very similar kind of ilk to the old stuff and then we’ll see when we get to studio stage what we decide to do when we’ve got the time to really listen to them as well.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> You have a lot of material, new and old. What’s your favorite song to perform live and why?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: I don’t know if I have a favorite really. I guess it’s a hard question, because we’re kind of at the stage where are playing what we consider all old stuff, I guess. I mean, some of it is obviously a lot older than other songs. I don’t know, it would be an easier question to answer when we start playing new tracks because they’d probably stick out. In saying that, we are playing one new song, so I’ll go with this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXMQTJF7JE" target="_blank">untitled new song</a> that we are playing tonight just because it’s a bit fresher. I’ll tell you that it’s fun as well because Henry from Mylets joins us to play bass on that. I think it’s called Snoopy at the moment, I don’t know why.</p>
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<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Speaking of Snoopy, I know you guys do a lot of stuff on your Facebook page with Animals and stuff. What’s the reasoning behind that?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: I think animals seem to amuse us. You know, if they’ve put clothing on or someone has got them in a particular sort of situation and it’s amusing, we get a hold of it pretty quick. We’re just morons and it amuses us.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> I know last year you made the choice to change the name to TTNG due to all the gun controversy. Your fans have embraced it, but do you ever miss referring to yourself by the original full name, This Town Needs Guns?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: It’s all kind of fairly trivial, in terms of the music is the focus and so on. No, I mean, I don’t miss the name. It kind of was a logical thing in a way which probably doesn’t seem that way to most people, but as Henry joined it was new time for us and you know, none of us ever particularly ever liked that band name, and it seemed like at this point it was a good time to change and we kind of did it as soon as we could. Basically, the problem we found was that it was a statement that for us never had any political association to it, but people over here thought it meant quite a bit more. People in support of guns were often like “yeah, you guys are great!” and love the band name for that reason, and we sort of felt a bit like well yeah it really doesn’t come from that place. It comes from the UK were it’s really an ironic, sort of stupid band name.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> So if it wasn’t Guns, what would the town need?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: Um, probably…let me think…Clowns. You can never have too many clowns…I think.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> You guys have toured quite a bit this past year. With this being your last show of the tour, where have you found the fans to be the most receptive?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: We always have a great show in Chicago. The fans there are kind of our perfect set of fans. It’s weird, we’ve had some shows this tour where let’s say that alcohol has gotten the better of people, I wouldn’t say like ruining the show, not for us but for other people, but they’ve been kind of loud and obnoxious. You know, we are not like anti-drinking or anything, but some people have had no control and has kind of put a downer on some of the shows, which has been a shame. But yeah, Chicago has been a favorite for a while, and we have got kind of a bond to that city cause a lot of influences come from there, like BIlly Corgan. The fans are just so great there. They’re kind of the perfect balance of really respectful and you could have a good laugh with them. They’re really excited, and up for a good time. It doesn’t seem to matter what day of the week it is, there are dudes who roll in from work and are just really up for it, and that’s been cool. But yeah, we’ve had some great shows this tour so it’s kind of hard to say, but Chicago sticks in my mind.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Well, I’m from Chicago if that helps.</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: That was the right answer.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Is there a place in general overall that you’ve just thought is amazing overall, like Japan?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: Yeah, actually Japan is probably a favorite for all us. It’s just an incredibly different place, culturally obviously. It’s kind of one of those places where it’s rare for us to go there so that’s always special. The people are the next level of respect, it’s crazy. We first played some shows there in 2010 and the crowds were just like silent, and we were just like this is super weird, I don’t think they like it, this odd. But, it’s just that they are so focused and so polite and it’s so wonderful. It’s a really different energy, because there is still an energy between you and the crowd but it’s so different than rowdy people in the UK, Europe, or the US. So, yeah Japan would probably be up there.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Any places you haven’t toured that you’d like to hit? I know I have a lot of friends in the Philippines who want you to play there.</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: Yeah, I’d love to hit some more places in Asia for sure, but I know we also want to go to South America. There seems to be pockets of fans in places like Chile and Argentina that hit us up quite a lot and say can you ever come out, but it’s such a costly thing to do that it’s kind of difficult. But yeah, I would say South America would be awesome to go to.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Math-rock as a whole, more so than other musical genres, really seems like a community where bands connect, collaborate, and inspire each other. Is this something you’ve noticed, and are there any bands that TTNG is close with?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: I think like, to be honest, any band on the label, as soon as we meet them there is this bond and they are not necessarily math-rock. I mean, I don’t even know if we are necessarily math-rock, it’s kind of subjective really, but any band off the label we seem to kind of gel with. I think most of the bands we meet are good people, and we have a lot in common with, so it’s fairly easy to be in that situation, but I guess I’d have to say that the bands we’ve toured a lot with like Henry from Mylets it’s been great to kind of bond with him, and Emma this tour in particular. Yeah, I don’t know if there is any one band that we are super super close with. There are loads we would absolutely love to get see all over the world, and it’s kind of rare when you see obviously people further away.</p>
<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Are there bands that you’ve been listening to right now that you’d like to recommend?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>:<a href="http://mylets.tumblr.com" target="_blank"> Mylets</a>, his new album sounds awesome. We’ve also been listening to quite a bit of Swedish music this tour, cause everyone is into different Swedish bands so we’ve all been sharing them. We’ve been listening to a band called <a href="http://www.mewsite.com" target="_blank">Mew</a> quite a lot. Yeah, loads and loads of Swedish bands actually.</p>
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<hr><p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TONY:</strong> Finally, what is your mantra, either collectively as TTNG or individually?</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><strong>TIM</strong>: I guess, just being ourselves. I think we’ve said before at some point that people can get a bit caught up of the persona of what’s expected from being in a band, and it’s just kind of being honest really and having respect for other people and hopefully having them respect you at the same time. Just generally spreading a positive vibe if possible, which is tough some times especially with a long tour. Like if you get sick, like Henry from Mylets has been pretty sick, or you know if you get tired and tough and stuff it can really get really affect trying to get that across and have that positive energy. Yeah, when we’re all good and we’re all happy, it’s cool and you can really feel it with the crowd which is nice.</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405062014-12-10T17:19:43-08:002017-01-12T06:15:37-08:00Local record label Sargent House is home to many amazing artists...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/9667b3dacb8079d231f996ac8ae703a3/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/cab9774b37092401503c152c30c0c154/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/916703c477c6cc91adab1306b1b2669c/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/7d65888134d00b1dbafc9f8df42a80b1/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/67532750b00e5328553f4c09fcb6bc3b/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo6_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/621723031c27087270d66d9abf987fc4/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo7_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/3f3f0160675c96d12a3cf1a86ec6923f/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo8_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/9c9c7c80d121ac9ea12c527fecacf156/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/fb725d90a32e23011414bab18319cec5/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo9_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/98f509402a0ea80f730273aca744b535/tumblr_nge90v36OZ1qc3ixxo10_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p class="textserifsmall">Local record label <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House</a></strong> is home to many amazing artists and Saturday night at <a href="http://theechola.com" target="_blank">The Echo</a> was a good primer of sorts for the uninitiated. It was the last night of the label tour featuring a strong lineup made up of <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a></strong>, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank"><strong>Mylets</strong></a>, and <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></strong>.</p>
<p class="textserifsmall"><a href="http://www.restlesscities.com/2014/11/25/live-review-ttng-mylets-and-emma-ruth-rundle-at-the-echo-112214/" target="_blank">SEE THE FULL PHOTO ALBUM & SHOW REVIEW ON RESTLESS CITIES HERE </a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405072014-12-10T16:49:29-08:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00TTNG visits The Farm for new music and an American Thanksgiving<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bYSqk-IWn5U?rel=0" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> talk about getting to spend pre and post tour time on The Farm as they write new music, relax and enjoy a proper American Thanksgiving dinner with their <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House </a>family. <br><br>Shot on location at The Farm <br><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" href="http://thefarmfamily.com" rel="nofollow" title="http://thefarmfamily.com" target="_blank">http://thefarmfamily.com</a><br><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" href="http://twitter.com/thefarmfamily" rel="nofollow" title="http://twitter.com/thefarmfamily" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/thefarmfamily</a><br><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" href="http://instagram.com/thefarmfamily" rel="nofollow" title="http://instagram.com/thefarmfamily" target="_blank">http://instagram.com/thefarmfamily</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405082014-11-19T13:04:44-08:002017-02-04T17:08:54-08:00Musical Mathematics premiere of "Gibbon" Live from ArcTangent Festival <p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/a41d30e8229cf37753b6c0912c855bb7/tumblr_inline_nfb0smoYS21qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WKi2_85xsLI?rel=0" width="500"></iframe></p>
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<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> are playing the last few shows on their US Tour with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle </a>see all dates and details <a href="https://www.bandsintown.com/ttng" target="_blank">HERE </a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405092014-10-20T16:18:00-07:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00
Fellow earth-dwellers, behold wonderful new sounds from the band-name-acronymizing supertrio that...<p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/6a812e1cfe652f04edd2ac4a19104b43/tumblr_inline_ndrnc1A7Zl1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/a3eddbdd0d2f356cff3588aef1cb782c/tumblr_inline_ndrnc8dVZS1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
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<p>Fellow earth-dwellers, behold wonderful new sounds from the band-name-acronymizing supertrio that is <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank"><em><strong>TTNG</strong></em></a>.</p>
<p>For those of you unfamiliar with TTNG (all eleven of you), these UK-inhabiting lads seamlessly weave together a combination of complex guitar phrases, poignant melodies and charming British affability. Lend me a moment to properly express the latter of these traits, for we at Fecking Bahamas collectively doubt that we’ve met anyone as patient, courteous and polite as TTNG. They are the sort of guys that would help your grandma cross the street in peak hour. They are the Samaritans that would deescalate a convenience store robbery by hastily purchasing and brewing some organic rooibos tea, and subsequently sitting down with the perpetrators and politely leading them towards a more peaceful solution that benefits both themselves and the convenience store franchise. I have heard that there is a secret subdivision of Buddhism called TTNG, practiced by monks deep in the valleys of the Himalayas (where, for egalitarian reasons, the mountains are known as the ‘Him/Her-alayas’ so as not to offend anyone). I’m serious.</p>
<p>Okay, let’s cut to the chase. We here at <a href="http://feckingbahamas.com/ttng-perform-arctangent-2014" target="_blank">Fecking Bahamas</a> are proud to be working with Small Pond Recordings to bring you this live performance from TTNG. This live video, captured by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smallpondrecordings" target="_blank">Small Pond team</a> during this year’s ArcTanGent festival, features a previously unreleased song that’ll surely get your plasma tingling.</p>
<p><strong><em><big>TTNG will join Sargent House label-mates <strong><em>Mylets</em></strong> and <em><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle</strong></em> in a month long N. American tour starting October 20th. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ttnguk?ref=hl" target="_blank">See all TTNG Dates and deets on their FB page here</a> <br></big></em></strong></p>
<p><big><em><strong>Small Pond Recordings will be premiering live videos from ArcTanGent all the way up to Christmas, so be sure to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smallpondrecordings" target="_blank"><u>follow their social media escapades for more info</u></a>.</strong></em></big></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405102014-10-09T11:57:00-07:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00N. American Tour with Mylets & Emma Ruth Rundle begins October 20th in California <p><span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank"><strong><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/7d20f1cfc7cb32f5aa04347e8f735cac/tumblr_inline_nd6xweTzu01qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></strong></a></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent">Our headline tour with <span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a></span> label mates and great friends and artists <span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></span> starts on October 20th in Santa Ana, CA. Don’t miss any of the bands we will all be playing some songs together as well throughout the evening. Make sure to grab tickets the links are below for each show. <br><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank"><strong>SEE ALL TTNG SHOW DATES & DETAILS HERE </strong> </a></span></span><strong><br></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><strong>SARGENT HOUSE FALL 2014 TOUR</strong><br><strong>w/ TTNG, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & MYLETS</strong> <br>Oct 20 - Santa Ana, CA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qj9qaqm" target="_blank">The Constellation Room </a><br> Oct 21 - Scottsdale, AZ @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ovs5qss" target="_blank">Pub Rock Live </a><br>Oct 22 - El Paso, TX @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pvfuwjz" target="_blank">Tricky Falls</a> <br> Oct 23 - Dallas, TX @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kyak4jw" target="_blank">Club Dada</a> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br> Oct 24 - Austin, TX @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pudlwrm" target="_blank">Red 7</a> <br> Oct 27 - Ybor City, FL @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/o3kfd6p" target="_blank">Crowbar </a><br> Oct 29 - Orlando, FL @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qbn4adj" target="_blank">Backbooth</a> <br> Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nepz3cb" target="_blank">The Earl</a> <br> Nov 02 - Philadelphia, PA @ <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/event/672139-ttng-philadelphia/" target="_blank">First Unitarian Church</a> <br> Nov 03 - Washington, DC @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/m2nqx4t" target="_blank">Rock N Roll Hotel</a> <br> Nov 04 - New York City, NY @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oe8ob8h" target="_blank">The Studio at Webster Hall</a><br> Nov 05 - Hamden, CT @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qfk7asx" target="_blank">The Space</a> <br> Nov 06 - Cambridge, MA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/owyu9rf" target="_blank">The Middle East (Downstairs)</a> <br> Nov 07 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz (formerly Il Motore) <br> Nov 08 - Toronto, ON @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/m52zohz" target="_blank">Lee’s Palace</a> <br> Nov 10 - Pittsburgh, PA @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GarfieldArtworks" target="_blank">Garfield Artworks</a><br> Nov 11 - Grand Rapids, MI @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lefjpgs" target="_blank">Pyramid Scheme</a> <br> Nov 12 - Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nfww22w" target="_blank">Subterranean</a> <br> Nov 13 - St. Louis, MO @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qe5k9o8" target="_blank">The Demo</a> <br> Nov 14 - Lawrence, KS @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kc5g7mo" target="_blank">Jackpot Music Hall</a><br> Nov 15 - Denver, CO @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr887bn" target="_blank">The Marquis Theater</a> <br> Nov 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Music Garage <br> Nov 18 - Seattle, WA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ox5akzt" target="_blank">The Vera Project </a><br> Nov 19 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater<br> Nov 20 - San Francisco, CA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/or7alyg" target="_blank">Thee Parkside</a> <br> Nov 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/of7wbf2" target="_blank">The Echo (Early Show</a> </span></span></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405112014-09-10T11:14:00-07:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00TTNG to headline N. American Sargent House Fall Tour 2014 with Mylets & Emma Ruth Rundle<p><span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank"><strong><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/82aac5d099aa88575289e4e89aaadf8f/tumblr_inline_nbp6cxUhfW1ry933h.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></strong></a></span><span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank"><strong><br></strong>Sargent House</a> is excited to announce the second annual Fall Tour lineup for 2014 featuring <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> in the headline slot with direct support to be traded off each night between <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle.</a> So be sure to turn up on time so you don’t miss any of these three great acts. The tour begins on October 20th in Santa Ana, CA and will canvas North America, with stops in Montreal and Toronto, going full circle and ending November 22nd back in California with the last show in Los Angeles.<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank"><strong>SEE ALL TTNG SHOW DATES & DETAILS HERE </strong> </a></span></span><strong><br></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><strong><!-- more -->SARGENT HOUSE FALL 2014 TOUR</strong><br><strong>w/ TTNG, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & MYLETS</strong> <br>Oct 20 - Santa Ana, CA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qj9qaqm" target="_blank">The Constellation Room </a><br> Oct 21 - Scottsdale, AZ @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ovs5qss" target="_blank">Pub Rock Live </a><br>Oct 22 - El Paso, TX @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pvfuwjz" target="_blank">Tricky Falls</a> <br> Oct 23 - Dallas, TX @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kyak4jw" target="_blank">Club Dada</a> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br> Oct 24 - Austin, TX @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pudlwrm" target="_blank">Red 7</a> <br> Oct 27 - Ybor City, FL @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/o3kfd6p" target="_blank">Crowbar </a><br> Oct 29 - Orlando, FL @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qbn4adj" target="_blank">Backbooth</a> <br> Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nepz3cb" target="_blank">The Earl</a> <br> Nov 02 - Philadelphia, PA @ <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/event/672139-ttng-philadelphia/" target="_blank">First Unitarian Church</a> <br> Nov 03 - Washington, DC @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/m2nqx4t" target="_blank">Rock N Roll Hotel</a> <br> Nov 04 - New York City, NY @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oe8ob8h" target="_blank">The Studio at Webster Hall</a><br> Nov 05 - Hamden, CT @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qfk7asx" target="_blank">The Space</a> <br> Nov 06 - Cambridge, MA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/owyu9rf" target="_blank">The Middle East (Downstairs)</a> <br> Nov 07 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz (formerly Il Motore) <br> Nov 08 - Toronto, ON @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/m52zohz" target="_blank">Lee’s Palace</a> <br> Nov 10 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks<br> Nov 11 - Grand Rapids, MI @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lefjpgs" target="_blank">Pyramid Scheme</a> <br> Nov 12 - Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nfww22w" target="_blank">Subterranean</a> <br> Nov 13 - St. Louis, MO @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qe5k9o8" target="_blank">The Demo</a> <br> Nov 14 - Lawrence, KS @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kc5g7mo" target="_blank">Jackpot Music Hall</a><br> Nov 15 - Denver, CO @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr887bn" target="_blank">The Marquis Theater</a> <br> Nov 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nhalma3" target="_blank">The Shred Shed</a> <br> Nov 18 - Seattle, WA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ox5akzt" target="_blank">The Vera Project </a><br> Nov 19 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater<br> Nov 20 - San Francisco, CA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/or7alyg" target="_blank">Thee Parkside</a> <br> Nov 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/of7wbf2" target="_blank">The Echo (Early Show</a> </span></span></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405122014-03-06T11:35:19-08:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00TTNG Announce May Tour for May 2014<p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/c241285d055621753f652e598439d908/tumblr_inline_n1yul8bJhb1ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p>We are delighted to announce <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be touring Japan in May 2014 to support their latest release <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/130000" target="_blank">“13.0.0.0.0”</a>. The tour is being arranged in association with our friends at <a href="http://www.stiffslack.com/" target="_blank">Stiff Slack</a> and will be the second time the band play Japan.<!-- more --></p>
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<p><strong>TTNG MAY 2014 JAPAN TOUR</strong></p>
<p>14th - Kyoto @ Glowry<br>15th - Tokyo @ Tsutaya O-Nest<br>16th - Tokyo @ Tsutaya O-Nest<br>17th - Tokyo @ RIPS<br>18th - Nagoya @ spazio rita<br>19th - Osaka @ Pangea</p>
<p><a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank">KEEP UP TO DATE WITH TTNG’S TOURING ON ARTISTDATA</a></p>
<p></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405132014-01-06T14:12:00-08:002015-06-13T15:32:42-07:00SPREAD SESSIONS: Live Videos from Montreal with T T N G<p><a href="http://www.dontspreadbullshitspreadmusic.com/spread-session-ttng/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/f7bf86629faec68d184323ef938004d6/tumblr_inline_mz02d7nmiZ1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dontspreadbullshitspreadmusic.com/spread-session-ttng/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/4995766e9f67c650cc87cfa0207aad54/tumblr_inline_mz02denwnY1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a>The <a href="http://www.dontspreadbullshitspreadmusic.com/spread-session-ttng/" target="_blank">Spread</a> staff teamed up with Stray Dog Pictures to bring you footage of their last live set in Montreal while on tour with <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com/And_So_I_Watch_You_From_Afar" target="_blank">ASIWYFA</a> and <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a>. Enjoy!</p>
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Henry and Tim of TTNG perform an acoustic version of their song “2 Birds, 1 Stone and an...<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="325" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QMqhie-U-Wk?rel=0" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><br>Henry and Tim of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> perform an acoustic version of their song “2 Birds, 1 Stone and an Empty Stomach” from the album entitled <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">13.0.0.0.0</a> while on a stop in Dublin, Ireland on their tour current tour. The video was shot and edited by our very own Dan Finnegan for <a href="http://sargenthouseeu.tumblr.com" target="_blank">Sargent House Europe</a>.<br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank">TTNG Are currently on tour see ALL show details HERE </a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405152013-11-27T16:55:50-08:002022-02-03T00:31:10-08:00Tri-State Indie Video Interview with TTNG - UK Tour starts tomorrow - November 28, 2013<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="325" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AGxrvsWNP8s?rel=0" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> sat down to chat with Tri-State Indie on the last stop of their North American Tour at The First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA on 11/16/2013. - Tomorrow, November 28th their headline tour in the UK starts with Victor Villarreal on all shows as support. See all show details below. <br><br><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" src="http://feeds.artistdata.com/iframe.shows/artist/AR-9RZISYAENIOHHKBL/iframe" width="500"></iframe></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405162013-11-16T18:28:00-08:002017-01-12T06:15:37-08:00
TTNG have just finished off their extensive seven week long North American tour and what better way...<p><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><img src="//media.tumblr.com/90c199992c0400665b7f77164a81e3d6/tumblr_inline_mwbrltT2Zh1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> have just finished off their extensive seven week long North American tour and what better way to celebrate their return home than going right back out on tour in the UK and Ireland with the amazing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/victorvillarrealofficial" target="_blank">Victor Villarreal</a> (Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc) ! Make sure not to miss out seeing them as these will be TTNG’s last UK shows for a while so that they can return to the studio early 2014 to begin writing for their next album.<br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL TTNG TOUR DATES HERE</a></p>
<p><strong>TTNG // VICTOR VILLARREAL - UK & IRELAND TOUR<br></strong>Nov 28th, 2013 - Southampton @ Avondale House<br>Nov 29th, 2013 - Bristol @ The Exchange<br>Nov 30th, 2013 - Liverpool, UK @ The Kazimier<br>Dec 1st, 2013 - Preston @ The Mad Ferret<br>Dec 2nd, 2013 - Leicester @ The Firebug<br>Dec 3rd, 2013 - Dublin @ Workman’s Club<br>Dec 4th, 2013 - Belfast @ Voodoo<br>Dec 5th, 2013 - Glasgow @ Audio<br>Dec 6th, 2013 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete’s<br>Dec 7th, 2013 - Newcastle @ The Cluney<br>Dec 8th, 2013 - Leeds @ The Wharf Chambers<br>Dec 9th, 2013 - Manchester @ Night & Day Café<br>Dec 10th, 2013 - Sheffield @ The Harley<br>Dec 11th, 2013 - Norwich @ Epic Studios<br>Dec 12th, 2013 - Oxford @ The Cellar<br>Dec 13th, 2013 - Brighton @ Sticky Mike’s<br>Dec 14th, 2013 - London @ Birthdays<br>Dec 15th, 2013 - Winchester @ The Railway</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405172013-11-13T16:25:00-08:002020-10-12T03:06:52-07:00TTNG Live Audiotree Session Videos <p><a href="http://audiotree.tv/session/ttng/" target="_blank"><img src="//media.tumblr.com/6aa5819f9e8d6a9f7c1c841e74135246/tumblr_inline_mw8919J6L41qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://audiotree.tv/session/ttng/" target="_blank">SEE FULL TTNG SESSION ABOVE // DOWNLOAD AUDIO & VIDEO</a><br>1 Cat Fantastic <br>2 Left Aligned <br>3 Adventure, Stamina & Anger <br>4 Havoc in the Forum <br>5 If I Sit Still, Maybe I’ll Get Out of Here<br><br>“British “maths”-rockers, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a>, create a wall of sound that transcends their numbers. Tim Collis’ frantic tapping, finger picking, and Spanish stylings form the framework for their erratic blend of delicious notation. His tablature and chord progressions are so desirable that they’ve been made available for sale. Constant, extreme chord changes in odd tunings flow over dance-able beats. Ethereal vocals swoon over bold, echoing bass lines. The drum kit delivers rim shots, cymbal pings and driving floor toms galore while transforming their ever-evolving rhythm.</p>
<p><!-- more -->Their apocalyptic themed <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">13.0.0.0.0</a> shows the band at the top of their game with their most relational and dynamic tracks to date. They write like seasoned novelists, they perform with aplomb, they are TTNG.”</p>
<p>Band Members:<br>Henry Tremain – Vocals and Bass<br>Tim Collis – Guitar<br>Chris Collis – Drums</p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405182013-10-22T11:33:27-07:002021-04-13T22:51:23-07:00TTNG Taylor Guitar Session Live Acoustic: "26 Is Not Dancier Than 4" <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="320" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3MtQPxfvVF4?rel=0" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> stopped by the <a href="http://www.taylorguitars.com/" target="_blank">Taylor Guitar </a>headquarters at their tour stop in San Diego. Check out this video of Tim Collis and Henry Tremain sampling some of the incredible instruments they have there. They played an old TTNG classic in this beautiful rendition of the song <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/track/26-is-dancier-than-4" target="_blank">26 Is Dancier than 4 </a> acoustic.<br><br>Don’t miss TTNG on the <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> tour now with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/And_So_I_Watch_You_From_Afar" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a> & <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> in North America and TTNG’s UK tour with Victor Villarreal that starts November 28, 2013. <br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL TTNG SHOW DETAILS & TOUR DATES HERE </a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405192013-10-21T12:24:17-07:002017-01-12T06:15:37-08:00T T N G photographed live by Andrew Dominguez in El Paso, Texas...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/f061c10ecae26da2f8b27fd6d30888f6/tumblr_mv19whARqP1qc3ixxo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/1b29f22629db232f8abf14d91686e3db/tumblr_mv19whARqP1qc3ixxo2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/a2ff4bd8af848755add71ea2ad20d347/tumblr_mv19whARqP1qc3ixxo3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/dfeff0bd59bf4b4774c6959d31c2cfd4/tumblr_mv19whARqP1qc3ixxo4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/a20663607099dc09bbe91e21220c8e75/tumblr_mv19whARqP1qc3ixxo5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p><a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">T T N G</a> photographed live by <a href="http://www.andrewdominguez.com/" target="_blank">Andrew Dominguez</a> in El Paso, Texas on October 21, 2013 at their Red 7 show part of their <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> Tour with <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com/And_So_I_Watch_You_From_Afar" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a> and <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a>. <br><br><a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows/" target="_blank">SEE ALL T T N G TOUR DATES HERE.</a></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405202013-10-14T13:24:00-07:002017-01-12T06:15:37-08:00TTNG will play live on AudioTree in Chicago on October 26th & US Tour continues<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/5ae49b041b641899bea546ae705d4ab1/tumblr_inline_muohfwy9ey1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p>Make sure to tune in to see it live both <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/And_So_I_Watch_You_From_Afar" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> will be playing back to back sessions while in Chicago on <a href="http://audiotree.tv/live/" target="_blank">Audiotree Live</a> at 12PM and then 3:30 CST before they play that same night in Chicago at Subterranean on the <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House tour</a> also with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a>. <br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank"><br>SEE ALL TTNG TOUR DATES HERE </a><br><br></p>
<p><strong>SARGENT HOUSE TOUR // ASIWYFA // TTNG // MYLETS</strong><br>Oct 11 - Calgary, AB @ Broken City<br>Oct 12 - Edmonton, AB @ The Pawn Shop<br>Oct 15 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court<br>Oct 16 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre<br>Oct 17 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad<br>Oct 18 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace<br>Oct 19 - Austin, TX @ Red 7<br>Oct 20 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s<br>Oct 21 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada<br>Oct 22 - Oklahoma City, OK @ ACM @ UCO Performance Lab<br>Oct 24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club<br>Oct 25 - Madison, WI @ The Sett - University of Wisconsin<br>Oct 26 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean<br>Oct 28 - St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird<br>Oct 29 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/IN<br>Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade<br>Nov 01 - Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits<br>Nov 02 - Tampa, FL @ Crowbar<br>Nov 03 - Orlando, FL @ The Social<br>Nov 04 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern<br>Nov 05 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade<br>Nov 06 - Washington, DC @ The Rock and Roll Hotel<br>Nov 07 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks<br>Nov 08 - Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room w/ 65 DOS & Caspian too! <br>Nov 09 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern<br>Nov 10 - Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks<br>Nov 11 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore<br>Nov 13 - Hamden, CT @ The Space<br>Nov 14 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair<br>Nov 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory<br>Nov 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church<strong><br></strong></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405212013-10-08T13:34:38-07:002021-10-26T06:41:35-07:00
Oxford, England’s TTNG (formerly This Town Needs Guns) brought their intricate math-rock to...<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/55772cdb743c4e2090cae1853c3e3280/tumblr_inline_mudab7bbuY1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="//media.tumblr.com/4f3fa5e56c50bac3894205c3f5674251/tumblr_inline_mudad096ua1qbe5i0.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
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<p><span class="author"><span></span></span><span class="bodytext">Oxford, England’s <a href="http://www.ttng.net/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> (formerly This Town Needs Guns) brought their intricate math-rock to the world with their 2008 debut <em>Animals</em>. Their latest offering is this year’s <em>13.0.0.0.0</em>. When they stopped by our offices, they performed two songs from the album. We already posted “<a href="http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ExclaimTV/ttng-cat_fantastic_on_exclaim_tv" target="_blank">Cat Fantastic</a>”; today, we’re sharing “Left Aligned,” which features similarly complex rhythms and a great deal of restraint from lead singer Henry Tremain.<br><br>Check out the performance above, and catch them in Canada this month as they play a string of dates North of the border on the Sargent House tour with And So I Watch Your From Afar and Mylets. <br></span></p>
<p><span class="bodytext"><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL TTNG TOUR DATES </a><br><br>TTNG Canadian Dates:<br>10/09 Vancouver, BC - The Media Club *<br>10/11 Calgary, AB - Broken City *<br>10/12 Edmonton, AB - The Pawn Shop *<br>11/09 Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern *<br>11/10 Ottawa, ON - Mavericks *<br>11/11 Montreal, QC - Il Motore *<br><br>* w/ And So I Watch You From Afar & Mylets<br><br>Filmed by Roberto Granados-Ocon<br>Audio by Nash Bussieres<br>Written & Edited by Michael Thomas<br></span></p>US / THEM Grouptag:usthemgroup.com,2005:Post/37405222013-10-08T12:33:00-07:002017-01-12T06:15:38-08:00TTNG Announce UK & Irish dates upon their return from their N. American Tour <p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/691edba3eefd7577ed903eba7df71ce1/tumblr_inline_mud79oksyF1ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p><a href="http://thistownneedsguns.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">TTNG</a> have announced a string of dates across UK & Ireland in December to cap off their extensive touring this year joining them on all the shows will be <a href="https://www.facebook.com/victorvillarrealofficial" target="_blank">Victor Villarreal</a> (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc). Currently TTNG are in North American on tour with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/And_So_I_Watch_You_From_Afar" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar </a>and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> supporting their album <a href="http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">13.0.0.0.0 . </a>These new shows will be the bands last UK shows for some time so that they can return to the studio early next year to begin writing for their next album.<br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/this-town-needs-guns/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL TTNG TOUR DATES HERE<br></a><br><img src="//media.tumblr.com/243acd0c5e6eec51ea95cc3dab284630/tumblr_inline_mud7zlgb0K1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p><strong>SARGENT HOUSE TOUR // ASIWYFA // TTNG // MYLETS</strong><br>Oct 08 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios<br>Oct 09 - Vancouver, BC @ Media Club<br>Oct 11 - Calgary, AB @ Broken City<br>Oct 12 - Edmonton, AB @ The Pawn Shop<br>Oct 15 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court<br>Oct 16 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre<br>Oct 17 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad<br>Oct 18 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace<br>Oct 19 - Austin, TX @ Red 7<br>Oct 20 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s<br>Oct 21 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada<br>Oct 22 - Oklahoma City, OK @ ACM @ UCO Performance Lab<br>Oct 24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club<br>Oct 25 - Madison, WI @ The Sett - University of Wisconsin<br>Oct 26 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean<br>Oct 28 - St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird<br>Oct 29 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/IN<br>Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade<br>Nov 01 - Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits<br>Nov 02 - Tampa, FL @ Crowbar<br>Nov 03 - Orlando, FL @ The Social<br>Nov 04 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern<br>Nov 05 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade<br>Nov 06 - Washington, DC @ The Rock and Roll Hotel<br>Nov 07 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks<br>Nov 08 - Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room w/ 65 DOS & Caspian too! <br>Nov 09 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern<br>Nov 10 - Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks<br>Nov 11 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore<br>Nov 13 - Hamden, CT @ The Space<br>Nov 14 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair<br>Nov 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory<br>Nov 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church<strong><br></strong></p>
<p><strong><!-- more -->TTNG - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER UK & IRELAND TOUR<br></strong>Nov 28th, 2013 - Southampton @ Avondale House<br>Nov 29th, 2013 - Bristol @ The Exchange<br>Nov 30th, 2013 - Liverpool @ The Kazimier<br>Dec 1st, 2013 - Preston @ The Mad Ferret<br>Dec 2nd, 2013 - Leicester @ The Firebug<br>Dec 3rd, 2013 - Dublin @ Workman’s Club<br>Dec 4th, 2013 - Belfast @ Voodoo<br>Dec 5th, 2013 - Glasgow @ Audio<br>Dec 6th, 2013 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete’s<br>Dec 7th, 2013 - Newcastle @ The Cluney<br>Dec 8th, 2013 - Leeds @ The Wharf Chambers<br>Dec 9th, 2013 - Manchester @ Night & Day Café<br>Dec 10th, 2013 - Sheffield @ The Harley<br>Dec 11th, 2013 - Norwich @ Epic Studios<br>Dec 12th, 2013 - Oxford @ The Cellar<br>Dec 13th, 2013 - Brighton @ Sticky Mike’s<br>Dec 14th, 2013 - London @ Birthdays<br>Dec 15th, 2013 - Winchester @ The Railway</p>US / THEM Group