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New Blog, New download and 2 Mixtapes

2011-03-25T06:56:00.000-07:00

hey we made a new blog here:

letswrestleblog.tumblr.com

its got 2 mixtapes done by Wes and Sam aswell as that you can hear the first output from Nursing Home called 'Dear John'

Let's News

2011-01-19T11:04:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

Happy new year and all that, sorry for being so very quiet.
Anyway, we have some news, our bassist Mike Lightning has left the band to go to university, there are no hard feelings between us and we wish him well.
We have a new bassist in our friend Sam Pillay and we will be playing some shows in the next few weeks so keep your eyes peeled.
They'll be more news about future releases as well as tour dates soon.

rock on

-Let's Wrestle

ahoy

2010-11-04T08:10:00.000-07:00

we played our album reissue launch yesterday at The Lexington it was great fun felt good playing in London again, thanks to all who came down.

The Reissue of In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's is out now on Full Time Hobby so go get it.

we are doing a couple more dates before the end of the year:
UK
November 17th - The Albert, Brighton With Titus Andronicus
November 18th - Haymakers, Cambridge with Titus Andronicus
November 19th - The Cooler, Bristol with Titus Andronicus
November 20th - Bodega, Nottingham with Titus Andronicus
November 25th - The Scala, London with Titus Andronicus

Germany and Switzerland
December 6th - Subway, Cologne, Germany
December 7th - Bassy, Berlin, Germany
December 8th - Ostpol, Dresden, Germany
December 9th - Brotfabrik, Frankfurt, Germany
December 10th - Coq D'or, Olten, Switzerland
December 11th - Swamp, Freiberg, Germany

hope you can make it down to one.

There is also this I wrote for a couple of websites its a guide to every track on the new Full Time Hobby Reissue:

1.My Arms Don't Bend That Way.

This song was written about Amy Winehouse. I read on a forum that people were predicting when she would die. I felt bad so wrote this. The title came from a Japanese film me and my buddy Koichi watched. These were the subtitles when we paused it.

2. I'm In Love With Destruction
This song is probably about a girl. I don't know which girl. I've got an idea it sounds like I wrote in a dreaded "relationship". I've not had many of these, from the lyrics it doesn't sound like fun.

3. Tanks
This too was about a relationship. It was a lame one I can tell you but I am really proud of this song so I suppose some good can come from kissing and holding hands.

4. My Eyes Are Bledding (interlude)
This the first of 3 interludes I wanted the record to be like Sparklehorse's "Vivadixiesubmarineplot" LP but the interludes were as close as we got. Mikes the American, I'm the one with the smokers cough.

5. My Schedule
This is my favourite song on the record. We worked it out the day before we went into the studio. I wrote it after we came back from a tour and I had a letter from the library about some overdue items. I was pretty cut up about it.

6. We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love Soon
This was written in the morning before I phoned the job centre to sign on. I really thought signing on would be fun and that I would be able to take girls out on dates. Oh sweet naivety!

7. In Dreams
I was listening to a lot of Roy Orbison at time and I thought a homage was necessary. I was having a re-occuring dream about a girl with no face. So this came out.

8. Atlantis (interlude)
Another interlude this was just me and Mike mucking about.

9. Song For Old People.
My mum said once that you have to be a really talented songwriter to write a song about old people. So I thought I would give it a go. When my mother heard it she thought it was harsh on O.A.P.s

10. I Won't Lie To You
The hit. I remember feeling like I really achieved something after writing this but its no fun after hearing it played at indie discos.

11. Diana's Hair
I really like this one the drums remind of "Instant Karma". It's about Mike's hair, his bassline on this is fantastic.

12. I'm In A Fighting Mode
I was embarrassed about this song for a while. I thought is was too ballady but it grew on me. I think the guitar solo sounds like Slash, of course I am deluded but it's quite good. I can't disclose what this songs about until I quit the music business. I'll put it on my suicide note, I promise.

13 Insects
This is about night terrors I had as a kid coupled with I had an infestation of ladybirds in my room when I wrote it.

14. It's Not Going To Happen
I remember coming up with the title as I was listening to a lot of stuff on Flying Nun Records and both Tall Dwarfs and the Clean had songs with similar titles. That is all I remember about this one.

15.Waltz (interlude)
Another interlude, not much to say about it.

16. In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's
I didn't realise until after the original release that this is very similar to a Sebadoh song called "Crystal Gypsy". On our travels we managed to meet both Lou and Jason from Sebadoh. When I met Jason who wrote it after I made a gushing speech about how "III" changed my life I apologised about ripping this off his response was "don't fuckin' worry about it, I stole that off a MTV commercial, wanna toke?"

DISC 2
1. Song For Abba Tribute Record
Sounds quite different to how we sound now. This was recorded when we were 15, or just 16. It was before I knew how to use a distortion pedal. I think I was either listening to a lot of Fall records or hadn't worked out how to sing it yet. It ends in an odd way because we hadn't worked out an ending.

2. Quazar Blues
This was about all the people I knew at school and unfortunately kind of about me. I have sadly sniffed glue and pissed on cars. Youth is a very dangerous thing if you live in the suburbs and don't fit in.

3. I Wish I Was In Husker Du.
This was the first Let's Wrestle song. I wrote it when me and Darkus used to go watch Trencher and Part Chimp and smoke weed in club toilets. It was my real introduction to the London toilet circuit. It's not changed much.

4. I Won't Lie To You (ep version)
This is my favourite version of the two. It's so out of tune. Its the first song from our ep "In Loving Memory Of...." and this song gained some fans who were interested in more than just our song "Let's Wrestle".

5. I'm OK You're OK
This song was a good prediction of how I'd feel in a few years time and at that moment I was OK, not that I'm not now but things can be tough being in a pop combo.

6. Song For A Man With Pica Syndrome
This is about Pica Syndrome which consists of the sufferer eating things that they shouldn't i.e. crayons, wood and bedsheets. There was a fantastic article on it in the paper which I cut out and still have.

7. Insects (ep version)
I like the album version more, there is a great organ ending Mike did, which I like.

8. Music Is My Girlfriend
I don't like this song much nowadays. Its a pretty basic song I find the lyrics a cringeworthy. We enjoyed playing around with a wasp synthesizer on this but its pretty low in the mix.

9. Joe Reddington, You'll Be The Death Of Me
Joe Reddington was a friend from school. He was really into reggae and dressed like a skinhead. We used to take him around the country as a "roadie" but that consisted of him drinking our beers mainly. He wasn't a big lifter, he didn't want to break a sweat in his Ben Sherman shirt. He is training to be a fireman now.

10 I'm In Fighting Mode (single version)
As I've already talked about the song I'll talk about the video which is my favourite video. I have two young siblings and me and MIke thought of this idea with ghost children. We bought loads of sheets and got my brother and sister to ask their friends at school. When we got there we realised we had loads of kids wearing sheets and Mike's brother dressed as a clown. We thought it seemed quite John Wayne Gacy but nobody noticed. It was a fun day on Hampstead Heath.

11. Let's wrestle
I fucking hated this song when this single was recorded. We seemed to gain a lot of jocky beefcake fans because of it and it was just a joke that got out of hand. We did the single so the asbo fans could buy it and leave us alone.

12. Getting Rest.
Was written after the album came out. It's about our first US tour and seeing some real poverty in Baltimore and New Orleans. It was really tragic and sometimes scary. I love America but it can be incredibly overwhelming at times. This song is gonna be on the 2nd record. It's one of my favourite things I've done.

13. When I was In Hospital
Another post "In The Court..." song. It's about terminal illness or just thinking about it or whatever. It's got a good guitar.

Lots of love
-Let's Wrestle
P.S here is one of the best songs ever Dr John + The Band from the film "The Last Waltz"

Pre Order our new split 7 inch

2010-09-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

PRE ORDER HERE
http://www.toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv040-lets-wrestle-young-governor-split-7-pre-order

LET’S WRESTLE // YOUNG GOVERNOR
“CRUSHING NERVES” // “OLD HAT” 7”

RELEASE DATE: 18TH OCTOBER 2010
LABEL: TOUGH LOVE RECORDS
FORMAT: AA SPLIT 7” SINGLE / DOWNLOAD

London three-piece Let’s Wrestle and Young Governor, the solo project of Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook, first met while touring the US together in 2009. Since Ben hates touring, he barely spoke to Let’s Wrestle, and he assumed they thought he was a huge dick. But Ben soon realised they shared common ground when he saw Let’s Wrestle leave a show drunk with the drummer on the roof of their car. 15 minutes later they were in jail. Since then they’ve bonded over nothing but shared roll ups, something less common in Toronto, where Ben is from.

When Tough Love asked Young Governor to feature on a split 7”, Ben stated that the only band he’d like to share a record with is Let’s Wrestle, claiming that “they’re one of the only bands I think are quality out of the millions I have played with over the last 3 years.” A few anticipatory emails and several months later, “Crushing Nerves” and “Old Hat” are the result of that wish.

Let’s Wrestle’s contribution, “Crushing Nerves”, is an exclusive track recorded especially for the release. Featuring frontman Wes’ trademark tongue-in-cheek misgivings, it’s pop punk charged on social faux pas and bad romance. Young Governor play true to form also, with “Old Hat” displaying their distinctively melodic mod pop, one part Mersey beat, one part first wave punk.

Tough Love Records issue the 7” as the fourth release in their series of double A side split singles. The record is limited to just 500 copies, with artwork designed by Let’s Wrestle’s Wesley Patrick Gonzalez.

SOUNDCLOUD LINKS
Let’s Wrestle – “Crushing Nerves”
http://soundcloud.com/tough-love/lets-wrestle-crushing-nerves

Young Governor – “Old Hat”
http://soundcloud.com/tough-love/young-governor-old-hat

BAND LINKS
Let’s Wrestle – www.myspace.com/letsfuckingwrestle
Young Governor – /www.myspace.com/younggovernor

Seattle, WA, Vancouver, BC and Portland OR

2010-09-12T14:52:00.000-07:00

when we woke up at the motel I went to check my e-mails whilst Mike and Hoppie started up a conversation with a fella named Gary, when i returned we asked what he was doing up in small town Oregan, it turned out he and his wife went on a road trip and left their pistols at the motel. We asked if we could see his guns so he took us over to his car and showed us a gun wrapped very poorly in celephane and then we asked to take a picture with it (by the way the gun was loaded) when the cameras came out the guy grabbed my hand and put the gun to his head for the photo and then did the same with Mike. After that odd experiance from Coos Bay we drove up to Seattle it was another long drive but we got there in the end once we got in we checked some e-mails and had a listen to one of the demo songs proposed for the 2nd album and figured out what to do with it we then went our seperate ways Mike and Darkus went to get some clothes Mike got a flashy shirt with golden buttons and a tweed jacket and Darkus got some salmon coloured slacks whilst I went to the Record store up the road to try and get some North West indie rock LP's which i failed at I couldnt find any Bratmobile or Halo Benders but did find a cool Elliott Smith 7-inch and considered buying the Nirvana/Jesus Lizard split single which I thought would be too cliche in Seattle and it was also $30. By the time I got back everyone was watching Seinfeld in the car so I joined in, Seinfeld is the best programme ever! we went inside and saw a bit of the first band Steel Tigers Of Death who were a bunch of middle aged naked guys who sounded a bit like Green Day pretty fun. we played and it was good though mikes bass fucked up on the first song but it was no biggy we are professionals. we stayed with some university students Xavier and Amanda and watched the early 90's film Hocus Pocus which was awesome, and then crashed out.

Off we popped over the border to Vancouver, BC and talked to a man at the currency exchange shop and he told us about how Iron Maiden came through and how nice they were. we drove on through beautiful Canada to Vancouver which was very different than what I imagined, I thought it was going to have loads of waterfalls and kind of look like a little swiss town from the 20s, This was completely incorrect we were playing in Chinatown and the water falls were replaced by guys shooting up on the streets and the whole swiss feel was replaced by some very unconvincing transvestites. we hung out and went to a bar in Gastown and watched a busker play Neil Young covers which was nice, then went back to the venue. we soundchecked and tried a new song For My Mother out. then sat around and waited to play the show went pretty badly in our eyes but people fucking loved it we always like playing in Canada. after the show Me, Mike and Merch Man Ben sat and played Junkie Watch in the car which was good fun and gave the security guard, who had to look out for the cars getting robbed, some cookies we ended up deciding to get a motel that night back in the states vancouver diddnt seem to safe. but when we packed up it seemed Hoppie had lost his Passport we looked for ages but still couldnt find it, and decided to go for the border anyway. Once we got there hoppie was fine to go through but Merch Man Ben had trouble as he diddnt have the right Visa to be selling merch, but we got him through anyway. we got to the motel in washington and slept like we had never slept before.

Portland was the last show of this tour leg. We got down to Music Fest North West to pick up some free Nike shit they wanted us to have to be honest it was shit but we got to see our friends Male Bonding and the good guys of Trash Talk said hello too. the good part of the clothes stuff was that you could get things embroided on the jackets i wanted J. Stalin but diddnt have the balls. We had to get back to the venue to meet some Canadian guys for like a video session and i readid the merch sign and stuff and restring my guitar pretty boring stuff really. then we went to meet Hoppies mother and old flatmate for pizza and beer and hung out for a while until we had to get back for the show. The show was pretty busy and i was looking forward to playing aparently our friend Joanna from Quasi and the Jicks was there unfortunatly I diddn't get to see her but Mike and Darkus said hi we went on and it started from the word go pretty badly the micraphone wwas electrcuting me we couldnt hear anything right Mike's vocals were louder than mine it just went on and on and we got pretty darn angry, which actually seemed to make people really enjoy the show i dunno how that happened but I'm cool with it. me and Mike still all pissed off decided to go watch Seinfeld and calm down and we talked to some LW fans round the back who were very nice. we were shattered so after everything was packed and done we decided to just go to sleep as we had an early flight in the morning.

We are playing Chapel Hill tonight with Elf Power at the Nightlight a venue that kicked me out last time i was there so it should be good fun come down they are showing a film about the awesome Elephant 6 Collective before we go on.

see you
-LW

september the 15th and 19th

2010-09-09T19:14:00.001-07:00

We need a floor to sleep on on The 19th of September as we are traveling to record our 2nd album (more info soon)

also i forgot to put on the dates for this tour we are doing a show with Elf Power in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the Nightlight where they are also showing a film about the fantastic Elephant 6 collective (Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples In Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control) which is on the 15th of September come down it'll be fucking awesome.
cheers
-LW

San Francisco and our travel day

2010-09-09T18:10:00.000-07:00

Howdy We played in San Francisco and Seattle here's how it went:
we left Santa Barbara in the morning only to drive up to wine country for breakfast. Breakfast was good but we had one hell of an arse hole for a waitress I got very angry she did not get a tip!!! We carried on driving and picked up some strings (I cant remember anything else I may have been asleep) until we got to San Francisco. We arrived at the American Music Hall, which was a really beautiful venue, I had some tofu and noodles and changed my strings. We drank some Coca Cola and talked about fighting and other things, then Kablamy we were on we rocked the house it ACTUALLY shook people cried and developed blister on their ears. after the show we tried to get a couple who had been kicked out back in, which diddnt work, and talked to the doorman because he was english. a charity worker asking for money did not understand that we had no money and talked to us for about 30 minutes, after we went to the hotel and slept it up.

the next day we had a travel day and were on our way to Coos Bay, Oregon where Hoppie grew up, to stay with his parents. we drove for a while and stopped off in Hopland, CA for some breakfast in the bluebird cafe we ate under a Mooses head and had some jolly japes. off we trotted we drove for hours until we came to one of our favourite american tourist atractions the Drive Thru Tree I even have a t-shirt from our last visit that hoppie bought me. the tree was great, as usual, we stayed in the gift shop for a while and talked about the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. We drove for another 5 minutes until we saw Confusion Hill so we went in there and checked out the 'Gravity House' which was just a house on a hill but you stand on a slant. we drove for hours and hours more until we got to Hoppie's parents house who had cooked us a nice meal and his dad showed his awesome old typewriters from the 1900's. After dinner we went to the Motel Hoppies parents had generously got for us, we decided to make a video for our latest US digital single 'Getting Rest' but then diddnt bother and just drank gin and watched 'Roseanne' and 'Fraiser' on TV and went to beddy byes.

Ill let you know about Seattle and Vancouver tomorrow

cheers
-LW

Santa Barbara

2010-09-07T07:44:00.000-07:00

we hit the road from LA quite late as we went to drive around and went for dinner in some weird groucho marx themed International House Of Pancakes. We drove around and took a long way out of the City going through Beverly Hills 90210, Rodeo Drive and all the rich places with all the movie stars, We got caught in traffic in Malibu and listened to Mel Gibson's horrible phone conversations with his girlfriend, It seemed fitting for the area. off we popped down to Santa Barbara we got in said hello to Man Man and soundchecked, this is where we first started having problems with Mike Lightning's bass, which since he got it has caused us nothing but trouble but this prolonged the soundcheck for an extra half hour.

we sat backstage and had a brewski or two. I made merch man Ben a tip jar out of a bit of cardbord and some tape, and a price list with a pretty picture on it. We played another suprisingly good show and proceeded to drink G and T's and generally make merry, apart from mike who went to read his book about Chairman Mao. Darkus got talking to a group of foreigners as we are now foreigners too. we left and got to the house we were staying in, a girl called Beth put us up which was very nice it was a fucking awesome house it was huge. So then we slept.

playlist for today:
Malibu - Hole
I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Mel Gibson's Dispicable Behavior (lasts half an hour so no need for any more songs)

Cheers
-Let's Wrestle

2010-09-05T06:50:00.000-07:00

whassup, so we are back in the states we flew in to LA 2 days ago the first thing we noticed was that they had lost my bag with my guitar pedals, computer and portable 4 track which really freaked me out but we had to get on with everything and wait for them to find the bag, we drove up to our hotel with our Tour Manager Hoppie (you may remember his name from the last set of blogs) we sat around and ate some tacos and then we met with our friend Ben Ransley (who has done all our videos) who had been travelling through mexico so we are gonna take him round the US from here. not much else happened we watched some TV and did some sleeping really.

The next morning we got up we were playing Fuck Yeah Fest with a bunch of cool bands we went and got breakfast and got ready for soundcheck sorted out our merch and setlist and rocked out (we were one of the first on of the day) we were suprised how well the show went after not rehersing any 'court of...' songs for a month or two and we got to see our buddies Titus Andronicus backstage only briefly but we met up with them later anyway. we did an interview, complained about the heat, had some food and rum, hung out with our buddies Titus. then had another interview with a web thing called 15 on 15 the whole get up of this thing made me fucking sick, the girl eloise who interviewed us (who was 15) seemed very pleasant but the guy filming was an absolute prick, a complete wanker for instance the girl said something about how she diddnt like Paul McCartney and mike as a joke said "well youve really hurt my feelings now" or something like that and this total fuck wad says "Rule 1 dont upset the band and if you do go down in flames, well done Mike i liked that. It is hard to explain why this interview was so horrific.

we hung out a bit longer then hit the road back to our hotel, we got some beers and tried to watch TV but the television was not working so us 3 and our friend Ben decided to strip down to our pants and phone the repair guy to come fix it while we were almost nude. we waited half an hour uncomfortably then decided to put our clothes on and undress while he is fixing it which seemed a lot funnier so we waited and he came we got undressed it was a riot he seemed pretty OK about the situation. we then went swimming and tried to come up with a syncronized swimming routine with moves such as "Drown Like An Angel" and "Link Like Lovers" it was pretty fun. afterwards me and Ben watched the programme "going postal: the 15 most extreme acts of violence" (ben had been to one of the crime scenes). Mike and Lou played on computers whilst i went to slumber town.

Santa Barbara tomorrow!

dont forget we need some help with floor space for sleeping we have Santa Barbara and DC set but anywhere else you could help us with would be grand.

i'll hit you up with an LA playlist
Randy Newman - I Love LA
Weezer - Beverly Hills
Pavement - Range Life
Black Black - The Most! The Best! The Greatest! Forever!
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Beach Boys - Disney Girls
Best Coast - Boyfriend
The Beatles - Act Naturally

Cheers
LW

Help Us Out!

2010-08-30T06:41:00.000-07:00

Hey Friends,
hope you are all well.
We need your help with floors to sleep on at the following dates:

5th September - Santa Barbra, CA - Soho Restaraunt and Music
6th September - San Franscisco, CA - American Music Hall
8th September - Seattle, WA - Neumos
9th September - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
10th September - Portland, OR - Music Fest North West
17th September - Washington DC - 9:30 club

5th to the 10th is with Man Man the 17th is with Superchunk if you or are a friend has a floor to sleep on and wants to see us, Man Man or Superchunk let us know as we will hit you up with some guest list in exchange for floor space there will be 5 of us apart from The DC show where there will be only 4
any help would be greatly appreciated

we also need to borrow a drum kit for San Fransisco and Vancouver if anyone would like to lend us a kit we will also give you guest list (I'm sorry we dont have much to give if you like the look of one of us maybe some sexual intercourse maybe a good deal?)

anything would be greatly appreiciated if this seems like something youd like to help us out with e-mail us at letswrestleband@gmail.com

I will leave you with this its my favourite song at the moment ive listened to it over 10 times today you may remember it being used in Seinfeld whilst Kramer and Newman makes Sausages I diddnt want you to think we were all taking and no giving!

Let's Wrestle Cover Maxwell's Silver Hammer

2010-08-25T11:41:00.000-07:00

Ive been listening to a lot of McCartney Solo albums today (Ram is the best album of all time) and also finished my book "The Paul McCartney Story" so I wanted to put up our cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" from a Mojo Cover Mount CD, I hope you kids like it, this guy didn't, I think he thought we were a Prog band because of our King Crimson referencing album name:

"I have praised this CD to no end, but my complaints have to start here. Notorious as a lapse of taste in the Beatles catologue, Let's Wrestle managed to "wrestle" all the charm out of this incidental classic. It's blank, phoned in and involves little to no talent. A shame. I had such high hopes for a group who named their album "In the Court of the Wrestle Let's.""

News

2010-08-20T02:10:00.000-07:00

We just signed to the label Full Time Hobby and they are re releasing our first album with a disc of the early singles and the EP as well as 2 new songs "Getting Rest" and "When I Was In Hospital" both written after the albums release the full tracklist is here

CD 1
1. My Arms Don’t Bend that Way, Damn It!
2. I’m in Love With Destruction
3. Tanks
4. My Eyes Are Bleeding (Interlude)
5. My Schedule
6. We Are the Men You’ll Grow to Love Soon
7. In Dreams
8. Atlantis (Interlude)
9. Song for Old People
10. I Won’t Lie to You
11. Diana’s Hair
12. I’m in Fighting Mode
13. Insects
14. It’s Not Going to Happen
15. Waltz (Interlude)
16. In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s

CD 2
1. Song For Abba Tribute record
2. Quazar Blues
3. I Wish I Was In Husker Du
4. I Won’t Lie To You
5. I’m OK You’re OK
6. Song For Man With Pica Syndrome
7. Insects (EP version)
8. Music Is My Girlfriend
9. Joe Reddington, You’ll Be The Death Of Me
10. I’m In Fighting Mode
11. Let’s Wrestle
12. Getting Rest
13. When I was in Hospital

This Will Released on November the 2ndIf you cant wait for November The 2nd A Split 7" will be coming out on Tough Love Records the split is with our friend Young Governor his song is "Old Hat" and Let's Wrestles is "Crushing Nerves" and this should be coming out in October

anyways we are off to record the 2nd album next month after we've toured the west coast ill hit you with the dates once more

4	Los Angeles	CA	FYF Fest	w/ Man Man
5	Santa Barbara	CA	Club Mercy Presents
6	San Francisco	CA	Great American Music Hall
8	Seattle	WA	Neumo's
9	Vancouver	BC	Rickshaw Theatre
10	Portland	OR	MusicFestNW
17	Washington		9:30 Club	w/ Superchunk & Tommy Keene
18	New York	NY	Bowery Ballroom	w/ Superchunk

And we shall be back playing in the UK and Europe which we havent done for a while in November so get ready only a bit longer to wait
cheers
Let's Wrestle

Norway

2010-07-17T07:39:00.000-07:00

hey we played a couple of festivals in Norway what happened, I'll tell you what happened

Thursday 15th july - Trondheim Jordunnst Festival
We woke up early, Mike's mother was driving us to the airport on the drive I was very tired and I couldnt stop myself from talking it is a common occurance when I'm tired and hungover i came up with a plan for a shop hiding as another shop the first one was a Rymans that sold sandwiches but there would be no menu or anything it would be exactly like any Rymans but all the staionary would have a different number so if you wanted to buy an adress book you wouldnt be able to youd only be able to buy an egg mayo sandwich i though of also a pizzaria hiding as a launderette and the pizza would be served on your unwashed clothes.

we got to the airtport and hit the air slept and arrived within the first 5 minutes of getting in the airport cops took us to one side as a sniffer dog had smelt something on us (which of course we diddnt have) and then they took us to a back room and interegatted us and made us undress and spread against the wall this is the first time any of us have undressed infront of men and we found it odd and unpleasant but once they found out we were good boys we left and went and met rolf who was driving us to the festival we got dropped off at the apartment we were being put up in and hung out for a bit then off we trotted to the festival we had some fish and potatos and began drinking people from the other bands (who were mainly metal bands) proceeded to come up and talk to us one told us he was heavily affiliated with the jam scene this was not our bag so we decided to go watch a band. I diddnt know who the band was but crikey were they frightning all dressed up in black with their hair flowwing down what a spooky look they looked like real life monsters.

then it was our time to play which was allright we played ok we came off and i talked to a kid who was tottally mugged on boffins who was finding it very hard to tell me he liked our band and kept saying "i knew you before the festival" mike came up and his attention went to him so i ran off. after that we went back to sleep as we had to wake up at 4am but sleeping was very hard as it doesent ever get dark in the summer in norway and in the winter it is dark all day and night so me and mike had a big freak out about it but we ended up getting at least 1 hours sleep.

Wednesday 16th July - Tromso Bukta festival

again we flew and got into tromso by about 11 we were picked up by hannah who had the lovely job of looking after us for the day and she took us to the hotel I had my own room and Mike and Darkus had to share it felt like we were I was Johnny Borrel and Mike and Darkus were some other plebs from Razorlight (of course this is not actually the case we are all equals unlike cunt bands like Razorlight) so I went and had a shower then joined Mike and Lou in there room where we watched Dynasty and Paris Hilton's new best friend as we had nothing to do until 4:30 we decided to go to the hotel bar where we met Nick Oliveri from Queens Of The Stone Age and talked about how the beer tasted like fish Mike played a big white grand piano in the Lobby i think he played the tetris theme but I cant remember. Quite boozed up we hit the restaraunt for our slap up paid for 3 course dinner which i cant remember much about as we had a bit of an argument but all was resolved by the end of dinner. our chaperone for the day hannah came and picked us up at the end of dinner to take us to the festival where we had a trailer (snazzy stuff for us right?) but before we knew it we had to play we got to the stage played another average set and got back to the trailer and saw if we could all put grapes up our nose which we could. then Mike and I went back to the hotel had a chat then went our seperate ways I watched a film with tom cruise in which wasent Top Gun and drank some gin then conked out. I dont know what Darkus did for the rest of the night.

Mike should have some photos up soon
thanks Norway it was fun

Some Shows And Photos

2010-07-13T01:47:00.000-07:00

We announced some shows in the states about a month ago but did you think that was it, no no friends
Sat Sept 04 - Fuck Yeah Fest - Los Angeles, CA
Sun Sept 05 - Soho Restaurant and Music with Man Man - Santa Barbara, CA
Mon Sept 06 - Great American Music Hall with Man Man - San Fransisco, CA
Wed Sept 08 - Neumos with Man Man - Seattle WA
Thurs Sept 09 - Rickshaw Theatre with Man Man - Vancouver BC
Fri Sept 10 - Music Fest NW - Portland OR
Fri Sept 17 - 9:30 Club with Superchunk - Washington DC
Sat Sept 18 - Bowery Ballroom with Superchunk New York NY

Also i forgot to announce these 2 festivals we are doing in Norway this week
Thursday July 15 Jorddunst Festival - Frøya Norway
Friday July 16 - Bukta Open Air Festival - Trommso Norway

come down I know Thursday is with Sham 69 which should be punkerrific
and Friday will be with Dinosaur Jr which will be good

i got some photos of us in the states from our tour manager hoppie's blog so check it out:

New Video and what we are up to

2010-06-18T03:28:00.000-07:00

hey kids sorry I never finished the blogs about the rest of the US of A I just figured its something I will never get round to but we have a new video anyway its up here on pitchfork http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/6871-lets-wrestle-lazy-merge

so Let's wrestle haven't been up to much hanging out with our friends and making merry and discusing all the things that will kick off very soon I'm afraid i cant discus this quite yet but the end of this year should be BIG

hope all is going well in all of your lives
are any of you jugalos? I am loving this Insane Clown Posse song

"Fucking Magnets, How do they work?"
have fun
Wes, Mike And Darkus

Washington DC and Chapel Hill, NC

2010-05-14T00:53:00.001-07:00

Yo I cant remember how the drive from Philadelphia was I think I was either pissed off or asleep but once we got in we found we had some precious time to do what we wanted so we did the tourist thing and went to see the White house which was cool though we didn't see any agents in the bushes, then we saw the big pointy monument thats in all the films (I can't remember what its called or why its there but whatever, Like I Care?) Cool, Great Smashing on we went to the Lincoln Memorial which was cool he was Massive and Me and Darkus also got recognised which was pretty surreal but cool all the same. After big Abe we went to the Vietnam Memorial and mike struck up a conversation with the right wing woman who was telling everyone about the war, who started asking us about weather we had served and how it was going in England with the war on terror. I think thats when we headed off to the venue which seemed like a cool place we helped Quasi load in and ate some Nachos with them to be honest the show was pretty eventful and we played and it was all right people were there and stuff, That night we couldn't watch Thee Quasi as we had to get back to our American hometown; Chapel Hill. So after we played we went to get some food for Hoppie and Darkus and me a Chocolate Milkshake then off we went for an all night drive me and Darkus slept through most of the journey but Mike stayed up with Hoppie listening to Barack Obama's Autobiography.

When I awoke I was in Hoppie's ranch house we spent that day doing nothing as it was a day off so just hung out and watched some TV. The next day we did some recording with Hoppie's room mate Nick who has a studio in the house, Janet and Joanna Quasi came round for a cup of tea and then we got ready to go to the show we decided to just wear our lounge wear Darkus wore the pink onesy. I just looked like Harry Nillson on the cover of Nillson Schmillson and Mike wore his Kimono and we were ready to rock we sound checked. Laura and Lindsey from Merge came down to take us out for some chinese food we went down and ordered the Jellyfish and Pigs Ear with some stuff that was more paletable. After Dinner we got back played a rock out show and had a beer or two with El Mergerinos and then went home to bed. next stop Atlanta, GA

New York and Philly

2010-04-29T17:34:00.000-07:00

Yo Folks we hit New york at about 5pm after dinner at Hooters and what did we do well Darkus went for a shit and then me and mike talked to this really annoying australian hippy douche bag telling us about his band signing to warners but nobody really wanted to do it with him anymore tough luck, Wanker! so then we hung out where we were staying at Hoppie's friend Laurens apartment in greenwich village and then walked the dog, then walked ourselves and came back for a sweet 40's and then had a debate as to what was better pop music or classical. Mike was on the classical side I off course was all about the pop questions like whos better Wagner or Elliott Smith which couldnt ever be resolved because they are completely different and then we went to sleep. The next day we got up and went to do an interview with John Norris AKA ex MTV news dude which was cool just basicly had a beer and awnswered questions. We were then supposed to meet Barack Obama (We heard he was eating at Katz's Diner) but we missed him by 10 minutes then off we trotted to the Bowery Ballroom where we were playing we soundchecked and then went for some dinner at some whole foods supermarket, had some wild pasta and ran into Katy and Ali from the Vivian Girls so we waved and talked about how they were moving to LA so we said goodbye and went back to the Bowery and played, hung out and watched Quasi then met some people from the show outside and chatted to them with some weird dude from Peru.

This is all i really remember I had a few beers and got all angry and ended up having to be taken home.

The next day I read The Elephant Man which was good fun I have a lot of time for John Merrick and then we headed off to Philly, we listened to On The Road by Jack Kerouac on audiobook in the car and got into town it was a pretty snazzy looking venue It was Sam Quasi's birthday too so we hung out and diddnt really do much Janet Quasi wrote our set list and we went on and it was a fun show we then watched quasi and came on to sing happy birthday to Sam with Quasi

We stayed with Janet's friend Ryan from a band called Man Man we stayed up for a few beers then hit the hay

the next morning we went to get Philly Cheese Steaks (which you had to order just saying wiz wit) and some Ice water then hit the road Onwards to DC!

Back in the USA!!!

2010-04-24T17:45:00.000-07:00

So we're back in the USA... we left Canada after eating some naked breakfast and after I had been to the toilet several times, we were on the road to state side! When we got to the border we had little problem crossing, the man seemed friendly enough. We stopped in Vermont to change our money back and met this little lady in a bank called Laura Bean who we were half flirting with half bullying. She gave us lots of $2 notes or bills and sent us on our way. I can't really remember the drive down to Boston as I was asleep for a good part but from what I hear it was nothing special. For the brief moments when I was awake I seem to remember it being very woody and there were 'Moose Crossing' signs posted every few miles.

Driving through Boston pretty uneventful... We were very late to the show due to our hangovers and entertained ourselves by thinking of excuses to tell to Quasi, my favourite was 'Wes' balls were stuck in the seat belt so we had to get the fire brigade'. When we arrived at the show we were instantly reminded about the ridiculously high drinking age which pissed us off. We ate some horrible Turkish food that made me feel sick. Darkus, Wes and Hoppie's were fine looking but mine was like a soft block of clay covered in petit filous yoghurt, it was sickening and, to add insult to injury, the waitress was very rude. The gig was really good and people seemed to be diggin' on it. We were all very tired so packed up and went off to where we were staying pretty quick. This chick had offered us a place to stay with an indeterminable number of room mates or rooms.

In the Morning we started our leisurely drive down the coast and into New York city.

CANADA

2010-04-23T16:02:00.000-07:00

first off Toronto. We got into customs expecting a huge deal but this was not the case we sat in a room and talked about the queen for half an hour so off we trotted to Toronto we enjoyed the signs very much they had wonderful crowns on them. We stopped off in London, Ontario which was awesome the Englishness which we have yearned for was quenched (not fully because it still isn't the land of hope and glory) we went and got Fish and Chips and Bangers and Mash and the waitress gave us free HP Sauce which is completely vacant in the states some food we could just about find like Marmite for example but its small differences like the Baked Beans taste sweet like full of sugar Yuck right?! so we had a Pint and our beloved English food then set off for Toronto we drove and we drove and we drove until we were there, Toronto is a wonderful place a very good looking town and had a few more things we hadn't seen in a while such as H and M and French Connection. we sound checked said hey to Quasi and went into Chinatown for a Big Flat Noodle but we managed to go the one bad Chinese place in Chinatown it made me ILL, but we watched this chick eat noodles in a bizarre way and even started filming her as it was so interesting Mike got a lob on about it but it was pretty Gross. so we got back and started partying hard and then playing our show which people seemed to really dig which was cool then we saw our friend Jonah from the band Fucked up and hung out and had some fun with him the rest is kind of a blur but I know we met up with Josh from FU too and had a beer with him and stayed at his place which rocked gotta love those dudes

We headed off the next day ready to rock Montreal nothing much happened on the drive we went to canadian burger joint Harveys which has possible the worst burger logo ever and then we had some poutine (chips/fries with gravy and cheese curd) then picked up some music stuff then boom outta nowhere we turn up in Montreal ready to ROCK we sound checked and then went for a curry (another thing we have missed) then got back and hit the stage and rocked out heavy style after the show Hoppie was trying to chat up the bar maid and we ended up going out for a beer with them they were called Trashy and Dara and we ended up staying at Trashy's place which is possibly the best place I've ever seen she had everything it was where i imagine John Waters would live some amazing new kids on the block bed sheets a huge novelty sunglasses collection and then the best of all was her costumes for dressing her Cat she had a bumblebee costume, a wizard costume, a lobster costume and one to just dress her cat up as some normal dude in a polo shirt and a baseball cap it was wild so we stayed up drinking playing with the cat and then i cant remember much else the last thing we did in montreal the next day on trashy's recomendation was Naked Breakfast which was just a shit cafe with naked chicks serving the food it was pretty cool but the chicks looked like retired strippers kinda old and worn and not very healthy but it was fucking awesome anyways.

We love Canada (photos coming soon)

Madison and Detroit with Quasi.

2010-04-19T14:04:00.001-07:00

Hey Hey, since our last blog update things have been going pretty similarly, we left Minnesota and went to Madison WI, the land of cheese. It was good, we played at this venue called the Annex which had some hot bar maids who made us some sweet sandwiches. The gig went super well except for the fact that Wes broke a string, but that didn't hinder Let's Wrestle. Not in the slightest we kept on rockin'. We stayed at this dude's house who lived near by, he had a room devoted to his records and a big dog that Wesley enjoyed sleeping next to very much. I had a pretty bad nights sleep on the floor so was pretty grouchy the next day that was short lived though. Wesley and I have been having random, daily fights that are always friendly, instead of tearing us apart they bring us closer, sweet really.

This was the day that we were driving up to Detroit. I got pretty excited about lake Michigan that we were driving past, it's the biggest fresh water lake in the world. Wes and Darkus said that I was going on and on and on about lakes which annoyed them slightly, but I was happy in my own little world thinking about lakes. Darkus keeps saying that he 'likes what I say, but doesn't understand any of it' I guess that's a nice thing?

Anywho, we rolled up to the venue in Detroit which was pretty cool, there was a bowling alley and, as a general rule venues that double up as cool recreational things are good by us. We said hi to our new tour buds Quasi and helped them unload their stuff, then whilst they were busy soundchecking we were eating pizza. Hoppie bet me I couldn't eat the whole thing, I did and won a dollar. It was totally awesome.

The gig was really good, we met the people from Firery Furnaces and Jason Lowenstein from Sebadoh (or Sebadude as we were calling him). Hoppie and Louis had a mean bet that I wouldn't talk to these hot chicks before Louis. He won $3 from Hoppie. I did talk to them eventually but I don't really think that the bet was fair. Firstly as soon as they made the bet he ran off to talk them like a Linford Christy and secondly they were butters. Almost enough to make me spew.

So, we all got pretty drunk and went off to this girl's house who lived just outside of Detroit. In the Morning we set off to the most English place we'd been in a month... Canada.

(The internet here isn't too good so we can't upload any pictures... sorry)

Minneapolis with Quasi

2010-04-16T18:21:00.001-07:00

I, Mike Lightning, am writing today's blog.

We've just got off a two week break in North Carolina where we got drunk, played ping pong, rode around in our tour manager's pick-up truck and celebrated my birthday. We had a good time but were keen to get back 'on the road'. We left NC early in the morning and rode with all of our stuff to the airport in our truck we arrived in Chicago, picked up the car and took a leisurely drive up to the twin cities. We stopped in this amazing place on the way called the Wisconsin Dells, it was a plastic wonderland with rollercoasters and trees with faces in them. We had a good dinner, Darkus had a salad. After our dinner it got dark and started to rain so we just listened to Ram on repeat, Wesley and I decided it was our favourite record of all time. Ram on forever.

We got to the hotel and watched 'Lady Sings the Blues', a film made in 1972 about Billie Holiday with Diana Ross and Lando Calrissian in it, then went to bed.

In the morning we realised we were down to our last few dolars so went to eat at the 'Hard Times Cafe', which we thought would be cheap. It wasn't and you couldn't buy meat, which sucked. We hung out there for a while before heading off to a radio station in Minneapolis. When we got there they didn't have a bass amp so I was pretty TO'ed, because I love to play the bass, but then we decided that I'd play the piano which I liked, I felt like John Lennon but looked and sounded like Chris Martin.

After this we drove off to the Turf Club to sound check and meet our new tour companions, Quasi. They're the coolest guys and high up on our list of favourite Oregonians. Wesley covered his guitar in purple and silver gafa tape as an homage to Prince and his hometown. The gig went well, not much to write home about.

The low point of the day was eating at White Castle. Wesley decided that he had to go in honour of his favourite film Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. It was horrible and Louis and I got pretty grumpy, especially when Wesley insisted on sticking around to answer a questionaire and claim two free cheeseburgers. Hoppie toook us to get some fruit afterwards then we calmed down.

Good first day overall I think.

Portland

2010-04-13T08:07:00.000-07:00

howdy the last date Portland was great fun we got in at an allright time enough time for me to go do some serious record shopping at this great store right next to the venue I bought the Grass Widow EP and my "white whale" Margo Guryan's Take A Picture LP which you should listen to Right Now! so I had to get back to the venue for an interview but was very paranoid about this record the whole time during this interview the interview was cool it was with a local dude who seemed really into what we did and seemed to be a genuine music fan (earlier in the day we had an interview in the car which was very unpleasent the journalist seemed tottally vacant and in no fit state to be writing articles) so that was good fun and then we got some jumbalaya and had a beer and played im thinking of a song (where you think of a song and everybody thinks of it too) our friends Jack and Lee came down to hang out we all got pretty merry with Titus as it was our last show with them which was a real shame their record is fantastic and they are well worth seeing live so go! So we played a good show and watched Titus, who made a lovely speech about us which mike nearly cried at and went to Ian Titus's buddies house and all got pretty wrecked and listened to La Roux and then I crashed out so cannot remember anything else

Driving and Seattle

2010-04-09T08:37:00.000-07:00

so we had a big drive after San Fransisco through the Calafornia redwoods and Oregon we head on out over the golden gate bridge Mike was supposed to film it on Rita's camera but diddnt press the record button but we saw a lot of people pretending to jump off for photo opertunaties. we head on through the big trees of northern Calafornia which were pretty epic and we stopped to go in a drive thru Tree which was pretty cool our tour manager Hoppie got me an awesome t-shirt to remember the glorious tree. we carried on driving into Oregon and we saw some serious rain which helped Home Sickness we hung out with Paul Bunyan and his prize Ox and headed into Roseburg, Oregon to where we were meeting Hoppies parents for some dinner they were lovely people who loved mike's deep rich voice and were very suprised to find out he wasent the singer they even payed for our hotel which was wonderful of them. So we got to the Hotel and went in the hot tub which was the first time I'd ever been in one and I felt I was going to faint so we went to the normal swimming pool and then played with the fitness equipment.

we woke up the next day to head off to Seattle we spent pretty much the whole time listening to Nirvana which I suppose every band does we also listened to some Mudhoney but it was mainly Kurdt! The drive was long and tiring but we finally got in to the home of Starbucks, Microsoft and Grunge. We saw the Space Needle and then got to the venue and played video games with Titus and ate some Vegan sausages (and for a pretty exclusive meat eater i had to say they were excellent) we went onstage and i wore my coat and hat thinking that because we were in a colder part of the country it'd be fine, it wasent and compromised the first half of the show but as always it was no big deal because once i had shed the coat and hat we rocked it was like woah! yeah? We watched Titus play and then watched Mike talk to a lady and head off to our lodgings.

Sacramento and San Fransisco, CA

2010-03-31T10:57:00.000-07:00

Whats Up, Sacramento was a pretty laid back show we played a pizza place which was cool we had fun we met the dudes from Ganglians who put us up so we had a few beers and listened to The Replacements, but it wasn't the best or the worst show kind of the middle. we headed out to San Fransisco which didn't take long and went to the Haight Ashbury and hung out looked at some records I bought Jackie De Shannon which got my pretty excited. we planned on trading our guitars in for new ones but then thought again. Once we got to the venue it was evident there would be problems as Patrick From Titus Andronicus (A wise and calm Crass Loving Beard Weilding Uber Dude) was freaking out at the problems with sound as nobody was letting anybody turn anything up it was the lamest sound we had hit so far and we are a loud band luckily we got through without any major issues but it was such a downer it was hard to get into it.
We cracked open a beer downstage but they were then taken away from us because of our lack of ID so we just watched Seinfeld. We Played We Rocked We Left to go stay with matt and his buddies (one of whom looked very much like Rikki Lake) who treated us very well with Pabst Blue Ribbon, Beds and Breakfast which was exceptionally nice of them.
Next Show SEATTLE HOME OF GRUNGE
-Let's Wrestle

Visalia, CA

2010-03-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

Howdy, Visalia was a weird show not bad but weird we were playing in what effectivly was a Resteraunt, they gave us a wild selection of beers though and some food which came exceptionally late i waited 2 hours for a sandwich. Before we Played I taped my face up in a homage to Patrick Andronicus's Beard and ended up tripping up onstage with this ridiculous gaffa tape mask on and really bust up my leg, So We Played and it wasent the best ever but still it was allright. I got in a conversation outside with this woman and I was telling her about these T-Shirts in England we couldnt bring over because it was a ciggarette packet with Fags: Let's Wrestle Kill People written on it as in the warning on ciggarette boxes and she kindly explained that they wouldve been fine to take over because though "Gay People are Fine Fags are just Wrong". I am Endlessly amazed by these people (by that I do not mean Americans I mean the right wing) they are insane! Paul the promoter and genuinly lovely guy put us and Titus up for the night and it was good to hang out with those dudes we all watched some cult german pornography together it was some fantastic bonding!
anyway the next post will be Sacramento!

San Luis Obispo etc.

2010-03-28T10:44:00.000-07:00

I'm going to try and write the blog today, me being Mike Lightning.

So, we left LA happy chaps because we hated it, if we can give any advice to you it would be don't go to LA, but after LA we had a really nice drive. We stopped at one point at a beach for an hour or so, it was like a Beach Boys cover, very awesome. Wes and I washed some rocks and pretended we were the red car and the blue car from the milky way advert. After the beach we strolled up to the venue and hung out on a river, both me and Wes and me and Louis had heart to hearts, it was nice. The gig went well, despite that fact that there were very few people, the crowd went mental. We got introduced to this drink called Four Loco, it caused Wes to get pretty drunk. But we went to this party with these guys we'd just met, it was insane. When I say party, it was really just us, Titus Andronicus and a few other dudes and chicks. But it rocked. We hung out it a sauna and I ended up having a fight with Patrick Andronicus about who's better, the Beatles or the Velvet Underground. I represented the Beatles and the winning side. Wes fell passed out in the garden and, during the fight between me and Patrick, he was just muttering 'I hate Mike' under his breath. He doesn't hate me, don't worry we're not going to split up just yet.

We then had some cool sandwiches and then left, I've done a bad job describing it, but it was totally awesome.

I'll post something up later on dudes.

LA

2010-03-26T18:50:00.000-07:00

yo back again to tell you about LA. the drive on the way in was great we saw the big T-Rex from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.We got in very excited and listening to I Love LA by Randy Newman and California by Phantom Planet. we got to Silverlake where we were playing and set up. Mike and Patrick From Titus did a lovely Phantom Planet Piano Duet and we went off to the hotel we were staying in to check in we were rocking off on the fact that it was on Hollywood Boulevard and you could see the Hollywood sign from our hotel. We went back to the venue with Hoppie's friend John who is a coach in teaching guys how to chat up girls (he looks like Rod Stewart) and our friend Matthew was at the venue it was very nice to see an Englishman. So we played which was good fun rocked out pretty hard. we got a bunch of beers and went back to the hotel we planned on going and seeing all the sights but we just drank some and passed out. The next morning we woke up and went out and did what we planned on doing the night before. first we saw the walk of fame (star pavement) my fame my favourite was Crosby Stills and Nash! Then saw the chinese theatre and the Capitol Records Building and finally to Ameoba (Record Store) to pick up some sides and I ended up having a mini breakdown because mike told me to hurry up. we went back to change in some trunks to go to Long Beach and got on the train it took like a week to get there! FACT: Long Beach SUCKS Let's Wrestle have no time for it whatsoever. We went back to change as we were going out to party in Hollywood with sexpert John. We got to his Hollywood Pad and did some confidence building chants and hit the road this party was like something out of the OC everybody looked like Axl Rose or somebody who had slept with Axl Rose the band playing were an amalgamation of Motley Crue and Soft Cell with naked girls with helmets on. I ended up leaving as it was too much for me I felt very out of place but from what i gather Mike felt up a Valley Girl and there were big cocaine parties in the toilet. The Next day we were ready to bid farewell to LA. roll on San Louis Obispo

Arizona

2010-03-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

we woke up in El Paso o go get some Breakfast. We had some Fruity Loops which sucked so i just had a Boiled Egg and Cream Cheese bagel. I went up to sleep some more but Mike and Darkus went to Wal Mart to buy some swimming trunks and play with some shot guns. Then they went swimming, I had a shower and said it was the same thing but we all knew that was not the case. We hit the road for another epic journey to Arizona via New Mexico, we went and got some breakfast for our tour manager Hoppie at burger time, he had a burrito and mike had a medium coke. It was the suckiest drive thru i have ever seen. We drove through the desert for hours and theres not much to say about that apart from mike went pretty wild about some big Arse mountains and the Union Pacific "the most famous train in the world" (Has he not heard of the Hogwarts express). Once in Arizona all we could see was cactai and we were nutting ourselves off on them. We did our first touristy thing and went to see Texas Canyon, Ive Never heard of it, no offence canyon, no biggy. We stopped off again at a gift shop full off ratlesnake belts and Bison heads they also had a pocahauntis action figure. We then saw the biggest cactus ever it was bigger than all of our mums standing on each other's shoulders. Once We Got to the show it was in a weird american indian themed shopping complex which had a british pub so we went in and told them what was wrong with their establishment and had an awful cup of tea where mike and the barmaid got a little heated about the state of her tea making skills. we played the show and it seemed to go allright so we stuck around and watched Titus and went over to the house of Keith and Co. some very nice guys who had offered us a floor to sleep on so we drank some beers and rocked off on sleep dust.

2010-03-22T07:47:00.000-07:00

Yo whats up we have been having some wild fun today 10 hour drive to El Paso from Austin I woke up hungover as Me, Darkus and Rita (our good friend and new member of the Let's Wrestle road crew as head Merchandise sales woman) spent the night hanging out with our old tour buddies Fucked Up watching Andrew WK, Real Estate, The Bitters and of course Fucked up, so we got up at 8 and hit the road sleeping the first few hours off then had Corn Dogs for breakfast, we went through a drive threw ATM, a town called London and a Sonics drive in burger joint (Mike told us they would be on roller skates but they werent it sucked hard) after 10 hours we finnally got to our hotel and watched A Minute To Win It which rocks its a show where people have to lift sweets into there mouth using a pencil attached to string that gets pulled up by the ears like a pulley to win some big hard cash.

we had some spaghetti at the show and had a chat with Titus and then got to rocking we played well but sxsw had blown my voice and mike had a cold so it wasent as good as it could be so we left early to rest up so went home. off to Arizona today.

texas desert rock:

Thirteen - Big Star

The Accidental Texas Who - Robert Pollard

Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators

Sweet Loaf - Butthole Surfers

Story Of An Artist - Daniel Johnston

Texas Chainsaw Masacre - Ramones

Shred Durst and other Favourites

2010-03-14T10:42:00.000-07:00

2010-03-14T04:55:00.000-07:00

American Wrestle

2010-03-14T04:19:00.000-07:00

Sup,

we are going to the states Mike has just got on a plane Darkus and I are going tomorrow

The records coming out on Merge on March 23rd when we will be in LA with Titus Andronicus

here are some photos of our previous yank trips:

Yank Rock

Darkus as Dead John Lennon outside the Dakota Building

My Empire State Of Mind

Rock On!

our 2nd attempt at a blog!

2010-03-14T03:37:00.000-07:00

We are Back