so as you should all know (and should all be purchasing your tickets for accordingly), we're playing the big old brude a week on sunday, on 6th december. what we only just found out is that, by an astonishing coincidence, our show is clashing with popular boring experimental indie outfit alt-j, who are playing a (probably boring) homecoming show of sorts at leeds arena (sounds boring, am i right).
for the (boring) people who are considering going to their show instead of ours, we've kindly compiled a brief list of reasons why you should say "fuck you alt-j, i'm going to see frenchgirls".
1. THE VENUE.
i'm not knocking the arena. i've been a couple of times, and it seems like a decent place to play (if you're boring). but ultimately, it's not the brudenell. in the words of deerhunter frontman bradford cox, the brude is "the best venue in europe". and do you really want to argue with indie icon bradford cox? didn't think so. the arena is massive - you might get lost and die! plus, it's so cold and sterile... you're much less likely to see ryan and liza from menace beach walking around. i mean, the arena is sponsored by a bank! the brudenell is sponsored by nobody except good times inc. plus, a beer at the arena is prolly like £5 and you can get red stripe at the brude for half that soooooooooo......
2. THE PRICE
i haven't checked how much alt-j tickets are, but i'm guessing they're gonna be at least £1000. no need to check, really. on the other hand, our gig is just a fiver! at the arena, all that'll get you is a beer, and you won't even be able to get in to buy it because they have big scary security men. even once you're inside the venue, prices are gonna be mad different. i mentioned before the price in beer, and even the merch available at our show is gonna be at least 10 times cheaper than at those critically-acclaimed (boring) scumbags' gig. who wants to spend £20 on a t-shirt anyway? we'll even sign our merch, and i bet those musty fuckers aren't gonna do that for you. they'll be too busy backstage sinking their £5 beers.
3. THE BANDS
in terms of simple maths we win straight off the bat. alt-j only have one support band, the horrors (who are actually pretty good but for the sake of argument let's say they're boring). we've got bloody two mate, and they're both chuffin' brilliant. absent parachute, who you must surely all know and love by now, are the best indie pop outfit in leeds, with tunes as killer as jack nicholson in the shining and jeans at least twice as tight as the marsicans'. whine are equally sick, they've got olivia (ex-member of shell), who makes her return to girls night with a sick new band, a sick new sound and (i think) a sick new haircut. plus there's us, and we're alright. we're not boring, anyway.
4. THE TUNES
alt-j's songs are pretty boring. their best are all on the first album, and the second had like one banger on it. we've been working on an EP (which we'll release at some point prolly) on which every song is a banger, so we're probably the winners. AP also have new songs, and if you heard twice shy on the radio a few months ago you'll already know that it wipes the floor with fucking fitzpleasure. whine only have two songs on soundcloud, but they're called grottie and bae horse so how wrong can you go (plus if you listen to them they're heavy and grungy and fab).
5. ALT-J ARE BORING
alt-j are boring.
so we'll see you at girls night ii, ye?
cheers xox
thd
band @ Leeds, England