Cheers to
@CelticFC
x
@adidasfootball
for sorting us out with the new away kit.
We received some very exciting news that means we need to delay the release of our new album '2' until October 27th.
Here’s a clip that’s seemed to resonate with some of you. Happy that I managed to mostly communicate this clearly. A privilege to be able to say this to a home crowd, because we need to support Palestine and I believe Glasgow to be capable of doing so much good.
#FreePalestine
“Are we the city of Nelson Mandela Place or of Glassford Street?”
At
#TRNSMT
yesterday,
@DeclanWelsh
demanded Glasgow stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, oppose the anti-boycott bill and support
@BDSmovement
.
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸 (1/2)
Tonight after the gig a guy came up and wanted to ask why I bring politics into my gigs. I was surprised but happy to explain. He then enquired on my Palestinian support with a lot of the usual talking points. Fine. I’m happy to try and talk it over. But then he said…
A privilege to be able to speak, cheers to all who turned up and everyone who organised it - here’s a minute and a half of what I said but the gist is - know what you’re saying, why you’re saying it and don’t get distracted. Communication isn’t always conversational.
@DeclanWelsh
speaking at the national demonstration in Glasgow, Scotland. Crowds gathered in the pouring rain to call for an immediate ceasefire. Stop the Israeli genocide inflicted on the people of Gaza, Palestine.
Truly horrific scenes from Gaza. And you should absolutely have your heart break for any civilian in Israel hurt too. But if you only started caring about civilians being cruelly targeted by an extremist religious terrorist organisation now you are telling on yourself.
Glasgow, that was one of the best nights of our lives. From being stuck in our bedrooms for near enough 2 years wondering if this would be possible again, to playing to so many of yer lovely faces is something that will stick with us for quite some time.
@TRNSMTfest
Glasgow that was unreal. 2 and a half years ago we played in the wee room next door to 100 folk, so to walk out and see all of ye together in the big room was a bit of a magical moment. Cannae thank ye enough for dancing and singing along right from the off.
Our new album '2' is out 22nd September 2023. We are so proud of this album. It means a lot to us, every word and every chord, and we're so excited for you to hear it. Listen to the new single 'King Of My Head' now, produced between LA and Glasgow by Gianluca Buccellati.
Massive love to everyone who's listened to all the tunes this year, can't express how much it means to us. Nothing will replace getting to see ye all at gigs, but to know yer still connecting with the music is humbling.
New music on the way very soon - can't wait to let ye hear x
… so callously disregarded. I walked away to avoid getting too confrontational but I honestly don’t know how else to react to a question so loaded with dehumanisation and disregard for a people who are going through hell. They should be getting support. They should be protected.
Glasgow.
@TheBarrowlands
. Sold out.
This is the biggest achievement of our musical career to date. To have sold out such an iconic venue feels incredible and we couldn't have gotten here without all of your support over the past few years.
An antidote to everything yer told you have to be to be a footballer in Scotland. A kind, slight wee guy who scores goals because he’s just smarter and better than everyone he plays against. An example and already a legend. Love you Kyogo.
Barely slept because of the news. Nothing seems appropriate to type or say. Nothing justifies what is about to come and no matter what anyone tells you - there were always and still remain many, many alternatives to this. Endless love and solidarity to the people of Gaza.
Every single one of us deserves better than being born lesser than a family of aristocrats. Working people who like this - I love you but you are being used by people who wouldn’t shake your hand without a glove on and who laugh about your support behind your back.
#coronation
… how utterly unfair the position the people of Gaza are put in. How dare anyone expect the solution to this to be the displacement of 2 million people to a country that isn’t their own. How dare the bombing of Gaza be met with “well just move then”. How dare 4000 children be…
Gaza going dark. We cannot forget about them. They are going through hell. It might feel hopeless but we now have the UN calling for a ceasefire. Many world leaders. Public opinion swinging in ways I’ve never seen. We can force our governments hand here.
#ceasefirenow
#gaza
… “it tells you a lot that Egypt won’t take them in” and I lost it. I shouldn’t have. I should be better at being patient. But that question did something to me that I couldn’t articulate. It made me so angry. It was so ignorant, racist and loaded and it showed me…
It's been some year. We'll keep making tunes regardless of how big or small the numbers on the screen get, but to have our biggest year so far despite lockdown and nae gigs has us even more excited for what we have planned next year. Who's wanting some new tunes?
#spotifywrapped
Thanks for coming down and seeing us play yesterday. Was some buzz. Felt right at home as we always do in Glasgow. Keep an eye out for some cool announcements and in the mean time go watch the full thing on iplayer now!
📷
@grahamerz
This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen happen to a population in my lifetime. Hospitals bombed. Nothing left of human beings. All for what? Revenge. Ethnic cleansing. Sickening. We’ve paid for those bombs.
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Our new EP 'Impermanency' is out now! It's made up of songs and ideas recorded over lockdown and were all uncovered in a dropbox of about 50 tunes while we sifted through options for our next album (which is not long off being finished).
📸Sedona May
Been dying to announce this for a while. Can't wait to head out on tour with
@twinatlantic
and our pals
@DeadPonyBand
across the UK this May. Expect some new tunes before then too x
We are happy to announce that we’ll be bringing
@DeclanWelsh
and
@DeadPonyBand
on our 10 years of Free anniversary UK mega tour in May. Check them out - this tour is going to be one to remember. Get your tickets now:
From seeing
@welovepulp
Main Stage at my first T in the Park, to playing Main Stage
@TRNSMTfest
with Pulp headlining is a hell of a nice journey for us. Opening the whole thing is very cool an all.
Our new single 'Another One' is out now! It's a song about being far apart from each other, and specifically about the very strange year we’ve all spent indoors.
Listen 👉
End occupation, end apartheid and allow the right to return for all displaced Palestinians - the only way that peace has a chance. If u are shocked by the violence u haven’t been paying attention. If there is something nonviolent the Palestinians haven’t tried please tell me it.
Some news coming this week but until then - how class was
@TRNSMTfest
!
Thank you for all yer kind words about the set. Appreciate yer support and love yeez aw x
'I was saying Israel had the right to self-defence... I was not saying Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines'
@Keir_Starmer
speaks after sparking fury among Muslim Labour members in an interview about the Gaza crisis with
@LBC
Glasgow! Tonight we play
@kingtuts
for the first of three sold out nights. Doors at 8pm,
@PleasureHeads
on at 830, us at 930. Make sure ye get down early x
Feeling a little worse for wear this morning. Hope you all enjoyed the past three nights, Glasgow. That was special. Cheers to
@kingtuts
for having us. A couple weeks off then we're away on tour with
@twinatlantic
and
@DeadPonyBand
x
Our new single 'Doing Great' is out August 2nd. It's our most danceable tune yet. It’s been described by various folk as “crying on the dance floor”, “a breakup letter to your young self” and “anxiety disco”. All of those are appropriate descriptions.
Our new single 'Aw The Time' is out now, taken from our upcoming EP 'Impermanency', out July 4th. Cheers to the class William Dron for jumping in to assume the role of a half-asleep me, after I got covid a couple days before filming. Hope ye's like it x
At 5pm on our YouTube we’re releasing a video for our song Different Strokes made by
@hendofilm
that documents our time visiting the West Bank to experience the occupation first hand a number of years ago.
It remains the most profound experience of my life.
#freepalestine
Jewish folk and Muslim folk have lived in peace before in Palestine and they will do again. The idea of this as some eternal unsolvable struggle is a useful story told by those who like the status quo . Don’t buy it.
Join us on December 18th for our first 'gig' in nearly a year. Tunes from the new EP and some
#fanfaves
from our debut album performed at
@SWG3glasgow
. Head over to our website and grab advance tickets to our 2021 tour to gain access.
Tomorrow, we set off on our first UK tour in 2 years. A mixed bag of excitement and nerves, but we cannae wait to see ye all. Liverpool first up tomorrow at EBGBS - there will be a handful of tickets on the door, but its nearly over the line so grab em in advance to be sure
Our new single 'King Of My Head' is out now.
It's about kidding yourself that you’re in control. I’m the King of My Head, tell me who would rule instead? Cos see when your head’s working against you, you think to yourself sometimes - this is me. I’m doing this. I can stop this.
Give me a reason this has to happen and you confess to your own inhumanity - anything less than a ceasefire today GUARANTEES this fate for more innocent children.
This just in - our second album is out today! You can stream it on all major platforms - including on
@spotifyuk
‘s New Music Friday
@applemusic
‘s New In Alternative
@deezer
‘s Brand New Uk and
@amazonmusicuk
‘a Fresh Indie - and you can buy it online, from us, or in person…
Our new single 'Impermanency' is out now. It’s a bit of a development for us sonically, much more about layering sounds and creating a mood through loads of parts.
The Barrowlands will be our longest ever set. We'll be playing songs from our whole backcatalog as well as some new tunes, but some are going to need to get the chop, otherwise we'll get punted out the venue when we pass the noise curfew.
We hand it over to you, our dear fans.
Pathetic. Truly pathetic. You’d honestly be happier if someone had a genuinely held bad opinion cos at least then there’s a chance they could be won round.
There’s no logic to be fought against. It’s just political opportunism at all costs. What’s the path of least resistance.
I saw this yesterday but keep thinking about it. Asked if he has any sympathy for Palestinian civilians facing hell, he can't manage a single word.
It could be he's a psychopath, incapable of empathy, but I sense he's actually scared he won't look tough.
Absurd (Acoustic) with Strings.
Sounds unreal! Cannot wait to hear the full set w another 2 string players and a 7 piece band.
Cottiers Theatre - Thursday 7th September - Last Tickets left in the link in our bio!
Ceasefire was the bare minimum an all. 75 years of occupation. Open statements by government officials promising ethnic cleansing and genocide. Apartheid. And they can’t even bring themselves to ask for the bombs to stop falling.
Hamas have the support (of a large number at least) of the people of Palestine for a bunch of reasons - a very important one being ‘moderate’ parties absolute failure to secure any meaningful change and PA’s collusion w the IDF. It took 30 years for Fatah to tank its own support.
Oh yeah, we’ve been bombing hospitals for years and we said we are at war with the entire civilian population of Gaza, plus we’ve already cut off medical aid, power, water and food but we would never bomb THAT hospital! Come on! What do you take us for?!
We played one of the best gigs of our lives a year ago today at
@TRNSMTfest
. We've got some more gig announcements in the next few days. Where would you like us to play next?
📷 Allan Lewis
3rd time lucky! We've had to delay our May UK tour till November, but we'll make sure it's worth the wait. New music on the way very soon x
All previously purchased tickets are valid for the new dates.
Tickets:
We’ve genuinely gotten to the stage where war crimes are no longer denied but seen as the only “necessary” option by the sensibles. We have to forcibly displace the whole population of Gaza now. We have to treat hospitals, ambulances, schools and mosques as “legitimate” targets.
Inverness, that'll be hard to top, but sure the barras tonight will have a right good go at it. First time we've played
@TheBarrowlands
as a band and we're incredibly excited. Doors at 7,
@DeadPonyBand
715, us around 8 and
@twinatlantic
at 9 x
Buzzing to announce that we'll be playing our debut album 'Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold' in full on the Thursday night at
@kingtuts
. Some tunes we've not played in a long time and some tunes we might not play again for a while. What ye looking forward to hearing the most?
Glasgow! McChuills is SOLD OUT. The Rum Shack is very close behind so ye better be quick.
Cheers to everyone who's got bundles so far. We really appreciate it and it helps us out more than ye know.
Thanks again to
@CelticFC
for the class away tops.
DWDW x
📸
@grahamerz
Our new single Talking to Myself is out now!!
It's a tune about the idea of the internal conversations you have, different parts of you saying do this or that. It's been a year or two spent in our own heads so this just sort of came out.
3 years since we released our debut album 'Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold'.
A lot has happened between then and now and we really do appreciate you sticking with us.
Our new single 'Mercy' is out now. It was recorded in Los Angeles with Luca Buccellati as part of our second album, out in 2023.
It's a step forward for us as a band and the start of a new era. We hope you like it.
DWDW.
I love Palestine with all of my heart and I cannot wait to see it flourish. We will see this day. You have no idea how beautiful a free Palestine will be. Peace for a people who will cherish it like no other. Who will welcome the world with open arms and set an example.
A whole 2 years since we released our debut album. Had fun sharing stories about the tunes for Tim's Listening Party, but I'll be preparing tweet to copy and paste next time, cause typing in time with the album was one of the most stressful experiences we've had as a band x
Cheers to everyone tagging us in their
#SpotifyWrapped
It can sometimes just feel like numbers on a screen, but it's a nice feeling knowing you all connect with the music.
If we're in yer top artists post below and we'll pick a couple folk at random to send some merch to 👇
Hope ye've all been enjoying our new single 'Impermanency'. Cheers to everyone who's listened and shared so far, there's plenty more on the way.
📸 Graham Noble
What a way to start off the Easter weekend. Cheers to everyone who came down to
@kingtuts
and sang along last night. Tonight we do it all over again with
@goodnightlouisa
. Sold out. Who's got tickets?
It’s dead easy in my experience to talk to Jewish people about Palestine and not offend them because Jewish people are not the state of israel. The state of israel is, like the UK, a country who’s decisions are basically mandated by capital and the USA.
The depths of what human beings are capable of doing to each other. Huge blades sent in all directions designed to cause the maximum amount of pain and suffering, targeted at civilians in a hospital.
No words. No excuses. No justification. Sickening.
Hope yer all having a great start to the new year. We've been locked away finishing off some new music for ye, but in the meantime make sure to give us a follow on Spotify to keep that algorithm churning:
We've come a long way the past 3 years. From 100 people at
@PoetryGlasgow
to 1900 of ye at
@TheBarrowlands
. We can't wait to celebrate the biggest moment of our musical lives with ye on November 18th x
Bit of a late one last night, but pulling ourselves together for our show in Hull at
@the_adelphi_club
tonight. Doors at 8, Ether at 9 and us around 10pm. Murray can't wait x
When will enough Gazans have died for us to say Israel is suitably defended from a region who’s borders, water, power it controls? Has the siege made Israeli children safer up until this point? Is a bigger, deadlier siege likely to encourage lasting peace? This is madness.
On our way to Europe now, the EU dates start tomorrow in Cologne. Absolutely buzzing.
Are we playing near you? If it isn’t already sold out get involved! Ticket link in our bio x
Our new EP 'It's Been a Year' is out on September 2nd. Sign up to our mailing list and presave the EP to be in with the chance of winning some signed prints of the artwork and some merch which we'll tell ye more about soon x
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Delighted to announce that we will be pouring ice cold pints of music straight into your wide open European gullets this winter. Tickets on sale Thursday at 10am, you beautiful mainlanders.
The World Tour *Of Glasgow On Sale Now!
We’re very excited to announce a special series of 5 gigs in the North, South, East, West and City Centre of Glasgow in support of our new album ‘2’, out October 27th. With your help, we can reach as high in the UK Album Charts as possible