Hangover Lounge playlist

So I baked, baked some more, got the slow train to north London, drank lots of Brooklyn lager and played a few tunes. Thanks to everyone that came down and helped eat the cinnamon rolls and the chocolate cookies! Azure Ray - Displaced St. Thomas - Heroes Making Dinner The Caravelles - Tonight You Belong To Me Lost Summer Kitten - Lovesong No. 1 The Broken Family Band - Nights In The Tractor Beam Micah P Hinson - When We Embraced Darren Hayman - Photos Like Postcards Laura Cantrell - Khaki & Corduroy Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Maundering Seafood - Broken Promises Jellybean - 99 Problems Nina Gordon - Straight Outta Compton Laurel Music - Dreams & Lies Devon Sproule - Let's Go Out Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business William Elliot Whitmore - First Of A Thousand Beasts Camera Obscura - I Don't Want To See You The Bobby McGee's - No Friends Jam On Bread - When I'm Entering Data Allo, Darlin' - Tallulah

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The Robot Ate Me - The Genocide Ball Sweet Baboo - I'd Kill For You Even If You Didn't Want Me To Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral Owl & Mouse - Heavy Heart Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets Red Shoe Diaries - Ice And Snow Let's Go Sailing - This Rope Is Long My Little Pony - A Miracle Säkert! - Någon Gång Måste Du Bli Själv The Ladybug Transistor - 3=Wild The Owls - Peppermint Patty Lambchop - The Man Who Loved Beer Au Revoir Simone - Stars CocoRosie - Tekno Love Song Old Man Luedecke - Joy Of Cooking Ed Greene - Love (She Tells Me There's A God Above) We Show Up On Radar - An Animal Sports Day

Moustache Of Insanity album launch party

Thanks to everyone that came to the Album Of Death launch party at the Dogstar, finely hosted by Librarians Wanted. We hope you didn't get too covered in blood, and those night bus drivers let you on, bloody and sweaty, once the dancing had stopped! You can still pick up a copy of the album on 12" blood red vinyl from here. More pictures from the night available here.

Album Of Death

It is now less than a week to go until the official release of Moustache Of Insanity's Album Of Death! Come down to the Dogstar in Brixton for a very rare opportunity to see a full super-group five piece incarnation of Moustache Of Insanity and to pick up a copy of the LP on Fika Recordings (or the CD on Pull Yourself Together). For full details of the Librarians Wanted show, see go  here.

You've still got time to go pick up the free download single from the album here, to watch the video here and to stream the album in full here.

The LP version comes on 12" blood red transparent vinyl, with hand painted inner sleeve, a tea bag of death and horror, a recipe to bake love yummies from hell and an individual photo scribbled on by the band. All for a ridiculously cheap price of £7 at the show. Come, it'll be AWESOME.

After this, we'll be taking a bit of a summer holiday, so if you want to BUY any cassettes or records from us, do so before the weekend, otherwise you'll have to wait a couple of weeks until we're back. We've only got two of Lisa Bouvier's and Lost Summer Kitten's EPs left before they sell out like the Moustache Of Insanity and Horowitz tapes have. Click on the artwork to the right to listen to all our releases and buy them.

We'll be announcing in September an EP I'm tremendously excited about from an artist I've had a soft spot for for a long time. There's a few other equally exciting things in the pipeline too for the autumn and into the new year too!

Fika Tea Party at Indietracks

Just a quick reminder that we'll be hosting some fika at this weekend's Indietracks festival. Pop down to the workshop tent on Sunday at 3pm for some teas, cakes and probably a bit of music from a few Fika artists. Both Horowitz and Moustache Of Insanity are playing during the weekend and there might be one or two special guests as well. We'll have some cassettes and records for to buy as well. See you there!

Red Shoe Diaries EP Launch Tour Poster

The Red Shoe Diaires new 10" EP is released on Fika Recordings on Monday the 11th of July. To celebrate, they'll be playing two shows, one in London and one in Nottingham on Friday the 8th and Sat the 9th. Support in London comes from Fika artists Ed Greene and Petter Seander, while Nottingham has the awesome We Show Up On Radar and August Actually. See you there!

8th July: Red Shoe Diaries EP launch at The Betsey Trotwood

Gig002: Red Shoe Diaries + Ed Greene + Petter Seander

For the launch of Red Shoe Diaries 10" EP, they'll be playing a gig for us in London on the 8th of July, at the Betsey Trotwood. Joining them will be two other Fika artists, Ed Greene and Petter Seander, who'll also be releasing new cassette EPs on the night.

Advance tickets are available for £5. See you there!

Launch Gig

Thank you all for coming along to our launch party - we hope you enjoyed all the bands and the cakes on offer. We had a lovely time, so we're going to do it all over again for our next releases, sometime in June. Lost Summer Kitten:

Lisa Bouvier:

Horowitz:

Moustache Of Insanity:

More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetoma/sets/72157625951560847/

Launch Gig! Feb 12th @ The Wilmington Arms, London

...with Horowitz, Moustache Of Insanity, Lisa Bouvier and Lost Summer Kitten.

To celebrate the announcement of our launch gig, we've made the whole of Lisa Bouvier's debut EP for us available to stream on last.fm. You can go here to listen to it in its entirety.

This is the launch party for the new diy indiepop cassette label, Fika Recordings. All four of our launch artists will be releasing a cassette EP tonight, so come along, there'll be cake!

Horowitz [UK] Horowitz are “the sound of the indiepop underground”. The two piece have penned some of my favourite pop songs over the past years, with both I Need A Blanket and Popkids of the World Unite guaranteed to get me shuffling my feet at any disco. After releases on indie staples Cloudberry and Thee SPC, we’re very proud to be releasing their next EP. http://www.myspace.com/horowitzband

Moustache Of Insanity [UK] I love this band. Over the past 18 months or so of seeing Moustache Of Insanity across the UK and Sweden, no other band has made me grin like a buffoon, jump about so much or make me feel quite so alive. Shambolic, adorable and utterly essential. http://www.moustacheofinsanity.com/

Lisa Bouvier [SE] Lisa Bouvier took the brave leap into the pop world 2007, having grown tired of compromises in various band formations. She quickly made a name in southern Sweden as its most frisky popstar with handclaps, vocal harmonies and a bloodied guitar that could get any pop club or living room dancing along to her catchy songs. This is Lisa's first solo show (though she'll be joined by her backing band of exceptionally talented Swedes) in the UK, before playing Oddbox and Big Pink Cake night's later in Feb and March. http://lisabouvier.se/

Lost Summer Kitten [SE] Lost Summer Kitten was born late in Lund, Sweden, sometime around December 2005. The duo have since been joined by friends to perform their tales of bittersweet heartbreak. This is their very first UK show! http://www.myspace.com/lostsummerkitten

Tickets are £5 advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/103538 Tickets will be available on the door (£6, £4 unwaged). Doors at 8, LSK on at 8:30pm.

For more details see http://fikarecordings.wordpress.com/ and here for the facebook event,