In less than two weeks Fika Recordings are heading out on tour across the USA and Canada with Tigercats, The Smittens and Making Marks, ending up at New York Popfest. It's our first venture across the Atlantic, so please tell your friends, come down and have a dance and bring some pocket money to buy some records! Tigercats + The Smittens + Making Marks May 25: Taverne L’inspecteur Épingle, Montreal QC May 26: The Monkey House, Winooski VT May 27: Radio, Somerville MA May 28: Charm City Artspace, Baltimore MD May 29: Clown Can Country Club, Philadelphia PA May 30: Church Of Abraham, Richmond VA May 31: The Velvet Lounge, Washington DC June 1: Spike Hill, Brooklyn NY (The Smittens and Making Marks - afternoon show) June 1: The Bell House, Brooklyn NY (Tigercats - evening show)
Making Marks are also appearing at this summer's Indietracks festival and we're curr Jul 25-27 Indietracks, Derbyshire
Don't worry if you're in the UK though, there are plenty of Fika related shows coming up!
Darren Hayman has announced a monthly residency at the Vortex in Dalston, London. July features Witches and Bugbears; August is Sun Sea and Lidos.
May 25: Now We Are Festival, West Bromwich
July 11: Vortex, London
Aug 8: Vortex London
Victoria and Jacob, the latest signings to Fika, are bringing their lush electronic pop to you as well... May 17: Old Blue Last, London (free show) May 25: Now We Are Festival, West Bromwich June 25: The Portland Arms, Cambridge July 24: 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff July 25-28: Secret Garden Party Festival, Cambridgeshire August 11: The Lexington, London (Album launch show with Azure Blue [SE], Cosines and Hong Kong In The 60s)
Fulhäst isn't going to miss out either, he's playing... June 28: Empty Shop HQ, Durham July 21: Buffalo Bar, London Aug 5: tba, Brighton
and finally Cosines will also be heading off to West Bromwich to join Darren Hayman, Victoria and Jacob, and many many more, after a last minute show with Seapony May 16: The Lexington, London (with Seapony) May 25: Now We Are Festival, West Bromwich
Victoria and Jacob are yet another new signing to Fika Recordings! We first came across them around this time last year when they sent us some sublime demos from their upcoming album. The frantic nature of running a record label alongside a full time day job took its toll, and that particular email slipped down the list of important-things-to-get-done-when-I-get_home-from-work, slightly forgotten. Roll on a few months and to an East London pub, sitting enjoying a few drinks with Trev from Oddbox Records, Darren Hayman and John from WIAIWYA, while we discussed ideas (ridiculous and not-so) and tinkered with Darren's Excel spreadsheets, talk turned to demos received and demos that had slipped through the net from bands that went on to Bigger Things... Several pints later, John and I had decided that we'd be working together on the Victoria and Jacob, having both fallen in love with those early demos tracks and neither of us quite having had time to do anything about it yet!
As it is almost Halloween, you're going to need something suitably awesome and suitably gory to listen to. But fear not! We've just the album you need! We've slashed the prices on Moustache Of Insanity's Album Of Death to just £5, on both the LP and the CD. It's an album bursting with blood, guts and tales of zombie sex. Those dodgy looking characters lurking in the shadows? Why, they're Nik Vestberg [Fulhäst] and Bill Botting [Allo Darlin'], teaming up for a 13 tracks of getting attacked by human cats, gameboy screams from hell and, er, dinner parties with the recently deceased.
