Have Yourself a Very Cherry Christmas..

The beautiful Cherryade Records are releasing their 5th Christmas compilation on 15th November 09, and we're the opening song!

'Let Me Be the Fairy on Your Christmas Tree Tonight' is a special track, home-recorded by our former guitarist Ceri Frost. In true Mariah Carey style it's about longing to be with a loved one at Christmas. Oh, the dilemma..

Cherryade have a special deal to pre-order the compilation for just £6! or all 5 volumes for £18.

ORDER A COPY HERE!

TRACKLISTING

1. The School - Let Me Be The Fairy On Your Christmas Tree Tonight
2. Das Wanderlust - Someone To Pull Crackers With
3. Allo Darlin' - S P A C E Christmas
4. The Lovely Eggs - Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas
5. The 10p Mixes - Christmas Number One
6. Fever Fever - Little Drummer Boy
7. Detox Cute and the Beauty Junkies - Unhappy New Year
8. Sparky's Magic Piano - The Escape From Aled Jones
9. Persil - Dear Santa
10. Mia Vigar - What the Hell
11. Tiger MCs - The Way That You Arrived
12. Hearts! Attack - It Was Christmas That Killed Us
13. The Gresham Flyers - Mistletoe Misadventure
14. Foxes - Christmas Gifts
15. The Bobby McGee's - Sub Santalales
16. Shrag - Stop The Revelry
17. The Hi-Life Companion - Brockweir Winter Reverie
18. Doris and the Jumpers - Murder Under The Mistletoe
19. Humousexual - Come Take My Hand In Winter
20. The Shrieking Violets - Jethro (Song For)
21. Rebecca Wilmott - A Christmas Echo
22. The Pocket Gods - KFC (Kentucky Fried Christmas)
23. Master Solo - The Last Xmas Of Achiebald Sterling
24. Everett True - A Christmas Tale
25. Marble Krusher - Summer Toys (Winter Version)

Planning a trip with you..

You may / may not be excited to hear that we're currently booking our album tour for 2010!

We'll be playing the UK in March, followed by Germany, Italy and Spain in April.

But don't worry if you don't live in any of those places, we'll be exploring a bit further from the summer onwards!

Keep an eye here for new tour dates xxx

You make me hear music..

'And Suddenly' is featured on the Rough Trade Indiepop 09 compilation released 9th November 09!

We're sat alongside some absolutely wonderful people, I wish we could all travel the world in one big tour bus..

You can order it here.

1 tullycraft - the punks are writing love songs
2 the faintest ideas - nosebleeders on the track
3 love is all - wishing well
4 girls - morning light
5 vivian girls - moped girls
6 the girls at dawn - never enough
7 veronica falls - beachy head
8 cause co-motion - you lose
9 betty and the werewolves - david cassidy
10 pocketbooks - fleeting moments
11 los campesinos! - you! me! dancing!
12 shrag - hopelessly wasted
13 the boy least likely to - the summer of a dormouse
14 the school - and suddenly
15 play people - goes out
16 celestial - somedays we are
17 moscow olympics - no winter, no autumn
18 liechtenstein - security by design
19 minisnap - leave it to you
20 sad day for puppets - marble gods
21 dum dum girls - longhair
22 the legends - seconds away 23 the manhattan love suicides - clusterf*ck
24 the pains of being pure at heart - 103
25 the bobby mcgees - l.o.v.e/: a masonic youth

Yo, También Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Yo, También is now out on Elefant Records, it's by Guille Milkyway from La Casa Azul through Elefant's new 'Elefant Film Supervision' project.

There are 2 of our tracks on there, and we're featured on the trailer. The film has been a huge success in Spain so far, we really hope it'll be released in the UK, but if not it'll be out on DVD in February. We've seen it, it's beautiful and we only cried 3 times, so make sure you watch it too.

Buy the Yo, Tambien soundtrack from the Elefant website.

Tracklisting

01. The School - I don’t believe in love
02. Giorgio Tuma - Dedicated to Timmy the whale
03. Guille Milkyway - En la playa 1
04. La Casa Azul - Yo también
05. Manzanita - Te amaré
06. Guille Milkyway - En el restaurante
07. Guille Milkyway - En la playa 2
08. Guille Milkyway - Separación 2
09. BMX Bandits - I can wait forever
10. Giorgio Tuma - G-Lombardi magic rollercoasters
11. Guille Milkyway - Tema de yo también
12. Guille Milkyway - En el puente
13. La Casa Azul - Yo también [Con Silvia Sanz - Niza]
14. Guille Milkyway - Huída
15. Camera Obscura - If looks could kill
16. Nick Garrie - On a wing and a prayer
17. Guille Milkyway - Tema de amor
18. Guille Milkyway - Que te quiero
19. Giorgio Tuma - Ml Db (Mary Louise song)
20. Rózsák - De man devla
21. Beef - Fin de año
22. La Casa Azul - La revolución sexual
23. The Gentle People - Plastic city
24. Souvenir - Ta-machine
25. Fitness Forever - Albertone
26. Guille Milkyway - En la azotea
27. Guille Milkyway - Separación 1
28. The School - Kiss you in the snow
29. Guille Milkyway - Feliz navidad
30. La Casa Azul - Yo también [Instrumental]
31. Guille Milkyway - Tema de amor final
32. Los Monkys - D&B

Let me explain..

RELEASES

Our album release date will be announced very soon, it's going to be in Jan/Feb 2010 now so we have enough time to promote it. We're truly sorry to have kept you waiting so long.

In the meantime we've just found out that 'And Suddenly' (our cover of the Left Banke out now on Slumberland Records as a split single with George Washington Brown) will be featured on an indiepop compilation from Rough Trade - more details coming soon!

YO, TAMBIEN

You can hear a couple of our songs in the film 'Yo, También' ('Me, Too') which is about the life of Pablo Pineda (who stars in the film), the first European with Down Syndrome to achieve a university degree. We're honoured to be part of such a beautiful film, it's out in October 09. Hopefully it'll be in an independent cinema near you soon..

Here's the trailer, which features 'I Don't Believe in Love' from the Let It Slip EP, a duet between Liz and our old drummer Rob, who is now better known as The Voluntary Butler Scheme. xx

Say you'll come out..

NEW UK SHOWS ANNOUNCED

We've got some new UK shows announced:

Fri 30th Oct - LONDON Buffalo - Pic'n'Mixx launch night with The Lovely Eggs/MJ Hibbett/The Grave Architects/The Peryls - lots of mix cds. 7pm £5 adv from WeGotTickets

Sun 15th Nov - NOTTINGHAM Bunkers Hill - A Fog of Ideas & A Layer of Chips presents an indiepop alldayer with Tender Trap / The Rocky Nest / Allo Darlin' / The Just Joans / Standard Fare / Mascot Fight / Red Shoe Diary / Of Mice and Mental Arithmetic / Cosy Den DJs - 3pm-10pm £8

Fri 27th Nov - MANCHESTER Star & Garter - Shake It Shake It presents.. with Little My / Help Stamp Out Loneliness + lots of dancing afterwards.

More details on our myspace page x

Spend some time in some far off places..

WE LOVE YOU MURCIA!





We miss you already.

Here's a review on NME-Europe.

It's been such a long time..

Sorry we've been so quiet, we were making an album and enjoying the summer..

We have a little single out called 'And Suddenly' on Slumberland Records, it's a one-off that won't be on the album.

The other side features George Washington Brown (Pete Gofton, aka Johnny X from Kenickie).

You can buy or download it from the Slumberland website / Amazon / i-Tunes / Rough Trade.

We'll be announcing our album release date and UK tour shortly.

See you all soon xx

DIOS fridge advert!

'Valentine' is featured on a 15 second advert for a DIOS fridge!

You can watch it here:

The School on tour with The Boy Least Likely to in March!

Whoopee! Come along and say hello! x


Mon 16th - LEEDS Cockpit 7.00pm Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.seetickets.com Info: www.thecockpit.co.uk
The Cockpit, Swinegate, Leeds LS1 4AG Tel: 0113 244 1573


Tues 17th - MANCHESTER Night & Day 8.00pm Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.nightnday.org/detail.php?list_id=1648 Info: www.nightnday.org
Night & Day Cafe, 26 Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M1 1JN Tel: 0161 236 1822


Wed 18th Mar - GLASGOW King Tuts 8.30pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.kingtuts.co.uk
King Tuts, 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RL Tel: 0141 221 5279


Thurs 19th - NEWCASTLE The Cluny 8.00pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketweb.co.uk
The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne NE1 2PQ Tel: 0191 2304474


Fri 20th - NOTTINGHAM Bodega 7.00pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.thebodegasocialclub.co.uk
The Bodega, 23 Pelham Street, Nottingham NG1 2ED Tel: 0115 9505078


Mon 23rd - BRIGHTON Audio Ages: 16+ Tickets £6.50 from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Info: www.audiobrighton.com
Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton BN2 1TL Tel: 01273 606 906


Tues 24th - BRISTOL Louisiana 7.30pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.thelouisiana.net
Louisiana, Wapping Road, Bathurst Terrace, Bristol BS1 6UA Tel: 0117 9265978


Wed 25th - SOUTHAMPTON Joiners 8.00pm Tickets £6.50 adv from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk Info: www.joinerslive.co.uk
The Joiners, 141 St Mary Street, St Mary, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 1NS Tel: 02380 225612


Thurs 26th - LONDON Cargo 7.30pm Ages: 18+ Tickets £7.50 adv from: www.ticketweb.co.uk Info: www.cargo-london.com
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3AY Tel: 0207 7393440

Italy!

We had such a lovely time in Italy! We've just got back after not much sleep on last night (about 2 hours) before our early flight!

Our first show was in Forli at the Diagonal Loft Club, with lots of people dancing, singing along and inserting their own handclap sections! Lovely to meet you all!

The DJ also played lots of current UK indiepop bands that we love like Their Hearts Were Full of Spring, Pocketbooks and The Hermit Crabs..

Pescara was at the Mono Spazio Bar which was ace, where Pete + the Pirates and Parenthetical Girls were also about to play..

After Pescara we tried visiting Rome! We managed to get about 1.5 hours there and found the Collesseum, but didn't have enough time to go in. It was very hot and we ate lots of icecream!

We also saw lots of nuns in Rome, here's a photo of some of them at the services - smoking nuns!

We had loads of fun at Extra Alt Club in Recanati, cool music in both rooms and a huge venue with great sound on top of a hill. 4 pizzas! We met lots of lovely people, there was a very large merch queue! Thank you to Circus Worm for letting us use their equipment..

Next was Feedback in Foligno on a Saturday night - you people are crazy! A clubnight run by the fantastic Paola superstar, it all got a bit busy and clubby after we played so we left you all to it! Again, we went to the town centre and ate lots of icecream. This is where we met Ji-Jo!

The last show was in La Limonaia Music Club in Fucecchio, another venue on top of a hill, which looked like a wedding reception from the outside. We stayed in a monastry in a bridge which is now a hostel.

Many thanks to Chiara + Matteo from Organetta for arranging the tour and to all the promoters for looking after us with great shows, food and accommodation. xxx

Interview

Here's an interview Liz did with crazewire DE, translated for you by Google:

www.crazewire.de

As you can see, it doesn't quite translate properly but you get the idea!

Latitude

Huw Stephens invited us to play the Lake Stage at Latitude 2008, we had an amazing time - the festival is so well organised and it's good to see people putting in effort to organise something so unique to all the others. We brought some balloons but couldn't get them all blown up in time, it's a lot harder than it looks! Plenty ended up in the crowd though.

We want to say thanks to Phil who worked at Latitude for helping us put our tents up. For the record everyone we are capable of putting up tents, but it was great having someone there to check you're ok, all the staff were really helpful.

We saw ace bands on Saturday + Sunday like Soko / Noah and the Whale / Grinderman / Breeders / Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam / Blondie / Lykke Li / Wave Pictures / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Johnny Flynn.

Here's the lovely crowd, look at you all! And here's the Voluntary Butler sign lady too! And Harri playing kazoo on Shoulder.

THANK YOU to Huw for allowing us and some other really great up+coming bands to play at Latitude without having to go through a silly battle of the bands friends voting process like all the other festivals seem to be doing these days or to suck up to someone who knows someone who knows someone etc.. . it's the only UK festival we were asked to play this year (all the others just didn't reply!) so we really really appreciate being given a chance - THANKS HUW! xxx

We Love Spain!

The School recently spent a weekend in Spain where they met some very lovely people.

We played Murcia Sound Festival, alongside bands like Speedmarket Avenue, La Casa Azul, Kula Shaker, The 1990s and The Psychedelic Furs, and Liz fell in love with some crazy Japanese popmusic.

After that we played Brixton Windmill with The Foster Kids, Silence at Sea and The Spencer McGarry Season, with Chris OffBeat djing. We all went up on a bus and saw Dexter Fletcher at the traffic lights.

Me, Josh, Ceri + Harri also recorded a session for Selector Radio, (see Liz + Josh with the Big Brother sign below).

Then we had some lovely press + record cover photos taken by Alison Wonderland, then went to Norwich and played Queen Charlotte with The Foster Kids and The Middle Ones, they were great! And we met lots of elephants in the streets of Norwich, apparently there are 52 of them..

Radio Sessions

Hello, it's been a busy week for people in The School.

We had 3 lovely radio sessions, a couple of interviews and a gig with Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter (and some Wave Pictures) who were performing Hefner songs at Clwb Ifor Bach.


The School with Tom Robinson at 6music, London 13th June 08 - Josh, Ryan, Liz, Harri, Tom, Ceri.


The School with Alan Thompson at Radio Wales on the Evening Show, Cardiff 16th June 08 - Josh, Alan, Ceri, Liz, Steph, Ryan.

Let It Slip + Tour Dates

The 'Let It Slip' EP will be released on Elefant Records, 16th June 08 and we'll be touring in June/July!



You can pre-order from several places, including www.elefant.com/bands/the-school along with Amazon and Zavvi.


TOUR DATES

If you want to fill in some of these dates please contact us at theschoolband@hotmail.com

- 19th June - OXFORD Bullingdon Arms
- 20th June - MURCIA SOUND FESTIVAL, Spain
- 26th June - Selector Session (recorded)
- 26th June - LONDON Brixton Windmill
- 28th June - NORWICH The Queen Charlotte
- 4th July - NOTTINGHAM Lee Rosy's
- 5th July - tbc
- 6th July - EDINBURGH Bongo Club
- 7th July - SHEFFIELD The Redhouse
- 8th July - LEICESTER The Charlotte
- 9th July - MANCHESTER Night & Day Cafe
- 20th July - LATITUDE FESTIVAL, Suffolk


more to be added shortly!

UK TOUR DATES

TOUR DATES:

25th Oct - CARDIFF - Spillers Records **FROM 5PM FREE**
26th Oct - STOKE-ON-TRENT - The Glebe
27th Oct - MANCHESTER - The Castle **FROM 2PM AFTERNOON GIG**
28th Oct - GLASGOW - Twisted Wheel
31st Oct - CHELMSFORD - The Basement
1st Nov - LONDON - Brixton Windmill
2nd Nov - LONDON - The George Tavern
3rd Nov - BIRMINGHAM - The Island Bar
4th Nov - DERBY CHARITY GIG - The Vic Inn
10th Nov - CARDIFF - Huw Stephens’ Swn Fest, UWIC Howard Gardens
28th Nov - LONDON - Catch
29th Nov - WORCESTER - Marr's Bar
30th Nov - NORTHAMPTON - Labour Club
1st Dec - LEEDS - Carpe Dium
7th Dec - BRISTOL - Louisiana
17th Dec - CARDIFF - Dempseys (upstairs)
16th Feb - MADRID - Elefant Records night, more details tba

SEE THE FULL DETAILS/TIMES/COSTS/LINE-UP HERE