UK 'Soap' Tour

Eyes video

The video for our new single Eyes (officially released on the 30th Jan), filmed by the marvellous wizards at Spindle Films, will be released at 7pm on Sunday 8th January. I might have a colonic in celebration. Love, Fab xxx

14+ Show in London

Tickets are onsale now for this little number, our first 14+ show in London for ages with fantastic supports - and at the cracking Camden Barfly.

http://www.barflyclub.com/camden/whatson/event/32975.aspx#The+Kabeedies+%2b+Casablanca+%2b+Black+Sands+%2b+Guitars+Have+Ghosts

Eyes video shoot

Here's some stills from the shooting of our brand new video for 'Eyes', released on Jan 30th. Spindle films are the sexy bunch of camera-toting wizards filming it for us, and we love them. Expect lots of age-ranges....

Crushin'

Crushin' on Miss Minaj so badly right now............
That's what the kids still say right? Crushin'?

So me and my Dad made beer.

A total of 48 bottled beers in varying sizes, we like to call it "Extraterrestriale - A Gut Wrenching Bitter'. Think we've found the perfect on tour beverage, it also doubles up as handy 18+ merchandise. Some say we'd need an alcohol license to sell our beer at shows but all we're doing is promoting the 'D.I.Y.' scene. Large bottles come with a free jam jar of your choice to drink from.

Rory x

Soap UK tour 2012

Hey everyone, the early 2012 UK portion of our 'Soap' tour is now complete.
And here she is:

mon : 23/01 : SOAP is released

wed : 25/01 : Bitterscene : Chelmsford

thur : 26/01 : The Swan : Ipswich : FREE admission                                       
fri    : 27/01 : The Live Lounge : Blackburn : FREE admission

sat  : 28/01 : New Beehive Inn : Bradford

thur : 02/02 : The Adelphi : Hull (w/Affairs)
fri : 03/02 : Black Flag : Wakefield

sat  : 04/02 : Bandstand @ The Crown : Middlesborough

wed: 08/02 : The Stag and Hounds : Bristol
thur : 09/02 : 10 Feet Tall : Cardiff : South Wales
fri    : 10/02 : The Factory : Porth : South Wales

sat  : 11/02 :  South Street Arts Centre : Reading

wed : 15/02 : The Barfly : Camden : London - tickets on sale now through the barfly website £ 5 (14+ Show) w/ Casablanca

thur : 16/02 : The Hope : Brighton w/ Alloy Ark

fri    : 17/02 : Soundhouse : Leicester
sat  : 18/02 : LP : Bury st Edmunds w/ Alloy Ark and Black Sands
thur : 23/02 : Rescue Rooms : Nottingham
fri    : 24/02 : The Waterfront : Norwich w/ Olympians and Ask Lydia

sat  : 25/02 :  Bread Club : Leamington Spa

wed : 29/02 : Nation of Shopkeepers : Leeds w/ The Covelles and Just Handshakes
(POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR)

thur : 01/03 : MOJO : Liverpool : FREE                                                  
fri    : 02/03 : Deaf Institute : Manchester w/ The Covelles


We'll also have loads of new merch and such for sale, so make sure you come and say hi at a show - and maybe bring a pie or something.

Love, The Kabeedies xxx

Fierce Panda

We're delighted to announce that we've signed a deal with Fierce Panda records to release our 2nd Album 'Soap' in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland. They're absoloutley insane so this should go pretty well. Break out the Aldi Cava xxxxx Fab

Our New Album 'Soap'!

Our new album ‘Soap’ is coming out in January!
Lot’s of brand new things for you to hear, smothered in trumpets, violins, saxophone, accordion, marimba, cello, flugelhorn, piano.
We’ll be playing a lot of shows throughout the UK and Europe so make sure you come down and see the new album in action!
And the 24th February is our Album Launch at the Waterfront in Norwich with the amazing Olympians.
There is currently a special pre-sale offer on where tickets are £5 for the first 200 and you receive a free album with your ticket! A lot of these have already sold so if you want this deal, get one soon.
You can buy them here - http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/the-kabeedies-album-launch-party1.aspx
I am thoroughly excited.
Rory x

Final Mixes

Our new album is finished todaaaay. Just got to ok final mixes/masters and we're all cooking on napalm. Now we've just got to decide on a title and album artwork.... It'll be with you (pending massive band disagreements and subsequent disembowelling) at the end of January 2012. Cannae wait.
Love, Fab xxx

Rumpus a' bye-bye

We're playing our farewell gigs to some of the songs from our debut album 'Rumpus' that we're unlikely to play again. The mostest specialest gig will be at the Norwich Arts Centre on the 25th October (tickets available here: http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/the-kabeedies-presented-by-the-tilting-sky--25-10-11-.aspx), where we haven't played in a year. Here are the remaining gigs of this year for us (minus one or two christmas shows)....

Leeds - Residency at the Milo - 20th/21st/22nd October
Norwich - Arts Centre - 25th October
Blackburn - Live Lounge (14+) - 27th October
Brighton - The Hope - 28th October

We'll be back in 2012 with a shiny new album

Love, The Kabeedies xxxx

OH no

We never should've let Rory design the new album cover...........jeeeeeeeeeeeeez:

Apologies

We can offer you only our sincerest apologies for the lack of correspondence coming from our camp. We've been locked away for a good few months recording our second album in Norfolk with our wonderful producer Jonny Cole-Matthews and his faithful sidekick Adam King.
Everything we've done so far is sounding really positive, and we're more excited about this record than anything we've ever done before, even more so than playing at the same festival as N-Dubz...which i'm sure you can all gather is the peak. The record itself is sounding huge, and we've had help from some of the most wonderful musicians and friends we could ever hope to have, with our buddies Imo and Kayleigh on strings, Colin on marimbas and such and Dave and Martin on Brass, aswell as the wonderful Bertie from Cakes And Ale on accordion. It's been a pleasure to work with such accomplished players, and it can only benefit us and the album as a whole.

Anyways, we're looking to be releasing it in January of next year, with a whole load of new things including merch and artwork and all those goodies. Should be a good year. In the meantime, we're surfacing from our pit to play some gigs in October to shake off the rust:

October 14th, The Firebug, Leicester
October 20th, The Milo, Leeds
October 21st, The Milo, Leeds
October 22nd, The Milo, Leeds (not a typo-it's a 3 night residency)
October 25th, The Arts Centre, Norwich
October 27th, Live Lounge, Blackburn (16+)
October 28th, The Hope, Brighton

Love, The Kabeedies xxx

Demos

First set done, now back to the drawing board. I'm not drinking enough coffee. I think this guy is though. Fab x

I'm not the only one...

Who gets the sweats after eating cheese, right? Just on the cheeks y'know....

2 new dates for this year

30th March - Bitterscene @ The Bassment, Chelmsford

1st April - The Fire Station, Windsor

xxx

6 Music Rebel Playlist

Hey everyone,
We're in Steve Lamacq's Rebel Playlist on 6music this week, which is where people vote for the best out of 3 tracks. This week is us, Glasvegas and Sea of Bees, so we decided we'd cheat and just straight up ask you to vote for us.

We'd be forever grateful:
www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve-lamacq/features/rebel-playlist/

And Click on Vote for The Kabeedies (which should send an email from you with The Kabeedies in the subject)

Thankyouu
X

Found

A tremendous mix of nostalgia and new hope in listening to Vampire Weekend's first album. Upper East Side Soweto - sound of the future. Fab x

Stella McDonald Video for Santiago

Hey guys, this is the video for our newest single 'Santiago', availiable on free download here: www.thekabeedies.bandcamp.com

The video is animated by the amazing Stella McDonald (www.canisterstudio.co.uk)

Right, now I'm off to watch This Morning again
Fab x

Santiago Video

Hey everyone,
Our new single 'Santiago', which is still availiable to download free
at www.thekabeedies.bandcamp.com, is about to have it's video
released! Animated by the wonderful Stella McDonald, it will be on
youtube and all of our sites by tomorrow morning. We'll also be making
a facebook event about it - so if you could be so kind as to tell your
friends about it, spread the youtube link, and invite everyone to the
facebook event, we'd be eternally grateful.

Love you all guys

The Kabeedies xxxx

Santiago Lyrics

I'm sure,
I'm sure of it now,
The Key lies in the Sierra Maestra

I'm sure,
I'm sure of it now,
Santiago, and Castro in La Granma

I see,
I see it now,
History repeats the fact of the matter

I see,
I see it now,
With Inspiration from the lepers in San Pablo



A man looks down, over Havana
As a light shines, over Espana



I stop,
I stop it now,
The power eating the wings of the people

I hold,
I hold it now,
The new world in my heart like a burden

I mix,
I mix it now,
The compound of blood and rust on the carpet

I'm sure,
I'm sure of it now,
Santiago, and Castro in La Granma


A man looks down, over havana
As a light shines, over Espana

Tumblr

Sometimes you're just very glad it exists...:

http://missclawdy.tumblr.com/

Definately

My favourite review of 'Santiago' so far:

http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/02/kabeedies-santiago.html

Rory's tour diary

Part 1 of Rory's tour diary for the Beat Surrender: http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/features/articles/kabeedies-tour-diary-part-one

Also, keep your eyes peeled for Evan's first attempt at directing and editing a feature film
Fab xxx

Valentines

Damn fine night off last night, watched Elvis´s ex-girlfriend Wanda Jackson in Munich. And then went for strudel and CurryWurst. Top Banana. Regensburg today. Rory has bought me a daily sport for valentines day

Tour date changes

Hey guys, we've tinkered around with some of our German tour dates, here:
2 11 München / 59:1
2 12 AU - Ebensee
2 14 Regensburg / Heimat
2 15 Straubing / Raven
2 16 Köln / Sonic Ballroom
2 17 Germersheim / TrainsPub
2 18 Kaiserslautern / Kammgarn
2 19 Stuttgart / 1210
2 20 Kirchheim b. München / Cafe Zufall
2 21 AU - Innsbruck / Weekender
2 22 Dresden / Ostpol
2 23 Freiburg / Räng Täng Täng w/The Lovely Eggs & Das Wanderlust
2 24 Fürth / Badestrasse
2 25 Halle / Druschba
2 26 Berlin / tbc

And These are the following dates for the rest of the year:
April - Germany:
7th - Prinz Willy - Kiel
8th - Amp - Munster
9th - Molotow - Hamburg
10th - Mixtape - Neubrandenberg

April - UK:
20th april : norwich : the waterfront
4th may : reading : the oakford
5th may : brighton : latest music bar
6th may : london : the amersham
7th may : bristol : mothers ruin
8th may : cardiff : undertone
9th may : coventry : kasbah
10th may : cambridge : cornerhouse
11th may : birmingham : the rainbow
12th may : leeds : milo
13th may : leicester : firebug
14th may : manchester : night & day
15th may : chester : the laugh inn

See you guys soon
Fab xxx

Egypt tonight

thoughts go out to every anti-mubarak protester in liberation square x

Wicked cool

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/02/university-funds-slashed-by-almost-1bn

good news, same day as we release our single. bad omens xxx

Santiago, free

Well, here it is, we couldn't be arsed to wait. The first and hopefully last song we record with Bolivian bean pickers sampled in the background... Our Free Download single ‘Santiago’ is now available from our Download website www.thekabeedies.bandcamp.com, we hope you like it. A video will be coming soon, animated by the amazing Stella McDonald. Love you all xx

Where to download our new single

'Santiago' will be availiable to download FREE very soon from here:

http://thekabeedies.bandcamp.com/

Keep your eyes peeled Mandems..

Fab xxx

20th April, Norwich Show!

We're glad to be back in Norwich again after a 4 month gap - and we're celebrating the release of our new single 'Santiago' (out soon on Free Mp3 Download) with our friends These Ghosts, We Can't Dance and The Cads at the Waterfront.

It's gonna be siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick. All of the £3 early bird tickets have gone so get your skates on if you want to get in.

You can get tickets for £6 here: http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/the-tilting-sky-presents--the-kabeedies---these-ghosts--early-bird-offer--.aspx

love you guys
The Kabeedies xxxx

New track up in our Free Downloads Bundle on Bandcamp!

Mythical Beasts now added to our free download bundle on Bandcamp! Click on the picture to take you there!

Valentines Day

We're in Regensberg, Germany, for Valentines day. So this is what we've bought the entire nation of Germany, we hope she likes it....

Struggling

To get over how good O.N.E by Yeasayer is... try it xxx

FREE Single out in March

Our new single is gonna be out on Free Download in March, and it's gonna be called 'Santiago'. More details coming soon, but we're excited to be touring Germany in February, and then the UK in April and May. Badical xxx