May 2012
4 posts
Our new album ‘Slow and Steady’ is now available to pre-order from both Stitch-Stitch and Discount Horse. It’s made up of ten songs which were recorded in the same sessions as ‘It Is The Rehearsal That Will Make This’, so they’re kind of a pair. We’re really excited about it. It’ll be released in early June, in time for our tour with Jack Lewis....
Our t-shirts are now for sale online through Stitch-Stitch! They were drawn by the wonderful Joff Winterhart.
April 2012
8 posts
Next Sunday we’re playing the second day of the Oddbox Weekender at the Buffalo Bar in Islington with some of our very favourite bands. It’s going to be brilliant. Tickets here.
This Friday!
March 2012
3 posts
At the Ace Bushy Striptease all-dayer in Birmingham, 04/02/12. What a good day.
Last Easter we went on tour with Ace Bushy Striptease and it was brilliant and so we basically agreed to do it every year for the rest of time. It’s sort of a marriage type deal. So here’s where we’re playing this time around:
5 April - MANCHESTER – Kraak
6 April - WAKEFIELD - The Hop
7 April - DURHAM - Fishtank
8 April - SHEFFIELD - Audacious Art Experiment Warehouse
9...
You can now download our song ‘Courage’ and The Balky Mule’s amazing cover of ‘Drops’ from our bandcamp, for free!
Watch the music video Grace made for ‘Courage’ here.
February 2012
3 posts
We’ve got some really exciting shows coming up in the next few months - one in Germany(!) and the rest around the UK -
gracedenton:
8 March - Togetherfest, Düsseldorf , Germany 23/24 March - ‘My Robot Heart’ performance with Molly Naylor at Camden People’s Theatre, London 5-14 April - UK tour with Ace Bushy Striptease! 5 May - ‘My Robot Heart’ performance with Molly Naylor at...
Last month we played our first show as a real-life wedding band at Norwich Puppet Theatre for our friends John and Holly. It was ace.
Our 10” vinyl EP ‘Things Grow There’ is now available to buy online from Where It’s At Is Where You Are, over here. It has four songs on - Riversong, Slow Bridge, Courage, and Young Explorer. We recorded it in Norwich with our good friend John Boursnell.
January 2012
2 posts
WatchGrace has made an amazing music video for our song ‘Courage’! YES!
gracedenton:
I made a music video for Courage: the Middle Ones song I wrote most of. The amazing SJ Esau says: “Just like the song - big scale content, lofi rendering.” What a good guy.
Enjoy! Or Despise!
December 2011
4 posts
gracedenton:
The christmas bug is settling....
It’s hard to believe that it’s the last show of our year-long residency at Bristol’s ever-wonderful Cafe Kino this Sunday. This whole project has been amazing and insane. We’ve got to see so many great bands every month, and the atmosphere has been unfailingly brilliant at each show. Thank you so much to Michal and Aaron and everyone at Kino for helping make it...
November 2011
3 posts
Our penultimate show of the year at Cafe Kino, this Sunday!
We’re at the beginning of a really exciting collaboration project with our wonderful friend Molly Naylor. She’s an amazing poet and storyteller from Norwich and together we’re working on a show which I think is going to be called ‘My Robot Heart’. It’s about love and fear and romance and imagination and lots of other things in between. We’ll be playing...
October 2011
3 posts
July 2011
5 posts
NINE Questions: The Middle Ones by Best Friends...
Part Two!
futurepopgoestheweasel:
Part Two of the Best Friends Forever/Middle Ones Interview:
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NINE (-1) Questions: Best Friends Forever by The...
The first part of a joint interview we did with Best Friends Forever:
futurepopgoestheweasel:
A deep breath. Standing at the edge of the most unrivaled of human experiences. Rolled out before tentative toes and reflected back from the darkness and the depths of too fertile an imagination. An ominous prospect, this European Tour, it’s already been talked into the ground, I’m sure. Dreams...
Next Sunday
We’re going home!
gracedenton:
If you need to depict The Middle Ones, ever, for any reason, you should either use this photo by Tom Cops:
Or any of these photos by Cherry Styles:
Sure, there are other photos. But why bother with them? Email me for hi-res.
June 2011
1 post
B! F! F!
The final plan for our tour with Best Friends Forever -
22nd July - Buffalo Lounge, Cardiff (UK)
23rd July - Cafe Kino, Bristol (UK)
24th July - The Continental, Preston (UK)
25th July - The Old Blue Last, London (UK)
27th July - Les Espace Autogene des Tanneries, Dijon (France)
28th July - Le Rubis, Metz (France)
29th July - The AZ, Aachen (Germany)
30th July - T.B.A., Kassel...
May 2011
18 posts
Best Friends Forever - European Tour
This is crazily exciting: this summer we are going on tour around Europe and the UK with the incredible Best Friends Forever! They are one of our favourite bands, it’s pretty much a dream come true to be playing two weeks’ worth of shows with them. They come from Minneapolis, USA and make wonderful shambolic danceable songs about platonic love and American presidents and being on...
Jeffrey Lewis, tomorrow
(photo by Tom Cops)
We’re playing an afternoon show with Jeffrey Lewis tomorrow (Saturday) at The Castle on Oldham street, Manchester.
We’ve played with him a couple of times before (once getting my housemate to drive us all the way from Norwich to Durham) and it has always been amazing. He is pretty much the reason I (Anna) started playing music to people that weren’t my...
We made an album
Our first album is called ‘It Is The Rehearsal That Will Make This’. The title is from a line in a song Grace wrote, ‘Courage’, it’s the last track on the cd. I always think it’s kind of funny when we sing it, because we never rehearse, although it’s not about that.
We recorded it in Bristol, at Michal Williams’ (A Record of Everything) house...
We had the best tour ever
gracedenton:
We had the best week of our lives
Too right.
