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Apr 2

We present to you a video for our song “Country Claimed Me”. It has been lovingly constructed from public information films and privately owned scrabble tiles by Alistair Reid from the bands The Gilded Palace of Sin and Astronaut Memorial.

As well as being a free download from our bandcamp site, it’s also part of a splendid download compilation by Sloucher. We feel totally at home with other groups included such as OFF! and Wet Nuns, being pretty punk ourselves. Check it out here: http://sloucher.org/2012/04/02/ninjas-vs-romans-mix-cd/

Posted 1 month ago

Mar 22
Mark the date, April the 30th 2012. For lo! This is when our long-awaited(?) album shall be released unto the world! Titled ‘A Solution To Everything’ it is a collection of tunes that have previously seen light all over the shop on various singles, splits, compilations, etc. now all handily sequenced as a full-length record. Tracklisting: 1. Hang Ups Goodbye2. Josefina     3. Country Claimed Me 4. Harder & Harder5. Tiny Hands    6. Dog Watches    7. 2003    8. Next Xmas    9. Bouncers    10. Perfect Scale Replica    11. Sweets If you go to our bandcamp site you can stream the whole thing: http://modelvillage.bandcamp.com If you like what you hear, a couple of the tunes can be downloaded for free, or you can buy the whole lot as a download or CD. The CD is going to be mega-limited and packaged in a lovely letterpressed sleeve, hand-pressed by the excellent Little Red Press in Salford. Imagine that image above, but even better! To tie in with this, we’re going to be playing a few gigs, in what is nothing like a tour. One of the gigs is even ages before the record is released, which is careless. They are as following: 31st Mar - CB1 Cafe, CAMBRIDGE - w/ Fuzzy Lights 5th May - St Paul’s Church, CAMBRIDGE - w/ Slow Club 10th May - The Windmill Brixton, LONDON SW2 - w/ The Barr Brothers 13th May - The Labour Club, NORTHAMPTON - w/ The Lovely Eggs 19th May - The Sun Inn, WATERBEACH, Cambs  Head to the Gigs page for more info.

Mark the date, April the 30th 2012. For lo! This is when our long-awaited(?) album shall be released unto the world! Titled ‘A Solution To Everything’ it is a collection of tunes that have previously seen light all over the shop on various singles, splits, compilations, etc. now all handily sequenced as a full-length record.

Tracklisting:

1. Hang Ups Goodbye
2. Josefina    
3. Country Claimed Me
4. Harder & Harder
5. Tiny Hands   
6. Dog Watches   
7. 2003   
8. Next Xmas   
9. Bouncers   
10. Perfect Scale Replica   
11. Sweets

If you go to our bandcamp site you can stream the whole thing: http://modelvillage.bandcamp.com If you like what you hear, a couple of the tunes can be downloaded for free, or you can buy the whole lot as a download or CD. The CD is going to be mega-limited and packaged in a lovely letterpressed sleeve, hand-pressed by the excellent Little Red Press in Salford. Imagine that image above, but even better!

To tie in with this, we’re going to be playing a few gigs, in what is nothing like a tour. One of the gigs is even ages before the record is released, which is careless. They are as following:

  • 31st Mar - CB1 Cafe, CAMBRIDGE - w/ Fuzzy Lights
  • 5th May - St Paul’s Church, CAMBRIDGE - w/ Slow Club
  • 10th May - The Windmill Brixton, LONDON SW2 - w/ The Barr Brothers
  • 13th May - The Labour Club, NORTHAMPTON - w/ The Lovely Eggs
  • 19th May - The Sun Inn, WATERBEACH, Cambs 

Head to the Gigs page for more info.

Posted 2 months ago

Feb 24
Our attempt at being Crazy Horse, “Dog Watches”, is out now on this great pay-what-you-want download comp by Kent’s finest independent record co., Unlabel. It also features our pals Lords, the excellent yellow6, and a load more. Click the picture to get involved.

Our attempt at being Crazy Horse, “Dog Watches”, is out now on this great pay-what-you-want download comp by Kent’s finest independent record co., Unlabel. It also features our pals Lords, the excellent yellow6, and a load more. Click the picture to get involved.

Posted 3 months ago

Feb 14

Unexpectedly, our split EP with Lipstik Lipsing is nearly sold out! Head to Dufflecoat Records pronto, or bug us for the handful of copies that we have.

Posted 3 months ago

Jan 17

Recoustic

If you missed us playing at MJ Hibbett’s highly excellent Totally Acoustic night last week you can check out a podcast of the gig right here. I think we pulled it off, and there’s a one-time only (probably) duet between Elizabeth Morris and MJ Hibbett.

Posted 4 months ago

Jan 17
New split single with Indonesia’s Lipstik Lipsing should be available any day now from Dufflecoat Records! We’ll have copies at our gigs in Cambridge and Brighton this weekend.

New split single with Indonesia’s Lipstik Lipsing should be available any day now from Dufflecoat Records! We’ll have copies at our gigs in Cambridge and Brighton this weekend.

Posted 4 months ago

Dec 5
It’s nearly flipping Christmas, isn’t it? Help yourself get into the spirit of the season by going and getting yourself a free download of our lovely festive tune ‘Next Xmas’ from our bandcamp site. Huzzah!

It’s nearly flipping Christmas, isn’t it? Help yourself get into the spirit of the season by going and getting yourself a free download of our lovely festive tune ‘Next Xmas’ from our bandcamp site. Huzzah!

Posted 5 months ago

Dec 1
Bloody hell. We’ve been allowed to support the Lemonheads in just over a week - 11th of Dec at the Junction in Cambridge. We just can’t stop playing with 90s icons, though no Julianna Hatfield. We’re on pretty early, 7:30 I believe. Some details on the Junction website here.

Bloody hell. We’ve been allowed to support the Lemonheads in just over a week - 11th of Dec at the Junction in Cambridge. We just can’t stop playing with 90s icons, though no Julianna Hatfield.

We’re on pretty early, 7:30 I believe. Some details on the Junction website here.

Posted 6 months ago

Oct 25

All the news that’s fit to sing

Here’s your update on Model Village business.

Firstly we’ve got a bunch of very excellent-looking gigs on the horizon in Cambridge, London and our south coast debut in Brighton. Better still, we’ll be playing with some fine people - Singing Adams, MJ Hibbett (doing a 2-man sci-fi rock opera), Widowspeak and Standard Fare. Details and such on the gig page.

Secondly, we’ve coming to a highly satisfactory agreement with the benevolent Dufflecoat Records. The result of this will be the release of a split EP in early 2012. Further details will follow in good time, don’t you worry.

Posted 7 months ago

Oct 7

Everyone wants to play in the Wapentake of Skyrack just for the name, right? Well, our dream is coming true as we’re playing in Leeds tomorrow. It’s at the strangely-named Musiquarium and we’re playing with Zea, Cowtown and Downdime. Doors 8:30-ish I think (DETAILS)

Posted 7 months ago