This site is blatantly rubbish. We're not even going to try and make it good. We could if we wanted to. It would be the most amazing site in the history of the internet and everyone would remember where they were the first time they saw it. We did it once and 4 people died just looking at it. That's how good it was.
We released a single on 16th April 2007 on itunes. It's called "Sting in the Tale/Swimming Upstream" and it looks like this:
You can order the CD version online from:
For a full list of places you can go pick up a copy, see here.
Some more exciting stuff:
We have gigs at:
19 April - Acoustic show for Who's Jack magazine @ Tommy Flynn's
05 May - Little Nan Loves Jojo festival (with The Gossip, Soulwax, 80's Matchbox etc)
15 May - Shout @ Old Blue Last, Shoreditch
11 August - Young and Lost Room @ Frog, Mean Fiddler, London
More gigs etc TBC. If you want to book us, contact us through our myspace.
Some stuff that already happened:
We had a single launch party at Nambucca. 6 police riot vans turned up, but we didn't let them in.
We headlined the Islington Academy:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/event/view/21493?type=user
We recorded a session for Steve Lamacq's "In New Music We Trust" show on BBC Radio 1:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/innewmusicwetrust/stevelamacq/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20061204
We recorded some demo tracks at Zoo.
We recorded some demo tracks with Junk Scientist. One of them is 3rd in Steve Lamacq's demos for 2006. The other is 17 in 93 Feet East's songs of 2006.
As Spacehog* once said, In The Mean Time, if you want to listen/see/watch some stuff by The Svengalis try:
www.myspace.com/thesvengalis (free tracks, free badges if you're nice to us and gig dates)
www.last.fm/music/the+svengalis (more free tracks possibly, gig dates)
www.flickr.com/groups/thesvengalis (pictures wot folk have shot of us)
There's this thing too... basically you vote for us and maybe we get to play V festival... go, on you know you want to! See our profile here
www.channel4.com/music/myband/fluffylove (don't really know what happens here but we were band of the week so I thought we'd better put that one in)
Some people have been asking about code for our itunes banner... hopefully here it is:
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/thesvengalis"><img src"http://a335.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_88c8f9112d18f403d7bf5085601980a6.gif"></a>
And it should look like this:
Copy and paste that into your myspace or website and we'll love you forever. Promise!
*Spacewho? You know, they had that one song whoa wooo woo wooooo woo wo wo wo. You may laugh, but that's all you need to get yourself a Liv Tyler.