Finally…our long-awaited debut album “The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales” will be released on June 23, and it can be found at the usual places. Amazon and Recordstore are all doing special pre-order deals, with Amazon ahead of the pack at 6.98 quid per copy (Amazon have now sold-out so please try the indies instead unless you want to wait three weeks). How they manage to make a profit at these prices we don’t know, maybe it’s a just pride thing?
TRACK LIST:
01 OBVIOUSLY
Jangle-jangle. This is the jangliest song possible.
02 DON’T GO BACK TO THE ONE YOU LOVE
“Turn the lights out, shut the window, burn your old clothes, don’t use the telephone…Steal the next car, drive to Mexico.” Windy drama from the Mexican border. Listen out for Graham’s whistling. Video’s on YOUTUBE.
03 TIL THE WEEKEND COMES
The Anti-Weekend song. All these hip bands wanna big up and brag about their weekends. Buffoons! Anyway, isn’t Wednesday the new Friday? Is the Pope black?
04 MERRY GO ROUND
“Me I’m just a stranger, but here they know my name.
Paid to see the madman in a shiny cage.”
Tales from the Van, as they say.
05 IN LIKE WITH YOU
“True baby true, I’m in like with you, but don’t ask me if I love you ‘cos I wouldn’t want to lie to you.”
The Anti-Love song. As in the feeling, not the band (the good one, not The Feeling).
06 SHANE MACGOWAN
Roots music with a legendary title. Texan-esque ELO ending.
07 MIDNIGHT FLIGHT
“I wake up in the morning and I think it’s just a dream
But then I see the bodies on my tiny TV screen
I put my bloodstained clothing in my washing machine
And it cleanses my senses of the horrors that they’ve seen.”
>:->
08 JERMYN GIRLS
“There’s no coming down - not when you get so high
You see the Jermyn Girls - live in a distant world.”
True story. If someone offers you drugs on Greek Street, Soho, it’s gonna be a tissue ball.
09 NEVER LOSE YOUR SENSE OF WONDER
One day this song will be in an ad for some fizzy drink or chewing gum in a foreign country. Preferably Brazil, so we can use the Portuguese samba version.
10 REPRISE
Part 2 of Track 2. Yeti goes semi-prog. It’s what happens if you let the tape run.
11 CAN’T PRETEND
This is the summer in the basement song. Recorded at 4am. And it’s in Mono!
12 SISTER SISTER
“Hold on tighter to the friends that you made in the life that you once knew.”
13 THE LAST TIME YOU GO (6 FEET UNDER)
“Six feet underground, never to be found
This will be the last time that you go.”
Don’t mess with Yeti, okay?
14 WHO IS GONZALES
??? Buy the album and find out. It’s the one after 909.
The album will also be available on iTunes (worldwide) and other download sites. Pre-order now at HMV, CARGO RECORDS or RECORDSTORE. Please support the indie stores, they are far more efficient for the smaller labels and will dispatch the order far quicker.
For those outside of the UK you can either order from iTunes or from one of the UK indie stores like Rough Trade, Norman Records, Cargo Records etc.
Yeti will be playing at the 333 Mother Bar on the eve of the album release. This is your excuse to visit Sunny East London for some Sunday brunch and flower shopping. And if it rains, well, the gig will be indoors so you’ll be covered.
Great support from Jack Maggs, The Shakes and The Shills, you should really check them out.
Come spend the night with Yeti and friends at the Old Blue Last (apparently “the coolest pub in the world” according to Joe Nme) on Tuesday, June 10. Music from 7:45pm to midnight. Yeti on at 9:40pm. Check out the great support bands, too. Address is 38 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3ES.
From the depths of Belgrade emerges the new Yeti video, directed by Serbian whizzkid Nemanja Antanaskovic. Set in a fictional world where the Serbian desert borders Snowy Mexico, the short film plays out the story of “Don’t Go Back To The One You Love”, where space and time collide to generate a beautiful escape from the traps of the mind.
Keywords: Mustang, Jane Birkin, Zastava 101, Escapism, Bullit, Dune, Solitude, Balenciaga, Moneyshot, Desert Heat, Police Sirens, Space Odyssey, Hallucinogenics, Deep Blue Sky, Past Crimes, Rising Sun, Symbolism, The Future, Melting of Space and Time.
If you like the video, please forward it to your friends. As you can imagine we annihilated our budget on this one so we’re gonna have to rely on the cheap and trusted PR method of Word Of Mouth.
We proudly announce that “Don’t Go Back To The One You Love”, the lead-off single from the forthcoming long-player “The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales”, has finally been given the green light for public release. The track is an amalgamation of three different songs from three separate genres. At almost 6 minutes long, it is an epic of monstrous proportions. You will not hear another single like this in 2008.
The single will be available on 7” Vinyl and CD formats from June 2, while Digital Downloads (iTunes etc) will be available from May 26. Quantities are strictly limited so preordering is advised!
Note: Contrary to what we said before, HMV stores are now stocking the CD single (but not Zavvi)!
Yeti are in a magazine in English this month. If you want to read about gerbils and sinks in the world of Yeti then check out this month’s ARENA at your nearest grocery store.
Currently busy shooting our new music video on location in Belgrade. The video will feature a Mustang, a bunch of pigs, a desert, snow, a sandworm, a baby, a saint and a woman. And guns (ex-comm).
Trying to master this album has been an absolute nightmare. First we found a place that refuses to play our ancient format, then our engineer got the flu and stayed home forever, and most recently we tried one of those long-distance online jobs that flattered to deceive. So it’s still waiting to be mastered. The good news though is that the album’s been remixed since the tour and it makes us happy.
For those who don’t know, mastering is the process that makes a record sound loud and polished, like a “finished” product, or a marketing safety net. Nowadays they just make everything superloud. The thinking behind this superloud-ness is that the average person is tasteless enough to (subconsciously) think that louder songs are catchier. So if song A is louder than song C on your ipod playlist, then you’re more likely to think that song A is more rockin’, even if it’s so loud that even the quiet bits are loud (i.e. zero dynamics). Yeti will not succumb to such ludicrosy. This album will have its dynamics intact. If you think it’s not loud enough after the latest Lily Allen superloud remix on your playlist then you’ll just have to turn it up. And if you’re cool enough to have Dr. Dre before Yeti on your playlist, we’ll send you an extra loud version*.
Anyway we’ll be playing in Croydon on April 6th. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and probably still is.
So that’s Yeti @ The Black Sheep Bar on April 6th.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a Yeti - bar Graham - caught in the process of a travelling tour, must be sick at least once. Since this is a 6-week tour, there’s enough time for some to be sick twice. So far Andrew has missed three shows and John has lost his voice twice. Mark, traditionally the weakest, has made it to every gig, though it’s worth noting that he was “sick” for 2 weeks prior to the tour, and he’s been routinely chickening out of singing those silly high harmonies in Merry Go Round. For non-artistic reasons of course.
Graham is strong as ever, but no doubt mentally still suffering from that ASDA incident. Where did that neon-yellow police van come from? Why did they only notice the Yeti when The Foxes were pissing just 15 yards away?
Giant thanks to all those who came to the shows, especially those in Scotland (and Carlisle). It truly is ten thousand times colder than London up there, and we understand why you’re all drunk before the opening band. We certainly wouldn’t leave the house to see Yeti in those conditions.
One thing though - why do the people of Scotland keep asking us if we like Idlewild? Should we (not)?
This is not a ploy to entice sympathy, it actually happened. See evidence below. They speak more than words. Victims include 1 SM58 clone, 2 SM57s, 1 Teisco dynamic, 1 Chinese Ribbon, 1 drum carpet, 1 Electro-Harmonix Mic Preamp, 2 MXR pedals, 1 Teisco Del Rey semi-acoustic, 13 setlists, 1 early 60’s Vox Amp, 1 70s Pearl Amp, 1 pig mask, 50 rare vinyls and various old 4 track rehearsal tapes.
There’s no insurance because it’s an “illegal” basement / cave.
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