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12/07/2007
Keith talks about album progess

CMJ have a mini interview with Keith where he talks about the latest in a long list of tentative titles and how the new album sounds like it was made by perverted wizards. Check it out here!

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04/07/2007
More summer dates! Ibiza Rocks

Xfm reports We Are Scientists are set to play at Ibiza Rocks 2007. They are due to take the stage at Manumission's Bar M, San Antonio, on August 29th for the second year running.

Further details about the event can be found at www.ibizarocks.com or www.myspace.com/ibizarocks

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26/06/2007
Arena Support for Kaiser Chiefs

We Are Scientists have just been announced as the main support for Kaiser Chiefs' UK arena tour in November and December. The dates are:

November

21 Exeter Westpoint Arena
22 Bournemouth BIC
24 Cardiff CIA
26 Birmingham NIA
28 Nottingham Arena
30 Manchester MEN Arena

December

03 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
04 Hull Arena
10 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
14 London Earls Court

Tickets are onsale Friday but It's a good idea to check the Kaiser Chiefs' website for presale information. Other support comes frm the Little Ones.

I saw (heard) a bit of the Kaiser Chiefs at Glastonbury Festival on Sunday. It poured with rain throughout. Go and support WAS!

Just in case you've been hidden under a rock for the past week, there's a recording diary on the We Are Scientists news page. Keep checking it!

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12/06/2007
Snow Patrol support slot in Northern Ireland

We Are Scientists are set to support Snow Patrol on a one off show at Ward Park, Bangor, Northern Ireland on Saturday September 1st.

Also appearing on the bill are Ash. More details can be found here

Tickets go on sale this Friday.

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04/06/2007
Recording next week in California

NME reports that recording of the next We Are Scientists full-length will commence next week (June 11th) in California with producer Ariel Rechtshaid. Exciting stuff.

In other news that is SURE to surprise you, We Are Scientists have updated their news page. (Thank you for keeping the link to our site on the page, we love the 15.3% of our visitors that follow your commands.)

Inkeeping with the secret aspect of the secret shows this week, WAS have said nothing, but NME kindly confirms they are bona fide We Are Scientists shows. No songs from With Love and Squalor will be played. Attendees, get your secret recording equipment at the ready.

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01/06/2007
Rumours & Gossip - New York shows next week?

Brooklyn Vegan strongly suspects that We Are Scientists are playing some shows next week in New York under the name Beat Up Old Fellas. And we know the internet never lies so we're going to believe them.

The dates are:
June 6 @ Luna Lounge w/ Nicole Atkins & The Sea and The Long Blondes
June 8 @ Maxwell's w/ Snowden & The King Left
June 9 @ Mercury Lounge w/ The Spinto Band, The Teeth & Bling Kong

Read and speculate here.

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31/05/2007
Rumours & Gossip - Could We Are Scientists be leaving Virgin?

MTV's Subterranean blog reports:

"We’ve heard rumors that WAS are trying to extract themselves from their record deal with Virgin/Capitol Music Group as the two aren’t so compatible after all." [source]

This story could be fabricated lies, but if it's true, will it make any difference to the future of We Are Scientists? Will label delay postpone the release of the next album? Without Virgin forcing them to come to the UK all the time, does it mean they won't play here 987633 times a year? Answers on a postcard...

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24/05/2007
Peta - sexy vegetarians!

It's that time again... vote for Peta's sexiest vegetarian competition! Featuring, once again, We Are Scientists' very own Keith Murray! The page to vote at is HERE!! I just tried to vote, and it wouldn't let me. Screw you, Peta. | Discuss this in our forum

17/05/2007
Siren Festival

We Are Scientists are scheduled to play The Siren Festival in Coney Island, New York. It's held on July 21st and the best part is it's totally free. For more details and the full line up, go here.

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10/05/2007
Happy Birthday Keith

30 years old today! Many happy returns Mr Murray.

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02/04/2007
Treasure of the Cisne Ep 6: the Good the Bad & the Cisne
It's England ways, lads!

Check this out, We Are Scientists own Chris & Keith act as 'Ogres' in this short film, part of a series by the excellent Spinto Band. It's brilliant, check their Irish accents out - gold!

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19/03/2007
We Are Scientists Confirmed For Carling Festival

The line up has just been announced and We Are Scientists are confirmed for the NME/Radio 1 Stage. They will play Reading on Saturday 25th August and Leeds on Sunday 26th August.

Tickets are on sale now, but hurry because they've probably sold out by the time I finish typing this. More details including line up and ticket sales etc can be found here.

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15/03/07
Keith at SXSW!

NME have wisely awarded Keith with his very own guest blog spot at SXSW. Check out his first blog, Keith Murray tells it like it is.

If you prefer to see and hear Keith injecting his musical wisdom into the proceedings, you may also like to visit Keith's Demo Hell.

UPDATE!!!! Part 2 of Keith's Demo Hell is HERE! "Where do you think they got the 'we are' from?? FUCKING WE ARE SCIENTISTS"

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11/03/07
SXSW NME Party

If you're lucky enough to be heading down to South by South West, stop by Stubbs this Wednesday (March 14th). Keith will be undertaking DJ duties at NME's very own afternoon barbeque party. To get your name on the list visit myspace.com/nmesxsw2007. For more details go NME.com.

Also, here's a bit of propaganda for you - anyone going down to SXSW should check out Hot Club de Paris... infact, here are their upcoming tour dates. Flaming well check them out, punks.

March
12 USA Manhattan, New York, Midway
13 USA Brooklyn, New York, Union Hall
14 USA Austin, Texas, Fader Party @6pm
14 USA Austin, Texas, Blender Party @ 1am
15 USA Austin, Texas, Rio @10:30pm
17 USA Austin Texas, Liverpool Party at Lattitude @ 4.25pm
23 SPAIN Madrid, Moby Dick
24 SPAIN Barcelona, Razzmatazz (Pop Bar)
26 ITALY Milan, Transilvania
27 ITALY Roma, Circolo degli Artisti
28 ITALY Bologna, Covo
30 FRANCE Evreux, Abordage
31 FRANCE Strasbourg, Laiterie
April
1 FRANCE Paris, Le Tryptyque
19 UK London, Camden Crawl
20 UK London, Camden Crawl
May
4 BRAZIL Natal, Mada Festival
17 UK Brighton, Concorde 2

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01/03/07
Astoria

Hello, one and all. Now we're back and recovered (ish) from our jaunt to London to see those pesky We Are Scientists, it's time for a quick update to let you know that photographs from the show can be found here and some really bad recordings of the new songs are available at the following locations:

Dinosaurs
Impatience
Chick Lit
Spoken For

Also, a quick and very big THANKYOU is in order for those of you who have sent in things for the gigography, you are all wonderful. If anyone has anything to add, click the link and see if there is anything you can do for us!

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28/01/07
A few more UK Shows

A copied and pasted Myspace bulletin:
People -
In order to help us remember how to perform both our songs and our scripted between-song banter in time for our NME Awards show at the Astoria on February 27 (which, contrary to claims on the NME’s own ill-maintained site, is sold out, sold way out, like, sold out the day they went on sale, so what kind of fantasy world is the NME’s webmaster living in, keeping a live link to the ticket provider’s site, where excited would-be-concertgoers will have their hopes dashed when they realize that, sorry, sucker, it’s sold out, you should have bought your tickets like three seconds after they went on sale?), we’re playing a few warm-up and cool-down shows in the UK around that date. They are:

Sun, Feb 25
Loughborough University
Box office :- 01509 635 5000 / www.sutickets.com / www.seetickets.com

Mon, Feb 26
Hull University
Box office :- 01482 466264 / www.sutickets.com / www.seetickets.com

Wed, Feb 28
Bournemouth University
Box office:- www.seetickets.com / 0871-220-0260 / www.oldfirestation.co.uk

Word on the street is that the tickets go on sale on Monday afternoon. Enjoy!

22/01/06
Album Update #2

NME.com report more album activity. Two new tracks with provisional titles of 'Impatience' and 'Spoken For'' were debuted to the NME with some interesting musical comparisons. Read it here.

10/01/07
Get the BoyzIIMen Cover Here!

Berkeley Place has live versions of the extra special End of the Road and Against All Odds covers. They were recorded in Dublin and the quality isn't bad at all for scummy bootlegs, so snap them up ASAP.

05/01/07
Album Update #1

As reported by the NME, Keith has started work on the next album already. "It is going to mix the actual music of Editors with the actual lyrics of Arctic Monkeys and the three-part harmonies of the Eagles."
Amazing.Read more over here

Check out the Queens Speech which is not only an excellent look back on 2006, but gives you a little update on the latest exploits of their facial hair.

03/01/07
Beardy Winner!

We were slightly worried crowning Michael early was a little presumptuous. Was there any contest? Of course not, he won the prestigious Beard of the Year accolade for the second year running. Congratulations, bearded one!

While it's all quiet on the 'Scientists front, we have decided to compile a comprehensive gigography. If anyone has been to a show in the past 2 years and has a photo/ticket stub/flyer/poster/anything else related from the show we would be ecstatic if you could send it to us:

pastshows@wearentscientists.com

28/12/06
Vote Michael for Beard of the Year

Don't let Michael lose his crown, vote for his luscious facial hair in the This Is Fake DIY Beard of the Year competition. Make sure he reins victorious for a second year running. Thank you to everyone who read our advent calendar. Obviously it's now over but there's still a super competition running on day 24 that you must not miss.

21/12/06
We Aren't Scientists vs We Are Scientists

Dear Readers,
Please visit day 20 & 21 on the Advent Calendar. It will be a thrilling read.
Many thanks,
wearentscientists.com

08/12/06
Exxxclusive

We don't mean to alarm you guys (charming readers of the wasnt.com empire), but there is something on day 8 of our Advent Calendar that is going to blow your flipping minds. You may laugh, you may cry... you may even vomit into your own mouth - just don't look at it with your mouth full of food, because that bad boy's gonna open.
ENJOY!!

05/12/06

Return to London

Exciting news just in! We Are Scientists play a show at the London Astoria on February 27 as part of the NME Awards Shows extravaganza. Buy buy buy!

This Thursday (Dec 7), the band will be joining Colin Murray for In The Company of...We Are Scientists on BBC Radio 1 between 10-12pm. If you're not UK based do not fear, you can listen online. There'll be tunes and chat, don't miss it.

Day 5 of the advent calendar is better than EVER. It's a veritable feast of your favourite band coupled with kittens and served up in a comic style. Part 2 will land tomorrow.

04/12/06

Entries in & lucky New Yoikers!

Closing date for our current competition is tomorrow, 5th December, so you have a few hours to get your entries for it in! Don't worry if you miss out on this one, though, as there will be plenty more to come if you keep your eye on our advent calendar over the next 20 days! We also have some more exclusives coming up, (hopefully) a very very special ending to the infamous beard epic and other loads of amazingness.
We're so good to you - but it is christmas.
Also, it's just been announced that t.W.A.S. are playing a very special NME show in New York on 15th December, all the details are hmyar: http://www.nme.com/news/we-are-scientists/25313. I don't want to dwell on it too much, as I am exceedingly jealous - if you go, have a nice time and all that.

01/12/06
It's Christmastime!

And to celebrate this most joyous of holidays, we have spent a couple of gruelling hours creating a very special advent calendar, whose doors you will be able to open as the days progress. We've included some awesome treats including special photos and competitions, but to find out when they'll be you'll have to keep visiting us and opening those doors! We've also made the site look a little more festive, but keep visiting to see more changes take place.

23/11/06

Cheeky little bit of non-news

If you grab a copy of Vice magazine (available from all good trendy stores) this month, there's a Crap Attack sticker inside. Best news? The magazine's free! 13/11/06

Showbiz Brixton UK Tour Finale

On Thursday and Friday, Chris Urbanowicz from Editors (Uber-Chris) joined the band onstage during The Great Escape and took over guitar duties during the last chorus so Keith could have a little dance. Meanwhile, on Friday night at Popstarz, Antony Rossomando from Dirty Pretty Things also came onstage. Starstudded.

NME.com has a little report from the Thursday show and Music.OMH review it too. We Aren't Scientists are now the proud owners of one aforementioned sparkly 'english gentleman' hat.

AND Popworld have done a new interview with Keith, take a peek.

06/11/06
NEWSFLASH!
This just in! Anyone heading to the Brixton Academy show on Thursday 9th November are in for an extra special treat, as support is going to be from the awesome Hot Club de Paris. This is so exxxclusive that we at wearentscientists.com are the first to broadcast it. This news comes courtesy of Ellie and her mobile phone. We would like to thank her for being friends with Hot Club de Paris.

04/11/2006

Live PA at Popstarz

On November 10th, We Are Scientists will be playing not one, but two gigs in London. Straight after the last show of THE BIGGEST TOUR IN THE HISTORY OF LIFE TOUR, the band will zoom across town to the Scala in Kings Cross to play a short set at the indie disco haven.
More details can be found at Popstarz.org

Audio Interview from Norwich

Random Access Club has an enjoyable interview with Keith from Norwich. Topics discussed include how the band think Crap Attack is their best work yet and how they offer much more than friendship to their touring partners.

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