It’s been a fricking age since we posted on here, so it feels good to be back with some news! Firstly you might have already noticed but we are doing some gigs this year, only a few to start with but it’s a, erm… start! Here are the 3 we’ve got booked in so far -

July 20th – Truck Festival, Oxford
August 2nd – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
August 4th – Camp Bestival, Lulworth

We would book more in but we’ve kinda got our THIRD ALBUM to write, so that has to be our priority but once it’s done we’ll be hitting the road HARD!

Secondly, this is something we’ve tweeted hard already but, in short, Angles and Logic of Chance will once again be available on Vinyl, but we need your help to make this happen. For details head over to dan’s website as he’s already blogged about it!

Finally, whilst we’re still on our DvP Hiatus, it’d be great if y’all could add our solo pages on Facebook & Youtube, it’ll just mean that we a certain that we are still bombarding you all with nonsense. Here are the links…

dan’s Facebook & Youtube Channel
Pip’s Facebook & Youtube Channel

See you all real soon!

It’s a weird thing in le sac Vs Pip world, we aren’t big on evil master plans but somehow, somethings just fall in to place. Like June 8th, 2006, without knowing what would come of it, we both made our solo debuts, at the same venue, on the same night.

Our latest bit of synchronicity is even tidier, even more like we’re evil geniuses with dome shaped heads & hairless cats…

The very LAST Scroobius Pip & The Distraction Pieces Band show is at Bestival, and the very FIRST dan le sac & Friends show is… erm…. at BESTIVAL! It feels pretty neat to end & begin at the same point, although my touring (dan here btw) is only going to last 2 months compared to Scroob’s 18 months!

Anyway, if you haven’t heard our solo albums yet, go grab them, I’m sure you like them, oh & if you fancy coming along to see the only solo tour I’ll do then just clicky here! Oh & don’t worry about all this solo talk, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip will be back with our 3rd album soon!

D

Scroobius Pip’s Distraction Pieces on iTunes / dan le sac’s Space Between The Words on iTunes

dan le sac’s Tour Dates… (Click the venue names for TICKET LINKS)
OCTOBER
1st – COALITION, Brighton /// 3rd – HOOGA, Chelmsford /// 4th – WATERFRONT, Norwich /// 6th – ACADEMY 2, Oxford /// 7th – JOINERS, Southampton /// 8th – SIN, Swansea /// 9th – CAVERN CLUB, Exeter /// 11th – WEDGEWOOD ROOMS, Portsmouth /// 12th – GUILDHALL, Gloucester /// 13th – CLWB IFOR BACH, Cardiff /// 15th – ACADEMY, Leicester /// 16th – 53 DEGREES, Preston /// 17th – XFM PRESENTS BARFLY, Camden, London /// 18th – CLUB ACADEMY, Manchester /// 19th – LEADMILL, Sheffield /// 20th – WELLY CLUB, Hull /// 21st – ENGINE SHED, Lincoln /// 22nd – PORTLAND ARMS, Cambridge /// 24th – BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, Leeds /// 25th – ACADEMY 2, Newcastle /// 26th – THE KAZIMIER, Liverpool /// 28th – THE DUCHESS, York /// 29th – SUB89, Reading /// 31st – BOILEROOM, Guildford ///

Just about 2 months ago dan le sac released his solo album, Space Between The Words, did you get it?

It features collaborations with Merz, B Dolan, Emmy the Great, Joshua Idehen and a load more! You can pick up a copy from HMV / itunes / Roughtrade or wherever you buy your music from, but if you are not sure have a little listen to the album sampler below!

As the Wembley gig is a bit big (Wembley info) & we really don’t want to fuck it up, we’ve decided to add a show the day before at the Globe, Cardiff. Lets call it a warm up!

But the question we keep getting asked since the show was announced is ‘why Cardiff?’, well it’s simple, we’ve not been there in years, and even Scroob missed it off his solo tour last year, we don’t want people to think we have beef with Cardiff!

It’s also given us the opportunity to do a show with the people behind SWN Festival, we’ve always heard how nice they are, now we get to see it first hand!

Tickets are £12 and you can grab them here.

So yes it’s true, we are playing Wembley Arena this year, and if we’re honest it will be one of very few gigs we do. Scroob will be off continuing his rampant rap-rock career, then Dan (me!) will be scuttling around releasing a slightly self-indulgent solo record and possibly trying to work out how to perform on a stage alone!

The Wembley Arena gig is April 13th, and we are supporting Frank Turner (alongside Billy Bragg), you should be able to find some tickets here. Playing with them both will be an honour, and how mental is it gonna be to stand on such a big stage?!

The main reason for the lack of gigs, other than solo things, is that we’d prefer to have some new music to play to you all when we do get back to touring. Once we’ve made a dent on our 3rd LP hopefully we’ll have so new noise for your ears & beats for your feet(s).

In the mean time you’ll have to content yourself with Scroob’s upcoming UK/Ireland/Europe tour in Feb/March.

If you want to keep up with more detailed goings on of me & he, you can find us both on facebook… fb.com/danlesac.official & fb.com/scroobiuspip

d

I assume the title of this post must be true as I cannot see any other reason why Pip hasn’t posted his news here.

News dan, what news?

Well basically dan, Pippy has a whole album out & is about to embark on a chunky solo tour…

Really dan? that’s exciting…

I know dan, it is exciting

Do you have any links dan?

Just one dan, http://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk

cheers dan

no worries dan.

Oh dan,

Yes dan,

Who’s supporting on the tour?

It’s Mr B Dolan dan,

Wicked dan, wicked…

Hello!
So, on Wednesday I (Pip) turned 30 and thought I would pop up a teaser track/video from my upcoming solo record “Distraction Pieces”.
It all went a bit mental from there! The video started to go a bit mental. It became the 4th most viewed music video on all of youtube that day! Not bad for a £100 video!
Within an hour or two of it being up I was told it was being made the XPosure hotone on XFM and the Hottest Record in the world on Radio One! All in all it was a very good birthday!
I obviously had one or two people wondering what was going on with le sac vs Pip but we are still going to be working on our third album at the end of this year and start of next. Don’t worry!
My solo record comes out on September 19th and you can pre-order it now at scroobiuspip.co.uk
Anyway, here is the video I shot with Aaron Shrimpton, Tom Coles, Ollie Quintrell and Emily Brown on Monday then posted on Wednesday.
Enjoy!

You can buy Introdiction on iTunes and all those kind of sites now.

Pip

Howdy Kids!

So, I (Scroobius Pip) have finally got off my arse and started to help ole le sac with our website! Previously he has posted all the blogs and that due to my lack of internet skillz but NO MORE!

I am here with him now (so expect the standard to drop dramatically)!

I thought it was about time I filled you lot in on my little club night, WE.ARE.LIZARDS.

I’ve been running it every third Friday of the month at Book Club, Shoreditch for a while now. I DJ and bring some friends along to join in.

So far we have had Zane Lowe, Eddy Temple Morris, King Blues and too many others to list. This week (June 17th) we have probably the biggest guest DJ we have had yet. The problem is… I can’t announce it!

He is having to be billed as a secret special guest due to this being far smaller a venue than he normally plays at and having deals with certain other venues already in place. I can, however, HEAVILY hint at who it might be!

For example… I can tell you he was recently listed in radarmusic.com’s top 20 DJ’s of all time.

Infact, I can probably mention that he is in the top 10…

And I might even be able to suggest he is in the top 9…

Maybe even the top 8…

And I’m CERTAIN I can tell you he is in the top 7…

I’m going to give it away soon aren’t I? I’d best stop there. If you fancy popping along then I suggest you email info@trashsociety.com with your name and all that fun so that we can pop you on the cheap/queue jump list. It starts at 9pm and is marvelous right through till close at 2am…

So there it is… my first website update…
Pretty average wasn’t it?
Don’t worry, dan will still do good ones for you all…

Pip

From now on every gig we do in Manchester will be known as Marc Irvine Fest, it’s pretty difficult to explain why, but in short it started as a tiny joke on stage, at Manchester Academy 2 last year, that got out of hand as they always do!

So yes we’re coming back to Manchester, even though we’re meant to be avoiding gigs to get writing again, being part of the refurb & relaunch of the Ritz is too exciting a gig to turn down!

Anyway it’s looking like this will be our only non-festival show this year so it’ll be your only chance to see us without the threat of rain.

September 6th, HMV Ritz, Manchester, Tickets £12.50, buy at HMVtickets or Ticketmaster

We now have 3 facebook pages, greedy aren’t we. This is just because Pip & I are up to some separate things for the next few months and it’s a little easier to just talk to whomever is interested!

So for Pip’s solo facebook click here, for dan’s here. BTW this page is nothing to do with either of us, its a fraud! (The dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip page is HERE).

If you want to know what we’re up to, go ask on the above pages, although between you & me I hear Pip is producing a solo EP & I have started a record label but you didn’t hear that from me!