So here it is, the video for Cauliflower!

Lovely isn’t it? The guest vocalist is Kid A who just so happens to be coming on tour with us, which means for ONE TOUR ONLY we can perform Cauliflower live! That’s exciting, to us anyway!

Cauliflower comes out on vinyl & mp3 on October 11th, which happens to be the day before the tour starts almost like we planned it! Also as our label are in a good mood they’ve decided to give away the digital version of the single when you pre-order the 7″ from our shop.

Pre-order Cauliflower from: our shop, hmv, itunes
Grab tickets to the tour: here

The rest of the year is shaping up to be fun fun fun!

So we can finally announce the Irish leg of the Autumn tour! Here are the additional dates…

NOVEMBER
5, Workman’s Club, Dublin, Ireland (tickets)
6, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland (tickets)
7, Kelly’s, Galway, Ireland

To celebrate we’ve decided to give away 3 pairs of day tickets to Electric Picnic, all you have to do to get the tickets is email lesacvspip[at]gmail[dot]com with your name, address & the answer to this question…

“What makes Pip’s beard so soft?”

First 3 people to give the correct answer win a pair of tickets! Competition closes at 3pm today (27/8)! Please remember to include your postal address in the answer, it’ll make it possible for me to post them today!

The competition is now closed & the winners have been notified! Thank to everyone who joined in, there were some really funny answers, must be that famous Irish sense of humour!

cheers
d (&P)

PS Apologies to people in Northern Ireland, we have not managed to secure suitable dates/venues to include NI shows, but there’s always next time!

We found out a few days ago that we have been shortlisted in the Artist of the Year category of the BT Digital Music Awards, pretty cool huh?

When we were entered for the awards by our label & our distributor, we honestly thought there wasn’t a chance in hell of being shortlisted. So making the cut feels great, although we will openly admit our competition is a tiny bit stiff, the shortlist is…

Kylie
30 Seconds To Mars
Gorillaz
Muse
Pendulum
dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip

Although the final list was decided by a panel of judges, it’s actually because of you that we got this far. Most people reading this will have landed here from facebook or twitter or whatever social media network you frequent, and it is your willingness to engage with us, your happiness to help when we need it that has thrown us in with the big boys (& girl).

So thank you! You keep doing what you’re doing & we’ll try our very best to keep doing what we’re doing! And please spare a thought for Muse, how upset is Bellamy gonna be when us two Oiks rob him of the trophy!

cheers
dvp!

Our statement regarding the EDL’s odious use of our music can be read at the Love Music Hate Racism site.

cheers
dvp

So we’ve finally managed to get some physical copies of “The Logic of Chance” into America, which means those copies will be a little cheaper than having buy imports off Amazon. Aren’t we nice! (no really we are nice, honest, pleeeeeaaaasssse love usssss…).

You can pick up these few copies from the Strange Famous Store on CD & Vinyl. They will ship pretty much anywhere you like apparently.

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PS the vinyl copies come with a CD copy inside for the car or ipod or whatever you cool kids do these days.

So yesterday (02/08/10) was Scroobius Pip day on the Titan blog, here’s a little list of all the exclusives you can find there! And why all this Scroobius Pip day madness you ask? Well they published his book didn’t they! Check out “Poetry in (e)motion” here or just go buy it directly from us here!

1. Exclusive Poem – Jack & Rosa (here)
2. Exclusive Bonus Artwork (here)
3. An Interview with Matt Frodsham, one of the illustrators for the book (here)
4. 3x Scroobius Pip video interviews (here)
5. A look inside Poetry in (e)motion (here)
6. Scroobius Pip interviews poet, Musa Okwonga about the poetry scene (here)

Also starting today Titan are starting 30 days of competitions to give away 30 days of prizes, find out more here.

As always I have put together an amazing line up of the UK’s best poets as I bring my Satin Lizard Lounge night to the poetry and literature tent on the Saturday and Sunday nights. I thought some of you might be interested in a few of my top picks so here they are!

SATURDAY:

9.50pm – Kate Tempest (see also Sound of Rum)
Anyone that attended last year will have witnessed Kate and won’t need to be told why she is the most exciting young talent on the spoken word scene. The rare fusing of intense passion coupled with such intelligent writing really makes Kate the highlight of most people’s festivals.

9pm – Chris Hicks
When introducing Chris last year, all I managed to mumble was “this next poet is really intelligent”. Whilst that is true, it’s not the most overwhelming of introductions! I have been a fan of Chris for some time as he manages to fuse humor dryer than the Sahara desert with wonderfully crafted word play.

SUNDAY:

9.25pm – David J
David J is very much David J. There is no one quite like him and there never will be. The ultimate entertainer puts on a show so engrossing that you could risk overlooking how amazingly well crafted his poems are. A true master.

8pm – Sarah Olowofoyeku
On the day I will be simply introducing Sarah Olowofoyeku as “Sarah” due to my fear of attempting to pronounce her name correctly! Sarah is one of the new acts I am introducing to Camp Bestival this year and I am delighted to be doing so. Last year I helped judge a young writers competition and Sarah was one of the winners. Her performance on that night was jaw dropping and I look forward to seeing her do it all again for the lovely Camp Bestival crowds.

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Right, so that’s two tips from each day but, to be honest, I could have written a paragraph about each and every act on in the tent this year. It really is an honor to be putting on such a strong line up AGAIN and cramming it all into two hours each night.

As a further exploration into the line up, the the BestiBlog.net you can find a “Best of all the Satin Lizard Lounge Podcasts” podcast to highlight one or two more of the great acts on offer.

Whether or not you are familiar with the spoken word scene, I really think that there is no better place to be between 8pm and 10pm on the Saturday and Sunday of Camp Bestival, than sat comfortably in our little gathering watching beauty, humor, pleasure and pain all laid out before you. Maybe with a pie and a beer…

Pip

Loads of you have been asking, via facebook & twitter, where they can get the Doctor P remix of Sick Tonight on vinyl, well thankfully we now have it in our webstore & from the Sunday Best shop. Have a listen below:

The 12″ also contains the originals of Sick Tonight & GB, with a dope remix of GB by Mumdance!

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Ps You can check out the videos to Sick Tonight & GB on the le sac Vs Pip youtube channel (if you can be bothered!).

Hello! We have alot of flghts at the moment and I am trying not to spend all my time on them asleep! On the most recent flight we had i decided to write a poem about everyone who gets all emotional on facebook! Hope you like it! Its called “Facebook killed the romance of misery” and it might be about you and/or all your friends! Please share it with people via twitter and facebook so that the world can explode with irony.

Pip —–>

Facebook killed the romance of misery

Facebook has killed the romance of misery
And probably even the romance of romance and chivalry.

There was a time when people revelled in solitary dramatics,
Writing sad poetry by candle light in creaky old attics.

Resting their heads on pillows so tear drenched they would dream of the sea,
As they floated in the salty waters of heart break and misery.

History is littered with tales of grand reactions to rejection,
Documented with great beauty by those of a more delicate complexion.

Some of the saddest songs and verse were written in times of sorrow,
Or at least when looking back at such times & using the emotions there to borrow.

But, THESE DAYS, when your heart has been removed from its rightful place,
You just change your status to “single” followed by “sad face”.

What becomes of the broken hearted?
I don’t know but they just “liked” a photo of cat titled “OMG! Who just farted??”

When I was a teen dramatic reactions were pretty much a certainty.
If I was really hurting, then that hurt you all would see.

Once, after a particularly bad break up, I chose to only wear black.
And as attention seeking as that is, there’s still poetry in that.

I’d sit in public VISABLEY miserable and sympathy of strangers? I would grab it.
One not so sympathetic passer by shouted, “Cry me a poem, you fucking faggot…”.

But….. I’D ALREADY WRITTEN THIRTY-ONE!  (Despite my lack of faggotry)
And I’d written them to record emotion not for pomp and pageantry.

Now I’m more than a little aware that writing sad lines & poorly formed rhymes,
Is really just as indulgent and attention seeking at times,
But at least it’s taking both the time and the effort to, in some way, cloak it!
Behind a layer of fake depth by the person that sat and wrote it.

And, before I end this, I’ll also explain facebooks impact on romance to you,
You’ve posted on my wall “I love you my dearest”…and I DO love you too.

I simply choose to express it daily in the life that we share TOGETHER, when I see you in the morning, and speak to you on your lunch break, and after work when we share time in each others company enjoying all that we have always bonded over in OUR relationship IN THE REAL WORLD rather than on a website so that others, who have nothing to do with it, can see how loving and sensitive a partner I am (so loving and sensitive, incidentally, that my recommended friends regularly include florists and suppliers of heart shaped cushions) and maybe even some of them will wish they were my partner but they are not as I am in love with you but still its nice to have others aware of how loving  an individual I am isn’t it my dear dear dearest?

OMG! Who just farted?

Excuse the potty mouth but FUCK YEAH! We’ve finally confirmed all the dates for our last UK & Ireland tour in ages, the chances of us touring in 2011 are pretty damn slim so it feels pretty good to have these shows all lined up! And FUCK YEAH again because we’ve got some belting supports to!

KID A (every show) – The voice behind our next single, Cauliflower, is coming over from the States to play her first ever UK Tour, she might even jump on stage with us nudge nudge wink wink!

Misty’s Big Adventure (not Bristol or Brighton) – So second up are MBA who truly do have a wonderful live show, its pop but in an off kilter, spiralling out of control kind of way.

GAGGLE (Bristol, Brighton & Sheperd’s Bush Empire ONLY) – Finally our special guests, the lady choir electronic experiment that is GAGGLE, I say experiment because surely putting 20 odd / 20 something women on the road together is bound to get nasty, & could only be the idea of a genius or deranged buffoon. Anyway what they do is beautiful, pure & simple.

So yes yes yes its going to be dope, belting if you will! Dates below, see you there!

October
14, The Forum, Hatfield (tickets)
15, O2 Academy, Leicester (tickets)
16, HMV Institute, Birmingham (tickets)
17, O2 Academy, Bristol (tickets)
19, Solus, Cardiff (tickets)
20, Stylus, Leeds (tickets)
21, Uni, Newcastle (tickets)
23, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow (tickets)
24, Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (tickets)
26, Academy 2, Manchester (tickets)
27, Plug, Sheffield (tickets)
28, Ultra, Nottingham (tickets)
30, Uni, Southampton (tickets)
31, Concorde 2, Brighton (tickets)

November
1, Shepherds Bush Empire, London (tickets)
3, Liverpool Music Week @ o2 Academy, Liverpool (tickets)
5, Workman’s Club, Dublin, Ireland (tickets)
6, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland (tickets)
7, Kelly’s, Galway, Ireland

All shows are 14+ (except Ireland), under 16’s may need to be accompanied by an adult, pls check with the venue.

Irish show are 18+ & supports are TBC.