The Watanabes are flying over from Tokyo to tour the UK. They’re stopping at The Duchess in York for one night — Saturday 15th August. As fans of FTR will know, they’ve written some of the best tunes you’ve never heard and are big in the biggest city in the world.

Flyer for £3 entry

They will be supported by Duchess veterans the awesome Sheffield indie band Take To The Seas, and the band so incredible that words cannot describe them, York-based Towns And Houses (sporting a new line-up).

So for the first time, all three bands from the hip and tuneful Favourite Tree Records label will be on the same stage, and it’s not to be missed!!

You might think we have worked damn hard and spent a damn lot of money to bring this international motley collection together, and you’d be damn right (although all the money has been spent by The Watanabes, who have spent all their savings).

And just to add some more excitement to this already juice-drippingly amazing evening, the wonderful Holly Taymar will be joining us (http://www.hollytaymar.com).

It will probably be your only chance to see The Watanabes in the flesh, and without a doubt the most fun you could possibly have on the particular evening of 15th August 2009.

Just £3 (see event below to print flyer).

So come on down to The Duchess…. Saturday 15th August!

We have a gig on the 7th of March at O2 Academy 2 in Sheffield which we are very excited about. We are supporting Lights Action and Aviators, two great bands who we are very pleased to be playing with!

Tickets are £5 in advance which you can get through us, we’ll have some CDs and hopefully some posters at the gig as well which you can get your slender mits on.

If you don’t want to see Ben Hardie on the doorstep of your house the following day with some vaseline, a butternut squash and a look of malicious intent I suggest you come down!

Love and hugs,

Take To The Seas

We are Take to the Seas, and we have been working away in our secret underground lair for the past couple of months, diligently writing, practicing and designing, only venturing out to photograph our handsome young mugs.

We have recently recorded two of our songs, ‘It’s Science’ and the song from which we take our name, ‘Take to the Seas’. They arrive in your beautifully shapen ears following recording by Ben Hardie and mixing by Graeme Atkinson.

We are kind young gentlemen and have put up the songs for free download, just follow the link at the top of our myspace page. Please let us know what you think!

We will be playing numerous gigs around Shef Angeles next semester so keep an eye out, we would like to see you there!

Over and out.