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On The Up

Self-publishing, self-financing indie outfit TATE bring their literary-minded indie-punk-folk-klezmer-whatever to the 100 Club on Monday.

By Eddy Lawrence

January 29 – February 4, 2009

They’re actually already… well up.
We have to admit, it’s a bit rich giving them an On The Up, given that their EP came out more than a year ago and they’ve already played two tours of the UK. But now is when it’s already played two tours of the UK. But now is when it’s already starting to happen for TATE. Radio has picked up on ‘Sometime Around Midnight’, the lead single from their forthcoming debut LP, with a vengeance. Not bad for a band who are still, technically speaking, unsigned.

‘In the States now, we’re at No 8,’ boggles frontperson Mikel Jollett. ‘We’re the only indie rock band in the chart. We don’t understand it, because it’s a song that has no chorus, that’s just a story about a bad night. It’s very sad, and there’s no little thing you can bop your head to. There’s like two choruses on the whole album. When we first finished it, we were courted by all these major labels, and they …
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Good morning–

After about 22 hours of traveling and slipping in and out of consciousness, we’ve arrived safely back in the States from the U.K. While across the pond, we played the Barfly in Camden and the 229 Club just across the street from the Great Portland Street tube station. The people were amazing, the pubs were cozy, and the jetlag kept us up at strange hours of the night.

We’ve added a new show for tomorrow night at 111 Minna for Good Magazine’s Choose Good Block Party, with our friends the Morning Benders.

Good is a very cool, very intelligent arts, culture, and social activism magazine that contributes all its subscription fees to charity, and we’re glad to be a part of it. We go on at 3:45 p.m.

We also want to remind you to keep voting for our “Sometime Around Midnight” video at Yahoo! Music.

It’s super important to us, and we hope you can find time to vote 1,9, or 49 times.. The contest is up for a few more weeks, and every vote really does help.

To vote, cut and paste this URL:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says “Users’ Choice” and click …
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