friends

How has your summer been so far? I had a great holiday and a few fine weekends.

I danced with loved ones and lost my Dirty Projectors shirt at the La Pampa Festival.
I spent the best evening in music so far in 2010 at the Schokoladen Hoffest.
I discovered a surprising way to greet an alien life form at the L*Abore.
I got to feel the wrath of the mayor of Friedland at the Jenseits von Millionen.

And I hardly took any pictures, which usually means that I'm having an exceptionally good time.

And it's on. A previously unreleased Petula song has found a home on the Jenseits von Millionen 2010 mixtape. Go and grab "Plukk" and many other good songs over at Rote Raupe. And one song off "Elephant Dresses" can be found on the latest issue of the Finest Noise series. All tape orders via the Petulacamp will get a free copy while supplies last. All digital orders will get a holiday photo.

Two shows are coming up, more are in the making. Stay tuned, there'll be details!

11 SEP 10 Görlitz, Fokus 2010 w/ Jahcoozi, Talking To Turtles and others
24 SEP 10 Hamburg, Reeperbahnfestival w/ everyone, it seems

There's not that much to say here. It's my other other band. Infernally loud pop music and disco noise to combat your inner taste police. It's not very petulesque, but we'll still play with fellow Froggi mates mOck in Berlin. Come!

I'll be playing some shows this summer. Some alone, some with friends, some as a part of other bands. Come by, enjoy, say hello, see you there.

As Petula:
30 JUN 10 Berlin, Badeschiff w/ Kat Frankie
10 JUL 10 Görlitz, La Pampa Festival w/ Bratze, Hundreds, Trip Fontaine and many more
18 JUL 10 Berlin, Schokoladen Hoffest, w/ Candelilla and others
24 JUL 10 Hauptmannsgrün, L'abore Festival w/ Fnessnej, Schnaak and many others
11 SEP 10 Görlitz, Fokus Festival w/ Konstanze

As a part of Sdnmt:
10 JUL 10 Görlitz, La Pampa Festival w/ Bratze, Hundreds, Trip Fontaine and many more
24 JUL 10 Hauptmannsgrün, L'abore Festival w/ Fnessnej, Schnaak and many others

As a part of *U*N*S:
23 JUN 10 Weimar, tba
24 JUN 10 Berlin, NBI w/ mOck

Close your eyes, click a link.

The first tiny batch of Elephant Dresses shows has been played. Every single one was especially nice - the friendly choir going astray at the Madame Claude, the Dukes Of Windsor filling in for singers and clappers that had fallen ill at the nbi, and the exploding goodness that is Telekaster at Leipzig's Paris Syndrom. And then the people, and you, and you. Thanks a lot.

Here's a video of Telekaster doing their thing for you. Don't miss them when they're near you. The next Petula show: May 8, Munich.

we might magnetize [live] from telekaster on Vimeo.

Thank you for celebrating with us at the Madame Claude last Saturday. It was a fun night full of greatness and mistakes. The album, by the way, is now up for listening and for preorders at the bandcamp page. Don't forget what I forgot to mention on Saturday: The cassette tape comes with a download code and even for those who chose to live without old-fashioned physical media it's a beautiful artifact. There are really no excuses here.

And on short notice, there's another show coming up right this week. The guys that used to host the best Wednesday thing ever are inaugurating a new best Wednesday thing ever, and I will be among those providing background music and noise, sharing the line-up with Wolfgang Müller, Peaches and T.Raumschmiere. Awemazing! Incraydabole! Be sure to stop by.

Petulaphant Dresses Tape Release Grandezza from Sn Cn on Vimeo.

Madame Claude
Lübbener Str. 19
Berlin

doors: 7 p.m.
start: 9 p.m.

The only non-exclusive song on the EP, We'll Become P( )rentheses also offers a taste of the upcoming Elephant Dresses tape, due out on Froggi in two weeks. It's a clicky and clappy song about food and decay, about discipline and love and desperation, about old age and about punctuation. It's a song about everything. It's also online now!

Don't forget to check back tomorrow, when the whole thing, cover and soundmaps included, will be available for free.

The Minotaur Miniskirt revelation continues. Here's Funeral Safari.

Also, I Might Be Wrong are giving away a Petula-related remix on their tumblr site to celebrate spring, themselves, delirious bliss and the start of the German leg of their tour with Why?. Get! Play! Enjoy!

It's an appetizer, it's a single EP, it's a joint venture, a marketing scheme, a present. It's also a collection of outtakes, something new, something old, leftover songs, brandnew ideas. It's a new Petula EP, brought to you by the friendly folks at Rote Raupe, revealed piece by piece and day by day, available as a whole this Supergood Friday.

The first part is out today, a melancholy heartweight called "Let Us Not Be Terrible People", recorded during winter nights in my tiny studio closet. Three more parts are to come, each of them accompanied by its own beautiful soundmap by Janine Hofmann and Christina Serowski. Enjoy!

It's been more than a year since we last played a show together. We'll see how this one goes over. I'm cautiously optimistic and quite uncautiously looking forward to it. Click the typo on the flyer for show details.