Once Upon A Time In Happyland...

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2008-06-09T12:27:00.000-07:00

The band is on hold... we now make blockbuster movies:

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"Laughing All The Way To The Plank"
Out 23rd June on Download & Ltd Edition 7"

Tracklisting:

Download:

1. Laughing All The Way To The Plank
2. Chess Tragedy
3. Killin' Time

Vinyl:

A. Laughing All The Way To The Plank
B. Killin' Time

PRE-ORDER SIGNED COPIES HERE

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Click HERE for tickets

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Tour Tickets

2008-02-28T10:26:00.000-08:00

Here's a fine list of ticket links for our upcoming tour with Untitled Musical Project. Some are not yet available or will be available on the door.

London - Islington Academy: 02/04/08

Cardiff - Barfly: 04/04/08

,CANCELLED> Southampton - Unit 22: 05/04/08,

Leicester - Sumo: 10/04/08

Bristol - Louisianna: 11/04/08

York - The Junction: 15/04/08

Milton Keynes - OPUS: 16/04/08

Portsmouth - The Fat Fox: 18/04/08

Nottingham - Social: 20/04/08

Oxford - Jericho Tavern: 21/04/08

Luton - Club NME @ UBSU: 24/04/08

Swansea - Club NME @ Sin City: 25/04/08

Exeter - Club NME @ The Hub: 26/04/08

Guildford - Boiler Room: 27/04/08

Cambridge - Barfly: 28/04/08

London - Upstairs @ the Garage: 30/04/08

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And here's something for the Star Wars/Lionel Richie fans:

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New Video: The Snaps

2008-02-15T11:10:00.000-08:00

This weekend we jetted off to London England to film a cardboardalicioius video for our new single "Meanwhile In Hollywood..."

It was thirsty work

and the set looked a bit like this, check it

I'd tell you more but I think these photos do all the talking. Have a nice week.

James x

Elle Milano: The Demon Barbers of Fleet Street

2008-01-24T10:30:00.001-08:00

This week, we have been mostly been listening to Biffy Clyro and Lightspeed Champion rekkids in the van as demonstrated below.

We played an rockin' show in London on tuesday at the 'Old Blue Last' where I discovered a new energy beverage that sent me 2000 years into the future, its suitably called Rockstar. It kept me buzzing for about 24 hours at the very least so make sure those of you who are thinking of trying it, plan ahead before consuming. Also thanks to everyone who came along and cheered relentlessly between songs, it really added to the euphoria of that beverage.

Check out Adams afro here

Us looking sweaty and mean after the show

Our next gig is at Pressure Point, Brighton and will be MEGA cause we're playing with our good friends Maths Class and Heels Catch Fire, the cream of the Brighton scene yes? So get yourself down to that and then probably to Audio after for some serious dance floor action.

Now, in order to remain at the top of our game, not only do we drink rockstar, but we have to employ a vigorous rehearsal schedule which keeps us both physically fit, and musically equipped so here are some photos of us hard at it

Last week we finally got hold of promo copies of our forthcoming album "Acres Of Dead Space Cadets" and it looks a bit like this

As you can tell by our happy happy faces, we are very excited by this as it's been a LONG time coming!
Watch this space for more info on our next single and release dates etc.

Im gonna try and edit together a video of our recording sessions in kent from way back when, using the very limited footage I have on my digital camera.... Quite a challenge I think. If it's any good i'll post it here at some point.

May I also suggest y'all go and watch Sweeney Todd, you won't regret it... unless you're not a fan of throat slitting.

JAMES x

News Update: January 08 - Lovin’ it!

2008-01-14T12:46:00.000-08:00

Bonjour tout le monde,

2007 eh? what a load of shite. I'm not gonna evaluate what sort of year we've had, you can make your own conclusions, but after being in a depressive rut for a few months we have now regained our Chi and feel good about the world again. Lucky us.

Yes, yes. There are now less people and more gadgets in Elle Milano, which is just how we like it. We have refound our love for making a big fuck-off racket, have got our live show together, and settled into our new location in Brighton just fine.

Our finished, packaged album should be turning up any day now. The first single will be "Meanwhile In Hollywood..." and that's getting released as soon as we can come up with a video we're happy with. Should be able to put a version of the single up on MySpace shortly...

Speaking of the album, we get a lot of frustrated questions about when the album's actually gonna be released but at the moment we can't give you a release date. Stuff takes time in the world of Elle Milano, a long, annoying time, and we get frustated as much as anyone else. The truth of the matter is we've had to do everything the long, hard way, and have not been given any leg-ups, short cuts, or major label money etc. This is for the best in the long run, but requires some serious patience!

Just so you know.

Also, we have some real nice gigs coming up, we've been added to the Artrocker Annual Festival bill at the last minute - thats this Friday (18th) at the Buffalo Bar, London. Coming up, we're playing at the funky/fresh/happening Old Blue Last in Shoreditch (Jan 22) then we've got a gig with our Brighton lovers Heels Catch Fire and Maths Class (Pressure Point - Jan 29). Get on that.

Thats about it for now I think... Oh take a look at this
Probably the only people to tip us for 2008, which is nice of them.

And since you ask, my favourite album of 2007 was "Puzzle" by Biffy Clyro, and no I didn't see that coming either!?

ByeBye.

Adam
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Incredible free gifts and future/sex/live/songs

2007-11-11T07:07:00.000-08:00

If for some reason you still haven't ordered our new single 'My Brother, The Astronaut' you can do so right now before its too late at recordstore.co.uk. where you'll receive a signed 7" and FREE BADGE! If thats not an incentive then I dont know what is.

It's also available on digital download however you won't get a free badge on itunes, just great choons.

In other news, we're putting a mini tour together at the end of November where we'll be testing some new live ideas. Things are going to get big...

lets go fucking mental lalalala

James

ELLE MILANO LAUNCH PARTY

2007-10-24T12:29:00.000-07:00

This is our single launch party on Sunday 28th October:

Send us a myspace message for free guestlist at: www.myspace.com/ellemilano

And heres an advert Ramhammer made for our new single "My Brother, The Astronaut" which you can pre-order HERE

Smoking-Guns Je Deadley x

My Brother: PRE ORDER

2007-10-14T12:58:00.000-07:00

New Elle Milano single "My Brother, The Astronaut" is now available for pre-order from this website right HERE. Get it while it's hot.

To celebrate this great release, we're throwing a launch party at the Engine Rooms on the 28th October which should include live perfromances, free stuff, and guaranteed great times! More details on that and how to attend coming soon.

J C

Check out my Sweet Ride October 07.... fuck

2007-10-07T08:41:00.001-07:00

Here are some new songs: "My Brother, The Astronaut" and "Katsuki and the Stilettoed Stranger", one of which might sound familiar because there's a shameless disco remix of it somewhere on the World Wide Web. The other one - My Brother.. - is our forthcoming single out on 29th October (just in time for Christmas) so put that date in your diary and tell all the family.

So now you're probably wondering how you can get hold of a copy of this sumptuous limited edition 7" white vinyl (500 copies) also featuring "Good People Go To Heaven" as a b-side...

Well look no further because we'll be putting up a pre-order link real soon and the first 50 orders will be signed by the band... maybe even with some extra custom artwork. So if you don't want your precious vinyl scribbled on, hold back on your order for a while.

For those of you who prefer your music in a less tangible format, the single will also be available on itunes and will feature a newly recorded verson of "The Choreographer", exclusive to the digital download.

That's the news, now keep off the crack.

J C Headley at Milano Towers x

P.S. If you're a fan of Akon AND Elle Milano, you might enjoy this:

News Update September 07

2007-09-11T04:37:00.000-07:00

Blog!

Hello, since the tour we have been filling our time rehearsing, writing, planning, chilling, because noone would book us for any festivals. What can you do...?!
The album has now been finished and mastered, which is nice...one less thing...

"My Brother, The Astronaut" is going to be released as a limited edition 7" single and download, on October 29th, the b-side is entitled "Good People Go To Heaven". More details on where to get hold of the vinyl when we know. Despite the album being finished it won't be surfacing til next year - this is all down to something called 'marketing', which I keep hearing a lot about....

In other news, Alex has decided he wants to do something else musically, and is leaving the band. So we'll be looking for another live guitarist over the next few weeks, and blagging it as a three-piece until we do. Just like the good old days, haha.

Elle Milano Aint Nuthing Ta F' Wit,

Adam

Grand tour blog vol. 4

2007-07-30T05:02:00.000-07:00

Last night was Hertford marquee. I've noticed that the closer you get to London, the higher the chance that half the crowd will leave after watching their mates' band. Good venue though. Winterkids locked their keys in their van at the end of the night, which was very unfortunate... but no doubt divine justice for twisting the outcome of our inter-band bowling tournament earlier in the week (we won.) They kicked our arse at lazer quest though. We probably should have a darts showdown or something... all tie-breaker sport suggestions welcome... oh, and if you're reading this, get down to the boiler room in guildford tonight if you can, it will be tip top.

Alexander

Enjoying a curry at The Tamarind, Leicester

Grand tour blog vol. 3

2007-07-27T04:51:00.000-07:00

Kingston was pretty surreal, a giant inflatable shark was suspended above the stage and i believe the next function was an ibiza foam party. Special mention to the man who came up to us outside after the show to say that despite not normally being into our sort of music we got him 'here', which was the biggest compliment and made the whole slightly awkward experience well worthwhile. Got caught in some inexplicable traffic jam at half two in the morning that came from nowhere and disappeared just as fast. The debate over the strange death of liberal england album still rages strongly in the van, and i still think seinfeld is shit. Tonight is Leicester Sumo, pretty much the birthplace for Elles first incarnation, and i'm excited because we'll finally be able to see the back stage area... they had fairy lights and a couch. Mucking fagic! - Alexander

tour diary cont

2007-07-26T04:06:00.000-07:00

oh my word. elle milano in almost faultless gig shocker! thankfully someone was shining down on us yesterday as the borderline gig went pretty much as perfect as elle milano can get right now! unfortunately to celebrate i had a bit too much red wine, fell and hurt my foot! lord above! alex is in turmoil over the fact that we are insisting on watching seinfeld on the bus, that man is just too cultured, he need to learn to appreciate his lowest common denominator comedy! we are currently embroiled in a merch stand war with winterkids (all friendly fun of course!). last night we added some fairy lights to our display and apparently today the winterkids are going to up the stakes. by the end of this tour expect some kind of pyrotechnics display over at the merch desk! (please don't wear shell suits to any shows, those things are extremely flammable.)

chloe x

bass tips with tony smith

Grand tour blog vol. 1

2007-07-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

We're sat around the breakfast table now, mulling over the joiners and getting 'psyched' about the borderline show tonight. Despite some horrendous technical gremlins the first date was pretty rad... our van isn't shit and max, our driver, turns out to be a family guy connoiseur. The winter kids apparently love curry. Things are looking up.

Alexander

Indeed... after a serious incident last night in which a fucking huge psychotic moth wreaked havoc in the bedroom (it took 3 of us with pillows and a coat hanger to take it down), we slept in 'real' beds rather than on the floor, so we're fresh and ready for the Boarderline gig. Everyone I've spoken to LOVES this venue so obviously, I'm pumped for this one! We're currently organising some crazy threads to wear tonight so ye be warned, it's gonna be a wacky!
Now we gotta go buy a board to put our merch on and make a sweet display that'll out do the Winterkids' one, we'll probably just add fairy lights... In other news, we're trying to come up with a name for this tour... "Hi Fives & Slow Jives Tour 2007" ?

James

Fuck the harmony, stick to the crescendo.

2007-06-24T03:09:00.000-07:00

I get sick of electric guitars. I think we all do. It started on a tour last year, playing a club in Liverpool where the white noise on stage was relentless. Either you wear ear plugs that remove all the attack and clarity from your playing, or you don't and can't sleep for the tinitus...

No, i'm beginning to believe that the future of valid* contemporary music lies in a swing back to instrumentation prominent in arts golden age: romanticism. The fundamental problem with the electric guitar, for me, is that you have to simulate emotivity e.g. with distortion or reverbs, and a punk rock ethic can only take one so far. For all the cliched and irrelevant images of drugs, bad teeth and hedonism this term conjures up, the true heart of punk (long lost in 'punk' bands) is the nobility of defiant self-expression and creating music that was challenging and uncompromising. Note the 'is' and 'was.'

It wasn't so long ago that i had never been to a classical concert. And so, eager to support my ladyfriend, i found myself in a church in Aldershot watching an orchestra perfoming Jean Sibelius' violin concerto in D minor and Ralph Vaughn Williams' "The Lark Ascending." I highly recommend, if you consider yourself a lover of music and believe in its power to enlighten and empower the human heart and mind, you should go out into the cultural wastes of the world and salvage these two pieces of music.

Perhaps i am being too harsh. After all, you can download bothof these on itunes. I suppose i find some bitter humour in the ease of access to fantastic art, yet the cultural spotlight of our generation always slips down to the muck of the tap-your-foot-a-hum-a-long-a-tunes lazily farted out by the likes of the pigeon detectives. Its not their fault though, its a gradual and global decline in artistic standards... fuck... i apologise, i didn't mean for this to become such a lament. Call it the repressed romantic in me.

- Alexander

*why are the Arcade Fire and Gogol Bordello such life-affirming bands to watch? I'm beginning to think you could do anything, no matter how technically incredible or sonically unique with electric guitars and i (and everyone else) would be so desensitized to it that it would provoke no emotional or intellectual reaction whatsoever. We've hit saturation point. If you're reading this and want to learn an instrument, please, for the good of humanity, skip argos and get a cheap electric piano, a violin, a cello, a tuba, anything!

Safe Passage

2007-06-09T11:57:00.000-07:00

And here it is, the first Elle Milano blog, the chances are you ended up here because you've just seen our incredible new website and followed the link. This is where we're going to be exposing our thoughts and posting news and updates.

So this is what's been occupying us for the past week:

1) Getting the album mixed: much like the recording of the album, this is taking a long time coz we're so precious about it all. Also, we have decided on an album title so watch this space.

2) Mario Kart 64.

3) Rehearsing: Yep, we've got a tour coming up.

4) Snowboard Kids 64.

5) Album Artwork: Mr Petersen is taking the reins on the this one so watch out.

6) Chicken Police: Type it into youtube, you won't be disappointed.

Also, we request that anyone who comes to our gigs brings a stick (from a tree) and NOT a glow stick, keeping it au naturale. It's gonna be all the rage, 'pooh sticks' are definitely the way forward, for more info go here: http://www.theenchanted100acrewoods.50megs.com/poohsticks.htm

Failing that just bring some peshwari naan with you and we'll try and get you in for free.

James x