In a barn, in the middle of exmoor, recording our debut album, The Beginning.

On tour we decided to do a couple of acoustic session around the country. Here is the first of many, Brighton Beach with the sun setting.

HELLO!

lying on my bed listening to Pharell Frontin’ it with jay z. (shut up freekin spotify ads!!!)

a bit of light relief from general apocalyptic turmoil in my livelyhood these days>

1)Trying to get in touch with anybody at UCL philosophy department to tell them that i won’t be there for the first two weeks because i’m doing the Bombay Bicycle Club tour!
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2)Going on the Bombay tour in our sleeper van, getting intimate with the rest of flashguns, surviving on a shoe string and some lint out of my jeans pocket, not having a shower, getting deeper than a navy seal!! GEneral shiiiaaat!

3) FYI, anybody used to Flashguns as a 4 piece will have a little surprise, our keyboard player oliver james wright has amiably parted from flashguns to find out what he wants to do over the next few years, Clever kid! We love that boy and who knows whether he will be rocking stages around the world with us in the future.

changes have been made and now we are ready to hit the live scene harder than ever and let’s face facts….. THREE PIECE LOOKS COOL AS HELL!!!!
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We have new t shirts which are looking supa fly, get your hands on!! We got EP cd’s to sell, get your hands on!!! we have our supple young bodies to sell, get your hands on!!

we are flashguns and we’re going to get inside your heads !!!!!!!!!

tell your friends tell your parents tell yourselves this is the future.

you’ll be hearing from me sooon

SAMUEL

We’re on tour with Bombay Bicycle Club right now! Playing a show in Nottingham tonight, but here’s the rest of the dates. Hope to see you down there - come say hey! We have new merch (which will be up on the shop very soon), the EP for sale, and we’re playing tons of new demos!

SEPTEMBER
29 - Academy 3, Birmingham tickets
30 - Leadmill (Steel Stage), Sheffield tickets

OCTOBER
01 - Club Academy, Manchester tickets
03 - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff tickets
04 - Academy 2, Bristol tickets
05 - Waterfront, Norwich tickets
06 - Academy 2, Oxford tickets
08 - Heaven, London tickets

Hey peeps,

We’ve just confirmed another London show in September - with the lovely folk at Artrocker, we’re playing their Fistful of Fandango show - part of a 4-night residency at 229 on Great Portland St. The line up on the 11th (the night we’re playing) looks like this:

Pete & The Pirates / Goldheart Assembly / Flashguns / Video Nasties / LR Rockets

We’re going to be on at 7.30 ish, and you can buy tickets by clicking on the flyer - they’re available now for eight English pounds, but that’s a special early-bird price, so get ‘em quick!

So quick update - been back in the studio last week to record FOUR BRAND NEW TRACKS…just demos for now. We were going to give one away in the mail out this week, but we’ve decided to post them up one by one on the player on our site, and then just let us know you’re favourite by replying to this post, and the track with the most votes we’ll give away for free at the end of August.

These are the tracks we recorded…

‘Speed & Leisure’

‘Lyrebird’

‘Cold Reading’

‘Luchon’

Also in the mail out last week….

We’re playing The Garage (Highbury & Islington) on the 7th August for Mark Beaumont’s (NME) night YEAR ZERO. More info on The Garage site here.

WE WILL BE ADDING A NEW MYSTERY INSTRUMENT TO OUR SET.

So the time has come…the EP is officially out. Can buy from Rough Trade and/or iTunes so go get your copy now!

Just announced! We’re going round the country with Jamie T!!  - Check out our list of shows below - playing in London on Monday with Lissy Trullie, and then Bristol, and then up to Leeds with Lissy again, and then JAMIE T!

Loadsa festivals too - mainstage Latitude!!

FG x

JUNE
08 - ICA, London w/ Lissy Trullie
09 - Start The Bus, Bristol
10 - Cockpit, Leeds w/ Lissy Trullie
11 - Cockpit, Leeds w/ Jamie T
12 - Junction, Cambridge w/ Jamie T
13 - Roadmenders, Northampton w/ Jamie T
14 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham w/ Jamie T
16 - Stage 2, Newcastle w/ Jamie T
17 - Moshulu, Aberdeen w/ Jamie T
18 - Studio 24, Edinburgh w/ Jamie T
19 - Kasbah, Coventry w/ Jamie T
21 - Thekla, Bristol w/ Jamie T
23 - Moho Live, Manchester w/ Jamie T
24 - Electric Ballroom, London w/ Jamie T

JULY
02 - Arts Centre, Colchester
07 - Cellars, Portsmouth w/ Hockey
10 - Moles, Bath
14 - Barfly, Cardiff
15 - The Jailhouse, Hereford
17 - Latitude Festival, Suffolk
26 - 1234 Festival, London

AUGUST
01 - Standon Calling, Hertfordshire
02 - Underage Festival, London
16 - Summer Sundae, Leicester