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Little Fish in Paris
Unless you’ve been offline all week you’ll know that we played our first gig with the new line-up on Thursday, supporting Roger Daltrey at the Paris Olympia. Liset took this great photo:
Daltrey is a legend, and it was amazing to open for such a famous dude. He was playing Tommy front to back, which is the only The Who album my dad had on vinyl and therefore the one I know back to front. I must have seen the film a dozen times since I taped it off VH1 back in the 90s.
The Olympia is also a legend. It’s an old theatre venue right in the centre of Paris, and its boards have been trodden by all the French greats. It has a backstage bar plastered with memorabilia from all the bands who have played there (we gave them a couple of Fish stickers…). It has a massive illuminated board on the front where the names of the acts are written in huge red letters. It’s really cool.
I took a few photos of the trip and made a slideshow with sound using Picle, a new iPhone app I was trying out. Juju recorded some video and put together this sexy little montage:
It was illegal to film in the venue, but snippets of footage are starting to appear online… Here’s part of a new song, Melt Into The Sun:
We invited this awesome French photographer to the gig to take some photos and record an acoustic session afterwards. The session was intense and brilliant, but I won’t tell you about it yet. It will be online soon, as will the photos. In the meantime, go and check out some of his sessions with other bands. They are beautiful. His name is Rod, aka Le HibOO.
— Ben
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We’re playing in Turkey again, thanks to our friends at Babylon.
The event page has all the details, but it’s in Turkish (of course). Luckily Google Translate gave me a great new Little Fish bio:
Little Fish, a collection of the British indie-rock/garage, passionate and sincere music since 2008 in addition to the United Kingdom, Europe and America, thanks to their concerts, a community in many ways as soon as possible. Jointly by the unusual scene, hard drums and Hammond organ more emotional melodies in the same crucible dissolves the spirit of punk’s first album Little Fish’s “Baffled and Beat” was released in 2010.
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Gaz Coombes’s gig at the Rotunda on the 9th sold out so quickly that he’s added a second night and asked us to support him. The Rotunda gigs are being organised by our friends at Oxfork, and it sounds like they’re going to be pretty special.
So we’ll be playing at the Rotunda (a small, strange room in a garden somewhere off Iffley Road) on Saturday 10th December. Tickets look like they are selling fast, but there are a few left at WeGotTickets. See you there!
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We played to a full house, we did a storming version of The Umbilical Chord, we got two German kids to form a mosh pit and we caused such a stir that we were warned the police might show up tomorrow to make sure things don’t get out of hand.
Like the man said, “the deeply rooted band has total disregard for musical rules, doing only what matters to them.” This came as quite a shock to Juju, who didn’t realise there were musical rules. Time for an awkward conversation…
People keep telling us that the Singaporeans are shy, as if that would make us take it easy on them. Juju launched straight onto the front of the stage and told them all to stand up, link arms, sing along, clap and join the Cult of the Fish. It turns out Singaporeans are quite shy, but if you ignore that and talk to them anyway they’re all happy to chat. Especially if you’re on stage with a microphone and you’ve stopped half way through a song to wait for someone to take a phone call.
Warning: The band at the end of this video is not Little Fish. It’s Goodfellas, a local cover band. They asked me to jam with them on Superstition and I couldn’t refuse. ;)
— Ben
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Little Fish World Tour of Singapore poster on Flickr.
We’re going to Singapore in November to play a few gigs.
Timbre Music put together this great poster using Johnny’s photo and Miranda’s words.
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A nice little moment in the middle of this month’s Nightshift (PDF):
With Truck Store hosting their own Not Closing Down party further along Cowley Road, we manage to sneak out to see LITTLE FISH, now a duo after the departure of drummer Nez. Juju and Ben are typically epic and intimate in the manner only the special few are capable of and they provide us with today’s golden moment in the form of ‘Only A Game’, a song so vast in its reach and hook-laden ambition, it could eat the world.
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In case you missed our Wonderful launch gig at the Barfly last Monday, you can watch loads of it online! substandardnerd posted this YouTube playlist with four of our songs and three by support band Black Casino and the Ghost.
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Magic's Photography: Little Fish →
Some great photos of the Barfly gig on Magic Tina’s blog.
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Review: Big Love for Little Fish / DIVA Magazine Lesbian Arts & Entertainment →
A great review of the Wonderful launch from Sarah at DIVA magazine.
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