I Tried On Your Wedding Dress

May 2007

1st May

It seems that some support bands have been confirmed on the Carling Academy websites and they are as follows:

11th June - Birmingham - FastTouch!
12th June - Bristol - dunno
13th June - London - dunno
15th June - Liverpool - dunno
16th June - Newcastle - dunno

Ok well maybe they've only announced the Birmingham support and maybe we've no idea who they are but still something to talk about before we get the single announcement in the near future.

2nd May

Apparently there was an advert for the June tour (tickets here kids) in the back of last weeks NME which we missed somehow...

There is a live review of the band in this months Stool Pigeon as well apparently, we'll try and get a scan for you but we haven't seen a copy since October, we'll keep looking though.

2nd May

We've finally got round to doing a big update of the content here at I Tried On Your Wedding Dress so there should be lots of new stuff for you to read if you so wish.

The Band and Other Stuff sections have had a good going over so there is now lots more to read and look at there but the main change is in the Songs section. By way of a mega Googling session, we've found lots of names of old SCCC songs but we really don't know anything about any of them, if you know anything about these songs or if you know that any of them never saw the light of day, please contact us.

2nd May

We really are pulling out all the stops today, more about that after a report from our very own Myspace box file, 'nifer:

"our next scheduled show is MAY 30TH at Bumper in Liverpool. This will be a charity gig for Oxfam. Also playing will be
COOTIES ATTACK!
HEATHERS
and the winner of Bumper's Battle of the Band's competition.

thankyou to all those who came to the Zanzi for the first ever Big Bang Night there, we couldn't believe how sweaty it got!

work on the artwork for the album and forthcoming single release is well under-way; once again it will be supplied by jon owen.

we will be announcing festival appearences for this summer very soon, keep them peeled!"

Top news about the festival announcement there and it's always nice to find out who are going to support SCCC.

We have finally sorted out the news archive and it is available for all your nostalgic needs here. Have a good day.

10th May

Sorry for the slackness this week so far. After that day of mega updating we haven't really done much but we are alive, just so you know.

The tour is getting ever closer, especially the Oxfam charity gig at Bumper in Liverpool. Tickets for that are available for £3 from Oxfam on Bold Street now apparently and tickets for the rest of the tour can be bought from here or if you want to save booking fees and the like you can buy them in person from any Carling Academy for any other Carling Academy gig. If anyone in the Birmingham area needs some persuasion, there will be a big (cheap) piss up post-gig and a floor to sleep on if you need one, just hollah if you want to take us up on this offer.

One more small thing: could someone please let us know if the headlines to the right are iffy... it could just be the internet here but they shouldn't be showing headlines from January.

13th May

What a line:

"Get down
All the kids that ever went into orbit on bouncy castles improperly fixed to the ground"

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

13th May

It seems that Nomadic Music have a flashy new website which kindly links here. It's well worth checking out as well they must have good taste there is they signed the SCCC.

Nomadic Music new website

14th May

Mr Nik Glover has just added the 4th part of his Hilary Casey story on the Seal Cub Myspace which makes for rather swish reading, especially if you're into reading and all that. We've put them up on the site here if you don't go on Myspace for ethical reasons or some other reason (incidently, I heard through the grapevine that Myspace is responsible for both war, global warming and Bros).

We've finally got round to updating the lyrics to Oblong so if you are wondering where those lyrics came from yesterday, now you know. Also, we've put a few SCCC lyrics up on Song Meanings which is a good site for looking up lyrics if you don't mind reading the interpretations of the general public after your favourite song (it's probably about drugs). Go comment on the meanings behind SCCC songs, I dares you.

15th May

The SCCC gig review in the latest issue of Stool Pigeon has been located and here it is:

Deal sealed as Clubbing Club sign and deliver

"When the stage set up includes a cardboard cut-out of a large-breasted half-human, half-deer in a fetching singlet, you know you're in for something a bit different.

The five smartly dressed Seal Cubs use relatively subtle and conventional instrumentation to surprising effect. The sounds they create are not so much songs as moods, and although, most of the time, we've no idea what frontman Nik Glover is singing about, he's powerfully affecting. He uses his voice as an instrument in itself, shifting it with deft control from sustained wails to hip hop spits, while the rest of the band work away vigorously to build a multi-dimensional musical drama. It's not a po-faced, post rock one, though - it's a fun and joyous experience and, for all the prog, there's plenty of pop, perhaps best illustrated by recent single 'World of Fashion'.

From the first note to the last, the Seal Cubs' sound is an uncanny and captivating force - alarmingly simple, yet quirky and experimental. They are a band, a rare one, that are making something different and, to these ears, wonderful. To those of you chasing your tails around east London looking for the next big thing, it might just end up coming from a scrap of land between Liverpool and Wales. The Seal Cub Clubbing Club are a hard band to ignore."
- Kenn Taylor

That is a rather good review isn't it! Bit of a poor interview with Dinosaur Jr. brings the paper down a bit but a bloody good read for free if you can find it.

21st May

According to TicketWeb, Seal Cubs have been announced for the Gwyl Macs Festival in Wales on the 2nd September. Also, a band called Bario Kingdom will be supporting at the upcoming Bristol date.

21st May

Resident Myspace Pokémon, Jennymander has reported that Seal Cubs have officially announced that they are playing the Gwyl Mac Festival on the 2nd September. They also said,

"tickets are now available for our june tour from aloud.com amongst other places; we shall again be taking our cartoons on the road, as well as stuff to sell and the SCCC bookmobile...

also...

we will be playing at three or four festivals this summer, details will be announced as soon as confirmed."

Anyone got any good ideas for books to swap at the SCCC bookmobile? It looks like Only You Can Save Mankind will be the official I Tried On Your Wedding Dress choice, not because it is an emotional rollercoaster or anything but because it is the best book in the world for if you are 11.

Also, very good news on the festival front, hopefully there will be a larger festival or two there just to help spread the SCCC word.