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Hot Club de Paris

"Hey! Housebrick" out 16th May on 7" and download

About Me



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Member Since: 3/24/2005
Band Website: hotclubdeparis.com
Band Members: Alasdair Smith, Paul Rafferty, Matthew Smith.

For Management, contact, [email protected]
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For booking, contact [email protected] For USA booking only, contact [email protected]
Influences: Things like: Cap'N Jazz, Don Caballero, Owls, Spy Versus Spy, Storm&Stress, The Minutemen, The Police, John Fahey, Dexy's, Firehose, XTC, Black Flag, Shellac, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Safetyword.
Sounds Like: BUY OUR RECORDS HERE
Record Label: Moshi Moshi UK, Co-op V2 Japan & Europe
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

What’s the matter? You Chicken?

After a minor scare when Al inadvertently pimped our van out with one slightly larger wheel than he should have... We hit the road for a bit this weekend... albeit on four 14" rims... rather than thre...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:09:00 PST

Guardian Review

Below is the review from Thursday's Guardian. I can categorically deny that we said "youse" at the start of the show. We were also taking the piss about the Queen. We are all staunch anti-royalists. A...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:19:00 PST

LALbert hall

We played the Hush night at the Albert Hall last night. The Albert Hall is massive, the room we played wasn't. That said, it was really good fun and everyone there was lovely. It was the most enjoyabl...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:36:00 PST

Master of Puppets

We just spent the last couple of days in London. During that time our record got mastered and I performed like I had sausages instead of fingers.We mastered the record with a guy called John at Alchem...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:52:00 PST

More Recording

We've been recording this weekend with a young man called Robert Whiteley. We managed to do it in St Bride's Church on Catherine Street in Liverpool... thanks to the Wave Machines lending us their pra...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:51:00 PST

The end of 2007

There are 6 things that need saying, so I've compiled them into list-form:1) Crumbs! It only seemed like yesterday that Mr 2007 kicked the fuck out of our back windows and creeped through the darkness...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:48:00 PST

Album 2 Day 1

We just finished the first day of recording in Chicago. We've been here since Thursday but only started today. Yesterday was spend setting up the drums and getting everything plugged in. Mr Brian Deck...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:02:00 PST

What's going on? What's going on!

I just wrote out a whole blog and immediately deleted it by accident. I am very upset about this& Take two:I shall try my best to recall for you what I was trying to say. It is an explanation, of sort...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:48:00 PST

Glasgow now

Hey,Thanks to everyone who came to the shows so far. Al played his first crippled show last night in Sheffield and came through with flying colours. He still has a B Boy limp but we suspect there's no...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Sat, 26 May 2007 04:45:00 PST

Matthew Tour Blogzzzz 1

Hello,   We're on tour in the UK at the moment and have played three shows. We played in Brighton on some MTV Gonzo thing. I don't really know what it is or what it's going to be on but I think i...
Posted by Hot Club de Paris on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:27:00 PST