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About Me

Hi everyone
Pocketbooks is an indiepop band from London, brought together through a shared love of tambourines, pianos, glockenspiels, jangly guitars and boy/girl harmonies.
We released our debut single 'Cross The Line' on 14 May on Atomic Beat Records .
There's also lots of our songs - free to download - on our Last.fm and Soundclick pages.
The band formed in 2006, playing a handful of shows from London to Leeds and Brighton. We also featured on the acclaimed Kids At The Club compliation in 2006, alongside Voxtrot, I'm From Barcelona and Lucky Soul.
In 2007, we headlined the first ever Indie Tracks festival and have played shows with Fanfarlo, Butcher Boy, Stars of Aviation and Saturday Looks Good To Me. We'll also feature on a Smalltown America compilation shortly.
Please visit Emma's beautiful, official Pocketbooks website, where you can:
- find out the latest news
- listen to more songs
- read biogs of the band
- see some nice reviews
- sign up for free newsletters.
www.pocketbooks.org.uk
Please also feel free to write to us at pocketbooks(at)gmail.com
Hope you enjoy the songs and thanks for visiting!
Andy, Dan, Emma, Jonny and Mark x

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/24/2005
Band Website: pocketbooks.org.uk
Band Members: Andy, Dan, Emma, Ian and Jonny
Influences: The Sundays, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, De La Soul, Super Furry Animals, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimmy Webb, Candi Staton, Boo Radleys, Ooberman, Felt, Sigur Ros, Tindersticks, The Concretes, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Carpenters, Aberfeldy, Delgados, Nick Drake, Geneva, Spearmint, The Smiths, Ladybug Transistor, The Beatles, The Pastels, Architecture in Helsinki, The June Brides, Tallulah Gosh, Heavenly, Tender Trap, Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Aisler Set, The Supremes, Orange Juice, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub, Euros Childs, Stevie Wonder, The Field Mice, Looper, Bis, Isobel Campbell, My Latest Novel, The Magnetic Fields, Tilly and the Wall, Sleeper, Hefner, Guillemots, The Boy Least Likely To, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, The Lucksmiths, Sigur Ros, Grandaddy, The Beach Boys, The Delays, Beth Orton, The Cardigans, Voxtrot, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, The Flaming Lips, The Pipettes, The Besties and many other indiepop bands...
Sounds Like: The Sundays, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, De La Soul, Super Furry Animals, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimmy Webb, Candi Staton, Boo Radleys, Ooberman, Felt, Sigur Ros, Tindersticks, The Concretes, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Carpenters, Aberfeldy, Delgados, Nick Drake, Geneva, Spearmint, The Smiths, Ladybug Transistor, The Beatles, The Pastels, Architecture in Helsinki, The June Brides, Tallulah Gosh, Heavenly, Tender Trap, Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Aisler Set, The Supremes, Orange Juice, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub, Euros Childs, Stevie Wonder, The Field Mice, Looper, Bis, Isobel Campbell, My Latest Novel, The Magnetic Fields, Tilly and the Wall, Sleeper, Hefner, Guillemots, The Boy Least Likely To, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, The Lucksmiths, Sigur Ros, Grandaddy, The Beach Boys, The Delays, Beth Orton, The Cardigans, Voxtrot, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, The Flaming Lips, The Pipettes, The Besties and many other indiepop, twee, c86 bands...
Record Label: Atomic Beat Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lots of autumn news!

Hi everyone, We've got lots of news at the moment, including a series of festive parties and a gig with a very well-known Belle and Sebastian collaborator! Firstly though, we're sad to see...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:31:00 PST

Reporting back from our mini-tour

Hi there, Last weekend we had something of a mini-tour. Two gigs in three days, from Sheffield to Oxford, living the indiepop dream. There were popshows, cocktails, minicab hilarities, drunken exchang...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:42:00 PST

Indietracks - the best weekend ever!

It was the morning of Saturday 28th July, Dan and I waited for a taxi outside the Park Hotel in Nottingham, excited and with surprisingly little hangover from being out the night before watching Pete ...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:40:00 PST

Sing-along at Indietracks

Hi everyone This weekend - 28 and 29 July - it's the Indietracks festival, which takes place on a steam railway in Derbyshire. There's dozens of fantastic people playing - Darren Hayma...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:19:00 PST

Summer shows!

Hi everyone I'm happy to say we'll be playing a host of shows over the summer right across the country. Here's a quick round-up... Sunday 17 June: Summer Sundays in London Our first summer show...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:59:00 PST

Fri 25 May - launch party / Sat 26 May - DJ set!

Hi there, Just to let you know about two special Pocketbooks events in London over the second May bank holiday weekend: Friday 25 May - launch party at the Buffalo Bar To celebrate ourselves and Pete...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Sat, 19 May 2007 07:24:00 PST

Our debut single - released 14 May!

Hi everyone,We're delighted to say that our first 7" single, Cross the Line and Every Good Time We Ever Had, will be released on Monday 14th May by the lovely people at Atomic Beat Records. We're so p...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:54:00 PST

Choo choo! Reporting back from Indietracks

We'd known about Indietracks for months, but somehow it hadn't seemed real. A gig on the platform of a heritage railway, and an indie disco provided by Tasty Fanzine, Spiral Scratch and Offbeat DJs in...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:31:00 PST

Indie Tracks - our show on a steam railway

Hi everyone, Hope you're all doing well. Just thought I'd put up a quick post about a very exciting gig we've got coming up on Saturday 28 April - an indiepop gig on a steam railway! As well as ...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST

End of year round-up

Hi everyone, Well, I've just posted up our Christmas song, so it feels as good a time as any to write some sort of end-of-year round up. As you'll maybe guess from the shaky recording, the Christ...
Posted by Pocketbooks on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:00:00 PST