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Summer Holiday®

Because life is too short to give up smoking

About Me

"Genuinely innovative."Record Of The Day "Track of the year... Stunning" Yorkshire Evening Post "Odd, yet oddly entertaining" The Guardian "Totally original." Music Week "Far from a gimmick." Urban Junkies
1 - we live on FLICKR

here& here& here& here& here& here& here& here& here& here

2 - and on YouTube

Here

3 - PAKO Got A MySpace

here

"BUTTERFLIES" video by 3 Leaf Productions

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"You Can Have It All" video by Luke Williams

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SuperFlyMotorCarGigs
happen when its not raining and the Police aren't around.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/13/2006
Band Website: SummerHoliday.tv
Band Members: Pako - GuitarVocals
Tom Parkinson - BassVocals
Alice Morgan - KeyboardsVocals
Natalie 'Red' Perkins - Tamborine
Dave Hanson - Drums
Gemma Bourne - Vocals
Nadine Smith - Vocals
Influences: The Residents
Lighting Bolt
Jenny Wilson
Tricky
Linda Lewis
Balinese Music
American Music
Kate Bush
Biggy And 2pac
Dan Deacon
Mid 70's Zbigniew Namystowski
Elmer Food Beat
Canned Heat

Sounds Like: A must for fans of Abba and Radiohead

These photos are from www.flickr.com/photos/bello/ (ta very much) Superflymotorcargig - June '06
Record Label: Better Get
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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I've just listened to Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis 87 times in a row. So emotional. Then I put Videotape by Radiohead on repeat for a couple of hours to try to work out which is best.I saw Leona herse...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:24:00 PST

The Ballad Of Baby And Kent

Yesterday we decided to start and finish a song in a day. We were so self congratulatory about how well it was going by midday that we thought we'd still get it done if we took a couple of hours off t...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:21:00 PST

The End Of Our World As We Smell It

This Friday (15th June) we're playing our last ever gig before the smoking ban kicks in. As it's a special occasion we're trying* to get our lovely backing singers Nadine and Gemma to smoke 6 foot lon...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:23:00 PST

Clissold Park NOT Brick Lane

Ammendment: The SuperFlyFlatBedLorryGig on Sunday is still at 6 but at Stoke Fest on Clissold Park in Stoke Newington instead of Brick Lane. Rock on. xxxx    ...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:42:00 PST

Back where we belong

So... Secret Garden party have asked us to play on the back of a flat bed truck to promote their festival. This is very good news because maybe we are only really at home on the top of motorised vehic...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:50:00 PST

NY:LON 19 May Extra Special Gig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Extra Special Gig NewsNY:LONNew York meets London. On Saturday 19th May Summer Holiday are putting on an extra special night at the Cross Kings in Kings Cross.We're joined by NY singer songwriter Heat...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:03:00 PST

50-Song-Medley List

You can get 5 tunes on myspace now so we've put an 8 minute chop up medley of 50 of our songs called& 50-Song-Medley.Here's a list of the songs in the order they come:1) Power Cut2) How U Feel3) You C...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:00:00 PST

For lovers of ROCK!!!!!!!

Our fantastically amazingly awesome backing singer Nadine has her own band called Izit-U. They're launching their album 'Fish' on Friday 30 March at Sound on Leicester Square. It starts at 7:30.We'll ...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:40:00 PST

Danger - Two Headed Queen

Rather conveniently some soft headed patriot decided that, given that there was already a pub called the 'Queens Head' in Angel, it would be a 24 carat diamond of an idea to build a new pub not so far...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:53:00 PST

2 GIGS

Hey Gang,There's 2 gigs coming up.- On Saturday night me, Alex and Alice are doing a 'little holiday' set of quiet ballads on acoustic guitar, piano and electronics. We don't normally go in for that k...
Posted by Summer Holiday® on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:02:00 PST