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Watch FLA at Glastonbury
Fight Like Apes played the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury on the Saturday night. Watch Lend me your face and Battlestations on the BBC website . here
Getting lots of plays on BBC Radio; Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, Hew Stevens, Marc Riley and Johnaton Ross all played FLA this week.
IRISH SINGLE RELEASE
FLA release their brand new single 'Something Global' on new Irish independent label Model Citizen Records this July 13 as a download and July 18th as CD. All new music was recorded in Seattle and produced by John Goodmanson (Los Campesinos, Sleater Kinney).
Also featured is their version of Mclusky's 'Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues' and another new Apes' song â€“ 'Knucklehead'.
The CD single will be a numbered limited edition release totaling just 1,500 copies.
Fight Like Apes, new single 'Something Global' is now available to preorder by text message for 1 Euro. Once it becomes available on July 13th, you will receive a reminder to download the MP3 onto your computer.
Text music 1224 to 57501 to pre-order.(Ireland only)
UK SINGLE RELEASE
â€˜Lend Me Your Faceâ€™ will be the first UK single from the new album. It is available on iTunes this July 21st and on Limited Edition 7â€ Vinyl on July 28th.
Limited to a mere 500 copies, it will be printed on special yellow vinyl and packaged with a hand-stamped logo on the outer bag.
New UK shows including T in the Park, Glastonbury and We are Scientists support slots announced above.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/6/2006
Band Website: fightlikeapesmusic.com
Band Members: MayKay: Vocals/Synths/Recorder :) Pockets: Synths/Samples/Vocals Tom: Bass Adrian: Drums
Influences: The holy Trinity of Jay Anthony Franke, Cynthia Rothrock and Corey Feldman. Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Mclusky, Spoon, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Built to Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Devo,Sonic Youth, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Pipes you See, Pipes you dont, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Zombies, The Girl From Tommorow, Kung Fu, B-movies, Orson Wells, Zelda, Ghouls and Ghosts, shit Tv, The Karate Kid, stickers, kebabs and icecream

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Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Marc Riley BBC session link

June 18 BBC Radio Session with Marc Riley. Session Link here...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:53:00 PST

Steve Lamacq review of London show

From Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio blog : There is a lonely place out on the periphery of the indie rock world inhabited solely by misfits. It's made lonelier tonight by the paucity of the crowd (I count 2...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:28:00 PST

New single available + UK tour

SOMETHING GLOBALThe new Irish only singleReleasing online on July 13th 2008And on limited edition CD July 18thStream it from myspace.com/fightlikeapesmusicFight Like Apes, new single 'Something Global...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:51:00 PST

So today were in prison.

Not technically a real prison but it has all the qualities of a good prison. Blood on the walls, dodgy clientelle, bed bugs and bars on the windows. Today we're on a day off.I've figured out a great w...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:57:00 PST

Yours sincerely & Hello Seattle!

Hello,Serious weve been in Seattle for two weeks and things couldn't begoing better(thats a lie, seattle resident Tom Selleck has beenrefusing to take our calls. We wanted to see if he would do a duet...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Thu, 08 May 2008 06:27:00 PST

Cheese it!

Posted by Fight Like Apes on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:30:00 PST

Von Bondies Tour

So it turns out the Von Bondies are mad sound. We had played with certain Detroit bands before & they weren't very nice & we like to generalise. But we were wrong. Bread was broken, bonds were formed,...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:09:00 PST

You are an award.

Welcome to our coldest update so far. We hope you are well. It is a cold day and the sun is not shining. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- FLApes have b...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:57:00 PST

That Thing We Were Talking About..... the secret.

On 16th Nov at our Whelans gig we will have a box full of 12" double E.P.'sWe don't know yet how much these will cost. Probably the cost of 2 and a half wooden legs. We'll work it out. Also, they look...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:00:00 PST

E.P. No. 2! - David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch

Okay kung fu lovers... its officially karate time... again,Our second E.P. "David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch" is currently being pressed and will be in the shops ...
Posted by Fight Like Apes on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:00 PST