Cats In Paris: THE WEBSITE

A Capella version of The One, for some reason

michael — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:52:57 +0000

Lunch breaks require a certain amount of a) hummous, b) coffee and c) Making an A Capella versions of our old songs. We are finishing off our new recordings next week, which is thoroughly exciting for me, as we’ve been putting things together since October now. New songs will be up here soon. In the meantime, I guess you’ll have to settle for this.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you want to compare, or play along at the same time, then here’s the original.

Episode Three: An Exercise in Futility

michael — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:52:28 +0000

Cats on Tour Comic: Page Three

michael — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:06:18 +0000

Day Two of our tour and we head to magical Wales.

Cats on Tour Comic, Page Two!

michael — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:54:32 +0000

The tour begins, heading to the intense metropolis that is WINCHESTER. Page one of this comic, by the way, is here.

Cats on Tour Comic, Page One!

michael — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:28:21 +0000

When we were on tour this year our wonderful visualist gentleman DZ Greene made notes of all of our actions and managed to conjure them together into a little mini-gray-scale-masterpiece! We’re going to be releasing this bad boy page by page over the coming weeks, and will soon have a place to buy this in actual factual print (like what they had in the olden days!).

Enjoy!

Euro Tour , 2010

michael — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:20:02 +0000

Things have been vaguely quiet here for a month or so, as we’ve been concentrating on forging our new recordings into sexy shape. Five new songs are starting to come together, and will be ready for ears in January. We’ve also been handcuffed to synthesisers writing and perfecting our new set, ready for our very first tour of Europe, which begins in February. We have a mammoth fourteen new tunes to be performing, some of them make your head shake, some of them make your head nod. If you’re near any of the venues, come say “hallo,” and see which axis your head oscillates on.

In other news, we’ve finished making a song about 1999. I was trying to find out what Ben had been up to in 1999, for lyrical inspiration, and it soon became clear that the only memory he has of that year was playing Golden Eye on the N-64. Literally, the only memory of an entire year. Actually, it got me thinking that, although we have countless moments from the past that we can remember, it’s actually quite difficult to pin-point what happened in what year- it’s as if we lose chronological sense of our pasts, and everything we’ve ever done swiftly becomes some kind of amorphous memory smoothie. I suppose this is heightened/lessened by the amount of weed one smokes. Anyway, we now may be the first band that sings about Golden Eye, with heart and passion. MAYBE.

Here is a bad ass tour poster I conjured up with my own two hands:

Prawn Ryder

michael — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:52:18 +0000

This is the exciting Second Episode of Lorien’s Cookery Corner. Now with added jingle. Prawn Ryder is an exotic, pan Asian seafood dish, inspired by Sean Ryder’s teeth, pre-op.
On retrospect, this dish should probably have come with a twist of melon, but I’ve only just thought of the pun now, sadly. Ingredients are as follows:

Red chillies
A handful of Sugar snap peas
Half a Lime
Touch of salt (to taste)
One clove of Garlic
Thumb sized piece of root Ginger
One cup of Coriander
Half of a Red pepper
2 Spring Onions
2 cups of Jasmine Rice
10 fresh Prawns
Quarter of a tin of Coconut Milk
Tablespoon of Tamarind, in a cup of boiling water

It’s easy to make and superfast to prepare, so use the video wisely and make yourself a lovely dish of Prawn Ryder. Unless you’re vegetarian.

In the studio, recording new adventures

michael — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:27:01 +0000

It’s all very exciting- recording up at Inch Studios with the simply delightful producer George Atkins (80 Hertz). We’ve put down 5 new tracks, and had laughter and happiness along the way. They should be complete very soon, more details will flap out of this website soon. In the meantime, this is us, in the studio.

Lorien is playing the Q-Chord, Ben’s on the Triangle, and I’m playing the Mac Book Pro.

Episode Two: How to get good at music real fast

michael — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:29:32 +0000

The latest comic explores how one can become a great musician as fast as possible. This is an informative guide for professionals, amateurs or beginners, and can really give you the edge when it comes to a) band musicianship, b) session-work or c) simple enjoyment around the home.

If you like maps then…

michael — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:45:20 +0000

…you should probably have a massive 12ft map in your living room that takes up your whole wall. My girlfriend got me the only birthday present that is better than a massive map of the earth: a mecha-massive map of the earth.

I spent most of my birthday putting it up, and now the TV never gets switch on as you can sit on the sofa and stare at the countries, constantly repeating such hot lines as:

“Fuck, Russia’s massive.”
“The capital of Burkina Faso is awesome.”
“Man I really want to go visit ‘x’”
“The UK own far too many random islands in the pacific.”

The next step is to get a map of the moon for the bedroom, I can’t help thinking.