I just keep repeating myself

OK, so I only posted about Guillemots and their show with the BBC concert orchestra a couple of days ago, but more stuff has now come to light in their latest mailing list email which is totally worth another!

First of all, for those elsewhere in the country (well, ok, for London too... we get two dates), there's a full tour coming in October as follows:

OCTOBER:

16-BIRMINGHAM, ALEXANDER THEATRE
17-NOTTINGHAM, ROCK CITY
18-BRISTOL, ANSON ROOMS
20-LIVERPOOL, CARLING ACADEMY
21-NEWCASTLE, UNIVERSITY
22-MANCHESTER, ACADEMY 2
24-GLASGOW, ABC
25-LEEDS, METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
26-CARDIFF, UNIVERSITY
29-BRIGHTON, CORN EXCHANGE

NOVEMBER:

2-LONDON, ASTORIA
4-OXFORD, BROOKES UNIVERSITY

Secondly, there's this: 'Trains to Brazil is coming out - sort of weirdly, as it was a co-incidence, but seemed vaguely appropriate - on September 11th, and we spent a few days recording a new bunch of B-sides for the single [...including...] the first ever Guillemots R'n'B song, 'You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)', which has been a joke idea for a while now but has now become a reality! It features a beat written on the bus on the way to the studio by Greig, Justin Timberlake-esque vocals from me, a lead vocal from Arista, some very demented guitar noises from Magrao and a rap from Freakshow - aka Arista's boyfriend.'
Now, as great as that sounds, I have to question its status as the first ever, because the Of The Night EP had a song ("Bad Boyfriend") which, ok, was 9 minutes long and mostly noise and Fyfe and Arista saying 'I like sex in carparks' and similar, but also featured in the middle two minutes of scarily great and catchy electro R'n'B!

Related to this is the third and kind of most excitingly piece of news: 'Aroundabout October, we're going to be releasing the 'Of the Night' EP 'physically' (this is the 4 songs that we made available for download for a few weeks around Valentine's Day this year). We're going to be comissioning some animations to go with these songs too, more details of which will follow soon. We're also planning to play these songs live with the BBC Concert Orchestra on October 28th at the re-opened Roundhouse in Camden, London, as part of the newly-launched Electric Proms festival.'
This means that not only are they finally going to play the aforementioned "Bad Boyfriend" after many shows of people calling for it, they're somehow going to play it with an orchestra!! Their take on glam-monster "She's Evil" should also be fascinating. The bad news here is that they're only playing for half an hour in support of 'a mystery bigger act', but hopefully that will be someone brilliant but incapable of selling out the place in minutes before I can get a ticket. Say... oooh... Elbow? I can hope!