Coming Soon! Bec & Beth - "The Bec & Beth EP" (PURR 023)

While the Hot Puppies take a summer break, Bec and Beth are following up their recent Purr shows with this 4-track offering of originals ("French Song") and covers from the likes of Burt Bacharach ("Anyone Who Had A Heart"), The Inkspots ("I'm Making Believe") and The Smiths ("Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me"). To take Bec's mind off the arrangements in the build up to her recent wedding, the young bride-to-be and her friend Beth set up some mics in Bec’s flat and have recorded an EP of lost love and heartache. Stripped back to the barest of essentials (acoustic guitar, keyboard and vocals) this is perfect for those intimate, late night moments.

The EP comes out on 7" and download on 25th August and will be available in the shops or from this site.

Bec and Beth press release (632k PDF)

Bec and Beth promo pic (3.2Mb jpg)

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Purr is back! At Moles!

After a series of one-off shows at various venues, and a break to catch up on our individual projects (hello, Glam Chops!) Purr returns to its former home of Moles Club for a regular Thursday night residency. Full details of shows will be announced soon, but in the meantime, whip out your diaries and add these hot dates to your schedules:

Thurs 4th Sept: TBA
Thurs 2nd Oct: TBA
Fri 10th Oct: Glam Chops + Ape Drape Escape (TBC)
Thurs 30th Oct: TBA
Thurs 27th Nov: TBA
Thurs 4th Dec: TBA
Thurs 29th Jan 09: TBA

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OUT NOW!!! The Hot Puppies - "Somewhere" (PURR 022)

The new Hot Puppies single, "Somewhere" (c/w "Where The Werewolves Meet"), is released on Monday 26th May on lovely 7" vinyl, CD and download. The single is already picking up airplay thanks to Marc Riley on 6Music. Only 500 of these spiffy 7"s will be available and I'm betting they won't be around very long. Go to the label page to purchase.

CLICK HERE TO BUY!

The two tracks from the single are available to download from iTunes.

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What's on?

FORTHCOMING PURR SHOWS

Details of the next Purr shows will be announced soon, but in the meantime, we can recommend checking out the Dot To Dot Festival this weekend in Bristol for good pop fun and Jonah And The Wail, with special guests Shrag and Stagger on 5th June.

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Who wants to read about us?

The new issue of Drunken Werewolf magazine has a interview with the Purr team. There's lots of other nice things in there as well, and well worth getting hold of. Check out the Drunken Werewolf site for details on how to obtain a copy. Thanks to Hannah for doing the interview and making some kind of sense of our ramblings!

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Panther Girls - Catweasels video

Catweasels have just released a new single on Longest Mile Records (set up by the Futureheads), and the accompanying video, featuring several of Purr's very own Panther Girls, is up now on YouTube.

Check it out here

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What the press say

The NME very nicely mentioned us in their Student Guide, saying that "with recent all-ages shows from Crystal Castles and Tiny Masters Of Today, Purr is Bath's most imaginative night; check out their resident dance troupe, The Panther Girls."

And the Guardian was pretty nice about us as well:

The sad demise of Fopp earlier this year may have deprived them of a regular home, but Purr are determined to see out 2007 in style with their medieval-themed, seasonal bash at the Cube Cinema. Purr have had a storming 2007, combining some spot-on live band selections with a raucous sense of fun and a very neat visual identity tossed in for good measure. Tonight they invade Bristol's self-proclaimed Cube Cinema for a medieval madrigal masterpiece featuring live sets from London's most famous cult folk/prog/psych band Circulus and the dark zombie girl band surf tunes of the Hot Puppies. And let's not forget all those lovely touches which make Purr nights so ace, like 1960s power pop and garage-influenced DJs, visuals, films and those naughty all-dancing Panthergirls.

Photos from the summer all-ages shows can be seen here (featuring Help She Can't Swim, Shimmy Rivers And And Canal, and Model Horror), here (featuring The Hot Puppies, Modernaire, and Kerterver Cartzo), here (featuring Crystal Castles and Turbowolf) and a videoclip on YouTube, and here (featuring Tiny Masters Of Today, The Locarnos and Won't Never).

Please keep an eye on this site, and our posters and flyers, for further details of future shows. We will post further updates shortly.

PRESS INFO

If you need hi-res pictures of the bands, posters or a copy of the press release for any Purr show please go to the appropriate gig page for all your promo needs, or drop us an email at info@purr.org.uk.

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Buying tickets

WHERE CAN I GET TICKETS?

Advance tickets for Purr shows can be purchased in advance online from WeGotTickets.

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Listen to the bands - Purr MySpace

CHECK OUT THE BANDS

You can hear tracks by each of our forthcoming bands on the Purr Live MySpace site. Updated after each show. You can also check out some of the Purr Records tracks on the Purr Records MySpace site, or on the label page of this site. Rock, dude!

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Can we play too?

Maybe....if you think your band has what it takes, and want in on somepossible future Purr action, the boys would love to hear from you. Demos, singles, CDs, small luxury gifts and non-sequential banknotes can be sent to the following address:

Purr Promotions,
c/o 51, Claude Avenue,
Oldfield Park,
Bath,
BA2 1AG

You can also email us at info@purr.org.uk

*** Disclaimer - we get so many, many demos etc that it takes us a while to get through them all, on top of the daily running of Purr and our day jobs etc. We have regular listening sessions to try and get through them all (and we do listen to every one) but it all takes time, and it is not always possible to reply to everyone. So if you send us something please bear with us! ***

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