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In very sad news indeed, the Clik Clik announced today that they have decided to call it a day. This is what the band had to say:

“Hey guys,

After much fun and laughter has been had with The Clik Clik we’ve decided to call it a day. We’ve all had a great time but just feel that it’s time to try something different. You’ve all been amazing fans to us and we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride because we certainly have!

We’ll be in contact with you all soon about what our future plans
are but until then, thank you very much!

Stefan, Maya, Henry & Dru - The Clik Clik x”

Obviously here at FvsR we’re totally gutted about this decision, but hope that you’ve all enjoyed the two singles we’ve put out for this band and will join us in both mourning the passing of a truly awesome pop band and wishing all the members of the Clik Clik the best of luck in whatever they go on to do. Watch this space.

There’s been a bit of an absence whilst I’ve been away with Soft Toy Emergency in Liverpool. The new tunes are sounding pretty amazing, and you can download a different one every day this week. Go along to their Myspace to get yourself involved.

In other amazing news, Dinosaur Pile Up have been Zane Lowe’s single of the week all this week. You can go along to his website to ch-ch-check it out on listen again.  You can also drop him an e-mail at zane.lowe@bbc.co.uk to tell him exactly how much you loved it and want to hear it again. Sweet.

What’s more, DPU have been a featured band in NME’s radar this week. Get to your local newstand and pick it up. Matt & co will also be on tour throughout November, go along to the gigs section to find out where you can go and check him out live.

Busy busy times afoot at FvsR HQ right now.

To begin with, very excitingly check out Data.Select.Party on the pilot for Zane Lowe’s new TV show Sooner. Shot in the balmy days of late August they play No Girls Allowed as well as a couple of new tunes in the salubrious surroundings of Air Studios. Yeah, that’s mother humping Air Studios. It sounds great and you can see me looking sweaty behind Zane Lowe. Classy shit.

Dinosaur Pile Up have just announced a string of new live dates - get along to the gigs section of the site to see where you can check them out on the road, including some super cool northern dates with the Kills.

Also, there’s a review on the amazing Cardiff zine Kruger of our show at In The City this year. You can also see more snaps of this sort of quality.

Hot.

Finally, I’m going to be spending a lot of time on the road this week, so if you’ll be in any one of London, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool drop me a line. Also, if you’re in Liverpool on Friday night get along to this. It’s going to be mahoosive.

I fucking love Mark Ronson. I fucking love Florence (of & The Machine fame). This is pretty sweet. Check out today’s daily download too to get my favourite remix of Ronson’s incredible cover of Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before.

Data.Select.Party are on tour at the end of this month. Go check them out on these dates:

Last week we put on a show at the Ruby Lounge, in conjunction with our good friends at Treebrain Records and Same Teens.

This is the flyer:

It was pretty awesome.

The guys from Drowned In Sound also came down and took some snaps:

All in all an amazing time was had by all. Thanks to The Clik Clik, Soft Toy Emergency, Land Ahoy!, Same Teens DJs and Rupert and the Robbers for all coming down. See you next year.

P.S Same Teens also run an incredible fanzine, XO. Click on the image below to go read their Japanese special issue.

We’re all over this video right now.

Check it out.

If you like the sound of it go check out the band at Myspace.

Wicked!

Welcome to the new Friends Vs Records website, looking pretty swish dont’cha think?

We’re now set up for all sorts of blogging type fun, and to be truly Web 2.0 we’ve got a Twitter feed going on in the bottom left hand corner. Go along and start to follow us. Heaven knows the fun we’ll have. Apart from that we’ve also gone all free music tastic and set up a Daily Download feature - skip along over there to download the one track that’s making us tap our toes over at FvsR towers. Schweet.