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Nottingham. Tonighter.

Totally late to the party on getting this up on here. As this is TONIGHT.
We rocked with Latern For A Gale, Gascan Ruckus and Shuriken last night in Derby.
It was monumental. Some of the best bands we've seen in an age. Do yourself a favour and come down to this TONIGHT in Notts bruv.

Satans Mineons+KnifeCutter European Dates

So me and James from The Wickets make noise in Knife Cutter. You knew that right?
It's a 2piece caffeine and riff side-project.
Satans Mineons have been our friends as long as we've been a band.
They've just recorded an incredible new album and have it boxed up downstairs ready to take on the road. It's called 'Gnasha', is about 30 minutes long and has some of the best songwriting I've ever heard on it. It's loud too.

We're hitting Europe together for a bit, you'll be able to buy their new album, our old 10" and some T-Shirts and stuff:

Double Up

Just to be safe

Triumph at The Waterfront Festival

Well, this weekend was great.
Been a while since we've playing in Nottingham (or at all for that matter)
So this was nice.
Mainly a classics set, illustrious new material is in the ether for the time being.

We're assessed for our efforts here and here

We're in London tomorrow night playing The Good Ship in Kilburn with Il Brutto - Ryco Saints - New secret weapon. See you there? Mega. Right.

Breaking Bad Time.

The Wickets - By The Sea

We went on tour in April with alright the captain. It were ace and looked a bit like this. By The Sea is available on 7" with another mega song called newspaper - buy it here Thanks.

Anti-Riot

Nottingham Waterfront Festival 2011

Now in it's 2nd year! We're playing at 7.10 downstairs after Captain Dangerous/Paranoid Travelers. HJG, Baby Godzilla, Pilgrim Fathers and all that jazz are heating it up over the day too. Mega.

Facebook it here you massive internet freak

ALWW

HI.

As we continue to lock ourselves away trying to come up with some monster new tunes I (me) have also been killing time putting some old (new) tunes I (me) made on a computer over the past few years up on the interwebs.

Have a punt:

By The Sea - Live at our Notts Single Launch

Cheers to Matt Hoyland for filming and uploading.

You can totally buy the new single HERE!!!!

Bit quiet at the moment whilst we figure out how loud we want our new songs to be. Once we figure that out we'll be back out there on the road.
We have a slot at the INFL Waterfront Festival in August, so prep for that folks.

Til then..

Nottingham Single Launch

Looked like this:

Photo by Matthew Hoyland

LAUNCH

We're doing a few gigs to celebrate the launch of our new double A side 7" single:

Nottingham Old Angel
Thursday 19th May
w/ Human Targets+Satan's Minions
Have some Facebook

THEN


Facebook it

Before and After

The day we left:


The day we got back (look! Money!):

Here's the last entry to our diary on Drop-D.

And a review in Dutch of the gig in Groningen...the most attractive place on earth.

A rough translation reads:
The Wickets "looked tired before the show (due to long hours in the van) but gave a very energetic show. Loud post-punk and well composed songs. A band that has a potential to reach a larger audience."

There are some great photos on there..so get involved!

COMING UP
Launch gigs for our new 7" single in Nottingham (Old Angel//May 19th) and London (The Victoria//June 9th) - - more details up soon!

Our new 7 inch single

It's so good it fixes broken down tour buses.

Get it HERE and HERE

Back from tour!

You can get a taste of what went down if you were not along for the ride over at Drop D's site:

Day 1
Day 2/4
Day 5/6

HUGE thanks to Alright The Captain for making it happen and being such a good band and a bunch of top lads.
HUGE thanks to Nikki for coming along, shifting merch for us and keeping things filthy.
HUGE thanks to Loz for driving us 2500 miles seemingly non-stop getting us to every gig and keeping things from getting too out of hand!

Going to throw up some photos and a run down of what went down on here too - our single is OUT NOW so head over to www.mesters.co.uk -- http://thewickets.bigcartel.com -- or at any gig - to get a copy!

Surprise! Ate (sic) LIVE

The Wickets - Ate (sic) from Damn England on Vimeo.

We also now have a Wickets online store - check it here: TheWicketsOnlineShop

Sound And Vision...coming soon....

TOUR - we are going to:

Foos for thought

We were insanely lucky enough to get into Dingwalls to see Foo Fighters last week.
Us+them+295 other lucky bastards.
2.5 hours.
A lesson in energy and guitars!

Wickets offshoot KnifeCutter CONTINUE

Friday 4th March - a lot of noises

5 band line up of death at Bunkers Hill in Nottingham this week.
We'll have some new tracks and the rest of the line up is reet!

Facebook it and what have you here!

Lights Go Out - PRAISE

The awesome zine Lights Go Out has given us an awesome write up. It's featured in Issue 11 which came out in January this year - pick up that issue and more at: www..Lights Go Out..co..uk

Cutter Party

A ray of hope

It's taken a while. Longer than expected. But it had to be right.

Tracking on our upcoming 7" is done.

We're mixing it later this week.

Then we'll have a new record to put out.

Mega.

DEADLINE :: APRIL EUROPEAN TOUR.

No pressure.

Cloud of Sound

Newspaper_demo by thewicket

Started using this so we can post tracks a bit easier on the internet.

It'll have live stuff and demos and bits and bobs.

For the hi-fidelity studio recordings they'll be on our records, which you can buy here:: www.mesters.co.uk/shop.php

Back on the road again

Good to be back out there.
We hit up Blackpool's Blue Rooms last night. Was nice and loud and folks were into it. Cheers to Barry (of Goonies Never Say Die) for putting us on and cheers to The Colours for getting some noise out there too.

It truly is Vegas of the North.


We're even honoured with Stephen Gilbert's appearance. A founding member of The Wickets! He may of only been around making music with us for about 6 months 10 years ago...but he was there at the start! It was awesome to see him doing well and rocking out down the front..it's been at least 6 years since we crossed paths and he checked the noise out.



Coming up: We've got a few Nottingham gigs lined up, get the 7" out and then off round Europe's Mainland for a bit in April.
ONWARDS!

Hi there 2011 (in link form)

And how are you?

2010 - busy. But not busy enough.
2011 - here's to making it busier.

UPCOMING - we're working away on getting a new 7" out - going to be a double A side with By The Sea and Newspaper being the stonkers on each side. We've done the recording and move on to mixing, mastering, cutting, artwork. The lot. Still a way to go but it's going to be worth it.
Recorded live to tape in studio 2 at Mesters. It sounds obscene. The best we've ever sounded. It may be mandatory to say that with everything new you do..but it's a true story.

SPRING 2011 - We're off round the continent in April with Alright The Captain. We have more dates confirmed than not and you can see them listed on here with more being added over the next few weeks. We will be in France/Belgium/Netherlands/Germany(possbily)/Luxembourg(definately).

FACEBOOK - Just added a 'bandpage' to our - facebook profile - it's basically a myspace page as part of the whole facebook experience. Music and dates listed etc. Fantastic.

VISUALS - RooInns, a Nottingham stalwart, has uploaded a few choice tracks from our last gig in Nottingham at the tail end of 2010 - it's all there...here: http://tinyurl.com/69cmlo2 - click through at the end of each one for the next...there are 4 up there I think.

First up BLACKPOOL on Saturday 15th Jan at The Blue Room.

Should probably get off the internet and make some music.
ONWARDS!