London town’s Those Unfortunates and New York City’s Casual Sexists go head to head on Saturday 12th August, at the Stag’s Head in Hoxton. Thrill to their crooked, jagged, wonky pop, and go throw yourself around to our punkoid racket. Free entry but coins in the bucket gratefully received.
Meanwhile Ben will be popping up with a solo set at Paper Dress Vintage on 25th August at Nice Nights Records‘ launch party.
We’re excited to say that our debut album is out on Friday 19th May, and we’ll be releasing it with a gig at London’s Betsey Trotwood that night. We’ll be joined by our friends Young Romance, Mondrian and Firestations; it’s going to be a great night! Tickets will be available on the door for £7, or you can click here to book in advance for just £5 (plus 57p booking fee).
The album will be available from our Bandcamp and all the usual download sites, we’ll also have a small number of hand-packaged CDs for sale, with screen-printed sleeves and illustrated lyric booklets.
If you can’t make it down to the gig, we’ll be keeping a few aside for mail order from our shop. You can pre-order now, and we’ll send them out on the 19th- you’ll get an immediate digital download when you order.
Tracks from the album have been getting some advance airplay and some nice praise from BBC 6Music DJs, including Gideon Coe and Jon Hillcock. As a sample of what’s to come, we’d like to offer you a free download of “The Café at Golders Green” for free and gratis.
“A Question for Mr Richardson”/”A Repertory Man” is the double A-side single from our debut album, “Nothing Isn’t Beautiful”.
The single’s out on Friday 17th March, come along and wet its head with us at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, support from the excellent The No Sorrows and UEP!. £5 on the door, or pay what you can afford.
Those Unfortunates’ last gig of 2016; we say auf wiedersehen to Walk Upright’s Denis, and try out some new tunes in our old haunt.
Friday 9th December, Stoke Newington, pay a fiver if you can.
We return to Hackney’s Paper Dress Vintage on Thursday 1st December, in the company of the inestimable Firestations and the superlative Dan Shaw. £5 suggested donation in advance or on the door, 7.45pm kick-off.
It’s nearly that time again!
In late August we return to the old Bahnhof at Bralitz for four days of music, dancing, home cooked food and lake swimming.
This year we’re joined by our mates Firestations and Tom Hatfield from the UK, together with friends old and new from across the continent.
Tickets are a ridiculously reasonable €22 for the weekend, including camping; children go free. So join us!
If the good music, delicious food and sheer conviviality of it all isn’t enough, we’ve heard a rumour that there might be a water slide at the lake this year too….
Bralitz is about an hour’s journey time from Berlin. Trains every half hour from Berlin Hbf to Eberswalde Hbf, where a little branch line train runs to the nearest station at Bad Freienwalde. It’s a short taxi ride from there to the festival site.
Photo by Simon Bierwald
We Unfortunates return to Paper Dress in Hackney on Friday 3rd June, alongside the really rather good Long Teeth.
JOIN US.
Doors 7.45pm, opposite Hackney Central overground.
Paper Dress are running this event on a ‘Pay What You Want’ / Donations basis on the door – If you want to read more about why, then have a quick read here: http://
The Wimmins’ Institute have been a band for a whole year, and are celebrating with a party at the Hope and Anchor in Islington next Weds. Come and help us give them the bumps.
8pm-1pm, Entry £5 on the door, nearest tube/overground Highbury & Islington!
From your pocket, to your town, to the planet, in 2015 life got tougher. You may be feeling a little bruised, maybe a little hopeless, but fear not, Those Unfortunates have a plan to make your 2016 much better.
From pub closures and rising rents to homogenous high streets and extreme weather, there’ve been a lot of debits on our lives. But for every debit, there’s a credit owing. On Saturday 23rd January, Those Unfortunates invite you to a night of music, magic and making 2016 good.
JOIN US ON 23RD JANUARY FROM 7PM AT:
PAPER DRESS VINTAGE, 352 MARE STREET E8 1HR (map)
GET IN for FREE!
DISCOVER 10 practical ways you can make the city fairer and more fun in 2016 and SHARE your own ideas with us
MARVEL at the mirthful magic of Ian Saville, the Socialist Magician.
LOSE YOURSELF to the fuzzy dream-pop of Firestations
DANCE AROUND to the impish, punkoid, shoe shuffling sounds of hosts, Those Unfortunates
LEAVE ready for a happier, more hopeful 2016
So what’s all this ‘Own Double Entry’ about then? It sounds a bit… well, mucky?
In BS Johnson’s novel “Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry”, the titular accounts clerk applies the principles of double entry book-keeping to what he sees as the world’s injustices.
In his ledger, he records each offence (or debit) against his freedoms and happiness, and then takes an action (or credit) of equivalent value to restore the equilibrium.
This is our double entry, and it is yours – time to balance the books, remittance due in full.
The lights are up, the ads are on the telly and the department store santas are practicing their ho-ho-hos. Like it or not, that familiar corporate juggernaut is rolling inexorably towards us all, with its 
cargo of schmaltz and saccharine.
But before we’re crushed beneath its wheels, come and join us for a bit of actual festive FUN at Big Pink Cake’s Christmas Party All-Dayer, at the Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell.
It’s a brilliant line-up, with surprise guests still to be announced. The action starts at 2pm on Saturday 12th December and goes on until late, and then you’ve got all of Sunday to recover. Tickets are only £15 plus booking fee, which for eight or more bands is ridiculously good value. Capacity is limited though, so book quickly while you can.
