"The Night's Been Blessed": Archive

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“Well… being called the biggest band from Kendal is a bit like being called...”

– Hayden Thorpe

Feb 28th

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Feb 26th

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Did we tell you about that San Francisco gig?

It’s on April 19th, at The Independent. [$$]

Feb 24th

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 21st

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Feb 21st

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WIN TICKETS TO LIVERPOOL'S BIGGEST GIGS!!

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Feb 21st

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Feb 20th

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Feb 20th

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Feb 19th

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Feb 16th

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Watch

Wild Beasts spoke to AOL Music at Glastonbury 2011.

Feb 16th

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Feb 13th

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Feb 13th

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Feb 9th

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MSM: A lot of your lyrics are very sexual, and a critic in the Guardian even dubbed the band “obsessed with sex.” What have responses been to your lyrics? Have you encountered any controversy over it? CT: No, no… no controversy. I dunno, I think it’s something that’s kind of celebrated. Most places that we go, we go because I think a lot of popular music these days. The sex that’s sold in music...

Feb 9th

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MSM: What is your favorite Wild Beast song? CT: Mine personally would be “Fun Powder Plot,” off of Two Dancers, “Loop the Loop” off Smother, and Limbo, Panto, I’d probably go with “Vigil for a Fuddy Duddy.” Yeah, those are the ones. We’re not playing two of those as well, but we’re hoping to make the set grow, because we’ve got some big shows coming up in the U.K. We want to play some of the...

Feb 9th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 1st

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Jan 30th

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Jan 29th

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Jan 27th

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DOMINO PARTY AT THE LONDON COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL...

Domino DJs accompanied by guest spots: Benugo Bar at BFI, Southbank,London for the London Comedy Film festival (LoCo) which kicks off 26th January 2012 for four dates at the BFI onLondon’s Southbank. After the workshops, students and guests will can let their hair down and rub shoulders with the great and good of Domino, film, TV and comedy – don a comedy mask, scam a whoopee cushion...

Jan 26th

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Jan 24th

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Jan 23rd

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Jan 22nd

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Watch

Wild Beasts - Invisible - by: Samuel Alder, 3D basics course, Zurich University of the Arts.

Jan 20th

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Interviewer : Yeah. And dolphins. I read in some factoid that they’re the only other animals besides humans that have sex for pleasure.
 [They nod]
Hayden: Yeah, and also, they rape and things like that.
Ben: Really?
Hayden: Yeah, it’s not nice.

Jan 20th

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Jan 19th

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Ben: I love dolphins. They’re really intelligent.
Hayden: They’re intelligent, but they’re also real nasty.
Hayden: Yeah, and they have weird sort of sexual politics as well – and they’re quite creepy.
Tom: You find them creepy?
Hayden: Oh, really creepy.

Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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Tour news

New support band : ∆ (Alt-J) March 11 – Copper Rooms 1 (Warwick Students’ Union) – Warwick – UK (tickets here or here) 12 – Waterfront – Norwich – UK (tickets here, here or here) 13 – Colchester Arts Centre – Colchester – UK (SOLD OUT… But don’t lose hope.) 14 – Phoenix – Exeter - UK (tickets) 15 – Falmouth Pavilion – Falmouth – UK (tickets here or here) 16 – The Coal Exchange...

Jan 16th

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