US TOUR

Hello all.....

We are delighted to announce that we will be supporting Jason Mraz on 2/3 dates during our US tour. We'd also like to wish him congratulations on being number 1 in the American charts...good job! The tour so far looks like this:

22nd October - National Underground, New York, NY, $10, http://www.myspace.com/thenationalunderground
25th October am - Good Morning Arizona TV, AZ
25th October pm - Freakin Frog, Las Vegas (TBC) NV
28th October - The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles CA - $11.50, http://theroxyonsunset.com/sleeping-at-last/
31st October - SDSU OAT supporting Jason Mraz, San Diego CA
1st November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Los Angeles CA (TBC)
2nd November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Berkeley CA

We hope that if you happen to be in reaching distance of any of these dates then you'll come alone, and perhaps even bring a friend or two! The Roxy in LA is looking like it's going to be a great show, so get your tickets now!

Thankyou to all of you who came to Komedia last night and made it an amazing experience for us, we hope to see some London folks at Proud Gallaries tonight, on stage at 11pm, should a be a great night.

Stuff

Hey people!
So a few weeks later on and we're back in the studio to record Vocals
for the album after an action packed weekend of gigs, shmigs and
birthdays!

We've been busy planning the US stuff and getting ready for another
blast at Komedia this thursday and for our first show at Proud
gallaries in Camden on friday which is set to be a classic.

We may very well have some exciting news soon so stay tuned!

Best
Rob and the TSG massive

usa

New blog:

So after a 6am wakeup call, 4 out of the 6 boys of Gobi land took to the London streets and queued (that means 'waited in line' for all our American readers!) outside the US embassy. It was a nice occasion, surrounded by police with their fingers on the triggers of machine guns. We were also not allowed to take anything into the building with us that was metal which meant we had to even take our belts off....we would have taken some photos to show but weren't allowed our phones!! damn

Anyway, 9 forms, 4 fingerprint scans, 3 million dollars, 1 strip search (ok this bit's not true, just for added effect!) and two hours later we emerged successful with our US visas....horray.

Now free from the re-occurring dreams of forgetting our passports to go to the US embassy, we can now embark on the dreams of forgetting our passports to go to the airport!

Just Matt and James to get theirs now, fortunately we have a replacement in store just incase:

Watch this space...

Recording the album

So today we begin recording our debut album...we are currently in a studio in Souf London laying down some drums, bass and guitar and all is sounding sweet. Our super producer J Male of Republica is wearing suitably funky sun glasses and all is go. Last night we played a great gig at Coalition in Brighton with two fabulous bands Seeker and Kiina, both worth checking out.

we will keep you updated...

US Tour

So after many months of thought, we are in the last stages of our Visa application and it is looking like we will be in the US at the end of October, with shows confirmed in NYC on 23rd October, and LA on 28th October and we are waiting to hear from Phoenix AZ, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, and Chicago IL (I'm just showing off my geography of the states by putting the CAs,ILs etc next to the city - but probably have it wrong so apologies!).

It will be a shortish promotional tour of about 6/7 dates prior to the release of our debut album, but if you feel we've missed anywhere that we should definitely be playing or know anyone who might be able to help then don't hesitate to drop us a line at info@twospot.co.uk.

We hope to do a more expansive tour of the US in 2009, but we hope you'll jump in the car/plane/train and come and say hi in October.....

Peace
Rob
TSG

Gobi Gobi Gobi

Hello hello dedicated blog readers!

We write to you from tour manager Al's residence in Guildford (a decidedly rustic yet hospitible environment) where we just arrived straight from playing Aylesbury Festival in Kingsbury Square, Aylesbury. The weather (for a change) held out for us and many local music (and booze) lovers turned out to lend their ears.

Tonight we are going to chill out before the Camden Barfly gig tomorrow, which we are mega excited about.

Notice my compadre James sporting the latest in limited edition gobi summerwear available only at gigs (and soon to be online) so see you there!

M and J x

Two Spot Update

So a few people have messaged us asking various things. As you've
taken the trouble to do so, it would seem like a nice idea to put some
answers to questions.Musical tastes....We all come
from pretty different musical backgrounds which is what I guess gives
the band a different spin when it comes to our overall sound. In terms of what music we listen to, I can really only answer for myself, and guess the others...my ipod is filled with a selection from classical (lots of it!) right the way through Jazz, to the worst pop- music you could ever imagine! I stop off on the way with some Radiohead, some Singer song-writer stuff like our kid Jason Mraz, and
then touch down with Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye etc.... You'd probably find a lot of Jazz on Matt's ipod (if he'd buy one!),
Ben M would have a selection of Dave Matthews band (who most of the band like for one reason or another) and anything with drum beats that go mad!, Dino has mostly House 'n' garage with some hip hop
representin' 9T7! (sorry that's too much of an in joke!). Ben R might
change his mind most days about what he has but perhaps some Red Hot Chilli peppers and classical - but no Jazz! Then I asked
James and this is what happened:http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/4/7/2/f_Sleepingbeam_43564fa.jpg
You just can't get the staff
sometimes..........so, now it's your turn..tell us, what
do you listen to?!Rob