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We are Shirley - February Edition

Shirley Shows

Thurs 8th - Riffs, near Swindon
Sun 11th - Purple Turtle, Oxford
Sat 17th - Finnegans Wake, Ealing, London
Weds 28 - Jericho Tavern Oxford

To avoid disappointment, remember to always check with our myspace (www.myspace.com/shirleytheband) before travelling.

News

Our much-talked-about debut album Vintage will be out late this month. It's a limited release, so is your name on a copy? We're already taking advance orders. Secure your copy now by emailing us or get along to a gig. For the bargain price of £6.99, this represents unprecedented hooks per pence value.

It could be You!

This month's lucky winner of the Shirley prizedraw is Sammy Barnes
Everyone on our mailing list gets automatically entered each month, so if there’s someone out there not on it, make sure they sign up!

A lot of People have been asking us…

What the greatest disappointment is that we've had to deal with as a band. The recent scientific study of Seahorses and the resultant expose of their fabled fidelity as a myth has been hard to take. We've had to scupper our 'Seahorse' concept album based on the recent revelations. Their delicate beauty and grace in the water remains unquestionable, but it turns out that they are nothing more than common flirts. Astonishing levels of promiscuity were reported and not just with members of the same sex. As our readers will be aware, the tell-tale sales of courtship and flirtation (colour changes, synchronised swimming and knotting of tails) were recorded at an astonishing 25 times per day for each individual. Our only consolation was that the British spiny variety remained faithful to their partners, unlike the roguish Australian big-bellied species and the Caribbean slender, so we're not counting out an exclusive UK-release option. It would be a shame to undo a lot of the band's good work. Al came up with a lovely watery guitar effect and Johnny's been grafting away at reproducing the blue-whale call through a combination of distortion and lots of compression on his bass. We're also looking into using a lot of the soundtracks for a meditation CD. Paul Bullimore (our favoured marine curator) probably summed up our disappointment best, referring to our little aquatic friends as 'indiscriminate and shameless creatures'

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