The Maccabees Blog

May 16

The Ivors.

The Ivors.

May 02

Endangered. The story of Fierce Panda.

www.pledgemusic.com/fiercepanda

Apr 30

On Beyoncé’s blog today…

Apr 18

Istanbul Calling in Turkey - Sunday June 30th


Hi everyone - We’re pleased to say we’ll be playing at Istanbul Calling in Turkey on Sunday June 30th. Tickets are on sale now, here.

Apr 08

We’re playing Longitude Festival, Ireland - July 20th

Hi all - we’re pleased to say that we’ll be playing Longitude in Ireland on Saturday July 20th. Tickets are available now, from here.

Apr 05

Interview we did in Chicago

Hi all - Here’s an interview we did with the guys from Made Of Chalk when we played at Lincoln Hall in Chicago…

Mar 19


Hi everyone - we’re happy to say that we’ll be playing at Latitude this year on Friday July 19th. Tickets are available here, now.

Mar 14

We’re playing Beauregard Festival, France

Dear all, we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be playing Beauregard Festival in France on July 6th. Tickets are onsale now, here.

Mar 12

NME award, USA tour & Big thanks

Dear All,

Firstly, thank you to the NME and all those that voted for us at the awards, it is a good feeling to have won Best Album, and a nice one to win because we hear it was voted for by the public. We were stranded in Chicago, our flight from Mexico City having just about survived a snow storm, so unfortunately arrived in London a couple of hours too late to accept it. Being woken up sleeping in a semi-circle around our gear in a foreign airport to the news was probably the most fitting conclusion possible to our year and a half on tour playing Given To The Wild though. You can see possibly the most budget acceptance speech of all time below.

Again, thank you to all involved and everyone who has written to us since saying how pleased they were that we won. We’re lucky to have you.

As we mentioned before, the touring is definitively over for a while now, bar some one-off festivals and shows over the summer, and we’re really glad we came out to the east coast of the USA and Mexico to do our first tour over those parts before we stopped. Good to meet those of you that we did and some of the shows were truly memorable and amongst the most exciting we’ve played. Special note going out to everyone at the Mexico City show, one of the loudest crowds we’ve ever played to. We will definitely be back. It will just be once we have a fourth album. In the meantime we will keep in touch and there will be various things going on including the continuation of our ‘hour or so of music’ podcast, next one to be done in the near future.

Mar 06

X-Ray - live at Lincoln Hall, Chicago

Here’s the other song the Made of Chalk folks filmed when we played Lincoln Hall in Chicago last month.