The Maccabees Blog

The Ivors.

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:53:44 +0100

The Ivors.

Endangered. The story of Fierce Panda.

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:49:00 +0100

www.pledgemusic.com/fiercepanda

On Beyoncé's blog today...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:33:42 +0100

Istanbul Calling in Turkey - Sunday June 30th

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:14:13 +0100

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.

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

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:51:42 +0100

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.

Interview we did in Chicago

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:01:53 +0100

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

Hi everyone - we’re happy to say that we’ll be playing at Latitude this year on Friday...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:38:27 +0000

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.

We're playing Beauregard Festival, France

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:30:11 +0000

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

NME award, USA tour & Big thanks

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:44:44 +0000

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.

X-Ray - live at Lincoln Hall, Chicago

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:00:16 +0000

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

Pelican, live at Lincoln Hall, Chicago

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:00:27 +0000

Hi everyone. When we played Lincoln Hall in Chicago about 3 weeks ago, the guys at Made of Chalk filmed some of it. First, here’s Pelican:

Broken Best Album Award.

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:37:05 +0000

Broken Best Album Award.

Hi everyone - we’re pleased to announce that we will be playing Les Ardentes festival in...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:15:40 +0000

Hi everyone - we’re pleased to announce that we will be playing Les Ardentes festival in Liege, Belgium on Saturday July 13th. Tickets are on sale now, here: www.lesardentes.be

Mexico.

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:50:29 +0000

Mexico.

Mexico we have arrived, looking forward to tomorrows show X

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:49:00 +0000

We're playing Hurricane & Southside Festivals, Germany, June 21st-23rd

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:35:05 +0000

Hi everyone - we’re pleased to announce we’ll be playing at Hurricane and Southside Festivals in Germany over the weekend of the 21st - 23rd of June. Tickets are on sale now, here:

Hurricane: http://www.hurricane.de/tickets/index.php

Southside: http://www.southside.de/tickets/index.php

The Late Show with David Letterman

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:25:00 +0000

Here’s our performance on The Late Show with David Letterman from Feb 15th, 2013:

We are on The Late Show With David Letterman tonight, and playing the Sinclair in Cambridge, Boston...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:26:00 +0000

We are on The Late Show With David Letterman tonight, and playing the Sinclair in Cambridge, Boston this evening. Two places at once. Venue here looks great, first Maccabees show here …

The Maccabees Hour Or So Of Music Podcast

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:40:00 +0000

Dear All, We will be making our fourth album at home for the majority of this year.

Whilst we do, we’re going to put an hour or so of some music we like up every now and again and talk about it a bit. Hope you enjoy the first one. You can subscribe on iTunes for free here and listen online here / below.

THE MACCABEES AN HOUR OR SO OF MUSIC PODCAST - EPISODE 1. by The Maccabees on Mixcloud

It’s Valentines day and we are recording Letterman today...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:54:10 +0000

It’s Valentines day and we are recording Letterman today (airing tomorrow night) and playing the Bowery Ballroom this evening. To all that have come to our first handful of dates in America and Canada - Thank You!!! This is the only tour we will be doing this year and we are so glad we made the decision to come out and do it. Beautiful places and people. For all those here, see you at the Bowery tonight.

The Maccabees