June 2011
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Jerry Seinfeld Does it Three Times a Daily
Hey check it out, Jerry Seinfeld’s posting up three archive performance videos every day. They’re pretty great. One today is from 1998 and he’s wearing a suit that makes him look like a tube.
Go on then.
May 2011
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The Cheek Are Hiring
We are currently looking for a new manager, this will be the interview process:
February 2011
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A Day on Tour With the Cheek
The band are speeding along an anonymous motorway somewhere in the north of England, clustered round the table in the back of the van. A familiar debate rages.
RORY: I like cold showers, I really love how it just blasts you awake. It’s like a challenge to force yourself to stay under.
TOM: Nah! Hot showers! So hot you can’t stand it and it makes you skin go blotchy and you...
Two Thousand and Eleven
Hi all,
Some of you may have been wondering what on earth we’ve been doing so far this year.
Well, we’ve been figuring out the best way to get our album out to all of you, so that you can hear it.
We’ve been writing a lot of new songs that we hope to debut soon at a place near you.
We’ve been making a short film to complement some of our new songs which we’re...
December 2010
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This is a track called Glass Eights by John Roberts, from his album of the same name. It’s house music with a glassy classical stability and rhythm. The artwork is cool, with the marble and the shoes, as you can see. This is perfect music for driving around Suffolk in the snow to, which is something I do frequently.
November 2010
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The Tour that We Did or that Did Us
We’ve been jetting around the United Kingdom recently with a band called One Night Only and another band called Big Sleep. Here is a collection of photographs documenting this tour:
Here is us sitting in the upstairs of a bar in Dundee.
Here is our almighty van that shuffles us from port to port.
Here is the Lidl car park in which our van waited for us over the first night.
This is...
October 2010
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Wednesday Night Gladness
Hello everyone,
It’s a cold Wednesday night in Suffolk tonight and we’ve almost finished the four days of rehearsals that are getting us tight for tour on Friday. Christian brought Maoam to band practice today, which was incredibly thoughtful of him. The second best thing about Maoam (after it’s deliciousness) is that the packaging is like fruit pornography:
Wild! It’s...
Get Nice for the Weekend
Hey guys,
Let’s have some fun on a Friday. Walter Gibbons’ Firebird Suite edit of Magic Bird of Fire by the Salsoul Orchestra. It comes at you like Stravinsky dressed as a beautiful woman.
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One Night Only Tour
Let’s go have some mad fun on the road with One Night Only. Here the dates are:
Wed 20-Oct - Dublin - Academy 2 (w/ ONO) Thur 21-Oct - Belfast - The Stiff Kitchen (w/ ONO) Fri 22-Oct - Dundee - Fat Sams (w/ ONO) Sat 23-Oct - Glasgow - Oran Mor (w/ ONO) Sun 24-Oct - Leeds - Cockpit (w/ ONO) Mon 25-Oct - London (Kings Cross) - Wet Records Night - Water Rats Tue 26-Oct - Birmingham - Academy...
We'd rather be Men than Lads
This site tells you how.
The Art of Manliness
Erdbeerschnitzel
In our eyes dance music is at an exciting time. The collision of genres/sub genres is at an all time high, this is where all the exciting stuff happen’s. Erdbeerschnitzel is a prime example of this. Check out his new EP “To An End” especially taking note of “I Wonder”.
To An End EP by erdbeerschnitzel
Speck of Dust Volume 8
Hello everyone, got a new mixtape for you. It feels like we’re coming in on something of a golden age for UK House music right now so we’ve tried to reflect that. Keep dancin’.
Tracklist:
Maddslinky - Special (instrumental) Venom & Damage - Deeper (Harry Benson remix) Venom & Damage - Deeper (Doc Daneeka remix) Velour - Kick it Till it Breaks Galen & Justin...
New Tunes →
New songs up on the Myspace. Go check ‘em out!
September 2010
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Hello Everybody, We Are Present
We’ve been rather quiet for a while, we’d just like to let everyone know that we’re still alive, perhaps now more than ever. There will be further updates in the future, and we’ll be back to posting more things up on this blog. Perhaps now more than ever, in fact.
Thanks for your patience and continued support of the Cheek family and it’s various wings and...
July 2010
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Glastonbury
So we all had an intense amount of fun at Glastonbury. Charlie wore all black on the hottest day, Thom jumped from a 10 ft view point and Christian had a smashing Birthday.
Here’s a couple of videos from our show and stuff:
Speck of Dust Vol. 7
Here’s our new mix tape. It’s full of summer vibes, enjoy!
Speck Of Dust Volume 7 by thecheek
Speck Of Dust Volume 7
Tracklisting: Tomita - Clair de Lune (edit) Girl Unit - Temple Keys Ramadanman - Core Mr. Mageeka - Different Lekstrix (L-Vis 1990 remix) Ichisan - Space Patrol Nufrequency & Ben Onomo - Fallen Hero (MCDE remix) Midland & Ramadanman - Your Words...
Flickr →
If you haven’t already, you should feast your eyes on our Flickr page. There’s some nice shots from us on tour and stuff.
Sorry for the lack of posts of late, we’ve been extremely busy and maybe spending a little too much time enjoying the sunshine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecheek/
June 2010
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Videos from Retumba Afortunada
A few weeks ago we mentioned that we had the chance to escape the big posh recording studios and we went away and recorded Retumba Afortunada especially for Recordstore day back in April. When we were there we filmed a few of the tracks – some of these videos were picked up by online magazines but we want to pull the all together in one place for you, so we have hosted them on our YouTube channel....
May 2010
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Tour Video Part 3
Tour Video Part 2
Tour Video Part 1
The tour so far has been lots of fun, thanks to everyone that has come to see us, especially everyone in Leeds where we made a lot of friends. This is what its been like so far…
Watch out for parts 2 and 3 which will be coming at you next week on Monday and Thursday respectively.
Jonathan Ross Plays 'Just One Night' on Radio 2
Mr Jonathan Ross played out our new single ‘Just One Night’ on his Radio 2 show on Saturday. Check it out by clicking play below and scrolling to 1 hour 11 mins in.
April 2010
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We’ve put together a new Speck of Dust mixtape for your listening ears. It’s just a selection of a few tracks we’ve been enjoying over the last month. Hope you like.
Speck Of Dust 5 by thecheek
The tracks are:
Romano Alfieri, Luca Bear - Love U Jamie Anderson - Night In Tunisia Camel - Neon Claude VonStroke - Vocal Chords (Tim Green Remix)
Booka Shade - Donut (Boy 8 Bit Remix)
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NME Video Exclusive and Retumba Afortunada on...
So, a couple of titbits of news for you: Firstly, our new live EP, Retumba Afortunada, is up on our Myspace for all to hear. Go and check it out by clicking here.
Secondly, the brand new video for our upcoming single ‘Just One Night’ is being exclusively shown on NME.com. Click here to be among the first to see it!
Enjoy!
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Upfront Easter Saturday
I’m kind of spending Easter Saturday listening to the double 12” Upfront 1 - 15 Upfront Floorfillers:
There are some definite, 100% great things on there like 2 in a Room - Take Me Away:
and DJ Atomic “Herbie” - Atomic House:
Maybe have a listen to some of these with your eggs tomorrow. Your Easter eggs.
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Radio Debut of Our New Single 'Just One Night'
Last night the lovely Huw Stevens esquire played out the world exclusive of our brand spanking new single ‘Just One Night’ on his evening radio 1 show. If you missed out then never fear – you can check it out below by clicking play and scrolling to 48 minutes in!
March 2010
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Rory's Recipes #1 - Spinach Wake and Bake
Ingredients:
400g fresh spinach
100g Basil, parmesan & tomato butter
4 eggs
8-12 slices French stick
OK, here’s how it’s done. First, heat the oven up to 190C or maybe a bit less if it has a fan inside. Next, if these sort of things worry you, you can wash the spinach and ace any thick stalks. Put it into a large pan and cook it with the lid on until the spinach is wilted....
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Speck of Dust - Volume 4
Speck of Dust Volume 4 by thecheek
We’ve done another mixtape for you that can be downloaded here, we did it for Valentine’s Day but were too busy being romantic to post it in time. Its got all the stuff we’re into at the moment and also someone called Sissy Nobby. Sissy Nobby - Lay me Down (L-Vis 1990 remix) Miles Dyson - Satisfaction Hot Chip - One Life Stand...
February 2010
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Swansea Love Story
Swansea Love Story is a documentary by Andy Capper and Leo Leigh for Vice Magazine. It follows a couple, Cornelius and Amy, for a bit of their lives as they live them in Swansea doing heroin.
It’s an incredible piece of film making, have a look at part one here.
January 2010
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Untitled (Lamplight Kitchen Memphis) and...
There’s an exhibition on at the Victoria Miro in London at the moment which is a showing of William Eggleston’s work over the last decade or so. We haven’t been yet, cos we’re busy like that but we hope to in the fullness of time. Well, up until the 27th February.
Here’s some of his work from the last century (because stuff from the new exhibition is difficult to...
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Weekender
For no particular reason this video slipped into my mind, and I thought to share with you, because it is definitely something to see. I don’t know much else about Flowered Up, but this song is an unrestrained, wide-eyed celebration of and lament to the weekend and the weekender. The guy in the video wears a slammin leather waistcoat when he goes to the club.
They released the 13 minute...
A few dates coming up...
We’ve got a few shows coming up, including a Skins party in Bristol, the Moles club in Bath, and a show with Delphic in London. All the information’s at Myspace or Facebook
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Live at Maida Vale Video
Heres some footage of us at Radio 1 yesterday. If you missed our session with Huw Stephens then you can also listen to the whole thing again here.
You can also hear ‘Do Nothing’, ‘What Goes On’ and an interview with Rory from last night’s BBC Introducing show with Bethan Elfyn here.
Radio 1 Session - Huw Stephens - Tonight.
News just in - we are in session tonight for Radio 1, with Huw Stephens. Tune in from 9 til 10pm to hear it. The session will be repeated 12am - 2am in Wales and England for you night-owls…
You can click on the following link to listen live.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/radio1
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Two Unrelated Musical Things That Have Caught Our...
Firstly Surfer Blood, who by all accounts are a guitar band from Florida. If you like your psy-trance then these guys probably aren’t for you, although they might be. I don’t know how eclectic you are. I don’t know you.
Second of all the Night Slugs label, run by L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok out of London. Their first release is Mosca’s Square One EP on January 25th, and its...
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Speck Of Dust Volume 3
Firstly, we would like to say a Happy New Year to all of you digital friends. Over the last few weeks we have had the pleasure of receving your artwork for our New Years Mixtape (Speck of Dust Vol. 3). We would like to thank everyone who entered, we love all of the entries. The competition has now closed and we have decided on a winner. So, here’s what you’ve all been waiting for, the...
December 2009
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In Every Dream Home, a Ton of Heartaches
So in band practice we’ve been working on a cover of Roxy Music’s lovesong to an inflatable doll, In Every Dream Home a Heartache. Here is how they do it.
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Speck of Dust Volume 2
So we’ve been on tour recently and here is a collection of some of the things that kept us going. Besides willpower.
Speck of Dust Volume 2 by thecheek
Tracklisting Vitalic – Poison Lips Zinc – Blunt Edge Black Lips feat. GZA – Drop I Hold (Afghan Raiders House Part mix) Fake Blood – Mars (Jack Beats remix) Cassius – Youth Speed Trouble CigarettesCassius – Youth Speed Trouble...
November 2009
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Tour Diary pt. 2
So we found ourselves in Bath. This seemed to vex Thom so he decided to work through his frustration with a ‘JAIL SUX’ tattoo across his stomach. We recorded a video but the tattooist kept stopping to talk to us about Flight of the Conchords (which he heartily reccomends) so it is more a video of Thom lying topless while we talk about Flight of the Conchords. With fresh ink itching...