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Jerry Seinfeld Does it Three Times a Daily

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:46:37 +0100

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.

The Cheek Are Hiring

Wed, 18 May 2011 16:57:40 +0100

We are currently looking for a new manager, this will be the interview process:

A Day on Tour With the Cheek

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:25:23 +0000

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 can’t think about anything else it’s so hot!

CHARLIE: I just tend to have warm showers, you know about 70% of the maximum heat. Just so it’s comfortable. I prefer to get my kicks outside the bathroom.

ALI: (says nothing and calmly stubs out his cigarette. He has heard this argument countless times before)

CHRISTIAN: Guys… who’s driving the van?

THE END

Two Thousand and Eleven

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:35:21 +0000

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 gonna screen at a couple of nights in London.

We’ll try and keep you posted, in the meantime have a look at Tom’s paintings here.

This is a track called Glass Eights by John Roberts, from his album of the same name. It’s...

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.

me-hobson: Saw this suspicious looking fellow walking in...

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:07:40 +0000

me-hobson:

Saw this suspicious looking fellow walking in Soho.

The Tour that We Did or that Did Us

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:11:33 +0000

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 the kind of activity that takes place nightly beside our van.

This is Rory scared out of his mind by something.

This is Thomas taking a moment to consider his options.

This is the labyrinthine sort of layout we have to overcome to find ourselves onstage every night.

This is an example of one of the many discussions that takes place in the back of our van.

This is a short tunnel in Leeds where our van once waited for some minutes.

Wednesday Night Gladness

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:14:00 +0100

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 great that a cherry and whatever the fuck that is on the right can put aside their obvious differences and make love, and it’s just as great that the second cherry on the stalk doesn’t mind waiting around while his siamese twin gets happy. If you think this a one-off have a search on the internet and you’ll see heaps of pictures of that little green fellow carrying on like it’d be rude not to.

I’m gonna share some House Music with you guys right about now. It’s by Dj Jus Ed, this guy:

And it’s remixed by Levon Vincent. Just wait until the piano jumps you, it’s nice.

UPDATE: The little green fellow is a lime, just did some research and there’s some Daily Mail hate for the smut peddlers at Maoam here.

Get Nice for the Weekend

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:26:04 +0100

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.

One Night Only Tour

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:02:02 +0100

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 2 (w/ ONO)

Wed 27-Oct - Norwich - Waterfront (w/ ONO)

Thur 28-Oct - Manchester - Academy 3 (w/ ONO)

Fri 29-Oct - Brighton - Concorde 2 (w/ ONO)

Sat 30-Oct - Bristol - Thekla (w/ ONO)

Mon 1-Nov - Oxford - 02 Academy (w/ ONO)

Tue 2-Nov - London - Heaven (w/ ONO)

Sat 20-Nov - Selby Town Hall

We'd rather be Men than Lads

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:25:00 +0100

This site tells you how.

The Art of Manliness

Erdbeerschnitzel

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:51:00 +0100

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

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:35:00 +0100

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 Martin - Dust Devil
Fis-T - Night Hunter
Professor Green - Monster (T.E.E.D. remix instrumental)
Kyla - Don’t Play With My Heart (Paleface remix)
Souled - Changin?

Speck of Dust Volume 8 by thecheek

The perfect video for the day of rest in which Elvis does a sexy...

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:42:53 +0100

The perfect video for the day of rest in which Elvis does a sexy dance on Ann-Margret while the Forté Four sing a song that says the word ‘Cheek’ a coupla times. Happy Sunday, spuds.

New Tunes

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:35:00 +0100

New Tunes:

New songs up on the Myspace. Go check ‘em out!

Hello Everybody, We Are Present

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:01:34 +0100

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 divisions.

In the meantime have a listen to this hot slice of beatdown house pie, by Red Rack’em from Nottingham:

Red Rack’em - You Can’t Pray For Your Soul (Clip) by Red Rack’em

Glastonbury

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:17:00 +0100

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

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:25:12 +0100

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 Mattter
Plan B - Prayin’ (Riva Starr dub)

Flickr

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:18:28 +0100

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/

Videos from Retumba Afortunada

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:59:00 +0100

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.
To take a look head to http://bit.ly/clRELp or watch them in the player below

To win a rare copy of Retumba Afortunada – drop your email in to this form http://bit.ly/9hzWuN