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I play music and I'm nice 💕🌱🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️
🎤🎸🎶 @valleyfortitude & @lilnathy band
👩🏻‍💻✨ @littlewanderevents
🐈‍⬛ @margievoid

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PART OF THE PROBLEM, BABY is out NOW!!! LISTEN, SHARE, ENJOY, ETC 💕🌸🎀🩷🦩

I’m so proud of this record. I think it’s actually very good. I would say that but TRUST ME. It’s great!!! I had a little photo shoot out the back of the @mean_eyed_cat_ncl in celebration.

🙏 SPECIAL THANKS TO :

• My wonderful band mates for bringing my silly little songs to life!! You’re the best. I love you ❤️

• Specialist Subject for putting the record out! Dream come true ✨

• YOU for supporting us! 🥰

⏰ We are having a little listening party tonight at 6pm UK time via bandcamp. The album will play through in full and we’ll hang out in a chat room 😎

🚗 And if you like what you hear, maybe come see us live? We are on tour in the autumn 🍂

Hope you love it as much as we do 🥹

🩷 FV xxx

P.s. If you’re still reading - it’s bandcamp Friday 👀 and there are only a few records left on there so if you wanted to get one now’s the time! 🤝

CREDITS

Production: Phil Booth / @jtsoar
Mixing: Robin Newman & Richard Collins / @snugrecordingco
Mastering: Dave Williams / @eightfloorsaboveaudio

Album art: Sophie MacKenzie / @_powerful_man

📸 LK photo shoot: @heyghoulfriend & @reginaldgaye
📸 band photo: @photosonny by @lauraak

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It’s been one week since the last day of our tour with Joyce Manor & Hitmen. Here are some more lush photos by @photosonny ❤️ by @lauraak

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After a very difficult couple of days, Glasgow was absolutely amazing! So wonderful to rock with hitmen one last time and it was an actual dream come true to join Joyce Manor on stage for Big Lie - one of my favourite songs, and a song that long time followers will know we used to cover live ourselves. Thanks so so much to Barry, JM and their crew for being so welcoming, kind and supportive! 😭🖤 It was also wonderful having our Naomi back finally!

We really appreciate everyone who has been buying our merch to help us out after the van broke down on Thursday and we missed the Dublin gig. We’ve now put all our remaining shirts up on our bandcamp so please do check it out.

There’s more cool photos we haven’t shared yet so I think I’m gonna do a proper end of tour post later this week, but for now here are some wonderful pics from last night by genius and treasured friend @photosonny. Being back at work today was hard, but we’re so grateful to get to do stuff like this. Loads of love FV 🖤 taken in Queen Margaret Union - QMU by @lauraak

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7 days ago

Thank you so much to everyone who bought merch yesterday, we are blown away by your kindness! We’ve taken them off sale for now while we’re away, but we will put up whatever we have left after tonight.

We’re on our way to Glasgow in another van, wish us luck! 😅🍀 And we’ve got Naomi back - two women!!! 🥹🥹🥹 Thank you again to Ben for holding things down <3

We can’t wait to rock for you tonight! Get down early. Times are: doors- 7, us- 7:20 (blaze it), hitmen- 8:10, Joyce manor- 9 xxx

📸: @photosonny by @lauraak

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8 days ago

TL;DR we are heartbroken to say we aren’t able to get to Dublin to play with @joycemanorofficial and @rock2forget tonight. We will rejoin the tour in Glasgow tomorrow for the final show. We’ve put some merch up on bandcamp to help make back some of our losses (link in bio)

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We’ve been having an amazing time touring with Joyce Manor, but behind the scenes lots of things have been going wrong, and that came to a head on Thursday when our van broke down between Manchester and London. Thanks to the legend Jimmy Cleveland we still made it to the show but it cost a lot, made a 3 hour journey into 7 hours, and meant we arrived without a van and the vast majority of our gear. Joyce Manor, Hitmen and @jaycavalierandtheband very kindly loaned us gear so we could still play the show. Massive thanks to all of them.

Huge thanks also to Ben who stepped in at extremely short notice to fill in for Naomi on bass who has not been very well. Thank you to Hannah for singing BVs with us in London too. And thank you also to Sonny who has been helping in so many ways including putting us all up in London, and documenting all the highs (and the lows).

Sadly, despite our best efforts, we just can’t make it to Dublin to play tonight. We were so excited to play there for the first time, and it’s brutal to miss one of only five gigs on this run. We’re all absolutely gutted. Sorry to anyone who was looking forward to seeing us and we hope to come back very soon.

On top of the van breaking down, we’ve also had various other bits of bad luck that have made a tour with slim margins for us very costly. Last minute train tickets due to sickness, a van to get us from the side of the motorway into London, taxis to transport us and what gear we could carry around in London, a rental car, hiring another van to get us and our gear to Glasgow, as well as money lost on the cancellation of the ferry to Ireland and back. All of which is to say, we have lovely new shirts designed by @roisinodonnelldraws online now (link in bio) and any sales would be hugely appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Anyway, see you in Glasgow! We can’t wait.
LK // FV

📷: @photosonny (except 3&6 by @reginaldgaye) by @lauraak

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9 days ago

We had a pretty eventful day yesterday 🥲😅 (I’ll need a separate post to explain and thank everyone who helped us out) but London was amazing last night. Here are some gorgeous photos of the night by @photosonny taken in Electric Ballroom by @lauraak

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10 days ago

We’re having an absolute blast opening for @joycemanorofficial and @rock2forget! Please enjoy these pics, including bonus pics of people going wild for JM. Thanks so much Manchester for getting down early and buying merch off us- it’s so so appreciated. London tonight and it’s very sold out. Doors: 7, us: 7:30, hitmen: 8:30 and JM: 9:30.
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📷: @photosonny by @lauraak

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11 days ago

Bristol was amazing last night. Thanks so much to everyone who got down early to watch us do our thing; and especially if you bought merch. We’re so chuffed to be playing these gigs but touring is v expensive, so we do appreciate everyone who buys a shirt, hat, record or cd. Here’s some pics of us playing, us getting ready backstage before the set and some bonus pics of the crowd going crazy for @joycemanorofficial (all by @photosonny). Manchester tonight at Academy 2. Approx times are as follows. Doors: 7:30, fortitude valley: 8, @rock2forget: 8:50, Joyce manor 9:50. Drag all your mates out of the pub and get down early to watch us.
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📷: @photosonny by @lauraak

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12 days ago

My favourite thing about my home is the way it fits my friends.

They lounge in the studio or squeeze by the dozen around the kitchen table. They sleep on inflatable mattresses and sofas in the living room and they pick their way around the plants on the deck.

Having bands crash at mine after gigs sates my need to host and, as a bonus, lets me enjoy tour-by-proxy if I'm missing it (I'm always missing it).

Here's the @lilnathy band and the @jaycavalierandtheband having a little afters after a lovely gig put on by @divineschism. by @lauraak

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2 months ago

Part Of The Problem, Baby just turned ONE! To celebrate, we put together this video using footage @photosonny filmed during a weekend of recording at @jtsoar 🎸

🎥 Sonny Malhotra
🎬 Laura Kovic

Our next round of shows is a couple of months away when open for @joycemanorofficial on their UK/IE tour! 🫪

6 Oct - Bristol, Electric
7 Oct - Manchester, Academy 2
8 Oct - London, Electric Ballroom
10 Oct - Dublin, Academy
11 Oct - Glasgow, QMU

✨✨✨✨✨ by @lauraak

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2 months ago

Thank you if you came to the nathy sg x jay cavalier and the band tour this weekend. We had a lovely time. Here are some assorted pictures of nonsense. What a joy it is to play music and travel around and have a daft laugh with friends both old and new. I stayed up til 4am watching our brave men’s lionesses so I can’t formulate a coherent thought but huge thank you to Ben, Kieran, Tommy, Rory, Harry, Ben, Carl, Sonny and Rich for putting us on, putting us up and looking after us. Thanks to Rat and Pidgeon, the Exchange, the Waiting Room and Tap Social for providing spaces in which live music can occur. And love to Nervus, Pocket, Z-X, Aftercare and Junk Whale for rocking with us. We did it! Thanks! Bye! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 by @lauraak

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3 months ago

Had the most incredible time with my beautiful friends supporting @loscampesinos on tour in the @lilnathy band.

I loved every moment and I still feel very emotional about it. I’m so grateful to have had this experience! Thank you LC! for the opportunity and for being so amazing and lush, and to Nathy for letting me be part of your band and rock with you. There truly is nothing better than playing music with your friends. IDST. Love you, bye!! xoxo

P.s. Come see the Nathy band on tour with @jaycavalierandtheband in July for a guaranteed good time

02-07 - Manchester
03-07 - Bristol
04-07 - London
05-07 - Oxford

🎟️ in bio

📸 @photosonny - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 17, 19, 20 ⬆️
📸 @michaelcraiig - 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 ⬇️
📸 the rest by us silly buggers by @lauraak

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4 months ago