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  1. We are delighted to announce that our new single, Teaparties, shall be released on February 4th and will be available to download from such sites as iTunes and Amazon, as well as in 7" vinyl format. You can pre-order the vinyl now from our bigcartel store: http://marionettes.bigcartel.com/

    Hercules Moments were kind enough to review the track:

    http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2013/01/marionettes-tea-parties.html

    In celebration of this release, we'll be embarking on a UK tour, beginning in Peterhead of all places:

    Saturday 9th: Harbour Lights, Peterhead

    Sunday 10th: Last Bus Cafe, Newpitsligo (Acoustic Matinee)

    Monday 11th: Bannermans, Edinburgh

    Tuesday 12th: Night and Day, Manchester

    Wednesday 13th: Notting Hill Arts Club, London

    Thursday 14th: The Lomax, Liverpool

    Friday 15th: Beg, Borrow and Steal: Sheffield

    Saturday16th: Maggie May's, Glasgow

    Friday 22nd: Cellar 35, Aberdeen

    Saturday 23rd: Madhatters, Inverness

    I'll update this thread once a stream is available, but you can hear the first airing of the single this Friday night on Nefarious C's New Noise show on Aberdeen Student Radio.

    The event page for the Aberdeen leg of the tour is here:

    http://www.facebook.com/events/493112257406579/?fref=ts

    Thanks, and we hope you enjoy the single when it becomes available.

    Marionettes.

    www.facebook.com/marionettesmusic

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  2. 409615_10151937520735019_2086827060_n.jpg

    Set up for the only band I play guitar in, Marionettes.

    Fender American special telecaster through a Fender Hotrod deluxe via a strymon bluesky reverberator, a modded boss OD-1 (by analogue man, which I believe has tubescreamer circuitry in it but don't hold me to that), nano double muff and a tu-2. I've ditched the screaming bird treble boost and ht dual since this pic was taken. Those speakers are for show, there's no space for them in our practice basement so I use them to put things on, although I do play my orange micro terror through them occasionally.

    I swap between me tele and blacktop jag for tuning/capo purposes, and I love the sound of blended humbuckers with the cleans you get from fender tube amps. Throw a bit of shimmer/plate on top and it's pretty amazing. That's another thing, the gain function on my amp is knackered but it really is a blessing in disguise; I wouldn't go near those settings these days. Clean with pedals for the win. I don't have a decent pic of the blacktop jag, this is the best I could do:

    530908_10151486160705386_1182621050_n.jpg

    Have also just purchased a Japanese jag built in the early 90's. I think my next guitar purchase will be something other than Fender...

  3. Hello one and all,

    We're going to wrap up the year with a shindig down at Cellar 35 on Saturday 22nd December. So in short:

    Who: Marionettes, Min Diesel, Blatant Flaws

    What: A Christmas party gig extravaganza

    Where: Cellar 35

    When: Saturday 22nd December

    How (much?): £5

    We have DJ sets from Homealone and Ch£ap date after the bands, and the night will be running until 1am. There's also going to be pies. Lots of pies.

    18+ show, tell your friends. It'll be magical.

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