Tokyo Police Club

good morning! it is too early to say anything other than that!
oh, but yeah here’s our new cleveland vlog, greg’s hilarious… love it love it…

hey all,
we’re in columbus ohio right now, CHILLIN ON THE BUSSSS. getting prepared for a staring-contest episode of the Champ Championship, which we will be holding on stage for the first time ever. sore eyes all around.
but here i have a bunch of picture from our recent four day jaunt in the UK/EU. we went to London, Latitude Festival in England, Herk-de-Staad in Belgium, and Nijmegen in Holland.

pictures!

also we have some new vlogs coming up so stay glooooooooooood.
-dave

hey all,

we’re back on tour, back in the US. off to an unexpected but memorable start: we were scheduled to play at 5:30 in jackson MI at the “land of nod” festival and I SHIT YOU NOT from 5;30 to 6:45 it poured rain. monsoon level. it would have been entirely hazardous to play, they started shutting the stage down and it kept raining into the evening.

not to be defeated by the weather, we grabbed our guitars and headed out to a tent to play some songs acoustically. we just had our semi-hollow guitars so it was a pretty quiet performance but it’s definitely something we’ll remember for a while to come. it seemed like everything was against us having a good show and in the end i think we all had a good time. thanks to everyone who was there for listening, hopefully we can post a video of it soon.

in other news i just ate red lobster for the first time. ?????

peace,

dave

hey everyone,

the first round of CHAMP CHAMPIONSHIPS has been posted in a video. if you have no idea what is going on with this whole CHAMPY CHALLENGE thing then this is recommended viewing. our friend Matt of Matt & Kim showed up as well. and he cradles that watery balloon sweeter than anyone.

if you want to get in on the party, go to our homepage and submit a a challenge. maybe we’ll pick yours!

yesterday we finished shooting the video “boots of danger (wait up)”. directing is our friend Mike Juneau of Humble Empire and Live in Bellewoods fame.

we have some pictures, and yes, there’s dogs. lots.

North Ah Mer-i-cans:

CHAMP has been released today!

i remember talking to graham in Dec ‘08 on the walk home after one
particularily good band practice and saying to him “i think this
record is in the bag”. it certainly felt like we we’re on the right
track and the record was eventually in the bag, i guess. but i had no
idea of the amount of time and work it would take before the record
was actually in that proverbial bag.

over the next 15 months we gradually chipped away at a batch of music
that would  become CHAMP. everyday we made little decisions, a bass
line, song structure, a lyric, that would accumulate and shape the
record but at no point we’re we ever in control of the record. we just
kept doing a little bit here and a little bit there and it took on
it’s own personality, which now seems so clear it’s hard to go back
and dissassemble it as bass + drums + keys + guitar + voice. it’s more
like C + H + A + M + P.

after we finish our june tour with passion pit we’ll be starting
headline dates on july 23rd. keep up with our blog for news and video
evidence of us, the champ championship contest, the video we’re
shooting, and the good times.

go forth you songs! get people psyched and make our twitter porsperous.

-dave

back from our wacky video shoot,

watched the hockey game, did some laundry, now watching the flaming lips live DVD “ufo’s at the zoo”. practicing up for our show with them!!! last time i went to my doctor i was talking to the secretary and she asked if we were playing any shows in toronto soon. just a general, non-specific, “how’s the tour?” and i told her we were playing at the molson amphitheatre with a band called “the flaming lips” and she replied: “well i’ve never heard of them but it sounds like a band for mcjagger! with his big mouth… or the guy with the rock song in the Armageddon movie”

ah yes steven tyler, will you ever relive the glory days of soundtracking the end of the world starring bruce willis and your kid?

also we have such an obscene amount of VLOG material, it’s gonna take us an age to edit. but that can only mean it’s gonna be the wackiest yet right?

so tiiiiired

thanks for reading the blogs tho!