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Tuesday, 24 January 2006 |
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
In This Home On Ice single (Wichita Recordings)
Released 20 February 2006
web: clapyourhandssayyeah.com | www.wichita-recordings.com
"Behold! This year's North American art-rock phenomenon" 4/5 Q
"the most exciting new band on the planet" NME
"the most delightful, if bonkers, record imaginable" The Guardian
"If you haven't fallen in love with CHYSY yet, get a move on" Music Week
With the success of their limited debut single ‘Is This Love?' (breaking the Top 75 with a limited seven inch!), a sold out UK tour in November and the highly anticipated UK release of their self titled album on January 23rd, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce a new single – ‘In This Home On Ice' on February 20th 2006.
This will follow hot on the heels of the band's second UK tour in February, which includes a sold out NME Shockwaves tour date at Koko in London.
Friday 03rd Belfast, Queens Uni, Speakeasy £8
Saturday 04th Dublin, Crawdaddy €12
Sunday 05th Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms £8.50 T: 08700 600 100 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Tuesday 07th Manchester MDH £8.50 T: 0161 832 1111 SOLD OUT
Wednesday 08th Norwich, Waterfront £8.50 T: 01603 508050
Thursday 09th Brighton, Concorde 2 £9.00 T: 01273-673311 SOLD OUT
Friday 10th February London Koko NME Shockwaves gig £11.00 SOLD OUT
Saturday 11th Sheffield, Leadmill £8.50 T: 0870 010 4555 www.leadmill.co.uk
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are a five piece consisting of Philadelphian songwriter Alec Ounsworth (vocals/guitar) and Brooklyn-based Lee Sargent (guitar/keyboards), his twin brother Tyler Sargent (bass/backing vocals), Robbie Guertin (guitar/keyboards) and Sean Greenhalgh (drums).
The band's US live shows generated an astonishing word of mouth that led to album sales of over 25,000 copies, all of which they packed and posted from their own apartments. Since then, Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) has stepped in and agreed to distribute the album in shops across North America, only the second time ever that ADA has worked directly with an unsigned band. The album has now sold over 50,000 copies in the US.
Signed to independent label Wichita Recordings for the world outside North America, the success of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has all been incredibly organic and is a sign of just how far this band are destined to go in the future. They have already been tipped by the BBC, NME, Mojo, Q, Uncut, Music Week, The Sun and Evening Standard as THE band for 2006...
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