Doing the double: Part II, HMV Next Big Thing

Us? HMV tipped? Really, don't mention it - it's no biggie...

That's right: the second night of our double weekender saw us take to the stage for the final night of the HMV Next Big Thing festival, in support of Detroit electro-pop act Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr, along with Welsh boys WE//ARE//ANIMAL.

A big thank you to everyone who made it down to support us, and kudos to you 'ultimate groupies' who made it to both nights. Below are just a few snaps, so as not to inundate this blog with pictures. You can, however, check out the full set of pics if you so wish, over here.

Big thanks to the lovely Mr. Benner for inviting us to play!

DYH x

Thanks also to Rods from The Flying Rats who sent us this video of  our opening two songs.

Tommy's rock star moment, HMV Next Big Thing & upcoming dates

So it's a busy next couple of months for us... After a raucous set last Friday night just at Kate's Charity Variety Night Extravaganza @ Bethnal Green Working Men's Club**, (let's just say that much to his delight, Tommy almost got eaten alive by the ladies in the audience when he jumped into the crowd with his guitar...), we're nice and warmed up for this weekend's gigs.

Saturday sees us headline Heroes Bar (tickets over here for a fiver) and on Sunday, we are ridiculously excited to say that we will be playing HMV Next Big Thing at The Barfly, as recommended by The Fly as one of the ten must-see shows of the festival.

Tickets are £10 on the door but message us on facebook or email dragyourheels@hotmail.co.uk to get on the £5 guestlist. We're onstage at 7.30pm prompt, which means you can have your Sunday roast, come on down for a few drinks and be tucked up in bed by 10pm - hope to see some of your friendly faces there...

Dates in full:

FEBRUARY:

Sat 11th - Heroes Bar, Kentish Town

Sun 12th - HMV Next Big Thing @ Barfly, Camden w/ Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr

Fri 17th Feb - Deviation Street @ Alley Cat, Denmark St w/ The Vinyl Stitches

Fri 24th Feb - Jubilee Club @ Barfly, Camden w/ The Howling

MARCH:
Thurs 1st - The Castle, Whitechapel

Sat 17th - Rock 'n' Roll Basement @ Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green

Tues 27th - Cafe 1001, Brick Lane

APRIL:
Tues 10th - Ruby Sings Club @ Ronnie Scott's, Soho
Sat 28th - Paper Dress Vintage, Shoreditch

Good thing we've got rehearsal tomorrow: we'd better get practicing then... (unlike Kevin and Tommy hard at work last week)

Drag Your Heels say "don't smoke kids"

And er, "same goes for drink"

** Which raised a staggering £5,000 for Cancer Research - amazing effort.

WELCOME

Hello,

We're Drag Your Heels and this be our new blog. We'll be updating you on all our news, gigs etc. and may even share the odd anecdote on occasion.

Couple of pics below from our most recent gig at Barfly (taken by the lovely Nina from Altercation), and also a picture of a promo copy of our single 'Creatures' which we'll be releasing on iTunes in the summer. The thing that excites us most? An ink printed CD that hasn't just been written on! Yep, it's the simple pleasures in life.

Oh, and to the eagle-eyed amongst you - yes, that is a 5 pence piece in the background of the shot. We totally meant to get that in (?)

Be back soon! xx