News

25.01.2010

Birds of Gothenburg

After 10 days of laying down drums in Sydney, BIRDS OF TOKYO have set flight for Gothenburg in Sweden to continue work on their third studio album.

To keep everyone up-to-speed, the band have set up a ‘recording blog’ of sorts at

http://birdsoftokyo.blogspot.com

Check it out for regular updates on the record, the weather and see some pics along the way.

07.01.2010

Birds of Tokyo in London!

Birds of Tokyo were very happy to be invited to play the HMV NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL taking place in London this February.

With 3 bands per night over 6 venues in London, the HMV New Music Festival will showcase the most exciting artists for 2010 from the UK and abroad.

DATE: FEBRUARY, FRIDAY 12th 2010

VENUE: HMV NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL, The Relentless Garage

ADDRESS: 20-22 Highbury Corner, London UK N5 1RD

WITH: Band of Skulls & more.

HEAD TO THE ‘SHOWS’ LINK ABOVE TO PURCHASE TICKETS!

04.01.2010

Broken Strings CD & DVD

So the ‘Broken Strings’ CD and DVD are both in production and set to be available in stores on Friday 5th February 2010.

Those of you whom purchased at the shows and from the bands website will receive the album a few days earlier.

The track listing for the CD features every song from the tour (list below) which was more that we could fit on one CD. The ‘Broken Strings’ live album will be released as a double CD – and the first pressing will be in a limited edition, schmick looking digipak – only available while stock lasts.

HEAD TO THE ‘STORE’ LINK ABOVE TO PRE-PURCHASE THE CD AND DVD

BROKEN STRINGS CD TRACK-LISTING;

Disk 1

Overture

Armour For Liars

Like Rain

Russian Roulette

Black Sheets

Rose

Wild Eyed Boy

The Bakers Son

Disk 2

Heard It Through The Grapevine

Head In My Hands

Train Wrecks

Violet

Rest Here My Brother

Off Kilter

Wayside

Broken Bones

Medicine

Silhouettic

The DVD features footage of all songs listed above (excluding Heard it Through the Grapevine) as well as interviews with the band members and string composer/arranger Anthony Cormican.

Approx running time: 92 minutes