Yeti will be returning to action by headlining London Monto Water Rats on October 17. Support acts to be confirmed.

TICKETS - http://wegottickets.co.uk/event/35632

Yeti Secretary x

Just in!

Release date for Yeti’s 2nd Japanese release: October 8. More details to follow…

Yx

Finally…our long-awaited debut album “The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales” will be released on June 23, and it can be found at the usual places. Amazon, HMV and Recordstore are all doing special deals (Amazon are now back in stock). How they manage to make a profit at these prices we don’t know, maybe it’s a just pride thing?

TRACK LIST:

01 OBVIOUSLY

Jangle-jangle. This is the jangliest song possible.

02 DON’T GO BACK TO THE ONE YOU LOVE

“Turn the lights out, shut the window, burn your old clothes, don’t use the telephone…Steal the next car, drive to Mexico.” Windy drama from the Mexican border. Listen out for Graham’s whistling. Video’s on YOUTUBE.

03 TIL THE WEEKEND COMES

The Anti-Weekend song. All these hip bands wanna big up and brag about their weekends. Buffoons! Anyway, isn’t Wednesday the new Friday? Is the Pope black?

04 MERRY GO ROUND

“Me I’m just a stranger, but here they know my name.
Paid to see the madman in a shiny cage.”
Tales from the Van, as they say.

05 IN LIKE WITH YOU

“True baby true, I’m in like with you, but don’t ask me if I love you ‘cos I wouldn’t want to lie to you.”
The Anti-Love song. As in the feeling, not the band (the good one, not The Feeling).

06 SHANE MACGOWAN

Roots music with a legendary title. Texan-esque ELO ending.

07 MIDNIGHT FLIGHT

“I wake up in the morning and I think it’s just a dream
But then I see the bodies on my tiny TV screen
I put my bloodstained clothing in my washing machine
And it cleanses my senses of the horrors that they’ve seen.”
>:->

08 JERMYN GIRLS

“There’s no coming down - not when you get so high
You see the Jermyn Girls - live in a distant world.”
True story. If someone offers you drugs on Greek Street, Soho, it’s gonna be a tissue ball.

09 NEVER LOSE YOUR SENSE OF WONDER

One day this song will be in an ad for some fizzy drink or chewing gum in a foreign country. Preferably Brazil, so we can use the Portuguese samba version.

10 REPRISE

Part 2 of Track 2. Yeti goes semi-prog. It’s what happens if you let the tape run.

11 CAN’T PRETEND

This is the summer in the basement song. Recorded at 4am. And it’s in Mono!

12 SISTER SISTER

“Hold on tighter to the friends that you made in the life that you once knew.”

13 THE LAST TIME YOU GO (6 FEET UNDER)

“Six feet underground, never to be found
This will be the last time that you go.”
Don’t mess with Yeti, okay?

14 WHO IS GONZALES

??? Buy the album and find out. It’s the one after 909.

The album will also be available on iTunes (worldwide) and other download sites. Order now at HMV or CARGO RECORDS.

For those outside of the UK you can either order from iTunes or from one of the UK indie stores like Rough Trade, Norman Records, Cargo Records etc.

Sincerest,
Yeti Secretary

Yeti will be playing at the 333 Mother Bar on the eve of the album release. This is your excuse to visit Sunny East London for some Sunday brunch and flower shopping. And if it rains, well, the gig will be indoors so you’ll be covered.
 

 
Great support from Jack Maggs, The Shakes and The Shills, you should really check them out.
 
All our lovin’,
Yx

Come spend the night with Yeti and friends at the Old Blue Last (apparently “the coolest pub in the world” according to Joe Nme) on Tuesday, June 10.  Music from 7:45pm to midnight. Yeti on at 9:40pm. Check out the great support bands, too. Address is 38 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3ES.

Be smart and get advance tickets here for £3 (£4 at the door) - http://wegottickets.com/event/31925

YSx

From the depths of Belgrade emerges the new Yeti video, directed by Serbian whizzkid Nemanja Antanaskovic. Set in a fictional world where the Serbian desert borders Snowy Mexico, the short film plays out the story of “Don’t Go Back To The One You Love”, where space and time collide to generate a beautiful escape from the traps of the mind.

Keywords: Mustang, Jane Birkin, Zastava 101, Escapism, Bullit, Dune, Solitude, Balenciaga, Moneyshot, Desert Heat, Police Sirens, Space Odyssey, Hallucinogenics, Deep Blue Sky, Past Crimes, Rising Sun, Symbolism, The Future, Melting of Space and Time.

Watch in HI RES here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huxuktj64T8#&fmt=18

If you like the video, please forward it to your friends. As you can imagine we annihilated our budget on this one so we’re gonna have to rely on the cheap and trusted PR method of Word Of Mouth.

Yx

We proudly announce that “Don’t Go Back To The One You Love”, the lead-off single from the forthcoming long-player “The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales”, has finally been given the green light for public release. The track is an amalgamation of three different songs from three separate genres. At almost 6 minutes long, it is an epic of monstrous proportions. You will not hear another single like this in 2008.

The single will be available on 7” Vinyl and CD formats from June 2, while Digital Downloads (iTunes etc) will be available from May 26. Quantities are strictly limited so preordering is advised!

Note: Contrary to what we said before, HMV stores are now stocking the CD single (but not Zavvi)!

Yeti are in a magazine in English this month. If you want to read about gerbils and sinks in the world of Yeti then check out this month’s ARENA at your nearest grocery store.



Y

Currently busy shooting our new music video on location in Belgrade. The video will feature a Mustang, a bunch of pigs, a desert, snow, a sandworm, a baby, a saint and a woman. And guns (ex-comm).

Out some time in the future.

Bang bang,
YS

Trying to master this album has been an absolute nightmare. First we found a place that refuses to play our ancient format, then our engineer got the flu and stayed home forever, and most recently we tried one of those long-distance online jobs that flattered to deceive. So it’s still waiting to be mastered. The good news though is that the album’s been remixed since the tour and it makes us happy.

For those who don’t know, mastering is the process that makes a record sound loud and polished, like a “finished” product, or a marketing safety net. Nowadays they just make everything superloud. The thinking behind this superloud-ness is that the average person is tasteless enough to (subconsciously) think that louder songs are catchier. So if song A is louder than song C on your ipod playlist, then you’re more likely to think that song A is more rockin’, even if it’s so loud that even the quiet bits are loud (i.e. zero dynamics). Yeti will not succumb to such ludicrosy. This album will have its dynamics intact. If you think it’s not loud enough after the latest Lily Allen superloud remix on your playlist then you’ll just have to turn it up. And if you’re cool enough to have Dr. Dre before Yeti on your playlist, we’ll send you an extra loud version*.

Anyway we’ll be playing in Croydon on April 6th. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and probably still is.

So that’s Yeti @ The Black Sheep Bar on April 6th.

Saint Yeti

*supplies limited