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.



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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

It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a Yeti - bar Graham - caught in the process of a travelling tour, must be sick at least once. Since this is a 6-week tour, there’s enough time for some to be sick twice. So far Andrew has missed three shows and John has lost his voice twice. Mark, traditionally the weakest, has made it to every gig, though it’s worth noting that he was “sick” for 2 weeks prior to the tour, and he’s been routinely chickening out of singing those silly high harmonies in Merry Go Round. For non-artistic reasons of course.

Graham is strong as ever, but no doubt mentally still suffering from that ASDA incident. Where did that neon-yellow police van come from? Why did they only notice the Yeti when The Foxes were pissing just 15 yards away?

Giant thanks to all those who came to the shows, especially those in Scotland (and Carlisle). It truly is ten thousand times colder than London up there, and we understand why you’re all drunk before the opening band. We certainly wouldn’t leave the house to see Yeti in those conditions.

One thing though - why do the people of Scotland keep asking us if we like Idlewild? Should we (not)?

Yx

PS: Thank you Jonno Fox for filling in.

This is not a ploy to entice sympathy, it actually happened. See evidence below. They speak more than words. Victims include 1 SM58 clone, 2 SM57s, 1 Teisco dynamic, 1 Chinese Ribbon, 1 drum carpet, 1 Electro-Harmonix Mic Preamp, 2 MXR pedals, 1 Teisco Del Rey semi-acoustic, 13 setlists, 1 early 60’s Vox Amp, 1 70s Pearl Amp, 1 pig mask, 50 rare vinyls and various old 4 track rehearsal tapes.

There’s no insurance because it’s an “illegal” basement / cave.

Yelp!

Yes, we insisted on using the wind machine. Not.

We’d like to assure you that Yeti hasn’t become a shirt n’ tie band. Andrew was cruelly given the choice of a pimp jacket or a tie/wedding shirt combo (Graham gladly took the pimp jacket).

Note the tight dotty clown trousers on Hassall.

Yx

It’s all in Italian, but it’s still Yeti…

And we’re so glad that Michael Jackson is on the cover. Seriously.

Special thanks to Connie and Michel Comte (we applaud your taste in music and look forward to eventually filming our video in Paris).

Yeti x

PS: If you’re in Japan, we’ll be on Spaceshower TV on October 23 (we think) playing a Dolly Parton cover. We’ve never seen it but from what we remember it was amazing. Dolly would not have been proud.