Wow, this year is just flying by so far. I can’t believe we haven’t updated anything since December! We are working hard on new songs and hope to be back in the studio recording something by the end of the summer. While we’re busy recording we’re not playing a lot of shows but we had a few offers we just couldn’t say no to. We will be playing at Les Tassel Parkin Cascade, MI on June 26th, its an outdoor, all ages, free show. We’ll have more details as soon as we can and we’ll update our shows page. [Read more…] about Abba night at the Picnic Pops
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Back from Scandinavia and England
I think we’ve finally recovered! Its been a few weeks since we got back from England and we are totally wishing we could head back. We had such a great time and we met so many wonderful people who made our tour one to remember. We have some pictures up if you want to see them, you can click here or go to our photos page. We don’t have any plans for the rest of the year other then enjoying the holidays, but check back with us early in the new year since we’re working on finalizing a few events in Grand Rapids.
The Icicles performing “Whirling” live at the Windmill in Brixton, London
Music from the Icicles featured on Target commercial!
If you haven’t seen it yet, or saw it and couldn’t believe it, our song La Ti Da (Arrivals & Departures) is being used in the new Target ads that started airing on Sunday. We haven’t been able to find it online yet to link to, but you can download an mp3 of the whole song on our listen page. We have also been adding more dates to our fall UK tour, which can now officially be renamed a European tour since we will be starting everything off in Scandinavia before our UK shows.
Ripley here we come
We’ve been busy in Icicle-land getting a few things lined up for this fall. We’re still working on a lot of stuff, but what we can share right now is we are heading to the UK this fall and the show that started it all will be Indietracks on Dec 1st, at the Midland Railway, Butterley station! Tickets went on sale this week and you can get them from the indietracks website. As long as we’ll be out of the country, we’re hoping to line up a few more shows over the course of a few weeks so we’re definitely not done announcing our fall shows!!!
Live video recordings
We’ve had a few videos surface over the last few months on YouTube of us from past shows that we’ve posted on our listen page. Thanks to Magnus from Dyrdin, Punkcast and BSR Live for recording them!
Arrivals & Departures released
Well, our cd release has finally come and we are so excited for everyone to hear what we’ve been working on! The album, Arrivals & Departures is available on our buy page and if you order before we leave for tour on the 22nd we’ll get it in the mail asap! Don’t forget to checkout our tour dates and make plans to come to a show and say hi if we’re in your area.
Music from the Icicles featured on Motorola commercial
Our song Sugar Sweet (A Hundred Patterns) is being featured on a Motorola commercial for the new KRZR phone. It will be airing internationally and will even be used as a ringtone on some of the phones!