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Second week at No.1!
Thanks everybody so much for keeping HotBeds at the top of the chart. If you haven't already, check out the links on our profile page to get more downloads. We're really looking forward to our headline show at The Workshop (Old Street) on Sept 3rd with The Fuegos and hope some of you
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Hot Love to you all!
Thanks to every one of you who downloaded BlahBlahBlah and made it No.1 this week. After a week where I (Andy) was nearly burned out of my home by rioters this is very welcome positive news!
We hope to see you all at The Workshop on Sept 3rd for our show with fellow unsigned chart
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Highest New Entry this week - Thankyou!
Hot Love to everyone's who's downloaded BlahBlahBlah this week and given us the highest new entry at No.8. Keep up the downloading and encourage whoever you can to do the same. We really appreciate it!
Our headline show at The Workshop, 243 Old Street is now less than a month
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BlahBlahBlah online for free download!
To celebrate our forthcoming headline show at The Workshop on Saturday September 3rd (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Beds/187135020268) we're making dancefloor favourite BlahBlahBlah available for free download for a limited time only!
Grab a copy, get your friends to grab a
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IntenseCity goes live
We had a truly awesome time at the Dark Mills festival. So many good people and a really cool atmosphere. Thanks to all of you who came down and made it so special.
The show coincided nicely with the launch of IntenseCity across all major download sites - including iTunes,
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58 Downloads / Festival!
So far so good guys but we need to double this before Sunday so if you have yet to download "Boys" now is the time! tourdates.co.uk/hotbeds
In related news, things are pretty busy at HotBeds towers. Radio stations, including the very lovely Recharged, have been playing the track
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Boys on film (and free download!)
"Boys", is the lead track taken from our forthcoming album, "IntenseCity". Because we love you we've put it out for free download here on Tourdates in preparation for the official launch on iTunes et al on September 6th. There's a video to go with it as well - the result of 12 hours
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Unplugged in E8
In preparation for our unplugged show at Belushi's, Covent Garden, on June 16th we've uploaded stripped down takes of three of our most popular songs to myspace.com/hotbeds. We'll make one of them available here to download if enough of you message us with which one you'd like to
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Hot Beds on the radio!
Another week down and another week Frantic (The Comedown) claws onto the tail end of the chart. Thanks to those of you who've downloaded it. We're taking a month or so off before releasing the next track - which will be brand new rather than a reworking.
In the meantime we
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Hot Beds get political!
Thanks to everyone who's been downloading "Frantic (The Comedown)" from here. It's a third week in the top 10 for this remix, holding firm at number 6. If you haven't got a copy yet please go and grab one whilst you still can!
Gig-wise, we're in Windsor on May 7th at the Fire
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Rising 9 to 5...
Thanks to everyone who's been downloading Frantic (The Comedown) this week. We've moved up from 9 to 5 this week and we really appreciate people taking the time to make that happen. We have some more free downloads available through Music Glue if you want to grab them - the link is
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Frantic goes top 10 + gig news
Thanks to everyone who downloaded Frantic (The Comedown) last week to move it 12 to 9 on the chart. It means a lot to us and we're working tirelessly on the album and gig schedule to bring you even more music.
Our gig at The Legion may have been not quite what we expected. After
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But it feels good 'cos it's Frantic...
Thanks to everyone who downloaded Frantic (The Comedown) last week and gave us a new entry at No.12 on the chart. The remix has been picking up play on various podcasts and radio shows so we're looking forward to it improving on this position.
Also, a special thanks to our
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4 weeks in the top 20
Well, it looks like no.8 was the peak for Stop Forgiving but there's still time to grab a copy before we replace it with our next alternative version track in the near future. We're actually really happy with how the download has gone given that it's a special stripped back version.
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Another week at No.8!
Thanks to all of you who have downloaded and kept us in the top 10 for a second week with our alternative version of Stop Forgiving. The full version will be out on iTunes in the summer but you can also hear a preview on the latest podcast of hitsofthenearfuture.com.
If you
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Highest new entry this week!
Thanks to everyone who has downloaded Stop Forgiving so far. If you haven't yet please get clicking and help us climb into the top 10.
We are playing a free gig (donations on the door to Cancer Research) on March 2nd supporting Kids Love Lies and being supported by Alicia Wolfe
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New track - Stop Forgiving
The first of our "alternative versions" is online from today for download. Stripping back the thunderous Stop Forgiving has produced, at least we think, a very much more delicate take on this tale of a dysfunctional relationship. Listen, download, work out how many of your friends,
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Christmas finished on December 25th
Thankyou to everyone who downloaded Christmas Started In October. We hope you enjoyed it and lowered the mood at parties across the country! We're taking it down now as our target to be Christmas No.1 has been achieved and we don't want to see it slide slowly away in the January
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Christmas No.1!
Thankyou to everyone who got clicking this week and took us from 2 to 1 on the chart. It means a lot and we're looking to build on it in 2010. Hopefully we'll see some of you at Feeling Gloomy (at Islington Academy 2) on Saturday 23rd January.
Hot Love, Lena and Andy
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Looking for Christmas No.1
Thankyou everyone who's downloaded a copy of "Christmas Started in October" so far, we're really happy with the progress it's making up the chart. If you haven't got a copy already please grab one now to take us to the top for the big week itself!
Also, if you're in London we're
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Download the new single NOW!
It's been a week of website features and podcast plays, culminating with an interview on Recharged Radio yesterday and we're really looking forward to seeing how "Christmas Started In October" will do in the chart. If you haven't got a copy yet we need you to grab one now. Last time
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Christmas Started in October
We've uploaded our festive single, "Christmas Started in October", to Tourdates for your listening pleasure. We really want to make this an alternative soundtrack to Christmas and are looking to get it played anywhere and everywhere possible before it becomes available for download
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Number 1 for a fifth week
Thankyou to everyone who's kept us at the top this week. We're completely blown away by the support for Leave Everything and we hope some of you can come and celebrate with us at The Cavendish Arms in Stockwell next Saturday.
Hot Love, Andy & Lena
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Stockwell show next Saturday!
Thanks to everyone came to Catch last Wednesday - you made it a truly memorable night. To follow up, we are now playing on Saturday 26th Sept at The Cavendish Arms - a stone's throw from Stockwell tube. One of our favourite venues (the gig space looks like a glitzy ballroom), we're
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Three weeks at number one!
Once again, thankyou to everyone who's helped keep us at the top of the chart. There are so many other good bands in the 40 at the moment we had expected to slip.
We're headlining Catch on Sept 16th with support from Monster Fight, Ethical Debating Society and Milk. Entry is just
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Still number one!
Thanks to everyone who's kept Leave Everything at the top of the chart this week. We're really looking forward to playing our headline show at Catch on Sept 16th - hope you can make it! More info at myspace.com/hotbeds, where there's also a link to our Facebook group.
Hot
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Thanks for making us number 1!
We are so happy to take the top slot this week with Leave Everything. Thankyou to everyone who downloaded it. It's been a weird couple of weeks for us as Lena injured herself on-set during a movie shoot (yes, really) and I've been out the country watching bands in Hungary. We'll be
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Do you write for a music site / paper / mag?
Hot Beds have a headline show at Catch (Shoreditch) on September 16th with support from Monster Fight, Ethical Debating Society and Milk. We're looking for people to review the show and/or interview us so if you write for a music site/publication get in touch (andy_quirk@hotmail.com)
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Leave Everything for download now!
You can pretend to be someone else to others but you can't do it forever and no matter how hard you try you'll never convince yourself. An ode to everyone from Britney to your local club scenesters - grab a copy now!
(Yes, this is an edit to the previous post. If ever a word
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All new Hot Beds
Following the departure of Hannah, Lena has joined the Hot Beds cause to carry the flag for paranoid urbanites everywhere. Check out our new video on youtube and myspace for more info.
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Album launch at Cafe De Paris
Now Hannah's returned from a month in South Africa the Hot Beds' mission continues with our album launch at Cafe De Paris (3 Coventry Street, Leicester Square) on Friday 29th May at 9pm. FREE if you get there early.
Info/Flyer at http://www.caferocks.co.uk/flyer.php
If FREE
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Hot Beds on VS:Recharged this Friday!
Hope some of you can tune in to VS:Recharged on Friday 8th May between 7pm and 9pm as I'm guesting on the show to talk about Hot Beds and the various clubnight offshoots we've spawned! You can either listen through Tourdates or at www.reachonair.com. If you're out there's a also a
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