THIS BLOG IS OUTDATED – WE MOVED HERE.

you can consider this blog ‘Early The Taste Archives’. :) find everything new following the link above, including many absolutely free downloads! (for example here.)

see you there, have fun reading!
x nick

we’re now back to work for the universe****.

we’ve already recorded some fresh new bits of music and we’ll post songs and videos from time to time here and elsewhere on the #cold sponge internet# very soon! Hope this is good news. :)
MORE GOOD NEWS? mmmhhhh ok…..you’ll be able to download the new songs for free AND we’ll enter the TWITTER world in a few weeks so you can keep yourself updated whats going on on THE TASTE side of life.

A: Do you also have any bad news?

TT: Yes unfortunately. We won’t tour very soon. We’ll concentrate on working with the universe of the internet. We’ll tour again but no dates or plans are made. For now let us spread the 0011011110000011 words and songs.

A: Any other very important things you wanna say say say?

TT: Yes, you can now download our debut single for free here.

A: This is very good news, thank you!

TT: You’re welcome

A: :))

TT: LOVE

A: ::::)) Pleasured

STOP it…

Thanks for reading this and we’ll see you soon on Twitter, here or elsewhere in the electronic loverooms ! :))

we now have a sweet little red tent in our kitchen….

hey there,
long time no speak…. you can listen to one of our wonderful tunes we recorded with jon and james from duels on radio bayern3. the show is called “newcomershow” and its on air tomorrow friday 11/04 between 10pm and 12pm.
again:
BAYERN 3
newcomer show
friday 11/04
10pm – 12pm
have fun… we don’t know which song they will play and what they will tell about us. :)
should be good…
xxx maria

ps: our good friends from duels have released their new album named “the barbarians move in”!!! i’m (maria) singing and screaming backgroundvocals on the song “regeneration”. :) it’s an awesome album!!
it looks like this:

have a listen and buy it here: myspace.com/duelstheband

and therefore you can NOW or A BIT LATER…. but just for a month!…
DOWNLOAD for FREE
’123 what can you see from up the hill when live stands still’
DOWNLOAD for FREE
’123 what can you see from up the hill when live stands still’

GOOD NEWS EY?
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AND… we got 4 STARS in the current german issue of the fantastic ’ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE’. they’ve written a great review about our debut single ’I WANT YOU’.
read it here here here here here here here here or here
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that’s it for now!

as you probably know the single is released on 7” vinyl only as a limited edition of only 500 copies. so be quick to get your copy and here’s how to do that:

you can order the single directly on the labels website rank-records.com

OR if you live in the UK you can use one of the following mailorders:
- www.normanrecords.com
- www.recordstore.co.uk
- www.puregroove.co.uk
- www.banquetrecords.com
- www.actionrecords.co.uk
- www.onthefringe.co.uk

xxx nick

5 EUROS EACH

WE’LL PLAY AT THE ‘ROTE RAUPE’ BIRTHDAY PARTY

W/ PHONOBOY and ME SUCCEEDS @AMPERE MUNICH

DOORS: 8:00

DON’T FORGETT YOUR 5 EUROS TO GET THE SINGLE TONIGHT!!

AND THEREFORE BE THE FIRST TO HAVE IT IN YOUR HANDS!

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the munich show will be our last one this year. we are going to take a couple of months break from touring in order to work on new material. we toured with pretty much the same live set for more than 2 years now and were so busy with all the organisational stuff that comes along with booking tours that we could hardly spend any time on the work that has been the actual reason for us to making music: writing new songs.

although we already miss being on the road now we’re looking forward to this creative time and will be back with a whole lotta touring next year.

please buy our debut single which is going to come out on 15th february. we are very proud of it and think it sums up the very exciting last couple of months pretty well.

cheers from munich,
maria and nick

thanks to marias dad for shooting this nice little vid! :) count the people, it should be 25.000…

this was backstage at the famous barrowland in glasgow known as probably the best venue in the world.

soundchecking …

… and the gig …

a view from the stage in aberdeen during travis’ soundcheck.

and this is how we looked like on the stage.

some of the 25000 people

the bathtub in our suite in aberdeen. nice innit?! :)

xx nick

on learn how to pre-order our DEBUT SINGLE in our shop section.

a wonderful goood and HAPPY new year for everybody!!!!! hope to see some of you in ABERDEEN ja!? :)

xxxxxxxxxxxxx maria

the first show will be in london (brixton)

+++ 27 Dec 2007 windmill brixton LONDON +++

on the 28th we’ll have a hopefully succesfull photo shooting in london :)

and the next day we’ll travell to leeds where our hotel is to play wakefield in the evening.

+++ 29 Dec 2007 louder than bombs @escobar WAKEFIELD +++

and then we’ll play glasgow and aberdeen with our good friends TRAVIS who were crazy enough to invite us again to support them….. we say a BIG THANK YOU!!! :))))

+++ 30 Dec 2007 19:00 barrowlands w/ travis and 1990s GLASGOW +++
+++ 31 Dec 2007 21:00 hogmanay @castlegate w/ travis ABERDEEN +++

we hope all of you had a great christmas eve and that we’ll see some of you on one of the shows soooonnish! :)

some wwwooorrrdddsss:
we had a really great 2007 and we’d like to say a big thank you to all of you….either for the nice words before and/or after the shows, the messages we got, all the people that have sent us photos or videos and to all who supported us in one or the other way!! we travelled more than 40000 kilometers this year and spent all the time we had left besides our jobs with music. it was a hard but a wonderful year we’ll never ever forget in our lives and nobody can ever take us all these memories we got.
we hope to continue with a great next year.

in a couple of days you can preorder our very first single which will be ‘i want you’ and which is going to come out on berlin label rank records beginning of february. the cover photo was taken by our good friend migue from london and we think its absolutely brilliant! thanks a lot to migue again for this! :) and we’d also like to say a big thank you to rank records for releasing our debut single! :)

to all of you a wonderful new year 2008!!! and we hope you will preorder the single as soon as you can! :) hope you like it! btw: the b-side will be ‘i die when the night comes’.

hugs hugs hugs from,
the taste: nick and maria, our management people nick and maria, our booking agency fellows nick and maria and our tour managers nick and maria ;)

please note that this show is FREE !!!!! so we hope to see you all there for some after christmas fun!

merry christmas,
nick

thanks a lot to andrea from italy for that great video!!

we’ll play:
29/12/07 wakefield ‘louder than bombs’ @escobar
30/12/07 glasgow @barrowlands w/ travis and 1990′s
31/12/07 aberdeen ‘hogmanay’ @castlegate w/ travis

we might play london as well but we don’t know yet..so keep an eye on this part of www.

xx maria

first of all THANKS A LOT to all the fantastic email responses we got! we are very very happy that so many people liked us that much! :)) and another big THANK YOU to all of you who bought our cd… we’re SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT!! :) this was a limited hand made single cd and it will never ever be released in that very special way again. so you all bought a really unique thing. :) there were a couple of questions we got during the shows with travis and a few came up quite often…
1. when will you be releasing an album?
2. do you have a record deal?
3. how did you get the support shows?
4. why have we never heard of you before?
5. are you brother and sister?
6. are you really german?
and some more i forgot…but if you have a question please ask… we’ll be answering it if its a good one! :)

so what about the answers… well ok, here they are:
1. when will you be releasing an album?
we don’t know yet but we try to release one as soon as possible!

2. do you have a record deal?
NO

3. how did you get the support shows?
we blackmailed TRAVIS!

4. why have we never heard of you before?
we don’t know… we appear on every single kellogs package and every single second there is a tv ad in every country of the world about the taste… so maybe you never ever had kellogs cornflakes or you just have to stop going for a pee while the ads are running.

5. are you brother and sister?
we wish we were so we wouldn’t have needed to get married.

6. are you really german?
no, we are british but we thought its much cooler pretending to be german.

….hope that could help you a bit… :)

now the other stunning stuff… PHOTOS, VIDEOS. we’ll be posting them from time to time during the next few days and weeks. including a fab fab Fab FAb FAB video of us and dougie, andy and fran performing “till there was” you together in zurich which was soooo much fun unbelievable! :) best gig ever! :)

AGAIN we’d like to thank all of you for the wonderful time! all listeners during the shows, all writers of emails, all the people that were shooting pics and videos of us, all nice words we got from you, all hundreds of people that bought one of our cd, buttons, t-shirts, all the TRAVIS staff (we miss you all!!!), our wonderful sound engineer we had from the TRAVIS crew (we miss you too!!!), and last but not least TRAVIS TRAVIS TRAVIS for one of the best time we had in our live so far!!! THANK YOU GUYS…. you are brilliant! :)

THANK YOU yours
maria

ps: we have a lot going on in 2008!!! stay ONLINE! :)
hugs

ANDHEREARESOMEIMPRESSIONSIMPRESSIONS —–>

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

it was a really fabulous show yesterday… we rarely had a gig with such a warm and friendly atmosphere, the audience was amazing, like being in a room with a lot of good friends. and travis was so excellent!! we were watching the show from the stage, sitting near the guitar tech next to andy. what an experience!!