Urchin

You guys!

Liz and I are writing to you from Bristol, which links me to the next issue.

That's right, we did follow Coco Sumner to Bristol, but what do you expect? ONLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN IN THEKLA. We managed to give her our EP whilst she was on stage! You guys, I can't even. She is impossibly beautiful irl and we're totally, utterly obsessed (again). 

Tuesday, 6pm, Urban Outfitters in Leeds. FREE I BLAME COCO IN STORE SESSION! And then 7pm at the uni, ACTUAL GIG. See you there? 

ION, WE GOT THROUGH TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE JUST A GIRL COMPETITION! Please, please come and support us at the battle of the bands which takes place on Saturday the 23rd of October at 7.30pm at The Horatia near Highbury & Islington tube station in London. 

Full deets are here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158991584119237

Not only will this be our first gig in London, but also our first gig with Sue on bass and Heather on drums! SO EXCITED. Our very first EP (Honk!) (no, it's actually called 'Honk!') will be on sale too! DO pick up a copy. We've all been working very hard on it over the past few weeks (mad props to Danni for being an all-round DEITY when it comes to music tech). The tracks for the EP are still being perfected, but head on over to myspace to listen almost-perfect versions for now! 

I will leave you with some remnants of our conversations from last night. During the gig I may have said 'she looks like something out of Tipping the Velvet!' to Liz. And she did - she was wearing a ruffled white shirt with a red bowtie and brown trousers that only reached her little ankles, completed with white socks and brown brogues. She then picked up her drink and nodded to the audience, 'cheers'. Later, as we were trying to fall asleep still reeling from her nauseating beauty, Liz went 'She was like an URCHIN.'

Urchin.

So then, as we were still desperately attempting to fall asleep, we just kept repeating the word 'urchin' in turn. Urchin. Is there? Can I? Does a weirder word even exist?!

Urchin.

I mean obviously we are aware that when you say the same word repeatedly it gets weirder and weirder and loses all meaning, but urchin is just weird to begin with! URCHIN.

I think that's enough for now. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

(urchin)

(sorry)

AMAZON MOLLY ARE IN THE LADYFEST10 LONGLIST!

HELLO SWEETHEARTS,

Wellity, wellity, wellity. What a month! In the past few weeks, we have managed to start the very long, strenuous and GLORIOUS recording process with the help of light of my life, bread on my table: Danni. Producer extraudiNAIRE. We also had a photo shoot with the lovely Sarah Francis in preparation for our entry to...

LADYFEST TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, you guys. We are so excited to be a part of this competition and it would mean the WORLD to us if you could mosey on down to http://www.thegirlsare.com and vote for us. They're allowing people to vote multiple times so ... I mean... I don't... if you... with the... I mean. ALL I'M SAYING. Any comments and feedback are obvs greatly appreciated.

In the meantime, check out the newest recordings of Stop Playing Tetris With My Heart and Brainsex on myspace AND here are a few irresistible pik-chures from our shoot:

Honk.

Politics With Am-Mo

Hello there friendos. Here at Amazon Molly we like to document our travels, and our trip back from our London excursion to see She & Him was NO EXCEPTION. If, like us, you have been emotionally obliterated by the recent UK election aftermath shitbag of hell, you might find the following images useful. Likewise, if you had no idea that the UK was even having the biggest problem of its life, you might find the following images useful.

1. Go-Bro. OH GO-BRO. GO-BRO, GO-BRO, GO-BRO. WE MISS YOU ALREADY. WE EVEN MISS YOUR RETCH FACE. THAT IS SAYING A LOT.
Essentially, Liz feels exactly the same way as when Mutya left the Sugababes; up until that point, she had fucking hated her with her stupid upper lip piercing and horrible talon nails (read: disappointing civil liberties-related decisions in parliament). As soon as she left the Sugababes, Liz realised she loved her. She loved her raspy voice and, more importantly, Amelle was a piece of shit. There is no parliamentary equivalent to Amelle yet, but Liz is pretty certain that it will SUCK.

2. fuck my life.

3. Having enthusiastically supported the Lib Dems as the best of three evils, we were thrust into a CHASM of DISMAY when it became apparent that Nick Clegg might form a coalition with the FUCKING TORIES. These pictures attempt to depict our nervousness and fevered, possibly forbidden, hope.

4. After all that we needed some kind of relief. Amazon Molly may be emigrating sometime soon. Watch out world!

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Updated Bio!

After a particularly disastrous outing to Hyde Park's finest cuisine, LS6, in which nothing was working because "it's the weekend" (this includes the pews), Stunt and Portable physically couldn't take it anymore; their creative frustation has come to you in the form of Amazon Molly. They love Facebook (Myspace not so much) and their favourite colours are hot pink and teal.

After being reliably informed that this biography was 'NOT VERY HELPFUL' Liz and Sof took it upon themselves to write a more substantial and enlightening version. Note: Both are completely accurate.

Amazon Molly find it quite difficult to categorise themselves; good analyses of their music include 'comedy post-riot grrrl' and 'fun, punky songs about Tetris, sex and gender politics'. They're influenced by pop, punk, folk, riot grrl, musicals, grunge, and "lesbian music", and like to think they sound like the awkward shouldn't-still-be-acting-like-a-teenager offspring of The Murmurs and Northern State, conceived with the Buffy soundtrack playing in the background. Except there is no rap. Yet.

Liz and Sof first met through a mutual friend that shall remain nameless: Ramzy Alwakeel. Two years after bonding over the extreme, life-shattering hotness of Shirley Manson, they realised starting a band was the only way forward. Their second gig was at Ladyfest Manchester 2008, appearing alongside GeEkgiRl and Das Wonderlust, in place of the GORGEOUS and WONDERFUL Robin Osterley.

Since then, they have played various gigs around Leeds with, among other people, the likes of Fanny DiWanko. They have also collaborated with Cambridge's FINEST Faith Taylor! This collaboration was featured on a complilation CD put together by the awesome people at Queer Mutiny entitled 'Queer We Go!'. Win? Sof played flute on a track called 'Growing Pains' on Tiny Tin Lady's 2008 album, Ridiculous Bohemia, and managed to nab Mr. Danni for second guitar and drumming purposes in the process.

They are currently working on producing an EP, provisionally called 'CAN I JUST' and are in the longlist to play Ladyfest London 2010. If you want them to play a gig, it is best to contact them through their Facebook page or Twitter.

JOY!

Hello followers,

Just to inform everyone that I, Sof, met and hugged Jenny Owen Youngs last night and that she now owns an Amazon Molly badge AND sticker and "looks forwards to listening to us soon!"

A picture was taken (proof) but unfortunately I do not have means of uploading it because Liz is the actual owner of the camera that took the actual picture of me, Sof, and Jenny Owen Actual Youngs, whom I hugged and interacted with. Like a normal human. Hugged.

Jenny.

Lots of love from Sof Ihuggedjennyowenyoungs Hicks. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

OH, ALSO

We wish to make it clear that the title of our most recent song has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FILM OF THE SAME NAME. While we have no real reason to believe there is anything that wrong with Robert Pattinson's person, we do not in any way support the fanship he (or the way in which he is marketed) incurs. I can't speak for Sof but personally, having seen the first two films for reasons I can't really get my head around, I think the Twilight franchise is the devil and anyone associated with it has severely impaired judgement. On the plus side, here is a funny article-thing about terrible Twilight merchandise.

But, to return to the point, we do not want anyone to associate our music with the film or the man.

Finally, this is hilarious and encompasses both the topics of this post and our undying love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Realbai!

Am-Mo xxxxxxxxxx

Ridicularse

Hello, friendos! I thought I should post some sort of explanation as to why we are no longer feverishly updating our every output daily - WE HAVE BOTH GONE TO OUR RESPECTIVE HOME TOWNS. Sof is living the high life in London and I am banging my head against a brick wall in Bristol. (Not really, I'm having a lovely time. I play The Sims 3 EVERY DAY.)

Mostly I make attractive lesbians and live vicariously through them.

Anyway, it's a bit annoying that, just after we both simultaneously became more dedicated than ever before to self-promotion, we have been cruelly separated, but we'll both be back in two or three weeks and hopefully we'll continue. Before we left Leeds we started working on the new song I mentioned before - we decided to take it the other way and, rather than grungy and grumpy, make it happy and folksy and cute. It's currently like The Murmurs with occasional Rocky Horror Picture Show/Garbage spasms. We hope you enjoy it. In the meantime:

Bai! See you bassoon!

Lots of love, Amazon Molly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx