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2011-01-13

WHAT THE NEW YEAR BRINGS...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Our New Years Eve show at the Casbah was the perfect bookend on an incredible year.  
Two weeks in and things are already happening quickly...What about all the moments that are left in the wake of our journey of 2010?  They are floating about in our not so distant memory.  Let's review... 
 
We did some traveling, saw some things...played a ton of shows and met some wonderful people.  Didn't make many babies driving from San Diego to Detroit all at once or from Toronto back to San Diego in 48 hrs. but we did learn that liquor sold at gas stations in Nebraska (Pump N Pantry), come in huge bottles.  Plenty of variety as well!  Sour mash, mmmmm.  Also learned that when you tell a story about being slapped in the face by the Prime Minister of England, it keeps some in suspense.  Excellent!
 
2010 HIGHLIGHTS - 
Welcoming the drummer extraordinaire Andy Ridley to the TRANSFER lineup.  Turns out his drumming prowess is preceded only by his humble generosity and upstanding character.  His downside?  He is quite militant and forces the band to do calesthenics, (not to mention the night terrors).  Kidding... although he does talk in his sleep quite often.
 
We headed out in October as support on the Brandon Flowers Tour and what a ride it was.  Playing some incredible venues and making so many new friends was a big highlight.  We returned to the U.S. and joined on the final leg all throughout the East Coast.  Good times had by all...except Card's amp in Detroit, (R.I.P.)  
 
Some U.K. Magazines picked us to be "One's to Watch in 2011" 
Check some road pics by Tessa Angus: click the pic for photos     
   
 
 Now, here's the new....who's watching? 

 MORE DATES JUST ADDED.  CHECK OUR SHOWS PAGE FOR DETAILS
 
BUT BEFORE WE GO: click flyer for tix

 
AND - We opened a new recording studio in San Diego!  It's called White Horse Recorders and we are proud to call it home.  This is where we will be birthing, bickering, and molding the shape of our not so distant form.  It's all happening there...stay tuned.
 
~2010 SHOUTS~ 
The crew has expanded!  TRANSFER started working with new management.  The TRANSFER/TeenAgeRiot union has been a great one.  Not enough can be said on our part to thank Jeremy and his London-based team that have committed to the TRANSFER project.  Be watchful this year to see what shakes out.  Good things on the horizon.
Big thanks to Rachel Hendry for her wonderful contribution and belief and to our little Ginger at TeenAgeRiot, Anna Howard. Her sweet friendship, comic relief, and tour management in far away lands has led us into many a laugh, spots to sleep, scotch to drink, and only one fender bender!  Without you, we would not know the meaning of the word chav, innit, and tosser. For all of this and more, we eternally thank you! AYEEE
 
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SEE YOU ALL SOON!
 
xo,
~t r a n s f e r c o n t r o l~
 
 
 
 
 

2010-12-07

CLASH MAGAZINE

 CLASH MAGAZINE seems to be privy as well, as they will also feature TRANSFER as "ONES TO WATCH in 2011"


2010-12-04

THE CREW

KNOW THE TEAM

~PLATINUM~

 

Atlantic City - Our faithful friend and stage technician, Platinum Tom gets escorted from the stage of the dance floor at the Showboat Casino.  "DJ needs room!", they say.  It appeared that his milkshake brought all the security to the yard as there was evidently no more space for the Double Barrel Platinum Chicken Strut.  This was post gambling all per diems at the craps table…some winning, some losing, all falling victim to the free jack and coke.  Ah, Casinos…they really have the science.  

Meet Platinum 

 

~GENO'S

Philadelphia, PA

Before our show at The Electric Factory, with time to kill, we decided to head out on a search for the city's quintessential cheesesteak.  After parking, we ran across this mural by Shepard Fairey.  

A reminder of home was cool to see in a random neighborhood in Philly.

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On to Geno's.  There was a line and we were told it was worth it, so we waited it out.    I could sense the urgency of getting your shit together before you got to the window by the orders taken from the customers in front of me. , (side note - the window had stickers all over it that read things like, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!" and "THIS IS AMERICA.  When ordering, SPEAK ENGLISH!!!" They also served FREEDOM FRIES).  "You're next, GO!"  "I'll take a Philly cheesesteak, please."…"GIMME A WHIZZ WHIZZ WITH ONION!  NEXT!!"  I was fortunately able to sort my order in a speedy fashion.  Rosey, on the other hand was not so lucky.  He got yelled at twice and stood like a deer in the headlights. Philly patience has about as long of a shelf life as a fart in the wind.  I think someone actually stepped in and ordered for Rosey as he stood there.  Amazing. 

 


 

The cheesesteak was just ok but the hot sauce was extremelyfuckinghot and nearly burned my esophagus to a shredded ribbon.  We'll hit Pat's next time. 

 The show at the Electric Factory was a good one and very well received.  Great venue and guess what food was served after…yep.

Andy ate three that day.  AMERICUH, FURCK YEAHRRR!!!

 

TESSA ANGUS

Queen Bee of Photography

This U.S. run provided so many incredible moments.  We were lucky enough to be joined by amazing photographer and friend, Tessa Angus and will be posting some of her work with us in the coming weeks.  

Here are a few that she captured.  

 

 

 

2010-12-02

U.S. Tour Blog

It's 1:30am and there's a bar somewhere in Montreal that has a mechanical bull in it and right about now I believe that 2 of the 4 members of Transfer along with some of the tour crew are engaged in a battle of man vs. machine! (VIDEO SOON). I don't know about you but I have high hopes of some quality pictures surfacing tomorrow of which will have to be posted. In the meantime I'm sitting in the hotel room at 2am deciding that now would be a good time to tell you a little about the trip so far.

This is Transfer's first trip to the East Coast and has been nothing but amazing on all accounts. We find ourselves again sharing the stage with Brandon Flowers for the US/Canada leg of his 2010 tour and it seems as though every night has been getting better and better for us. Tonight was the smallest venue of the tour but you would have never known from the noise and response we received, my first impression is that I cant wait to figure out when we can get back here and play another show.

The tour starting with a grueling 3 day drive from San Diego to Detroit about 2 weeks ago, rain and snow, road closers in Utah and ridiculously long drives, it was seriously one of the toughest things I've ever had to do.........and by toughest thing ever I mean make sure I had time to go to the bar at the airport before I caught my flight because I decided that I would do the complete opposite to spending 3 days traveling the road and meet everyone there........true team player right?? Anyway, after meeting up with our main man Super Tom who flew in from London to Detroit, the Transfer team were together once again and ready for the first show.

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Detroit was a great first show, cold as hell but none the less a good time had by all. The day had it's drama in the face of Card's brand new one week old guitar amp being placed on top of it's flight case with wheels and blowing down the path after the show, the wheel caught on the pavement and face planted the amp off of the top of the case and into the ground, smashing everything inside. Mr Cardenas definitely needed a drink after that incident SO when the owner of the bar/restaurant next to the venue decides to close down the club and allow you to stay in there til 4am and serve yourself drinks, I think we could say that the first show (and Tom's b'day) started off with a bang!

That leads us to Thanksgiving day.........and our only day off on the whole tour.........unfortunately a very slow moving band had to wake up after 3 hrs of sleep and drive 14hrs to Boston MA. At some point during this trip we and by we I mean Matt thought it would be a good idea to take a detour to Niagara Falls, maybe grab some Thanksgiving dinner somewhere and relax for an hr. Having never been, everybody agreed and decided to do it since who knows when the next time we're gonna be in that area, we may never get to see Niagara Falls!! That being said, It wasn't until we were 5 minutes away from it (it's now dark by the way!) that we noticed a city overlooking the falls, “Oh, what city is that?” …....well, that city is Toronto, Canada and in approximately 9 days time we will be performing in that city and will have all the opportunity in the world to see the Falls that day! So, a slightly pointless 2 hr detour was had. However that being said, seeing the Falls at night and the fact that there was no one there because it was Thanksgiving was amazing, the roar coming from it, the intensity of it was unbelievable.......so ultimately although I gave him shit for it, Matt's idea actually turned out pretty good.

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After a day spent trying to locate a new amp for Card and having it arrive an hr before doors open Boston - House of Blues was a great show for the band, big venue and loud a crowd got us back in the swing of things. We got to hang in the bar at Fenway Park after the show and although I'm not a huge baseball fan it was pretty dang cool to be there regardless.

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Shows in Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Asbury Park NJ, and 2 shows in New York City followed. Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC is an amazing room in the center of Manhattan and is the biggest show on the tour. As with most of this tour it was sold out and packed to the top for our set. Over the course of the tour Brandon has a core group of fans that travel to every city and camp out before the shows so they can get in first and at the front, they all seem to take the time after and sometimes before to come say hi and for the most part seem to have accepted us. It was at this show that I first noticed that I started seeing people singing along and a bunch of people wearing Transfer T'shirts! Ultimately our main goal is to gain as many new Transfer fans over the course of this tour and it has been pretty awesome to get to go out there every night in a different city and try and win people over. We're close to selling out of all the cd's we brought with us and the feedback we've been getting has been incredible. A big thankyou to all of you who hang around after the shows to say hi, send us messages, buy cd's and generally make this whole touring thing worth while for a band trying to pave their way into this market.

I guess at 4am I may not be making sense anymore therefore time to shut up! Toronto tomorrow.

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2010-11-08

U.S. TOUR // SINGLE RELEASE and our beautiful new babies

Hello my babies,

There have been some new developments in the TRANSFER world since we last spoke.  First being, the UK RELEASE of //LOSING COMPOSURE//WHITE HORSE Single - featuring Bonus Track //LIKE A FUNERAL//.  Pay attention to the new recording of //WHITE HORSE//.  It was just birthed from our new recording cave WHITE HORSE RECORDERS.  Cornish, you ask?  Yes...Appropriate you say??  Yes.  Is it EVIL???  YES!!!  DOWNLOAD ALL THREE FOR FREE!!!

 

Peep the OFFICIAL VIDEO for the LOSING COMPOSURE SINGLE RELEASE and video re-cap from our UK TOUR w/ Brandon Flowers.

   

NOW FOR THE US TOUR DATES!!!

Thank you to all of our new beautiful babies in the UK.  Keep with us on TWITTER and FACEBOOK ~AND~ to describe it in a word?  PLEASURE.  Our pleasure and YOUR leisure.  Also - Our eternal thanks to the cast and crew from the last run.  What amazing support!!  Won't be long now, friends.

xo, ~t r a n s f e r c o n t r o l~