On the eve of this strike we are previewing a track from our upcoming album - our own portrait of the education secretary: ‘The Gove Curve’.

The Gove Curve by Rumour Cubes

The track is also available on http://www.rumourcubes.com/ - our new website. Back the strikes!

Breaking News: Our debut album, The Narrow State, will be released on 27th February 2012. 

More details coming soon…….

We also have a brand new shiny website: www.rumourcubes.com - where you can join our mailing list if you are that way inclined :-)

We’ve played quite a lot of gigs so far this year, which have all gone pretty well. We played the Lexapalooza Lite festival in February, where the simply wonderful Frank Turner introduced us, we played an ArtUncut event in March with Josie Long and Chris TT, and most recently we played a Sweet Beans gig on 21st April with MinionTV (who we love), Killington Fall and Atlases. We were also played on BBC Introducing over the weekend - at about 3am, but still, a very exciting moment for us!

So, that’s what’s been happening. What’s happening going forward?

We have a number of gigs coming up which will all be really quite awesome. 

• 20th May - The Unicorn, Camden, with Orders Of The British Empire
• 2nd July - The Zenith, Islington, with Alright The Captain and Solomon Grundy (in aid of British Tinnitus Association)
• 10th July - Sweet Beans Festival, headlined by the simply incredible Her Name Is Calla
• 14th July - 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, supporting DeLooze

We’re also currently (as in, right now!) recording in a wonderful studio in Mile End. It’s called Cafe Music Studios, and is quite simply the most fantastic place I think I’ve ever seen. I could spend hours here just poking around, looking at everything that’s all over the walls and on the shelves, opening draws, and just generally wishing that I lived here. Mark and Charif are doing some truly incredible things with our sound, and are very much on board with how we want to sound and offering some very good suggestions for improvement.

We’re here all day today and tomorrow, and then two days next week, by the end of which we’ll hopefully have four tracks that have been professionally recorded and mastered and A&Rd and which sound pretty damned impressive! 

So, that’s us. What have you lot been up to?

Occasionally, we play music. Cafe Music Studio really is the most wonderful place I’ve ever been (this is the lounge)

One half of Rumour Cubes in the studio taking a well-deserved break from…well, we haven’t actually done any recording as yet, but it will happen!

So about a week ago I posted a teaser for the new Clock Opera song - Belongings.

The full version is now avaible to stream on soundcloud and it is a gem! I strongly urge you to listen and enjoy :-)