Good news, bad news

We’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which would you like first?

Oh, alright then – the bad it is. Our keyboard player Vinnie Ransome has decided to leave the band. We’re enormously grateful for the fantastic contribution she made to The Sweet Nothings – with her synth, with her voice and with her wonderful personality. We’d like to wish Vinnie the very best with everything she does in future, musically and otherwise, and we’d urge you to follow her band The Mini Skips. We’re sad to lose her from the band but we’re very happy still to count her as a friend.

We will be looking for a new keyboard player/second singer right away. Give us a shout if you’re interested, or if you know someone who might be. The Sweet Nothings are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community except Kasabian fans.

Good news? Two ace popshows, people! Until we get a new keyboardist we’re playing on in  Awesome Power Trio format. And we’re starting next Thursday. It’s part of BBC Radio 6Music’s imminent takeover of Sheffield (or Sheffield’s imminent takeover of BBC Radio 6Music; we’re not quite sure which). In short, the estimable Mr Steve Lamacq is doing his Roundtable show at the Crucible theatre and we’re playing the aftershow party at the Harley with Hey Sholay and Best Friends. Cor!

Then at the end of the month we’re in That London! It’s a Spiral Scratch popshow in That London’s Trendy Hoxton, with The Hobbes Fanclub and The Tuts. Cor again!

Discover more about these forthcoming attractions by hitting up the gigs page. Hope you can make it along! See you soon!

World tour of Sheffield… extended!

Well, we had three lovely gigs in Sheffield coming up. We played one of them: our first ever appearance at the Harley, alongside Standard Fare and The School. It was bloody great. And we’ve still got three lovely gigs in Sheffield coming up. How so? Cos there’s another one now that we didn’t have before, that’s how so!

Let’s recap. On 22 July we’re playing the House vs Home all-dayer at the Red House as part of the Tramlines thing – and we now have a stage time for that: we’re on at 9pm. Then on 26 August we’re back at the Red House as part of the Sheffield Pop Weekender.

And now, popfolks, those charming people at Pull Yourself Together have asked us to open for Allo Darlin’ and This Many Boyfriends at Queens Social Club on 6 September. It’s like a global tour except all in one city!

Quite soon there should be several other items of fabulously exciting news to share with you, so keep watching this space. But in the meantime hit up the gigs page for more details of the Nothings’ summer world tour of Sheffield!

Our summer of pop… at home in Sheffield

A view from Bole Hill across the Rivelin and Loxley valleys of north-west Sheffield

Not so long ago we went ages and ages without playing a gig in our home city. There were various reasons for this. We don’t know the right people; we don’t play horrible blokey rock or sing in an exaggerated Sheffield accent; we’re stark staring bone bloody idle… that sort of thing.

Going into this summer, by contrast, we’ve got three ace popshows coming up, and they’re all in Sheffield. Isn’t it funny how things turn out?

In June we’re supporting The School and Standard Fare for our first ever appearance at the Harley. In July we’re playing Tramlines for the first time. And in August we’ve made it on to the line-up for an excellent all-dayer. (See the gigs page for full details.)

Granted, our three Sheffield gigs have come about because of friends who we know originally from Nottingham and Manchester, and because one of them is being organised by our bass player. But if you forget about all that for a moment, and squint for a bit, it’s easy to imagine us playing a cool gig to a crowd of shrugging hipsters at the Plug a week after appearing on the front cover of Exposed while sipping cocktails made with Moonshine and Henderson’s Relish, isn’t it?

Oh, alright then. And sadly and frustratingly, we’ve had to say no to a couple of lovely gig offers elsewhere this summer too (one in London, one in Bradford).

Wherever you are, if you’re putting a gig on and you want us to play, please find our contact details and give us a shout. We might not have the right haircuts but we’ve got some pretty good songs.