12072004 i notice with dismay that it is a little over 2 of your earth years since this site was updated - never mind because we are back again! with a gig at sheffield's classic rock bar on ecclesall road on friday the 23rd of july - we will be playing with the frenchmen, pipas and the lovely cut-outs - doors will open at 7pm and you will have to pay £4 in earth money to get in - come down and marvel at how little we have progressed musically (with all new songs) and how much we have grown physically (with all new beer bellies!)
20032002 new velodrome gigs! - we are playing at the deep end in sheffield on the 28th with the blue minkies and valerie - it is a benefit gig in aid of ladyfest so you can be worthy while you are enjoying pop noise fun! - and we are playing leeds at the packhorse on may the fourth with the seven inches and tonieee's other band plouf!
03122001 christmas time is upon us once again and we come like flocks of three wise men bearing you gifts from exotic places... first up is our christmas song coming out on the 50,000,000 elves fans can't be wrong christmas compilation - read the details, view the poster and listen to it's sound by clicking here... secondly we shall be playing two gigs to celebrate the coming of santa - they are on the 14th of december at the brudenell social club in leeds and on the 18th of december at the casbah in sheffield - these will be the debut gigs for little drummer boy nigel so come all ye drummer fans and give him your support... lastley i've add some more links to the Transporter Bay including one to nigel's other band, betty's clinic, so you can have a look what he looks like...
08102001 hello there velo-fans, three items of new news today... number one is that we have a new drummer, little drummer boy nigel, who is taking over on the sticks from steph - we have had two practices with him to date and he is getting into the velodrome groove very well... number two is that we are to have a track on the where it's at is where you are christmas compilation - it is a new song which we wrote called christmas sucks which is totally and utterly christabulous and is the first recording to feature little drummer boy nigel - it is completely recorded now except for some sleigh bells... number three is that we are to do a christmas gig at the brudenell social club in leeds with boyracer at which we will be previewing both our new song and new drummer - be there or miss out...
24042001 at last the moment the whole universe has been waiting for - the velodrome lp has finally arrived!!! it is called 20 bubblegum classics and costs only 8 earth pounds to buy - check out the LP page for details and songs to download
08012001 well it's another year here at velodrome 2000 space HQ and the start of the "real" millenium brings the realisation that we are now officially "old hat"... hmmm... anyway fantastic pop things still can happen to old people and if you want them to happen to you too then take a trip to the pop-a-go-go festival, details here, or have a wander over to the LP page for pictures of lovely our lp and some songs to download... hurrah! Also new to the site is the Ask Velodrome page.
26112000 it's all been happening at the velodrome 2000 space HQ this week - steve lamacq has been playing one of the track's off our new lp on his show on radio one - we have confirmed a gig at the pop-a-go-go festival (17th febuary 2001 @ the boardwalk, sheffied) - and the artwork for our lp is nearly ready and looking totally fab - the lp is called 20 bubblegum classics and should be out towards the end of febuary