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SSSeptember 2007

Hi All,

So MySpace has taken over the world and we haven't updated our website for ages.

What have we been up to?

Our summer tour in Canada 2007 was 'totally awesome' - we travelled over 3000 miles in 2 weeks, played some wicked and not so good gigs. We saw cities with beaches, and gazed upon many beautiful mountains, prairies, glaciers and even deserts. We met some wonderful people and had some scary moments - all of which we are writing up in a dairy format which we will put out very soon online in case you are interested in reading about our adventures.

We are looking forward to playing Ladyfest Leicester on 6th October and then we will be celebrating our 10th/11th year anniversary party, which funnily enough is on 10/11 2007. It's gonna be a great party with many special guests so make sure you are there. We promise to play some old songs and some new ones too and maybe, just maybe, we'll supply a little surprise or two.

We have recently signed an independent distribution deal with Code 7/PHD. We are looking forward to releasing our new album with them in Feb/March 2008, at which time we will also re-release our back catalogue. Also, we are hopefully going to be releasing a split vinyl single with ZAP records. Phew! More news on all this soon.

We are researching environmental possibilities for a physical release already as we considered just doing a digital release, but there are seriously good possibilities made of potato starch, green ink etc so...maybe you'll still be able to get your mits on an actual physical thing?

Check out new page on making of Fetch the Parrot blanket

Feb 2006
Gertrude have joined the fray over at myspace. Thanks to all who made our launch party this month a sold out celebration.

Nov 2005
Excellent exhibition at the southLondon Gallery at the monent called Her Noise. Album launch will be in Feb at the Pleasure Unit. Please see gig page for details. If you would like a review copy please send details of your publication to ayesha@gertruderock.com

April 2005
Tour dates are starting to come in for our tour of germany in July. Check the gig page for details. Gertrude are still recording their second album. Slow and steady wins the race...

Feb 2005
This year we are planning on recording a new album and touring Europe. We are currently writing a bunch of new songs. We are recording the album at rampARTS social centre and in Ayesha's bedroom.

September 2004
Gertrude will be supporting Shellac on Monday 29th November at The Scala in Kings Cross. Tickets are already selling fast. Order your ticket online here. The gertrude track 'jello from the sky' is available on the new Peace Not War CD which contains a track by Sonic Youth on it (who were absolutely amazing when they played in London this month) Other news is that gertrude will be soon be recording 4 tracks which will feature on a new german label on 7inch vinyl. Hopefully the tracks will be ready by the end of the year and will be engineered and mixed by us!

July 2004
Gertrude have delved into the boys club of audio engineering and purchased a 24 track portastudio. Its very exciting and we will soon be demoing our next album. There's nothing like taking control of the means of production to put a smile on my face.

I have recently lost some recent email address from our email database due to computer problems-so if you know you put your name down at a gig and you
haven't heard anything from us recently please send an email toayesha@gertruderock.com

Feb 2004

Gertrude are playing with the libertines on the 26th Feb at the Rythym factory. Get a ticket now!
We have just recorded a song called Pond Life which is about the bombing of Afghanistan and it will be mixed by Robert Lee who produced our debut album. We have written some new songs they will be aired later on in the year.

Jan 2004
Nearly all the tour dates for our European tour in April are now confirmed -see the gigs page for details. Gertrude will be supprting
No means No in Koln!

December 2003.
Bah humbug -down with the consumer fest
Gertrude are recording an anti war song at the end of january.

November 2003

Get involved in the anti bush demos this month
www.stopwar.org.uk/

Gertrude want to do a follow up tour in germany Easter 2004. Please get in contact if you can help organsie a tour.

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