Release: Silent Hotels
Release date: June 18th 2007
Format: 7"
Label: High Voltage Sounds
Links: http://www.myspace.com/theansweringmachine / http://www.highvoltagesounds.co.uk

"Heart-burstingly gorgeous fuzz-pop nuggets" - NME

The Answering Machine release new single, Silent Hotels, through High Voltage Sounds on 18th June 2007. The follow up to sought after debut 7" Oklahoma in October 2006.

Born out of a student bedsit in Manchester, The Answering Machine stumbled upon each other at University. The trio found themselves turning up at the same gigs, inhabiting the same salubrious drinking dens, and sharing mutual friends. Tracing the dots together, Martin, Pat and Gemma joined forces to form The Answering Machine in the winter of 2005.

Uniting over an intense love of Scandinavian guitar acts and C86 era indie-pop, the band, led by vocalist/guitarist Martin and guitarist Pat, holed themselves up in their bedsit and wrote odes to life in the great city with bassist Gemma.

Staunchly refusing to fall into the predictable, the band lacked a full-time drummer, and decided to invest in the so-called product of Taiwan, Mustafa Beat. A fully-fledged and easily programmable fourth member of the team. The Answering Machine are a busy live act with their own sold-out gigs and parties continuing across the North in May and June, with previous supports to the likes of Good Shoes, The Rumble Strips and Captain under their belts.

The Answering Machine play the following shows around the single release:

May 3rd Proud Galleries, London
May 4th Montague Arms, London
May 5th Mish Mash @ Cargo, London
May 6th Sounds From The Other City @ Kings Arms, Manchester
May 17th Mad Ferrett, Preston
May 18th Northern Nights, Wigan
May 19th Great Escape Festival, Brighton
May 24th Music Box, Manchester w/ Band of Horses
May 25th Music Box, Manchester w/ Band of Horses
June 1st Brunel Rooms, Swindon
June 2nd FOPP Bath, w/ Los Capesinos
June 5th Adelphi, Hull
June 6th Barfly, Glasgow
June 7th TBC
June 8th Yorkshire House, Lancaster
June 9th Faversham, Leeds
June 12th Barfly, Cardiff
June 13th Marquee, Hertford
June 14th Kingston, TBC
June 15th Cambridge College Hall
June 16th Sumo, Leicester
June 18th Kings Arms, Manchester Buy Tickets
June 19th Fibbers, York
June 21st Soundhaus, Northampton
June 22nd Club NME, Koko, London
June 23rd Casbah, Sheffield

For more information on this release please contact the relevant person;
Press – alistair@highvoltage.org.uk T: 0161 839 2802
Label – rich@highvoltage.org.uk T: 07941623039