The Eighteenth Day of May are responsible for Londonist's favourite single of the year so far, the double-A-sided The Highest Tree / Sir Casey Jones, released (and reviewed) last week.
They play the Marquee tonight (note: this is a venue change, after being stitched up by Water Rats) and, to help you decide whether or not you should go and see them (the answer is yes, by the way), we got them to tell us a bit about themselves:
Band name: The Eighteenth Day of May
Describe your sound to us: Acid on Byrds
Who are your influences? Hansson&Karlsson, Pugh Rogefeldt
Who's in the band? Us and our mates
How did you all get together? 25 years of mistakes
What do you do in the real world? Not much really
What's the state of play with the band at the moment? Debut single
Where can we hear / see you next? Truck festival,Oxford July 23rd, Marquee July 4th
What's the big game plan for the band? Play songs
Who would you most like to support? Ourselves
What's your ultimate label to be on? Hannibal
What's the best gig you've ever been to? The Left Outsides in the Camberwell crypt.
Have you ever thrown a TV out of a hotel window? If not, would you like to? No, it's silly
Any great stories from the road? Red road walks into a bar for a drink with Yellow road when Green road comes in and starts smashing the place up.Yellow Road turns to Red road and says "don't mess with him, he's a cyclepath"
Recommend one album to our readers you don't think they will have discovered. The Who Live at leeds
Why should Londonist readers go and see you? Fun
What's your favourite...
Venue to play in london? Health and Happiness club wherever they roam
Venue to go to in london? Filthy MacNastys
Record store? MVE
Shop (non-music)? Treadwells book shop in Covent Garden
Market? Roman Road Market
Place To People-watch? Pole dancing clubs (Karl)
Place To Chill-out? Bed
Place to get lashed? Rock and roll soul
Place For A Post-gig Kebab? None for us please
View in london? Out our windows
Form of public transport? feet
What advice would you give Ken Livingstone? learn how to swim
What London place or thing would you declare a landmark? The river
The world is ending in 24 hours. How would you spend
your last day in London? In bed
Have you ever been sick on the tube? Karl has
If you could sink one part of London into the sea,
which bit would it be? Wherever Ken might be standing
Greatest thing ever to come out of London? the M4
What advice would you give to someone new to London getting on a night bus for the first time? Stay awake
If you could write a song about London what would it be called and what kind of song would it be? The Sheets of London
And finally
Sum up London in a word (that’s the one word!): London
