"Bloody lush... a new band we love" 6music's Lauren Laverne on Howl Griff

Welcome to July, and isn't it (intermittently) lovely? We'll be spending some of it in fields, some in pubs and some in the studio. Sounds good to us.

NEW SINGLE
Having already had extensive BBC Radio airplay, the summery splash of Sunrise is released as a single on Mon 11 July. It's available at iTunes < http://tinyurl.com/iTunesHowlGriff > and if you can't wait a week or so, get some sunshine in your life by listening at HowlGriff.com < http://HowlGriff.com > or watching the video on our YouTube channel < http://youtube.com/HowlGriff >. Smiles guaranteed.

GIGS
Having already racked up four festival appearances this summer we've got a couple more this month, our biggest so far.

Next weekend we're playing at the Penn Festival in Buckinghamshire with Dodgy and The Farm. We're playing early evening on the Saturday (July 9) which is fine by us, we can get drunk after that - we'll be there all weekend, come and say hi.
< http://www.pennfestival.com/ >

Two weeks after that we're off to Devon to play Chagstock, supporting headliners The Magic Numbers. Again, we're on early Saturday evening (July 23, 6.45pm) so that's dandy.
< http://www.chagstock.info/ >

In between times, on Thu 14 July we're back at the White Lion in Streatham, and we may well be tempted to unveil some of the new songs we've been recording this month.
< http://www.whitelion.org.uk/ >

NEW STUFF
Yep, we've spent some time recording with the excellent Ollie and Gareth at The Fold Studios in South London, and it's coming along nicely.

We've recorded basic tracks for a dozen doozies, including some which are already live staples (including Puppet Operation Time, Leave On Your Own and Fragile Diamond ) and some which will doubtless become so (including Runaround , which isn't about the Mike Reid programme, and International Dateline , which is about the, er, international dateline).

There's more to come we've got those lush harmonies to record yet, and various "toppings" instruments but it's already sounding so ace, we're jumping up and down with excitement. Maybe you will, too.

Thanks for your support. Keep in touch via Twitter, Facebook and the HGHQ (see links below) and spread the word. See you soon!

SUMMER DATES (see http://howlgriff.com/gigs. html for more info)
Sat 9 July Penn Festival, Buckinghamshire
Thu 14 July White Lion, Streatham
Sat 23 July Chagstock Festival, Devon
Sun 7 Aug Cloud Cuckoo Land, Somerset