In march we will head to small so-called tour (it’s only a so-called because we take it more as a holiday) to Germany and Denmark. We are really looking forward to this.

05/03 | Berlin | GER | Tiefgrund
07/03 | Århus | DK | Backstage
08/03 | Copenhagen | DK | Underwerket
09/03 | Ålborg | DK | 1000fryd

To celebrate this fact we are putting out something really special - it’s a multicam offical bootleg recorded live during our show in Brno, made by Martin Kacvinský. You can watch this performance from Youtube (link below), but if you want to support Martin and our band, you can buy the video file from link http://gum.co/ills as a pay-what-you-want download, starting at the price of 1 euro.

In december we played our first acoustic gig. You can hear three songs from our last album recorded live in Bratislava. Enjoy!

Our new album Splendor will be released on 21th september on LP, CD and digital. Album was recorded live in march in Bratislava, mastered by Gaex, cover was designed by Jonny Fox aka Aches. You can get a preview of the album sound through our song Shimmering, which can be downloaded for free.



We will support the release with plenty of live dates, few of them are still to be announced. Right now we have confirmed shows in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania and Poland, next year will see some other countries as well. Release show will be at Obluda, Bratislava on the release day! 

21. 9. 2012 // Bratislava, SK // Obluda (w. Five Seconds To Leave)
06. 10. 2012 // Nové Mesto nad Váhom, SK // Klub za rampami (w. Teskohippies)
13. 10. 2012 // Ostrava, CZ // Plan B (w. Pale Clouded White, At Bona Fide)
17. 10. 2012 // Bucharest, RO // Panic 
18. 10. 2012 // Cluj-Napoca, RO // Gambrinus pub
19. 10. 2012 // Timisoara, RO // Gluga Neagra
3. 11. 2012 // Prešov, SK // Wave (w. Teskohippies)
10. 11. 2012 // Brezno, SK // Bombura (w. Teskohippies)
23. 11. 2012 // Nitra, SK // Čudný pohľad (w. Teskohippies)
24. 11. 2012 // Krakow, PL // Kawiarnia Naukowa  (rescheduled show from september)

For potential booking please contact Janka Kočišová - j.kocisova@exitmusic.org 

SHORT UPDATE: We will play some gigs in Czech republic, Germany, Poland, Austria within few months. Also we’ll meet with great Vestiges twice and finally play at Pohoda Festival. Our funding/pre-order campaign ends on 10th june, so please have a look - http://indiegogo.com/theills

21. 6. 2012 // Topoľčany, SK // Nástupište 1 - 12
22. 6. 2012 // Cheb, CZ // JazzRockCafé
23. 6. 2012 // Sokolov, CZ // Metaxa klub
24. 6. 2012 // Chemnitz, DE // Aaltra, “Kwartirnik”
29. 6. 2012 // Bratislava, SK // Obluda (w. Vestiges)
1. 7. 2012 // Vienna, AT // Vernster99 (w. Vestiges)
6. - 7. 7. 2012 // Trenčín, SK // Pohoda Festival
10.8. 2012// Liberec, CZ // Pivný bar Azyl
11. 8. 2012 // Praha, CZ // Café na půl cesty w. Wave Zero
15. 9. 2012 // Krakow, PL // Kawiarnia Naukowa

As we told you in previous post, we started to work on our new record with working title “Splendor”. We recorded basics two weeks ago in Bratislava, tracks are now being mixed and mastered. Album will be probably released until summer on vinyl and DIY CDs. Since pressing and everything is really expensive nowadays, we and our label Exitab started funding campaing via portal Indiegogo, which is something like international version of Kickstarter. For some dollars you can get early versions of our new songs, pre-order new CD or vinyl, order old album in special price… We have also new t-shirts and for special prices you can “order” private gig or we will name a song after you. Here is a link - http://www.indiegogo.com/theills. Thank you!

In next few weeks we will head to improvised rehearsal/studio room and try to record our new album. We almost fully finished new material and we expect to release it in late spring or in summer. We want it to sound much more better than our debut, so we don’t really know how long it’s gonna take.

Meanwhile, we wil go on some kind of a mini-tour, with shows in Slovakia, Czech Republic and one in Austria. First gig in Bratislava (as support of Zero Absolu) will be special, because we will play our old material from first EP and even some older stuff. Yeah, and after almost a year, we will again share stage with God Is An Astronaut!

10. 2. 2012 // Košice, SK // Tabačka // w. Rosa Parks
11. 2. 2012 // Čadca, SK // DejaVu
15. 2. 2012 // Bratislava, SK // Obluda // w. Zero Absolu
16. 2. 2012 // Brno, CZ // Fléda // w. Guts Pie Earshot
17. 2. 2012 // Graz, AT // Forum Stadtpark
22. 2. 2012 // České Budějovice, CZ // Slávie // w. Isobutane
15. 3. 2012 // Bratislava, SK // KC Dunaj // w. God Is An Astronaut
16. 3. 2012 // Prievidza, SK // Ars Preuge

We usually don’t play so much during the summer, so before our planned autumn tour (anyone interested please contact us via mail) we gonna play three gigs, one in june, two in july. First we head to Budapest, where we are going to meet with our hungarian friends Rosa Parks and british duo Khuda, in july we first support Rosetta and City Of Ships in Bratislava and then we play our probably only festival appereance this year - Fluff Fest in Rokycany, Czech Republic. 

» 27. june - Budapest, HUN - with Rosa Parks and Khuda
» 5. july - Bratislava, SK - with Rosetta, City of Ships and Drifted Shadows
» 22. - 24. july - Rokycany, CZ - Fluff Fest with loads of band, but mainly Dawn To Come

Hope we will see you there!

Emócie (live improvisation with Dawn To Come) by The Ills

Last weekend we shared stage with great band Dawn To Come from Prešov, Slovakia, and on third date of our short tour we improvised together in Dunajská Streda. Thanks to Zsuzsi Vermes, who recorded it, you can hear it right now from our Soundcloud account. By the way, both drummers are playing there, not at once, of course.