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OPERATOR PLEASE
NEW SINGLE: 'JUST A SONG ABOUT PING PONG' RELEASED 30th JUNE ON BRILLE.
NEW UK LIVE DATES AND FESTIVAL APPEARANCES.

As tightly wound as a coiled spring Operator Please are back in the UK this summer and dead eager to throw a teenage punk rock tantrum for all to see. Armed with new single 'Just A Song About Ping Pong' and a host of tour and festival dates the band are set to lead the charge to the top of the charts injecting fun and personality back into pop music along the way.

'Just A Song About Ping Pong' is the best pop song this year by a million pop-punk miles; ferocious and frenetic it combines spiky guitar rifts, ceiling scraping melodies and a punk spirit of creativity that has lead to comparisons with new wave heroes X Ray Specs and B52s. Like those bands before them, Operator Please's vivacious sense humour is all over their music and their use of wry innuendo in 'Just A Song About Ping Pong' renders it worthy of repeated listens for that reason alone.

On the B side Operator Please never leave you short changed. Alongside remixes by ascending dance stars Kissy Sellout and Mistabishi, Operator Please cover Devo's perv-pop classic 'Whip It', a song that has become a show stopping live favourite, and with it introduce a whole new generation to the twisted wonders of Devo.

2008 saw Operator Please release one of the most vibrant and precocious albums in recent memory. With 'Yes Yes Vindictive' receiving massive critical acclaim, echoing the colossal buzz they created down under, they will remain in the UK for the foreseeable future to cement their reputation as an awe-inspiring live band, playing main support to The Futureheads at their request, Hoxton hot-property Lightspeed Champion, as well as festivals and their first headline shows.

"Just A Song About Ping Pong' will be available in a lovingly packaged 7", Digital Download and CD formats.

"If they keep gigging with this much passion and energy they'll soon be your favourite band…Ever!" NME

"Probably the most fun, colourful and exciting pop album of 2008" Artrocker

"Operator Please render us speechless with their precocious brilliance" The Fly

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Live Shows

May
17th – Oakford Social Club, Reading
24th – Fat Sams, Dundee (The Futureheads)
25th – Leadmill, Sheffield (The Futureheads)
26th – Academy 2, Manchester (The Futureheads)
28th – Kasbah, Coventry (The Futureheads)
29th – Electric Ball Room (The Futureheads)
30th – Chinnery's, Southend (The Futureheads)
31st - Lotherington Hall Festival, Leeds

June
1st – Junction, Cambidge (The Futureheads)
2nd – Buttermarket, Shewsbury (The Futureheads)
27th – Glastonbury Festival, Shepton Mallet
28th – Wakestock Festival, Oxfordshire

July
1st – Breacon Court Tavern, Kent
2nd Jericho Tavern, Oxford
3rd – Louisianna, Bristol
4th - Redfest, Surrey
5th – Wakestock Festival, Surrey
15th – King Tut's, Glasgow
16th – Tunnels, Aberdeen
23rd – Met Lounge, Peterborough

August
8th – Underage Festival, London
10th – Summer Sundae Weekender, Leicester