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Welcome to our website.
We are The Metatrons, a fuzzy riot-pop band from Hitchin in the UK.
We've been described as "Delectable skewed fuzz-pop". Another nice reviewer said "think Blondie meets Sonic Youth via My Bloody Valentine...sharp pop over a scorched earth backing..." We've also been called "a thunderous slice of majestic pop" - as you can probably imagine all these things please us.
So what and who are we? We are Polly, who sings and plays the piano, Rico who plays the bass guitar, Simon who plays the guitar and Steve who goes bang bang on the drums.
Here we will tell you about gigs that you can come and see us play, records that we have made and are making and other things that may or may not be of interest to you, such as cat-related stories, or how busy the supermarket was today.
We have four albums - "Lumination", released in 2023, "Deconstruction" (2020), "Patterns of Chaos" (2016) and "Between Planets" (2011)
Here are the other places where we post the interesting and maybe even useful stuff:
Our witty, urbane and unashamedly gig-flogging TWITTER page
Our Facebook page is HERE
Instagram HERE
Bandcamp HERE
YouTube HERE
Thanks for coming to see us in our virtual home, have a good nose around and we hope you come back again soon.
The Metatrons, April 2024
March 20th
NEW SHOW ALERT!
Saturday 20th April
The Hertford Club, Hertford
Neckbreakers
The Metatrons
Exaggerators
Garden Room
King Angry
Amber & Hub
4pm-midnight
Free entry woohoo!
FB event page HERE
March 19th
NEW SHOW ALERT!
Sunday 7th July
The Prince Albert, Brighton
BLYTH POWER
THE METATRONS
BOY IN THE CUPBOARD
2-5PM - matinee show
Tickets available soon. More info HERE
March 11th
NEW SHOW ALERT!
June 6th at THE HOPE AND ANCHOR LONDON with TIM HOLEHOUSE, THE THIRD CUT and DJ SARAH C - see the GIGS page for more details and tickets! x
March 4th
We are halfway through our run of shows with Tim Holehouse and The Escape Ghosts and it's been brilliant fun so far! Very much looking forward to POCO LOCO in CHATHAM this Friday 8th March and THE SUSSEX ARMS in TUNBRIDGE WELLS on Saturday!
Keep an eye on our GIGS page over the next couple of weeks as there is about to be a big splat of new shows going up there! x
February 26th
NEW SHOW!
We are delighted to be playing a hometown show at Hitchin Football Club on April 5th with Cold Caller and River Bodies (both from Herts and both absolutely rockin') and even better it's an all ages gig (providing the under 18s have an *ahem* "adult" with them) hooray!
See you there! x
FB event page link for more info HERE
February 3rd
Tickets for our show at The Bee's Mouth in Hove on March 2nd are running very low, please grab yours HERE ASAP!
January 9th 2024
Happy new year to you all!
We will be announcing some summer shows and festivals soon, keep your eyes peeled!
In the meantime tickets for our March shows are all on sale, hope to see you at one/some/all of those! See the GIGS page for links and info x
December 1st
NEW LIVE DATES ADDED - SPRING 2024
We are delighted to announce our Spring 2024 dates hooray!
In March we hit the road with TIM HOLEHOUSE AND THE ESCAPE GHOSTS as they release their new album "Year" - see the poster above or the GIGS page for details.
See the GIGS page for all the info and links x
November 14th
So....another years' worth of gigs done! A new album recorded and released and lots of summer festivals played. Not too shabby. We are currently rehearsing to bring you some new and old songs for our spring 2024 dates, to be announced very soon.....
October 11th
We'll be posting some of our early 2024 shows on the GIGS page in a few weeks, keep your peepers peeled! x
September 7th
We've had a brilliant summer, from our album launch parties in June and all the way through the festival season. Thanks so much to everyone who came to see us and bought our new album!
Our next show is October 6th at The Hope and Anchor in Islington, London with our friends Simon Love and Scare Taxi, tickets available NOW!
August 1st
AUGUST LIVE DATES!
5th - Old Town Live Festival - acoustic show, Stevenage Old Town, 7.40pm
19th - BP Ashes Festival, Billingshurst, West Sussex 9pm
27th - TWO SHOWS IN ONE DAY!
12.50pm - Farmfest, Rickmansworth
8.15pm - Hertford House Hotel
More details on the GIGS page x
July 10th
SUMMER FESTIVAL DATES!
Todd in the Hole, Todds Green - Sunday 16th July 7pm
Kevolution @ The White Hart, Hertford - Saturday 29th July 9pm
Blyth Power Ashes Festival, Sussex - Saturday 19th August 8pm
FarmFest, Lynsters Farm, Rickmansworth - Sunday 27th August 1pm
PLUS a special secret soon-to-be-announced show also on Sunday 27th August......
POLLY AND SIMON ACOUSTIC DATES!
The Horn, St Albans @ The Blue Angel Cafe - Sunday 30th July 5pm
Old Town Live, Saturday 5th August @Cinnabar Stage, 7.40pm
SEE YOU THERE!!
July 3rd
Have a listen to our brand new interview on PHOENIX FM where we talk about our new album, upcoming gigs and auntie's birthday parties. x
June 19th
A massive THANK YOU to everyone who came to our album launch gigs this weekend, bought LPs/CDs/stuff, said nice things to us and were generally lovely people.
We'll see you all again soon - have a look at the GIGS page for our July and August shows and festival appearances xx
June 16th
NEW ALBUM RELEASED TODAY!
"Lumination" is now available on CD / digital from record shops, our Bandcamp page, Apple Music / iTunes and Amazon Music, as well as from us directly at our two album launch shows in Brighton tonight and Hitchin tomorrow.
Or of course our SHOP page on here!
We hope you enjoy it and are very much looking forward to playing them for you LIVE! X
June 11th
Our SHOP page has been updated with all the LUMINATION goodies!! Have a look, getting very exciting for the album launch on June 16th! x
June 2nd
NEW SHOW ALERT!
We are most ecstatic to be playing with Simon Love and Scare Taxi at Hope and Anchor in Highbury, London on Friday 6th October. Tickets HERE x
June 1st
Our ALBUM LAUNCH PARTIES are coming up very soon!
16/6 Hope and Ruin Brighton TICKETS HERE
17/6 Club 85 Hitchin TICKETS HERE
Both shows are with our friends BLYTH POWER and POG who are also putting new albums out!
IN OTHER NEWS tune into West Virginia's finest radio station WTSQ on Monday 5th June at 5.30pm UK time for a LIVE interview with Simon and Polly, discussing the new album, gigs, pets, haircuts, that sort of thing x
May 17th
ALBUM PRE-ORDER IS OPEN!
You can now pre-order our new album "Lumination" through Chapter 22 Records woohoo!
There are some cool bundles to be had with t-shirts, bags, badges, coasters (yes, coasters) and of course the album itself!
https://chapter22records.bigcartel.com/
May 9th
NEW SINGLE RELEASED FRIDAY 12TH MAY!
The first single "Outside" from our brand-spanking new album will be released next Friday 12th May on Spotify!
You can pre-save the song at the link below.
It's all very exciting indeed x
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/themetatrons/outside
April 13th
FULL SPRING / SUMMER GIGS AND FESTIVAL LIST!
How very exciting to share our spring and summer 2023 gig list with you. It's in full on the GIGS page. Can't wait to see you all x
April 10th
A full list of our summer gigs and festivals will be out in the next couple of weeks - looking forward to seeing you very soon!! x
March 28th
ALBUM LAUNCH PARTIES!
We will be holding not one but TWO yes TWO album launch parties!
16th June - Hope and Ruin, Brighton
17th June - Club 85, Hitchin
Tickets are for sale from 9am on Tuesday 28th March.
Brighton tickets HERE
Hitchin tickets HERE
March 24th
NEW ALBUM DETAILS!
We are delighted to tell you that our new album "LUMINATION" will be released through CHAPTER 22 RECORDS and distributed by CARGO RECORDS on FRIDAY JUNE 16TH 2023.
The album will be available from all good record shops, our BANDCAMP and downloadable from Apple Music and Amazon Music.
The pre-order for the album starts on May 16th via the Chapter 22 Records website, where you'll find exclusive bundles with the new album and lots of new merch.
We are very excited for you to hear it!
To pre-order from May 16th go to https://chapter22records.bigcartel.com/
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March 13th
NEW SHOWS ANNOUNCED!
See the GIGS page for info x
March 2nd
Stay tuned over the next four weeks as there will be a load of gig / festival / album release details coming your way! x
February 8th
As our album recording gets nearer we've started to book some gig and festival dates for the summer - everything will be revealed next month! x
January 4th 2023
Hello and happy new year!
We're gonna be rehearsing our new songs and then recording our new album pretty much up until the spring, so keep your eyes peeled for tour dates and festivals for the summer time to be announced soon-ish! x
December 8th
HOHOHO!
We here at 'trons HQ wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Thank you for all your support this year, it's been lovely to be back on the road properly and with a new album to go off and record now we're feelin' mighty fine! See you next year x
November 18th
We will be livestreaming via Instagram on Thursday 24th November at 8pm as guests of THOSE ROCK CAST GIRLS as they quiz us on music and maybe some other things too. We're told to expect "perfect chaos" - sounds good to us! x
November 3rd
Lots of new songs kicking around at 'trons HQ, we might make another record next year! More news etc as it comes. x
September 17th
We are honoured to be playing at YOU'RE ALL WEIRD - A CELEBRATION OF MARK ASTRONAUT over the weekend of 19-20th November at CLUB 85, HITCHIN. The two-day event features many bands who were associated with Mark so there will be some fun collaborations and some great memories shared. More Info on the GIGS page and the ticket/more info link is HERE on the FB event page. x
September 15th
'TRONS ON THE TELLY!
We are delighted to tell you that we will be featuring on a new music programme on actual real television - the fabulous NUB TV show on Thursday 29th September from 9pm (Sky channel 186)!
As well as music the show has very interesting looking guests and covers all sorts of weird/wonderful topics!
The NUB TV series will soon be available on Amazon Prime/Apple TV etc as well in the near future.
So...as they used to say...do tune in! X
September 1st
Can't wait until the CHAPTER 22 ROOTS AND RECORDS party with us and Yur Mum on September 10th at The Bell inn, Bath. See the GIGS page for more info! x
August 10th
NEW SHOW ALERT!
We are delighted to be playing at the HERTFORD MUSICAL MYSTERY TOUR Festival on August 28th this year. The festival takes over the whole town with stages all over. We'll be on the HERTFORD HOUSE HOTEL STAGE at 8pm. More info HERE. See you there! x
August 2nd
Keep your eyes peeled for a new festival announcement in the next couple of days! Oh what teases we are..
July 12th
NEW SHOW ALERT!
September 10th
CHAPTER 22 RECORDS
BIRTHDAY PARTY
THE BELL INN
BATH
YUR MUM
THE METATRONS
Tickets £5
Email HERE for tickets
July 4th
Ah hello July, it must be FESTIVAL TIME WOOHOO!
Come and see us at
Enfield
23rd July
29-31July
Billingshurst, Sussex
June 1st
Very much looking forward to playing two great festivals in July!
Well be at LIVESTOCK in Enfield on July 23rd and THE BLYTH POWER ASHES in Billingshurst on the weekend of July 29th - more info on that one coming soon! x
May 19th
Sadly due to a highly unwelcome Covid outbreak at 'trons HQ we've had to cancel our show at the prince Albert, Brighton this coming Saturday 21st May. Boo!
April 23rd
We're chuffed to be playing at LIVESTOCK 2022 in Enfield on July 23rd. See the GIGS page for more info or click HERE.
April 1st
Tickets for our May 21st Show at THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON are onsale now! see the GIGS page for more info or click HERE to go direct to the ticket site x
March 1st
Can't wait to hit the road this month with Altered Images, hope to see you at some of these shows!
Trades Club @Hebden Bridge 3/3 SOLD OUT
Georgian Theatre @Stockton on Tees 4/3 SOLD OUT
Chinnerys @Southennd 19/3
Sub 89 @Reading 24/3
woohoo!
Links etc are on our GIGS page xx
February 13th
NEW FESTIVAL!
We are very happy to be playing on SATURDAY 30TH APRIL at THE ANGEL WEEKENDER, a cool festival at THE VICTORIA, COALVILLE. There are two stages and some great bands! For more info go to our GIGS page or click HERE xx
February 7th
NEW SHOW!
Saturday 14th May
BLYTH POWER
THE ASTRONAUTS
THE METATRONS
POG
CLUB 85
HITCHIN
Tickets HERE
January 27th
Come and join us for a superb night out as we remember our friend and bandmate Andy Keeble at CLUB 85 in Hitchin on April 2nd. More info HERE
January 3rd
Happy new year one and all! We'll be adding some excellent new shows to the GIGS page soon, keep your peepers peeled over the next few weeks x
December 11th
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Despite the state of the world right now we still managed to get out and play this year which is pretty amazing considering. Thank you for all your support and we'll see you bright and early in 2022 with some more new songs! x
October 22nd
Tune in to the Resurrection Radio show on Phoenix FM tonight 8-10pm for a new interview with Polly and Simon - talking about ....... well, we don't know yet! But it'll be fun so listen in! x
October 8th
Sadly the Bedford Esquires show on October 24th is to be postponed but we hope for a new date soon and your ticket provider should be in touch for your refund.
In other better news there now a few more tickets available for the 23rd October show at LePub in Newport with The Darling Buds due to a few returns. Link for tickets on the GIGS page.
September 6th
Unfortunately, due to a case of Covid and subsequent isolation period, The Darling Buds show this Saturday is having to be postponed. The good news is that we already have a new date and it will be going ahead on Saturday 23rd October. All tickets are still valid. If you can't make the new date, refunds are available.
September 1st
New gig dates added to the GIGS page, have a look!
August 19th
See Simon's brand new interview with Pete's Rock News where he talks songwriting, Spotify and why he's glad he didn't write Hey Jude...HERE
August 11th
We've had some new album reviews and articles recently so we've added as many as we can find onto the ARCHIVE page, have a look x
THE METATRONS