Give it up now! Motel readers across the interweb sea, rejoice! Eels are returning with a dozen new songs in the form of their forthcoming album entitled Hombre Loco, due for release in a couple of months’ time. They have put together a short promotional video to this effect in glorious, er, monochrome.

Roll up, roll up for the speaker-rattling new single from The Answering Machine! And about time too! The first single to be taken from the band’s debut album, lovingly recorded in Yorkshire at the back end of 2008 and produced by Dave Eringa, the video features the rise (and fall) of a terrifying ventriloquist’s dummy. [...]

Happy new year from The Fugitive Motel! Motelville officially ‘opens’ again on January 5th, and many many changes – both cosmetic and organisational – are planned and will be gradually introduced over the next six months. Hopefully, they’ll make the site easier to navigate for you. We also hope they will make it easier for [...]

Hear ye, hear ye! The Fugitive Motel Review of the Year 2008 is complete! 32 lovely little A5 pages rolled out of the Motel Towers printer last night and they are going to be whisked off to a newsagent’s for photocopying this afternoon with distribution starting this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this lovely [...]

Heartbeat may have been out for a good old while now, but why not celebrate the second of the Fugitive Motel Review of the Year’s featured artists, Late Of The Pier, with a reprise of one of the tunes of the summer? A slow grower, Heartbeat blends stadium rock riffs with insistent electro beats. Marvellous. [...]

Hear ye, hear ye! The Fugitive Motel Review of the Year 2008 is currently about 70% complete and we are hoping to get it into independent record stores and cafes in cities across the UK by the third week in December. As soon as we start distributing a list of “outlets” will be made available. [...]

Dearest Motel visitors, It has been quite some time since we embarked upon a little trip into the distinctive world of the one and only Gideon Conn. What better way to enjoy a Sunday afternoon than to watch Gid covering Ms Jackson by Outkast on the London Underground? For those of you who are new [...]

We haven’t treated you to a little video here at the Motel for a while now, and here is a nice one to treat your eyes with. A number of Fugitives – mainly down in London Village – have been getting their knickers in a twist about Ra Ra Riot, who score points for having [...]

Not content with dominating the airwaves and the charts and soundtracking an Apple advert, the lovely Feist has now turned her attentions to educating the youth of the nation (and, indeed, the world). Here’s a clip of her appearing on US television show Sesame Street, singing a child friendly parody of her very own 1,2,3,4. [...]

Turn down that racket! Delays appear to be playing a noisy guerilla gig in their front garden in this, the new promo to their indie-poptastic forthcoming single Keep It Simple. Then – lo and behold! – star of stage and screen Ewen “Keith From The Office” Macintosh jogs past at a leisurely pace, with a [...]