Old wine: Two Petula EPs from 2002 and 2009, respectively. Two collections of sketches, ideas, songs, home recordings, live recordings, wavering four-track guitars and timid attempts at electronic beats.

New skins: The Petulacloud. Enjoy.

Note that you take every track home with you. But you're still welcome to come back.

Rain pouring onto a festival tent, essential instruments miles away, friends and strangers and spooks in the audience, water everywhere and a dutchman giving stage directions by wearing funny football hats. You had to be there.

And while we're at it: This is my favorite Fnessnej video ever.

And if you keep browsing the related videos, you'll find evidence that the downpour stopped eventually. I still do not believe it.

How has your summer been so far? I had a great holiday and a few fine weekends.

I danced with loved ones and lost my Dirty Projectors shirt at the La Pampa Festival.
I spent the best evening in music so far in 2010 at the Schokoladen Hoffest.
I discovered a surprising way to greet an alien life form at the L*Abore.
I got to feel the wrath of the mayor of Friedland at the Jenseits von Millionen.

And I hardly took any pictures, which usually means that I'm having an exceptionally good time.

And it's on. A previously unreleased Petula song has found a home on the Jenseits von Millionen 2010 mixtape. Go and grab "Plukk" and many other good songs over at Rote Raupe. And one song off "Elephant Dresses" can be found on the latest issue of the Finest Noise series. All tape orders via the Petulacamp will get a free copy while supplies last. All digital orders will get a holiday photo.

Two shows are coming up, more are in the making. Stay tuned, there'll be details!

11 SEP 10 Görlitz, Fokus 2010 w/ Jahcoozi, Talking To Turtles and others
24 SEP 10 Hamburg, Reeperbahnfestival w/ everyone, it seems

There are three Petula-flavored weekends coming right up. Please remember. Come by.

10 JUL 10 La Pampa Festival
18 JUL 10 Schokoladen Hoffest
23 JUL 10 L*Abore Festival

You'll get all the info and tickets you need on the websites. The Schokoladen show is free for everyone, so bring all your friends and buy them drinks.

Finally, an event everyone can agree on: A sunny Berlin evening, the proximity of water, everyone you know and like, the faint drone of the city, the faint clicks of hooves on loop pedals, the clicking of ice cubes in your iced tea and the friendly chatter of Berlin's yacht owners stopping by. Click the image for details or read on and click these other links.

It's Kat Frankie and Petula! It's the Badeschiff! It's summer! It's Wednesday! It's 9 pm sharp!
Come by! Wear speedos! Tourist info says you will have a good time! Forget about your worries for a while and listen to me sing about mine!

There's not that much to say here. It's my other other band. Infernally loud pop music and disco noise to combat your inner taste police. It's not very petulesque, but we'll still play with fellow Froggi mates mOck in Berlin. Come!

I'll be playing some shows this summer. Some alone, some with friends, some as a part of other bands. Come by, enjoy, say hello, see you there.

As Petula:
30 JUN 10 Berlin, Badeschiff w/ Kat Frankie
10 JUL 10 Görlitz, La Pampa Festival w/ Bratze, Hundreds, Trip Fontaine and many more
18 JUL 10 Berlin, Schokoladen Hoffest, w/ Candelilla and others
24 JUL 10 Hauptmannsgrün, L'abore Festival w/ Fnessnej, Schnaak and many others
11 SEP 10 Görlitz, Fokus Festival w/ Konstanze

As a part of Sdnmt:
10 JUL 10 Görlitz, La Pampa Festival w/ Bratze, Hundreds, Trip Fontaine and many more
24 JUL 10 Hauptmannsgrün, L'abore Festival w/ Fnessnej, Schnaak and many others

As a part of *U*N*S:
23 JUN 10 Weimar, tba
24 JUN 10 Berlin, NBI w/ mOck

Close your eyes, click a link.

Guitar, noise board, toothbrush, train ticket. All I need. Stop by. They say that the show starts at nine. I don't know Munich nine. Might be different from Berlin nine. soft.nerd will play, too. And We vs. Death take me for a ride on the Autobahn. Superexcito!

The first tiny batch of Elephant Dresses shows has been played. Every single one was especially nice - the friendly choir going astray at the Madame Claude, the Dukes Of Windsor filling in for singers and clappers that had fallen ill at the nbi, and the exploding goodness that is Telekaster at Leipzig's Paris Syndrom. And then the people, and you, and you. Thanks a lot.

Here's a video of Telekaster doing their thing for you. Don't miss them when they're near you. The next Petula show: May 8, Munich.

we might magnetize [live] from telekaster on Vimeo.