LP: 8435015511838 CD: 8435015511821 8 435015 511838 8 435015 511821 ME AND THE BEES FUERZA BIEN LP+MP3 / CD / DIGITAL Release date: September 20th, 2010 Distributed by CARROT TOP LTD

RECOMMENDED SONGS Oh, those days when The Pastels and Beat Happenning didn’t stop making seven inch 3. Don’t come back records full of twee pride! Disarmed songs made with tin-plate guitars that could rise the 12. Pamplinas 16. Patente sun on a cloudy day. I bet that Me and the Bees guys like to meet to eat berberechos and to listen to Mecca Normal or . I’m sure that the songs are composed in the TRACK LIST kitchen and then rehearsed on pyjamas, barefoot while they drink Martini. 1. Tibidabo 2. After All Your Cancers 3. Don’t Come Back The band created by Esther Margarit (lead vocals and guitar) and Eli Molina (guitar and 4. Summer Strange (My Baby) back up vocals) takes the name from a song by The Softies. As The Softies did, Me and 5. Dirty Hands the Bees show an excellent way to write and perform songs that make whoever listen 6. It Could Be Real 7. Now Alone Come On to them feel happy for the rest of the day. Their compositions could take, sometimes, 8. Cowboy a melancholic touch that combines perfectly to other more naïf passages, but without 9. Thank You So Much losing their caracteristic freshness and candor band’s sound. The arrival of Verónica 10. Aaahhh!!! 11. The Bags Alonso (drummer and back up vocals) and the ex Half Foot Outside Carlos Leoz (guitar 12. Pamplinas and back up vocals) add wealthier shades to these songs that could be performed with a 13. Hi! mandolin and castanets and their melodic appealing qualities could still shine. 14. Monstruos 15. Tostadas We could define Me and the Bees as the perfect meeting point between the australians 16. Patente The Go Betweens melodies, the lo-fi shapes of Guided by Voices and Pavement and a HIGHLIGHTS lifefull sense of pop that leads them directly towards Olympia and the scene. • “Fuerza Bien” is the band’s debut record. I bet that Esther, Eli, Verónica and Carlos would love to have some drinks with Robert • The band toured around Spain extensively since 2010, including perfeormances in Pollard or to play maracas with Calvin Johnson. Other actual bands that also drink three diferent editions of Primavera Sound Martini on Sunday mornings (Ezra Furman and the Harpoon, Girls) would come along for Festival. sure to the party. It’s time for good vibes, meeting people, going out, breathing the air, • Me and the Bees are preparing their second LP during 2013. walking on the grass and jumping fences! • La Castanya takes care of the management of the band. The recording of the tracks in the album Fuerza Bien was in charge of the expertise hands of indie-rock thotems as Santi García, Hans Krüger or even Carlos Leoz. They ALBUM SPECIFICATIONS Artist: Me and the Bees have contributed giving shape to the magnetic band’s songs. Some of these songs were Title: Fuerza Bien recorded at Montreal Studio in Subiza, while the rest are recorded in their own rehearsal Label: La Castanya space. Albert Guàrdia (Nueva Vulcano) also participated as the sound technician. The Reference: LC 04 Distributor: Carrot Top last details of the production were made at Ultramarinos Costabrava Studio in Sant Feliu Countries: USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan de Guíxols, where all the fantastic voices in Fuerza Bien were recorded. Digital distributor: The Orchard Format: LP+MP3 / CD / Digital From the very first concert sharing stage with Artur Estrada (Nueva Vulcano) in Genre: April 2009, Me and the Bees haven’t stop offering us enthusiastic shows filled with Release date: September 20th, 2010 LP UPC Code: 8435015511838 espontaneous candor: Primavera Club 2009, Sant Feliu Fest 2009, Faraday Festival LP Suggested list price: 19.98$ USD 2010 and Primavera Sound 2010. Before their next appearance at the Primavera Sound CD UPC Code: 8435015511821 2011, the band have toured Spain and continued with their shows around the Barcelona CD Suggested list price: 13.98$ USD area, contributing to develop a new fresh fellowship scene. CREDITS Drums: Verónica Alonso Me and the Bees feel the music as something that is built in community, sharing Guitar, vocals: Carlos Leoz experiences with the other bands and with the people on the same wave. That’s how, Vocals, guitar: Esther Margarit for example, Esther and Eli met Carlos and Verónica. Bands like them are in need and Guitar, vocals: Eli Molina indispensable: they will mess with your hair, they will hold your waist and they will make Recorded by Carlos Leoz and Albert Guàrdia Mixed,and mastered by Hans Krüger you dance the “Broken Guitar Twist”. Me and the Bees will offer you a dance, barefoot Produced by Carlos Leoz and with a smile in our heart. Artwork: Carlos Leoz

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