The Pipettes

Hey you. Yes you. Over there in the USA. @RoughTrade have the 15 year polka dot reissue available right this way: roughtrade.com/us/the-pipette…

@Tim_Burgess Thank you so much for having us!

Huuuuge thanks to @ThePipettes. A 13 track album that’s 33 minutes long. Brilliant!

And thats it! Thanks to everyone who joined Thanks to @Tim_Burgess for having us for thie @LlSTENlNG_PARTY We Were The Pipettes #timstwitterlisteningparty

I Love You - Rosay This is a simple innocent song about the insecurities of first love, which I wrote for Joe (Pipettes drummer). I could never have predicted it being used as the theme tune for Katie Price’s reality TV show years later… #timstwitterlisteningparty

I think it was probably also the first song we played in rehearsal, at Mockinbird Studios in Kemptown, some time in late 2003. #timstwitterlisteningparty

ABC - Monster Bobby - This was the very first Pipettes song. The germ of it, at least – probably just the first couplet of the first verse and the chorus – was written in Preston Park in Brighton in about 2002. #timstwitterlisteningparty

Interestingly, I found myself in a 1night stand turned dating situation, which I was struggling to end. They came to the gig, heard the song and got that it was just a casual thing. It was also great to have an anti-love song, this was always about sex. #timstwitterlisteningparty

Riot Becki - One Night Stand was written as a dig at the whole lad/layette culture of treating casual sex as game play, chalking up encounters, using people and being pretty horrible in the process (think Girls & Boys by Blur). #timstwitterlisteningparty

Sex: Rosay – I think the title of this one is a bit misleading in a way, but it was a foray into switching the classic pop paradigm of men telling women to be quiet and look pretty, and that girls might want boys to shut up and get on with it too! #timstwitterlisteningparty

Last heard on Taylor Swift's 'Hey Stephen' #timstwitterlisteningparty

Sex... Monster Bobby - Right from the start, it was obvious we had to have one song with the fill Hal Blaine created for Be My Baby. It's become an odd sort of public domain, that fill even more so than the Amen break, in some ways. #timstwitterlisteningparty

But the Japanese team were always 'we love you, can' t wait to see you soon'. Shame global labels can't compartmentalise, we'd have happily been big in Japan and Japan alone. #timstwitterlisteningparty

We always loved Japan and even when the smoke signals from the label centrally were very much that we weren't going to be making a second record with them ('can you write with this song-writer, we don't hear a single' the usual) #timstwitterlisteningparty

Our American and global label secured a Japanese deal with a TV manufacturer to make a very extravagant video for this song, to basically show off the quality of the TV image. youtube.com/watch?v=X2OBkO… #timstwitterlisteningparty

& @RoseDougall also became a touring band member & song writer in Mark's band. He was always supportive of us and it was appreciated. #timstwitterlisteningparty

Because its not Love! Jon Bass - Apparently @MarkRonson liked to do the ironing to this song, & he covered it a few times on tour. #timstwitterlisteningparty

It was always slightly painful to hear Joe singing his latest Jing Jang Jong song as you couldn't help but feel, 'shit that would be such a good Pipettes tune'. It was natural to be jealous of his song-writing talent and we feel really lucky that we got to have this song.

At times, like before our Glastonbury performance, it was really fucking annoying. Sometimes they bought us beer, so that was alright. #timstwitterlisteningparty

Tell Me What... Jon Bass - Joe, our drummer, is a supreme song-writer, and when he started the Jing Jang Jong, as the Pipettes we had a steady stream of major label A&R men following us on tour trying to get Joe's ear. #timstwitterlisteningparty

The video was filmed at the sadly departed Luminaire in Kilburn. youtu.be/YUgigy4rlzc #timstwitterlisteningparty