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5/23  -  Barcelona, Spain  -  Primavera Sound

5/24  -  Manchester, UK  -  Dot to Dot Festival

5/25  - ...

We'll be playing Greenfield Fest. in Switzerland on June 14th this Summer! 

http://www.greenfieldfestival.ch/index.php?id=7

Really awesome to announce that we will be playing a few shows w/ The 1975 in the UK!

5/27 - Glasgow - Oran Mor
5/29 - ...

We'll be posting the all the tour dates very very soon

Look out for them!

We will be playing Rock Wertcher Festival in Werchter, Belgium alongside some awesome bands like Blur, Kings Of Leon, The Hives etc!

July 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th!

http://www.rockwerchter.be/nl/line-up/vrijdag

http://www.rockwerchter....

We will be playing Rock Am Ring & Rock Im Park this year in Nurburgring & Nuremberg, Germany along side bands like Bad Religion, Phoenix, A$AP Rocky, Korn and so many awesome more! ...

We will be playing The Borderline in London, UK on May 28th! 

Tix are on sale now for £8 and you could get them here:

http://www.artistticket.com/linkage.asp?...

We'll be playing the Colours Of Ostrava Fest. this summer in Ostrava, Czech Republic! 

Super excited to meet Czechian people! 

July 18 - 21

http://www.colours.cz/

We're also uber excited to announce we'll be play Primavera Sound this year in Barcelona, Spain on May 22! 

Just give a look at the lineup and you'll see how AMAZING this is going to be! 

http://www.primaverasound.com/?lang=en

We're super excited to announce we'll be playing Sziget Festival 2013 in Budapest, Hungary! 

Lots of awesome bands on the festival and still more yet to be announced! 

5 - 12 August

We'll have more info on it coming soon!...

We've just announced that we will be playing Roskilde Festival in Zealand, Denmark!

So excited for this one, along with the other new countries we are hitting this year, and on the bill announced so far are groups like Animal Collective, Baauer, ...

We're gonna be recording our rendition of the legendary skate punk band Jodie Fosters Army's song Cokes and Snickers soon! It'll be coming out on a compilation alongside many other amazing bands! 

LOOK OUT FOR IT! 

WORD.

Wowsers, 

We'll be supporting The Yeah Yeah Yeahs at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA this Friday on the 11th!

This was super super short notice but it's pretty awesome! Sadly and happily the show is sold out though.

Hopefully next ...

Hello blah blahs, Happy New Years everyone! :) 

2012 was just absolutely amazing and we would like to thank every single one of you, and everyone in our camp. You guys made this year just completely insane in the best way, and couldn't ...

We will be going to SWEDEN for Peace and Love Festival this year! 

Along w/ bands like Depache Mode, Queens Of The Stone Age, Iggy and The Stooges and so many more awesome bands! 

Can't wait for it, see you Swedish folks there!...

We have just been annoucned to be on the line up for Hove Festival 2013 in Tromøy, Norway! 

This will be one of the first shows we play overseas in 2013, so gonna start the year off strong!

See you there! ...

We have finallly finished the Thank You tour and would like to thank everyone who came out to the shows, and everyone who supported us the whole way. It was amazing getting to travel to all cities we've play, and it was more then amazing playing with ...

So haven't got to update in a while, tour has been amazing though! But lots to tell. First off, our Spain dates have been cancelled :( But we will be coming back soon, no need to worry!

As for the THANK YOU tour, we have 5 more shows ...

We have just added 4 new dates to the THANK YOU tour this coming month in November!

The new dates are:

11/15 - Geneva, Switzerland - Le Contretemps

11/21 -

We apologize for our absense at the Refused date in Bologna, Italy yesterday! 

Transportation situation fixed now, but we are sorry for it! 

We will be there soon! 

We did an interview with our good friends at Altamont Apparel recently! 

Good check it out here:

http://altamontapparel.com/articles/2012/10/03/the-bots-interview/

Much love to everyone at Altamont and Sole Technology! 

WE are VERY happy to announce that we will be mainsupport for our friends Refused again in Europe! 


10/7/12 - Bologna, Italy - ...

WE'RE COMING TO BRUSSELS, BELGIUM! 

11/24/12 - Brussels - Botanique Witloof Bar

Ticket links here:

FR: 

Today is the first day of a show on the Africa Express, here is some awesome coverage of the first day meeting up today!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/02/africa-express-rolling-coverage

We will be posting up our Fall tour including dates in France, UK, Spain + more!

Here are the headline French dates!

11/7 - Brest - La Carene (

We will be playing Paradiso in Amsterdam, Holland on November 25th! 

For more info:

http://www.paradiso.nl/web/Agenda-Item/The-Bots.htm

You could go get them here! 

http://www.artistticket.com/linkage.asp?...

We have added dates in Spain coming November, very excited to head out that way!

Here are the dates:

11/17/12 - Bilbao - Sala Azken

11/18/12 - Madrid - Moby Dick

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We will be headling shows in the UK coming this Fall! 

10/29 - Bristol - The Croft
10/30 - London - Barfly
11/1 - Glasgow - King Tuts
11/2 - Manchester - Roadhouse
...

We are EXCITED to announce that we will be playing w/ Refused in the UK! 
August 13 - London HMV Forum
August 14 - Manchester Academy 

Hope to see you guys ...

We've been talking about this for a while, and it's soon you'll be able to pick up the new THE BOTS x Ooloo collab t-shirt! 

Only available at 

The prints are made and will soon be available to buy! Once it drops you could pick up the collab tee at 

www.oolien.com

We'll announce it once it's out! 

We got an interview in the new issue of Dazed & Confused! This time around it's just Mikaiah and you could see a picture of us too. 

If you guys haven't already heard, the VERY SPECIAL GUEST that we would be joining at The 100 Club in London is Blur! Just wanted to say that we are very very happy to be playing the show! ALSO, on ...

We are very very excited to announce that we will be playing Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, Holland with great bands like 

THE BOTS have a spread in the new issue of FRONT Magazine. Pick up a copy today or check it out online: 

http://www.frontarmy.com/

Our spread in FRONT magazine dropped today in the new issue, which is awesome! And the guys at FRONT are just completely awesome and it was a fun shoot. Plus we look silly in ...

We have decided to team up w/ our friends at Ooloo Clothing Company to do a collaboration! If you haven't heard of Ooloo then go check them out! The link to their page is on the bottom of this site OR go to http://www.oolien.com/...

Excited to announce that we will be playing the Pukkelpop festival on August 16 in Hasselt, Belgium! Were playing the same day bands like Santigold, Snoop Dogg, Bloc Party, Feist, Frank ...

If you haven't heard yet, we will be playing the Rock En Seine festival on August 25th in Paris, France! We'll be sharing the same day as bands like Childish Gambino, The Black Keys and loads more! 

We are very happy to announce that we will be playing The 100 Club, the legendary West London venue w/ Swiss Lips, Savage. AND a VERY VERY special guest headliner on August 2nd! 
www.converse.co.uk/represent

We are very happy to announce that we are going to play some dates in Germany and one in Switzerland! This is gonna be our first time over so we are very very excited!

 
August 18 - @ Highfield Festival - Grospana, Germany

August ...

This friday we will be playing in Evreux, France at Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats w/ bands like Crystal Castles and The Rapture. Represent.

We are really excited to announce that we will be playing support at four BLUR shows in the UK in August !!
We are honored to play the following sold-out dates:
1st - Margate Winter Gardens 
...

We will be doing some tour dates w/ our friends in Less Than Jake and our new friends The Skints! You can find the dates under Tour but here they are as well:

18-Jun-12 WREXHAM CENTRAL STATION
19-Jun-12 LEAMINGTON SPA ...

HOLLYWOOD- The All Indie Music Awards was held Friday night, February 10th at the world-famous Key Club in Hollwood during Grammys week where the red-carpet affair overflowed onto Sunset Blvd. The Bots won "Best Punk Artist" and accepted their award ...

THE BOTS have been nominated for 'Best Punk Artist' for the 2012 All Indie Music Awards. The red carpet event will be hosted on Friday, February 10th at the world-famous Key Club in Hollywood, CA. The mission for the 2012 All Indie Music Awards is to ...

"One of the day's coolest, most unexpected sets was delivered by the Bots–- two brothers from Glendale, California, ages 13 and 18 – playing tough and melodic punk 'n' blues in the Black Keys mode. "I'm pretty sure their mom is out on tour ...

"It's easy to point to icons like Jay-Z, Notorius B.I.G., Lil' Kim and Busta Rhymes as Brooklyn's finest, musically speaking. but the latest installment of the Afro-Punk festival, which bills itself as "the other black experience," questions the idea ...

BEST NEWCOMERS: THE BOTS : Afro-punk Fest 2010

Coming on after P.O.S. and before Bad Brains is not an easy slot to fill. Still, The Bots, a duo of brother from L.A., held their own -- and they're not even old enough to buy a pack of ...