'When I say I'm in love you best believe I'm in love L-U-V'

As you'll know if you've seen us live, we borrow the line from (we thought) the New York Dolls and the Shangri-Las as an opening to our song 'Do you believe in modern love?'.

I just stumbled across an interesting blog entry from Jazz Funk Greats about the various bands who have used that as an opening line. Turns out it's like the Kevin Bacon game!

It's good to know we're part of a great(er) heritage!

Summer live gigs...

We're sorting our dates for the summer onwards. First confirmed are

5 July at the Curious Yellow Weekend festival just outside Peterborough. We're playing on the Friday afternoon, exact timeslot TBC. It's a whole three days of great music with a fairly eclectic mix of bands. Promises to be awesome!

7 July at The Elm Tree, Cambridge - by contrast, an intimate evening with the Scissors at our favourite real ale and Belgian beer pub. As before, we'll play two sets, up close and personal!

More dates as they come in... keep your eyes on our 'Gigs' page for info!

A break from gigs for a short while...

Thanks to everyone who came to see us live in the start of 2013; we're taking a short break to finish working on our new songs and record them properly...
Watch this space for recording news (and summer gigs when they're confirmed)!

At Man on the Moon, 1 Feb. Pic by Donna.

Revamped website!

We've given our website a bit of a refresh so you can find stuff more easily.

• There's a new 'Music' tab at the top, which lets you hear (and buy, if you like) our music (both albums and EP).
• There's also a 'Video' tab, where you can see some great footage of Scissors in action at various gigs, including the professionally filmed set at Epic Studios in Norwich in July 2012.
• We've also included a 'Press' tab so you can read what other people have said about us. Nice things, obviously...

It's all pretty self explanatory really - go check it out and let us know what you think!

Kick off February in style!

We're playing Cambridge's lovely Man On The Moon next Friday (1 February) alongside

Buzzard Kings
Cookie and the Feedback
and more!

More info soon as we have it - but rest assured it'll be a great night! See you there!

Snow can't stop the rock - Cambridge Junction Fiver 18 January

Big, big thanks to everyone who came and made last night's Junction Fiver such a great night! Shame the weather kept Volunteers from getting there (we loved their track 'Straight Edge Kids Make Me Wanna Binge Drink' from the Rocket to Romsey compilation). But Veteran, Prince Among Thieves and Whisky Jax were all awesome. As were the audience - it was great to see lots of jumping about and waving of arms at the front!
Pic by Liz, of Toby either wrestling with some artful feedback in his solo, or pointing his arse at the audience. Use your skill and judgement to decide which...

And thanks to Gary Brown at the Junction for asking us to play! Hopefully do it again sometime!

At the Junction next week!

We're excited to be playing Cambridge Junction next Friday as part of the Junction Fiver (that's five bands for a fiver, folk)! Full details...

The line up is:
Whisky Jax
Prince Among Thieves
Volunteers
The Scissors
Veteran

Should be a great night - hope to see you there!