Thanks to roo on The Aliens forum for pointing out these YouTube live videos of The Aliens from last Friday’s (25th Aug 2006) Manchester Night & Day gig (posted by kcrules):
The Aliens - Robot Man live
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwKQEFUrB9E

The Aliens - Happy Song live
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nEqpZMKng

The Aliens - Higher Than The Sun/Robot Man live
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3_h1hfMrQ

The Aliens have put their video for next single ‘The Happy Song’ up on YouTube. Check it out below:

Or if that doesn’t work, use the direct link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YikDJIj9Mo
You can also still watch the last video for ‘Robot Man’ on YouTube (which has received over 11,000 views to date):

Direct URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K_f5ErCyTE

The Aliens were in session on the Rob da Bank show on BBC Radio One last night. In case you missed it, you can check it out using the BBC’s listen again player
(thanks to Crewe for this news!)
Update 16th July 2008
The listen again player link no longer works, but here’s the show page (10th August [...]

Listen online to an XFM session The Aliens recorded last week (19th July 2006), which includes ‘Robot Man’, ‘The Happy Song’ and ‘Setting Sun’
(Thanks to theNomad for finding this)
Meanwhile, according to John from the band, an XFM and Radio One session will be broadcast in a couple of weeks time

The Aliens have made their new single ‘The Happy Song’ available to stream on their MySpace today.
Check it out at:
http://www.myspace.com/thealiens1
Also, The Aliens message board is now back online :)

It looks like The Aliens website has been updated - or at least turned into a blog.
The URL http://www.thealiens.co.uk now diverts to http://thealiens.musicblog.co.uk/
In the process the message board seems to have gone missing? I hope it hasn’t been deleted :(

Richard Greentree (former bass player with The Beta Band) has a new band called The General And Duchess Collins.
There’s a nice interview with Rich here:
http://www.spoiltvictorianchild.co.uk/2006/06/calling-earth-from-by-sea.html
New official website is being set up here:
http://www.generalandduchesscollins.com/
The General and Duchess Collins’ MySpace can be found at:
http://www.myspace.com/thegeneralandduchesscollins

The Aliens’ video for Robot Man was ‘Video Of The Week’ on Friday night’s MTV2 Gonzo
Post updated 16-July-2008:
The original Youtube video link (K_f5ErCyTE) was removed for some reason… however, you can either watch the Robot Man video uploaded by thealiens1 (the bands’ official YouTube channel) although that video only has ~7,000 views - or watch [...]