White Town – I’m A Tiny Pig

Available on Bandcamp now and streaming when I can be arsed, my new single, ‘I’m A Tiny Pig.’

https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-tiny-pig

#WhiteTown #YourWoman

March 7, 2026. posted by Jyoti. Music, News.

Leicester, You Are Amazing!

Thank you to everyone in the audience last night – you were absolutely AWESOME and made the gig brilliant. You sang along, you danced along and, let me say, you were all highly sexy.

mmmm

After I played, I fanboyed out to Yeah Yeah Not who I first heard on the Peel show when I was.. sixteen? God, was I ever that young.

AND THEN

Jetstream Pony came on and absolutely rocked the joint with their thrumming, driving and, yes, THROBBING songs overlaid with the floatiest of melodies. I couldn’t watch the whole gig cos me legs were hurting but just WOW.

Nights like last night make me glad to be alive.

March 1, 2026. posted by Jyoti. News.

Words And Music Festival 2025

I was honoured that Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher asked me to play this wonderful festival, the weekend just gone. I had a fabulous time despite being in pain a lot and getting cramp that sent me hilariously out of tune during Your Woman. But I kept on singing, the show must go on!

I didn’t get the chance to see the whole day but I chatted with loads of people before and after my gig and it was such a positive, chill vibe. It made me miss Indietracks to be honest, not least because I saw a lot of faces I used to see there every July.

Here’s me a-warbling:

My fave bit was when I got the one and only AMELIA FLETCHER to sing the second verse on Your Woman. Yep – AMELIA FLETCHER! Who I’ve been listening to since… 1986? ’87? Apart from Talulah Gosh and Heavenly and Tender Trap and Marine Research and Catenary Wires, how many classic songs have a sprinkling of Amelia’s gold dust? Here’s a pic of us:

And I think you can see how chuffed I was to have her sing. If you told me back in the ’80s that one day Amelia would be singing one of my songs, I would have laughed like a kookaburra.

Thank you again Rob and Amelia for inviting me and I hope to be back someday!

August 26, 2025. posted by Jyoti. News.

Two Million Plus!

Thanks to everyone listening on Spotify, this is the first time I’ve had more than two million listeners a month. ?

?#WhiteTown #YourWoman #Indiepop #Synthpop #Alternative

July 1, 2025. posted by Jyoti. News.

Hey, Bandsintown

I just contacted you, Jyoti Mishra, bzangy@gmail.com about claiming my artist profile.

June 27, 2025. posted by Jyoti. News.

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky

Just released – a new EP of four instrumentals dedicated to four of my heroes.

The cover is from 1987, when I was in the Militant Tendency.

Good times. ??

June 5, 2024. posted by Jyoti. Music, News.

White Town – Car Park Love Songs

Here’s the sound of White Town 34 years ago, when we were still a jangly/twee/noisy guitar band. A Bandcamp exclusive until I can be arsed to stick it on the streaming sites!

Enjoy!

https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/album/car-park-love-songs

May 8, 2024. posted by Jyoti. Music, News.

Women In Technology Makes Pitchfork’s Best Indie Pop Albums Of The ’90s List

Very chuffed to be on this list:

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-indie-pop-albums-of-the-90s/

White Town: Women in Technology (1997)
A computer-OK homebrew of 1980s synth-pop, 1930s big-band jazz, and 1990s sexual ambiguity, White Town’s “Your Woman” stands as one of the unlikeliest global hits of all time. Originally issued via tiny Illinois label Parasol, the breakout single by Indian-born British “philosopher, semi-pro songwriter, and career pervert” Jyoti Mishra vaulted its creator from the artsy margins to the pop mainstream. If Derby, England-based Mishra had previously gone in for jangling guitars, his major-label debut album mirrored post-punk precursors Scritti Politti’s New Pop metamorphosis, yielding worldly electro-soul that felt more Janet Jackson than Calvin Johnson. With its smash hit more recently championed by Vampire Weekend and sampled by Dua Lipa, Women in Technology remains a testament to how fiercely principled do-it-yourself pop—equal parts ambitious and eccentric by design—can transcend the indie scene. –Marc Hogan

Here’s what they said:

White Town: Women in Technology (1997)

A computer-OK homebrew of 1980s synth-pop, 1930s big-band jazz, and 1990s sexual ambiguity, White Town’s “Your Woman” stands as one of the unlikeliest global hits of all time. Originally issued via tiny Illinois label Parasol, the breakout single by Indian-born British “philosopher, semi-pro songwriter, and career pervert” Jyoti Mishra vaulted its creator from the artsy margins to the pop mainstream. If Derby, England-based Mishra had previously gone in for jangling guitars, his major-label debut album mirrored post-punk precursors Scritti Politti’s New Pop metamorphosis, yielding worldly electro-soul that felt more Janet Jackson than Calvin Johnson. With its smash hit more recently championed by Vampire Weekend and sampled by Dua Lipa, Women in Technology remains a testament to how fiercely principled do-it-yourself pop—equal parts ambitious and eccentric by design—can transcend the indie scene. –Marc Hogan

November 4, 2022. posted by Jyoti. News.