July 2008
Check out the latest tour photos on our MySpace page.
10 February 2008 - i-pod on the tour bus
in Europe...
1. Poppy and the Jezebels - UFO
2. Electricity in our Homes - We Don't Need Your Honesty
3. Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the Heels of Love
4. Discharge - Decontrol
5. The Cure - Love Song
6. Leon Russell, Willie Nelson and Ray Charles - A Song For You
7. A Certain Ratio - Brasilia
8. B-52's - Dance this mess Around
9. Poppy and the Jezebels - lips of Cleopatra
10. The Horrors - A Train Roars
11. The Charlatans - You Cross my Path
12. The Wake - Something Outside
January 2008 - recording at Big Mushroom
See the photos here of the band recording the new
album 'You Cross My Path' at Big Mushroom studio.
31 December 2007 by Jon
Happy New Year! 2007 has been a year of some change within the
music world, with fantastic opportunities for unsigned talent
to be given equal footing as the mainstream. Its been a time
of change in all areas of music, it seems that historically when
things reach the point of predictability something or someone
decides to rearrange it!
As you know we are one of the first bands to giveaway music
online, this we felt was the only way to respond to the fact
that the majority of computer owning music fans are sharing music.
The record industry has long been able to mass-produce, repackage
and remarket music on a massive scale and is reluctant to pass
on any savings to the buyer or profit back to the artist. As
the digital revolution took place the head was severed leaving
behind a tail which grows with endless possibilities as new media
music shows like www.rockworld.tv and exciting live gig websites
such as www.gigsonair.tv are broadcasting new unsigned bands
to anyone with distinct taste that is loathed to watch the X
factor, the choice is back in the hands of the people.
Our first download single, You Cross My Path
has been a huge success, with the help of Xfm we’ve had
a massive response to the free download. We will be doing the
same with the album, all details will be revealed in January.
Any future physical releases will be on our own new label which
we are setting up. The final mixes for the album will be completed
by the end of January. As always the song writing has taken
on many interesting influences and after many writing sessions
that have taken place over the last year in different countries,
cities and hotel rooms. The majority has been recorded in Big
Mushroom with Jim Spencer with mixing sessions in London using
Alan Moulder.
The sound of the record has been tested on a live audience,
our recent gigs in the UK have given us confidence to carry on
with a sound that is again a fresh approach, and many positive
comments on the forum have kept us amused whilst working on the
songs.
February sees us once again boarding the
bus with our overnight bags to do a long overdue tour of Europe,
lots of gigs in some great cities, we’ll be playing most
of the new album on this tour and Jenny Hardcore is coming
over to document it. February 23rd sees the release of the
next single Oh Vanity with a video by Douglas Hart, the album
will shortly follow this.
Many thanks
JON
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