7 posts tagged “indie”
...we posted again - long overdue in fact! Well at least we have some exciting news to write about anyway. We've now finished the album...well recording-wise that is. It's currently being mixed and we're hoping to have it all ready in the next couple of weeks for a release in mid-late September - which is not much later than we'd originally planned so we've not done too badly! The party will be at Notting Hill Arts Club on Sat 13th Sept and we hope some of you can make it....but more on that later!
We had a great time recording the album with Gavin who has possibly the widest knowledge of music/musicians/artists - ranging from the mainstream to the totally obscure - that any of us have ever encountered! He also has an amazing array of equipment, aquired over the years too including speakers that belonged to the stones, a vintage Neve that allegedly appears in Bowie's Space Oddity video (not sure if I can see it though!) and a custom Shergold once owned by Bernard Sumner that we got to use on a couple of tracks (see below)!
Finally, just to update you on
some confirmed live dates for next month - would of course be great to see
any of you can make any of them:
1st July - The Purple Turtle, Camden
10th July - The Twist, Colchester
25th July - Storm, Leicester Square
We'll be getting out and gigging a lot more again now we're out of the studio,
so watch this space for more news..
....and we promise to keep it updated! ;)
xxx
Damn! This is exciting - I think I'm going to chew my arm off before this thing is over! For any of you that haven't heard us yelling about it for the last week or so, we are in the indie/rock showcase at slicethepie.com - a site where artists get their songs reviewed, and those with the highest ratings compete for financing (from users of the site) of £15,000 to produce an album. The earnings from said album are then shared with those who helped finance it (hence the slice-a-da-pie).
Along with 13 other artists we made it through to the showcase stage where a final winner is voted upon to gain the financing...and we're now in 1st place! Thanks so much to any and every one who has voted for us so far - and especially to Rachel and Krissy at Vox for featuring our plight on the explore page this week!
We are not yet in the clear however, as the showcase doesn't close until next Wednesday..and it is a very close race at the minute! If you haven't voted already, please take a moment to help us out by registering (for free) and voting for us in the showcase. It only takes a minute, but we're at the stage where literally every vote makes a difference!
In all the excitement, we had almost forgotten about gigs! We'll be playing at the Lark in the Park, Islington this coming Tuesday (11th December) for any of you London-based Voxers, who'd like to come along. We should be hitting the stage around 9pm, and it'd be great to meet up with any of you that can make it...
xxx
A quick note about our gig @ Madame JoJo's, Soho this Thurs (13th Sept) night. If anyone is in the area that night please come along and check us out, say hi, hang around, get drunk, enjoy the good vibes etc, etc...
We're looking forward to it as it is a great place and a cool night as well (see flyer below), with several bands and DJs (including a DJ set from the Infadels) - and a late bar. We'll be on about 9.30 if you're able to make it down.
Hope to catch you there!
This was something of an unusual recording for us as it was a reworking of one of our first ever songs, which had started out as a kind of 7 minute epic (!). We decided to kill the big string sections etc. and do a kind of 3-4 minute, subtle pop version for the EP, the week before we went to record....and this is what we came out with! Once again, please have a listen share your views on this - we'd love to hear them.
We'll be playing at the The Pleasure Unit on Bethnal Green Rd tomorrow night (onstage around 8-8.30 ish) by the way, so if any of you London folks are around, please pop down and see us + say hi!
cheers!
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It's great to have received some positive feedback about 'Stay as you are' - I'll definitely be posting some of our other tracks from the same session soon.
In the meantime, here's a quick post by way of an advert for our next London date at The Clapham Grand on Saturday the 28th July. Tickets are only £6 from ticketweb.co.uk, or alternatively just pm me for more details.
We're looking forward to what should be a really great night with live visuals galore (assuming they let me use the projector on the night of course!)
Great if some you can make it..!
Ben
Also playing the following venues / dates:
Mon 16th July - The Charlotte, Leicester
Sat 28th July - The Grand, Clapham, London
Fri 10th August - Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Wed 15th August - The Pleasure Unit, Bethnal Green
Fri 31st August - The GO! Club, Birmingham
Thurs 13th Sept - Madame JoJo's , Soho, London
All comments and feedback welcome - hope you like it. I will aim to post some of the other tracks later if people are interested in hearing more.
Thanks
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Hi...
...thought it about time we added our first post to introduce ourselves on here. We are Shortwave Fade - an electronically inspired blend of elevating pop - tinged with melancholy...or so we like to think!
We have just completed three new tracks produced at the Animal Farm in London, which we will be posting on here very shortly with the hope of getting some feedback from all of you lovely people. In the meantime, our earlier, self produced single 'Anything to anyone' has just been released through Shifty Disco as a download only. You can check that out here.
More soon,
SwF
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