11 posts tagged “indie”

Hi, just uploading a preview of  'Lost In A Hurricane', our new single due for release on 15th December....please take a listen and let us know what you think! We're back in the studio again this week to add a final (brand new) track to the album...it's been a few months since we finished recording and mixing the other tracks but we felt this one was too good not to go on as well, and so back to The Magic Garden we go :) We've been working solidly on the new track for the last few weeks now and we're pretty sure it's going to sound ace - we're certain in fact ;) !

We'll post a preview soon, we promise!! x

Yes, 'Leave' is finally released this week...you can now download it from iTunes, Napster, Amazon and many others. The release goes out with a fantastic remix of 'Cover My Eyes' by the ambient popsters Kyte, which we're sharing here - have a listen and see what you think!

We had a good publicity ahead of the release on 6Music last week where Steve Lamacq gave the single a play and chatted to Chris about the band and about the whole slicethepie thing. You can listen to it again with the BBC player thing here.   

To celebrate the single release, we're having a launch party in the form of a RoTa showcase at Notting Hill Arts Club this Saturday (13th September). It kicks off at 4pm and is FREE admission to all. We'll be hitting the stage at around 7pm but come down early if you can to catch support from fellow slicethepi-ers The Keyz, Themselves and Timothy Edwards!

As if that wasn't enough, when we recover from the inevitable saturday night drunkeness, we're heading over to Proud Galleries, Camden to join another afternoon showcase, this time in support of the hotly tipped Dirty Skirts....it's also FREE (apologies for capitalising that word every time) and is sure to be a great afternoon as there are a load of acts on the bill - we may be looking a little worse for wear by that stage though! 

Thought I'd better post this track today and give it a mention as it's currently free to download for one week only...finishing tomorrow - great timing, I know! :) This is an early unmastered version of 'You Were Right' one of the tracks from the forthcoming album 'Deletia', which is shaping up nicely for a release in a couple of months. This track is a sort of short, but very epic ballad if that makes any sense at all. As I said it's not the finished article but hopefully you'll like it anyway....and if you do, you can download it for free at slicethepie.com! But not for long (erm sorry about that)! x

 

 

We're kind of nearly getting there at last....We've spent some time back in the studio this month going over the final mixes of tracks for the album 'Deletia'. It's all coming together really well now although we're up against it trying to meet our planned release date - but so it goes!  :) Thought I'd upload something new from the album anyway and see what people think. This is a brand new track called 'Army Of Two'. It'll be the last song on the album.....and is quite short and gentle sounding compared to a lot of the stuff we've posted previously so thought it might make a nice change! The songs we've put down for the album itself are quite diverse, but hopefully this'll give some idea of the range of sounds we're going for anyway...Gavin did an excellent job producing this - thankfully he really knew what we were trying to achieve with the ending - which is always a good thing ;) Hope you like it anyway!

...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)!

The album is called 'Deletia' and currently consists of 12 tracks (though that may change) including new mixes of 'Stay As You Are' and Cover Your Eyes'. We're really happy with the way everything sounds so far and can't wait to get it out there for people to hear.....In the meantime though, we selected a track called 'Leave' as the first single, which is now all ready and set for release on  8th September. You  can preview it below, so please have a listen and as always, any comments (particularly nice ones) would be greatly appreciated

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

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!

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