Hi! Our 1st single BRUNO comes out in Finland today. To celebrate this, our label are making it available as a free download for 1 week only at www. northernswing. com/bruno untick the top box unless you want receive spammo from EMI Finland…. Once you’ve clicked on ‘rekisteroidy’, another box will appear, just click on mp3 and that’ll start the download. Happy days!
not long to go now 'til Manchester's new festival, A Day At The Races - less than a week in fact! a wristband will get you access to both venues, so you can hop between 'em and witness:
please note that Elf Power and Suburban Kids can no longer make it, but replacements will be made! we're excited. hope to see you on Saturday... xx
We are back on tour and are playing Sheffield's Leadmill on 26th May. Tickets are a fiver and doors are at 8pm. Check our myspace for the rest of our UK tour dates. Hope to see you there. The Rushes
ps first 5 people who mail us with their names get in free.
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Either follow the links above or search "Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire" on iTunes.
"Produced by ¡Forward, Russia!'s Tom Woodhead, debut single A Fire Born In Dallas (released on the Pay For The Piano imprint) finds post-hardcore and prog influences welded together to create a sound that is both vulnerable and self-assured. Admittedly, the usual influences of Fugazi and At The Drive-In are worn pretty obviously, but the band are far more than mere copyists.
Indeed, at their single launch they offered an intense and impassioned performance, with snare cracks and upstrokes reverberating around the venue.
Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire, it would seem, have more than enough firepower in their sonic arsenal to kick some of the music world's feted young pretenders into touch. " The Metro
hello hello!!! The sessions for the album are getting closer to the end and so I thought let’s put one more song on myspace and there it is, Miss Cool Talker…I guess everybody knows one…anyway, this one took a while to get into shape but I think…mmm, no no… you listen to it and let me know what “you” think! Have a sunny and long weekend Loris
Hear ye, hear ye friends. Calling all ye faithful and faithless, the Big Hand debut album is finally here and set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off.........
............ 14 tracks of the finest sparkling soulful zorbic ska ever heard for just ten little pounds, just a click to the left there. Get yourselves the remedy for the April showers, reach out through the ether and get yourself one today. Go on, you know you want to!
Thanks so much for taking the time to check us out, hope you like our music! Now we like it more when our myspace friends actually talk to us so make sure you write back. Then when I've got some free time I'll write back! Stunning, and make sure you check out our gig list and come see us play.
If you havn't done so yet, click on the giraffe and join our new facebook group! Also new T-shirts only £8, yes.
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
