Any support is really very much appreciated - we've been working hard on new material and are looking forward to getting it all recorded. Oh also, for those of you who haven't seen it...check out our tour blog here:
We've been very busy behind the scenes recently. Rehearsing, writing, recording, organising tour dates (TBA soon!) and remixing. We teamed up with a great post-punk band called Foreign Office to do a remix swap. They took our song Finders Keepers and we did a remix/ rework of their song Leaving the House. For a free download of both songs click below:
Our forthcoming single Finders Keepers has been selected as one of the three
tracks for Steve Lamacq's Rebel Playlist. Each week listeners vote for one of
three songs that just missed out on making the 6Music playlist. The winner gets
played on each daytime radio programme the following week. As we have no label
backing whatsoever, this would be a massive help for us. So if you could please
take a minute of your time to vote for us it'd be much appreciated. All you
need to do is click here and follow the instructions:
We had
our first show playing new tracks from the album at Hey! Manchester's event at Sounds From The Other City. So far, we've received
some fantastic feedback, so we are extremely excited about going on tour
with a new repertoire. Please see below for tour dates:
Sun 09 May - SALFORD ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY, The Kings
Head
Wed 12 May - Bristol, Mother’s Ruin
Thu 13 May - London, Kings Cross Social Club (FREE ENTRY)
Fri 14 May - The Great Escape, Latest Music Bar (afternoon) (FREE ENTRY)
Sat 15 May - Northampton, The Labour Club
Wed 19 May - Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Morgan Lloyd
Thu 20 May - Aberdeen, The Tunnels
Fri 21 May - Berwick,The Barrels Alehouse
Sun 23 May - Nottingham, Spanky Van Dykes
Tue 25 May - Southampton, Hamptons
Wed 26 May - Bath, Moles
Thu 27 May - Winchester, The Railway
Fri 28 May - York, Stereo
Sat 29 May - Anglesey, The Trip Festival
Media Coverage:
We are benefiting from a fair amount of coverage across all media platforms
at the moment, we would like to thank everyone that's supported the
album to date across the web, press & radio. It's amazing that we've
had such positive feedback and it's hugely uplifting.
Marc Riley has asked us in for a radio session on
May 10th, so please tune in!
Here's what people have been saying so far:
WORD Magazine: "A terrific LP full of incidental music for soothing the
savage breast and making you look forward to summer. If you don't like
this record, well, get over yourself."
Adam Walton, BBC Wales Music Blog: "Breathtaking in a most unshowy way.
Life Stream is as accomplished, thoughtful and lovingly-crafted as any
album will hear this year. Essential listening."
Bethan Elfyn: "Absolute soaring loveliness. A highly anticipated album."
Gideon Coe, 6Music: "Very, very, very ,very good. A splendid piece of
work."
Marc Riley. 6Music: Absolutely beautiful."
AbsolutePunk: "Easily one of the best and most beautiful instrumental
folk-rock albums that you will probably come across - it's simply
lovely. Whether you check it out because of their name, or because you
like the genre, this is an album that you should not miss out on."
That's all for now, but we hope to see
you at a show at some point in May!
ecstatic