LIVE VISUALS, YO

Hola!

The inevitable highlight of closing out GameCity7 on Saturday night was playing along to live visuals projected on and above us created and manipulated in real time by members of the audience using a beta version of Tagtool and a couple of iPads. Huge thanks to Urban Canvas and Urban Projections for collaborating with us to organise it, and here's a little showreel to highlight what wonders you missed out on if you weren't there:


Tagtool @ Gamecity 7 from Urban Projections on Vimeo.

POTENT ALPACA TOUPEE

Greetings dear friends and acquaintances,

Did you come to our tour with the incredible Galaxians?  If not, you missed out on 5 nights of ENDLESS BOOGIE and BUSINESS FUNK. Seriously, they were mind-blowing every night and it was probably our favourite run of shows OF ALL TIME. Matt and Jed are fantastic folk and we enjoyed their company as much as their unbelievable chops and jaw-dropping songs. Huge thanks too to everyone who put us on, put us up and generally ate and got drunk with us - you are too numerous to mention by name, but you are extremely dear to our hearts. We all had an awful lot of fun and are now paying for too many consecutive nights of fun by being generally knackered, ill and run down.

BUT NO MATTER! For here is an exclusive set of FREE remixes of tracks from this summer's Teapot EP. And these aren't just any old remixes knocked out by hacks in exchange for grimy money; these are by some extremely talented and special friends; Apalusa, Forever Sound and Moscow Youth Cult. Check 'em out and download to your heart's content:

IMMINENT UK TOUR

Did you know that we're about to embark on a short UK tour with our good buddies Galaxians later this week? There's a Facebook event page here, or check out details of individual gigs below:

Wednesday 24th - THE GREEN ROOM, SHEFFIELD
http://www.facebook.com/events/370736003004312/

Thursday 25th - WHARF CHAMBERS, LEEDS

http://www.facebook.com/events/150596828412569/

Friday 26th - FUEL, MANCHESTER
http://www.facebook.com/events/454034644627605/

Saturday 27th - ONE THORESBY STREET, NOTTINGHAM
http://www.facebook.com/events/434925956544250/

Sunday 28th - OLD BLUE LAST, LONDON
http://www.facebook.com/events/225684324227749/

 

These will be our last live dates for a short while as we finish up on recording and mixing a bunch of new songs that we've been prepping this year. But have no fear! We have grand plans afoot for a handful of live dates in a couple of months and then MOAR TOURING ACKSHUN next year!

GRIN AND BEARD IT

Here's a little something we did one Sunday afternoon earlier this year:


Directed by David Lilley at Loonatik and Drinks:
http://www.loonatikanddrinks.com/

Recorded live at First Love Studio by Peter Fletcher:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Love-Studios/153470198008016

OXJAM - LIVE & LOCAL AT THE LOCK

Aloha!

We had a blast at Music From Elsewhere at the weekend, despite being woefully underprepared for the freezing conditions by the time we got around to playing. We've now just about recovered from a brilliant and exhausting day. Much love to Lancashire & Somerset for hosting us and our huge contingent of fellow performers, friends and family from Nottingham... as well as the fantastic other acts on the day.

NEXT UP: "LIVE AND LOCAL AT THE LOCK", courtesy of OXJAM - at The Navigation, Nottingham on Friday 12th October. We're hugely flattered to have been asked to play an event aiming to raise £500 towards a library. We'll be playing with a huge host of wide-ranging acts, there will be opportunities to choose the tunes between bands in exchange for a donation to OXJAM, and - most importantly - you'll be able to stuff your face with unfeasibly good food courtesy of the incredible Annie's Burger Shack until 8:30pm. Expect to see our stomachs groaning and a smacked-out look of satisfaction on our faces by the time we take to the stage.

Oxjam event page