'Folk N Glory' Nearly Ready!
Two Announcements:
A - If you want to hear a preview of a couple of songs from "Folk n Glory"...you can check them out on our MySpace page! Give us some feedback.
B - Our good friend Mr Shitter has asked us to mention that we are playing his new festival. As some of you may remember, Mr Shitter used to run a damn fine festival called 'Shitfest'. But now, Old Shitter has got into bed with Hole in the Wall fest in a collaboration that everyone wanted to call 'ShitHole Fest'. Sadly, they didn't run with that, and so it is:
15 July: Hole In The Wall Festival, Hopton Court, nr Ludlow, UK
VISIT www.holeinthewallfestival.co.uk or better still come along on the day and see us play!
BACK TO BUSINESS........
Hi there, yup it's been an age ain't it! Sorry about the lack of activity on updating our page. Several factors have contributed to this:
Work - our lovely Govt have been sacking shed loads of people so I have been busy defending jobs and services for UNISON.
Elections - I stood and lost on behalf of the Green Party but aim to keep going.
Voluntary Work - I do stuff for a welfare/employment rights organisation and we have had a funding crisis, so have been crisis managing and fundraising for them, a crisis again thanks to our wonderful post-Thatcherite, Thatcherite thinking Govt.
And finally, the long awaited album... yes, this has taken the best part of 3 months also.
Anyway, our soon to be current offering 'Folk N Glory' will be 11 tracks long. It is a self-recorded effort, done in the conference room of UNISON, so thanks to Worcestershire County UNISON! It was recorded on our budget recording system laid down on to a computer - oh yes we are hi-tech ain't we eh!?
Although we actually recorded it in February/March, it has taken me until now (as engineer/producer/technician/chief swearer when things go wrong - and they have on plenty of occasions - like when all my presets which took months to develop decided to go AWOL meaning a recovery session was needed, phew) with everything else going on to mix and master it, largely at home. For those of you who have ever done this kind of thing you'll know it is a painstaking process, which even when finished could always be started again as there is always something else to tweak - but there comes a point when you have to say 'enough is enough', this is the version we'll run with, and so we are there..... kinda.
Gaz has been similarly busy putting the final touches to the artwork after the same kind of tweaking. His dannies are bare to the bone.
All in all, given we are an unsigned band, doing it on a budget we haven't got, we are happy with it. It represents a shift away from the sound of previous albums and it has a lo-fi charm all of its own, with quite a retro feel to the music and artwork which we think you'll be pleased with. Deffo folkier, but with some rocking moments.
We is on i-Tunes
Those of you who are missing our earlier albums will be pleased to hear they are now on Spotify, as well as being available to download from iTunes, Amazon MP3, Play, 7digital, and many other fine vendors of digital music.
The forum
Or blogspot as it is now called is still going (not so strong recently of course) with mini inside views of life on the road, we hope you have read them and enjoyed them. I'll keep them going and let you know how the album progresses too.
Finally
We have a 'B' sides collection of tracks too that we plan to record later in the year with a couple of surprises thrown in for good measure. Keep an eye out for that! I want to call it 'Worcester Sauce' as it will be a recording in Worcester and its saucy, trust me you'll have to run with this idea...
Finally finally... As you may see, we have not many gigs this year, so all the more important you say hello when we do play a gig. This is a re-building year for us so the album and promo of it has to be a priority. We'll see where that takes us, and hopefully the new album will mean more gigs in the future... so fingers crossed.
We hope to see some of you, all of you, new friends, old friends, lost friends at a gig soon, when they eventually happen, so don't be strangers!
Foxie
Xx
GIGS 2011
3 June: Germany tbc
4 June: Irish Folk Festival, Poyenberg, Germany
(www.irishfolk-poyenberg.de)
18 June: Festival, Germany tbc
25 June: The Wheatsheaf, Leighton Buzzard, UK
(www.thewheatie.co.uk)
15 July: Hole In The Wall Festival, Hopton Court, nr Ludlow, UK
(www.holeinthewallfestival.co.uk)
2-4 September: Festival, Germany tbc
7 October: Germany tbc
8 October: OctFest, Area 51, Hilden, Germany
(www.area51-hilden.de)
12 November: The Wheatsheaf, Leighton Buzzard, UK
(www.thewheatie.co.uk)
26 November: Katie Fitzgeralds, Wollaston, Stourbridge, UK
(www.katiefitzgeralds.co.uk)
(more gigs will be posted if/when/as they come in)
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