"1) NEW ALBUM - Folk 'n' Glory - Now Released!
If you wanna hear a sample, visit our 'NOIZE' page, then if you wanna buy it, visit our 'DOSHSWAP' page.
On our 'DOSHSWAP' page you can pay by cheque, cash or paypal/debit/credit card - just scroll down the page to find it.
For the trendier kids amongst you who have long since ceased to deal with hard copy albums, we also have direct links to i-Tunes and Amazon right at the bottom of our 'DOSHSWAP' page. (See 6 below)
Nice.
It's all rather quite good... and so say all of us...
2) TORCHWOOD
Is it just me or does anyone else think the American version of it is just plain too slow, dumbed down and shite!? Roll on the new series of Dr Who. The footie season is back with us too and no doubt my team 'Wolves' will endeavour to ensure I get more sleepless nights and final whistle induced stress this season again.
3) NEW PICS: Check 'em out.
Our new promo pics are on our 'PIX N MIX' page... thanks to Andy for the promo pics... we owe you a pint or three.
4) BACK TO THE CD BUSINESS...
Folk 'n' Glory is 11 tracks long. Having been done 1,2,3,4, stylee all together in a room through hot valves straight to our budget pc - and it's got a lo-fi charm all of its own. We went for that 60's/70's vibe with band in a room having fun feel and we thinks that's exactly what we've got. Folk 'n' Glory has quite a retro feel to the music and artwork, which we think you'll be pleased with, we are. Deffo folkier than Politics and on a par with fiddle-punkin' 'Propaganda' for that soundscape to the revolution Foxie is planning every day. Yay, that's getting closer too by the way...
5) RIOTS
Oh yeah, I have something to say... but I will keep it short.
Martin Luther King said something like "riots are the language of the unheard". This last week has seen rioting of a type and scale never seen before in England. I believe this is history in the making and we probably have not seen the last of it. The unheard have certainly been heard now, but sadly their words have no cohesion or direction and their cry will be ignored in a wave of political spin, propaganda and lies about criminality being the only trigger and propaganda-ised news stories about teaching assistants and graphic designers etc being arrested and sentenced as if to justify that no disaffected youth took part.
The root causes will go uninvestigated and continue to fester in this 'Daily Mail' version of England we seem to have inherited since May 2010. Tottenham (75% cut in youth service budgets, one of the highest unemployment rates in London, regular police stop & search of black youth), kicked off for a reason but that reason seems to have been lost in the shouting and rhetoric.
But I have a simple question... what has happened to make people feel it is ok to loot, burn and destroy their own community or hurt, maim or kill others to achieve no end but self-gain? I fear this question will never be answered and all we will continue to get is soundbites from Tory millionaires et al about gangs, criminals, rubber bullets, army and water cannon.
We have witnessed a move from the political riot to outrage without purpose or direction, born of the excess of our capitalist consumer driven society. A society that sees politicians and bankers looting the nations wealth - yes I use the word looting, as I see no difference except theirs is a different kind of violence - while the police and the media make whoopee with bungs for stories that take any sense of public duty or moral guardianship to the lowest level possible. At the same time violence is sanitised and made acceptable as we bomb and invade other countries for dubious reasons and to control oil.
And then we wonder why people at the lowest levels of society decide to take something for themselves and use a language they can relate to and the media watch - violence.
It does not make it right of course but I hope we do learn some lessons and start to understand that while our Governments look after their rich mates, cut our public services, starve education, export our jobs and offer nothing in return to the most disadvantaged, an LCD TV seems a small price to pay. The Government want to thank their lucky stars it never turned into a mass focused and political demonstration like in Libya or Egypt... now that would be something to take to the streets for.
Oh, ps, has anyone noticed like me that the initial police response smacked of political jockeying?
6) WE IS ON I-TUNES ETC ETC.
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.
Note: you can no longer get hold of our old albums either by purchase or free mp3 download. If you want to get your mitts on the old stuff you will sadly have to visit Spotify or i-Tunes etc.
If this pisses some of you off, we apologise for that but gigs, touring (the van is always in one state or another of disrepair) recording and producing stuff costs a lot of wedge and we just can't afford to give it away for free anymore. You might have noticed that our gig calender is a little thin this year too and that makes matters worse.
If you cannot afford to buy anything due to unemployment or low wage... and love us loads... contact (me) Foxie and I will email you some mp3 stuff for free... provided that you are genuine and not a freeloader.
7) FORUM.
Or blogspot as it is now called. Ewan 'keeping it nice' Porter hyphen Stevens will be doing future blogs as he is the dude with the notebook, pen and GPS camera with 'cake' and 'puppy' settings.
8) FINALLY.
After finishing the album which was some quite intense work for several months, I felt a little burnt out, but the fire is starting to burn again and I am getting some new snippets of ideas for songs... always good to have a Tory Government for this purpose.
Plus, 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 don't have many gigs this year, so all the more important you say hello when we do play a gig. This is a rebuilding year for us, so the album and promo of it has to be a priority. We already have some nice reviews coming in and it has been interesting to see what people make of our home-grown-produced album.
So far the verdict seems to be 'best thing we've ever done'. Which is good, no it's better than good it's effin great! So if you ain't got 'Folk 'n' Glory' yet, please buy it and see what it's all about.
We'll see where all this reviewing of the album and planning for 2012 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"
http://www.bleedinghearts.co.uk
.
If you wanna hear a sample, visit our 'NOIZE' page, then if you wanna buy it, visit our 'DOSHSWAP' page.
On our 'DOSHSWAP' page you can pay by cheque, cash or paypal/debit/credit card - just scroll down the page to find it.
For the trendier kids amongst you who have long since ceased to deal with hard copy albums, we also have direct links to i-Tunes and Amazon right at the bottom of our 'DOSHSWAP' page. (See 6 below)
Nice.
It's all rather quite good... and so say all of us...
2) TORCHWOOD
Is it just me or does anyone else think the American version of it is just plain too slow, dumbed down and shite!? Roll on the new series of Dr Who. The footie season is back with us too and no doubt my team 'Wolves' will endeavour to ensure I get more sleepless nights and final whistle induced stress this season again.
3) NEW PICS: Check 'em out.
Our new promo pics are on our 'PIX N MIX' page... thanks to Andy for the promo pics... we owe you a pint or three.
4) BACK TO THE CD BUSINESS...
Folk 'n' Glory is 11 tracks long. Having been done 1,2,3,4, stylee all together in a room through hot valves straight to our budget pc - and it's got a lo-fi charm all of its own. We went for that 60's/70's vibe with band in a room having fun feel and we thinks that's exactly what we've got. Folk 'n' Glory has quite a retro feel to the music and artwork, which we think you'll be pleased with, we are. Deffo folkier than Politics and on a par with fiddle-punkin' 'Propaganda' for that soundscape to the revolution Foxie is planning every day. Yay, that's getting closer too by the way...
5) RIOTS
Oh yeah, I have something to say... but I will keep it short.
Martin Luther King said something like "riots are the language of the unheard". This last week has seen rioting of a type and scale never seen before in England. I believe this is history in the making and we probably have not seen the last of it. The unheard have certainly been heard now, but sadly their words have no cohesion or direction and their cry will be ignored in a wave of political spin, propaganda and lies about criminality being the only trigger and propaganda-ised news stories about teaching assistants and graphic designers etc being arrested and sentenced as if to justify that no disaffected youth took part.
The root causes will go uninvestigated and continue to fester in this 'Daily Mail' version of England we seem to have inherited since May 2010. Tottenham (75% cut in youth service budgets, one of the highest unemployment rates in London, regular police stop & search of black youth), kicked off for a reason but that reason seems to have been lost in the shouting and rhetoric.
But I have a simple question... what has happened to make people feel it is ok to loot, burn and destroy their own community or hurt, maim or kill others to achieve no end but self-gain? I fear this question will never be answered and all we will continue to get is soundbites from Tory millionaires et al about gangs, criminals, rubber bullets, army and water cannon.
We have witnessed a move from the political riot to outrage without purpose or direction, born of the excess of our capitalist consumer driven society. A society that sees politicians and bankers looting the nations wealth - yes I use the word looting, as I see no difference except theirs is a different kind of violence - while the police and the media make whoopee with bungs for stories that take any sense of public duty or moral guardianship to the lowest level possible. At the same time violence is sanitised and made acceptable as we bomb and invade other countries for dubious reasons and to control oil.
And then we wonder why people at the lowest levels of society decide to take something for themselves and use a language they can relate to and the media watch - violence.
It does not make it right of course but I hope we do learn some lessons and start to understand that while our Governments look after their rich mates, cut our public services, starve education, export our jobs and offer nothing in return to the most disadvantaged, an LCD TV seems a small price to pay. The Government want to thank their lucky stars it never turned into a mass focused and political demonstration like in Libya or Egypt... now that would be something to take to the streets for.
Oh, ps, has anyone noticed like me that the initial police response smacked of political jockeying?
6) WE IS ON I-TUNES ETC ETC.
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.
Note: you can no longer get hold of our old albums either by purchase or free mp3 download. If you want to get your mitts on the old stuff you will sadly have to visit Spotify or i-Tunes etc.
If this pisses some of you off, we apologise for that but gigs, touring (the van is always in one state or another of disrepair) recording and producing stuff costs a lot of wedge and we just can't afford to give it away for free anymore. You might have noticed that our gig calender is a little thin this year too and that makes matters worse.
If you cannot afford to buy anything due to unemployment or low wage... and love us loads... contact (me) Foxie and I will email you some mp3 stuff for free... provided that you are genuine and not a freeloader.
7) FORUM.
Or blogspot as it is now called. Ewan 'keeping it nice' Porter hyphen Stevens will be doing future blogs as he is the dude with the notebook, pen and GPS camera with 'cake' and 'puppy' settings.
8) FINALLY.
After finishing the album which was some quite intense work for several months, I felt a little burnt out, but the fire is starting to burn again and I am getting some new snippets of ideas for songs... always good to have a Tory Government for this purpose.
Plus, 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 don't have many gigs this year, so all the more important you say hello when we do play a gig. This is a rebuilding year for us, so the album and promo of it has to be a priority. We already have some nice reviews coming in and it has been interesting to see what people make of our home-grown-produced album.
So far the verdict seems to be 'best thing we've ever done'. Which is good, no it's better than good it's effin great! So if you ain't got 'Folk 'n' Glory' yet, please buy it and see what it's all about.
We'll see where all this reviewing of the album and planning for 2012 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"
http://www.bleedinghearts.co.uk
.
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