Junction 2
Standing in the Shadows of Lev - live session
Bellow are the streams for the live acoustic session we did for Mog’s show SITSOL on All Fm (96.9 FM) in Manchester back in June.
Slowing Time - acoustic live in session
When we were in Manchester, MCR Scene Wipe filmed us playing Slowing Time near the bells in the Sacred Trinity Church. View it here.
Fuzzy Lights from MCR Scenewipe on Vimeo.
New Helm review
A review from last year’s Helm EP was just posted on Incendiary Mag. You can read it here. Thanks guys!
GoldFlakePaint session
When we were in Bristol we stopped by at a vintage clothes shop called ‘Top Deck’ where we played two songs for GoldFlakePaint.
Northampton
Northampton is the last date on our tour, and sadly we’re clashing with Elton John. The Labour Club is a nice little venue which will need to be re-visited!
We’re all quite sad to leave this tour, which was really amazing! Thanks so much to everyone who put us on, put us up, put up with us and came to our shows.
London
This is the first time we played on a boat! Not sure we’d stayed on and kept playing had we hit an iceberg, but hey.
As the tide came in during soundcheck, this thing r-o-c-k-e-d! Chris had to hang on to a pillar, while Dan, Rach and I tried our best to not fall by adopting our best low rock poses, and Mark was trying to find ways of keeping all his drums in the same place… By the time we played, the tide had gone back out, so the boat was nicely sat in a mud at an angle.
Support came from Olfar (http://www.myspace.com/olfar), playing with a string duo and it was very lovely indeed.
This was an incredible venue to play in!
Glossop
There’s something great about playing venues which are a bit off the beaten track when touring, and The Oakwood is one of them. With the pub downstairs and venue upstairs, the place is not dissimilar to the one we played in in Southend at the beginning of the tour.
After eating a ridiculous amount of delicious curry provided by the promoter (thanks!) we watch Seeds & Bone’s amazing set (http://www.myspace.com/seedsandbones), as she is released from her babysitting duties for a bit (she looked after Noah every night while we played).
After we play, some of the audience members with accordions, guitars and percussion break into an impromptu set of sea shanties and covers in the pub garden, while we leave and wonder if this place ever closes…
Leeds
Among all the cities we’ve visited, two of them share first place for ‘interesting’ road systems: Coventry and Leeds. After driving past the venue the first time but not being able to stop we had to go all the way round once more, under the tunnel, exit and turn around at least twice before we managed to actually get to the Fox & Newt. And again. And again. Even our usually pretty trustworthy SatNav got really confused, and it didn’t recover in time for the next day when trying to direct us back to Salford, poor thing.
The Fox & Newt is a recently refurbished pub/venue and as its own microbrewery, which is cool as the place we’re staying is just down the road, so we can try a few ales…
Dean of Biscuitbadgers played a teapot, and someone in Seven Inches had a giant cardboard cutout guitar, which made us feel slightly inadequate.
We spend the rest of the night taking of photos of us shaking our head really fast with David and Michael from Last Harbour. Photos to come soon…maybe.
