PS. Strange Death might have got the break they deserve - they will be supporting a band some of you could guess that I love - Editors - on the forthcoming Mar/Apr tour - if you are going get down early!
David is currently recording with his new band "AGE OF GIANTS" www.myspace.com/ageofgiants and will be performing with it throughout the year.
Liam is currently involved in his project "SMALLER FORCES"... check out his music.
APARTMENT will be entering the studio to record some new songs in MAY.
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Here is the first glimpse of action from David's new project, Age of Giants, a song that was originally demoed on DC's own myspace a good while ago now and available if you search the labels below:
I follow and await the magic words London and live, very soon, I hope!
Happy, happy days.
Sorry really busy, hopefully has some nice things tomorrow, if not Monday as away for the weekend, but a quick post to say fear not, Hurts were fucking wonderous.
Will Young was there so he obviously thinks so too. They will go far. Highlight was a new song (to me) called Stay - epic.
Opera singer with them, a drummer and additional keys. Theo was great on vocals - wonderful voice - was holding a comb a bit too much, but I think it will be a 'I was there' moment. See Hurts when they next tour.
Apparently we have to wait till August for the album which is a bit of a shitter!
Lovely venue, bit too loud probably, sound was a but muffled, still took nothing away from the gig.
Catch them on the NME Radar Tour late April and May - Hurts in a full tour is great news, this could well be the only chance to catch them in small venues.
The Joy Formidable, a band I've posted quite a bit on here - this is the trio's NEW single, Popinjay and it's out now on itunes, I wasn't expecting it this early, but hey I am not going to complain.
If you've liked what you've heard, let's support this fucking good band and say thanks to them.
Leah Hayes is the mastermind behind the Brooklyn-based rock group Scary Mansion. After playing for several years as an Antifolk singer/songerwriter, Hayes picked up bassist Bradley Banks, and former-Fugue-member Ben Shapiro. She then found herself fronting a wild rock band. "I still write the songs and sing, but I like having boys making crazy noise behind me." Hayes has always had a unique sound, accompanying her voice with the "thunderstick", a three-stringed acoustic instrument similar to a banjo or dulcimer. When Hayes plays the thunderstick clean, it evokes Appalachian front porches. But when plugged in, the thunderstick screams through a distortion pedal for a punky, 90's grunge sound.
Scary Mansion's newest record, "MAKE ME CRY", comes out on Talitres Records in Europe
A very recent find, I cae across Soap&Skin through last.fm (it works!) and was blown away on the first listen, a Union Chapel show in April was prompty booked.
I couldn't believe she isn't even 20 yet!
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Lastfm bio: Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990). Anja Plaschg grew up in a small village called Gnas in south east Styria, where her parents have a farm. She has played piano since she was six. At the age of 14 she began violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. She attended the Graz Polytechnic for Graphic Design, but dropped out at 16 and moved to Vienna shortly afterwards. There she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Daniel Richter, but at 18 dropped out again.
Musicians like Xiu Xiu, Cat Power, Björk, Nico, Aphex Twin and composers like Sergej Rachmaninow or Arvo Pärt have had a great impact on her music.
After only playing a handful of concerts she was already being dubbed a “Wunderkind”. In 2008 she played German singer Nico in the play “Nico - Spinx auf Eis” by Werner Fritsch in Berlin and Vienna, performing several songs in it, including “Janitor Of Lunacy”, from her first EP.
Her first album, called “Lovetune for Vacuum”, was released in March 2009. It received excellent reviews and placed in the Austrian Top 10. The album also achieved chart positions in Germany, Belgium and France. Music journalists have already claimed to see in her a new star of Austrian pop
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