Hello dear friends, here is the March 2009 edition of the Left Outsides newsletter.
--o--
Left Outsides in Berlin – Friday 13 March
A quick heads up to our friends in Berlin - we are heading your way later this week. We will be playing a show at Madame Claude’s on Friday 13 March. Please come along it will be wonderful to see you there.
Friday 13 March
Madame Claude's
Lübbener Str. 19
Berlin
Germany
Stage time 9pm
--o--
The Third Light 7” single
A quick reminder that we still have copies of our debut single, 'The Third Light' . The 7"s are individually numbered and packaged in unique fabric sleeves with card insert. Get yourself over to our webshop here to order your copy.
--o—
The Shape of Things to Come
Our new album is almost in the bag. Martin Noble from British Sea Power and Graham Sutton spent most of last week getting the final mix ready and we are super pleased with the results. We are now looking forward to the release in the Summer time. ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ will be released on the marvellous Track and Field label. The art work is being designed as we speak by our good friend and regular artwork designer Dave Underwood from Wax Ethic. Watch this space for more news on the release very soon.
--0--
Stand and Deliver
We have been busy working on a new project over the past few months, called ‘Stand and Deliver’ . Filmaker Gus Alvares (director of the ‘Ring Out the Bells’ video ) asked us to contribute a soundtrack to a new short film of his called….er, ‘Stand and Deliver’. The soundtrack is a departure from the traditional song structures featured on previous Left Outsides material. Instead this is a more experimental direction, of drones, washes of feedback, backwards sounds and percussion. The music is mostly instrumental, but the film also features ‘I Have Always Been Inclined to Follow my Dreams’ from the ‘And Colours in Between’ album and ‘Out of Time; Out of Place’ a new song from our forthcoming album ‘The Shape of Things to Come’. It is in the final stage of production and we hope to be able to upload the film to our website very soon for your viewing pleasure.
--0--
The Trimdon Grange Explosion* – Friday 27 March
Something for our London friends now. We are playing in a brand new band, called ‘The Trimdon Grange Explosion’ and we are playing a show at the Buffalo Bar , in Highbury, London on Friday 27 March, as part of the Fortuna Pop ‘Beat Hotel’ night.
The band features Ben Phillipson on Guitar and vocals, Karl Sabino on drums and percussion, Mark Nicholas on Bass guitar and vocals and Alison Cotton on viola and vocals. It promised to be a great night, we would love to see you there.
We are going into the studio in a few weeks time to cut some new tracks which we hope will be released very soon, so watch this space.
Friday 27 March
The Buffalo Bar
259 Upper Street
London
N1
*The name is taken from a mining disaster which occurred at the Trimdon Grange colliery in the North East of England in 1882. 72 men and boys lost their lives as the mines collapsed due to a natural gas explosion. A song was written by Tommy Armstrong, a local man known as ‘the pit poet’ as a fund raiser for the grieving families of the dead. The song was recorded by Louis Killen on topic records in the 1960s.
--0--
That’s all for now,
The Left Outsides
x
