Newsletter - March 2013

It's been a while! Here is some news from The Left Outsides:-

New Album - 'The Shape of Things to Come' digital download release

Brought to you courtesy of Xemu Records, our new album titled 'The Shape of Things to Come' is now available for digial download from the following online stores: emusic, Amazon, and itunes.  The album was mixed by Martin Noble (British Sea Power) and Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis).

Summer show announced

We're pleased to announce that we're playing at the Woolf Music Festival at Cleeve House, Seend near Melksham, in Wiltshire, England, on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th August 2013.  Cleeve House is a rambling country manor that has historic associations with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group of artists. Woolf Music is "a celebration of underground rock in a magical setting." Hosted by the people behind the wonderful 'Terrastock' festivals, the line-up also includes Sharron Kraus, Bridget Hayden, Ellen Mary McGee, Sofie Cooper, Plinth, United Bible Studies, Deej Dhariwal (Thought Forms), Silver Stairs Of Ketchikan, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). 

More summer 2013 shows to be announced very soon. Here is a review of the show we played with Cheval Sombre and Sonic Boom from back in November 2012 (a Sonic Cathedral night).

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

You can now follow us on Facebook and on Twitter (@theleftoutsides) for the most up to date news from The Left Outsides.

and finally... our song 'The Chameleon' from our debt album 'And Colours in Between' is to feature as part of the sound track to a new US indie film titled 'Last Weekend' due for release later in the year.  More news when we have it. 

And that's the end of this newsletter. As always, you can get in touch with us by email at  mailto:the_left_outsides.yahoo.co.uk or via our facebook or twitter pages.

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The Left Outsides newsletter - April 2010

Dear friends,

It's been a while since we were last in touch - we've been busy holed up in our new basement studio working on some new material over the last three months or so. But we have news of a couple of events in April and in May to bring to your attention…..

Stand and Deliver - screening at the London East End Film Festival - Monday 26 April

At the centre of the woods lies the body of a young woman. What happened last night? How did she get here?.......

'STAND & DELIVER is the third collaboration from the award-winning Director, Writer and Cinematographer Team Gus Alvarez, Paul Nash & Neill Phillips, and is produced by the award-winning independent producer Emily Blickem. Stand & Deliver stars Alexa Brown (The Secret Philosophy, Return to Ravenswood, Mirror Mirror) as Anna, plus Emma Deakin (One Little Step, Black Box) and Darren S.Cook. The pitch-perfect soundtrack is provided by The Left Outsides.'

This new short film, described as 'lyrical, dream-like and unsettling ' is being screened as part of the East London Film Festival on Monday 26 April at the Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London. You are invited to attend - tickets can be purchased from the Rich Mix website . The film has also been nominated in the 'Best UK short Film' category in the festival awards competition.

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Live and Direct - Friday 21 May - café Oto, London with Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts and Comet Gain

Announcing our first live date of 2010 at Café Oto, Dalston, London on Friday 21 May 2010.

We are chuffed to bits to be playing with friends Comet Gain and Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts, who will be using the occasion to launch their new album titled ‘How Snakes Eat’ on Fire records. We would highly recommend that you use some of your hard earned cash to purchase a copy of this fantastic record, and that’s not just because our own Alison Cotton contributes her viola skills to the recordings.

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Finally, you can now follow the Left Outsides on Facebook, if you are into that kind of thing. Go visit our page and be our friend or something.

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Err, that’s it! We hope to bring you more news of forthcoming Left Outsides releases in the near future, and as always you can keep in touch with the band at the_left_outsides@yahoo.co.uk

Bye for now,

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The Trimdon Grange Explosion - Live on BBC 6 Music - Friday 8 January

Greetings dear friends, and Happy New Year!

May we suggest you tune into BBC 6 Music on Friday 8 January to listen to 'The Trimdon Grange Explosion' play a live set on the Tom Robinson show from 7-9pm. Simply click on the 'listen now' button on the 6 music website on Friday 8th, or visit the website after the event and click on the 'listen again' button.

The Trimdon Grange Explosion is our 'other band' with our good friends (and 'Outside Left's') Ben Phillipson and Karl Sabino. 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.

Listen to our songs on our myspace page

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Flyer for Clientele Show - Thursday 19 November 2009

Here' a Great looking flyer for our show with the Clientele on Thursday 19 November at London's Luminaire. Tickets are available from We Got Tickets . Stage time 8.30pm.

November shows in London

Some news of two new shows in November for your diary:-

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Saturday 14 November, The Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, London SW2 5BZ. With Le Volume Courbe, Matthew Sawyer and the Ghosts and The European. Tickets £4.50. Further information from We got Tickets. 9pm.

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Thursday 19 November, The Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London, NW6 7JR. With The Clientele. Tickets £8.50 from We Got Tickets . 8pm

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We are over the moon to be playing with these shows with two of our favourite bands right now - The Clientele and Matthew Sawyer and the Ghosts. Check out their wonderful songs at the myspace links.

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Newsletter - Autumn 2009

Hello dear friends, here is the August 2009 edition of The Left Outsides newsletter....

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The Left Outsides in London
We're back with a show in London Town, Dalston to be precise, as support to the wonderful Damon and Naomi and 'Amor De Dias' (Alastair from the Clienteles' other band).
Friday 4 September, Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, London. Tickets are priced at £7 from WeGotTickets. Show time 8pm. Bought to you by 'Secret Knowledge'.

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The Left Outsides in London (again)
This time at The 12 Bar Club, 26 Denmark Place, London with Anton Barbeau on Wednesday 9 September. Tickets £6 on the door. Show time 8pm

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Stand and Deliver
We've been busy over the past few months putting the final touches to our soundtrack to a new short film by Gus Alvares, called 'Stand and Deliver'. Here is a trailer for your enjoyment, and a few words about the film:-
At the centre of the woods lies the body of a young woman. What happened last night? How did she get here?

Stand & Deliver is the third collaboration from the award-winning Director, Writer and Cinematographer Team Gus Alvarez, Paul Nash & Neill Phillips, and is produced by the award-winning independent producer Emily Blickem. Stand & Deliver stars Alexa Brown (The Secret Philosophy, Return to Ravenswood, Mirror Mirror) as Anna, plus Emma Deakin (One Little Step, Black Box) and Darren S.Cook. The pitch-perfect soundtrack is provided by UK folk band The Left Outsides.

This lyrical, dream-like unsettling short will be touring the UK and World film festival circuit this year and 2010.

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That's about all for now folks, hope to see you at a show soon. You can always drop us a line at mailto:the_left_outsides@yahoo.so.uk too....



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Newsletter – March 09

Hello dear friends, here is the March 2009 edition of the Left Outsides newsletter.

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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


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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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That’s all for now,


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Left Outsides newsletter - December 2008

Hello folks, welcome to the December 2008 edition of The Left Outsides newsletter, bringing you news of.... err.... The Left Outsides!

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*The Gower Wassail*

First up, the good folks at Where It's At Is Where You Are records asked us to contribute a song to their online Christmas themed compilation. We obliged with our interpretation of the seasonal traditional song 'The Gower Wassail'. Visit their website to stream or download the song for free.

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*New London show announced - Track and Field Winter Sprinter - Thursday 15 January 2009*

We are pleased to announce our first show of 2009, the Track and Field Organisation's 'Winter Sprinter', supporting the excellent Damon and Naomi (ex Galaxie 500). This show will also feature 'The Outside Lefts' whose current incarnation includes Ben Phillipson (electric guitar) Karl Sabino (drums) and Matt Ashton (bass guitar).

We'd love to see you there, here are the finer details...

Thursday 15 January - 7.30pm

TRACK & FIELD WINTER SPRINTER VOLUME 10.4

DAMON & NAOMI (Ex Galaxie 500) plus THE LEFT OUTSIDES

The Luminaire

311 Kilburn High Road

London NW6

Nearest tube: Kilburn / overground: Brondesbury

Tickets: £7 advance, available from:

We Got Tickets

Ticketweb

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*Planting Seeds Records - “Blue Skies Daisy Days” compilation*

We have an exclusive track included on Planting Seeds Records latest compilation release – “Blue Skies Daisy Days” (PSRCD-058). It is released on CD and digital format through Darla distribution. The featured track is the full studio version of our song 'Out of Time; Out of Place'.
Some of our friends are also included on this compilation - The See See, The Tamborines and The Fischers. They all provide great tracks - well worth your attention.

The collection also includes the International Jetsetters (members of The Jesus & Mary Chain + Ride) The Ocean Blue, Linda Draper, A.M. Vibe, The Voyces, Pinkie (Sarah Records), The Loose Salute (members of Mojave 3), Loz Colbert (Ride), The Primary 5 (members of Teenage Fanclub), Nic Dalton (Lemonheads), John Moore (Black Box Recorder, JAMC).

A Portion of the proceeds from this benefit record go to San Diego based The Keep-A-Breast Foundation. The Keep A Breast Foundation is a non-profit organization. Their mission is to help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support.

Order your CD copy by visiting the Darla Website .

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*New album set for release in Spring 2009*

More news on this next time......

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Finally, we would like to thank everyone who has helped and supported us over the past 12 months.

Thank you, its been a blast. Here's to more next year!

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