Photos from our I'm Not Yelling appearence
Thanks to Kimberly who took and up loaded these. I like how I look like a bear in at least one. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150756745825424.727962.699105423&a...
Thanks to Kimberly who took and up loaded these. I like how I look like a bear in at least one. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150756745825424.727962.699105423&a...
Hello, hello,
If you didn't know, the lovely I'm Not Yelling people are putting us on next Friday at the Hatchet in downtown Bristol. We're playing with Econo who are making the trek down from London village for your benefit and might play a few records after, too. You can stir yourselves up into a frenzy on the facebook event page if you like.
The setlist looks like a 50:50 split between old and new songs. We're looking to get a few more gigs in the near future and to do some proper recordings. It's nice to be back.
Toodles
Simon
Well, the Cooler gig next week didn't work out, Ali's got a big money wedding gig to play, but the good news is another gig has fallen into our laps. The lovely people who run I'm Not Yelling have asked us to play their next event at the Hatchet. We'll be playing with Econo (fresh off their European tour) and maybe playing a few records after (I've got a 7" of Wing Walker that needs to be heard!).
The set we're planning to play is half old songs (3 over 4, Iceberg Girl, and Noisy) and half new tunes, some that aren't named or quite finished. We've found a nice new rehearsal space and need to book some pretty intensive sessions between now and the 15th July.
Also, Jim has apparently bought some new effects pedals. This should strike low frequency fear into your hearts.
I've sort of lost count of how many times we've got back together to make music. I've been in YANU for longer than any other band I've played in but, because we're all busy with real lives, we never seem to get a good run at it. But that's too sombre for what is really a joyous occasion! We've had 3 practices in the past month or so (which is probably some kind of record) and started work on 3 new songs (and polished an old favourite up a bit) and it looks like we've got a gig lined up in June (24th, at the Cooler, supporting the other band I play in) so things are going good so far.
The big news is that the excellent and lovely Ben has moved on to Birmingham (educating the kids of the midlands in the ways of righteousness). So now our low end is being provided by one John James Brooke (Jim to his friends) putting a very lovely Ibanez Jet King through a synth into a sweet Ampeg combo.
One thing that's interesting is how the internet has changed things for bands since we started out. We're all fairly tech saavy and watch what's going on with music technologies as time passes. We had stuff up on our My Space page as soon as we had it recorded, but we never really did much with it and it seems really passe nowadays. Uphills have an EP out on iTunes and Amazon and we've actually made a little bit of money off it. SoundCloud and Bandcamp have really changed things, too, and I think in the future I'd self release stuff through them, since I don't think Amazon/iTunes actually increased our market (basically everyone who bought our EP were our friends. Ideally I'd like to release things on vinyl with a download code, my favourite "format", but that might be prohibitively expensive for a while...