Apologies for being slacker than slack can be with our website updates… Here’s a lovely three colour screen print I just finished up yesterday to promote a Cailtin Rose gig at Night & Day in Manchester, Wednesday 25th August. We will be doing a support slot on the night and I’ll be selling a bunch of these posters too. Hope you can make it.
More good news for you – we will are planning on releasing an EP around November/December time, the working title is ‘Ghost EP’. The aim is to make it a limited edition cassette tape and digital only release. I’ve got loads of ideas bouncing around for letterpressed artwork for the cassette case – I’ll post up any progress I make on here as things develop.
We are playing the Orchestra Pit in Buxton, Derbyshire on the 27th November to celebrate the new album release. Free entry before 9, £2 after that. Doors are 7:30. I’ve just finished working on a poster for the gig – a two-colour reduction linocut. I’ll be selling a few on the night but if you would like to buy one online then visit my illustration website and drop me an email.
The guys at Other-Electricities are giving away two rare vinyl test pressings along with two CD copies of the new album “Feels, Feathers, Bog and Bees” produced by Adem (Domino). All you have to do is join the mailing list for a chance to win. Winners will be announced the week of its release – Oct 27, 2009.
I’ve got a new toy – it’s a ‘Yamaha MT8X Multitrack Cassette Recorder’ or so it proudly boasts on itself. I’ve not got to grips with it yet but I’ve got the fundamentals so I’ve managed to go through a couple of songs already. Here’s one I did today called Stop Spinning The Birdcage. Now if people would kindly stop outbidding me on spring reverb units on eBay, I’ll get round to adding a bit of reverb to it…
Some press coming through for Feels… “Kudos to Lx9 for putting out a beautiful record, full of mystery and wonder, but who don’t forget that if you have beards, you should sound like a rock band.” – Tome to the Weather Machine
I’ve just been to the post office to pick up a package that I was expecting to be some relief printing inks I ordered recently, but to my surprise the guy at the Post Office came out with a vinyl-shaped box… Here it is! This is how the new album looks on vinyl. The first time I’ve ever had music put onto vinyl (…a teenage ambition fulfilled). I can’t stop holding it. The design is mine. The photo of the deer was taken on a very wet three day hike in Scotland with a friend a couple of years ago. The blurring on the photo was from condensation in the camera. Thanks OE!
Hugo’s family went away for a week so we converted his basement into a studio again and gone through four songs really quickly. We did a couple like we used to in the old days, just turning up with a sketchy riff and a bunch of words and seeing where we go with it. The tape is packed away now though and the room is back to normal. The songs are almost forgotten until we can set up the tape and desk again.
Hey, we have four tracks from the new album for you to listen to here: listen. Expected release date of sometime this autumn. We’ve heard the test press on vinyl!
