Heylo,
Hope all’s going well! Just a wee note to say there’s another Edinburgh gig in March – on Saturday 24th, supporting Graeme’s (formerly of The Kays Lavelle) new project, Bad Books. It’s at Sneaky Pete’s in the Cowgate. More specifics, etc. when they’re confirmed.
Andyx
Hello,
As you may have seen, we’re in Manchester at the Castle Hotel pub this weekend to play a Northern Noise gig, their first ever night in fact, so it should be pretty special! The line-up for the evening is Narwhals, ourselves and headliners Hhymn who are on a wee tour ahead of their album launch in May.
There are a limited amount of tickets left and only a few available on the door so get booking if you fancy it…
Andyx
Hello,
We’ll be having a Christmas shindig again this year! This time in Edinburgh (Facebook RSVP here).
On Saturday December 17th, we’re playing a full band show at Sneaky Pete’s, along with Alan Oates of Little Pebble fame, who’ll be performing under his distortion-tinged band project The Oates Field, they released a great album Wild Oates this year! Also joining us is Giorgos Bouras with his project The Occasional Flickers who sound like the best mix of all your favourite indie bands and themselves! Or as Bart from Eagleowl put it “Scottish indie pop with a Greek accent.” They’ve a new album too, and you can find out more about that on their facebook.
Tickets are £5 on the door, or you can buy them online in advance for £4 here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/145677 .
// Andy
Andy recently nipped in to Roundhouse Radio (photographic evidence below) to have a wee chat with the lovely Grace Huber, presenter of the AWAL On Air radio show – a new Roundhouse Radio/AWAL collaboration.
They talked about songwriting, Fuzzy Star and being on the AWAL compilation ‘We Are Folk Vol 1‘ that came out last week. He also played a few acoustic songs. The results of both these things and a contribution from Patrick from AWAL are being broadcast tomorrow, Tuesday October 25th as part of the first AWAL On Air show. [Updated 26/10] You can listen again here, Patrick from AWAL is at about 23 minutes, the session is at 41 ish.
The artist-friendly folks at AWAL are putting out a digital compilation featuring a selection of folky and acousticy music on their digital distribution roster and Fuzzystar are on it. Called We Are Folk Vol 1., Late Night Radio from our acousticy EP of the same name ends the compilation of ten tracks nestling alongside artists including The Bonfire Band, Passenger, Ruarri Joseph and BBC Radio 2 Award Winner Megan Henwood. It’ll be out next Monday (October 17 ) and is available to pre-order from iTunes, or sample it below.
We Are Folk Vol 1. on the AWAL Recordings website.
Hello,
Apologies for the slight radio silence. There’s been one of those tedious post-festival/away on holiday/back from holiday but now ill lulls around here of late… now broken by:
The Ides Of Toad
Organised and ran by Matthew of the Edinburgh based Song By Toad website/label, this next Saturday (Oct 1st) there’ll be a Fuzzystar contingent supporting the highly recommended John Knox Sex Club and Mancunians Easter – which if band names are anything to go will indeed be as brilliant live as they sound online! Things kick off from 7pm at Henry’s Cellar Bar . Go on, rouse your work’s IT Department, try that John Knox website address below…
Mr Toad’s Official Facebook RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284222774925552
Mr Toad’s supplementary information:
“The John Knox Sex Club have a fantastic new album out, and will be bringing their epic, gothic folk to Henry’s to celebrate, with support from Easter, who are travelling up from Manchester, and Edinburgh’s Fuzzystar.”
http://thejohnknoxsexclub.
http://soundcloud.com/east
Hello,
BAD NEWS:
Unfortunately our Soup Kitchen gig on September 1st has had to be postponed. We’re working on a new date and will hopefully have that confirmed pretty soon.
Thankfully followed by…
GOOD NEWS:
Andy and Malcolm will be supporting Foon Yap from (of Woodpigeon fame) when she brings her Foon Yap and The Roar band to Edinburgh this coming Wednesday (August 31) for a This Is Music gig at Sneaky Pete’s. Also on the bill are Lady North so it should be a good and noisy one!
Doors are at 7pm. Entry is £4/5. For full info and FB event click here.
We’ll be at Festibelly 2011 this coming weekend. On Saturday we’re heading down to the New Forest for a set in the Autumn Shift tent. We’re going to be on sometime late afternoon, follow us on Twitter (@Fuzzystar) and we’ll post exact timing nearer the weekend. Facebook event for the Autumn Shift tent here.
We’re back home and fighting off one of those post-Festival illness things you sometimes get, possibly from subsisting purely on Guinness and crisps for several days. Thank you to everyone who came along to see us open the Autumn Shift stage on Friday night and spoke to us over the weekend, we had a blast!
The rest of our weekend was spent taking in some drum porn in the shape of Battles, enjoying Revere and Kat Flint‘s sets and grinning throughout the mercurial whirlwind of John Cooper Clarke‘s performance, “Come on people, this is class-A material at charity prices!” Not to mention a large amount of time relaxing by the entertainment/bonfire at the Autumn Shift tent itself.
Roll on the next one!
This coming Friday (August 5th), Andy’s playing one of the slots at Lach’s Antihoot at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kicking things off at midnight he’ll be doing a couple of songs at the start of three hours of pretty much anything goes, from comedy to dance, spoken word, magic and performance art.
Facebook event here.
Lach used to run now legendary The Fort open stage in New York that was the epcicentre of the New York Antifolk movement , graced by performers such as Beck, Regina Spektor, Ben Kweller and The Moldy Peaches in their early days – now he’s bringing it back to Edinburgh from August 4 – 29 for it’s second run following 2010’s rave reviews.
“NYC’s infamous open stage! Lach discovered Beck, Regina Spektor, the Moldy Peaches, who will be next?
5 Stars (Herald).
‘Face-ache funny!’ (Guardian).
For weekend tickets click here: Lach’s Antihoot.
http://www.antifolk.net