Lime Chalks are using their eight legs and going on something that vaguely resembles a tour! And not in the sense of every other ‘tour’ that I’ve ever been on which usually consists of two dates played within the same week in the same city, or two dates within the same month in different cities. Nope, this is a full on proper tour with three dates which are in the same week and in different places. Take that Muse.
I had to post up this video for Roly Poly, as covered by Ace Bushy Striptease! It is awesome.
Eagle eyed web foragers may have already come across this interview on the Blue Whale blog with me and Simon from Ace Bushy Striptease in our Tiddlywhips disguise.
Oddbox Records have put out two Falling and Laughing songs as a download single as a bit of a pre-Bunnyhood teaser.
The songs can be downloaded from the Oddnet site. There’s loads of other great download singles there too!
Lights Out Birmingham was inspired by a New Scientist editorial about how they switch all the lights off in Reykjavik so that you could look at the stars in the night sky. Lights Out Birmingham was also the set opener and the ‘hit’ from when we were a three piece and had one of those bassists, like what the bumper book on starting a band says that you need. As it was Stu’s melodic basslines always contributed immensely to the two songs, and pulled them in scary new directions.
The b-side is again, Birmingham centric, all namedroppy by mentioning Snobs and The Jug and um, again all Nordic in that it’s about Swedish pop music. Isn’t Swedish pop brilliant!
Both the songs were recorded by Dom James and the cover was by Carla of Kooky Koala fame.
After showing a few people the image from Bunnyhood, I had a few “oooo! t-shirt” responses.
So here’s what I was thinking - Get A Grip can reproduce the four colours of the image on a t-shirt, and I was thinking about chestnut as it’s similar to the original packaging and you’d get the same nice red and white on brown contrast (as taken as I was with Safety Green mind!)
It would work out at £10 a t-shirt, though it would be a quality tee, and none of this tat that is sold to you outside at concerts.
These are the chest sizes:
Small 34-36
Medium 38-40
Large 42-44
X Large 46-48
2X Large 50-52
3X Large 54-56
To get an idea of demand (it’ll only be short run) drop me a message in the comments or by e-mail (dunc@theautumnstore.co.uk). I’ll probably be going ahead with it but this’ll give me an idea of the sizes I should be ordering, or whether it’s a totally daft idea.
Falling and Laughing are taking our first steps to becoming an actual proper band and are releasing our first actual proper CD soon (yay) and it’s going to be an EP called Bunnyhood!
It’s going to be made up of four songs which we’ve been performing over the last year
1) Feral Fanzine Frenzy
2) Roly Poly
3) Kim’s Song
4) Stockholm Archipelago
Pete Horowitz has been wonderfully kind and helped us record the songs up in Stoke and it’s coming out on Oddbox Records, hopefully at some point in early June.
The cover image (which, honestly, I think looks amazing… more on that next post) was designed by Kooky Koala and printed by Get A Grip in the Custard Factory.
Absolutely delighted to be on this line up! Indietracks has been consistantly jaw dropping over the last three years whether for La Casa Azul wowing the world with his version of Love is In The Air to a crowded shed of Wedding Present fans, to toot tooting along with Pete Green, to The Deirdres becoming the supermegarockstars we always knew they were, to just about everything else that happens there. If you have a love of pop music then you need to be at Indietracks.
You’ll not believe how hard it was for me to not call this post ‘Don’t Go Changing… channel’ or some equally awkward pun.
Anyway, a big huge thank you to Paul Busst who taped our whole gig from Saturday and has initially put together this lovely video for Don’t Go Changing from the images of us packing away.
Justin the sound man from the evening and drummer for the awesome Seeland, and Pagan Wanderer Lu also feature.
Third and finally, we’re making it down to Bristol (yaaay) on 4th April to play Antifolk 3
So many good bands on that line up. Paul Busst Paul Busst has kindly invited us to do a bit of a collaboration which we’re very excited about too
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Cool, that’s all the gigs. The one other bit of news is there’s finally a Falling and Laughing video page linked on the left with a Falling and Laughing video on it, performing a Falling and Laughing song called Navigating The Split Screen! It was recorded by Liam from Kidnapper Bell. Thank you Liam!
Ive just had a tip off that Needless Alley by The Tiddlywhips is going to be on Brumcast tomorrow (15th Feb).
You can listen to Brumcast at Rhubarb Radio these days and it kicks off at 8pm. There’s a listen again option, on the link above though too if you miss it.
Needless Alley is from the latest Tiddlywhips EP - Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? - which can all be downloaded for free. If you want.
