I've been working on an Indietracks Festival Guide for this years festival. The inspiration has been Andrew Bulhak's iphone app from last year but the two apps are probably fairly different due to underlying differences between the Apple IOS and the Google Android programming models. Try it out here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.matloob.indietracks
I'm going to use this entry to try and keep track of bugs and post any useful hints and tips I find. The app should hopefully be up on the Marketplace in a couple of days time.
We've been working on some new recordings that we're hoping to release sometime in March 2011. So far we're planning an EP with the following songs.
Sunshine and rain
I'd run into oncoming traffic for Clare Grogan
Sprint
If you can't have him have me
Miracles aren't what they used to be
Old Folks
We've been playing some of these songs for a while, but we're freshly recorded and mixed them to a much higher standard than before.
The next part of the plan is to write some new material and aim for an album later in the year.
We had a break after the Popfest and only played two more gigs before the end of the year.
The first was a gig at the amazing house at Gula Villan in Haningene, Stockholm. The gig had all the makings of an epic gig, Mads missed his flight and managing to catch a later one and making to the venue just in the nick of time. Nick himself had bravely volunteered to play bass for the first time. So we were late and under a little pressure for this gig. Unfortunately as we were so late we were a bit worse for wear by the time we hit the stage. Not one of our finest moments but we had some fun nonetheless. We were very sad to say goodbye to our jangly guitarist Mads who no longer had time to play in two bands. You can still see him on stage however, playing bass with Sock Puppets!
The second gig was an impromptu appearance at Pop Days in Berlin where the organisers asked Morten and I to try out acoustic versions of a song or two. As we were there with Kaspar from Ampel we played two poppies songs and a couple of Ampel numbers.
Since then we've been practising regularly and are looking forward to some gigs in 2011
It's been a while since the last update but the gig at Studenterhuset definitely deserves an entry of its own.
We played here with Sock Puppets on the 8th of April for Copenhagen Student Radio. It was a lot of fun. Sock Puppets sounded great, Elise came in and sang with us as our main girl vocalist and everything went as well as it ever does. We sounded good from where I was standing and the backing 4-track worked, which is the most that can ever be expected of it or us .
The gig was going well and people seemed to be enjoying themselves when just before the final song, miracles aren't what they used to be, someone came up to the stage and asked if he could play the drums the sock puppets had used. We've only played with a human drummer once - and that was at Kaninkanon in Copenhagen when Mikkel came up and accompanied us on Miracles aren't what they used to be. Weird coincidence. Anyway Claus played really well and we invited him to join the band there and then. We only had a week to get ready for the Copenhagen popfest, but dear reader, nothing ventured...
Finally, we have a new release! You can find it on bandcamp here:
http://roadsidepoppies.bandcamp.com/
It is completely free, and typically features nothing that we've been working on for the last two years. All songs were written and recorded in the last week in France. Look for details of gigs in January soon.
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