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I played a live acoustic session on Bob Harris’s BBC Radio 2 show on Saturday evening, confusingly with Gideon Coe (although he was a nice man, so no harm done). For reasons I won’t go into here I’ve always preferred to go electric, but this particular occasion went well at least. Anyway, you can listen to it via the BBC iPlayer here until this coming Saturday.
In the Gardens of the North came out in Australia and New Zealand this week! Thanks to the guys at Etch’n'Sketch for that.
In other news, the London date with Great Lake Swimmers has moved to the Jazz Cafe in Camden. That’s on the 18th November.
Also, if you have the chance to see Francois and the Atlas Mountains on tour (which they are on at the moment), please do! His new songs (album and EP) are amazing and the live show is super, super fun.
Here’s his new video:
So things have been busy in the Sleeping States arena lately, I assembled a band and went on tour around the UK for two weeks, and I put an album out. And then I got swine flu, which is why I’m only telling you now.
But yes, I have a new album out! It’s called In the Gardens of the North and is available on LP, CD and MP3. You can buy the mp3s from iTunes, among other places, and both physical formats from all good record shops around the country. If you buy the CD from Pure Groove you can get a limited edition screen-printed poster with it, and it’s signed too (if you care about such things). You can also buy the LP from there too.
I also put a cassette single out! The tracks for this are:
Side A: Gardens of the South / Final Island
Side B: Early Morning in Feltham
‘Gardens of the South’ appears on the album, and the other two tracks are exclusive to the tape. You can buy the tape from Rough Trade, among other places. There’s also a video for ‘Gardens of the South’, which I posted in an earlier post (scroll down).
Think that’s it for now. If you’re down Bristol-way tomorrow Sleeping States are playing at the Cube with Fringes and I Know I Have No Collar, who are both brilliantz.
On the 1st September, Sleeping States will be playing a free show at the Bath House in London. It’s a rather intimate venue so if you want to come, email me at sleepingstates@gmail.com and I’ll put you on the list. First come, first serve type thing.
This show will be part of a UK tour, and the other tour dates will be announced shortly.
Ok we’re all done on the show above. Full up and stuff. But yes, more shows will posted shortly so… watch this space.
A new song from the forthcoming album went up on the Sleeping States myspace today. It’s called ‘Gardens of the South’ and will also be released on a limited edition cassette in July. The cassette tracklisting is:
Side A:
Gardens of South
Final Island
Side B:
Early Morning in Feltham
You can listen to Gardens of the South here.
Last week we made a video for it. Should be finished soon. Will let you know… x
Album is finito, handed in, done. Like it, a pastoral sort of thing. Now here come the ideas, the visuals, the warm you-know-whats. There’s talk of a cassette, which is exciting. See you in the summer. Unless you live in Manchester/Salford, in which case, see you on Sunday.
Here are some memories of my childhood…
I got this in the post today:
Lifted Brow
It’s the fourth issue of the Australian creative journal, The Lifted Brown, and includes submissions from a ton of musicians, comic artists and writers, including Sleeping States (hello free copy)… I haven’t had a chance to fully immerse myself in it, but from first skims it looks… amazing. 266 pages and 2 CDs of comics, short stories, essays and songs based on an old false bookcase. There are copies (I think) still available from the Lifted Brow website, so go get one. And stuff.
