Jelly Legged Giggin'

On Sunday 1st May, Amy's Ghost are having a party and have very kindly asked us to play. 

We will be on at seven'o'clock. 

There will be lots of other music too. 

It is at the Jelly Legged Chicken Gallery HQ, in Market Place, in Reading. 

There is a door, opposite Picnic, between a hairdressers and (possibly) a bag shop. 

It has a buzzer. 

If you wish to come in, you must push the buzzer's button and utter the words 
DARK TWISTED GRANNIES.  

Once you get inside, there will be a charge of three pounds fifty, which all goes to the Jelly Legged Chicken or something.  

And excitingly it is a BYOB event. 

Boom.

In the castle...

Photo by Billy (The Inventions of Jerry Darge). 

Alterations of You...

Unfortunately, due to unforseen 'volume issues', Toddlers are no longer playing in Oxford tomorrow. If this is making you cry then you can plug those ducts, as they are playing the Butler in Reading on friday night with Good Throb:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=138407662895090&index=1

However, there is good news too, as now House of John Player is on the bill! It will be a stripped down acoustic set of Dean's loop-based goodness too, which is a rare thing these days as I understand it.

http://houseofjohnplayer.bandcamp.com/

Hopefully see y'all there x

Oxford - 14/4/2011

Another killer flyer from one brainside of the unstoppable crime fighting duo pencil fencers!

Toddlers album

Be sure to pick up Toddlers' ace new album, in some format or other, won't you? 
You can get it digitally at their Bandcamp page, http://toddlers.bandcamp.com/, or physically from them at gigs and other jollies, etc. 
It's a smasher!

Editions of You

Here is some information about the Editions of You event that our Oxford gig on the 14th April is a part of. It is being run and curated and what-all by, amoung others I think, Lisa from our pals Sleeps in Oysters. General gig details to the right, extra stuff below...

A-thank you very muuuch.

Mark.

Editions of You (www.editionsofyou.com) is an ongoing project curated by the Popular Music Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University. Its aim is to celebrate and showcase self-publishing and self-releasing musicians and the handmade and unique editions and releases they create. It explores the history, politics and creative processes of these forms of self-publishing in the music and arts worlds; providing an opportunity to celebrate the cultural lineage of these forms whilst creating a forum for relevant contemporary musicians and artists to present their work.
 

We are currently working in collaboration with promoters Oxford Contemporary Music (www.ocmevents.org) and the O3 Gallery Oxford (www.o3gallery.co.uk) to programme a month long festival of events at the gallery which includes:
 

Exhibition of handmade music editions and releases 

Saturday 26th March – Sunday 24th 

April Handmade Independent Music and Music Zine Fair 

9th April, 11am – 6pm
…and assorted live gigs, performances and happenings

17/03/2011

And yet...

Inked by Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand.

GLOBAL CAFE - READING - 04/03/2011

Be sure to click me now...

Jonny, Again

...it's a real shit-your-pants feeling when you clamber through a door holding your amp in your arms and the first face you see is Norman Blake's... and then you realise the guy standing next to him is Euros Childs... and yet it's an excellent one...

Thanks a lot to everyone who came down to the gig, and to those who took a step forward. We had a total blast.

Mark x