Ivory Blacks and WSO

Thanks Glasgow; Ivory Blacks was good and a remarkably smooth trip there and back - see you again!

Set List :

Checkered Land

Shut All The Clubs

Seen It All Before

Maid Of The Grey

Girl On The Roof

Love

The Wargame

Sit By The River

There's No One There

 

We were out again on Sunday, opening the day at The Station in Ashton-Under-Lyne in the We Shall Overcome xmas special week, good to be involved again and we're back there on Sat 5th for another one before our 'What's The Alternative?...This is!' gig

WSO set list: 29Nov

I Can't Say

Girl On The Roof

Seen It All before

Checkered Land

Shut All The Clubs

Day In Day Out

Love

The War-game

Uhrwerk

Sit By The River

There's No One There

Scotland and more

Moving into the final phase of the year and into the next phase of everything else; the new single has just been sent off today to be mastered. More on that later.

Our first gig in Scotland is in Glasgow on Wednesday, we're back at We Shall Overcome festival twice inside a week on 29th and 5th both gigs at The Station in Ashton and our second gig of the day on 5th is with Black Sonic Revolver at the last 'WTA?' of the year.

After that its recording again later in December to get moving along with the second half of the new album. And, adding nuances, plus a whole other dimension to what is already there.

We got work on four new songs underway at the last rehearsal and there are still more to follow.

Ticking along nicely.

Need to get moving on the single artwork and a video.

Killamonjambo heating it up at 'What's The Alternative?...THIS IS!' on 14th Nov.

The Speed Of Sound set was:
Only Everything, Overlooked, Shut All The Clubs, Day In Day Out, Checkered Land, Love, Uhrwerk, The Wargame, Little Miss Restless, Maid Of The Grey, Seen It All Before, Girl On The Roof, Sit By The River, There's No One There

Black Sonic Revolver have their 2nd album launch at the gig on 5th December.

WTA? November

We're live again on Saturday (14Nov) with Killamonjambo as our What's The Alternative? guest, seven piece hot ska funk to wake up the night. Ignore the chill in the air outside as Killamonjambo bring their raging hot ska-funk to Manchester.  August 2014 saw the release of their debut studio album “Fiesta Moon Landing” which reached number 16 on iTunes reggae/ska album chart. 2014 saw their Glastonbury debut on the Avalon Café and Croissant Neuf stages following which they were hotly tipped by BBC Radio 2’s Jonny Walker.

And The Speed Of Sound start the next five live shows of the solar year.

Studio shots

Three days out of five in the recording studio, with the other two involving a gig and a radio show... thats a pretty good weekend... Black Italia wearing black, Red Italia wearing red & Paul's turn in the fish tank.

Loads more to do, but we're getting there; the third album is happening.

Riotous assembly

The latest 'What's The Alternative?...' night saw The Jade Assembly play to an appreciative audience

at The Kings Arms, new sound man Andrew did a superb job.
We wheeled out a couple of still evolving songs again, we change things round, we play things differently, we improvise and explore them; doing that in rehearsal is very different from live, released into the wild is where they mature and take on lives of their own.

This was gig twelve for Paul, achieved in under four months and while he was unable to play for a four weeks of that. He's settled in now.

Real music for real people.

The Speed Of Sound set list:

Overlooked
The Changes
The Moment Is Now
Checkpoint Charlie
I Can't Say
Checkered Land
Only Everything
Maid Of The Grey
Day In Day Out
Shut All The Clubs
Love
Girl On The Roof
Sit By The River
There's No One There

recording and radio

Its intensely busy at the moment and as a lot of that is recording it is exceptionally good, we're back in the studio again twice this week starting work on some more. Its been a triple dose of radio with Radio Woking, 6Towns Radio and IURFM (in Northern Ireland) all getting in on it, thanks to Sean Cooke, Alan May and Gerry Martin for playing us. Comparisons to Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and David Bowie were/are all acceptable and entirely welcome. We have one more gig in October and then we'll be concentrating on the recording side for a month and hopefully we'll have a new video brewing soon too.

A large part of the last week has looked like this, with the amps mic'd up and recording in progress. We still managed two gigs in the same day at The Station in Ashton-Under-Lyne and The Thirsty Scholar in Manchester as part of We Shall Overcome festival, last weekend. Big thanks to Pauline Town and Martin Mellor for organising the two WSO gigs we that played and it was a pleasure to be involved. Severe backlighting ensures Paul won't be recognised from that photograph.

set list: The Station

Uhrwerk

Checkpoint Charlie

The Changes

Girl On The Roof

Overlooked

I Can't Say

Sit By The River

There's No One There

set list: Thirsty Scholar

Checkered Land

Love

Little Miss Restless

The Wargame

Day In Day Out

The Moment Is Now

Seen It All Before

Sit By The River

Ruby Friday

An absolutely fantastic gig at Ruby Lounge on Friday, special thanks for the dancing and for buying CDs, thanks to The Transmitters and extra thanks to The Chords UK for playing and making it such a great night. And also thanks to Alan May of 6Towns Radio's 'Glory Boys' show and Paul Lomax for their photographs.  
All ace-ness apart from the sound engineer falling off the stage and twisting his ankle before we started; hope its better Chris! Massively appreciated that you kept going through the pain
Set List:

Day In Day Out
Seen It All Before
Checkered Land
Checkpoint Charlie
I Can't Say
Maid Of The Grey
Love
Girl On The Roof
Sit By The River
Shut All The Clubs
There's No One There

 Chris Pope and The Chords UK

The Transmitters