10/6/08
Apologies for being so slow at updating this page! Thanks to all who have come to our recent shows, we've had some great nights in the last few months, notably playing with The Wave Pictures & Slow Club, headlining The Local @ Green Note with our great friends, the amazing Whole Schebang, and curating Fleeting Fanfares II festival in April, which was headlined by David Thomas Broughton.
We have recently signed with Organ Grinder Records - the great people who brought you The Mules and Fireworks Night. Our debut release through Organ Grinder will be an EP of new material entitled "Secretly". Watch this space for more news on that.
Best
Stu
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7/11/07
Greetings,
So of you may know we were asked to play as part of The Mules summer residency called "Pick Your Own".
The night was such a success that now there's a compilation CD out in honour of it. Our track "Say" is on there alongside music from Eugene McGuinness, Emmy The Great, Johnny Flynn, Lightspeed Champion, Jonquil and loads more.
Its available from Amazon, Play.Com etc. Or you can walk into Rough Trade and buy it.
Off you go then....
Stu
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1/10/07
(with photos by Imo, and Tanya - thankyou)
It has been a busy month or so for us. Two weeks ago was one of the highlights of the year for us as Left With Pictures played at The Local stage at End Of The Road Festival. The whole event was just so much fun, amazing bands, amazing atmosphere. We arrived on the Friday night, and, after pitching our tent in the pitch black spent the time between then and our Sunday evening performance watching bands, dancing, and drinking cider. Highlights were David Thomas Broughton, Fireworks Night and our old pal John Smith, all of whom were stunning and deeply impressive. Check them all out if you're not already a fan.
We played to a thoroughly appreciative audience who laughed and clapped in all the right places! Here we are onstage...
...and here's another one. This is Toby singing with the crowd in shot.
Jonathan Shipley from Brighton band "Assistant" has posted a blog entry all about our performance at the festival in which he describes us as "wistful, diaphenous and enchanting!". Go here to read the whole thing...it's very nice indeed.
Also, we made a special recording for the wonderful In Your Bass podcast.There was a secret stage in the woods where lots of the acts did secret performances. Ours was recorded alongside tracks by Emmy the Great, Viking Moses, Fireworks Night, Jeffrey Lewis and loads more.
Here we are laying it down...
You can get both parts of the End Of The Road Podcast here.
The week after, I was in Dublin performing Caliper Boy, the theatre piece for which Toby and I wrote the music at the end of last year. Yaniv Fridel, Tom Walker and I performed the piece at The Player's theatre as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. We spent a week in the city performing outside...
...and inside...
The show was also nominated for the Spirit of the Fringe award at a special ceremony to close the festival.
A very busy, but very exciting couple of weeks. And there's more to come.
Hope you're well.
Stu
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9/8/07
Last month we entered Knom Music's annual Folk Idol competition! There were a host of great acts competing, including Congregation and personal favourites R.G. Morrison. A nail-biting finish saw Left With Pictures finish as joint winners with our friend, the very great John Smith. After the result was announced, we all got hammered on Whiskey, it was not pretty.
The requirement was to play 2 classic folk songs - we chose Eli, The Barrow Boy by The Decemberists and 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson.
The event has its own Wikipedia entry which mentions us. Have a look.
Love LWP
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9/5/07
We're this week's MySpace of the week in Guardian Unlimited. Click here and scroll down to see their write up.
Thanks to Rosie Swash for that one!
love LWP
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10/4/07
The good people of Meat Magazine have included us in their latest issue. It comes with a free compilation CD with 13 tracks by AsYet collective artists (including two of our songs) and an article about the collective.
You can get the CD for £3.75 from all sorts of book/magazine/art shops, notable ALL BORDERS BOOKSHOPS, MAGMA COMICS, ICA LONDON, TATE MODERN, WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY...and a load of other places no doubt listed on Meat Mag's Web Page
Here's the front cover of the magazine...
Nice, eh? Go and buy it please.
love LWP
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29/11/06
Left With Pictures are cropping up all over the place at the moment. We have been added to the roster of artists at The Adventure Club, who run a website that promotes the music of a variety of acoustic music. Our friends Artisan are also on The Adventure Club's books. The Adventure club also put on live shows, and we're performing at the London show in January which will be at the enterprise in Camden. Keep checking the gigs page for details of that.
Look at The Adventure Club site here.
Also, our track Donovan and the Doors is the opening track on a new compilation CD called....
This disc is out on One More Zero Records. It's a great collection, also featuring the brilliant Ruth Theodore and our AsYet colleaugue, Roxy Rawson. It's £5 plus p&p. Click on the artwork to go to the page where it can be purchased.
We're in the middle of performances of Caliper Boy at the moment. Going down a storm, apart from the fact that the number of rehearsals and performances has found us living solely on Sainsbury's "Taste The Difference" cookies....
.....yum.
Stu
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4/11/06
There is much to say. We have finished our
EP entitled Making Chalk and are, as a result
feeling smug, and self congratulatory. You
should go and buy it from here. The artwork
is by sarah sproull, who looks like this....
the launch party was on wednesday, hosted by
the asyet collective. We filled a room in new cross
with beautiful people and even more beautiful music, courtesey of the
fantastically rich asyet stable. We played the
loudest set in our history, complete with dance
bass drum sound, and climbing on the furniture
with a pint glass for percussion.
We are also working very hard on performing in,
and writing music for a new play called Caliper
Boy , which stars us with Terry O'Donovan and
Sarah Sproull (again) of dANTE OR dIE...
We're running gigs after every Friday and
Saturday performance. So for more info on that,
or to book tickets,
go to our CALIPER BOY PAGE.
Over and out for now...
Stu