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Hello!
Its ripe time for an update we reckon. In just over two weeks time, on Saturday 24th May, we have the incredible Stars of the Lid playing the Church Of St. Thomas The Martyr in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Those of you in the know shouldn’t need any introduction – as far as contemporary classical ambient goes, Stars of the Lid are so far ahead of their peers its not even funny. Excelling at designing "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals”, expect an astonishingly beautiful live show courtesy of the boys Wiltzie and McBride, a string section and Luke Savisky’s award-winning live projections. We simply cannot tell you enough how wonderful this – perhaps the only live show Stars of the Lid will ever do in Newcastle – will be. Buy your tickets NOW from here, fakeindielabel or wegottickets before they all go.
We’re also delighted to tell you that, after a Glasto-style layoff where the fields of the Cluny are given time to recover, that the Distraction Weekender will return once again to the Cluny in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th August 2008. Once again eschewing the dreary and magnolia in a placid and safe North East music 'scene', we bring you three whole days of diverse musical excursions, future players, and aural innovation. No has-beens, no cover bands, no insipid gash. Accept no imitations. The lineup will be announced soon, so keep checking the web site for details.
Our albums by d_rradio and Moira Stewart are still selling briskly; we're down to our last 60 or so copies of the d_rradio one and they'll be gone by the time the remixes album comes out. Remixes album? Oh yes, ably reworked, remixed, rebadged and remastered by Manual, Depth Affect, The Matinee Orchestra, Cathode, OffTheSky, Piano Magic, Matthew Rozeik, Populous, Juxta Phona, and Port-Royal, expect this 100-copies only blinder (DIST12R) to be on sale in a few months time. There's also a Moira Stewart remixes album in the works too, and we'll let you know what the score is when we know ourselves.
Tempelhof, The Retail Sectors and The Big Oaks releases coming soon, and all sounding peachy! Except the Oaks one; that one sounds horrible. And its getting remastered so that it sounds even more horrible. Great.
And there you have it. Take it easy
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Previous news:
April 16th: Moira Stewart album out now!
April 7th: Moira Stewart album out next week!
March 3rd: One week to go until d_rradio blastoff!
February 27th: One week to go until d_rradio blastoff!
February 20th: Get the d_rradio album for free!
February 13th: Welcome To The Site! |
