We’ve had a pretty busy January! We played our first gig of the year in Southampton and wow, Hampton’s is such a nice venue – thanks for everyone that came and especial thanks to Haunted Stereo for inviting us down. We had an amazing drive home in the middle of the night (in our new band van!), bright stars and deer everywhere along the country road we took.
In mid-January we played an acoustic gig at a lovely bristol pub called the Lansdown – we don’t often play acoustic so it was a real treat to play in such an intimate setting and to play some of the softer songs that don’t always make it into the band set, here’s a video from the set of ‘Perry riot blues’ a song that we haven’t played as a full band for some time now, this is a new arrangement… (if you’re wondering, Huw was sat playing electric guitar just out of shot)
Last week we headlined Bristol Uni’s RAGFEST, it was a great night and raised lots of cash. There were some very talented photographers who have kindly let us put up some of their photos – have a look and check out their Flickr pages. Thanks to Will, Rajitha and Dave.
The final thing to happen in January was that BBC Bristol Introducing played our track ‘Somebody unlike you’ on their weekend show – it’s on iPlayer for a little while longer – there’s lots of other great Bristol music but we’re about 37 minutes in.
We’ve got loads of gigs and new releases planned for this year, it’s going to be great! Don’t forget that there are 2 new songs for you to listen to – ‘Leñador’ on our myspace page and ‘Somebody unlike you’ which is available on the free A Future Without Records sampler – download it here.
Next gig is our debut Southampton gig… the wonderful Haunted Stereo have curated 2 days of their favourite bands – we’re second from last on the Sunday night
Finally, we’ve been recording an album and it’ll be with you in the new year – we’ve put one song – Leñador – up on our myspace page to give you a taster of what to expect! Have a listen at www.myspace.com/lastingdays
Exciting news – A Future Without have released their third sampler and our track ‘Somebody Unlike You’ is the opening track – click on the artwork to download it. It’s a lovely little collection of folkier songs, here’s the tracklisting:
The Lasting Days – Somebody Unlike You
Augustus Ghost – Pockets
Daniel Dixon – Waking Up
You & Me – My Name Again
Zacc Rogers – Darling Babe
We really hope you enjoy it. We’ve also spent the last few weeks in studios, building dens and making noise to bring you a new record in the new year, we’ll let you hear a few of the tracks early so watch this space…
Hi, it’s been a bit too long since we said hello, but we’re still here. In fact we’ve been working on a bunch of new songs, as well as a few songs that just got put aside for a while, including Little Fish, the opening track from our debut ep, which we’re giving a little makeover! We’ll be playing some of these at the next few gigs, which is pretty exciting. We’ve also been working on some recording – we did a few demos, a couple which we’re so pleased with that they will go on the record. Anyway we have a few shows coming up including opening the Mr Wolfs stage for the Bristol Oxjam takeover on Oct 25th – have a look at the poster below and don’t forget to check out the gigs page.
