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A quick hello!

smith — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:43:29 +0000

Hi, just a quick post to say that the new record will be available on 27th September 2010! How exciting is that!? Anyway, it means we have loads of last minute stuff to sort out – so sorry for being a bit quiet here.

Don’t forget we have some great gigs coming up too:

5/8 – Big Chill Festival – Solaraid Stage @ 2am, Eastnor
11/8 – Prince of Wales (Acoustic show), Bristol
13/8 – Mr Wolfs with Toyface and Castles, Bristol
20-22/8 – Campfest, Brecons
24/8 – The Croft supporting 6 Day Riot, Bristol

Smith

The morning sun

smith — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:29:32 +0000

What have we been up to lately then? Well we’ve played some gigs – including the Lemmy bar in Exeter on Monday and a nice acoustic session at the Prince of Wales last night (thanks to Marco) and last month we were honoured to support the fantastic Haunted Stereo for their single launch in Southampton. We’ve got lots of things happening behind the scenes at the moment – artwork / mastering for the new record, songwriting and lots of rehearsing! We know the record has taken a little longer than planned, but we think it’s been worth it, and are hugely grateful to all the wonderful people involved so far. Bear with us, it’s almost there.

So, we’ve got a really cool gig for you this Sunday – Communion records (who have the wonderful Pete Roe on their roster) have a regular night at Mr Wolfs and we’ll be playing at 10pm.

Check out the facebook page here – hope to see you there

Smith

January Blues?

smith — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:51:29 +0000

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.

Will’s Flickr

Rajitha’s Flickr

Dave’s Flickr

Happy new year!

smith — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:47 +0000

Happy 2010 from the band!

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

There is a facebook event here:

Christmas with the Lasting Days

smith — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:42:55 +0000

Hello!

We’re playing 2 Christmas gigs, Bristol and London…

BRISTOL – The Lanes Christmas Festival – tomorrow! Saturday 12th December, onstage at 7pm, music 4pm-3am £4

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192269924287&ref=mf

LONDON – The Good Ship, Friday 18th December – headline show! £5 doors 7.30

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192256403104

Also – we just had a song on the A Future Without Records sampler – it’s a free download with 4 other great artists – download it here

http://afuturewithout.bandcamp.com/album/a-future-without-sampler-three

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

Smith

A Future Without Sampler #3

smith — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:50:11 +0000

Hi!

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

The lovely artwork was by Chloe Bonfield see more of her work here www.nervouscop.com/chloebonfield/blog.php

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…

Smith

All kinds of stuff

smith — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:57:55 +0000

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.

The deep south…

smith — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:06:12 +0000

It was our friend Matt’s birthday last week – he put on a great show with his band, The Bombadiers. We couldn’t play with the whole band but he gave us the opportunity to open the show with an acoustic set. Actually, unless you’ve been to one of our after-parties it’s something we haven’t done in public for quite some time! Well, we love playing quietly just as much as we love playing the louder shows, we’ll often sit around each-others flats with a beer and we’ll sing a capella and work on harmonies, or jam out a pretty little version of a song. So, here we have two songs on film. You might know ‘playing with angels’ already, that one pre-dates The Lasting Days by some time but it never really got played out much until more recently. The other song – ’somebody unlike you’ – that’s a new one. We hope you enjoy them!

Smith

Exeter Great Hall

smith — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:46:07 +0000

Well, for some of this this was a trip back to our old uni, it was a bit nostalgic! Check out this video of us playing Black Sun, there’s a full-on light show! Robbie from the amazing IKO stepped in to play drums for us – be sure to check out their album when it comes out later this year.

There’s some more footage of us playing a couple of songs acoustically backstage – we’ll get them online just as soon as we can

Gone recordin…

smith — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:17:19 +0000

We hid ourselves away for a while to rehearse a couple of new songs before going into the recording studio for a week to record four songs towards an album. One of the new songs is called Leñador and there is a video of our first ever live performance of it right here for you all!

Leñador – The Lasting Days

We also just revamped our myspace page – there are some new vids on there as well as a studio recording of Oh! Sugar, recorded by the excellent Dan Mann and Nick Marshall who are helping engineer and produce our album – more on that soon!