So, we’ve got a few days off on the European tour and we need somewhere to stay, so – If you live in France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Northern Italy or the surrounding area and want us to come and play in your house / school / community centre / wherever – please email band@maybeshewill.net and we’ll see if we can work something out in return for a floor to sleep on and some dinner. Preferably places where we won’t disturb the neighbours! DIY!
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Itching to hear our first new material since ‘Sing The Word Hope…’ came out? Well, the time is drawing near….
You can hear the single’s exclusive first radio play on Alex Baker’s show on Kerrang Radio on Sunday 12th September between 8pm and 10pm
The video, stills of which you’ll find below, produced by our good friends We The Conspirators is getting it’s first play on RockSound‘s website at Midday on Friday 17th September.
Put the dates in your diary!
So, we’ve reached the end of the summer of sorts, and we’re looking forward to a full month and a holed up in our rehearsal space putting the finishing touches to the next batch of tunes before we head back in to the studio. This post is sort of a summary of what’s going on, what you (and we) can look forward to, and where we hope we’ll be at not too far from now. Here goes…
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Our classic Maybeshewill Butterfly design is now available to pre-order in two colours. Head over to the Robot Needs Home Store to pick one up, and they’ll ship in September!
In an unusually metal turn up for the books, we’ve been confirmed to play Damnation Festival, held in Leeds University alongside The Dillinger Escape Plan, Earthtone9 and Rolo Tomassi, amongst many others. We’ll be playing the RockSound Stage.
Well, last weekend was pretty awesome. Continuing in the fine tradition of playing before we’d usually even be awake, we opened the main stage at 2000 Trees near Cheltenham. We’re going to be honest, we weren’t expecting much. We’d arrived the night before in pitch black, torrential rain and high winds, struggled to put our tent up, then slept for perhaps two hours. Thankfully the people of 2000 trees are made of sterner stuff than us city boys, and there were loads of lovely (slightly damp and exhausted) folks up and about when we finally made it on stage.
We’re not a massively festival hardened band – we’ve tended to do two or three per year so far – but of those we’ve seen, it’s now our favourite (home-town festivals excluded). The audience and atmosphere was unrivalled (Kudos to the now legendary Dan who crowd surfed in a crocodile costume almost constantly on Friday), and the line-up was astonishing. I don’t think we’ve ever spent so long trying to get off stage whilst saying hello to so many old friends – which became something of a theme over the following 16 hours.
This Sunday we’re off to Off The Cuff in Birmingham, which has a similarly incredible line-up, which we’re looking forward to equally eagerly. Hopefully we’ll see a few more friendly faces but come home in slightly better shape than last weekend.
Today almost didn’t happen. Thanks to our pal Frank (he’s the one with the beard in the video) we’ve made it out to Jamie’s studio in the middle of the Leicestershire countryside, and Jamie’s made it out of hospital, so we can get some guitars recorded.
As usual, we’ve been filming the tedious process of making shit sound right, and getting it played right, so here’s the video…
We can now officially announce our touring partners for the UK and Ireland shows in October.
We’re very excited to let you know that, as announced in RockSound yesterday, we’ll be joined by &U&I for the English and Scottish dates of our Autumn tours. Comprised of three ex-members of the once awesome Blakfish, you can expect incredible things. Here’s a video to wet your appetite.
Joining us for the Northern and Southern Irish dates (excluding Belfast) are A Plastic Rose. We met these chaps last time we played over in Belfast for one of the most surreal shows of our life, and we’re delighted to be hooking up with them again.
The dates in full (so far) are…
OCTOBER
1st. NEWCASTLE, The Cluny 2
2nd. ABERDEEN, Moorings Bar
3rd. EDINBURGH, Bannermans
4th. GLASGOW, Stereo
5th. MANCHESTER, Moho Live
6th. LEEDS, Josephs Well
7th. BLACKPOOL, Blue Room
8th. BIRMINGHAM, Flapper
9th. CARDIFF, Buffalo Bar
10th. BRISTOL, Thekla
11th. BRIGHTON, Prince Albert
12th. KINGSTON, Fighting Cocks
13th. PORTSMOUTH, Edge Of The Wedge
14th. LONDON, Wilmington Arms
15th. NOTTINGHAM, Rock City
16th. LEICESTER, Y-Theatre
19th. CORK, Tbc
20th. LIMERICK, Baker’s Place
21st. GALWAY, Aras Na Gael
22nd. DERRY, Masons
23rd. BELFAST, Auntie Annie’s
24th. DUBLIN, Whelans
So this is going to be a bit of an odd recording blog, in the same way that for us it’s a bit of an odd recording session. Today we officially start work recording our third LP, but because of schedules, money and the way we write, it will probably be a good few months before anything is anywhere near finished.
Today we’re tracking drums for four songs at Seamus Wong’s in Leicester where Youthmovies recorded ‘Good Nature’ – collectively one of our favourite albums of all time. In a few weeks we head out into rural Leicestershire to Park Farm studios, run by our bassist Jamie, where we’ll record the bass, guitars and other bits and bobs which make songs ‘songs’ and not just the sound of Jim hitting things – as pleasant a sound as that is. In a few more months we’ll come back to Wong’s to record some more drums, then head back to Park Farm to do some more guitars.
Confused? We certainly are.
Having done all our previous recording in spare rooms, having nice spaces and equipment at our disposal is an unusual experience for us, so we’re determined to make this sound as good as humanly possible. Jamie’s taking the lead on production duties, so everything’s still being done ‘in-house’ so to speak, but it’s another step up and we’re pretty deliriously excited about it.
Having said that recording is, like many of the realities of being in a band, really fucking boring once the initial excitements over. Whilst Jamie sets up and Jim’s still at his day job, the rest of us are entertaining ourselves by making the video blog you can watch above, drinking excessive amounts of tea, and doing bits and bobs for our day jobs.
Enjoy…
x
The last week has been pretty amazing, a few trivial issues aside. All four shows last week were awesome, culminating in a champagne stage invasion at White Noise Festival that made for the best home-coming show we could have hoped for. Everyone involved made it an incredibly special occasion.
It’s been a privilege playing with our boys These Furrows at the shows, and we’re excited to see what happens with them in the next few months. If you missed it, Darryl from Furrows joined us on vocals for a pretty special one-off rendition of Seraphim & Cherubim at White Noise – It’s on video HERE
TOUR
We’re pleased to announce that we’re heading out on a month long UK and Ireland tour in October. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, due to the awesome turn out at the shows last week we’ve had to hold back on announcing a couple of the dates – Notably London, Leeds and Manchester, as well as a couple of Irish shows – but we’ll have the rest of the dates with you very soon.
OCTOBER
01. NEWCASTLE, The Cluny 2
02. ABERDEEN, Moorings Bar
03. EDINBURGH, Bannermans
04. GLASGOW, Stereo
08. BIRMINGHAM, Soundbar
10. BRISTOL, Thekla
11. BRIGHTON, Prince Albert
13. PORTSMOUTH, Edge Of The Wedge
15. NOTTINGHAM, Rock City
16. LEICESTER, Y-Theatre
17. DERBY, Vines
20. LIMERICK, Baker’s Place
22. DERRY, Masons
23. BELFAST, Auntie Annie’s
24. DUBLIN, Whelans
TO THE SKIES FROM A HILLSIDE
The second bit of news is that we will be releasing the first single from our third album to coincide with the tour. It’s entitled ‘To The Skies From A Hillside’ and although we’re just hammering out the finer details with our friends at Field Records at the moment, it will probably come in 7″ and digital form, with a selection of B-Sides. Artwork comes courtesy of Hannah Mosley, who we’re delighted to be working with, and we’ll be recording it at two studio’s around Leicester with our bassist Jamie Ward at the engineering helm.
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