so we’ve released our very first single! its a limited edition thing (i only have one pritt stick left) there’s only 50 copies at the moment and with three haiku-ish tracks. you can buy it here at our bandcamp:
buy our single here at our bandcamp
(Source: thegrindingyoung)
Well,
I’ve started a new band. It’s called The Old Grinding Young. Dear friends Chris, Mike (from ute),Tim, Sam and Tom too. The name ‘The Old Grinding Young’ is from a book I found in a pub with a whole chapter called ‘incongruous pub names’. Don’t search it too hard in google or you’ll end up with a load of viruses on your computer.
We’ve recorded a song for you called King Canoe. It’s about a rotting old boat I found. I thought I could fix it but I couldn’t. Mainly because I’m not very practical and even more mainly because it was a rotting piece of turd. I thought someone had stolen the boat and wrote a song about how sad I was. I should have realised that no one could have even picked it up as it would have turned to matchsticks in their hands.
Here’s the song for you to listen to+other things like poems and photos of me in the bath:
KING CANOE
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ollie et al
The Old Grinding Young
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Hey Poppers -
Wow… It’s been a real hectic few weeks. Some sad news, some glad and about 1,000 stellar pop parties happening about town. Hope you’re all lovely, and don’t mind a quick update just to keep you abreast of the news. Plenty in this one………………
……………And onto the rather more sombre part of this newsletter - for it is with great sadness we must announce that perennial PoP favourites ute have split up, immediately following a triumphant final show with TTNG at the Borderline. It was a great way to sign off, and they will be back in other guises. But it is with much regret they’re gone for now. We will always love you ute. However, this does mean we have left over a spindle of 100 CDs from their last photo album EP Brother (amazing look in leather photo albums with 5 pics). This we’d like to do something brilliant with, but we’re leaving that to you? Basically if we were to give you 100 ute CDs on a spindle, what would be the coolest thing you could possibly do with em? Best suggestion mailed to info@ilovealcopop.co.uk wins 100 ute CDs on a spindle to do just that with.. :-)
Thanks for reading yup xxx and love you!
This is a message inevitably tinged with sadness, but there’s no point dressing it up…the next two gigs that we have will be our last in this current incarnation. They are:
Saturday 10th September - Blessing Force 4 at Modern Art Oxford
Friday 16th September - The Borderline (London) with This Town Needs Guns
It would be amazing to see all of you kings at these two shows, we’re going to make em kick.
There’s no big ball of flames in this ending (we’re still close as brothers)…we’ve just decided we need to step back for a while. We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve done over the last 3 years, and we’ve had some of the best times. There are so many people that we owe so much to…people who’ve put us on, put up with us (more likely), watched us play, shouted a hearty ‘WOAH’ at the end of Innocent Tailor, let us snore on their floor, driven us places, shared a stage with us, bought a record, played us on the radio, written something about us…it’s all meant so much. It’s always been pretty crazy to us that people are not only listening but really enjoying our songs, not sure that’s ever a feeling that we’ve gotten used to. We’ve been incredibly lucky, and so we’ve got to thank everyone who deserves it - you know who you are (there are too many of you),
Having said that, there are a few people who we need to have you know who they are, because without them we’d be absolutely nothing…Ness, Grace and Anna (immeasurable thanks for putting up with us); Theo the artmaster; Tom Jackson the sax destroyer; Mr T for the house space and the party tapes; King Kev from BSM Tom Robinson; Tim and Dave from BBC Oxford Introducing…you guys are flipping bananas but we love you - thanks so so much for your support; Ronan from Nightshift; our Alcopop label-mates, who all deserve to fly; Hollie Coe for helping us get our shit together; Vez for opening our eyes wider; Tim…tim…tim…how can we ever repay you? Fourth band member, hardest drinker, longest-distance driver, bat-eared producer…if it wasn’t for you we’d never had got out of the garage…a true hero; and Jack Alcopop…we owe you so much it’s not even real..Alcopop is something so special and it’s been an honour to be a part of it. Also your strong face will never be beat.
We’ve got a couple of recordings kicking around that we hope to do something with…and the recent Brother single which is out on Alcopop (http://alcopop.wordpress.com/shop/)…we’ll keep you updated on these.
So…see you in the future. Remember us kindly. Thank you, thank you.
Love, ute x
yes! @utetheband is where it’s at
the last few weeks we have been making the most of our new ability to drive! its been two years and public transpot has been a cruel unforgiving travelling buddy. the gates on the london underground not big enough for a kick drum, the oxford tube too bumpy for a softcased acoustic and our livers too green from being allowed to drink every time we play with no designated driver!
anyway. last week we played the great escape in brighton which was fun. stagecoach smashed the chandelier above the stage and was good to watch security spring into hyperactive action as soon as that happened!
liverpools sound city was interesting too. i managed to get jet lag and felt very tired as liverpool i think is in a different time zone.. heres a photo from it anyway. good to know the fire escape is on a raised stage that we were playing on! FFFIIIIRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The Dinner Party (new song) acoustic on the roof of the O2 Academy, Oxford.
This site: http://www.douban.com/group/topic/19826505/ has reviewed us, in Chinese. This is what google translate tells me…
‘UTE
http://www.myspace.com/utetheband
EP Download: e60fl71a
The band is actually very handsome, but lazy as I do not know why the online demo pass so small. Pisces man is a singer, with a point of cunning to give. Partial folk style on the whole thing, but very strange, sharp humor and dark, but also very classic style that’s elegant and refined a bit. Are tastefully arranged orchestration, the lyrics like a drunken poet ghost story. Cute as hell! Also, animal in nature that a small and very beautiful sway drummer, sound confident, upright kind of pride can be fascinating … … ’
Wise words, China.
can anyone think of a more suitable music video for innocent tailor??
