Anthology Two Tracklisting Announced!
It’s only one week until we release our long-awaited free compilation ‘Anthology Two’ – so what better time to announce a few more details about it? The album, which will be available as a free download on our Bandcamp page from next Monday, is the follow-up to 2011’s ‘Anthology One’. On the naming front, we’re nothing if not consistent. We’ve been working hard on recording ‘Anthology Two’... Read More
In the beginning…
It was the first of August, 2010, that Stephen W. Thomas (Esq.) first moved to London. It was a shabby house he took up residence in, out in the relative suburbs of South Kenton. Being the inconceivably lucky sod that he is, he found himself sharing an entire house with just one other person. And, being the inconceivably lucky sod that he is, within a few days he’d met a nice man called Nigel, who ran a lovely little boozer near Kings... Read More
Announcing Folkboat Fete!
It’s been a long time since we first came across Patch and the Giant whilst checking out another act at their monthly residency in Highgate. Since then they’ve played our gig, and we’ve curated theirs. Nowadays there’s a never-ending swapshop between our two gigs – each recommending one great act to the other. We’re ecstatic, then, to announce that we’re teaming up with Patch and the Giant to jointly... Read More
New Roses
When I was at university, a seemingly distant but devastatingly mere three years ago, I spent most of my degree doing very little theological work at all – not, unfortunately, advisable for a theology student. When I should have been writing examinations of St Augustine’s ‘Confessions’, or picking apart the hebrew language, I was in fact dossing about watching gigs, interviewing musicians and writing for The Mic, our university’s... Read More
Umwelt
The following post was first published on We Write Lists on April 2nd, 2012. I learnt a new word yesterday. I don’t often learn new words. Not because I’m very clever and I already know everything but rather because I’m very stupid and never pay attention. The word, picked up from webcomic XKCD’s April Fool’s Day prank, is ‘umwelt’. It’s not a very pretty word, I’ll give you that. It sounds... Read More
