Robin Allender’s debut album The Bird and the Word is available to pre-order now at the reduced price of £6.
Sam Wilkins has produced a beautiful video to go with the song “Green Wound”.
Robin is also a member of Gravenhurst, and he will be appearing with them at Glastonbury Festival in June and supporting Animal Collective in France in July.
Robin Allender’s debut album The Bird and the Word finally has a release date: 9th July 2007. Thanks to the BBC, you’ll have a chance to hear an awful lot of whole album in the next week.
Firstly, Jon Richardson on 6 Music (currently sitting in for Russell Howard) will be playing “The Green Wound” at 10am on Sunday 22nd May. You’ll be able to listen to the show again for a week after it is broadcast.
Secondly, Fine Tuned on BBC Bristol spoke to Allender, and played clips from “Winter” and “The Bower” on 14th April. You can listen again on the BBC website right now.
Finally, you can have a look at the artwork, read the lyrics and download MP3s of “The School Field” and “Black Wave Part One” on this website.
Robin Allender has joined Gravenhurst (Warp Records). Allender will be playing bass guitar. Azalea City Penis Club’s Dave Collingwood, is already a member of the Bristol three-piece. Gravenhurst are touring all over the place this year, so keep an eye out for them.
If you can read French, then you may find Le Cargo’s review of their first gig with Allender interesting.
A near-final mix of Allender’s “A Case Of Leaves” also appears on Le Cargo’s Escale #2 free download compilation, along with two Dave Collingwood compositions. “A Case of Leaves” will appear on The Bird and the Word, the forthcoming debut album from Allender, whose release date we expect to announce shortly.
We’ve found a handful more copies of our extremely successful Summer 2006 sampler CD so it’s back in the shop at just £1.50, and — while stocks last — we’re also throwing a free copy in with all purchases of Drone 1.
We sell Drone 1 for £4, but we’re now being undercut by five pence by our friends at Norman Records, who have lovely things to say about the record (“injecting soul into the circuits on the title track with staggering results…”). Of course Norman won’t give you a free summer sampler. The choice is yours!
And finally, Venue, Bristol’s Time Out has published a full page interview with Robin Allender. We’ve put a copy on our website for you to read if you’re not in Bristol. Allender (and band) are playing a headline set this Friday at Bristol’s Folk House. See the live page for more details.
Drone 1 by The Rollercoaster Project is finally out today.
You can download the title track for free from our website (where you can also watch the video, directed by Jo Coates) or stream all three tracks at Bleep.
If you like what you hear then you can buy the CD for £4. It features beautifully printed artwork from Owen Jones’s classic The Grammar of Ornament (pictured right, more pictures on our Flickr account). Or, for instant gratification, you can buy one or all tracks online from Bleep or iTunes.
The Rollercoaster Project will be playing live with Anteater (Tom from ¡Forward Russia!) at The Cardigan Arms in Leeds next Friday, 19 January.
Robin Allender will be playing his first two live shows with the band with whom his debut album The Bird and the Word was recorded. (Tracklisting has been finalised, and it’s sounding great by the way.)
They will playing with Patrick Duff at The Louisiana, Bristol on Saturday, 20 January and Dreamboat friends The Gala Band at Industry in Shoreditch, London on Tuesday, 13 February. Tickets for the London show can be purchased here.
