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In other, rather non-music related news: For some reason I am just now stumbling over this! In 2005 a French Theater collective created this amazing giant robotic elephant out of recycled material, that could actually carry around people. The whole thing was built in remembrance of Jule Vernes death 100 years ago.
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Thee Single Spy - OK Corral Single Launch this Sunday!
God Don’t Like It presents:
Thee Single Spy - OK Corral Single Launch Alldayer
1st of August 2010, from 4pm, at the Old Queens Head, Islington. Free Entry!
Program:
- Thee Single Spy - 9:30
- Tristram - 8:30
- Younghusband - 7:30
- Padraig Whelan - 6:30
- Yusaf Azak - 5:45
- Monsieur Gumby (featuring Sue Dough Nim)- 5:00
- Oldwick (acoustic) - 4:15
- Woodpecker Wooliams - 3:30
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Thee Single Spy got 15 Minutes of Fame on Never Enough Notes →
Never Enough Notes featured OK Corral on their podcast 15 Minutes of Fame - check it out here: http://neverenoughnotes.co.uk/wordpress/2010/07/fifteen-minutes-of-fame-episode-8/
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Thee Single Spy - OK Corral
Need a dating advice? Thee Single Spy just got the right one for you, old school 50ies style!
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Thee Single Spy - In Clay, In Cloud is Song of the Day on The Line of Best Fit →
The nice fellows at The Line of Best Fit have chosen “In Clay, In Cloud” from Thee Single Spy as their Song of the Day. It’s the B-side of the upcoming single “OK Corral”.
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Thee Single Spy featured on A Negative Narrative →
Thee Single Spy are featured on A Negative Narrative - they like to draw an intimate portrait of an artist in 10 photographs. Also grab the free download of “I Carved The Moon” up there..
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Thee Single Spy ‘OK Corral’ Release Date: 9th August 2010 / Preorder available now Label: Robot Elephant Records Cat No: RER02 Format: 7” Vinyl / Digital Release “Brilliantly well-crafted indie pop.” Jon Hilcock – NME Radio
Try to fathom a band who seamlessly fuse image-laden lyrics, reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel and Bill Callahan, over a rich plethora of instrumentation, including French horns, organs, pianettes and clarinets. To author a sound that is both lo-fi hi-fi indie honest and organic. This is Thee Single Spy.
Formed in 2007 as a solo acoustic venture for front man Alex Mattinson, early comparisons lay with Bright Eyes, Lambchop and Nick Cave. As they stand in 2010, Thee Single Spy comprises of Benjamin Brunel (Accordion/Clarinet/Vocals) James Ingham (Bass) Pete Clarke (Piano/Organ/Guitar) and Michael Alloway (Drums/Vocals).
‘OK Corral’ - a lament to a past love and the feeling of being trapped by past mistakes - is the first single to be released on flourishing independent label Robot Elephant Records and the first track to be taken from their recently completed debut album, titled “Shipwrecking”, co-produced Luke Joyce (British Sea Power/The Macabees/Laura Marling). Recorded over a nine-day period and accompanied by the solitude of Brighton’s coast, Thee Single Spy interspersed 12 hour days with the consumption of brandy, snowball fights and constructing igloos, to the soulful sounds of Billie Holiday.
Live, the band are poised for a series of dates over the summer period, and with recent support slots for the likes of Emmy The Great, Chimes and Bells (Bella Union) and Goldheart Assembly, expect to see Thee Single Spy on a profusion of festival bills for 2011.
Live Dates:
17th July – Camden Barfly, London
24th July – Mumur Box at Brixton Windmill (supporting Goldheart Assembly)
31th July - Not in my Backyard, London
1st Aug – ‘OK Corral’ Single Launch – Old Queens Head, London
6th Aug – The Selkirk, London
31st Aug – The Social, London
28th Sept – Musicborn @Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London
30th October – The Luminaire , London (supporting Meursault)
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Robot Elephant Records co-releasing Stearica Invade Acid Mothers Temple LP
Some for me ridiculously exciting news: We are collaborating with Italian collective Homeopathic to release the LP edition of Stearica invades Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., under the catalog number HMC007/RER003. Details of the release will follow soon…
Stearica are Italians foremost Improvisation / Post Rock band (or how they call it, beyond rock). Check out their last album Oltre, it’s fantastic.
Acid Mothers Temple don’t need too much of an introduction I hope. They are Space Rock gurus, and I saw them a couple of years ago collaborating with Guru Guru and since then I am adoring them, and their gig at SxSW on a car park, only illuminated by camera flashes, was a revelation and for sure one of my gigs of the year yet!
Together they created a space rock epic! Here is an exclusive stream of the track Queen of Kong:
Stearica and Acid Mother Temple-Stearica Invade Acid Mother Temple-02-Queen Kong by Anthonygdli
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Announcing RER02 - Thee Single Spy : OK Corral / In Clay, In Cloud
I am very happy and proud to announce the next release on Robot Elephant Records. RER02 is going to be a 7” Single and download for Thee Single Spy with the songs OK Corral and In Clay, In Cloud and is going to be released in August 2010.
Watch this space for more details soon - please feel free sign up for the Robot Elephant newsletter to get updated about the exact release date, release details, and other news and stuff about Robot Elephant Records.
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Robot Elephant Records on Bandcamp →
Bandcamp is a really brilliant site for independent artists and labels. I just created a Robot Elephant site up there, which means that you are now able to purchase a Speak & The Spells 7” Vinyl and all future Robot Elephant Releases and get a free download on top of that!
Check it out under http://robotelephantrecords.bandcamp.com/
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