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1This time next week Fiona and I will be getting smashed in the airport bar at our Frankfurt change-over en route to MOTHER MOSCOW!
This is the beautiful, illustrated poster by Anya Kuts (one half of Love Cult) who we’ll be joining for most of our shows. Fancy catching us in Russia? This is where we’ll be:
25/05/2012: Substancia Radio, Moscow, Russia
Come say ‘Hi’ if you can! xx
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I’ll be joining this hoard of hidden jewels as part of the Alternative Escape, this weekend.
I’m kicking off Friday-funday @ midday, The Fishbowl… Boozy lunch, anyone?
Rising up like a ghost battle ship out of the mists comes the release, today, of the original score composed for the independent German film of the same name; a collaborative effort between myself and OCDC. I had the pleasure of attending the premier for Anni in an old Hamburg theatre last summer and it make me quake.
Love Lion, (home to some great sounds including those of personal fave Angel Olsen,) are the label bringing this out of its cloister to share with the world. They say:
“Anni brings to mind the atmospheric musings of…artists like Stars of the Lid or the most minimal moments Kraftwerk has to offer.”
Expect spy radio samples and enough latent emotion to make your bowels move unexpectedly. Fairly much the slowed down sound of a gory car-crash of the heart.
I’ve been well informed that copies can be purchased in store at Reckless Records, Chicago, here from Love Lion’s site, or we will also both have some copies soon enough.
I’ll be joining the Robot Elephant Records family tomorrow at what should be an unusual night of ‘avant-garde’ music for the Brighton leg of their tour. Four little pounds on the door; Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar. Can’t say fairer than that.
Husband’s new single was recently featured on The Line of Best Fit. Also playing are Blue on Blue (UK) and Hipdiebattery (Romania / Bucharest). Hot.
2 Okay, okay, it’s not so big: Finally I’ve joined twatter. Come and be a twit with me @woodpeckerwool.
ALSO: Mr Postman brought me something very lovely yesterday.
Direct from Russia I now have 20 copies of the re-release cassette edition of ‘Patryoska’. Holla me up should you care to purchase one. Three English pounds, thank-you, please.
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This will be great. If you can’t make Becky Becky supporting Soccer 96 at the Albert, Brighton then head down to this or regret. x
This evening! Blue on Blue on from 7:30pm, I will be DJing from 7, Rocketnumbernine from 8:30, epic DJ Line-up afterwards
We got some free lists - get in touch via sw@robotelephant.co.uk if you want to come
2You’re getting impatient, aren’t you? Feining looking out the window, but secretly counting down the days ‘til ‘The Bird School of Being Human’ (new Woodpecker album) hits the shelves? Can’t wait? Worry not- sneaky little preview here of one of the demos opening Robot Elephant Record’s mix on the fourohfive.com. Check it; here! xx
Русская виза прибыл!// Russian Visa has arrived!
1 Unaltered recording of the 30-minute live stream for To Be Continued world sound marathon 24/03/2012 in aid of world TB day (http://www.who.int/tb/tobecontinued/en/index.html).
Joined here by Dillon Swinhoe (Simple Folk radio) on balloons and sea-gull, sound recording by Meat Peter (Becky Becky) and hosted by / random guitar by Scott Power (Shhh Promotions). Any glitches / moments of silence that you might think to have occurred due to technical error were clearly intended and to be considered ‘artistic’ (…?). Also downloadable here. Enjoy x
…makes me happy. Here! x
In aid of World TB (tuberculosis) day, Stazione Topolo- with whom I had the great pleasure of joining last summer for their month-long music festival -are coordinating a 24-hour around-the-world live sound marathon.
This is happening tomorrow, 24th March, and there will be a constant live stream of original music from around the world that you can either tune into on their dedicated website (here) or at a variety of listening posts around the world in bars, libraries, shopping centres, galleries etc that you can also find listed on the site. The event is even endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), here!
My 30 minute live set is being streamed at 11am UK time (GMT). If you’re in Brighton get in touch to come be part of the live audience- rum coffee and croissants promised for this early start. xx
Do please take note of the sexy new tabs to the right of this site. Wowee I am advancing. You may also notice in the ‘gigs to come’ section there is a support slot for David Thomas Broughton on 12th June @ The Blind Tiger, Brighton. Looking forward to that one lots.
Here’s a taster of the kind of tour snaps you can see here on the Woodpecker Wooliams Facebook page, should you so desire, all courtesy of the delightful Ms Miller. Hot. Ready for action. Chicks on tour…x
Hamburg airport. Absurdly enormous foccacia. This is the longest period I’ve been alone in over 2 weeks. About an hour…. time to reflect.
Hamburg of all our destinations has perhaps been the weirdest, what with the ferocious and dazzling Reeperbahn, the resurgence of the Party Pecker joining a personal rock hero’s band for an all night tobasco-shot-drinking- Golden Poodle nightclub jiving- walk-home-at-6am-through-an-empty-and-silent-carnival-extravaganza and our 4-way squat venue noise jam with Joel Eaton and Kai on singing saw…
Fiona and I have both quite possibly gone mental, but in the best way. Me feeling irrevocably altered, in a good way, from the strange and enlightening past 2 weeks, and excited to think that there’s another tour just round the corner (Russia) and the promise of a return to Willy’s in August for his beach festival. Alles Klar.Genau. Tcheuse. X x
