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Sunday
27th June 2004
Hiiiaaaaaaooooooooooooo!
Well well well, long time no update. I could say it's all because of exams and
in some ways it is but I've been doing plenty else to prevent many updates so
blaming it all on education would be unfair. Anyway, here's some news from the
past 2 months, that you already know...
Gig summary
Most recently, BSP played Glastonbury Festival. This happened yesterday and I
hear it was mega good. Some songs will probably appear at BBC
6 Music so keep-a-checkin'!
Prior to this no doubt legendary performance, on the quiet BSP played to many
clever people on the 16th and 19th June. Yep, Oxford and Cambridge were
destroyed by Sea Power at University balls.
They also played the lovely Keele University on June 10th. Such an evening
looked set to put them up against the extreme force that is Girls Aloud.
The boys of Sea had to be careful not to become the sound of the underground,
taking no good advice from pessimists and making sure to jump into action,
meaning no ones' life got cold.
The Show was a good one indeed, with no Girls Aloud apparently in sight. Reports
tell us Noble had met a member of the vocal harmony group and said "you
freak me out" to which they got upset. Moving swiftly on......
Between these University excursions, BSP had made their first 2004 visit to
festival land. They played alongside such luminaries as The Stands and Jet at
the Isle Of Wight festival on June 12th. The set included new song 'Leaving
Here'...
...Which had been previously tested at another special show. Twas a re-enactment
of days of yore, Club Sea Power was briefly reborn kids! The show saw a new era
begin with new tracks 'Leaving Here', 'Mother', 'To Get To Sleep' and the
previously played 'How Animals Work'...much reworked it seems.
There was another specialty with the rarely played 'The Smallest Church In
Sussex' appearing amongst the brash live sound of Sea Power.
For future BSP dates, check the Gigs page.
DVD!
British Sea Power appear on the new Jools Holland DVD entitled 'Cool Britannia'.
The DVD features bands that come from Great Britain and 'Remember Me' was seen
as a fit addition to the collection. So buy it from Play.com
or somewhere else, if you like.
Pictures
Long ago, the great Mr Steele informed me that he'd been snapping again and the
wonderful results can be found at Broken
Windows. Folks from efesitvals were at the Isle Of Wight festival to take
some pictures of BSP, see them here.
Another EP
In addition to the recently released Japanese 'Remember Me' EP they'll
apparently be a 'Spirit Of St. Louis' EP released soon in the far east.
Great British press
BSP put together an article for The Independent. "The Ten Best Pastoral Pop
Songs" can be found here.
See! I haven't missed that much in the last 2 months.
I bid ye adieu for another while!
PS. Might update lots and lots in summer, fingers crossed!
Thursday
22nd April 2004
The Daily Telegraph
One for the ladies (and gentlemen by all means!) this time round, which
member of BSP do you fancy most?
Yep, the imagination was running low...Cast your vote now and no fixing!
The Daily Telegraph
An article in today's edition - Click!
UK tour
Sounds as if the tour's going really well with 'A Wooden Horse' opening the set,
new song 'Chicken Pig' regularly appearing and the big bear making numerous
appearances.
In addition to the Edinburgh date, the band played an instore acoustic set at
Avalanche Records earlier in the day (17th).
Tracks played were: Out Of My Mind On Dope And Speed, Strange Communication,
Carrion, Moley & Me and Carrion.
Thursday
15th April 2004
Since last time
Not too much has happened in the last month to be honest, no festival
confirmations yet and the American, Dutch and Prague dates went very well.
Here's some articles I've found, hope I haven't posted any already...
BBC:
Czech interview
Drowned in Sound: Foliage news
Radio Czech:
Interview
Free
Williamsburg: Noisepop interview (very good piece)
Ball
State Daily: A late album review
Chart
Attack: SXSW
Excellent
Online: Vancouver review
Boston.com:
Gig preview
Flak Magazine:
Interview
Austin
Chronicle: SXSW
Voir.ca:
Interview/Feature? (en Francais)
Lawrence.com:
Interview
MusicIGN:
Noisepop review w/pictures
The
Sophian: Old feature
Anecdotage.com:
Fame for BSP...
Saltywater.co.uk:
Prague pictures
Rotown.nl:
Rotterdam pictures
Zionmag:
Prague pictures
Freemusic.cz:
Prague pictures
MediaEater:
New York pictures
News you'll already know
- Posters can be bought from the BSP
shop.
- BSP appeared on MTV2 show Subtarranean
for SXSW.
- The band will end the UK tour at the Cargo
club in London, it promises to be an intimate performance in comparison to the
Shepherds Bush show and will take place on Friday 30th April.
- A Lovely Day Tomorrow will be available on the UK tour and upon hearing
Fakir..well, what a marvellous track that be!
- There will be a fanzine available to purchase on the tour too, it will be
called 'Strange Communication' and promises to add joy to the lives of all who
read it.
- Expect updates during the tour. Send pictures, setlists and all the usual by email,
t'will be much appreciated.
Saturday
6th March 2004
A vacuum sound of horror
Tracks to appear on 'A Lovely Day Tomorrow', the very new and very
Czechoslovakian single by British Sea Power and The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa
will be A Lovely Day Tomorrow, Zitra Bude Krasny Den (ALDT en Czech) and Fakir
(a Czech folk song - probably the one they played at the Seattle instore show)
The single will be released on British soil but there only be 1,942 copies of
the biggest gem since Danny La Rue sold his finest jewels at a Dorchester street
market sale. T'will be available from 17th April 2004, which is a Saturday.
For UK record buyers ,the single will be available on the upcoming UK
tour or on the official website. For the Czechoslovakian amongst you, you'll
find it in record stores across the country on behalf of Rough Trade Bohemia in
conjunction with EMI Czech Republic, what dames they be!
Don't forget! BSP play The Roxy in Prague on 8th April, which is a Thursday.
Seattle sounds, sumptuous songs, storming sights!
In this fine, fine world of sibilance you may hear the recent Seattle instore show
and Crocodile Cafe gig by taking a trip to the multimedic Salty
Water (a so fresh, so clean BSP fansite, better pull me socks up!) or Soulseek where it's
sure to be floating
around.
New songs performed on the US tour are 'Chicken Pig' and 'Elegiac Stanzas'.
In
case you don't know, another "new" song is 'How Animals Work' but they
don't appear to playing that one.
Some American tour pictures can be found on this
forum thread.
Some Japanese pictures
too!
On a fricative note, I have some great pictures from Los Angeles sent by Ally.
These 3 were taken on the 29th of Fevrier at The Echo in Los Angeles To see,
click here, here
aaaaand here.
Looks fucking fabulous!
Whatever's next, comes easily...
BSP will play a show at Seaclose Park, Newport on Saturday 12th June as part of
the Isle Of Wight Festival 2004. They'll be alongside such luminaries as The Who
and the Manic Street Preachers, bon bon.
Literature
Some reading for you (mostly US tour):
Filter
Westword
Up&Coming
Terminal
City
Kansas
City Star
SFBG
Metromix
Fort
Wayne
Cleveland
Free Times
Entertainment
Today
Earlash
The
Horse
Debaser
Thursday
26th February 2004
KEXP Session
On Tuesday the world was treated to a lovely acoustic BSP session on Seattle
station KEXP. The band seemed tiresome in conversation but the music was superb
as usual.
The tracks played were 'Childhood Memories', 'Salty Water' and 'Good Good Boys'.
To download the session in mp3 format visit Salty
Water, thanks to James Sui.
Prague
Looks as if the long awaited Prague concert is confirmed, it'll take place on
April 8th at The Roxy with The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in support.
Tuesday
24th February 2004
US Radio
As the North American tour begins, BSP are on KEXP radio tonight at 9pm GMT. To
listen live, click here.
Pictures
There's some great pictures of the recent show at High Wycombe here.
Thursday
5th February 2004
Competition winners
Congratulations to Mary Svrjcek who has won the
Christmas competition.
Second prize goes to Michael Wright and third to Jonathan
Osbourne.
The five runners up are Roberta Maya, Andy
Lacey, Martin (M&K email) , Vera
Langer and Jan Townsend.
Expect emails asking for addresses and your prizes should be on the way soon.
Thanks to all 59 of you who entered the competition and sorry for the day's
delay!
Prague and 'A Lovely Day Tomorrow'
BSP hope to play Prague Roxy on the 8th April with Czech band The Ecstasy Of
Saint Theresa. The show isn't confirmed yet so hold on for confirmation.
As well as the long awaited Prague show, BSP will definitely be releasing a new,
Czechoslovakian, limited edition single.
It will be a new, harder version of 'A Lovely Day Tomorrow' which originally
appeared on the initial 'Remember Me' release and recently found it's way back
into the live set.
The single will feature a Czech and English version of the track with TEOST's
Katerina Winterova on vocal duties.
Sunday
1st February 2004
Competition
The competition is now closed, all entries sent from now on will not go in the
cloth cap.
The draw will be made on Wednesday the 4th so keep you peepers peeled, prizes
could be on their way to you.
New album
BSP are holed up in a country house writing songs for the next album, I hear
all's going well and the band are hoping to try them out on the forthcoming US
and UK tours.
Concerts
Since the last update, the US concert dates have been confirmed. A few Dutch
dates have been added as well as the rescheduled High Wycombe gig, see the Gigs
page for all the latest.
Wednesday
14th January 2004
New Year
Hello there! It appears I am back in action after a month away from website
duties and I come back to a year which should be the year of the redesigned
website and continued success for yours and my favourite band, British Sea
Power.
While we're on the subject of the redesigned site, it's still coming along
nicely, I've worked on it a wee bit in the past few days but not today as I went
climbing trees and walking in the middle of nowhere.
If you have any pictures, please send them in now as it'll be one of the
hardest/most tedious pages to make, email.
Anyway, hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thanks to all
who visit and contribute, your help is much appreciated.
Official site
Unfortunately it's down at the moment which means we get considerably less
visits, I have no idea why it's down but let's hope it's back soon.
US Tour
New dates added to the Gigs page. Dates from Pitchfork
so can't be absolutely sure but expect them to be correct, exact SXSW date
unconfirmed.
Some old Dutch dates have been added to the gigography too, thanks to kevo and
specialist on the forum.
Meek
A little birdy tells me there's a show about the great Joe Meek and Telstar
tonight, Radio 2 at 10pm - LISTEN!
Christmas competition
I've had a startling response so far, thanks to all who've entered.
If you haven't entered, click the relevant link
above.
Monday
22nd December 2003
Competition
The Christmas competition is finally ready, click here
to enter.
Monday
15th December 2003
We are 2!
A Lovely Day Tomorrow is 2 years old today. Thanks to all who've made it
possible for the site to run thus far and make sure to keep supporting it.
Competition
Worry not, the competition has not been forgotten or abandoned. I haven't received
all the prizes yet so I don't want to promise things that aren't for sure,
that's only sensible.
Should be ready over the festive season.
UK Tour
Since the last update the busiest band in Britain have organised yet another
tour.
It will take place in April 2004 and will see the band play their biggest ever
headline show at London Shepherds Bush Empire.
See the Gigs page for full dates, destinations and numbers.
Photos
To make up for the missing competition here's some lovely photos taken at
Newport Le Pub on 21st June and Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach on 22 November.
All photos were taken by Josephine Townsend and to see them click here.
Redesign
Over the past couple of weeks there's been plenty of work put into the
redesigned site which is coming along nicely so it shouldn't be too much longer
before we say goodbye to navy blue.
Thursday
4th December 2003
UK Tour
Saw the Warwick gig last Sunday, twas a wonderful show and a fitting end to the
tour with Noble climbing anything possible and the great big bear on parade.
The band are on a brief arena tour with The Strokes right now and apparently
things are going swimmingly which is just ruddy splendid.
Lamacq
Mr. Lamacq and BBC 6 Music were at the Warwick gig recording Snowfield, The
Killers and British Sea Power's performances. Apparently he'll only play a
couple of tracks from each band which is extremely disappointing but make sure
to give it a listen anyway, it's at 1pm this Saturday. Link.
NME
News of Hamilton's wrist breaking in this weeks edition but more importantly
there's a full page ad' for all things BSP that would look quite spiffing on any
boy or girls wall.
Birthday/Christmas competition!
Yes! Good good news for good good people!
Next week I'll be setting a competition because it's about time for one, it's
Christmas - the time to give and the site'll be 2 years old in a couple of
weeks.
Make sure you come back to have a look and enter to win many BSP goodies,
multiple winners n'all!!!
If you can donate any prizes please get
in touch.
Wednesday
26th November 2003
X-Ray
Have been emailed by the people at X-Ray magazine who tell me BSP will appear on
their December issue cover CD, an exclusive 'Carrion' XFM session track they
say.
The new magazine will be out tomorrow so make sure to buy.
No Belfast gig
The Strokes have announced a gig on November 30th taking place in Belfast.
Although BSP will be supporting on forthcoming dates they will not be
playing this one as it is the night of Warwick.
Failures In The Beech Trees
Hamilton is suffering from a sprained wrist he picked up while pruning a
Copper Beech for the stage decor and cutting down the branch he was hanging on.
Sound man Joe will be standing in on bass playing duties for (possibly) the rest
of the tour, Hamilton should be back for The Strokes dates.
Just in case you didn't know, the High Wycombe gig was cancelled as a
consequence but should be rescheduled for 2004.
Friday
21st November 2003
UK Tour
The second leg of the UK tour has begun with Nottingham and Leeds, went to
Nottingham and the boys were on marvellous form as usual and Eamon's looking
grand with new helmet and drum!
NME
BSP appear on CD1 with 'Apologies To Insect
Life' in the NME's latest scam. UK tour support act The Killers are also on CD1.
Best Bands Of 2004
'Carrion' is on the 'Best Bands Ever 2004' compilation album, it's the last
track on CD2.
Remember Me 7" Swap Shop
Have updated from 28th October, plenty more names to look at.
Competition
Should be happening soon, have some signed records and CDs' to give away.
New Years Eve
BSP will be playing the Garage in London for a new year's Club Sea Power.
The Strokes
Your favourite band will be supporting The Strokes on their UK dates (+
Barcelona) in December:
1st December - Glasgow Braehead Arena
3rd December - Cardiff Arena
5th December - London Alexandra Palace
6th December - London Alexandra Palace
8th December - Barcelona Pavello De La Vall D'Hebron
Pretty good exposure!
Japan
A couple of dates in Japan soon
16th December - Osaka Quattro
18th December - Tokyo Quattro
Both dates will be with Rough Trade label mates The Delays. All Japanese and
Strokes dates have been added to the Gigs page. Visit this
page for tickets.
A 'Remember Me EP' with the tracks Remember Me, Salty Water, Good Good Boys,
Moley & Me, The Smallest Church In Sussex The Scottish Wildlife Experience,
Albert's Eyes, Carrion (Ridgeway Mix) & Apologies To Insect Life (Russian
Rock demo) will be released in Japan on 17th December.
Lamacq
The Warwick University gig will be broadcast live on 6Music with Steve Lamacq.
More information here.
New Poll
Something new for you to vote on seeing as the old one is pointless now!
'Blackout' came first and 'Remember Me' rerecorded
came second so we almost reflected the band's decision! Unfortunately the poll's
lost so the archived result isn't around.
I think I've covered just about everything that's happened since the last update
so au revoir for now!
Tuesday
28th October 2003
Remember Me
Made it to number 30 in the UK chart and number 3 in the indie chart, very well
done to the boys and thanks to all those who bought it.
MP3's
There were some brilliant Liverpool MP3's on the net last week but it's exceeded
its bandwidth limit so it's offline but here's another site with mp3's - Citizen
Erased, here you'll find the Amsterdam
show from March 2002 and the BBC 6 Music session tracks in good quality.
Remember Me 7" Swap Shop!
Has been updated again, keep sending them in.
Competition
I'm hoping they'll be a competition very
soon, currently trying to gather some prizes together so there can be a few
winners. If you have any prize suggestions I'll take them into account, please
email here.
Corn rigs are bonnie
A few Remember Me reviews & plenty of photos you may or may not have
seen....
Rock
Feedback
Drowned
In Sound
Music
OMH
And a 2 part interview just in case I haven't added it before now - Part
1 & Part
2
Boston
TT Bears
Belfast
Empire Music Hall
Truck
Festival 1
Truck
Festival 2
Truck
Festival 3
Leeds
Festival 2003
Reading
Festival 2003
Hove
Old Market
London
Garage (May 2003)
London
ULU
More
live photos
New
York promo photos
A
new promo photo
I've also been sent 4 lovely photos from the recent Manchester gig by Jim Tully,
to see them click here.
If you have any BSP photos please send them by clicking here
and they'll be added to the news page, eventually to the Pictures section.
Friday
24th October 2003
Remember Me
Midweek position of 23/
US Tour
It started last night and all's going well apparently. I'm currently trying to
find out if they're on radio at any point (KCRW session for instance), if you
know anything please email.
Remember Me 7" Swap Shop!
To all those sending swaps wondering where the hell the page is, it's finally
here for all your swapping needs, just click the link above.
The Carrion 7" Swap Shop is still around if you just click here.
Monday
20th October 2003
Remember Me
Out today, make sure you buy on all 3 formats.
Ruling the airwaves
Apparently on Radio 1 tonight with Lamacq, not sure if that's right but will
listen just in case. Showcased on his site here.
BSP will also be live on XFM tomorrow on The Works, don't know if it's a new
live session but they say they're in session so.....? Link
You can vote for BSP as the best band on Friday's Later with Jools Holland here.
Also, vote for BSP in the MTV2 NME Chart here,
they're 7th at the moment which is great so keep on voting.
Finally, email these DJ's so they play the single....
zane@bbc.co.uk
jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk
mark.radcliffe@bbc.co.uk
steve.lamacq@bbc.co.uk
Swap Shop
The swap shop is back for Remember Me, make sure to send in your requests and
those you already have by email.
Thursday
16th October 2003
REMEMBER ME!
Remember Me, the new single by British Sea Power is released on Monday 20th
October so make sure to buy it on 2 CD's and 7"
Swap Shop
Talking of 7"s, the Carrion Swap Shop will be replaced on Monday by the
Remember Me 7" Swap Shop so as soon as you've received your copies
make sure to send in the name of the person(s) you've got and if you have any
special requests make sure to email them too, same rules as the Carrion swap
shop.
Remember Jools
Make sure to watch Later with Jools Holland tomorrow as BSP will be performing
Carrion & Remember Me live, I do believe it's on at 11.35pm.
Lamacq
On the 20th the boys will be on Radio 1 with a live session for Lamacq, more
details tomorrow.
Gigs
New dates in America and England will be added to the site tomorrow, for now the
page is a little dated.
Monday
22nd September 2003
20th October
I do believe the new release date for 'Remember Me' is 20th October, it was 6th
October which is a bit shit but upon hearing the new songs I can safely say you
won't be disappointed, fantastique!
Redesigned site
With being back at school and having a job I'm limited to the amount of time I
can spend on this forthcoming masterpiece but it will be with you one day chums!
Hope you like the new welcome page anyway.
No news
Is good news.
Thursday
4th September 2003
Remember Me single info
The next single will definitely be the rerecorded 'Remember Me'. It will be
released on Monday 6th October and will come on 2cd's and a limited 7",
here are the tracklists...
CD1
Remember Me
Salty Water
Good Good Boys
CD2
Remember Me
The Smallest Church In Sussex
Moley And Me
7"
Remember Me
The Scottish Wildlife Experience
Just in case you're wondering, 'Salty Water' used to be called 'Ropes' and 'The
Scottish Wildlife Experience' used to be Bass Rock.
Remember Me video
The video for the forthcoming single was made on Monday. It's a remembrance
video, the bands faces will be super imposed on public statues of soldiers etc.
in
London.
How Animals Work
The band have been recording the single of 2004 this week, here's hoping all
went well.
Garde Bien!
Number 3 is on it's way people, more news when Mr. Fenwick is ready to ship out.
Shop
The shop page has been stripped down to ze bare minimal because it was all wrong
and we didn't want anybody ordering stuff that wasn't available, just follow the
link to the official store and buy all goods from there.
The shop page will reappear in full when the redesigned site is uploaded, this
is still a while away!
Sorry for the outdated pages (Discography, Press etc.) but I really can't see
the use in making new pages for an old site and adding links to articles on the
News page seems to work just fine for now.
Some Articles
I don't think these have been posted before...
Reading review: Here
The Garage review: Here
The Decline Of review: Here
Mansfield Mill review: Here
WFMU Session archived: Here
Some photos from Leeds Festival: Here
I also have some pictures from Philadelphia which are very nice so they'll be
added soon along with christ knows how many others.
Monday
18th August 2003
WFMU Session
In the early hours of the morning (in Britain) BSP were on internet radio
performing a live session and it was bloody amazing.
They played: Fear Of Drowning, Apologies To Insect Life, Childhood Memories,
Remember Me, Blackout & Carrion.
It was probably their best session yet and I'm sorry I didn't inform you of it
happening but they might archive it and I do have a good recording of it so if I
get enough webspace etc. it'll be made available on here.
For now, see if anything happens here.
Irving Plaza
Due to the American blackout last week the Irving Plaza show was cancelled, I'm
not sure about the other shows but I know this one was cancelled. Well anyway,
it MIGHT have been rescheduled for tonight, it's unconfirmed but on WFMU they
said so. Sorry I can't confirm it's correct.
American link
http://www.onthemoonmusic.com/video/britishseapower/bsp5.AVI
- Right click and Save Target As to do download a little video of BSP live.
Monday
4th August 2003
Q Subscription
Subscribe to Q and get The Decline Of British Sea Power for free!
X-Ray
BSP's Carrion (Commander's Croft Mix) appears on the X-Ray magazine cover CD (Radiohead
on front)
USA East Coast tour
A few more dates have been added to the East Coast tour, as far as I know it's
BSP headlining, see all the forthcoming dates on the Gigs page.
Ireland dates
Please note the changes on the gigs page
January 2004 single
It's likely to be 'How Animals Work'.
On the subject of forthcoming releases, the band hope to start recording songs
for the second album in the next few months, the album should feature the single
'How Animals Work'.
Rough Trade compilation
BSP's version of Galaxie 500's 'Tugboat' will appear on the Rough Trade 25th
anniversary compilation CD, I'm not sure when this'll be released.
Remember Me b-sides
Wondering what the forthcoming single will bring you in the shape of b-sides?
Here's a few ideas...
1) Yan & Hamilton's Father reciting a
story/poem over a pump organ played by Hamilton in the style of John Betjeman's accompanied poems
2) Cover of 'Out Of My Mind On Dope and Speed' by Julian Cope
3) Good Good Boys
4) Major Machine
5) North Hanging Rock
6) Bass Rock
& others.
Redesigned site
It's on the way with all new content and such, I hope it's all done within 3
weeks but we'll see.
Sunday 27th July 2003
I've been away for a week so I've fallen behind in all things BSP, here's all
the news that came in while I was away - some of it you will already know, some
you may not....
Remember Me
The next single released on the 6th October 2003 will be the rerecorded version
of Remember Me. It will be released on CD & limited 7" vinyl (2,005
copies) and one of the B-sides may be Hamilton's new song 'Good, Good Boys'.
The limited vinyl will be individually named just like the Carrion vinyl, but
this time with people who have done deeds large or small for the band.
Suggestions should be sent to britishseapower@hotmail.com
(subject: Remember Me) with an explanatory
note of a maximum of 50 words.
The next new single (after Remember Me) will be released in January 2004 and
will be a new song.
A Lovely Day In Czechoslovakia
The Czechoslovakian single of 'A Lovely Day Tomorrow' will be sung in
Czech with the help of Czech band The Ecstasy of Therasa 2003, the band also
plan to do a concert in Prague.
Julian Cope
It is hoped BSP will record some new songs in collaboration with Julian Cope,
more on this whenever it happens.
Camp
Sea Power
Will be happening in the summer of 2004
Festival Of The Sea 2005
BSP have been asked to perform at this special event taking place at The
National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Other guests will include David Seaman,
Ellen McArthur and Rick Stein, more about this on BSP Newsletter number 14.
A little more information can be found here.
Baraka
The BSP soundtrack to Baraka will be performed at Leeds Festival, it was first
performed at the ICA in London last year and should be a spectacular spectacle
so make sure to make a bootleg of it!
Teachers
The music of BSP will be used in the new series of the channel 4 show
'Teachers'. Childhood Memories will be used in 2 scenes of the show, these will
be 'Kurt Makes Tea For Everyone Except Brian' and 'Simon Is Accused Of Losing
Essays'.
Carrion Swap Shop
Has been updated, if you still haven't added yours make sure to and prepare
yourselves for the Remember Me swap shop, bet you didn't see that one coming!
Website
The gigs page has been updated at long last, please note the appearance at the
Summer Sundae festival has been cancelled for reasons unknown.
The redesigned site is a slow, slow job but it's coming along, expect it some
time before Christmas.
And that ends my bumper news update, oh what a pain it was.....
Monday
7th July 2003
36
Carrion made the top 40 but no Top Of The Pops appearance.
Big
thanks must go to anyone who bought it, well done chaps!
The Carrion swap shop
Has been updated, sorry for the delay. Thanks to all those who've sent theirs
in, keep them coming.
Wednesday
2nd July 2003
Carrion
28th in the midweek chart, please keep buying the single and keep it in the top
30.
Swap Shop
Has been updated, we have our first matching 7" too, a swap is on the
cards....
On the radio
BSP were as promised on XFM last night. They played Childhood Memories, Remember
Me & Carrion, it was glorious and recordings were made.
The 2 acoustic tracks they did for Virgin Radio are also online, listen here.
New site
Slowly but surely, slowly but surely.....
Monday
30th June 2003
Carrion
Out today, remember to buy it, BRITISH SEA POWER NEED YOU!
Swap Shop
Thanks to all those who've sent their coastal features, keep them coming in.
Remember to have a look if you haven't found your favoured coastal feature yet,
it may be there.
Reading/Leeds
BSP are confirmed headliners of the Carling Stage at the Reading/Leeds
festivals.
They play Reading on Sunday 25th and Leeds on Friday 23rd.
Truck Festival
BSP will be here too on Saturday 19th July I believe.
There's a couple more new dates on the official sites Concerts pages at the
momenté, I will update this sites Gigs page shortly.
XFM
BSP will be live in session on 'The Works' tomorrow between 9pm & 11pm.
Thanks to Gary for the news.
NME
BSP appear in this weeks NME (Polyspree cover) with a dazzling single review, a
big advert for the forthcoming single, a brief interview with Noble concerning
tours and a picture on the letters page, good good.
No more press for the time being.
New site & competition
The redesigned and generally improved site is on it's way. Progress is poor to
middling but sure if slow all the same.
When the new site appears they'll be a lovely new competition, I can't confirm
the prize yet but it looks like I might have a couple of things to give away
which is fantastique.
Thursday
19th June 2003
BBC 6 Music
Forget Gideon Coe, just go here
for Carrion and the like.
A competition
http://216.92.36.25/pages/competition.html
Tuesday
17th June 2003
BBC 6 Music
Wasn't the BBC session just wonderful? Have recorded all the shenanigans and
will hopefully upload soon, I'm sure you can hear it somewhere on BBC
6 Music so go and have a gander if you missed it.
BSP also performed 'Carrion' at Maida Vale and *should* be broadcast on Gideon
Coe's show soon. If not a regular listener to Mr. Coe (me too....) I suggest
you click on his name every day to see if BSP are listed in his 'Listen again'
list.
Virgin Session
I missed it but never fear! Should have all of the Virgin radio sessions
soonish including their second appearance I managed to miss a while back.
92
Was the second week position for The Decline Of British Sea Power.
Carrion Swap Shop
I can't believe this idea made it's way to the official forum but I've had it
planned for a wee while now (honestly!) and it will be happening.
What the bloody hell are you on about? I hear some of you cry....well...click here!
Late album review
From Drowned
In Sound
Mojo
As promised, there's a lovely piece in the latest issue of Mojo (REM cover),
t'will appear on the site soon.
Shows
Still no big festival confirmation but they may support Roxy Music at Hyde Park
in London on July 16th, Leicester 'Summer Sundae' festival too on Saturday 9th
August.
For more info on the Leicester festival go here.
The Gigs page has been updated.
Friday
13th June 2003
Live Sessions
Thanks very much to to Gary Barrett for the following update.
BSP will appear on BBC 6 Music on Saturday
(tomorrow) between 1pm & 4pm
in session for Steve Lamacq, not sure what they'll play. For more go here
The Virgin Session will also be aired this weekend on Sunday
between 7pm & 10pm,
they'll be playing acoustic versions of Blackout & a cover of Out Of My Mind
On Dope & Speed, there may also be an interview/chat with the band. For more
go here.
Apparently they'll appear in the last hour of the BBC show and most likely the
first hour of the Virgin show.
XFM Music:Response
Vote for BSP in the poll here
(I think it might actually be finished now)
As far as I know BSP won, keep an eye on the page to see where they are in the
chart.
Word magazine
BSP are in the July issue with an album review & Scilly Isles feature.
New poll (& audio soon)
Inspired by the thread on the forum asking what the next single should be after
Carrion (released October/November time) I've set up a new poll to see what the
fans think, there are 10 options, hope yours is there.
Thanks to all those who voted on the favourite fruit poll, the winner was apple
but only just, strawberry and banana both came close.
Expect audio soon, most likely when the new look sets in, should have some
lovely live tracks if the hosts don't delete my account again.
Wednesday
11th June 2003
XFM Session
BSP should be doing an XFM session soon, The Decline Of British Sea Power is
XFM's album of the week.
BBC 6 Music
BSP will be recording a live session for Steve Lamacq on Saturday, don't know
when it'll be aired yet.
Still not sure when the Virgin Radio acoustic session will be aired, hope I
don't miss it again.
Pictures
Keep forgetting to link to http://www.brokenwindows.org
where you can see pictures of BSP playing Josephs Well in Leeds. Expect pictures
from a few more dates of the UK tour soon.
Album Review
Here
New look
The new look site is coming along nicely, did plenty yesterday but not so much
today as my computer decided to "lose" its sound card. The rescue
mission was thankfully successful!
Monday
9th June 2003
Virgin
They didn't appear on Sunday so I'm off to find out what happened and when they
will be on.
T-Shirts
The latest range of t-shirts has been added to the new official shop page. Click
here to
see.
Ignore my Shop page for now, it's pretty old but will be updated soon (most
likely when the new look comes)
Visitors
Thanks to all those who came to the site last week, it was the best week we've
had.
Link
As the links aren't being updated until the new look comes in and seeing as this
chap seems so nice and the music is pretty good here's a link to The
Exploits Of Elaine website.
They are a band who like BSP and link to this site, make sure to visit.
Sunday
8th June 2003
54
The Decline Of British Sea Power has got to number 54 in the album charts, this
is a fine achievement but I can't help feel it could have been better, I've
heard so many stories of places being sold out and vinyl shortages, the demand
seemed to be higher than the shops anticipated.
Keep buying the album and make sure we get the single into the top 40 in a few weeks time.
Reviews
The album got 4 out of 5 in Q and 4 and a half out 5 in The Fly + a review of
the Northampton gig which isn't so good. (Thanks to Adam Gardener)
Here's some more online reviews I've found...
The
Stereo Effect
BBC
Manchester (10 out of 10!!!)
No
Ripcord
MegaStar
Burton
Mail
The Times
The Scilly Isles article is indeed in the Sunday Times, read it online here.
They call them "The best band in Britain" and they are right.
Playlouder
Another feature written by Andy Barding is doing the rounds on Playlouder.
Click here
to see.
Friday
6th June 2003
Sales
The Decline Of British Sea Power has sold well thanks to mass buying, superb
reviews all round and having lots of lovely fans who nag their friends to buy it
too!
Anyway, the midweek chart put them in 43rd position (23rd on Amazon) and the
band hope they can get in the top 40, what an achievement that would be.
No more news on the chart position until Sunday.
Festivals
BSP's festival plans will be officially revealed soon.
Press
The band are in this weeks NME in the Burn It
section compiling their perfect CD. They're in the latest X-Ray
3 times. There's an article about their style, a great live review and a
slightly disappointing album review but nevermind.
The latest Uncut features an album review in which
it recieves 4 out of 5.
On June 8th there will be a feature in The
Times concerning BSP's Scilly Isles performance so make sure to buy it.
BSP should be featured in the next issue of MOJO
too.
If you have anymore news of BSP in the press make sure to email and if anyone
has the latest Q Magazine please tell me if there's
a review inside, it's in a bag this month and I can't get in!!!
Expect all this to be added in the very near future, I have so much stuff to
add.
Virgin Radio Acoustic session
BSP are to make their 3rd appearance on the Pete and Geoff show on SUNDAY
between 7pm & 10pm.
The band will be interviewed and perform acoustic versions of 'Blackout'
and Julian Cope's 'Out Of My Mind On Dope And Speed' so make sure to be
listening via their
website.
If you don't manage to hear it I should be able to record it so don't worry, it
won't be lost forever!
This very website
Expect changes soon, a new look is on the way, the site will become more orderly
and there's a lot of content to be added namely press, pictures and hopefully
the return of BSP audio which would be nice wouldn't it?
Ceefax
Someone mentions BSP on the page where they talk about music (p561) and pleads
that The Spirit Of St. Louis should have made it on to the album (boring!). Just
saw it so I thought I'd mention it. Talking teletext, channel 4 text gives the
album a shite review, the bastards.
Online reviews
Almost forgot, here's some more excellent reviews of the most excellent album...
Playlouder
Yahoo
Music
OMH
Reviewed4U
BBC
Collective (Was album of the week last week. Features audio)
Student
Pages (Scroll down a wee bit)
SoundsXP
Think that's all the news I have for now
Monday
2nd June 2003
THE DECLINE OF BRITISH SEA POWER
Out today at long long last. Make sure to buy it and buy it again. Get a free
poster at CWNN shops (http://www.action-records.co.uk).
Reviews
They're all over the place and I haven't managed to see them all. NME gave it
8/10.
Guardian gave a nice review here.
Get up to date with everything including new tour dates here
+ review quotes & scores.
Sorry for not updating too much recently but the album, tour and all the hype
has come at a shite time for me, revision must come first for now.
Expect better service mid to late June.
Tuesday
27th May 2003
UK Tour
It's coming to a close with only 5 dates remaining and then comes the album on
June 2nd. Make sure to go out and buy it, request the single on radio, ask to
hear it out loud in shops so people will ask "here, here! what's this
wonderful music you're playing" to the clerk of your local record store and
he will tell them, and they will buy it. Good good.
New fansite
Yet another @ http://www.brilliantine-mortality.com/,
they just keep on coming.
Press
There's plenty at the moment.
Recommended in the Sunday Times (here)
Mojo album review (4oo5), Bang album review (5oo5) & X-Ray album review
(?oo5). Expect all to appear on this site in the near future along with many
more (NME, Q, Newspapers)
For now, read the Bang review here.
(Note: I'm not a newspaper reader myself so if there's a review
in the paper you read please tell me asap and I'll make
sure to get it)
An untitled news update
A mention on the BBC Collective : http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/gigs
Carrion video vote : Go!
Make sure to register and vote.
Playlouder Scilly review : http://playlouder.com/feature/+superferriedanim/
Playlouder clothing range news : http://playlouder.com/news/+apowertobelooked/
A shitty album review : http://www.wiseacre.clara.net/music/03/05/26may03.html
Jeremy Vine played 'Carrion' on BBC Radio 2. Well played sir!
Competition/Updates
Competition ends 31st May. More updates soon. Keep sending pictures, reviews and
anything else, they will be added soon.
Sorry for the lack of updates recently but the site has to play second fiddle to
revision at the moment.
Monday
12th May 2003
UK Tour
It kicks off tonight in Northampton at the Soundhaus. If you're off to any of
the UK tour gigs make sure to send setlists and any pictures you've taken.
Speaking of gigs and pictures, here's one
from the Isles Of Scilly gig. Thanks to Andy Barding. A great report of the
Scillonian adventure can be found here.
Competition
Will run until the end of May, all details on the Competition page. All entries
so far correct.
NME
A new ad for the UK tour is appeared in NME this week (The Music cover). There
was also a review of the album launch gig BSP did the The Ram Inn in Firle, East
Sussex. Another review of that gig can be found here.
Expect the NME review and christ knows how many other articles to be added
someday!
Official Newsletter
The latest installment of BSP's regular news update can be found here.
Press
Expect to see BSP in X-ray, Bang, Mojo and The Times soon.
You may also catch the video for 'Carrion' on MTV2.
Merchandise
New T-shirts and patches should be on sale during the tour. BSP are also
planning to brew their own beer for sale on the tour and of course there will be
the much talked about BSP clothing range designed by The Patrick Mooreheads. The
range will be launched at the London gig (15th May) methinks.
Tuesday
29th April 2003
Competition
Keep those entries coming. Find details on the Competitions page now.
All entries so far have been correct, well done all.
Garde Bien
The 2nd issue of the BSP fanzine is out now and yet again, it's a superb read.
There's also a competition to win a set of BSP stamps so make sure to order,
first 50 released come with free iron on BSP badge. Three cheers for Mr.
Fenwick.
The Decline Of British Sea Power
First review of the BSP debut is on the web and great it is too, see it here.
In turn it reveals the cover of the album so I see no reason why I can't give
you a link to a larger version, click here.
The album will be out on the 2nd June.
Scilly gig
News has spread!
http://www.nme.com/news/104868.htm
http://uk.music.yahoo.com/030425/242/dyk3v.html
http://www.playlouder.com/news/5032.html
While we're on the subject of links, here's one - http://www.hol.org.uk/ewr/bands-bsp.htm
Friday
25th April 2003
Press
BSP are spoken of in the new NME (Coldplay cover) for being great pals with
Interpol, it's in that little gossip bit in the news section (you know what I
mean) and just to clear things up, the BSP UK tour ad was in last week (Hot Hot
Heat cover), not the new one.
BSP also appear in the new issue of X-Ray magazine (Dandy Warhols cover #4).
There's a review of Carrion, it gets 4 out of 5 from the right honourable Andy
Barding. The score of 4 puts them in the prestigious position of equal 2nd best single
of the month with a few others including Dizzie Rascal and the 80's Matchbox hoo-ha, just behind The White Stripes who got 5...the bastards.
BSP also get a mention in X-Ray's SXSW round up. Mr Barding seemed to get
positive vibes from their performance and gave them a nice little review + a
picture of Yan, lovely.
NO SILLY, NO BRIGHTON. BUT YES SCILLY!
Sorry for the confusing title but it's trying to get the message across that
there will be no secret gig in Brighton just yet. There will however be a gig on
the Isles Of Scilly. It will take place on 9th May
at the Scillonian club but I'm sure you already
knew that. Anyway, for more on this special occasion see the official BSP news
page here.
All those news updates will be added to the Newsletter list soon. If you fancy
the trip click here for
more.
Bing
Mark Spry has a letter printed about BSP in this
magazine.
Euro Tour
All good things must come to an end and BSP's Euro tour with Interpol ends
tonight in Angouleme, France then it's back home and
crunch time, will our heroes make it big!?!? Make sure to buy everything they
release 5 times.
Competition
Entries coming in reasonably thick and reasonably fast so make sure you enter
today, all information immediately below.
I would also like to say that everyone who's entered so far has given the
correct answer, well done all.
Tuesday
21st April 2003
Competition
Yes! A new ALDT competition at last. Not really a proper one as such, just one
to pass the time. The prize is : A tape with BSP material
which is well worth having. By tape I mean
audio cassette and the material will be allsorts of stuff including live
performances and who knows what else. Either way you're not likely to have it
already.
To enter this wonderful little competition which will run until sometime
in May you need to answer the following
question...
Which superhero comic features a character called
'Carrion'?
The character has nothing to do with the song, it's just coincidence, do
a little clever searching and you'll find it no problem.
Anyway, enter by clicking here.
Send your name, country you live in and answer.
Tuesday
21st April 2003
Fansites
Two new BSP fansites can now be found on the web....
A Japanese : http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/doko16/bsptop.htm
And a French : http://www.britishseapower.fr.st/
See the official forum for Euro tour updates. All UK tour dates have been
added to the Gigs page along with links to websites.
Press
Guardian mention : www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,938231,00.html
(Thanks to Mark Spry)
BSP also get a mention in a new magazine, Bang (Flaming Lips on cover) in
the Flaming Lips feature.
In this weeks NME there is a tour ad.
Euro Pics
See some pictures from Brussels by Robbie Zilliondsn here.
More will appear in the forthcoming second issue of the BSP fanzine 'Garde Bien'
due out 1st May.
Tuesday
8th April 2003
Official UK Tour Dates
Monday 12 May Northampton Soundhaus (01604 250898)
Tuesday 13 May Warwick University
Thursday 15 May London Garage (020 7344 0044)
Saturday 17 May Coventry Colosseum (02476 554473)
Sunday 18 May Leeds Josephs Well (0113 245 5570)
Monday 19 York Fibbers (1904 651250)
Tuesday 20 Liverpool University (0151 256 5555)
Wednesday 21 May Manchester Life Café (0161 832
1111)
Friday 23 May Oxford Zodiac (01865 420 042)
Saturday 24 May Tunbridge Wells Forum (01892
530411)
Sunday 25 May Leicester Sumo (0116 255 1906)
Tuesday 27 May Newcastle University
Wednesday 28 May Glasgow King Tuts (0141 221 5279)
Thursday 29 May Aberdeen Lava (01224 648000)
Saturday 31 May Mansfield Town Mill (01623 632451)
For more information click here,
plenty more on other BSP matters on the forum too.
Mower will be the main support band and the special gig before the tour may be
in the Scilly Isles. All dates will be added to the gigs page soon.
Euro Tour
Some stuff for the new German visitors...
Review : http://www.bloom.de/articles/article_004512_php4.htm
Review : http://www.popkulturjunkie.de/weblog/2003_04_06_archive.html#92060729
Featured : rockfun24 - Hessen rockt
Something : http://www.infectious.de/stundenplan.html
Wednesday
2nd April 2003
Lucky Germans
Due to a few problems for Interpol German fans were treated to a much longer BSP
set last night, lucky buggers. Allsorts about this show on the Interpol forum,
according to the mods on the board it was a personal problem that had to be
sorted out. See the forum here.
UK Tour
No official word on the dates yet but trying to piece it together unofficially.
It looks like they'll play:
19th May : York, Fibbers
20th May : Liverpool, Stanley Theatre
28th May : Glasgow, King Tuts
Listed as TBC on Leicester Charlotte website, they may play Plymouth on 2nd May
too.
Please remember these aren't official dates.
Tuesday
1st April 2003
Garde Bien!
Mr. Fenwick is on the look
out for help with the next issue of his most
excellent fanzine 'Garde Bien'. If you don't have the first issue make sure to email
him with your address and you'll receive it free of charge.
Anyway, down the side of this update there should be a lovely picture to
encourage you even more, it's very large though so I'll move it in a few days,
it will go on either the press page or I could fill the Desktop page with it.
Euro Tour
Seems to be going well so far, an update can be found on the official forum here.
A full set of pictures from Krefeld can found here.
If going to any European gigs make sure to take some pics and send them in.
Sunday
30th March 2003
SXSW Pictures
Brilliant photos can be found here
complete with chair throwing Noble, Eamon's sweaty armpits and (a mon avis) a
Peter Hook look-alike in the crowd. No more reviews/picture links for now
unfortunately.
Saturday
29th March 2003
Sorry for the lack of updates recently, coming up for closing stages of the
school year so that has to come first.
BSP on TV
BSP have been featured on the 'Brighton Beats' programme on ITV Meridian,
unfortunately I don't get Meridian so can't comment on the show, not sure if
there's any more shows left.
If anyone could send a tape of the show make sure to email
me.
SXSW
Here's a couple more links where BSP are mentioned, not reviews.: 1,
2,
3
& 4.
Click here for 2 pics of BSP
swimming in the pool of the Austin Super 8 Motel, aka the 'Fallen Grenadier'.
Thanks to Andy Barding for the pictures.
Euro Tour
Haven't managed to find any reviews so far, the Interpol forum doesn't
even have too much about it but see a picture from Krefeld here.
The band are currently on a 2 day break, they'll play Berlin on the 31st March.
Wednesday
19th March 2003
Forthcoming
The weather is bright tonight but the release schedule is.......shite. BSP's
next single is still a long long way a way, 12th of May to be precise. The UK
tour will commence around then too and last for 3 to 4 weeks. Album 2nd Juneish
at the end of the tour.
SXSW
Plenty going on on the BSP forum at the moment especially when it comes to BSP's
USA visit. Yan is called an 'asshole' for knocking over ladies, it's questioned
whether Noble's chair throwing antics were just a little OTT and plenty more.
Find the forum here
An organiser told the boys the show was a "legendary SXSW show and
won't be forgotten."
See a little review here
and then head to Playlouder
where there's a 3 part guide to SXSW. Parts 2 & 3 are most relevant
especially part 3, you will laugh and laugh.
New poll
Well, I didn't have a clue what to do when it came to a new poll, I just knew I
had to do one because the other one was starting to get pretty crap.
So, in similar vein to the 'favourite sauce' poll the site is now aiming to find
BSP fans favourite fruit, sorry if the one you love isn't there, there's always
the 'Other' option for you folks.
Sunday
16th March 2003
South By Southwest
It seems BSP ended up doing two performances in Texas. Official update on all
things stateside can be found here.
There's a couple more posts about BSP in Texas if you look around on the forum.
Talking of forums, there's plenty of talk about BSP on Interpol's own, positive
stuff. Find it at http://www.interpolny.com
Carrion
After all the carry-on (...kill me now!) over the name it's been decided
that the name will stay as "Carrion", definitely a good decision.
Anyway, the covers are based on the book 'The House Of The Dead' by Fyodor
Dostoevsky and just in case you're wondering 'Childhood Memories' was based on
'Wildlife Of Britain' by F Fraser Darling.
The single will be out in May on 2 CD's & a 7".
Friday
7th March 2003
European Tour confirmation
The Gigs page has been updated and all the dates listed are now CONFIRMED.
Thursday
27th February 2003
Newsletter
Newsletter number 9 is now available to see on the official site, click here
Lyrics
Has been updates
MP3
It all went horribly wrong, the account is trés dodgy. I'll try to sort it out.
Wednesday
26th February 2003
Carrion
Finally there is news of the next BSP single, a double a-side in fact. There will be 2 CD's and the tracklists are:
CD1
1) Carrion (Alternative Mix)
2) Apologies To Insect Life
3) Heavenly Waters
CD2
1) Carrion (Single Mix)
2) Russian Rock (Apologies To Insect Life) (Instrumental Demo)
3) Alberts Eyes
The single will be released in May, on the 5th or 12th, more likely the 12th. The album will
appear in late May.
Interpol tour
Interpol's official website states BSP will be supporting on the 3 TBC dates but
the band are still unsure whether this is correct.
UK Tour
There will be a UK tour in May, it should start on the 1st and last for about 2
weeks.
Lyrics
Expect some new lyrics to be added tomorrow. Carrion, Apologies... and Blackout
will all appear. There should also be a Fear Of Drowning (Live at Bizarre
Festival) MP3 available tomorrow. Also, if anyone managed to get pictures at the
Sheffield Libertines gig make sure to send them in and for all those European
snappers, prepare your cameras!
Friday
21st February 2003
We're back!
Hello, sorry haven't updated for a long long time but graphics coursework etc.
must come first, not too much news on the BSP front anyway.
European Tour
BSP are to support Interpol on a European tour, there are no UK dates but
the tour sees them travel across France, Germany, Scandinavia, Spain and several
other places.
As the Gigs page hasn't been updated yet, see the full list of dates here.
BSP also play South by South West in Austin, Texas on 13th March.
BSP Album & headline tour
According to BSP on the official forum, the album will appear in May 2003 with
UK dates. The album has now been completed.
Garde Bien!
Email andrew@mercuryrev.co.uk to
order your copy of the BSP fanzine 'Garde Bien!'
This very website
Good news, audio should be back in a few days. Expect many more new things for
the website over the next week.
Tuesday
28th January 2003
The winner is...
Mark Spry! Well done to Mark who has won the 'Childhood Memories' video
competition.
The answer was of course 'The Official Fleet Reserve'. Thanks to all who
entered.
No idea when a new competition will appear but an album related comp. would be
very nice indeed.
The Bird Brigade
Some lovely pictures of Andrew Fenwick's experience with BSP in London can be
found here
including the amazing Wood in a fridge! Expect a full report from Andy soon.
See some more pics of London (I think) here.
All the tour pics + others I have will hopefully appear on the site soon enough.
Playlouder
Review of Bristol show can be found here.
If you're wondering when the Press page will be sorted the answer is, I have no
idea! I think I have a week off in about a fortnight so will honestly try to get
it all sorted as well as some audio which may have to run on a 2 mp3's a week
basis or something.
There's also a review in NME (The Shatsuns on cover). It's very short and kinda
makes out BSP were good but it doesn't matter because the Flips were great.
There's also a tiny pic of Eamon.
Another review here,
although barely anything about BSP.
Album
Carrion is now complete and "sounds great". The single should be out
in about 6 weeks, not sure about the album release but more info should be
coming very soon.
The Libertines
Gig supporting The Libertines at Sheffield Leadmill on the 22nd February.
Tuesday
21st January 2003
The tour
It seems to be going very well and doing BSP a lot of good with new fans
all over the place, a boost in visitor amounts and many postings on the BSP
forum plus a few on our message board shows that popularity is up.. The most
useful post on the forum can be found here,
it seems BSP have now picked up the support of Badly Drawn Boy and a UK tour
support slot might just happen....
Also BSP have been playing a new track called 'Heavenly Waters' as the first
track I think.
Haven't found any reviews yet (only a lousy one...) but do have a couple of
picture links.
Go here for
Birmingham and here
for Manchester.
That's about all I have for now....
A Matter Of Life And Death
In case anyone is still wondering what the short film at the start of the set
is, it's A Matter Of Life And Death. If you want to buy it on DVD go here
though you might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere.
NME
In lasts weeks issue of the NME there was a harsh summary of BSP's year,
criticising them for taking their time with the album and claiming The
Libertines are better than them even though they gave their album about 6.
Competition
Will make the draw sometime this week.
Wednesday
15th January 2003
Playlouder is Jimmy Saville!
BSP appear yet again on Playlouder. Remember the 'Design a uniform'
competition a while back? Well, the winner was Andrew Fenwick with his 'Bird
Brigade' design and he's set to play in his uniform with BSP as they perform
'Lately' at the London Kentish Town Forum on 22nd January, supporting the
Flaming Lips. To read the piece click here
Also, if you want to see the brilliant uniform he designed click here,
a worthy winner indeed.
Tuesday
14th January 2003
Playlouder Readers Poll
According to Playlouder readers BSP had the 23rd best single of last year
with 'The Lonely' / 'The Spirit Of St. Louis' double A-Side. See the results here
Saturday
11th January 2003
Gig of the week
BSP's tour with the Flaming Lips is the gig of the week on the BBC
Collective site. Read all about it here.
If you're off to see the shows and taking photos make sure to send them to the
site.
Competition
Entries need to be in before the 17th January, remember the answer can be found
on the Band Info page in case you're stuck.
Tuesday
7th January 2003
Flaming Lips
BSP are to support the Flaming
Lips from 15th-22nd January on a UK tour, this is pretty big news for BSP
and should certainly see their profile raised with a band who share similarities
to them, expect masks and costumes aplenty.
For all the dates see the Gigs page (hope you like
the wonderfully bright background) and read the special newsletter sent out
today here.
Thursday
2nd January 2003
Carrion
Carrion, the track BSP just can't seem
to complete will finally be sorted out on January 18th 2003. Should have
plenty of news concerning the album and single soon.
Happy new year and what lies ahead for
the site...
To all who visit, hope you have a happy 2003, let's hope this is the year of Sea
Power.
Updates to the site are still ongoing, you can find loads of new online articles
in a message I posted on the Message Board and the Shop page has been updated at
last.
I have plenty of pictures to sort through which should appear soon, the audio
page looks a little in jeopardy for now, if anyone wants to send donations for
webspace feel free!
The Band page has been updated with help for those struggling to find the answer
for the competition. The Desktop page should have some content soon, the Press
page is being sorted out, for now see the Message Board for the latest articles.
There should be more lyrics soon and hopefully a few more tabs/chords. Expect
individual gig pages soon with flyers and the like. The Discography will soon
feature a Videography as well as Song pages and the Poll has been a complete
shambles going in favour of Wood.
Monday
30th December 2002
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
BSP have, for the second time been featured in NME's "Burn It"
section, last time it was Interpol featuring 'The Lonely', this time it's The
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster who choose 'The Spirit Of St. Louis' saying
"Gr8 mates - gr8 album - gr8 gigs - gr8 stuffed kestrels and
shrubbery" - great!
Newsletter 8
The latest BSP newsletter arrived in inboxes around the country around a week
ago, read it on the official site or see the very bottom of this page where you
can read all 8 newsletters.
Tuesday
17th December 2002
Brighton gig
Finally have news on this gig.
BSP will be playing The Freebutt on 21st December as 'The Underground Woman'.
It's for Totally Bored and will cost only £5 to see 20 minutes of improvised
noise "with BSP in drag".
Wales recording
Recording went well with 'A Lovely Day Tomorrow' re-recorded, it will be
released as a single in the Czech Republic with Czech Lyrics on.
For the album, 'Fear of Drowning' and 'Remember Me' have been re-recorded.
1 year old
The site had its first birthday on 15th December, thanks to all who've helped
and visited.
Friday
13th December 2002
Q4Music.com
The wonderful people at Q
have added the BSP New To Q feature complete with the videos to 'The Spirit Of
St. Louis' and 'Childhood Memories'. Wonderful!
Get yourself to Q4Music and take the link on the first page or follow this link.
This gives you the opportunity to see what you'll be missing out on if you don't
enter the competition....(If the prize doesn't change....)
Brighton gig
If anyone knows anything about a gig in Brighton in December then make sure to
get in touch, there's rumour they'll play the Freebutt and Noble has mentioned a
December Club Sea Power in the past.
Poll
Make sure to vote in the favourite band member poll, Wood is currently running
away with it.
Monday
9th December 2002
Pictures
The picture pages are ready to view right now, hosted on a different place to
the rest of the site so it may be a little slow and there are pop-up adverts but
it should be worth it.
Tried it on school's broadband connection and all 20 pictures came up in no
time.
Still more to add from London dates and Paris.
Updates
The newly added Desktop page currently has no content but will soon
There's a new poll for you all to vote on.
Might be ages before audio comes back at the rate I'm going. Might have to pay
to get hosting....
Press page is a bit of a mess at the moment, no interviews on the site at the
moment, the site is basically in the middle of being sorted out.
Tuesday
3rd December 2002
Q
BSP finally get a feature in the latest edition of Q magazine. In the 'New'
section featuring a large pic and a little writing, expect a scan of this and
some other recent articles soon.
BSP UK Tour
Even more pics of BSP's UK tour over at http://www.brokenwindows.org,
new pics are from Manchester & Leicester gigs.
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