'1,313' Showcase and Launch Parties!

Dear friends,

to celebrate 1,313 days of this record label business we're releasing a brand-new sampler featuring some incredible music and, naturally enough, throwing a huge party to boot. We'd like to invite you along to get your hands on special signed pre-release copies of the sampler, other signed merch, live painting, contemporary dance, a special competition, some excellent DJs and of course live sets from the bands themselves!

We're holding these epic parties at The Old Queen's Head in Islington, a brilliant venue with a growing live reputation helmed by some very good pals of ours.. Unfortunately there's too many to fit on one night, so we've split the bill over two consecutive Tuesdays:

Tuesday 7th Sept (Rock / Indie)
Acts: Special guest TBA / Moneytree / nato / Ed Hicks / Anja McCloskey / Ann The Arc
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118942451489727

Tuesday 14th Sept (Indie / folk)
Acts: Moulettes / Haunted Stereo / Jackie Paper / Peter Lyons / Lonely Joe Parker
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151761708173645

Tickets are £5 per night on the door (or £8 for both and even cheaper adv. from wegottickets.com). Concessions are available. Some limited early-bird cheap list tickets are available - stake your claim by writing on the Facebook event walls. There are also a number of industry list places - please email A Badge of Friendship who are handling our PR for this one - claire@abadgeoffriendship.com


And, we're running a set of special deals for all the peeps in Southampton, Winchester and Brighton: minibusses will be available to take you up to the gig and back down again - get on these, plus entry to the gigs, plus a FREE advance copy of the sampler all for £6 / night or £10 for both nights. Let us know on the Facebook pages if you want a space on the bus, and see you all there for a big messy party in the capital!

Sotones Sampler!

Hi All,

some very exciting times at Sotones Towers as we put the finishing touches to our first sampler for a couple of years. It's going to be called '1313' - because when it comes out we'll have been going for 1313 days - and features:

1. Moulettes / Horses For Hearses / Horses For Hearses EP
2. Fresh Legs / Julian / Julian EP – Deluxe
3. Moneytree / Medicineland / The Great Indoors Part III
4. Haunted Stereo / Lock The Doors / On A Pin/Lock The Doors
5. Anja McCloskey / Newton / Turn – Turn – Turn
6. Jackie Paper / All The Wine / What’s Wrong With Broken Glass
7. Peter Lyons / Old Friends / Old Friends
8. Jeffisalive / Sunlight's Yellow Dress / Sunlight's Yellow Dress
   
9. rude_NHS / Roy Orbital / Roy Orbital
   
10. JayEtAl / Feather / Where No City Lights
11. nato / Missing Song / Eating Clouds
12. Ann The Arc / Buttercup / Buttercup (Single)
    
13. The Beaux Hardts / Hey, Who Turned Up The Gravity? / Leisure (B-Sides & Rarities Special Edition).
14. Lonely Joe Parker / Brooklyn / What’s Wrong With Broken Glass
15. Bobby Y Paola / Tax For Sure / Double Barreled

Artwork is by the very brilliant Billy Mather (see also the artwork for 'What's Wrong With Broken Glass') - here's a cheeky draft:

Prett-y cool, huh? We can't wait....

Joe x x


'1313: A Sotones Sampler' lands 4th October 2010 on CD / digital / Spotify. For more updates join the Facebook page.

May Day FREE Show + Get records delivered to your door!

Ello peeps,

Lonely Joe Parker here. We've had a hectic few months to kick off 2010, with releases by Haunted Stereo, Moneytree, JayEtAl, the Beaux Hardts, Moulettes, nato and myself to get off the ground, plus not one but two 'Curates...' nights at Hamptons (thanks to everyone who came and partied, got any pictures?)

But! We've still managed to put together an AMAZING free show for you all on May Day, and we're also very excited to tell you that this week we're launching a brand-new mail-order service.

Get Sotones records! Wherever, whenever!

We have always wanted to respond to your demands and make our artists' music as widely available as possible. Although virtually the whole back catalogue is available online through all good stores and Spotify, nice things like CDs, tapes and vinyl have, up till now, only been available at gigs and a few stores in the South (like Rough Trade and various Oxfam Music stores). We know this has been pissing you off, because you keep emailing us to say so!

Having discussed all the mail-order options available we decided to keep costs down. By working in-house we can manage this, and stay true to the DIY ethos of labels that inspired us, heroes like Dischord and Chemikal Underground. We're really excited that now our fans can get high-quality physical releases at the lowest possible price, wherever they are.

So, as of TODAY you can order acclaimed releases by Moulettes, Haunted Stereo, Moneytree, Jackie Paper and Lonely Joe Parker - the service will expand over the coming weeks to include the entire Sotones back-catalogue.

To get the ball rolling, with every order placed this week we'll stick in a free copy (while stocks last) of our very first ever sampler, the individually-numbered, hand-assembled, Kruger-Magazine-endorsed 'Vol.11', which includes early tracks by Blakfish as well as Band Of Skulls...

What are you waiting for? Go hit the store now: http://www.sotones.co.uk/shop.php


May Day FREE Extravaganza!

Every year we like to throw a big free party for everyone to welcome in the summer, and this year is no exception. It will be exceptional, though, in that we're also celebrating our third anniversary! So we've pulled in a brilliant bill of bands we all love, as well as some genuinely exciting emerging talent (and you know how picky we are)...

So on May Day (thats, like, the FIRST of May...) we're taking over the Hobbit in Southampton for an entire day of music and festivities. It's totally free whether you dip in to catch a few bands and enjoy a BBQ in the sunshine-y beer garden at the back, or hang tough for an unbelievable 8 HOURS OF MUSIC. We very much hope you manage to catch every single artist though as they are all very talented people that will aurally pleasure you in various diverse ways. There will also be cheapo drinks and BBQ in the garden. Plus Bank Holiday sun*.

Line-up confirmed so far includes: Anja McCloskey, Moneytree, Lonely Joe Parker, Pete Lyons, Sons and Lovers, El Raccoon, Baku Bankai, Viva Sleep & Nato

Join the Facebook event to get updates about the line-up, stage times and Campbell's top burger combo predictions.


So that's all for now, see you on May 1st for a big fat party!
Oh yeah: don't forget to vote!

Love, laters, ludo,
Sotones xx


*I'm actually going to go out on a limb here and guarantee good weather. Sue me.