'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!

'1,313: A Sotones Sampler' - Showcase and Launch Party

Very exciting news here this month!

We've been hinting for some time now that a new sampler is in the works, and we can finally announce it properly!

'1,313: A Sotones Sampler' features tracks from: rude_NHS; Peter Lyons; nato; Moulettes; Moneytree; Lonely Joe Parker; Jeffisalive; JayEtAl; Jackie Paper; Haunted Stereo; Fresh Legs; Bobby y Paola; The Beaux Hardts; Ann The Arc and Anja McCloskey.

A boatload of talent! And we've bagged the brilliant Billy Mather to do the excellent artwork you see here.

'1,313: A Sotones Sampler' will be released on MP3 and CD through all good retailers on November 4th, 2010... exactly 1,313 days since we founded Sotones!


September will also see two very special launch party / showcase type shindigs at The Old Queen's Head in Islington - more to come on this!

London Showcase dates announced!

We're proud to announce two linked London showcase dates in association with The Old Queen's Head and A Badge Of Friendship

The two linked bills will take place on Tuesday 7th September (indie / rock) and Tuesday 14th September (indie / folk). Acts from the whole Sotones roster will perform as well as some very special guests. Currently The Moulettes, Haunted Stereo, Moneytree, Jackie Paper, Lonely Joe Parker, nato & Ann The Arc are confirmed with others TBC.

Industry tickets will be available as well as package coach deals from Southampton/Winchester and Brighton to both events. Plus everyone will get brand-new, specially-signed copies of the next limited-edition Sotones Sampler!

For more details and updates join the Sotones Facebook page

Do You DIY? festival - Part Deux

So.

Summer slithers on a few more weeks, Brighton and tours in Germany and stuff have all happened, various exciting recording projects are racing towards completion for the autumn (Ann The Arc, Anja McCloskey (Haunted Stereo), nato, rude_NHS, Moneytree as well as Jackie Paper & myself are all jostling for prime release spots in Sept / Oct as we speak) and overall the year is whooshing by! My ears are already fucked and festival season hasn't even wound up to full speed yet...

This is all pretty fitting as we're taking part in yet another excellent (and free!!) all-dayer at the marv Old Queen's Head in Islington on Bank Holiday Monday, 31st May. There's gonna be a total cornucopia of labels, clubnights, DJs and acts from the alternative (as in, actually do shit themselves, without major label money, rather than bang on about their 'aesthetic' ... looking at YOU Blood Red Shoes (V2/Universal)) side of things.

As well as Peter Lyons and all us lot, you should definitely catch Thomas Tantrum, and Real Fur ain't too shabby either.

The whole thing kicks off at lunchtime, is free, and goes on till closing time innit. For more details see the facebook page or OQH blog.


See you there!
Joe x x