Pre-order William now from HMV here
Hello everyone,
Our new single, William will be released on 4th April and has already garnered many plays on Jo Whiley's daytime show on Radio 1, daytime plays on Virgin and is a listed on daytime Xfm - we're very pleased.
I managed to get an additional track as part of the 7" b-sides (value for money n'all) so the final formats and tracklistings will be as follows:
CD:
William (Alan Moulder Single Mix)
This Is For The Poor (Phones Bourgeois [Paul Epworth] Remix)
Ltd Ed 7"pt 1 (in deluxe gatefold sleeve)
William (Radio Edit)
Psychovision (2003 Demo)
Ltd Ed 7"pt 2 (fits into sleeve of pt 1)
NME BRATS SHOW SPECIALfeaturing blistering 100mph versions of:
William (Live at The Astoria)
Community 853 (Live At The Astoria)
Stan Bowles (Live At The Astoria)
If you pre-order via this link you will get all three formats (that's 7 different tracks altogether) for just £5!!!! Buying or pre-ordering the single in the first week would really help us out as any tv appearrances (CDUK or TOTP) are confirmed on the basis of midweek chart positions.The Paul Epworth mix of This Is For The Poor is a true masterpiece (you can hear it the more twisted clubs in the UK now) and I think with that the whole single can be classed as a double A side!
The William tour - forthcoming live dates are confirmed as follows:
April:
05th - Reading - Fez
06th - Manchester - Uni Academy 3
07th - Newcastle -Northumbria Uni
08th - Northampton – Roadhouse
09th - Birmingham - Academy 2
10th - Sheffield - University Foundry
30th – Amsterdam Paradiso (Holland)
May:
12th – Paris – Venue tbc (France)
14th - Glasgow - Arches (Poptones Night)
20th - London - Garage (Bud Rising)
Main support for the tour will come from the marvellous Agent Blue.
More european and some Japanese dates will be added soon. Keep checking back here for updates.
A performance of Willaim will be featured on Popworld this Sunday and interview will follow the week after.
Looking forward to the tour, see you all soon
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
Well, after battling with broken trains on the track (blahblahblah) I made it to Brixton Academy just in time to do a half hour set in for Xfm in the Xposure room. Here's what i played:
The Others - This Is For the Poor (Paul Epworth Phones Mix)
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (Additive Free Others Mix)
The Fall - Hit The North
Mansun - Negative
David Bowie - The Hearts Filthy Lesson
Agent Blue - Crossbreed
Puressence - Walking Dead
Ash - Kung Fu
Fun Boy Three - Farmyard Connection
Scott Walker - Jackie
Happy Easter!
Cheers
Johnny
xx
The Others - This Is For the Poor (Paul Epworth Phones Mix)
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (Additive Free Others Mix)
The Fall - Hit The North
Mansun - Negative
David Bowie - The Hearts Filthy Lesson
Agent Blue - Crossbreed
Puressence - Walking Dead
Ash - Kung Fu
Fun Boy Three - Farmyard Connection
Scott Walker - Jackie
Happy Easter!
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
With the charming diving enthusiast Dave Pemberton as engineer, me James and Martin spent every waking hour of Monday in a London studio creating our “Additive Free” remix of Gang Of Four’s “At Home He’s A Tourist” and since crawling out of bed this morning I’ve been listening to nothing else!
We decided to only use material from the original tracks that we were given by GOF, so no new instruments or parts were added. So although it sounds pretty far removed from their original release, everything you hear on our mix is on the original somewhere or in some form. And while the song only clocked in at 3:34 mins in 1979, we’ve created a relentless near 5 minute monster you'll want to dance yer socks off to in 2005. Expect to hear at a club near you soon - ON THE DISCO FLOOR!
We think Gang of Four are releasing a new best of album with a remix disc so expect to see our “…Tourist” on there and if anyone wants a sneaky pre-listen I will almost definitely be playing it on all my forthcoming DJ sets.
Cheers
Johnny
xx
We decided to only use material from the original tracks that we were given by GOF, so no new instruments or parts were added. So although it sounds pretty far removed from their original release, everything you hear on our mix is on the original somewhere or in some form. And while the song only clocked in at 3:34 mins in 1979, we’ve created a relentless near 5 minute monster you'll want to dance yer socks off to in 2005. Expect to hear at a club near you soon - ON THE DISCO FLOOR!
We think Gang of Four are releasing a new best of album with a remix disc so expect to see our “…Tourist” on there and if anyone wants a sneaky pre-listen I will almost definitely be playing it on all my forthcoming DJ sets.
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Main support for the William live dates will be the wonderful Agent Blue - I am hoping we can split the first on slot between two different bands t.b.c.
William is up for pre-order from HMV on cd, 7" and a special limited edition 7" Gatefold (which the others 7" slips inside) via this link
April Tour:
05 - Reading - Fez
06 - Manchester - Uni Academy 3
07 - Newcastle -Northumbria Uni
08 - Northampton - Roadhouse
09 - Birmingham - Academy 2
10 - Sheffield - University Foundry
William is up for pre-order from HMV on cd, 7" and a special limited edition 7" Gatefold (which the others 7" slips inside) via this link
April Tour:
05 - Reading - Fez
06 - Manchester - Uni Academy 3
07 - Newcastle -Northumbria Uni
08 - Northampton - Roadhouse
09 - Birmingham - Academy 2
10 - Sheffield - University Foundry
Friday, March 18, 2005
TV & Radio Update:
We were recording The Friday Night Project all day yesterday - the show will be aired tonight. I think that they appreciated us having come up with so many different instrumental pieces for use during the show – they even asked us to come up with another one on the spur of the moment which would be 25 seconds long so we opted for How I Nearly Lost You.
It was a lot of fun (much more than I had expected it to be) and Jimmy Carr actually seemed like A Very Nice Chap. So nice in fact that he invited Dom and myself to come on his Xfm radio show to “have a chat” this Sunday. If anyone wants to listen I think the show is on air from 10am (and if you live outside London you can listen online at http://www.xfm.co.uk)
On Wednesday we did Popworld and found out that we will be making two appearances over two different shows, firstly (I think) this Sunday and secondly (prob performing the song) the day before the single comes out (Sunday 3rd April).
On Monday me and James and Martin are going into a studio to do an Others’ remix of Gang Of Four’s "At Home He’s A Tourist" – it’s a swap mix so they have agreed to remix "Lackey" for us in return. Interesting new directions hmm…
On March 24th I (and I think Dom too) will be Dj-ing at Brixton Academy for an Xfm/Oxfam event.
Here is the press release:
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Xfm's Big Night Out
THURSDAY 24TH MARCH 2005 9pm-3amTICKETS £9 adv/£12 door (Box Office Cash Sales - Charges Apply To Other Sales)
Xfm's Big Night Out on March 24 (9pm-3am) in aid of Oxfam, is bringing an unrivaled line-up of DJs and live new bands to the Academy. Xfm's DJ roster will be taking up turntable duties, including Christian O'Connell, Lauren Laverne, Alex Zane, Iain Baker, Eddy Temple Morris, Chris Smith, Dan Greenpeace and John Kennedy plus First Friday resident Jared. Live sets will be provided by this year's freshest new talent; boisterous rockers Nine Black Alps, the flamboyant Do Me Bad Things and geezer rockers Hard-Fi. Basically, it's like one big First Friday with a bit of the Remix Night as well as great new live acts thrown in!
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Current research:
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Mogwai – Government Commissions
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
Cheers
Johnny
xx
We were recording The Friday Night Project all day yesterday - the show will be aired tonight. I think that they appreciated us having come up with so many different instrumental pieces for use during the show – they even asked us to come up with another one on the spur of the moment which would be 25 seconds long so we opted for How I Nearly Lost You.
It was a lot of fun (much more than I had expected it to be) and Jimmy Carr actually seemed like A Very Nice Chap. So nice in fact that he invited Dom and myself to come on his Xfm radio show to “have a chat” this Sunday. If anyone wants to listen I think the show is on air from 10am (and if you live outside London you can listen online at http://www.xfm.co.uk)
On Wednesday we did Popworld and found out that we will be making two appearances over two different shows, firstly (I think) this Sunday and secondly (prob performing the song) the day before the single comes out (Sunday 3rd April).
On Monday me and James and Martin are going into a studio to do an Others’ remix of Gang Of Four’s "At Home He’s A Tourist" – it’s a swap mix so they have agreed to remix "Lackey" for us in return. Interesting new directions hmm…
On March 24th I (and I think Dom too) will be Dj-ing at Brixton Academy for an Xfm/Oxfam event.
Here is the press release:
-------------------------
Xfm's Big Night Out
THURSDAY 24TH MARCH 2005 9pm-3amTICKETS £9 adv/£12 door (Box Office Cash Sales - Charges Apply To Other Sales)
Xfm's Big Night Out on March 24 (9pm-3am) in aid of Oxfam, is bringing an unrivaled line-up of DJs and live new bands to the Academy. Xfm's DJ roster will be taking up turntable duties, including Christian O'Connell, Lauren Laverne, Alex Zane, Iain Baker, Eddy Temple Morris, Chris Smith, Dan Greenpeace and John Kennedy plus First Friday resident Jared. Live sets will be provided by this year's freshest new talent; boisterous rockers Nine Black Alps, the flamboyant Do Me Bad Things and geezer rockers Hard-Fi. Basically, it's like one big First Friday with a bit of the Remix Night as well as great new live acts thrown in!
------------------------
Current research:
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Mogwai – Government Commissions
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Hello,
We spent Monday rehearsing for our performance of William (mimed!) on Popworld which we film tomorrow but isn’t due to be shown on Sunday 3rd April and our pieces for Channel 4's Friday Night Project, which we are recording on thursday (!) - as well as playing William we had to come up with eight instrumental peices, six 6 seconds long and two 12 seconds long.
Apparently most bands just play bits of the song they are promoting but instead we decided to do a sort of album (and b side) sampler which will include bits of This Is For The Poor, King Prawn, Lackey, Southern Glow, Boy is A Girl, Willliam, Almanac and Stan Bowles. This show is due to be aired this Friday (18th) so set those videos...
We've just got back from Wales and it 's been very productive. It was in a very beautiful but very remote valley - three small buildings a few miles away were the only other signs of human life - the weather stayed cold but dry and sunny for the whole week and you could see for miles if you took a five minute walk up the hill (also the only place you could get a mobile signal).
The studio was very nice though it seemed to have a strange effect on us, it's owned by Dave Anderson, the original bassist in Hawkwind - and we had the pleasure of recording acoustic versions of Psychovision, William and Stan Bowles with him in the production seat! Cries of "The Others' go prog?" are less misleading than you’d think as, while we did resist the temptation to cover “Silver Machine”, the ideas we were having sound so removed to our current sound it ‘s more like third album material than second - maybe we'll just skip the second album and move straight onto the third… ho hum.
We left Wales early on Thursday to arrive in London at 4pm ready to soundcheck for the Camden Crawl (which we did manage to do for about 3 minutes) and then me and Dom went to do an interview for MTV – no idea what the prog was or when it will be aired I’m afraid – t’was exceedingly short too. The gig itself was pretty good – lots of people there who had never seen us before, lots of people outside who couldn’t get in – and while the show was chaos it was probably a pretty good introduction to our live experience. After the gig I went down the road to the Canarfen Castle to see Gravenhurst (who are now one of my new favourite bands), saw The Wedding Present at Lock 17 for a while (I love David Gedge’s last band Cinerama, but had never heard TWP) but found them a bit disappointing and so wandered down to The Electric Ballroom to catch the last half of The Buzzcocks. Then it was on the 1am train to Brighton and off to bed!
To all those that have asked, the Rabbit is doing very well and now, fully toliet trained, is enjoying the run of the whole flat! She’s called Margo btw…
Forthcoming live dates are confirmed as follows:
April:
05 - Reading - Fez
06 - Manchester - Uni Academy 3
07 - Newcastle -Northumbria Uni
08 - Northampton - Roadhouse
09 - Birmingham - Academy 2
10 - Sheffield - University Foundry
May:
14th - Glasgow - Arches (Poptones Night)
20th - London - Garage (Bud Rising)
A special edition of the album is released in Japan on 28th March…
Cheers
Johnny
xx
We spent Monday rehearsing for our performance of William (mimed!) on Popworld which we film tomorrow but isn’t due to be shown on Sunday 3rd April and our pieces for Channel 4's Friday Night Project, which we are recording on thursday (!) - as well as playing William we had to come up with eight instrumental peices, six 6 seconds long and two 12 seconds long.
Apparently most bands just play bits of the song they are promoting but instead we decided to do a sort of album (and b side) sampler which will include bits of This Is For The Poor, King Prawn, Lackey, Southern Glow, Boy is A Girl, Willliam, Almanac and Stan Bowles. This show is due to be aired this Friday (18th) so set those videos...
We've just got back from Wales and it 's been very productive. It was in a very beautiful but very remote valley - three small buildings a few miles away were the only other signs of human life - the weather stayed cold but dry and sunny for the whole week and you could see for miles if you took a five minute walk up the hill (also the only place you could get a mobile signal).
The studio was very nice though it seemed to have a strange effect on us, it's owned by Dave Anderson, the original bassist in Hawkwind - and we had the pleasure of recording acoustic versions of Psychovision, William and Stan Bowles with him in the production seat! Cries of "The Others' go prog?" are less misleading than you’d think as, while we did resist the temptation to cover “Silver Machine”, the ideas we were having sound so removed to our current sound it ‘s more like third album material than second - maybe we'll just skip the second album and move straight onto the third… ho hum.
We left Wales early on Thursday to arrive in London at 4pm ready to soundcheck for the Camden Crawl (which we did manage to do for about 3 minutes) and then me and Dom went to do an interview for MTV – no idea what the prog was or when it will be aired I’m afraid – t’was exceedingly short too. The gig itself was pretty good – lots of people there who had never seen us before, lots of people outside who couldn’t get in – and while the show was chaos it was probably a pretty good introduction to our live experience. After the gig I went down the road to the Canarfen Castle to see Gravenhurst (who are now one of my new favourite bands), saw The Wedding Present at Lock 17 for a while (I love David Gedge’s last band Cinerama, but had never heard TWP) but found them a bit disappointing and so wandered down to The Electric Ballroom to catch the last half of The Buzzcocks. Then it was on the 1am train to Brighton and off to bed!
To all those that have asked, the Rabbit is doing very well and now, fully toliet trained, is enjoying the run of the whole flat! She’s called Margo btw…
Forthcoming live dates are confirmed as follows:
April:
05 - Reading - Fez
06 - Manchester - Uni Academy 3
07 - Newcastle -Northumbria Uni
08 - Northampton - Roadhouse
09 - Birmingham - Academy 2
10 - Sheffield - University Foundry
May:
14th - Glasgow - Arches (Poptones Night)
20th - London - Garage (Bud Rising)
A special edition of the album is released in Japan on 28th March…
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Right, well I think I've just about managed to finish toilet training the house rabbit that me and my girlfriend were given on Saturday (four days isn't too bad!) and I've just about finished replying to all the emails I've received recently - one or two interviews left but generally it feels good to be on top of things at last!
Thanks to all those who made the two gigs last Friday work - it is appreciated and while it's nice to have drums on most tracks, it was nice to do a semi-acoustic set at the Polish Bar - I'm thinking we get some acoustic versions of album tracks for the next single - what say you? How I Nearly Lost You, Stan Bowles and a chunkier version of William perhaps?
I am going away to mystical Wales tomorrow with the band as I have lots of new songs I've been itching to nail properly and I believe that even Mr Jimmy Lager has come up with some hot new riffs and licks - maybe the next record will turn out to be our *POP* album?
New single, William will be released on 4th April (a tour will be announced soon) and has already garnered a Jo Whiley daytime spin on Radio 1 and lots of evening and Xfm plays. I managed to get an additional track as part of the 7" b-sides (value for money n'all) so the final formats and tracklistings will be as follows:
CD:
William (Alan Moulder Single Mix)
This Is For The Poor (Paul Epworth 12" remix)
Ltd Ed 7"pt 1 (in gatefold sleeve)
William (Radio Edit)
Psychovision (2003 Demo)
Ltd Ed 7"pt 2 (fits into sleeve of pt 1)
NME BRATS SHOW SPECIAL
featuring blistering 100mph versions of:
William (Live at The Astoria)
Community 853 (Live At The Astoria)
Stan Bowles (Live At The Astoria)
You should be able to get these three formats (that's 7 tracks altogether!) for less than £5 in the first week of release.
The Paul Epworth mix of This Is For The Poor is a true masterpiece and there is also a 9 minute plus remix of William by Hedman which I am going to try to get released with a handful of other dance mixes of Others songs as a sort of very special limited edition 12" release later in the year (how would you like that?). Gang Of Four are also still working on a Lackey remix (as I write I think) which will see the light of day soon...
TV
The William video - our first with extras dressed in animal suits (who knows where this could lead?) - started receiving regular plays on MTV 2 the very day it dropped onto their doormat. For a sneak preview go here.
An interview with me, Dominic and Martin with the ace Popworld crew is due to be screened on March 16th so set yer videos if you're too lazy to set yer alarms for that.
And (short drumroll) I received an email today from Mersey TV - apparently the Hollyoaks Production crew are big fans of the band and want to use extracts from the album in some forthcoming episodes of this fine soap opera (tracks mentioned were: Lackey, In The Background, William, How I Nearly Lost You, Community 853, Southern Glow). So if u ever needed a reason to watch here it is.
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Current Research:
Babybird - There's Something Going On
Julian Cope - Repossessed
PS: I also spoke to Andrew Kendall today about making the forum only postable on by registered users - it seems like that's the case with virtually every other forum on the net so expect some progress soon.
Thanks to all those who made the two gigs last Friday work - it is appreciated and while it's nice to have drums on most tracks, it was nice to do a semi-acoustic set at the Polish Bar - I'm thinking we get some acoustic versions of album tracks for the next single - what say you? How I Nearly Lost You, Stan Bowles and a chunkier version of William perhaps?
I am going away to mystical Wales tomorrow with the band as I have lots of new songs I've been itching to nail properly and I believe that even Mr Jimmy Lager has come up with some hot new riffs and licks - maybe the next record will turn out to be our *POP* album?
New single, William will be released on 4th April (a tour will be announced soon) and has already garnered a Jo Whiley daytime spin on Radio 1 and lots of evening and Xfm plays. I managed to get an additional track as part of the 7" b-sides (value for money n'all) so the final formats and tracklistings will be as follows:
CD:
William (Alan Moulder Single Mix)
This Is For The Poor (Paul Epworth 12" remix)
Ltd Ed 7"pt 1 (in gatefold sleeve)
William (Radio Edit)
Psychovision (2003 Demo)
Ltd Ed 7"pt 2 (fits into sleeve of pt 1)
NME BRATS SHOW SPECIAL
featuring blistering 100mph versions of:
William (Live at The Astoria)
Community 853 (Live At The Astoria)
Stan Bowles (Live At The Astoria)
You should be able to get these three formats (that's 7 tracks altogether!) for less than £5 in the first week of release.
The Paul Epworth mix of This Is For The Poor is a true masterpiece and there is also a 9 minute plus remix of William by Hedman which I am going to try to get released with a handful of other dance mixes of Others songs as a sort of very special limited edition 12" release later in the year (how would you like that?). Gang Of Four are also still working on a Lackey remix (as I write I think) which will see the light of day soon...
TV
The William video - our first with extras dressed in animal suits (who knows where this could lead?) - started receiving regular plays on MTV 2 the very day it dropped onto their doormat. For a sneak preview go here.
An interview with me, Dominic and Martin with the ace Popworld crew is due to be screened on March 16th so set yer videos if you're too lazy to set yer alarms for that.
And (short drumroll) I received an email today from Mersey TV - apparently the Hollyoaks Production crew are big fans of the band and want to use extracts from the album in some forthcoming episodes of this fine soap opera (tracks mentioned were: Lackey, In The Background, William, How I Nearly Lost You, Community 853, Southern Glow). So if u ever needed a reason to watch here it is.
Cheers
Johnny
xx
Current Research:
Babybird - There's Something Going On
Julian Cope - Repossessed
PS: I also spoke to Andrew Kendall today about making the forum only postable on by registered users - it seems like that's the case with virtually every other forum on the net so expect some progress soon.