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29/08/10
- Summer's almost gone
and finally Lyndon finishes his diary
for the past 3 months, covering Port Eliot, Folk
In A Box and all the other bits. And have you bought your ticket
for the King's Place show yet? It's going to
be a really special 'Evening with Songdog' (no support, just
us and lots of songs old and new) and they've now told us there's
even a discount if you book in advance online - check Live
for details!
1/8/10
- Port
Eliot Festival was a gorgeous experience
and no doubt Lyndon will be telling you all about it soon. In
the meantime, don't forget tickets are already on sale for our
Friday 24
September show for the
Spitz at Kings
Place (part of the 'Folk Union' season) - we do
hope you'll all come, and it would be lovely
if you'd buy your ticket in advance :-) - here's the
Kings Place ticket link.
Before
that, we're off to Japan for the Kansai
Music Conference in Osaka
and for any Japanese fans we now have a Songdog site over at
Top
Music Japan plus a downloadable
biog in Japanese here.
13/6/10
- There's been lots happening
at Songdog HQ lately and Lyndon will be writing a new diary
soon. Live shows coming up in the next few months include Lyndon's
solo show as part of the Arctic Circle/Folk In A Box series
at the One-On-One Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, two appearances
at the gorgeous Port
Eliot Festival (follow the link
to download the full programme), a trip to Japan to play at
the Kansai
Music Conference in Osaka in September, and on
Friday 24 September we are very pleased to
join The Spitz in their new home at Kings
Place for a special show as part of the 'Folk Union'
season - tickets are already on sale, so don't miss out!
9/5/10
- Check out the latest
reviews for 'A Life Eroding' -- have you got your copy yet?
There's a new video, for 'Obediah's Waltz' on YouTube, have
a look and let us know what you think. And don't forget, we're
doing some more live dates in the next month or so, supporting
Johnny Dowd at the end of May at Norwich Arts centre, Leicester
Musician and Borderline London. Plus we're part of Louis Eliot's
Summer Pageant at the Borderline again on 7 June and then headlining
in Newport at Le Pub on 12 June!
7/05/10
- If you happen to be
in the Swansea area, don't forget we're playing at the Chattery
in Uplands tomorrow (Sat 8th) - around 9.15pm - details from
the Chattery
website.
26/4/10
- The new Songdog album 'A Life Eroding' is
released TODAY on One Little Indian so please demand a copy
from your local record emporium!! Or order
the album from HMV,
Amazon
and One
Little Indian. And if you're in Cardiff on Tue
27th April, do come down and see us at 10 Feet Tall.
16/4/10
- Lyndon's new diary
is here
- on what he's been doing for the first quarter of the year,
American Songbook, and the true cost of a hamburger. Don't
forget Songdog's album launch show is at Peter
Parker's Rock n Roll Club, 4 Denmark St, WC2 on Thu
22 April - advance tickets are available from Wegottickets.
This is your first chance to hear A Life Eroding
played with full band, plus support from the lovely Hannah
Peel and sounds from DJ Lenny George. It's
only a 150 capacity venue so don't miss out! Check
the press page for
great new reviews including the Mirror, Mojo, Aesthetica, Clash,
Channel 24 in S. Africa - there are clips to listen to as well
- AND you can order the album from HMV,
Amazon
and One
Little Indian.
08/02/10
- Not quite a Valentine's date, but come and join us on
Sun 21 Feb at The
Spitz's new night at King's Cross Social Club. Plus Joe
Wilkes, Jason McNiff and our very own DJ Lenny George. Doors
5pm tbc, free entry, stage times tbc.
21/01/10 - Lyndon's
first diary for 2010
07/01/10 - Happy 2010
everyone! To herald in the new year we have two nice acoustic
gigs coming up, one at Brixton Windmill on Sun 17 Jan and then
for Cool As Folk at Upstairs at the Brixton Ritzy on Wed 27
Jan. Plus in the Gallery there are some fab new pix taken in
preparation for our next album launch in April...
24/11/09 - Lyndon's
latest diary is up on the
site - on pop-up gigs, Sting and True Blood among other things.
And don't forget to come and see us on 3rd December, if you
can, opening for Louis Eliot at the Windmill
Brixton! More gigs to come, watch this space....
14/11/09 - We'll be
popping up to do little acoustic gigs in various places over
the coming months, so keep an eye on the Songdog sites for details.
This Tuesday 17th we'll be doing a short acoustic set at 8pm
(free entry) at the Library bar, 235 Upper Street, Islington
N1 (2 mins walk from Highbury & Islington tube). Then on
3rd December we're opening for Louis Eliot (ex-Rialto) at the
Windmill
Brixton, followed by our first Welsh gig for ages, The Dark
Heart of Country at Le Pub, Newport, on 5 December (details
for all on the Live page).
5/10/09 - Don't forget
our
Daylight Music evening session with our Arctic
Circle friends at the Union Chapel (bar), Islington, next Sunday
1st November - doors open 5.30pm, joined by Dom Coyote &
Arch Garrison plus DJ sets throughout the evening from our own
Lenny George. Entry £6.
15/10/09 - The band
did a few songs at an open-mic night last night and loved the
experience so much that when they were invited back to a full
set next Wednesday (October 21st) they jumped at it --- they'll
be performing with just acoustic guitar, mandolin and accordion.
The Easycome Acoustic Club is run by the great Andy Allen of
the Hankdogs (Joe Boyd produced them and signed them to his
label) and ex-the Professionals, the post-Pistols Cook and Jones
band. The venue is upstairs at the Old Nun's Head, 15 Nunhead
Green, London SE15 3QQ, the music starts at 9pm and Songdog
will play a set sometime after 10pm.
Oh, and the next album "A Life Eroding" should be
out around March 2010 .....Check out Lyndon's latest diary
here
26/8/09 - Psst - want
a taste of the next album? Our very own DJ Lenny George has
been asked to do a mix for Arctic Circle Radio and he's included
an acoustic version of the track 'So Much Sorrow' -- you can
download this rather fine mix podcast from the Arctic Circle
site: Lenny
George (Camper-Van Of Love mix)
15/8/09 - Just in time
for the holidays, here's a new diary
from Lyndon.
3/5/09 - We're working
hard on the next album, but thought you'd like to hear this
latest demo (which we now decided won't be on the album,
but is a little taster of what's to come): 'Writer's
Block'. You can have a listen on either Myspace
or Reverbnation
-- hope you enjoy it! Oh, and see you at the Borderline on 3rd
June? xx
24/4/09 - Latest report
from Lyndon -- the next album, G20, wolves....Gig news - we're
playing as guests of 'Band of Heathens' at the Borderline, Wed
3 June. More dates to come soon
14/2/09 - Lyndon's first
diary of 2009: On Pinter,
Brown and bankers...
8/12/08 - The
Songdog Christmas single "I'm Still
Waiting To Start Hurting" (One
Little Indian Records) is released as a download
only track on iTunes! Click here
to buy! Rather than a Yuletide knees-up, the song is a sad little
winter song, in the tradition of, say, Joni Mitchell's "River":
another Christmas is coming and a man looks back a year to when
he ended a relationship, relieved that it's over but still half
in love with the woman he left behind. Please help spread the
word -- ask your favourite DJs to play it, and you never know,
Songdog could end up jostling 'Merry Christmas Everybody' for
space on the airwaves! Lyndon's Winter
diary is up and tickets for our show on Wed
18 Feb at the Soho
Revue Bar are now on sale here.
17/10/08 - New video
on Songdog
TV (and YouTube)
- a rare live version of 'Jezebel' (from the first
album 'The Way Of The World'), recorded along with 'A Prayer
To Old Idols' at the Roundhouse show back in March
2/10/08 - Lyndon's latest diary.
Lyndon on the credit crunch, his new songs, Philip Larkin and
more...
09/09/08 - Check out
the latest videos on Songdog
TV - Lyndon's take on the classic Jimmy Webb song
'MacArthur Park' (recorded at home in Wales)
and an exclusive preview of his newest song 'The Rain
Is Falling On The Old Cat's Grave'. (For those outside
UK and Eire, they're also on
YouTube.) Let us know what you think! (And while
we're on the subject, if anyone else out there has made any
videos of Songdog songs, we'd love
to see them).
25/07/08 - Lyndon's
diary of
the trip to Dublin for the Analog Festival
plus the free
download of 'The Likes of You and Me'
which the label has just released (to download the track rightclick
and hit 'save as')
10/07/08 - Songdog
are off to Dublin soon! We're very excited to be playing
our first-ever Irish gig on Friday 18th July, at the Analog
Festival (our show is curated by the lovely
Arctic Circle
people and we are joined by our friends Dollboy
and The
Sleeping Years. Other acts appearing at Analog
include Lou Reed, Neil Hannon, Waterson: Carthy, Teddy Thompson,
David Thomas (Pere Ubu) and more -- so if you're in Dublin,
come and see us! Tickets and venue details here
28/5/08 - Lyndon's latest
report from the world of
Songdog
4/5/08 - Amazing 5-star
review of the album
from Rock'n'Reel!
3/4/08 - We release
the first single ‘Pilgrim Hill’
from the new album, ‘A Wretched Sinner's Song’
(One Little Indian) on 14th April 2008. It's available from
i-Tunes and comes with downloadable artwork and 'B' side
(the previously unreleased 'She Said I Kind of Looked
Like Strindberg'.
Download from iTunes
Lyndon describes ‘Pilgrim
Hill’ as: ‘a
list of things I like - dusk, snow, glam-rock, NME in its
70s heyday, pigeons, second-hand bookshops, ‘Like A
Rolling Stone’. It's a sad song because that's how I
felt when I wrote it (sometimes it makes me happy to walk
the city streets feeling sad) but all those things I like
are in there to offset all the sad stuff like the dead foxes
and so on. It's Happy and Sad facing up to each other, slugging
it out one snowy day.’
Plus you can download the first-ever
Songdog Podcast for free here!
In case you haven't heard, we launched
our guerrilla
book club in March, at the Roundhouse Studio show,
where we gave away numerous copies of our favourite books --
we're also leaving them in public places all over London (and
beyond, when we get a chance!). Each book has a personal recommendation
from us written inside and a message for the finder to take
the book, read it, keep it or pass it onto their friends! Look
out for copies of Kerouac, Kafka, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence
and others on a tube train near you…and if you find one,
let us know. We've set up a forum
for that very purpose, so come on, let's get a dialogue going!
If you're having any trouble
finding the album in the shops it's also available to buy online
at these sites: Amazon
and One
Little Indian and downloadable at iTunes,
eMusic
and TuneTribe
Older news....
1/4/08 Lyndon's report
on the Roundhouse gig (belatedly celebrating the release of
the album and the launch of the Songdog
guerrilla bookclub -- have you found one of the
books we've left lying round London yet?)
26/3/08 Fab review of the album from
Maverick magazine plus new French review here.
Hope we're going to see you tomorrow at the Roundhouse
FreeDM Studio gig (Chalk Farm Rd NW1) -- a groovy evening is
promised, and you might even pick up a free book!
22/2/08 New reviews (including one from
South Africa's The Citizen here)
plus live review of Bristol show
21/1/08 Lyndon's first diary
for 2008 PLUS Songdog are Download of the Week on HMV's site
(with free track) here.
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