Nice article (link below) that pretty much sums up my thoughts on being an underground artist. Has definitely given me food for thought about how I might release all my future songs. Just getting my head round the details, but change is a coming. http://thequietus.com/articles/15536-palehorse-gig-tickets
See you in Liverpool?
Just a quick reminder about the International Pop Overthrow festival in Liverpool on Wednesday evening. I’m going to be doing a couple of acoustic sets; the first at the Cavern Pub at 6:45pm and the second at the Cavern Club at 8:45pm. Looking forward to seeing lots of great bands too including The Housekeeping Society from Leeds. Hopefully should be playing …
New Captain Wilberforce YouTube channel
It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got around to creating a Captain Wilberforce YouTube channel which has lyric videos for all the songs from Ghost Written Confessions and Everyone Loves a Villain. I should have the Mindfilming songs up before the end of the week too. You can find it here.
IPO festival date
After a year off in 2013 I’m going to be playing the International Pop Overthrow Festival again in a few weeks. For those of you who don’t know of it, it’s a music festival at the Cavern Club in Liverpool and hordes of Beatles / Who / Costello / XTC influenced bands travel from across Europe to play. This year …
Recording new songs
Slowly but surely we’re getting the new songs recorded, hampered only by my insistence on changing everything at the last minute, including but not limited to; lyrics, timing, instrumentation and entire structure. However the results we’re getting are pretty good, all modesty aside ;o) I’m getting to grips with Presonus Studio One – the free edition is surprisingly great and I’m …
Who’s to blame for lack of “brave, experimental” music?
Music Week have highlighted the old perennial argument again (http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/poll-is-the-music-industry-s-output-largely-formulaic-and-predictable/057240) : According to Island records’ Jon Turner there aren’t enough great bands out there. Lily Allen points the finger at labels. Personally I blame the general public. Yes, that means you and me. There are so many unbelievably great unheralded songs you’ve never heard on the internet – but most of …
Happy new year!
New songs soon, promise. More recording sessions this week. All the best for 2014!
My favourite songs of the year
I’ve picked my top 5 songs of the year – No. 5 is Speedy Ortiz – No Below… you’ll be able to find out what they are over the next few days on http://honeyandbile.wordpress.com/ Have a great Christmas and don’t eat too many mince pies (as they’re horrible things at the best of times!)
Last call on Download codes…
I have 22 album download codes left (see below Nov 29th) – if you’d like one, please let me know before Fri 13th Dec. Thanks!
Send me some music!
As you may have noticed, alongside the writing, performing and recording songs, I also write a music blog called Honey&Bile. I’ve discovered lots of excellent songs by doing this – there are so many amazing songwriters and musicians out there that struggle to get noticed. Anyway, I’m always looking out for new & under-the-radar bands to listen to and possibly review, …
Free download codes!
Christmas is looming like a great big credit card bill on the horizon. Only a month away now folks! However to amplify the Christmas cheer you can now give the gift of Captain Wilberforce this year: I have 150 free download codes for “Ghost Written Confessions” available from today that you can send to friends / family (limited to 5 …
Thanks for the thumbs up!
Thanks to everyone who got in touch to let me know what they thought of the new site – the general consensus is… much better. I agree. Now everything’s in one place it’s lots easier to keep tabs on stuff too. To those of you who downloaded the albums; I hope you’re enjoying them. If you are feel free to …
24 hours and counting
You’ve got 24 hours left to take advantage of the free / pay what you like album download offer at http://captainwilberforce.bandcamp.com/. It finishes tomorrow at 10:30pm UK time. If you like the songs tell your friends. Alternatively, if you hate the music, spam your nemesis with a copy.
Work in Progress
We’ve been working hard (no really) trying to get new songs recorded over the last few months, whenever we’ve been able to get together. The first instalment, probably a 4 song ep is not too far from being recorded, but it’s unlikely to be out before Christmas; early next year sounds more plausible. Of course, now’s a good time to …
Website Makeover today!
Finally… and not unlike the dawn of a new epoch, the Captain Wilberforce website, CaptainWilberforce.com, is getting a makeover. These events come about around once in a generation, so hopefully it’ll be worth a visit. It will mean that everything is in one place and more streamlined than before with a news and Twitter feed on the front page and the opportunity …
Gigs!
So, the Galtres festival has finally popped its head over the horizon – we’ll be taking to the main “Duke” stage at 1:30pm on Sat 24th August. However as we’re going to be playing an entirely new set of songs from our forthcoming album, we need a warm up show, so we’re playing at the Packhorse, 208 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds …
Big news!
As always, I haven’t bothered to give you all the minutiae of what the band have been up to over the last few months; I’m pretty sure you’d get bored of “we rehearsed again and the songs are sounding better than ever…” But there is now some proper news. We’re going to be opening the main stage at Galtres Parklands …
Rehearsals
We’re now in the process of rehearsing to record the new tunes. Still not 100% sure who’ll be producing yet, but these songs are collectively amazing. There I’ve said it. Here are a few pics from a recent session…
