Time for video number 3: levelling with you, probably my fourth favourite video of the four, but I do like the song, especially the insane piano skills of Mr Ric Neale. Will a jigsaw keep your interest while listening? I don’t know. Cut me some slack, I’ve got a miniscule budget here!! If you like it though, tell people. Comment. You …
Early EP release via Noisetrade
Well here’s a turn-up for the books – I was planning on a 20th Oct release for the Distance EP via Bandcamp but Noisetrade (I’m very happy to report) have jumped the gun and picked the EP out to promote on the front page of their site. This is a pretty big deal as Noisetrade have hundreds of thousands of …
Top Ten ways to help me out! Part 2
So here are some of the best ways to spread the word about my music*. If you do any / all of these you will have my undying thanks forever. If you don’t however, you are dead to me^. 5. Review my songs on Amazon / or CD baby Nice reviews, or absolute slatings work best. 4. Word of Mouth …
Top Ten ways to help me out! Part 1
Times are hard – no-one (apart from Russian billionaires) have any spare cash to spend on “under the radar” alt-pop bands. And they rarely do. So, how can you help me out on a zero budget? Let us count the ways* – here are numbers 10 to 6. (5 to 1 tomorrow – can you stand the suspense?) 10. Post content …
The Johnny Depp Memorial Cafe
Here’s video number two, Three weeks til the ‘Distance EP’ is released; this time created with the help of Alex and Aimee who guided me through the intricacies of Minecraft and laughed at my ineptness! Who can spot all the times I lost control of the little flying man? Anyhoo, you can really help spread the word on the ol’ social media by …
Good Times, You Said
So, here we are then, a month before my new EP is released. Want a taster? Here’s the video for Good Times, You Said; I’d love your comments. Also please tell anyone you think might be vaguely interested ;o) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7hkO8v9aiI&w=853&h=480]
Messing with Sondre Lerche…
Sondre Lerche is my favourite Norwegian Pop Star – yes, even with all that competition. So when he put the stems of his new single Bad Law up on Soundcloud for anyone to remix, I thought, why not? It’s not like I’ve got anything on at the moment, like a new EP release to manage, videos to create, new …
Distance EP released in October
So finally, the Distance EP will be available to download on Oct 20th 2014 from Bandcamp. Yes, it’s taken an eternity, mainly due to my determination to get to grips with the recording process and some major arrangement changes, but it’s now been mastered and sent out to reviewers / radio etc. with some nifty artwork from or8design.com. The track listing is: …
Website refresh – video, T-shirts and more…
Now with added video playlist and merchandise Click on the merch link and not only do you get to check out a range of Captain Wilberforce T-shirts, bags etc. but you also get a sneaky preview of the artwork for the new ‘Distance’ EP designed by the always fantastic Owen at Or8design.com. Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks …
Death of the Album?
Interesting article here on Radio 1 controller’s assertion that the album is officially dead and playlists are king. My view is that many pop artists have released sub-par albums for years so this may well affect them, but those bands who don’t just aim to write 2 “hits” and 9 filler tracks will continue to connect with an audience who like …
Aardman animators watch your backs
Well I’ve had a productive weekend – just finished a (very basic) stop motion video for one of the songs on the new E.P. Feeling very pleased with myself, although no-one else apart from family have seen it yet, and they’re biased, so it could be terrible. But it isn’t. You’ll be able to see it on the release in …
Acoustic gig in Leeds – July 17th
We’ve been invited to support our friends The Brothers Grimm on Thursday 17th July at Hirst’s Yard, Leeds. It’ll be an acoustic set and we’ll be playing a mix of older songs and tunes from the upcoming EPs / album. I assume we’ll be on around 8pm, and I’m not sure of the entrance fee – details to follow!
Why don’t bands just stop whining? Er… this.
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
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 …
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.
