Here it is, people. To replace your versions from ‘Retreat’, or just as a juicy freebie for those who never got the remix album anyway…
An Idle Brain and The Devils Workshop (Errors remix 2010)
LOAD IT DOWNWARDS!!!!!!
We’ve just done a podcast featuring music from the following reputable record labels; Leaf, Cuckundoo, Brew, Big Scary Monsters, Tip Toe, and Small Town America. You will also find out why none of us have ever considered a move into radio broadcasting.
The podcast is available for download from the Brainwash website HERE, and it also contains, ahem, the Errors remix of ‘An Idle Brain…’ at the correct speed. Being the bunch of numpties that we are, we managed to release it 10% slower than it should have been, John Peel style, due to an unforseen bit-rate cock-up. SORRY STEEV ERRORS!!!!!! It will be available for free download from here within a few days. Durp.
We’ll be playing upstairs at the Library pub on Wed 27th Jan with the excellent Quack Quack (who recently joined us on Cuckundoo). There’s a chance that this gig may contain a quite exciting one-off collaboration between the rhythm sections of both bands.
That’s FOUR drum kits, by the way. Yes, Four. 4. IV. IIII.
Starting the night off is a late addition to the bill in the form of Chicago native Juffage, who is a one man loop groove extravagnza, who will be bringing another drum kit. MWA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!! YES! 5! FIVE DRUM KITS!
Here’s the poster, drawn by our very own Peter Wright.
Here is the rescheduled dates for the Oceansize Tour. All tickets are still valid, but there was a mix up with the Cardiff tickets so if you have tickets for that please double check that you haven’t been refunded.
We should definitely have some finished new music by then. We seem to have written another impending logistical/technical disaster, which should be fun to play out. 
The dates are:
Thu 28th Jan - Liverpool Masque
Fri 29th Jan - Dundee Fat Sam’s
Sat 30th Jan - Aberdeen Tunnels
Sun 31st Jan - Glagow King Tut’s
Tue 02 Feb - Manchester Academy 3
Wed 03 Feb - London Heaven
Thu 04 Feb - Cardiff Barfly
Fri 05 Feb - Nottingham Seven
Xx
Sorry about the lateness in posting on here. Unfortunately, the tour we are supposed to be on at the moment has been postponed until the new year due to illness. We’ll keep you posted on any new dates asap.
Thanks for your patience!!!!!
Tom
Hello there y’all. The tour kicked off with an ace start last night at The Harley in Sheffield. We played again with Espen and the Witch from Brighton, who were quite fantastic, and a great ambient band called Ithica Trio.
Here are the rest of the dates:
2 - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
3 - Bolton, Dog & Partridge
7 - York, City Screen Basement Bar
9 - Brighton, Freebutt
16 - Glasgow, Captain’s Rest
17 - Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s
20 - London, Barden’s Boudoir
And we’re chuffed to be playing some dates with Oceansize later in the year:
November:
1 - Leeds, Brainwash Festival w/Efterklang and Jaga Jazzist
25 - Cardiff, Barfly w/ Brontide
26 - Manchester, Academy 3 w/ Brontide
27 - Nottingham, Seven w/ Brontide
29 - Dundee, Fat Sams w/ And So I Watch You From Afar
30 - Aberdeen, The Tunnels w/ And So I Watch You From Afar
December:
1 - Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut w/ ASIWYFA
2 - Liverpool, Masque w/ ASIWYFA
3 - London, Heaven w/ASIWYFA
Come and rinse it up!
Yo there. Excuses for the lack of posts recently, we’ve been busy beavering away on tunes for the next album. As usual we’ve already thrown away far more material than we’ve kept, and some of the stuff we’ve dropped has been pretty good, so hopefully the stuff we keep will be even better.
We’ll be doing a short tour of the UK this October, and we’d love to see your smiling faces. The full dates are on the gigs page.
For those of wanting to purchase one of our lovely T-shirts designed by the maestro Luke Drozd, nip over to the shop page and click on the thumbnails to see them for yourself. Here is a close up of my personal favourite design (see if you can spot the deliberate mistake..):
Tonight was the last show, and I’d like to say that it was a complete mega blowout to end the tour – but things never work out like that. Once again the venue, the promoter, the food, the sound rig etc etc etc were utterly immense, and there must have been nearly a hundred people there to watch us headline the show, but the fatigue of the week (or perhaps the beginnings of a sense of complacency) had set in and our performance, in my opinion, just wasn’t up to scratch. Nonetheless, the crowd seemed to enjoy it, called us back for an encore and gave us some fairly humbling feedback at the end of the night – after which we rolled wearily back to the apartments we were staying in, and tried to get as early a night as possible in advance of tomorrow’s 20 hour marathon drive.
And thus concludes the first ever tour of mainland Europe – 7 shows, 5 Jovis and two half Jovis, countless new friends, places experiences, and at times more laughter than I could physically cope with…. Roll on October, when we plan to do it all again……
After a leisurely (ie late) departure from Graz this afternoon, we motored back Northwards, to Prague in the Czech Republic. We had no gig to play, and turned up in time to have a late meal, drink several litre flagoons of ale, and then rock up a seedy club called the Chapeau Rouge until some unearthly hour. Prague seemed pretty spectacular, although the circumstances which we enjoyed it in – darkness, inebriation, immense fatigue, lent a certain hint of the grotesque to the whole affair – must come back here soon, in the daylight, with time to spend exploring the city properly – but that is touring I suppose – if you really want to see a place, go there for a week’s holiday, not spend the day driving there for one night, with a show to play and an early start on the horizon….
Today saw us roll through the hills and mountains of Austria in the van – the views and the scenery as we motored on through were nothing short of stunning huge snowcapped mountains and skinny precarious trees densely packed together straining for the sun at the most unlikely angles on the hillsides. It could have been Austria, or it times it could have been the approach to Twin Peaks.
We were late for the soundcheck, but still managed to fit in a fairly comprehensive line-check, leaving the support band, Hella Comet to do their sound-check in front of the gathering crowd – for which I still feel guilty…
The venue was, predictably by now, immense. The entire room was covered in copper panels, geometrically pinpricked to let the light from the halogen bulbs behind them bleed into the room, creating a soothing and aesthetically pleasing space for an evening’s music.
Hella Comet, from Graz, were brilliant, creating some fairly bonkers sounds and textures to kick off the evening. And then, despite my reverb shutting down during the solo from Ornafives (Channel M déjà vu) I really enjoyed tonight’s show. We played for about an hour, which is always a lot more satisfying than half an hour after the effort we’ve made to set up, and the 60 or so people that we played to gave us a warm, extensive and humbling reception..
Then afterwards we went to ‘The Music Haus’ with our hosts Martin, Lukas and Gunther, and listened to atrociously loud music in the seedy underground surroundings of one of Graz’s, indeed Europe’s, many late late late night bars…..