MEGA Weekend Coming Up, BBC RAW TALENT, The ECEP

Hey guys,

We've got another action-packed weekend coming up at Limetree Music Festival and Greenbelt Music Festival. For those of you who are coming or thinking of coming here's the lowdown!

Limetree (28.08.10): Extra Curricular are playing at 18:45 on the Green Man (Main) Stage

               Also appearing are The Blockheads, Utah Saints, JD73,and The James Taylor Quartet

Greenbelt (29.08.10): Extra Curricular are playing at 20:45 on the Underground Stage

                Also appearing are Beverly Knight, Gil Scott Heron, Courtney Pine, and Shed Seven 

As you may guess we're more than a little excited about these two!

-------BBC RAW TALENT-------

Alan Raw and the BBC West Yorkshire Raw Talent team played one of our tracks again on their show. The track is called 'Home' and cannot be heard anywhere else for the minute as it has not been released yet! Listen HERE from 1hr25min - apparently we are 'fantastic'; thanks guys!

------The ECEP------

Last up The ECEP is still available to purchase via download or physical form from our Bandcamp page 

               

Or, if you're lucky enough to be coming to one of our shows they can be purchased directly off any band member.

Here's what a kind person wrote on our Facebook Group's WALL recently:

£5 spent on those five songs was the best fiver i've ever spent on music! Your lyrics are inspired, the musicianship on You should Know Me By Now is achingly beautiful, Here We Go is motivating, even when there's no sunshine! Rain is chilled-out but thought-provoking...all brilliant...I made my mum listen to it, and she was glad to have lent me the fiver at the festival! (I paid her back later!)

-----UPCOMING SHOWS-----

And finally, the all-important LIVE dates coming up:

Limetree Festival, Grewelthorpe
28th August 2010, 15PM

Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
29th August 2010, 21PM

Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
17th September 2010, 20PM

The Elbow Rooms, Leeds
25th September 2010, 21PM

Doncaster Civic Hall, Doncaster
29th September 2010, 20PM

Cafe Ollo, Media Centre (acoustic), Huddersfield
20th October 2010, 20PM

Marsden Mechanics, Marsden
30th October 2010, 20PM

Mr Wolfs, Bristol
12th November 2010, 21PM

The Wardrobe, Leeds
20th November 2010, 22PM

The Hifi Club, Leeds
8th December 2010, 20PM

Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
10th December 2010, 21PM

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One Love,

JB

EC

Extra Curricular Win BOTB, Muddy Fields, Bumpstarts, Carry On Camping

Hey guys,

We've returned as a very happy band from our muddy festival trip across the country! 

We started off last Friday at Moor Music Festival in Skipton. The weather was rubbish, but there was a good crowd there and the Homespun tent we played in was rammed by the time we started. Big ups to 91DB who played before us, some really cool live liquid DnB stuff going down :)

We came straight off stage, into the cars (like real rockstars except we have to drive ourselves!), and then headed down the country to Presteigne in Wales where we were headlining the Dome Days Festival (formerly Sheep Music). The stage looked beautiful all lit up with fairy lights and we had an absolute blast playing. We felt so well looked-after, particularly when we got dragged down to the infamous 'Dukes' pub afterwards. After a drunken stagger about 2miles up the road to our campsite we finally crawled proudly into our sleeping bags, 2 shows and 300 miles done in the day.

The next morning started slow and we went for a lovely breakfast in 'Emily's' tea-room in the picturesque centre of Presteigne. A few gallons of tea and a around 30 rashers of bacon (there are nine of us you know!) later and we were ready to hit the road to Abermule for Crash Festival.

Crash Festival was a Battle The Bands event and it gives me great pleasure to say that we won the top prize of £1000. A big thankyou to Dianne in catering who looked after us all by making sandwiches, tea, and apple pie(!) for us :)

Of course, no trip would be complete without a few car issues - we had to bump-start Greg's Clio in a muddy field full of cars (you know how cars are parked in festival carparks) - and, what's more, his car decided it would only do it backwards! We got it going though, but later in the evening (morning??) Rory's Peugeot broke down - luckily only two minutes away from his house!

What a weekend! We had loads of fun and would like to thank the organisers of Moor Fest, the organisers of Dome Days, and the organisers of Crash Festival for putting us on. What's more we'd like to thank all the awesome people of Skipton, Presteigne, and Abermule for showing us so much love - you guys make this the best job in the world!

-----UPCOMING SHOWS-----

If you want to see us playing in a field we've still got a few festival dates left before music goes back indoors again at the end of summer - make the most of it!

Limetree Festival, Grewelthorpe
28th August 2010, 15PM

Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
29th August 2010, 21PM

Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
17th September 2010, 20PM

The Elbow Rooms, Leeds
25th September 2010, 21PM

Doncaster Civic Hall, Doncaster
29th September 2010, 20PM

Cafe Ollo, Media Centre (acoustic), Huddersfield
20th October 2010, 20PM

Marsden Mechanics, Marsden
30th October 2010, 20PM

Mr Wolfs, Bristol
12th November 2010, 21PM

The Wardrobe, Leeds
20th November 2010, 22PM

The Hifi Club, Leeds
8th December 2010, 20PM

Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
10th December 2010, 21PM 

 

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Stay Cool,

JB

EC

http://www.extracurricularband.com