Best Of Shepherd's Bush Empire, Movember, New CD, Last Shows of 2012

Yes y'all,

Been so busy recently, I've barely found time to get a post together! If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter you'll know why ;)

-------Best Of Shepherd's Bush Empire-------

A few weeks ago we got one of the best phonecalls ever.... The legendary Tower Of Power wanted us to support them at London's prestigious Shepherd's Bush Empire. Needless to say we said 'YES' and loaded our van up for the trip from Leeds to London. It ended up looking a bit like this....

Photos courtesy of Caitlin Mogridge

We'd like to say a massive THANK YOU to Tower Of Power (especially for the shout outs!), all the staff at Shepherd's Bush Empire, and everyone who came through and rocked with us from the first song for an incredible evening. It was the best show of our lives.... so far! ;)

-------MOVEMBER-------

Although we didn't grow facial hair this year, we did our bit for Movember by playing a charity show at Holmfirth Picturedrome. Last we heard £2000 was raised for charity... nice one!

--------NEW CD--------

Pigeonhole This! have very kindly allowed us to produce a VERY limited run of CD's that contain our 2012 singles 'Last Day' and 'Won't Stay Down' including the awesome remixes by Doorly and SpectraSoul. These are only going to be available at LIVE shows, so make sure you try and come see us before they all go!

P.S we're working on the follow up to this right now! ;)

------LAST SHOWS OF 2012------

If you want to get one of these CDs, these are our last shows of 2012!

The Wardrobe, Leeds
14th December 2012, 22PM

Concorde 2 W/ Craig Charles, Brighton
15th December 2012, 21:30PM

Zetland W/ Grooverider, Huddersfield
21st December 2012, 22PM

One Love,

JB

EC

Extra Curricular with Labrinth at Brownstock, Won't Stay Down (FULL).

Photo by Ewan Cawood contact@phoskeeto.com

Yes y'all

We've got one of our biggest festival slots to date coming up this weekend.... we've been asked by Brownstock festival to play on the main stage just before Labrinth, their Saturday night headliner. As you can see from the picture below the rest of the festival features big name acts such as Nero, Zane Lowe, Grandmaster Flash, and The Futureheads.

We're obviously honoured to be asked to perform and will do our best to hype the crowd for the man with the "Earthquake".

-------WON'T STAY DOWN--------

When we first dropped Won't Stay Down on Pigeonhole This! it was described like this.....

DJ Magazine "...epic, life-affirming bass music..."

Flavour Magazine "Beautifully dirty!"

Zane Lowe

Example

After this.... it went to number 11 in the iTunes Electronic chart....

To celebrate our upcoming show at Brownstock we've decided to upload the track IN FULL to our Soundcloud account. Have a listen...

If you like it, please help support the band by purchasing it from iTunes, or Amazon

Last thing.... if you're in the London area this weekend, but are not going to Brownstock we are also playing at the Jamm in Brixton this FRIDAY. Event page HERE

One Love,

JB

EC

Extra Curricular & Doorly present: LAST DAY

Yes y'all

Gonna cut to the chase super-quick on this one....

Our second single 'Last Day' is out now on iTunes, Amazon, Beatport, and whatever other digital retailer you like to use. Just click on the store name :)

Here are a few previews.... There is our original version, a rework by Doorly, two SpectraSoul remixes, and an acoustic version recorded by On't Sofa.

As you can see we've been lucky enough to have some amazing support from the guys at Radio 1... in particular Annie Mac, Toddla T, and Friction... big up to those guys and their producers for playing our music. 

You too can help, by sharing the buy links on FB and Twitter... last time people did this we got to an amazing number 11 in the iTunes electronic charts.

One Love,

JB

EC

Extra Curricular with Tinchy Stryder, Vince Kidd, Marlon Roudette, and Frances R Wood, Last Day on Radio 1, Won't Stay Down

Yes y'all

So, this weekend we had the pleasure of performing alongside some of the Chart's biggest names.... in a park in Huddersfield! This event was part of Huddersfield's Concerts In The Park.

The picture at the start of this post was our view from the stage shortly before performing.... below are a few of our favourites from the rest of the day (sunshine included!)

EXTRA CURRICULAR

TINCHY STRYDER

VINCE KIDD

FRANCES R WOOD (The Voice) + our boy THABO!

Also, special shouts to all the other Huddersfield acts (Apache Tears, Shedmen, and French Soul Party) on the bill who, along with an amazing audience, did the town proud! 

---------LAST DAY FIRST RADIO 1 PLAY--------

On monday night, DJ Friction played a remix of our track Last Day on his show... and made it his remix of the week! It was remixed by the super-talented SpectraSoul. We're hyped to see how this track does over summer as the initial response has been amazing! Listen again below.... from 31mins in!

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

-------WON'T STAY DOWN-------

And finally... our first single Won't Stay Down is out on Monday. It's being released on Doorly's 'Pigeonhole This!' label and he's also done the craziest DnB mix as part of the package. Also included will be an acapella so all you DJs and producers and get your hands on some prime remix material! Check the Soundcloud player below for a preview, and check your favourite digital outlet on Monday to get the full tracks!

Won't Stay Down [Out June 18th on PHT!] by Extra Curricular

One Love,

JB
EC

YES! Extra Curricular with Professor Green, Reverend and The Makers, DJ Yoda, and Doorly.

Yes y'all,

So we've just about come to after one very fun bank holiday weekend! We played alongside Professor Green, Reverend and The Makers, DJ Yoda, and Doorly at the last ever Afterparty Warehouse Experience at Bates Mill. As you can imagine it was a little bit NUTS!

Pictures speak louder than words and all that, so here are a few of our favourites:

Extra Curricular

Professor Green

Reverend and The Makers

DJ Yoda

Doorly

Big thanks to the Afterparty guys, particularly Doorly and Bongo Dave, for putting together such a unique night!

--------------Music Video--------------

We knew the show would be big, so we also enlisted the help of music video producer AshTV to come down and capture some live footage as part of a music video for, the yet unreleased track, 'Last Day'. See if you can spot him on this picture ;)

We're in Sheffield this weekend (Saturday 12th May) headlining Dada Club on Trippets Lane. If you're from there, live there, or a near there make sure you come through!

Next time I'll be posting our tour dates for summer and our release dates.... hang tight!

One Love,

JB

EC

WIN TICKETS to the Afterparty Warehouse Experience!

Our view last time we hit the AP Warehouse stage...

Yes y'all

As the countdown begins to this weekend's MASSIVE show we have 2 tickets to give away. The lineup on the night is Professor Green, DJ Yoda, Reverend and The Makers, Doorly, Extra Curricular, The Squatters, Full Hott, Let's Get Funked, Bongo Dave, Nicola Bear, and Simon G. Here is the flyer...

Buy tickets from HERE

FB event page HERE

To WIN TICKETS, all you need to do is share this blog post either on Facebook or Twitter. Then, hit us up on our Facebook page or our Twitter to let us know that you have.... easy! The winner will be announced on Thursday.

To BUY TICKETS, all you need to do is head to the official Afterparty WEBSITE

We have also been informed that this will be the LAST EVER Afterparty Warehouse Experience. The night is run by two amazing individuals... Doorly and Bongo Dave. These events take months of planning and, to put it simply, there are not enough hours in the day! Doorly has a ridiculous international touring schedule to maintain and Bongo Dave is soon to be a dad! We're honoured to have been asked to play not one, but TWO times at this incredible event and will be as sad as you are to see it go. So, make sure you're there to witness a little bit of clubbing history... enter the competition, buy some tickets, grab your mates, and get ready for one hectic farewell!

THERE ARE ONLY 200 TICKETS LEFT.... the Warehouse only holds 1500, make sure you're one of the lucky few!


Free download from us....


One Love,

JB
EC

Final Show, Steamrolling, Creative Space, Ball-Zee at Christmas

Image by Paul Cockcroft

Yes y'all

First up, we'd like to thank everyone who braved the arctic conditions to come vibe with us at the Festival of Light in Huddersfield last weekend. It was humbling to see how many people came to the street party - nice one! Here's a video shot by our good friend Pajama Jama, showing some of the highlights of the evening:



We'd also like to take this opportunity to invite you to our FINAL SHOW of the year....

23rd December @ 1:22 Live, Huddersfield
EXTRA CURRICULAR support from Sons Of Mischief
It's been an absolute rollercoaster of a year: highlights have included mainstage festival slots at Greenbelt, Limetree, and a whole host of other great festivals.... we also absolutely LOVED smashing up Huddersfield's infamous Afterparty Warehouse rave alongside Example, Zane Lowe, Artwork (Magnetic Man), and Doorly!

We'd love for you to join us for one last special show, and because we know it's your support that has got us to where we are now we're going to be GIVING AWAY some of our back catalogue of CDs...

2012 is going to be EPIC, our first full-scale releases are kicking off in the new year and we're excited to be able to share this crazy journey with you.

More details to come soon for this event once they're finalised.... but for now, please share, invite your friends, and gear yourselves up for a serious PARTY! Event page HERE

---------Jack Flash 'Steamrolling'------------

We featured this track from our very own Jack Flash a few months back as an audio track, but here it is now in all it's music video glory...... shot by Paul Cockcroft




----------John Waugh 'Creative Space'---------

Our super-talented sax-man Mr. John Waugh was commissioned to compose an original score to accompany four short films on artists. Here's one of them....



To see the rest of them (well worth a watch!), click HERE to go to the main site.

---------Ball Zee at Christmas-------

And finally, to get you in that Christmas spirit, Ball-Zee our beat-boxing maestro has recorded another one of his dope freestyles....




One Love,

JB
EC

WOW - so we supported Example, Zane Lowe, Artwork (Magnetic Man), and Doorly this weekend!!!

One of the most amazing weekends for us as a band this weekend. First, a headline show at the Hootananny in Brixton to a packed audience, and then, a MASSIVE warehouse rave for Afterparty, Huddersfield supporting Example, Zane Lowe, Artwork (Magnetic Man), and Doorly. Needless to say we are all on Cloud 9 - gonna take a minute to come down from here! Here are a few of our favourite pics:

To top of the night Flash and Thabo then jumped up and MC'd for ARTWORK at about 4 in the morning. The set was heavy, the crowd were live, and the stage was literally full of people - HYPE.

Photos by Paul Cockcroft and Dave Lockwood

Massive shouts to Doorly and Bongo Dave for their hospitality at this one!

This Thursday we're playing in Leeds alongside Herve and DJ Derek. We're hoping that Leeds is going to live up to the high standard set by London and Huddersfield this weekend. Event info HERE

--------Four Letter F Word---------

Flash has just dropped a new video on Youtube. Did you know this many four letter F words? Beat and production courtesy of the man they call Wizard

One Love,

JB
EC

Afterparty POSTPONED



Little bit of bad news came through today, unfortunately, our show at Afterparty with Zane Lowe, Skream & Benga, Doorly, and Example has been postponed until October. Below is the official statement of why and how you can go about reclaiming your money if you had already purchased a ticked:

'Hey guys

Its with great regret that due to un-forseen Circumstances the May 21st Warehouse Afterparty Event at Bates Mill will now be postponed.

Having had to deal with a couple of major issues both locally and with Artists we will now be re-scheduling this event and Line up until after the summer for our October event.
...
Dont worry though, anyone who bought a ticket online will be automatically re-funded by Ticket arena in the next few days (Including the booking fee which the Afterparty crew have agreed to cover so that it doesn't come out of your pockets) - You will receive an email from Ticket Arena explaining this.

If you bought a ticket at Revolution, Cotton Factory or Camel club (or anywhere else) then simply pop back in there and they will refund your ticket. Also if you write your name on your ticket stubb, by way of apology for the inconvenience we will give you a free guestlist to our May Bank Holiday event @ Camel club on Saturday 29th of May.

If you bought a ticket online then we already have your name so we will automatically put you on the list to get in half price on 29th of May

PLEASE READ THE ABOVE SECTION CAREFULLY BEFOREHAND BUT otherwise If you have any other problems or issues regarding refunds then please email : Info@camel-club.co.uk and we'll point you in the right direction

We will be back fresh with a bang at the end of the summer and back at Bates Mill with our re-scheduled Warehouse event in october just after freshers week.

Thanks for your understanding with all this, this is the first event we have ever had to re-schedule (or cancelled DJ) in over 5 years! not bad going and you KNOW that we'll make it up to you! we're already working on the winter line ups and you wont be disappointed!

Afterparty Loves You xxxx'

Afterparty have asked us to return with this lineup in October and, of course, we are going to take them up on that offer.

-------Upcoming Shows--------

Here are our confirmed gigs as they stand....

Acoustic Revolutionaries, Cafe Ollo, Media Centre, Huddersfield
18th May 2011, 20PM

Brockwell Park W/ Levi Roots, London
29th May 2011, 13PM

Sunrise Festival, Somerset
2nd June 2011, 16PM

The Golden Lion, Bristol
3rd June 2011, 22PM

Sounddhism, Bodega W/dj Format, Nottingham
4th June 2011, 21PM

Mr Bens Bar, Leeds
5th June 2011, 21PM

Secret Gig, Secret Location
21st June 2011, 22PM

Elfm , Project
15th July 2011, 20PM

Corbridge Music Festival, Newcastle
6th August 2011, 18PM

Greenbelt Festival (mainstage), Cheltenham Racecourse
27th August 2011, 17PM

Limetree Festival, Grewelthorpe
28th August 2011, 18PM

Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
23rd September 2011, 21PM

One Love,

JB

EC