Acoustic Tracks, French Students Learn 'Rain' at school, The Throwout Volume 6

YES YES!,

Ok, got a bumper edition for you today with some great free music, news, and live show listings!

-----LIVE ACOUSTIC TRACKS-----

As you may or may not have seen we've been playing a couple of exclusive ACOUSTIC shows recently. This has been amazing for us to as we've all had fun reworking tracks, playing in new venues, and hitting new audiences. We recorded a few tracks from our show at Cafe Ollo for you to listen to:

LIVE (acoustic) @ Cafe Ollo by Extra Curricular

Keep your eyes peeled for more exclusive ACOUSTIC shows coming soon! We've also made some special acoustic recordings that will appear as extra tracks bundled with single releases next year :)

-----FRENCH STUDENTS LEARN 'RAIN'-----

We've recently been contacted by a teacher from France who has been using our song 'Rain' to teach students English Language, understanding our climate, and international development. Madame Gilbert used 'Rain' as a set text for pupils studying for the Baccalaureate (equivalent to A-levels) at the Lycee de Beauregard, Montbrison, near Lyon. She said:

I would like to say how much I enjoyed studying this song. The music is fun and varied, the singing is fantastic, and I really hope Extra Curricular enjoy a lot of success with their music.

Madame Gilbert also attached a picture of some of her students posing with umbrellas to signify the rain in the song:

As you can imagine we were totally surprised at the news! We are, however, mad excited about it - especially after she told us that it has caused a buzz in the French education system and may be taken up as a set text by more schools in the future; Extra Curricular by name and virtue :)

To listen to 'Rain' please visit http://www.extracurricularband.com and click 'audio'

-----THE THROWOUT VOLUME 6------

Our own DJ ILLAS and DJ HERITAGE have come through with another amazing FREE mix for y'all to download. It features some big tracks along with some special shouts from legends of the hip hop scene...

------LIVE SHOWS-----

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

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

The Blues Cafe, Harrogate
9th January 2011, 3AM

The Elbow Rooms W/ Craig Charles, Leeds
29th January 2011, 21PM

Contact Theatre, Manchester
3rd February 2011, 20PM

Cardiff Arts Institute, Cardiff
12th February 2011, 20PM

Hoootanany , Brixton, London
19th February 2011, 22PM

Holmfirth Folk Festival, Holmfirth
7th May 2011, 18PM

Cosmic Boogie @ Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds
29th May 2011, 22PM

Sunrise Festival, Somerset
2nd June 2011, 16PM

That's it for now, for the most up to date news and listings please visit http://www.extracurricularband.com

One Love,

JB

EC

The Throwout Volume 4 (FREE MIX), Week 21 of 24, Studio Update, LIVE show update

Hey guys,

Couple of little gems to start you off - first up, our man on the ones and two's DJ Illas and his comrade DJ Heritage have pulled something special out of the bag for The Throwout Volume 4. This is a FREE mix featuring 24 amazing new and classic tracks that you can get from here:




P.S - check the shout-out at the start HAHAHA

---------------WEEK 21 OF 24--------------

Jack Flash's alternative series of 24 continues and we're now up to week 21!! There's another 20 episodes to check back on if you like what you hear - proper underground stuff!



-------------STUDIO UPDATE---------------

Our new recordings are sounding real heavy at the moment!!! We've got all the horns down and now it's the turn of our 3 amazingly talented vocalists - that's Jack Flash, Ruby Wood, and Thabo to those who don't know! We're taking our time with everything, making sure it's juuuuust right and Ruby has been absolutely on FIRE today laying down some sumptuous vocals that you will get to hear in due course. WE ARE SO STOKED ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!

-----------LIVE SHOWS--------------------

Ok, our calender is starting to beef up a bit as we move towards summer, there are still some that are TBC that we'll let you know about as soon as - that's not to say we don't want MORE gigs. We're hungry for this and if we can fit more shows in WE WILL! Here's our summer as it stands:

***THIS WEEKEND***
May 15th – Limetree Warm up, Oldham
May 16th – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
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June 19th – Luddfest
June 20th – Leamington Peace Festival
July 1st – Mass Brixton, London
July 3rd - Bradstock
August 13th – Moor Music Festival
August 28th – Limetree Festival
August 29th – Greenbelt Festival
October 30th – Marsden Mechanics


N.B THIS LIST IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE - WE HAVE MORE DATES TO ADD SOON!


Check http://www.myspace.com/extracurricularband for updates and MUSIC :)


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That's it for now,


Please keep in touch if you like what we're doing - we love hearing from you all!


hit us up at:


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9889857621
http://www.myspace.com/extracurricularband


One Love,


JB




P.S Thanks to Ben Sage and Trafficmag for the photo at the start of this entry