Summer is well and truly here, so we teamed up with Ont' Sofa and recorded something with that summer vibe for you. We were invited down to Youtube Creative Space in London and shot 4 live videos. The first of which is Robbin' Hood (feat. Thabo)
Here is the second one, a brand new track called Bullets (feat. Thabo)
----THABO WITH PROFESSOR GREEN----
Speaking of Thabo…. he features on Professor Green's forthcoming single 'I'm Not Your Man'. It's due to be released on 21st September. Here is the official video….
-----JOHN WITH THE 1975-----
…and finally, our resident sax man John Waugh has been super busy touring the World as part of The 1975's live show. We're dead proud, check him on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury here… (see him smash it at about 2mins in!)
We've had lots of fun this summer and we're just getting started...
------Vinyl released------
First up, the Notify/Robbin Hood 7inch vinyl was released today on Outta Sight records... have a listen below, and then get to your favourite record store or online retailer to grab a copy...
A huge thankyou to our local BBC Introducing team in Leeds, and the BBC 1XTRA team for making Notify their BBC Introducing 'featured track'... this saw it played everyday on BBC 1XTRA from w/c June 3rd.
Robbin Hood (produced by Lack Of Afro) has been featured numerous times on BBC6 Music courtesy of Mr Craig Charles too.
Watch out for the digital release on July 22nd.
------Tour so far------
Here are a few of our favourite pictures from our summer tour (14 dates so far and counting...)
Meeting Mr Chic himself... Nile Rodgers backstage at Beatherder Festival... personal musical hero.
Hometown show on the outskirts of Huddersfield at the wonderful Picturedrome, Holmfirth.
Been a fair bit happened since the last update - the biggest being that big cloud of dust causing havoc for anyone needing to be 30,000 feet or so up. However, we've got something bigger than that because this week Jack Flash released his 'Sound Of Colours' EP - and what's more it's FREE. You get 9 tracks for absolutely nothing and 5 more, if you so desire (which you should, cos it's dope!) for a little bit of coin - nice!
Get it here yo!
--------------------LEEDS AND IPSWICH----------------------
Woweee! Holla at yourselves!
Last weeks gigs were absolutely mental Leeds and Ipswich were off the scale - we loved every minute! Thanks to everyone who came down and showed love, we appreciate it so much and it gives us the biggest BUZZ to see you guys having fun :)
Big props to Millionaire's By Morning and The Mouse Outfit for supporting at the gigs. For anyone wanting to know more about these bands click on their names for their Myspace. We loved hearing these guys play and look forward to working with them again in the future - LIVE Hip Hop is coming up strong!
We were really saddened to hear the news that GURU, of Gangstarr and Jazzmatazz fame passed away. He was a big influence for us so we'll take this time to remember the awesome music he put out.
We're getting just as excited as you are for the summer and, for the band, summer means one thing - FESTIVALS. We're slowly putting together a list of amazing festivals we're going to be at this year and we hope you'll be able to come enjoy some with us. HOWEVER, we want MORE!!! If you're a festival promoter and you'd like EC to come play your festival hit us up at eclivebookings@gmail.com
And that's just about it! Chungy's in the studio next week laying the guitars down on our new recordings - the man is a genius and it's gonna sound massive!
