Video Fun, Upcoming Shows, Extra Curricular with Youngblood Brass Band.

Hey people,

Got some wicked shows to announce a bit later in this post but, first, I want to share something very special with you...

We've had an amazing few months as Extra Curricular - over summer we played a massive run of festival shows and also spent some quality time in some great studios doing some recording. We've put together a little video that documents some of this time - ENJOY :)

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

We've got some great shows coming up over the next few weeks:

Extra Curricular LIVE @ Marsden Mechanics, October 30th
Halloween special where we are going to do an extended set featuring old favourites and brand new material!

Tickets (and details) available from http://www.mikron.org.uk/tricknbeat.php

FB Event HERE


Extra Curricular LIVE @ The Wardrobe w/Youngblood Brass Band, November 5th
Extra Curricular support the mighty Youngblood Brass Band all the way from the States.

FB Event HERE

After that we've got....

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

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

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

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

For up to date live shows and music check out http://www.myspace.com/extracurricularband

One Love,

JB

EC

Manchester Academy, Acoustic Set and Session, Halloween Special

Yes y'all,

Ok, gonna get straight down to business this week:

-----EXTRA CURRICULAR AT MANCHESTER ACADEMY-----

First up, we've had a last minute booking to play at Manchester Academy Club Academy this coming Wednesday (13th October). The event is called Biko Live and it looks amazing! Appearing on the bill are Extra Curricular, Homecut, Chris Royal, and many other great artists. In addition to this there will be live dance, art, and DJs - gonna be a proper jam yo! We're ON STAGE at midnight, ENTRY is £4.

-----EXTRA CURRICULAR ACOUSTIC SET AND SESSION-----

We're doing a special, super-intimate acoustic set at The Media Centre, Huddersfield on 20th of October. We're really excited about this event because it gives you the opportunity to hear our songs in a completely different way! We've reworked songs to fit to this intimate setting, so expect to hear your favourite Extra Curricular music like you've never heard it before! Check the facebook event HERE

Media Centre (Cafe Ollo)

Doors 8pm

Entry £2

To celebrate this gig we've uploaded our BBC Introducing Acoustic Session (from Alan Raw's show) to Soundcloud for your listening pleasure:

Extra Curricular - live acoustic session on BBC Leeds by Extra Curricular

If you want a free download of this you can get from HERE along with many other freebies :)

------EXTRA CURRICULAR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL------

We're playing at Marsden Mechanics for Halloween this year! We love playing here because we're given a huge amount of time to play with - this means we can squeeze in those few extra songs :)

Check out the Facebook event HERE

Marsden Mechanics, October 30th

£7adv/£8otd

Doors 7.30pm

For tickets contact:

Marsden Mechanics 01484 844587

info@marsdenmechanics.co.uk

Mikron Box Office 01484 843701

info@mikron.org.uk

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

Manchester Academy , Manchester
13th October 2010, 23PM

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

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

One Love,

JB

EC

Music Heroes, LIVE Rain video, We're Endorsed

Hey hey,

Still reeling from the awesomeness that was 'Melt' at the Doncaster Civic Theatre! Legendary trombone player Dennis Rollins had put together a spectacular bill featuring his own Velocity Trio, Pee Wee Ellis, Clare Teal, and Extra Curricular. It was a wonderful night with the venue being packed to the rafters and some crazy good music going down. For us as Extra Curricular we not only had the honour of sharing the stage with these musical legends, but had some of our genuine musical heroes come up to us and tell us how much they enjoyed the show, loved the band, and offer words of advice and encouragement for the future! WOW!

-------LIVE RAIN VIDEO---------

This has been the number one request from people asking to see live footage of the band and, until now, has been one of the few tracks we haven't had on Youtube. The reason for this is because we've never had footage the we've felt will do the track justice. However, I am pleased to present to you 'Rain' LIVE:

From the same show here is also some cracking footage of 'Running Away' - enjoy!



------WE'RE ENDORSED------

Following our spectacular run of summer festival shows we're very pleased to announce that the lovely folks at Audio Technica have decided to endorse us. They will now be providing us with some of the equipment we need for live shows allowing us to take the Extra Curricular LIVE experience to the next level. We're grateful for their help at the critical stage in the band's development.

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

On the topic of live shows here's a list of our upcoming gigs.

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

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

To keep up to date with us check http://www.extracurricularband.com

One Love,

JB

EC

Back in the HUD, Flash Radio, Upcoming shows

Big Ups!

Firstly we'd like to say - WOW! What an incredibly warm and emotional response we had being welcomed back into Bar 1:22 on Friday night. It had been 9 months since we played there and we couldn't have imagined a better night! Here's a little clip of Chungy dropping a big solo towards the end of 'Rain'. YES.

--------FLASH RADIO---------

Jack Flash has been super-busy hitting some underground stations this summer in support of 'The Sound Of Colours' EP. He managed to find some time to put this out and promote it despite our hectic schedule of festivals this year. Here's a little montage of some of his best bits!



If you haven't checked it out yet you can cop the EP from Flash's Bandcamp page - most of the material is FREE to download :)



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

Ok, so we've got the Leeds leg of our homecoming gigs this Saturday 25th of September. It's only £2 in and we're being supported by the super-dope Alphabetix. Doors are at 9pm, can't wait to see all our Leeds fam!

After that, on Wednesday 29th of September we're in Doncaster supporting the one and only PEE WEE ELLIS (James Brown's!!!!!!!! Saxophonist) at a night put on by the awesome Dennis Rollins (whose new project Velocity Trio are also appearing). This event will be held at Doncaster Civic Theatre - tickets available from HERE.

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

Please check our Myspace and Website for the most up-to-date news on live shows :)

One Love,

JB
EC

Greenbelt Festival Videos, September Shows

Hey guys,

Hope y'all are good! We're getting super-excited about September's shows now so I thought we'd share a bit of video that's cropped up from our mega show at Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham. The vids in two parts so make sure you cop 'em both - just imagine there's no gap! :)

Video 1:

Video 2:



These videos have appeared courtesy of GreenTreasure, Greenbelt Festival's video channel. Check out more videos from them HERE including wicked performances by Beverly Knight and The Herbaliser.

--------SEPTEMBER SHOWS--------

Ok, this month's shows go like this:

Friday 17th September, Bar 1:22, Huddersfield

Extra Curricular

Middleman

The Rag Tags

£5, doors 8pm 

Saturday 25th September, Elbow Rooms, Leeds

Extra Curricular

DJ Ben Echo

£2, doors 9pm

Wednesday 29th September, Doncaster Civic Theatre, Doncaster

Clare Teal and Pee Wee Ellis (of JAMES BROWN fame!!!)

Extra Curricular

Velocity Trio (featuring legendary trombonist Dennis Rollins!)

Kamaljeet Ajimal and Sukhmani Rayat

£17.50/£15 concessions/£5 under-18 

doors 8pm

------OTHER SHOWS--------

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

Look forward to seeing you at a show soon!

One Love,

JB

EC

http://www.myspace.com/extracurricularband

Summer Tour Summary, EC meet Craig Charles, Homecoming Shows.

Hey guys,

So, it really felt today like summer is now over - the wind has picked up, it got dark early and, if I'm not mistaken it's just started raining outside. For us this means that our festival tour is over and WOW, what an amazing few weeks we've had... 

We'd like to thanks all the wonderful audiences that turned up to our shows at Leamington Peace Festival, Beat-Herder, Bradstock, Workhouse, Manchester Jazz Festival, Mannifest, Moor Music Festival, Sheep Music, Crash Festival, Limetree Festival, and Greenbelt Festival - YOU LOT are the reason we've travelled the length and breadth of the country, sleep in tents in muddy fields and cars in service stations. It was a pleasure to play for you and special thanks to anyone who came and talked to us after show. We had some mad times and have updated some pics in our Myspace Gallery.

We're going to spend the next couple of weeks compiling bits of video footage, pictures, and audio from these gigs but, in the meantime, here's what the legendary Craig Charles had to say about our show at Limetree (sorry it's not a YouTube video yet, will change it from FB as soon as possible)

Follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/extracurricularband#!/video/video.php?v=283750039962&subj=100000196145306

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Ok, so we're taking the Extra Curricular show back indoors starting with a couple of special 'homecoming' gigs in the Huddersfield and Leeds areas. It's been a long time coming and we're looking forward to rocking some shows in our favourite venues!

Friday 17th September, Bar 1:22, Huddersfield

Extra Curricular

Middleman

The Rag Tags

£5, doors 8pm 

This event is going to be awesome! Support coming from the mighty Middleman (their new single came out yesterday so go buy it!) and, Huddersfield University favourites The Rag Tags.

Saturday 25th September, Elbow Rooms, Leeds

Extra Curricular

DJ Ben Echo

£2, doors 9pm

Last time we played the Elbow Rooms in May the room blew-up! We had a crazy time and look forward to more of the same this time round. Trafficmag reviewed the last gig and you can have a read HERE. 

Confirmed Shows:

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

Hopefully see you at a show soon! Keep checking the Myspace for the most up-to-date listings and news. Also, if you haven't already - add us on Facebook.

One Love,

JB