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

  

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 

 

Hit us up on Myspace, Facebook, or Twitter for the most up-to-date news :)

Stay Cool,

JB

EC

http://www.extracurricularband.com

MJF Interview, LIVE Videos, LIVE Dates

Hey guys,

Earlier this week we played Manchester Jazz Festival and had an awesome time! We played in St. Anne's Square, it was really weird playing a gig right in the centre of a city with people all around us going to work etc. We pulled a great crowd and, by the end of our set, had everyone singing along! Here's a little interview Ruby and Thabo did straight after the show:

---------LIVE VIDEOS---------

Next up we've got a couple of videos that were recorded at our show at the Holmfirth Picturedrome. The first of these two videos is 'Full Circle' - we've not got round to properly recording this track yet so, if you haven't been to a LIVE show yet (get to one soon!), this will be new to you!

The next track is 'Get Involved'. There are quite a few videos floating around of this at the minute but this is the one we're most proud of (for the minute hehe!).



--------LIVE DATES--------

We're just about to begin one of the busiest months we've had; in August we are playing a MASSIVE 6 Festivals in 1 month - we're so excited about this! A few more dates are appearing towards the end of the year when we're planning on doing a UK tour:

Mannifest, Isle Of Man
7th August 2010, 14PM

Moor Music Festival, Skipton
13th August 2010, 15PM

Sheep Music, Presteigne, Powys
13th August 2010, 21PM

Crash Festival, Abermule Wales
14th August 2010, 20PM

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

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

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And that's it for now! Make sure you download some free tracks and our BBC Introducing session from HERE and check our Myspace for the most up-to-date listings. If you're a 'Twit' add us HERE and, if you use Facebook, come join our FB Group. Basically, just come talk to us! We love talking to people who come to our shows or who have checked out our music online - you guys make this journey even more amazing!

One Love,

JB

EC