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Found some old tracks today from a demo sesson recorded by The Mix back in 1981. The line up at the time was: Dave Gedney - guitar/ vocals; Barry Jones - bass, Robin Hill - drums, and myself on keyboards/guitar/vocals.

The demo was recorded at (Yes's) Chris Squire's studio, at his house in Virginia Waters. The demo was produced by a colleague of Chris's brother (the names of both escape me....); but was co-produced by Kevin Harrison. 

Just got back from a mini-industry tour of Germany. From Berlin to Hamburg, then Cologne and Munich! Was awesome. We played stripped down acoustic sets with just cello, piano and guitar - it went down really well, smiles and clapping and laughter and drunkardness :) We've had lots of great offers from some important industry partners already and we've only just got back from the tour! Well well worth it, thanks to anyone that came down and everyone that made it all happen...

hi!

new sons music to preview

you heard it first...new blitz music...

the sons new e.p. has a preview pre-release late december for 1 week 16th nov-23rd nov at

www.myspace.com/thesonsuk

CHEERS!

Before the Writers Cafe closed Jan 2008, we recorded a series of poems and songs by a number of poets and songwriters who were regulars at the Writers Cafe or otherwise guests. It was intended as a CD anthology but as the Cafe closed we thought the best way to share them was via a You Tube anthology which would enable us to include more material and more poets etc. This is a work in progress with more poets / songwriters to be added as we go along but already there is varied programme on the site - take a visit..

Hi All, long time no speak.

We’ll be launching our first official single ’Out of the Fire’ at this new club night called ’Deviation Street’ at Peter Parkers Rock 'n' Roll club, 4 Denmark St, London on Nov 19th 2009. It’ll be available to buy direct from us on the night at a special price of £2. It’ll be £2.50 in Sister Ray independent record shop, Soho, who've already made it their single of the week! {before we've delivered the damn thing!} We've also recently received some extensive radio play including XFM and Q Radio to name but two so keep one ear on the wireless.

It'll be £3 from the site http://www.myspace.com/thestandardsmusic so come get it for less pennies while you can. Of course, download will be available too and the release date for both versions is Nov 16th 2009 on Schnapps House Records.

Here's a review from rockfeedback we've just received http://www.rockfeedback.com/review/4455/the-standards-out-of-the-fire-ep-schnapps-house/

We'd love it if you could make this a date anyway and stick it in your respective diaries. Look out for the small door leading downstairs to the club and leave us your name here for £4 entry, soz we couldn't make this one free folks but nevertheless, we'd really appreciate your support.

If any of you industry bod's would like to come then please mail us at thestandards@hotmail.co.uk and we'll make it our business to get you in gratis...so long as you give us a decent review!

View London have some nice thoughts on the venue here...
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/clubs/peter-parkers-rock-n-roll-club-review-59414.html

Here’s a little more on this legendary club... Peter Parker’s Rock ’n’ Roll Club at number 4 Denmark Street, London. The Club opens everyday, with many special events throughout the year The Club was formerly Regent Sound Studios, where The Rolling Stones recorded their first album, The Kinks recorded ’You Really Got Me’, Elton John failed an audition when he was still going under his real name of Reg Dwight and Black Sabbath recorded ’Paranoid’ See for more info on the night http://www.myspace.com/498348596

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Stage time is 10.00pm.


http://www.myspace.com/thestandardsmusic

advance exclusive myspace preview

2 days at RAK to complete,big thank you to tim goalen for engineering and extra keys and help,also trisha at RAK and also mark for trumpets

starting soon an advance exclusive myspace preview in full for 1 week of the sons new ep prior to release scheduled mid December then samples will be streamed until further full previews to be arrranged around press in the new year,the ep will also contain a collectors out-take bundle.

 

have just heard the magazine track light pours out of me...great...imagine that meets the action...just in from the sons recording session at air studios in north london,a good but really too busy a day,the drums are spot on target from dave,great attitude and so refreshing,cheers mate,welcome aboard and garys bass so melodic reminded me a bit of some early british 60s film in imagery in part and his part on collage sounded like charles mingus...great,big thanks to marc"the modernist" for keeping me slightly sane,production and additional keys,also thanks to john the engineer whos just worked with ray davies and assistant adam...you just cant reach that at home on a computer,the original neve,george martin console sounded great,highlight for me was getting to play the actual hammond organ that a town called malice was played on...next step 2 days at RAK to complete with tim...getting excited about the new recording it all fits in well with the others sons songs makes it more complete but i wanna show things keep moving,it wont sound like anything else out there right now and all those other bands...never did and i never wanted it to...it will just sound right!

i hope some serious gigs for the sons come up in the new year,i really do,a reason...i feel so fortunate to have been led where i been going...

new recordings etc should be up on myspace in early november for a quick peep pre release,so dont forget to download the free sampler and also to get over to iTunes for the 2 sons eps and own them cos theyll be coming off the myspace streaming player very soon to make way for the brand new music

thank you!

quick update...

coming soon...DOWNLOAD A NEW FREE 12 TRACK SONS SAMPLER WIDGET ...coming soon...the NEW sons ep "5 SECONDS" is scheduled to be recorded at Air and RAK studios and released late Dec 09 along with press and gigs in January and February...hear and see all that here first in full during November on the sons myspace ...

www.myspace.com/thesonsuk

lilly allens blog on file sharing...its worth a read...im not discussing anything else here just that there are so many valid points in it that i hope maybee some music lovers get to read...its been spoken about in depth before in previous sons blogs and now heres someone else thats saying it...thats all...so maybee go to her myspace and read her blog...richard hawley...i just grabbed a read of an interview with him thats all and found it interesting,again my thoughts echoed in past sons blogs...anyway it ran along the lines i think of something like,you just make your art and good things follow and on the subject that his new tracks are past the six minute mark in length he was saying that hes trying to make an allbum to listen to and not aiming at an audience with a one minute attention span...

good sentiments i thought,the thought i had in mind as well though is just make sure you are able to hit with those 3 minute jabs of songs too...

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Live Footage of Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours rehearsing new song "She Is Love" -Home Studios in Hamburg...