Quick update:

Matthew Ryan has pulled out of the Social gig, so we are now headlining, (at a suitably headliney sort of hour….i should imagine)

Tuesday 8th July from 7pm

5 Little Portland St (just off Great Portland st)
Nearest tube Oxford Circus

Also…

Friday 11th July we play LIVE to the nations DAB Radios via Tom Robinsons BBC 6Music show

We’ll be doing a couple of LIVE songs LIVE between 7-8.30pm …LIVE

onwards…

DCLC

Hello all -

Another quick update for your eyes to see…

Firstly, our latest release - the ‘Circles’ EP - is out now ( from Monday 16th June) and will be available from all the usual shops and online outlets (iTunes, emusic, Bleep etc…) and features a very lovely illustrated cover designed by ace Texan arty types Land Land. The title track’s been getting loads of radio play from the likes of Rob da Bank, Zane Lowe (both Radio 1), Tom Robinson (6music), John Kennedy (Xfm) and Mark Radcliffe (Radio 2). Also look out for us in next month’s Mixmag as Single Of The Month on the experimental page.

Secondly, the album is done, and being mastered as we speak. It will be called ‘Miracle Kicker’. It will be out in the first week of October hopefully. We should announce some sort of tour soon.

Thirdly, as we’ve finished the album we thought it only right to give ourselves a light airing or two… two little soirees to tell you about…

Thurs 19th June - Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch High St. w/Cosmicorus, Lisa Knapp, some others…
We are playing a gig at Shoreditch Church on the 19th of June with the amazingly tweaked jazz choir Cosmicorus, Mojo folk album of the year award winner Lisa Knapp and a few others. There’s even prizes if you turn up dressed as a pirate. Not our idea, we assure you, but there’s free booze in it. DCLC on at 8.45pm.

Tues 8th July - The Social, Little Portland Street
Gig for the lovely Ugly Nephew record label, with US troubadour Matthew Ryan. We’re on around 9.15pm I think.

Also keep an ear out for a forthcoming Selector/World Service session, which we’re recording the week after next, as well as our inaugural BBC session (6music), which we’re doing in the next few weeks.

Cheers

DCLC

Well the Indigo O2 gig was a lovely experience.  Despite £4 a pint and the vague air that we were playing in “Blue Water meets Blade runner” (an excellent description from Mr Carney) the gig was most excellent. ……Fantastic sound and a very cool audience.  We missed most of Gay For Johnny Depp in a post gig stella induced haze, but Pilgrim Fathers and Errors were ace.  65 Days of Static brought the house down too.  Thanks so much to them for inviting us to play.Apparently there are some pictures flying around…we’ll get them for you to have a look at as soon as we find out who took them So after two gigs in our new expanded line-up, we now once again enter the den of iniquity that is Golden Hum to finish off the album…….  We are in the final few days now and things are shaping up nicely.  Lots of old tunes like Spontaneous Combustion Pact and Parallel bars are joined by new songs such as Remote View, Good Cowboy and Questions.  Our first release of 2008, the “Circles EP” should be out on LoAF in June and we are looking to release our album in the Autumn……Personally, I feel quite nostalgic at this final stage of the record.  Some of these songs are nearly two years old now (I’m amazed that I’m not sick of them) and there is a palpable sense that “a chapter is closing”….its going to be a really lovely feeling to give some of these songs an official airing……  In our practices for the latest shows we’ve been playing around with new songs as a six piece and I really can’t wait to start the next record. To use a favorite phrase of late, it’s all sounding rather “muscular” and we may even be in a position to sort out some new bits and pieces for our next show in June…..So….That’s all for now.   

Thanks to Hush The Many, and all who came to see us in support of them, i hope you all enjoyed yourselves, we certainly did.

Next up O2 Indigo this friday, supporting 65 Days Of Static.

Also playing that night will be:
Gay For Johnny Depp
Errors

Tickets can be bought here

See you there.

What has been happening…This Easter weekend has found us buffering ourselves against the chill winds and hugely inclement weather in London town by holing up once more in Golden Hum studios, under the guidance of the erstwhile Daniel Lea and the lovely slice of humanity that is Robin Proper-Sheppard.

We’re about three more studio days away from having thirteen finished songs, with a view to an eleven/twelve song album, and mixing (by Kenny Jones at Alchemy) is pencilled in for the week beginning May 12th, so expect some new tunes shortly after that, technology and weather permitting. So far it’s all sounding beautiful and - this is my new favourite word to describe our recordings - muscular.

What is going to happen
The album is out in the autumn, but there’s an EP on the way in June, which features four songs. These are…

Circles - totally new one which features the talents of our new drummer Chin of Britain.

Robot Command Centre - old song, but rebuffed, revoiced and remixed to within an inch of its life. It sounds pretty muscular.

They Be Underwater - another old one which we’ve decided isn’t featuring on the album, but we thought it’d be a shame not to give it an official airing. So, after going through the relevant committees, sub-committees and panels, here it is.

Walls - pretty bare, slow one which we did last summer and still like. Also not featuring on the album. Like ’Circles’, no-one has ever heard this except us, so we’re looking forward to getting it out there. Quiet but muscular.

The EP, rather imaginatively, will be called ’Circles’. We’ll get some of it up here in the next week or two, I’d imagine.

Some of the other new songs which will (probably) be on the album are ’Remote View’, ’What The Summer Brings’, ’Questions’ and ’Good Cowboy’.

What is going to happen (2)…

There are also two gigs on the horizon, after our lengthy break from the live side of things. These are…

Friday 11 April - Indig02 (w/65daysofstatic, Errors, Gay For Johnny Depp). Our second gig with the full band - should be fun, in a slightly pant-wettingly terrifying way. Many thanks to 65daysofstatic for giving us the chance to air our chops in a large space.
Thursday 19 June - Shoreditch Church (w/Cosmicorus, Lisa Knapp). This should be lovely. Not sure if it’ll be a full band one yet. Not for a while so you’ve plenty of time to plan an outfit. Cosmicorus are a many-limbed, tweaked jazz choir who we played with last summer and like very, very much. They’ll sound awesome in this setting.

Other business…

I’d like to end by drawing your attention to two things we’ve really, really enjoyed about the studio this time around.

Burritos (constant consumption of). If you’re ever in Angel, or indeed London, go here. Many thanks to Robin for turning us onto this.

Daniel Lea’s psychological limits (testing of). Now we know Daniel well enough, and the initial tentative politeness and mutual respect has given way to full-scale degradation, abuse and psychological control, we enjoy seeing how far we can take things before he cracks. I found on Saturday night that a light, unexpected kiss to the back of his neck while he’s trying to edit drums does the trick beautifully.

If you’ve read this far, go and do something else more productive, for your own sakes. It’s your time you’re wasting, not mine.

See you all very soon

Dan (DCLC)

PS: We did a live session for The Selector a few weeks back, which you can listen to here…