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BSP to play intimate London show
3 August 2010British Sea Power will be playing the XOYO club in London on Friday, September 17, as part of Rockfeedback’s Tenth Anniversary celebrations.
The event runs from 8pm-3am. Future of the Left, Three Trapped Tigers and Anna Calvi will also be playing live. DJs include Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis, Bloc Party, The Maccabees and White Heat.
More information is available on the Rockfeedback website.
Tickets from Wegottickets, Ticketweb and Seetickets
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Rough Trade in-store
23 July 2010BSP will be playing an in-store gig at Rough Trade East at 7pm this Friday, July 23, to celebrate the store’s third birthday and the publication of ‘Document and Eyewitness: An Intimate History of Rough Trade’ by Neil Taylor.
For entry to the gig you will need a wristband, which can be obtained by purchasing a copy of the book from Rough Trade East. Any remaining wristbands will be given out an hour prior to stage time on a first-come, first-served basis, one per person.
BSP Twittering
15 July 2010British Sea Power have embraced the age of instant communication and have started Twittering.
See what they’ve had for tea, or what they’ve got planned for the days ahead.
Join them here.
http://twitter.com/BSPOfficial
FESTIVAL DATES AND MANICS TOUR
21 June 201017 JUNE 2010
British Sea Power have announced a number of festival appearances over the summer, starting with two Man of Aran performances at the Traena festival in Norway and including sets at the Reading and Leeds festivals, where they will be headlining the Festival Republic Stage.
BSP will also be appearing as special guests of the Manic Street Preachers on their autumn tour.
For full details go to the live page.
"Break out the bubbly"
17 June 2010British Sea Power guitarist Noble is one of the men behind the last-minute 2010 World Cup tune Football (Kick It In The Goal).
Football (Kick It In The Goal) has been inspired by a stirring calypso tribute to an airport. The recording features Noble alongside Marc and Eamon of The Brakes and Darren and Matt from leading UK Jonathan Richman tribute act, The Modern Ovens.
The track can be downloaded for free here.
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Festival dates and Manics tour
17 June 2010British Sea Power have announced a number of festival appearances over the summer, starting with two Man of Aran performances at the Traena festival in Norway and including sets at the Reading and Leeds festivals, where they will be headlining the Festival Republic Stage.
BSP will also be appearing as special guests of the Manic Street Preachers on their autumn tour.
For full details go to the live page.
Tan Hill festival - more tickets and full line-up
23 April 2010Some extra tickets have become available for BSP’s Sing Ye From The Hillsides! weekender at Tan Hill, featuring Metronomy, Race Horses, Marc Riley and more. Tickets are £75 plus a small charitable donation for use of the camp site. Click here to purchase
The full line up features:
METRONOMY, KITTY DAVIS & LEWIS, I LIKE TRAINS, MARK RILEY (DJ), RACE HORSES, GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY, ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL, BO NINGEN, BASIA BULAT, MODERN OVENS, ROSE DOUGAL, JOHN & JEHN, MY SAD CAPTAIN, ALESSIS ARK
British Sea Power will also be playing two full sets.
There will be a number of organised activites throughout the weekend, including the Tan Hill Olympics, Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling, husky racing, guided walks, BSP-brand fruit champagne and a big fire and explosions in the night. And a very late bar.
Camping is available for everyone. There are also yurts and some local accommodation is available. For details email Rosiebooth@hotmail.com
The Tan Hill Inn is Britain’s highest pub. For information on how to get there go to www.tanhill.co.uk
British Sea Power have also announced that they will be playing a free open-air festival in Warsaw, Poland, on May 7. More details here
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Spring dates and Tan Hill festival
19 March 2010British Sea Power are playing a small number of dates in April and May ahead of the release of their forthcoming album. The gigs will include performances of their soundtrack to Man of Aran in London and Sheffield. The band will also be hosting their second Sing Ye from the Hillsides! festival at Britain’s highest pub, the Tan Hill Inn, in North Yorkshire. Tickets from ticketline.co.uk. More details here
NME Awards Show
14 December 2009BSP will headline an NME Shockwaves Awards Show on February 9 at the Scala in London. Support from These New Puritans, Surfer Blood and Sparrow and the Worskshop. Tickets from 0871 230 1094 and http://www.gigsandtours.com
BSP down under
28 November 2009British Sea Power have announced five dates in Australia in February. The band will be playing two sets at the Perth International Arts Festival, including a performance of their soundtrack to Man of Aran. They will also be playing dates in Melbourne and Sydney and will be headlining the Playground Weekender Festival in New South Wales. For more details, go to the ‘Live’ page
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BSP in the Far East
30 September 2009BSP will be playing two dates in the Far East in October. On Friday 9, they will be performing at the Wall Live House in Taipei, Taiwan, and on Saturday 10 at Grappa’s Cellar in Hong Kong. For more details, go to the ‘Live’ page. The band are sorry to announce that due to circumstances beyond their control they will no longer be appearing at the Modern Sky festival in Beijing.
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Carrion / All In It Remix
2 June 2009Courtesy of the man known as Pressbutton, and straight out of God’s own county Yorkshire, comes this beautiful remix of Carrion / All In It….
Close your eyes and you could almost be there yourself. Right click here and select ‘save as’ to download it for free.
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MAN of ARAN - out now
23 May 2009BSP Man Of Aran DVD/CD out now.
This acclaimed 1934 film had been gracefully led into the 21st century, with the BSP soundtrack spread across CD and DVD in wild profusion:
-Studio version in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo.
-Original Edinburgh Film Festival live performance in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo.
-Bonus ambient soundtrack by Yan in 2.0 Stereo.
The press at large have been amazed by these options in home entertainment.
“…a creation of fecund, primeval power” 4/5 – MOJO
“This isn’t an album you can dip into; instead dive in and sink to the bottom while letting it gloriously wash over you” 8/10 – NME.
“Image and sound spiral and intertwine majestically, merging like mating seahorses” – The Word magazine.
“Brooding, haunting, ravishingly beautiful” - The Scotsman.
“Beautiful… piano and penny whistle twinkle like sunlight on the waves” – Independent On Sunday.
- WIN uniquely iconic shark-themed posters.
To further gild the rumwagon, we are offering up the chance to win three uniquely signed and customised BSP Man Of Aran shark posters. To get in the pot for one of these braw 2D beauties, just answer the following.
Q. British Sea Power feature a beautiful viola player. But name the American alt-country band who wrote a song about meeting a beautiful violin player – on the Aran islands!
Answers to: bspcompetitions@hotmail.com
The shark posters will be signed and adorned by the very men and women of BSP. The original, commercially available posters can be seen at this link:
http://apple.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/britishseapower?op=catalogue-products-null&prodCategoryID=9&title=Other+goods
All correct answers will be placed in the BSP R-Powling Random-number Flenspad. Any opinion ever expressed by the band and their 22 harried employees will be total and binding.
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Come Wander For Free
27 April 2009Greetings friends of BSP, together we live in exciting times. Last week we had the pleasure of playing our new Man Of Aran soundtrack live at London’s BFI. We performed new material and some re workings of old ditties, True Adventures, The Great Skua, North Hanging Rock, and a cover of Jeff Alexanders “Come Wander With Me” before a projection of the film’s spectacularly cinematic portrayal of the island’s landscape, seascape and pre modern inhabitants risking their lives hunting large sharks and working the land. Our Jeff Alexanders cover is available for you to download here.
If you’d like to see Man Of Aran live show, your best bet is to come to this summer’s Big Chill festival where we will be kick starting the festivities with a huge outdoor performance!
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Man of Aran Artwork and Tracklisting
22 April 2009British Sea Power scored Man Of Aran release date is May 18th, 2009
British Sea Power have written and recorded a new soundtrack for the 1934 film Man Of Aran. The film is being re-released on DVD with the new BSP soundtrack – a release which will be preceded by the band performing the soundtrack live to the film at BFI Southbank on 23 April. The BSP Man Of Aran package includes two discs – the re-scored Man Of Aran DVD, plus the soundtrack by itself on CD.
“It’s a wonderful film,” says BSP guitarist Noble. “The images vary between huge drama and a brilliant kind of ridiculousness – check out the amazing foot-wide bobbled berets that the fishermen wear. It’s a great look, like a 1930s Irish version of Jack White or Kraftwerk. It’s a film that’s also relevant to the current era – a time when the idea of living a simpler life is in the air. The film shows something I’d like to think I could do, but know I never will.”
Man Of Aran is a powerful and provocative dramatised documentary from the late American filmmaker Robert J Flaherty. In a series of startling black-and-white sequences the film presents daily life on the inhospitable Aran islands on the west coast of Ireland. The film was both celebrated and controversial on its release.
The package includes three versions:
- Studio Version in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo.
- Original Edinburgh Film Festival live performance in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
and 2.0 Stereo. - Bonus Soundtrack in 2.0 Stereo – an abstract ambient piece from Yan.
Tracklisting
01. Man Of Aran
02. The South Sound
03. Come Wander With Me
04. Tiger King
05. The Currach
06. Boy Vertiginous
07. Spearing The Sunfish
08. Conneely Of The West
09. The North Sound
10. Woman Of Aran
11. It Comes Back Again
12. No Man Is An Archipelago
You can pre-order your copy of Man of Aran here.
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