OK, so recently we’ve been getting people to play new stuff live with us, and we’ve also been getting people to do new synthed up mixes of our recordings (another one coming soon…). Now it’s your turn…
There is this game on facebook called songster – where you can remix our track “Beautiful and Useless” and mix it with loads of other tracks (including the immense Don’t fear the reaper by blue oyster cult).
Hi – you wait ages for one video then two come along at the same (almost) time…
Here’s a video for our new mix of Beautiful & Useless. You can get that new mix here from 1st April (uh-oh) and you can get the whole album for not very much RIGHT NOW – see the right hand panel on this site or go to “Buy” page…we’ve update the links to the cheapest places you can get them…
Here we are at last! The video we’ve been banging on about on the site for a while is here…us, some friends, live at Holbeck Social Club…a brilliant day for us, we hope you enjoy the results…
It always seems to be a while before we post this stuff up…anyway, we’ve lots of bits of news…
…that video I’m on about below…that’s still coming. It’s pretty cool.
Big news, Vijay (Club Smith’s drummer) is filling the drum stool of Nick Hodgson of “that other Leeds band” Kaiser Chiefs. So the times they are a changin’, we’re not going to have Vijay for most gigs but we will have some excellent fill-ins, such as James Kenosha – one of the producers of our record who is joining us for our European gigs next months and some UK ones after that. James is a fine drummer, has played with us before and is outrageously handsome. ‘Nuff said.
We wish Vijay all the best, Kaiser Chiefs have been great to us over the years so we’re delighted our brother-from-another-mother is getting a chance to play some big gigs with them. He’ll remain involved in Club Smith with writing new stuff and we’re setting up a revolving door for collaborations with us live and on new recordings…which leads me to our next single…here it is…with tasty mix action from Lance Thomas (Ladytron Producer) and Dave Bascombe (Depeche Mode Producer)…
This will be out in the Spring, and yes it’s a total coincidence that the drums are quieter on this new mix…
Great News! The PRS Foundation (a grant giving foundation) has put forward a small grant to subsidise Club Smith and live Music. Not only does this put us back on a sure-footing following our November tour it also means we’re able to tour again in 2013 and it additionally means we have been able to afford to make new live videos. The first new one is a version of album track 6: ”I didn’t want to show you that I’d lost faith”. We recreated the track at the Holbeck Social Club in Leeds with about 15 musicians playing parts, all live and filmed. The video comes through later in January.
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Here’s a sneaky peak from the live day at Holbeck, see what instruments you can spot:
Appetite for Chivalry – The debut album by Club Smith is out today! You can order the album worldwide now, from all the main stores and in your UK independent shops.
To order the album on mp3 from anywhere in the world click on one of the four links below:
You can also click below to buy the album on Jewel Case CD from 3 of various UK outlets that will deliver worldwide:
Here it is! The official video for Lament…the first single from the Album “Appetite for Chivalry” (which you can buy below on limited run before it hits the shops in November).
We recorded it live at Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds, an Edwardian Cinema. Featured in the video are a bunch of other musicians we got in to make the recording an interesting thing with new parts and epic dynamics and what not. We’d be honoured if you shared the video with others…
And here are some mash-ups people have already done:
