Both gigs were recorded so may appear on BBC Introducing Radio shows in the next week or two so keep your ears peeled!
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It was an amazing weekend and we were treated so well by everyone at BBC Introducing and Festival Republic, plus it was outstanding to have such great crowds at each gig…thank you!
hey, almost gold recordings made club smith’s track Lament their “track of the day” on their blog. that’s pretty sweet, those guys put out the black kids album, and peter bjorn and john!
hey, there’s going to be a little feature on radio aire (west yorkshire) on 96.3fm where they are introducing the leeds festival bands from the region, and you can vote on facebook or text to say which band you want to hear. bit of fun like, tune in at 8pm!
Should the title of this post be “Leeds and Reading stage times”? Am I betraying my Yorkshire roots there? Does anyone care?
Anyway, we have our stage times on the BBC Introducing stage at Leeds and Reading (there we go, back in it’s rightful place…?) so if you’re going to the festivals remember to get up nice and early…
BBC Introducing Stage:
Friday 27th August: LEEDS – 12pm
Saturday 28th August: READING – 12pm
This is kind of good for us as it means we don’t clash too much with the big acts on (apologies rolo tomassi, the walkmen, kassius et al also on at 12pm…you’re all very different to us anyway…oh god this is awkward why did I open my mouth…) so it might be an easier choice for festie peeps to come check out Club Smith. There I go talking in band-third-person. Is anyone uncomfortable with that? I am a little.
What’s doubly exciting for us is that we’ve been working on the songs a bit, so the set you’ll see at Leeds/Reading will hopefully be a little different with the songs played in a different (but better) way…
Our first EP…the Loss EP was released in March. There were a limited amount of CDs with covers designed by Neil our Keyboard player. Each cover is different…
There’s only a handful of CDs left…you can order them from the link below (£2.99). Grab yours before it sell’s out! Remember your cd will be like no other because of the different covers…
We had 100 free tickets but they have all been taken and we can’t get any more…however you CAN still get tickets on the door on the night (£5) or in advance from the link below:
We had 100 free tickets but they have all been taken within a day (which is mad) and we can’t get any more…however you CAN still get tickets on the door on the night (£5) or in advance (£4) from the link below:
The reason you can’t get tickets off us is it might sell out on just one band’s tickets and that wouldn’t be as fair for the competition I think…but the good thing is we’re on first so you should easily be able to get tickets on the door.
So here’s the deal, on Wed 21st July we are playing a gig at the Cockpit in Leeds. We are onstage at 7.45pm. that’s heaps early.
It’s for the Futuresound competition. People come down to the gig, vote for us, so do some judges, and if we have a lot of votes we get to play Leeds and Reading Festival. Pretty sweet huh?
Well we need people to come down! So basically we thought about this and because we had a headline in Leeds last month that we charged people for we thought “let’s not charge people for this gig in July”. So…if you’d like to come down and help us get to the festival (and see three other leeds bands that are good)…
….Then just email us on band@clubsmith.co.uk and give us your address and we’ll send however many you want out…free of charge!
We have a limited number of tickets so please make sure you’re cool to come down on that date. Also if you were at our gig at the Well in June you may have picked some up there…check!
Thanks!!! We are on 7.45pm and here are the other bands playing that night:
Soooo, we played in Berlin on Thursday night! What an amazing place, great people, tasty beer and graffiti everywhere. Loved it. We played Sage Club, which we soon learnt was some kind of sexy-fun club on weekends (the decor was outstanding). Noone got naked during the gig, but loads of fun was still had. Thanks to everyone who came down and enjoyed our set and massive thanks to Steven, Jens and Madlen at Phonocaster who did an ace job of looking after us- we’ll be seeing you again soon!
