Skibunny Album Launch ATL Review

BBC Northern Ireland's Across The Line were at last week's Belfast album launch for Skibunny's Hugs album - read the review here. Don't forget to place your pre-order for Hugs this week to get the specially-recorded songs on the bonus disc.

2nd Skibunny Album Launch Announced

We’re really looking forward to the Belfast album launch party on Wednesday, and now here’s details for the EDINBURGH party:

SKIBUNNY “HUGS” ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
at THIS IS MUSIC
featuring
SKIBUNNY (live!)
DJS BARGAIN HAROLD & I-TALLAH DISCO
at
SNEAKY PETE’S, 73 COWGATE, EDINBURGH
FRIDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER
DOORS 11PM(Curfew 3AM)
ADMISSION IS £3 OR FREE TO SNEAKY PETE’S MEMBERS!
Established in 2006, This Is Music runs every Friday, with the best live bands and DJs from Scotland & beyond. Previous wins include Japandroids, Frightened Rabbit, Lovvers, Broken Records, Copy Haho & more.

Skibunny Belfast Album Launch Line-up Announced

As we may have mentioned already, our debut album HUGS is released on Monday 27th September. To celebrate the release, we will be throwing NOT ONE, but TWO special parties, in BELFAST and EDINBURGH. Here’s the details for BELFAST - it’s on a BOAT!

SKIBUNNY “HUGS” ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
featuring
SKIBUNNY plus very special guests!
STUART BRAITHWAITE (DJ set)
RAMS POCKET RADIO (solo)
CONEY ISLAND SOUND(DJ set)
visuals by the 15 Second Film Festival
at
THE BARGE, BELFAST (between Waterfront Hall and Queens Bridge)
WEDNESDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER
DOORS 8PM (Curfew 11pm)
ADMISSION IS FREE!

Capacity is strictly limited to 100, entry guaranteed by advance subscription to info@smalltownamerica.co.uk

AND it’s all part of Belfast’s Music Week, in association with MTV

Skibunny Announce Special Floating Belfast Album Launch

Belfast duo Skibunny release their new album Hugs on September 27th but there'll be a special FREE ENTRY launch gig on a barge in Belfast a couple of weeks beforehand.

SKIBUNNY is TANYA Mellotte (vocals, guitar, keys) and MARK Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar, keys). With one eye on tunes and one on the dance floor, "Hugs" is 40 minutes of bittersweet electronic guitar-pop beating with an uplifting heart, sitting somewhere between NEW ORDER, GOLDFRAPP and THE CURE, ranging from the washed-out bliss of Aah Ooh to the crunching stomp of recent EP lead track Walk Don't Walk, and including a re-imagining of the Afghan Whigs track Milez iz Ded. The album’s central theme is about wanting more than your lot, about taking risks in life and love, and if it doesn’t work out? You pick yourself up, dust yourself down and do it all over again, but this time a little bit better. Hugs also features guest vocals by MAPS and Kaori Tsuchida from THE GO! TEAM.

The album's free barge launch is on Wednesday 15th September in Belfast, somewhere between The Waterfront Hall and the Queen's Bridge; to guarantee entry please email us. "Hugs" itself will be available to buy from September 27th and as always comes with a limited edition CD (containing specially-recorded material) when purchased from the STA store.

LaFaro Launch Show Live Footage from Bandwidth

Missed out on the Apr 28th LaFaro album launch show at the Menagerie? Watch Will McConnell's superb video footage at the always excellent Bandwidth Sessions site.

Photographs From The LaFaro Album Launch Show

Courtesy of AU & Carrie Davenport

FWW Announced for LaFaro Album Launch Bill

Yes - you better believe it. Fighting With Wire will be the support act for the second LaFaro album launch show. To celebrate - we've just released thirty additional tickets for those tweet-reading, NI FWW fans - get them now or they're gone!

Posted via email from Smalltown America Records

LaFaro Album Launch Show - SOLD OUT

Hey - thanks to everyone that got up early/skived for five at work and purchased a LaFaro ticket for the Menagerie show next month, those are all sold out now. We really appreciate your support - and the band are delighted too! Have a great weekend...

Updated: LaFaro Album Launch Tickets Sold Out

Is 'onsale' one word or two, or hyphenated - I'm not sure anyway, thank christ it's Friday - I'm stressed to the max because I've haven't ironed my pants and socks yet for SXSW and we leave on Tuesday - is this enough time for so many pairs of pants?

So much uncertainty in my life - yet so much CLARITY over the news that the LaFaro album launch show tickets have gone on sale this morning at 9AM. Get them now people while there hot and whilst others sleep you can bag yourself a first listen to a band at MAXIMUMRAWPOWER playing 100cap show in their hometown.

Oh yes, it's going to be good - STA know how to host an album launch show that's for certain.

Here be the details:
Mon 26th Apr, 2010
Belfast, The Menagerie
Doors: 9:00pm
Price: £5.00

SOLD OUT, SORRY

The album is out on May 10th - but you can pre-order it from anywhere in the world with an exclusive bonus disc (of yet to be decided quantity and quality material - get the finger out boys) on the all shiny new STA Store. There is a dead duck on the front, you don't want to know how much bother that was to sort out.

Never work with children, or dead animals or bands.

Top Secret LaFaro Album Launch - 100 Tickets Only!

Smalltown America Presents....
LaFaro (Album Launch)
The Menagerie, Belfast
£5
9pm
100 tickets - only!
Available from www.wegottickets.com at 9am Friday 12th March.

This will be the first chance to get your mitts on the long awaited LaFaro debut album...but when is it?

Let Our Enemies Beware Gig Utterances

Filthy Whore-Slags, hear my utterances:

Utterance #1: ROAR Festival in Gravesend this weekend (11th - 13th September). We have a few tickets left. You want them, huh? You NEED them, eh? No problem. They are four of your dirty English pounds. Let us know if you want some by contacting us.

Utterance #2: THE ALBUM LAUNCH on Saturday 26th Septmeber at The Fox N Firkin in Lewisham. You should be there. If travel is a problem there will be a coach from Medway. Again, let us know the crack by Saturday 12th September LATEST. LATEST. LATEST. E-mail us. Now, get to it.

Godspeed.

Master Meat.

The Young Playthings Album Launch Party

Now that he's got 80s Madonna off his chest*, Bateman Plaything's returned to business -

We're releasing a new record, the originally titled Back To The Future, on 8 June on Smalltown America. We're very happy with it.

To celebrate, we're having a release party on Monday 8 June at Catch on Kingsland Road, Shoreditch. We're currently begging a few other bands to come along and help make the occasion a fun one and, to put the icing on the cake, we're going to play BTTF from start to finish. Don't worry, it's only 40 minutes long.

All are welcome, so if there's anyone out there reading this, please come down!

*was that a late 90's Bis lyric?

And So I Watch You From Afar: Post Launch

What can I say, last night was immense. All 3 supports (Pocket Billiards, Adebisi Shank and The Lowly Knights) were terrific and the near 90 minute And So I set was appropriately enormous. A big thanks to the several hundred of you that came to Mandela Hall and played a vital part in making the album launch such a success.

Non-human star of the show had to be this fella but bad news - I'm afraid this will be going on my lounge wall but thanks for all the bids.

ASIWYFA photo courtesy Ramsey Cardy/Shoot To Thrill - check out Ramsey's site for more great shots.

ASIWYFA Album Launch Tonite!

Despite some rumours that are doing the rounds, tonight's And So I Watch You From Afar album launch event at Mandela Hall in Belfast is NOT sold out and there'll be plenty o' tickets on the door. Also on the bill are Lowly Knights, Adebisi Shank, Pocket Billiards and La Faro. Doors at 8.