We proudly present new footage from our recent gig at Audioriver festival in Poland.
After 5 hours in the van (the driver went the wrong way) in staggering heat (air-con malfunction) with Chris threatening to remove his trousers (Charlotte notices small hammer marked ‘in emergency, break glass’), we finally arrived for sound-check in the mother of all storms which had been chasing us all the way from Warsaw.
Lightning, thunder, wind and huge fat lumps of rain hit the festival like a wet sponge and as we all ran around the stage like headless chickens pelted by wet sponges and trying desperately to cover all our equipment from the driving rain, a rather large Red Bull tent rolled past the main stage like a gigantic tumbleweed and one side of our stage was blown down. We lost a piano which blew up in the rain and the big LED wall at the back had a crisis and decided it no longer wanted to be an LED wall and promptly died but eventually the storm subsided, Chris didn’t in fact remove his trousers and the rain blew away. Hallelujah. Bloody marvellous!
So Mike has edited together some of the footage from the gig and here we are playing Break My Soul to a sensational and perhaps slightly soggy crowd. We had so much fun, thank you people of Plock. One of the best festivals to date!
Here’s an excerpt from our live set on the Glade Stage at Glastonbury 2010, featuring a new live version of Finished Symphony. A beautiful evening equally matched by the magnificent crowd who decided against seeing Florence And The Machine and came to hang out with us instead. We salute you. Read more to watch the second video…
With the first gig in three years looming, we headed off to Dubrek Studios in Derby to rehearse the new live set in readiness for Glastonbury. A fine way to kick off a summer of festivals and a return to playing live after quite a break. With a whole new set of tracks and some specially updated classics, we spent a very warm week annoying the studio’s neighbors with our sound engineer’s huge PA system.
We’d just like to thank everyone who came to see us at the Glade stage on Friday, we had an absolutely amazing time and were privileged to have played to such a happy crowd at sunset. We’ve got loads of video footage of the gig and had it specially recorded so we’ll be uploading the edited highlights over the next couple of weeks. Thanks again to the fantastic crowd, you made our weekend!
The second single from ‘Disappear Here’ is ‘Can You Hear Me’ which features Tim Hutton on vocals. It is available now from iTunes / Beatport, or vinyl at the Distinctive Shop. Watch the video on HD here. Directed and edited by Mike Truman, the video features the entire band who’ll be touring this summer.
