Stornoway

Living on tea and dreams

Friday January 20, 2012 Comment

Here we are, in our studio. We have nearly finished arranging the songs, and recording has begun! We took an evening out to gig under one of Oxford’s spires, but other than that it’s been Stir Crazy Cabin Fever all the way – high time for summertime! So I’m glad to be able to announce… the first of our UK festival bookings: APPLECART, LONDON.

In the Studio...

Thursday December 8, 2011 Comment

We’ll be leaving the den for a few hours this Friday, to debut some new songs at an unplugged Yuletide concert on Oxford’s Cornmarket Street. Pop by at 8pm to hear what we’ve been up to (tickets here). In the meantime, take a look in the studio.

A Film From Outer Space

Wednesday November 23, 2011 Comment

During our stay in the XIXe, we filmed this for La Blogotheque as part of the Pitchfork Festival. We played alongside Bon Iver, Lykke Li, Jens Lekman, Kathleen Edwards and Rosebuds, on the second day of this very special concert series – the first time Pitchfork has brought an event to Europe. Click for a snippet of another brand new Stornoway song.

We’re back home now with the glue-gun and off-cuts, preparing our studio for recording. We’ll be preparing these songs for you over the new year.

If you’d like any of our merchandise for Christmas, here are the last postal dates. Follow this, and you should have everything in time! Click the urchin at the top of this page to visit our shop.

International Airmail:
Thursday 1st December – South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East,
Far East, Asia, New Zealand and Australia
Wednesday 7th December – Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe
Thursday 8th December – Western Europe

First Class:
Friday 16th December – UK

from Oli

Au Revoir Paris!

Friday November 4, 2011 Comment

What a great way to finish off our gigs for the year, supporting Bon Iver in a slaughterhouse in Paris in front of a brilliant crowd, and then getting slaughtered. Now its back to the leaf-covered garage, arranging flugelhorn parts and plainsong chants and flowers and learning how to play the spoons and throat sing.

We’ll keep you updated as the album progresses, but meanwhile, we hope you enjoy pyrotechnics as much as we do, and remember to keep your hamsters indoors…

Love B

Signed Posters!

Thursday October 13, 2011 Comment

Dear all,

There are a few posters, designed by our drummer Rob and signed by all of us, left over from our Concert4Conservation gig in Oxford. Grab yourself one for just a fiver from HERE.

Every penny will go towards wildlife conservation!

Maybe see some of you in France at Pitchfork festival in a couple of weeks?

Bri for now

Recording in the church

Friday February 10, 2012 Comment

On Wednesday we headed down to St Michael’s in Oxford town to get a record of my drum parts for some new songs.

With us we had our comrade Kirini who fuelled us with a delicious pasta dish and cast an eye over the occasion with these superb sketches.

We hope you enjoy the visuals.

All the best

Rob