Afternoon all.
Right, the first blog
in a long time! Chris did write one but never posted it. Shock…
So this is the friendly catch up, imagine its over a cup of tea and we're bitching about someone that is really fat no and the people from school who have got 7 kids.
So this is the friendly catch up, imagine its over a cup of tea and we're bitching about someone that is really fat no and the people from school who have got 7 kids.
Ok, so down to brass
tax, a lot has happened since the last time we spoke. A little bit of sport in London called the Olympics happened but mainly we released our
album ‘We Raised the Flames and Built a City on the Ashes’ on 6th
August and so far seems to be receiving a positive response, which is a huge
sigh of relief for us after all the self doubt and nail biting that we (well,
I) had about it.
Thank you to everyone
who has brought it and listened to it so far. If you haven’t and wish to, you
can purchase it at www.minorartists.com/store.
The album has also
brought our first in depth review, which was done by the lovely folk at God Is
In The TV and you can read it here: http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/08/13/sunrise-over-europe-we-raised-the-flames-and-built-a-city-on-the-ashes-minor-artists/.
A particular favourite
line in it for me is “during
‘Escape is an Art, Art is an Escape’, there are a few seconds before the
chorus, when (mixed incredibly abrasively) a bass note practically says ‘ fuck
this, fuck you, you are a twat, this is all bullshit, I’ll be at the bar
watching the world burn …’ In case it isn’t obvious, this is a very VERY good
thing.”
I’m
glad that listeners pick up on the little details in the music like that as
when we recorded the album they seemed so throw away.
The
other big news over the past month is that we have released to music videos.
They aren’t full of women in bikinis, money, bling and big cars so we havn’t
yet reached the heights of west coast rap but you never know, our next album
may well have that quality. Check them out below
Little
Spoken Wars
The video for ‘Little Spoken Wars’ was filmed in St Nicolas’ church in Dormston
where we recorded the album. The last time the church had heard this track it
was in separate parts, so it was nice to come back and fill it with the sound
of the complete article. It was directed by (ever increasingly) renaissance man
Chris Donald and filmed by Verity Milligan. It was a fun day although we were
all sick of the song by the end! Thanks to them for their direction, time and
effort.
Follow
Me Around
The video for ‘Follow Me Around’ was the
vision of Yorkshire based director Benjamin Poffley, a friend of Chris
Donald’s. He was given the album and it was left to him to choose a track that
he could create something for. It’s a truly wonderful piece of work that we
incredibly proud of and we are so grateful for Benjamin’s time and effort!
More virgin ground upon which we are
walking is merchandise. We have t-shirts and posters based on the plethora of
fine artwork Katie Maxted gave us for the album and it is available from http://sunriseovereurope.bigcartel.com/
or from us at gigs.
What else?
The next Watchfires is on 15th
September down at the Flapper and playing we have new post-rock boys Prayers,
loud frantic extraordinaire’s Terrors and mellow evocative folkers Oh
Stockholm! We’ll be playing our moaning shit-cake music as well. This will be a
good one (they all are though aren’t they?) so we expect to see you there. Yeah
you.
Quick story about Prayers. Prayers are very
likeminded to us as they are also morbid post-rockers who like the darker side
of things, see why we like them? The Sunrise Lock-Up curse has struck again.
The band we were previously sharing with split up which is the second time
that’s happened to us. Leaving our third lock-up seemed inevitable until newly
formed Prayers came along and saved the day. I was on holiday when they played
their first gig so I can’t comment with authority on their sound but everyone
else in the Sunrise camp speak very highly of them.
Ok, now we’re all caught up I’ll let you
get on with your life.
Thank you all for your support and see you
soon.
Good hunting
Will
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