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Incoming! On WBI…
We sometimes gather together and make tiny plans, here is our proposed slate for the coming year: 
March:
12th: Jocky Venkataraman – Post Post Office EP (free download)
25th: Adam Stafford – Shot-down You Summer Wannabes/Fredrick Wiseman (Single, free download)
26th: Alan Bissett/Adam Stafford/The Kays Lavelle/Burnt Island/Jamie Sturrock LIVE at the Roxy Arts Centre Edinburgh (tickets £5, early show beginning 7pm)
April:
6th: Radio Trees – Outside World Strategies Vol.2 Mini LP (free download)
20th: Jamie Sturrock – New (untitled) EP (free download)
May:
17th: Kays Lavelle – Be Still, This Gentle Morning LP (CD)
August:
Alan Bissett/Adam Stafford – Untitled EP
September:
26th: Adam Stafford (writer)/Steven Tosh (illustrator) – Do You Still Need The Light? (graphic novella)
October:
Adam Stafford – Build a Harbour Immediately LP (CD)
Some of these dates may change, heck we might even throw-in more releases. Check blogs and pages for updates.
Love during wartime,
WBI x
The Kays on WBI
It’s with honour and pleasure to be presenting the debut single by Edinburgh’s The Kays Lavelle! A lovely, emotive track that builds up from nothing into a raging cacophonous fire, The Hours is presented as a FREE download from here and preludes the outfit’s debut LP, schedualed for release 17/5/10 – recorded by Neil Pennycook of Meursault and Alex Fenton.
Also you may be pleased to discover The Kays play an evening with Wise Blood Industries on March 26th at The Roxy Arts Centre (formerly The Bowery) in Edinburgh, alongside author Alan Bissett, Adam Stafford (Y’all is Fantasy Island/Size of Kansas), Burnt Island and Jamie Sturrock. We hope you can make it!
New Y’all is Fantasy Island single!
It’s been a quiet year for the four-piece considering 2008’s release of 3 LPs, so enjoy these two never before heard tracks.
#1 is drenched in strings, mournful guitar and Stafford’s trademark croak and obtuse lyrics. #2 is creepy like a walk up an icy path with zero visability.
Enjoy!
Download FREE here!
Burnt Island single
It’s with great pleasure to announce that Wise Blood Industries will be hosting the new single from Glasgow’s Burnt Island for free download!
Burnt Island is based around the songs of Rodge Glass (vocals, acoustic guitar). The band has evolved several times since forming in 2007, with various friends coming and going along the way. The now-stable line-up includes Rodge’s longest serving collaborator, Malcolm Jack (electric guitar, bass, vocals), also Rik Evans (viola), Amber Comerford (flute, vocals) and Andrew Campbell (bass, keys, vocals). That is, provided they’re not playing with other bands, studying for Masters degrees, making television programmes in the Hebrides or performing with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on that particular day. The band have been Vic Galloway’s ‘Unsigned Heroes’ on his BBC Radio Scotland show, and played at both the Triptych and Connect festivals, as well as supported the likes of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Hjaltalin, Sleeping States and The Phenomenal Handclap Band in 2009. Rodge, also an award-winning novelist and biographer of the Glaswegian artist Alasdair Gray, contributed to Ballads of the Book, an album released in 2007 by Chemikal Underground Records which featured collaborations between authors and musicians. He co-wrote and performed the track ‘The Fire’ together with highly influential folk legend Vashti Bunyan.
Download the single for FREE here! Or pick up a CD copy, distributed by Dead Light Records.
Burnt Island are putting the finishing touches to their Chem19-recorded debut album which is scheduled for release next year. They play a show with author Alan Bissett and WBI’s Adam Stafford at the Captain’s Rest on Great Western Rd in Glasgow on Friday the 5th of February 2010. We hope you can make it along!
Stafford – Awnings
Originally intended to be released in September, Adam Stafford’s official debut solo album Awnings is a fresh cock-flash in the face of the modern Scottish music constabulary. As a man without peers, Stafford’s LP is a swirling fist storm of a cappella improv madness, constructed from maddening complex algo-rythms and throbbing techno vulgarity amongst flashes of wayward electronic beatboxing and spoken word poetry, utilising only his mere throat and two loop pedals.
And all recorded in an intense 3 hour improv session in mid-September, it really does put most albums on the so-called “best-of” lists this year to shame (Pitchfork baulk!).
Not every-one’s cup of poisoned tea – moderate rock fans stay away! But if this quote from illustrator Paul Ryding tickles your scrotal flappys, download without hesitation: “Awnings sounds like Steve Riech if recorded in the megabus toilet. broken down in steps by one musician with a flask of cider and the biggest brass ball I ever did see!”
Downy-load FREE here!
Adam Stafford also directed the new clip for The Twilight Sad’s song “Seven Years of Letters”. Veiw the video here!