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Bobby Womb

Adam Stafford — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:13:36 +0000

Bobbywomb on his music:
“It was the year that wearing a CD on a chain around your neck first became popular. I plugged a microphone into a computer and checked the recording device was set to ‘Blue Snowball.’ My father laughed loudly when he realised what I was doing, then demanded golf magazines be brought from a dentist’s waiting room. Since then I’ve been striving to capture the sound of slowly whirring metal balloons, steep hills and cold legs. I live in London and am survived by my wife-to-be, two parents and three siblings.”

Download Womb’s 2 EPs for FREE:

Dwarf Management

Cona Glen Falls

Adam Stafford

Adam Stafford — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:38:29 +0000

Adam Stafford is a musician and filmmaker from Falkirk, Central Scotland. Now based in Glasgow he is the founder of Wise Blood Industries and was the singer and songwriter in the group Y’all is Fantasy Island (active between 05-11). Recently he has been concentrating on solo work and films, winning seven international awards for his short documentary The Shutdown, made in collaboration with Alan Bissett and directing a music video for The Twilight Sad’s single Seven Years of Letters (winner of Best Video at the New Scottish Music Awards 2011).

In Novemeber 2010 he recorded the solo LP Build a Harbour Immediately which was co-produced by Paul Savage in Chem 19 Studios. It was released on Wise Blood in August 2011.

Watch a video of Adam performing Add Mask in Stereo HERE!

Download/buy music from Adam Stafford’s prolific output below:

As Y’all is Fantasy Island: The Complete Recordings (their entire back catalogue for FREE download)

Solo as Adam Stafford:

Build a Harbour Immediately (Stream/Buy)

Adam Stafford Live in Stereo (Single/Buy)

Fire & Theft/Shot-down You Summer Wannabes (Miaoux Miaoux remix) (Single FREE download)

Music in The Mirabel (Mini-LP FREE Download)

Shot-down You Summer Wannabes/Frederick Wiseman (Single FREE Download)

Miniature Porcelain Horse Emporium (LP FREE download)

Awnings (LP FREE download)

As Size Of Kansas:

Four of Five Loose Horses (EP FREE download)

Digital is Dead From The Beginning (LP FREE download)

Bookings: info[at]wisebloodindustries[dot]com

Jamie Sturrock

Adam Stafford — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:50 +0000

Jamie Sturrock is from Falkirk, Central Scotland. He was a member of two prominent experimental acts from the town; Metal duo Ghost and his noise moniker Insythin. In 2009 he recorded and released a very organic, textural EP, “Giascape” on Wise Blood which utilised certain unorthodox techniques on the acoustic guitar.

He issues “EP2: Giascape” on Wise Blood in August 2010 and is currently working on an LP.

PAWS

Adam Stafford — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:04:34 +0000

PAWS are a three-piece melodic fuzz pop group based in Glasgow. Since their recent conception they have supported the likes of The Dum Dum Girls, Ariel Pink and No Age and have travelled to London to partake in a session for Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6Music. “Violent Vicky Violet” was their first release, issued on Wise Blood Industries at the end of June 2010. A tour with Glasgow face-shreaders Bronto Skylift followed in the Autumn before the band self-issued an EP in Spring 11 followed by a highly praised split single “Lecker” on Gerry Loves Records. In the summer of 11 PAWS played every conciveable festival in the UK and began work on a new EP in October.

Read all about it!

The Kays Lavelle

Adam Stafford — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:57:12 +0000

The Kays Lavelle were born in Dundee. They now spend most of their time in Leith, Edinburgh. Sometimes there are 6 of them, sometimes 5 or 4 but always 2. Their debut album was released in spring/summer 2010 on Wiseblood Industries, recorded and produced by Neil Pennycook (Meursault) and Alex Fenton (Fentek Audio).

The LP “Be Still This Gentle Morning” is now available directly from here now and from iTunes.

Y’all Is Fantasy Island

Wise Blood Industries — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:32:04 +0000

Formed in 2001 in Falkirk, Central Scotland as a solo outfit by Adam Stafford, the fully-formed band came to fruition in 2005 after Tommy Blair (guitar) and Jon McCall (drums/clarinet) joined out of the ashes of the Falkirk improv collective Chuck Norris Machine. They recorded their debut album “In Faceless Towns Forever” in Summer 2005, it was issued on local label Panic in Year Zero a year later.

The group un-did themselves around the Central Belt area in 2006, playing with the likes of The Handsome Family, Frightened Rabbit, Lach and Thomas Truax amongst many and were joined by Robbie Lesuik on bass guitar. In 2007 Jon and Robbie left the band to be replaced by Steven Tosh (drums/various other instruments) and Jim Macleod (bass).

In 2008 they issued three LPs (all self-recorded), “Rescue Weekend”, “No Ceremony” and “Infanticidal Genuflector”, which were all highly praised by the press. They recorded a BBC Radio One session for Vic Galloway in August 2008 and continued to play live regularly until the end of the year.

The group went on hiatus in 2009 and only played a smattering of live shows including The Heavenly in London, Oxjam Edinburgh and a support for Rough Trade’s Warpaint in Oct 2010. After some deliberation, they abandoned work on their proposed 5th LP Summer on Elm Wood and decided to split, playing their farewell show in Edinburgh in March 2011.

You can download nearly everything the band ever recorded in a bumper “Delux” zipfile: The Complete Recordings.

Jocky Venkataraman

Wise Blood Industries — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:25:49 +0000

Glasgow based singer-songwriter Jocky Venkataraman issued his debut album “My Heart’s in the Humber” independently in 2006, of which the song “Summertime Girl” is his most famous.

Jocky issued two albums on one disc entitled “Motorways Died Young/This is Not Food, This Isn’t Even Food” on Wise Blood Industries in 2009. In 2010 in issued an EP in collaboration with Jim Megaw, “Post Post Office”.

Size Of Kansas

Wise Blood Industries — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:19:16 +0000

SOK were formed in 2006 by Adam Stafford and Jon McCall. Originally they intended to issue an album a month in 2007, but only managed to release one: “Digital is Dead From The Beginning”.

Mainly centred around swirling guitar loops and odd instrumentation and recorded Live on a Mono Cassette recorder, Wise Blood re-released it in 2009 along with a new EP, “Four or Five Loose Horses”.