a busy week

and so ends a busy week for red kite.

sunday saw a return to london's live fold with a terrific show at camden proud, the first london show to feature the full-on two drummer assault. we are now frighteningly loud, and all the better for it. in-house sound engineers hate us. i consider us 'a challenge'.

the album is now finished. it's a strange feeling to have now finished something that two years ago began as something to do with a week off round tom's house. i never even imagined i'd play anything live at that time, let alone actually finish an entire album, but here it finally is. tom's contribution really cannot be expressed enough, without his dedication and at times needfully stern guiding hand, there is no way this would have happened. the man is a god.

now on to putting the plan together for getting it released. we're currently looking into putting together a video for some of the darker tracks (does anyone actually release singles these days?), which pleases me greatly. i shall hold off revealing too much about the track listing for now, you'll just have to stay tuned (leaving your email over on the left will help with that).

as if that wasn't enough to be getting on with, on thursday we went into the brilliant ilkatron studios to do our session for the lofi dogma project. i've posted the manifesto up here before, but if you think of the similarly monikered danish film movement then you won't go too far wrong. needless to say, we made a ferocious racket and caused ben our lovely recording engineer no end of headaches. thanks a lot to marc and daniel for organising the event and looking after us all day. lovely, lovely folk indeed. and swiss, too. great accents.

here are some photos:

the one of paul and jon cracks me up.

the track we recorded will go live at the lofi dogma site in january, along with photos and an interview in which i'm quite stoned. obviously we'll keep you updated here.

next up is friday 26th with the murder barn at rattlesnake angel, so get down there and let's all have a pop show.

dance with crow

as promised, here's the new track:

dance with crow

we've been playing it live for a while now, but thought we'd let you have a proper listen. we'll be taking it down after the show on sunday, so make the most of it. feel free to give it a share and all that gumpf people do with music. maybe someone will listen to it and think it's good. that would be awesome.

don't forget we're on at proud camden this sunday, doors open at 7, we're onstage around 10. support comes from emperor yes and lonesound. it's free entry, so event the skint ones can come. 

image from 'the love you taught me' by lyndsay martin

new track, photos, news and stuff

who wants to hear a new red kite track?

well, you're in luck. red kite are heading out into the musical wilderness to play some alt-rock concerts, and to celebrate the fact we will be posting a new track up on the website here for a limited time only. 

at midday on friday 12th october, we will post a link here for you to get your lugholes on a new track which will be available to stream until after we finish our show on sunday at proud camden (free entry, so no excuses not to show up).

aren't we nice.

the following thursday we'll be heading into the studio to take part in the lofi dogma project. anyone who has seen us live may be familiar with the track calliope, which we'll be re-working to fit the brief for the project. at the current time of going to press, we have no idea what it will sound like. all we know is it will rather rough and ready, and all the sexier for it.

finishing off our autumnal burst of activity, we'll be playing new venue rattlesnake in angel with the glorious the murder barn in celebration of their e.p. launch, and a royally rambunctious ruckus it will prove to be. 

photoshoots are a strange beast. my usual brief of 'try and capture how much i hate having my picture taken, and don't try and make us look cool' can be a tricky one to adhere to. as such, when he decamped to the technicolour hive of artistic activity that is the manor house warehouse complex, we simply said to crack photographer sam folan 'we'll just dick about and you shoot'. the fact that jim rolled up two hours late stinking of booze meant that we had to fire it off in record time, but the results were nonetheless extremely pleasing. we hope you agree.

the album's nearly done.

tom's computer blew up, but now it is fine.

check back here for the latest news and gossip like heat but not poor sentence to end on oh well bye