Things that are happening to The Wind-up Birds.
"The Land" - OUT NOW!
Our debut album "The Land" is now available on CD and download on STURDY RECORDS.
Its available on ITunes or our bandcamp.
We will add a list of record shops the CD is available in soon!
Track Listing:
•Good Shop Shuts
•Cross Country
•There Won't Always Be an England
•Being Dramatic
•Nostalgic For....
•Wonder St
•No People Just Cut Outs
•Escape From New Yorkshire
•Pop Man
•Tyre Fire
•The Land
We recorded it at Ghost Town Studios with Ross (except Pop Man which was recorded with Whiskas at Mook Studios) and it was mastered by Tom at Hippocratic Mastering.
Hope you like it!
Launch gig
Thanks to everyone who came down to the launch gig.
We had a great night. All the bands were fantastic and the sound in the Brud was cool as usual.
Got some nice feedback from people who picked up the album on the night. Glad you like it!
Watch the Cross Country video now
Watch our new vid on youtube.
It features Kroyd playing Scrabble with Twub-man and failing. We made it ourselves, on a cold day in a field in Halifax.
There is a good bit near the end with some old ladies walking by and a dog runs off right at the end.
If you like the video then why not download the single for free here.
New single out now!
Our new single Cross Country is out now.
You can download it on BandCamp.
You can pay what you want for it.
There are two exclusive B-sides, Past Houses and The Neutral Countries.
If you download the whole lot you also get a download of the Cross Country video. Home made with minimum fuss by the band.
Catch us live next at Fox and Newt
and then the album launch!
Album launch gig
Its been a long time coming but the debut album from The Wind-up Birds, "The Land" is ready to go.
Its released on Sturdy Records on 14th May and will be available on CD and to download. We will post more details when the time comes.
To celebrate we have organised a night at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.
Key things:-
Its FREE in.
Its on Friday 11th May.
We have got three great support bands: DowndimeMoody Gowns MonMon
The album will be available to buy on the night.
FACEBOOK EVENT
Its FREE in.
May day gig with Racket Ball and Redgrass
Facebook event
Fox and Newt, Leeds - Thursday 3rd May
We are honored to be playing with these two great bands to celebrate May Day. Its not on May Day as Dave "Redgrass" Proctor is seeing Tony Benn on that day, which is fair enough. So this is the next best date.
Really looking forward to this one so come along and say hello.
Review of the Don't Falter gig
http://www.vibrations.org.uk/live.php?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=116
Was a really enjoyable first gig of 2012. Got a couple of new songs in there which won't be on the album - "Two Ambulance Day" and "Bus Drove Off". We do hope to get them recorded soon though.
All systems go for the next gig.
Playing today (7th April)!!!
We are playing tonight!
Our first gig in 2012 is at Baby Jupiter in Leeds.
The night is Don't Falter which we played in 2010 and has gone from strength to strength since.
Come down and see us play and then a bit later we will be playing a short dj set too.
See you there!
First gigs in 2012
We haven't played live since before Xmas 2011 so we are dying to get cracking with some gigs.
So we have started sorting some dates and added them below. There will be loads more to come hopefully and some a bit further afield too.
Saturday 7th April - Don't Falter, Baby Jupiter, Leeds
Friday 20th April - Supporting Brute Chorus, Eiger Studios, Leeds
Thursday 3rd May - MadeHay, M'Aider, Mayday, Fox & Newt, Leeds
Friday 11th May - ALBUM LAUNCH - FREE GIG AT BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB LEEDS
Saturday 26th May - Blue Room, Blackpool
Us.Cold.Making a video.
On a cold and wet February day we decided to film a video for the Cross Country single.
We plunged into the wilds of Halifax and with the aid of Bradders (pictured, all wrapped up) and some dogs running about, we got to work.
Ben and Ol chose to wear shirts only per previous videos. Mat chose a cosy jumper and blazer. Kroyd went full t-shirt, big jumper and donkey jacket. Sensible.
The cold did bring back memories of having to run around pointlessly in the cold at school which is pretty appropriate for the tune though so our sacrifices were worth it.
Look out for the video coming soon and the single coming soon after.
The Wind-up Birds debut album will be out in Spring 2012.
We have now completed work on our debut album "The Land" and will be releasing it sometime in Spring. It will be available to download and on CD and will be out on Sturdy Records.
The track listing is: Good Shop Shuts, Cross Country, There Won't Always Be an England, Being Dramatic, Nostalgic For...., Wonder St, No People Just Cutouts, Escape From New Yorkshire, Pop Man, Tyre Fire and The Land.
We recorded it with Ross at Ghost Town last year.
Launch gig and live dates to be announced soon!
New single "Cross Country" Coming soon.
To precede the album we are releasing a download only single.
The single is called "Cross Country" and we are currently in the process of making a cool video for it.
We will be releasing two b-sides with the single; "Past Houses" which has been given a great pop sheen by Ben Siddall and "Neutral Countries" which is a brand new version of a track from our "In These Great Times" EP.
