Skip the first 20 mins because you don’t care about Sinead O’Connor or any of the Wainrights. Everyone in the band gets a name drop except for me!
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All the words to the new album.
This one is for one of my best friends, Hayden. He has a brilliant band called Great North. You should listen to them and make them big. Otherwise he will have to start a Bruce Springsteen covers band and no one wants that. Listen to Great North here.
The album is called Up Here For Dancing.
It is out March 26th on Bones and Woods
We are having a party on March 21 at D.O.C. Then touring in April.
More details to come.
Yes!
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It has been a tumultuous year for Great North. In a shocking act of monogamy, three of our members got married - two to each other. It was also the year our drummer Olly left for Hawaii about five times. The last time he left was in October. We don’t know when he’ll be back. We also recorded the skeleton of an album that we hope to release and tour sometime in the first third of 2012. If someone wants to drum for us.
We really want to do is say thank you for all those who supported us this year. When we haven’t been spending Friday nights sewing wedding bunting together, we’ve had some great times. Thank you for bearing with our ever-changing line ups. Thank you to the 12 people in Paraparaumu who came out on the cold night and still were one of our most supportive crowds of the year. Thanks to everyone else who came to a show - at the Kings Arms, a cafe, a lounge, in Wellington, in Raglan, but mostly in the safe fluid-filled womb of the Wine Cellar.
Christmas is coming soon and we wanted to do something to reward your patience. So Rach and I took a break from recording this week to put together this cover of Angels We Have Heard On High with a lot of help from our remarkable producer/cider, baked goods and tea lover, Dave Parker. I think he has done a great job making it sound wistfully festive, or festively wistful. It is available for free on our bandcamp page. Merry Christmas. Gloria.
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Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street.
A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct. The European dates run from the middle of May until end of July and are being announced this week. Info on the US dates and the World tour dates will coming up shortly.
In addition, we want you to know that the music is almost done (but still untitled), we have almost settled on the release date (but not quite yet), and that we are all incredibly excited about everything that we’re planning for 2012. That’s all the info we have for right now, but we’ll get back to you—real soon.
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(Source: filtredmind)