Radio show, new releases, end of year stuff

So then; its been a strange and busy few weeks all told over here. There is much to get through so in nothing like chronological order here goes:

The Lazy Acre Takeover of BBC Introducing went out on friday night in Northamptonshire. We owe massive love to Tash and Ally for this and we had a lot of fun doing it. If you missed it you can still hear it on the iplayer by clicking here.

Next up what with it being the end of the year (/decade) there are the obligatory end of year lists going around. We were super pleased then to discover that Uno Moller made Birds Sometimes Dance's end of year best of list for his album "Songs from my beautiful colourball". Indeed he also made Art Stars best of 2010 list (along with Solvor Vermeer whos ep The Beaming Light made the list). Finally Monzano also made the list of The 405's favourite eps of the year list as well.

Oh and Uno Moller was also Norways representative in this months Music Alliance Pact which you can find on 30 odd blogs by googling Music Alliance Pact.

And finally our friends I See Horses have a new single out for christmas. Its called Last Christmas (I Shot You Down) and you can hear it / download it for free, below.

So the reason then that we were in Oslo

So as you will have noticed (especially if you follow us on twitter) we spent the weekend in a very cold Oslo. And we had a blast - in the company of Oli from the 405. Although it should be stressed we were indeed working.

At what you ask? Well heres the awesome news. First up we took the 405 as in a couple of weeks we will be running a Lazy Acre Takeover on the site and jam filling it with all kinds of Lazy Acre goodness including interviews with Monzano and Bellman, a special edition of the My Favourite Records series, live acoustic sessions from Uno, Bellman and I See Horses and a whole load more.

We were also recording some content for a special show we are doing for BBC Radio Northamptonshire and 6music. The show on Northamptonshire will be a one hour lazy acre special with interviews, live tracks, more lazy tuneage than you know what to do with and plenty of waffling from yours truly. That will go out December 17th.

Oh and we also did some stuff for an oslo-centric insert for Tom Robinsons show featuring Team Me, Einar Stray and Sareena Maneesh.

Phew.

So things we learnt this week: How Monzano would survive a zombie apocolypse, How the norwegians are employing fembot style sirens to recruit new citizens, that solvor vermeer is a bad influence ("just one drink" to 630am bedtimes), that My Little Pony have literally JUST finished a new album, that Einar Stray is astounding live and that it is indeed possible to modestly wax £100 in 26 hours (8 of which you were asleep for!)

Also we learnt this morning that the kind folk of The 405 have gone and named Monzano in their eps of the year list. Alongside Sufjan Stevens and Dad Rocks! for two. Nice company I'm sure you will agree. You can check it out here anyway and for the hell of it why not check out All Scandinavians take on the Ep as well.

If you missed...

I See Horses on the weekender last night you can check it out on the iplayer right over here or download the podcast from the weekender site here.

Treat

Some radio news

So then a couple of sweet radio bits of news this week - first up Tom Robinson very kindly played out The Little Hands of Asphalt on Monday on his "fresh on the net" show. You can still hear it on the iplayer now by clicking right about here (our man Sjur appears at about ten minutes into the show)

And also our good friends Tash and Ali will be playing out I See Horses tonight on their BBC weekender show. If you live in Northamptonshire then you can check it out on 103.6 or 104.2 FM - anyone else can tune in via the world wide web by checking out the "listen now" button BBC Northamptonshire's website between 6pm and 7pm.

Sweet

BBC Weekender, New Pipedream EP, Reminder - MY LITTLE PONY!!!

Hi there

So… sorry I know its only been a matter of days since we last invaded your inbox but a couple of things have come up to draw your attention to…

1)Lazy Acre invades the BBC Weekender Show

Natasha and the gang over at The BBC Weekender have been unendingly generous in their support of Lazy Acre in the past and so we are very happy to be back as a guest on the show this Friday (January 15th) talking about out plans for the new year and indeed giving some sneak previews of some rather awesome new signings we happen to have made. Oh yes.

You can tune in on 104.2FM and 103.6 FM if you’re in Northamptonshire or online at www.bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire

The show will also be available as a downloadable PODCAST from Friday evening


2)Blogs Love Pipedream

Some very kind words on the new Pipedream EP for you

Pipedream @ Punktastic
Pipedream @ Art Star


3)My Little Pony EP out on Monday

As those of you that check your facebook invites will already know, the new, free MY LITTLE PONY ep is out on Monday for free download from www.fullstoptobadpop.blogspot.com

Get hold of your copy as soon as you can and help melt the snow with all manner of warm cuddly pop goodness

That’s all for now everyone

Have a great week

Lots of Love

Team LA

PS - heres a little treat, little hands of asphalt play LOOKS LIKE STYROFOAM in an acousticy styley - backstage at the bedford in Balham. December 2009

Lazystock is on!!

I met with the BBC and the Council in Northampton on Friday to discuss a few things… upshot of it all is that I can exclusively reveal that Lazy Acre will be curating a festival in association with the BBC Weekender team in March 2010…

Were looking at a two stage affair and best of all – they even suggested we Astroturf the town centre for maximum festival effect… man im excited!!

Im currently putting together a long list of names to approach about coming to play – any suggestions or bands wanting to put themselves forward – get in touch lazyacrerecords@gmail.com

Hopefully well be able to pull it off without any of these shenanigans