A big thank you...

...To everyone who came out to our split showcase with How is Annie Records last week at ByLarm. It was a stressful evening but we enjoyed beautiful sets from Solvor, Bellman, Sjur and the Little Hands and Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson. A huge amount of fun.

There are some photos of the show up on our Facebook page here.

In the meantime thanks to the bootlegging skills of an as yet unnamed individual (please get in touch if you are reading this we'd love to see if you caught any thing else that night!) you can relive Youth Pictures set with this handy stream

Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson, Live at Parkteateret February 18th 2011 by EDB Recordings

Solvor Vermeer Live: TOMORROW

So what better way to use our 150th post on this 'ere blog than to let you know that SOLVOR VERMEER is playing live in Oslo tomorrow night. The show is the Norwegian live launch of her debut ep "The Beaming Light".

The show happens tomorrow night - Jan 25th - at Herr Nielsen. The show details are on Facebook here.

Indeed Solvor also now has her own page set up on Facebook which you can check out at www.facebook.com/solvorvermeer

Here's a vide of the kind of beautiful piano led melancholy you can expect:



In the meantime, Solvor also has a bunch of shows coming up at By:Larm next month including our joint showcase with How is Annie Records which also features Bellman, The Little Hands of Asphalt and Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson. We will have all manner of new CDs and merch with us on the night including the CD version of our new compilation Three Doors Down & Doing The Charlestone, a new double gatefold version of Uno Mollers "Songs from my beautiful colourball" album (complete with a bonus disc of new and unreleased tracks) and the CD version of Solvors Beaming Light EP. Awesome you say? Not even close.

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.

Solvor Vermeer and Bellman Live

What could be better than one of our favourite acts playing a show in Oslo next week? Well how about two of them? Together. In one place.

Thats right - Solvor Vermeer and Bellman team up to play a show at Mono Wed December 15th kicking off at 8:00pm.

The details are all on facebook at this handy link here but for now heres two reasons to get down: this is what your missing!

Solvor Vermeer makes the NME

Despite my occasional ambivilance towards some ofthe bands plastered across it it is still none the less a bit of a thrill to finally get the NMEs approval for one of our acts. With great delight then I can report that Solvor Vermeer is featured in todays NME Daily Download column.

Check it out and get a free track by clicking over here.

In the meantime heres a lovely video from the showcase we put on for Solvor at this years ByLarm festival. All this seems a very long time ago now... *sigh...*



Lovely

Latest news updates 11/08/10

Greetings!

So then – things have been insane of late over here so for those of you that might have missed out heres a quick round up of everything that has been happening of later over here.

First up Uno Mollers new album and EP (“Songs from my beautiful colourball” and “how to lead you home ep” respectively) have been out for a few weeks now and we’ve been enjoying your feedback to them both. Kind words have been coming in from the likes of Punktastic, Buried by the buzz, Acuvi and All Scandinavian and more have been promised in the coming weeks. You can name your price and download the album right about now over at Bandcamp.

Next up we are just finishing off the final details on a new compilation we are releasing this autumn. This isn’t something we’ve done before but we’re super excited about this little project and the tracklisting contains gems including: Solvor Vermeer, The Little Hands of Asphalt, Cold Mailman, Waking Life, Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson, Uno Moller, I See Horses, Escapists, My First Tooth, Stylus Boy, Tiny Cinema and The Son(s). Keep your eyes peeled for more on this very soon.

We also went and started a new weekly records club by way of our facebook page. How this works is if you “like” our page (facebook.com/lazyacrerecords) we will send out a free track to you once a week. We’ve already had three blinders from Team Me, Sweet Sweet Moon and Jenny & Tyler so come get involved and get your mitts on all this free tuneage.

On a random sidenote Beccy from Sharks Took The Rest is currently undertaking a songwriting challenge to write a new song every day. Head on over to her blog to see how she is getting on (there are some lovely moments in there already).

The awesome Oya festival takes place this week over in Oslo and a bunch of our acts and friends are playing shows at or around the festival. The best way of keeping up to date is to check out this rather useful post courtesy of Endre @ Spoon Train which collates most of the pertinent info.

And finally to let you in on a little secret – the next installment of our Full Stop To Bad Pop campaign will be MONZANO – the very band that spawned The Little Hands of Asphalt and one of the finest indie pop bands out of Scandinavia. We’re super excited to be putting this ep out over here in the UK so we hope you like it too.

For now I think that’s about all. To sign off here’s a sneak preview of a couple of tracks from the new compilation.

Much Love

The Lazy Boy x

Long overdue catch up...

Well… It has to be said I’ve been truly terrible at keeping this blog updated the last couple of weeks… things have been so busy I literally haven’t had the time. Oh don’t look like that at me Blogger. Come on that’s not fair…

Anyway behind the scenes things have been cracking on apace. Some kind words have been coming in on the Uno Moller album which we released a couple of weeks back. There are some here from Little lion girl (on twitter @littleliongirl) and some more here from Acuvi and some from Buried by the Buzz.

You can get the album in the form of a “you name the price” digital download now from Uno’s page on Bandcamp. Its genuinely one of our favourite records of this year – lovely folky goodness. We are currently in the process of sketching out a new split release for later in the year with Uno and another one of our favourite recent discoveries who we will tell you about soon.

We are at present desperately scrambling to rearrange dates for Solvor to come over to the UK for her first tour – as soon as we have news on this we will let you know.

We are also in the process right now of assembling our first bona fide compilation. we have looked at this in the past and never really been too excited by the idea but we’ve hit on a bit of blinder of a concept (we think anyway) and so are busy squirreling away bands and bumper value add content to create a bit of a treat for you guys… We really hope you dig it when its ready.

Shit did I really jusy say “dig it”? Jesus we’re back in 1993. I am the Fresh Prince of Lazy Acre.

What other news? Well My Little Pony are in the process of trying to salvage their second album from the depths of Sjur Lysieds hard drive which recently deceased (hvil I fred gamle venn) so we’re anxiously awaiting news… The demos of the two tracks we have heard from the new record are lovely. really folky and uber melodic. Is it any wonder that My Little Pony is far and away our most downloaded release in the full stop to bad pop series? By A clear 250 d/ls at last count.

Here’s a video to one of my favourites:


My Little Pony - Skipping Down the Street

Sigurd Fandango | MySpace Video

Theres something to put a smile on your face for the morning!

Much Love

Jazzy Jeff and the Lazy Boy x

SOLVOR VERMEER - Debut UK Tour

Some new news for you all

Well then. Ive been out of the loop for a little while. Feeling thoroughly refreshed and rested though Im back on it and we have much to catch up on.

1) London Loves Solvor Vermeer

Last week saw Ms Solvor Vermeer return to London to play a show in Balham with Ingrid Olava which by all accounts was a bit of a treat. About an hour after she left the stage we found out that there was a spare slot in the offing at JaJaJa the next night (a brilliant Nordic music showcase run by – among others – our friends at Music Export Norway) Cue a frantic ring round for a piano and voila – a second show appeared out of nowhere.

Don’t you love it when stuff like that happens?!

There are some photos of the JaJaJa show over on the facebook page



In other news Solvors debut EP – The Beaming Light – is now available in iTunes, Play, Amazon and dozens of other awesome download platforms. Feel free to support your favourite DIY Record label / elfin like singer songwriter (delete as appropriate) and pick up a copy

2) Uno Moller Single Is Out Now

If you haven’t done so already then now is the time to take advantage of our good nature once more and get your hands on a free copy of Uno Mollers new single – How To Lead You Home. The single – which comes with two new b-sides (“hola!” and “sailing with hats”) is available now to download for free from here as well as www.unomoller.bandcamp.com and www.reverbnation.com/unomoller or indeed at the Full Stop To Bad Pop page.

Its beautiful. Go get em kids!

3) Some kind words on the new I SEE HORSES EP…

From these kind folk right here:

Old Age Hipster
The Heads Up Blog
Indie Today

Much appreciated young ladies and gentlefolk!

Heres a great live video of the band from a recent show they played at Bla which is one of my favourite venues in Oslo.



Brilliant.

And for now that should about do you my little poppets

Much Love

The Lazy Boy x

Solvor Vermeer in new edition of Sheep Dressed Up Like Wolves Podcast

thats righ! you can check out Ms Vermeer in the new edition of the Sheep Dressed Up Like Wolves podcasts. Nestled in among some really rather excellent other Scandinavian acts including one of our favourites - Olafur Arnalds.

Check it out here (Thanks to steve Jones for this!)

Sheep Dressed Up Like Wolves Episode Seven (29/04/10)byatlumschema

Tracklisting looks a lot like this

1. Múm – A Little Bit, Sometimes
2. Daniel Agust – Feel Like Dancing
3. Howard James Kenny – Good Fortune
4. Tzmp – Autobahn Police
5. Jenny Mahood – 7 Days
6. Solvor Vermeer – Final Hour
7. Jóhann Jóhannsson – Odi Et Amo
8. Harold Budd – Anish Kapoor
9. Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið
10. Slowblow – Within Tolerance

So your wondering...

"hmm... this beaming light EP is lovely... i wonder what kind of stuff she likes to listen to though?" well wonder no more my pretties. Solvors interview with Wired Radio is now available on soundcloud to check out.

Bit of Bjork among other things. Treat

The Musicbox- Episode 10 (25th March 2010) by themusicbox

Muchos gratuitude to Karla for this!

More Solvor Vermeer press linkages...

The kind words on our girl Solvor keep a coming... We've been genuinely overwhelmed this last few weeks with the amount of love out there for this record (especially seeing as we've basically been talking this up since before she pressed record!).

In the last 24 hours alone for instance Peter and the Gang over at All Scandinavian wrote a lovely little piece on the record, The 405 ran an excellently glowing interview (our thanks to Danny for this!) while Eddie James got very excited over on his Pop Goes The Weevil Blog as well.

Fucking immense.

And for now in case you didnt catch it before heres "Hope", live at the studio showcase she did over in Oslo in February

So a few bits and pieces...

Greetings friends of Lazy Acre. there has been much going on over here of late... too much for me to ever cram into an email out / 140 character tweet so I thought Id just go crazy and put em all into one lengthy blog post instead.

First up I wrote an article for the last ever issue of Maps Magazine. (RIP My friends - roll on the Joyzine launch from the same gang in May) Its about how the BBC would make a great model for a record label... that said it was written before the recent cuts to 6music and the Asian Network so some of it is kind of redundant now but you can check it out here either way.

The same issue also features a lovely review of My Little Pony and another of Solvor Vermeers live show in London last week.

On the subject of Solvor Vermeer, the EP is starting to pick up some wicked attention right now. Just lately shes been in the National Newspaper in Dubai, had a lovely write up at Unpeeled who describe her as "Pixie like", Talked about her favourite records for the fine folk over at the 405 and had another lovely review from the Music News crew. who gave her 4/5.

On top of all that there are loads of great reviews and interviews running over the next few weeks (keep up to date by following her on twitter @solvorvermeer) on top of being part of the new MUSIC ALLIANCE PACT which sees her getting much blog love from 36 blogs in 36 countries including Eardrums and many more.

As if all of that excitement wasnt enough we also added a new Uno Moller track to the Myspace player (www.myspace.com/lazyacrerecords in case you havent been paying attention) which is rather excellent and also released the awesome PIEPTON EP by Shoes and Socks Off. You can get hold of this free EP (released kind of in conjunction with Big Scary Monsters) by heading over to The Full Stop To Bad Pop page now. Its an awesome covers EP including tracks by PJ Harvey, Pixies and The Eels.

Fucking brilliant.

I think thats abotu all for the time being but shitloads of good stuff coming up soon so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Much Love

The Lazy Boy xx

Our favourite records

Solvor Vermeer, Adam Gnade and Sharks Took The Rest are all featured in a new recurring feature on THE 405 website talking about their favourite records.

You can check it out by clicking here http://thefourohfive.com/articles/2694

Lazy Acre Latest News: 3 x New Releases = win

1) Solvor Vermeer EP Update

Our delightful Ms Vermeer is now a mere matter of weeks away from releasing her debut EP "The Beaming Light" as a joint release between Lazy Acre and her own Bloksberg label. To say that this is shaping up to be pretty immense is something of an understatement. Drowned in Sound labelled her "Delicately Charming" in their round up of By:Larm, while the likes of The405, Clash Magazine and Eardrums have also all been getting mighty excited. She will also be featured in the new issue of the Music Alliance Pact (a recurring feature between 36 music blogs in 36 countries) which is live now.
Google "THe Music Alliance Pact" to find it or head over to our friend Knuts Eardrums site

the EP will be appearing all over the place in the next few weeks with promises of support from literally all over the world (China, Mexico, Norway, Italy, Germany, Spain (thanks to Bob and the guys at Bay Radio), Australia, USA, Indonesia, Canada, France, Iran (super weirdly!) so keep your eyes and ears peeled wherever you might be.

In the meantime Solvor has just confirmed a London show for March 25th so if your at a loose end why not come see what your missing. the details are below

Solvor Vermeer @ The Grapevine Sessions
The Bedford, Balham
March 25th. 1930 doors
Free Entry

why not keep up to date by following her on twitter at www.twitter.com/solvorvermeer


2) New Release - Shoes and Socks Off

So then - about 6 years ago I ran a club night in Coventry which saw some incredible bands play to some soul crushingly empty rooms (ha). One of these bands was called Push to Fire and they were awesome. The singer Toby soon ran off and formed one of my favourite bands of recent years Meet Me In St Lois (one of the best rock bands ever to come from these shores. fact) and has since started his own solo project Shoes and Socks Off.

Imagine how excited we are then to be adding the new SHoes and Socks Off EP to our full stop to bad pop campaign in the coming days.

The EP will be released on March 22nd by our friends at Big Scary Monsters (who have kindly put the EP forward for the Full Stop To Bad Pop Campaign.) It contains six awesome bluesy folky covers of some of our favourite tracks. Look:

1. Lounge Act (Nirvana)
2. Not Ready Yet (Eels)
3. You Said Something (PJ Harvey)
4. Wolf At The Door (Radiohead)
5. Tame (Pixies)
6. To Forgive (Smashing Pumpkins)


Our friends Natasha and Ally at the BBC Weekender show previewed a track on Friday night - you can check it out on their podcast now just clickety click here

or to find out what this all might go down like you could check out Lounge Act here


3) Tessa Frith - Mindscapes, Out May 3rd

completing a triumverate (check me out at 8am on a sunday) of release related news we are pleased to announce the long awaited release of Tessa Friths debut album Mindscapes.

Weve been listening to this record for a while and cant wait to share it with you. The album - which is a spookily folky affair with lots of nice strings - is out May 3rd and will be preceded by a launch night happening May 1st at The Courtyard in Hereford.

Stay tuned for more details but why not head over to www.myspace.com/tessafrith to check some tunes out for yourself.


in the meantime a couple of other notes:

* New T Shirts added to www.totomerch.com/lazyacrerecords
* The Little Hands of Asphalt and My Little Pony have just announced a super awesome tour which is happening right now through Norway - full dates for the "spit back at the road" tour can be found at www.spoontrain.no
* You can STILL get your hands on free releases from The Little Hands of Asphalt, Pipedream, The James Magic and My Little Pony over at www.fullstoptobadpop.blogspot.com

For now my lovelies

Farewell

Much Love

Team LA x

Eating Fish In Hamburger Heaven

Well…

Its been two days almost since I got home and even now when people say “did you have a good weekend?” Im almost lost for words to try and explain how awesome this years By:Larm actually was…

All told the week had so many special memories I almost don’t where to start. Lets start with the relevant news; being crammed against the bar at Little Hands of Asphalts show on Thursday night gave us a reminder of just how loved over there Sjur really is… Watching him play a much bigger and equally packed out show on Saturday night just confirmed it.

Heres a wee picture (courtesy of simon at clash’s mobile) of the man onstage



We also were very happy to see a couple of Monzano shows as well which were awesome. Their new album is available now from Spoon Train and I urge you (urge urge urge you) to go and buy a copy in the coming days. You will not find a better indie pop album this week. Or month. Or maybe even (if our friendAlice Tragedy is to be believed) this year!

Friday night Solvor played our joint Spoon Train / Lazy Acre showcase which was fun (and really nice to meet all those guys properly) and then on Saturday played an even better show in a little studio off the beaten track.

This studio was amazing (especially for a studio geek like me) – there was a “Chuck Norris-rizer” button on the mixing desk and an old vinyl lathe which is the only one of its kind in northern Europe – a perfect setting and by candlelight we sat crosslegged on the floor along with toddlers, King Creosote (who was the nicest bloke in the world by the way and very kindly agreed to tramp around in the snow to come and see the show) and a whole ruck of writers who all seemed to take a bit of a shine to our girl as well.

Again there are some photos up on Facebook over here

Once the business side of things was taken care of there was the issue of which of the hundreds of bands to go and see… Megaphonic Thrift and The River Phoenix for two were just incredible, we saw brilliant sets from Children and Corpse playing in street, our ears got mullered at the front of watching 'For A Minor Reflection', we danced our assess off to 'the Good The Bad' and 'The New Wine' and we sighed hazily as Ingrid Olava and Susanne Sundfor both twinkled their pianos with unabashed twinkliness.

Favourite live moment of the week – being able to lift both of my feet off the ground at Monte’s set and still stay upright due to the sheer number of people crammed in there. My Son asked me if that meant I was flying… I told him yes. If anyone sees him don’t scupper my story! Ha

Anyway despite the broken arms (not mine), the monster hangover, the lack of sleep and the mountain of business cards scattered across my desk it was a truly awesome weekend.

We must send our thanks and Eskimo kisses to all kinds of great people – to all of the new friends we made, to all the writers who so kindly came to see our guys play, to King Kenny for having not only great parking stories but also the faith to tramp a mile in the snow to come see our show, to Siri, Jonas and Hayley for making the whole trip happen and to our wonderful artists who not only reminded us why we fell in love with their music in the first place but also helped us not get horribly lost and found us cheap beer.

You guys rock.

anyway I was covering the festival for a couple of magazines back here so ill post the review links when they go live so you can check out some of the other awesome acts we saw last week

Before I go heres a video of “Hope” from SOlvors showcase on Saturday… hope (ha!) you like it



Much Love

The Lazy Boy x

Lazy Acre in new compilation

So then our friends at the National Student Paper are doing a bumper new music magazine this month and are promoting it with an awesome download compilation. if you head on over to www.thenationalstudent.co.uk you can pick up your free copy from (i think) November 11th...

There are so many of my favourite bands on this compilation its untrue - check this little lot out:

1 Mat Riviere – FYH
2 funFUN – The trouble with Harry
3 Nodzz – Is She There
4 Curly Hair – High Fives, Low Fives
5 Loz Koleszko – Quack, Quack You’re Dead
6 Cougar – Digit Cleaver feat. Paul Smith of Maximo Park
7 Sharks Took The Rest – Isobel (demo)
8 Ace Bushy Striptease – Whirlwind Regulations (Bas mix)
9 Napoleon III – Zebra
10 Bear Driver – A Thousand Samurais
11 Smoke Fairies – Now The Green Blade Rises
12 Bobby Long – Dead and Done
13 Shoes and Socks Off – I’m a World Class Assassin
14 Swound – What’s Your Poison?
15 Kambodsja – Not All Evil Robots Are Murderers
16 Dials – Gloria Knudson
17 Keyboard Choir – Electrical Unity (edit)
18 Crocodiles – I Wanna Kill
19 Spokes – We Like to Dance and Steal Things
20 The Little Hands of Asphalt – Oslo
21 Solvor Vermeer – Hope
22 Kippi Kannius – The Comfort Of My Eyes
23 Dancer vs Politician – Ratcliffe Highway
24 Pagan Wanderer Lu – The Great British Public Becomes Self Aware
25 Blakfish – Economics

Seriously - Blakfish and Crocodiles?! Just immense.

ill twitter when the comp goes live so come be our follower (sounds like a bleedin cult) @lazyacrerecords

Solvor Vermeer - all kinds of exciting updates

So then lots to report...

1) Solvor will be the cover star to Novembers National Student magazine new music special... this goes out to a loooot of people so were really excited about this... well share images etc as soon as we get em

2) She will also be playing a live session and doing an interview on Londons Pulse Fm 3pm, November 10th. Tune in at ww.pulse.fm

More soon

Have a nice weekend everyone

Love
Ben and Sam
Team LA x

This Weeks News... Solvor Live, Reviews Round, James Magic live sessions and more

1) Reviews Round Up

Some kind words on our intrepid adventurers:

* The Little Hands of Asphalt @ Mondomix
* The Little Hands of Asphalt @ Shakespeares Sister
* Moggz @ The National Student
* The James Magic @ OAH
* The James Magic @ The National Student

* An Interview with Moggz

2) Solvor Vermeer showcase details


As mentioned previously Solvor plays an awesome showcase gig at The Bedford in Balham next month. Details are below: Flier attached!

The Grapevine Sessions presents:

Solvor Vermeer, Sharks Took The Rest, Michael Kiwanuka & Lee Macdougall

November 5th

The Bedford, Balham

Doors - 7.30 PM

FREE ENTRY!


Sharks Took The Rest are one of my favourite acts right now and the demos reaching of us Solvors soon to be completed debut EP are astounding… this should be a great night!


Check out more here

www.myspace.com/solvermeer

www.myspace.com/sharkstooktherest

While over for this gig we are also recording a live session for Balcony TV (all being well) and a live interview / acoustic session for Londons Pulse FM as well. treat.

In the meantime we send our best get well soon wishes to Ms Vermeer who is currently wandering around Oslo in earplugs having damaged her ears overdoing it with a glockenspiel in the studio… Imagine hearing that horrible ringy music from the end of the Apprentice 24/7 *Shudders* anyway I Digress,,,


3) The James Magic Live Session

We only just found this ourselves but you can listen to / look at pictures of The James Magics recent live session for BBC Hereford and Worcester right over here… http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/image_galleries/james_magic_session_gallery.shtml


In the meantime don’t forget you can download St Jimmys recent addition to the Full Stop to Bad Pop campaign over at www.fullstoptobadpop.blogspot.com for the grand price of nada


4) None Lazy Acre News…

Our friend Joel Bailey (a man in possession of a decent golf swing it must be said) plays the BBC Emerging Proms @ Camden Roundhouse October 26th – if your at a loose end go check him out, hes great. There are songs available on his website www.joelbaileymusic.com. Hes got a kind of Nizlopi playing John Mayer songs kinda vibe… we like a lot



5) National Student Magazine


Look out in The National Student Magazines November issues for a new music special featuring an interview with Solvor Vermeer, features on the Little Hands of Asphalt and Kambodsja, Lazy Acre Giveaways and maybe even a free LHOA and kambodsja MP3 as well…

Go hang around a halls of residence near you! alternatively, if u want to avoid being tagged as some kind of weirdo just check out www.thenationalstudent.co.uk

Im terrible at keeping secrets!

So im really struggling right now... Having received them over the last week Im really struggling to not share new Solvor Vermeer tracks with you – I will resist for now because all I have are unmixed demos but I should point out that the demos are frankly breathtaking…

The showcase November 5th should be an absolute treat… good times. Heres a flier for it!

In the meantime Lazy Acre signed up yesterday for a training session that should enable us to borrow some video kit to start a new monthly podcast series from the website…

Eyes peeled for the first instalment

Good times

Over and Out

Team LA x