Silver Boat by Ladybird out now!
#15 | 8th jun 2009
You can buy the new Ladybird EP for £5 in the stitch-stitch shop. Five spontaneous songs, in the traditional Ladybird style of maximum-pop, recorded in New York. Go and have a listen!
Le Pont Suspendu London Launch
#14 | 13th apr 2009If you're in London, and you missed the Ray Rumours album launch in Bristol, you can head down to the Bread and Roses in Clapham on Friday.
with support from The Light Sleepers and The Madrigals.
Friday 17th April
7.30pm | £3 Entry
The Bread & Roses
68 Clapham Manor St
London, SW4 6DZ
Le Pont Suspendu Out Now!
#13 | 30th mar 2009
We launched the new Ray Rumours album at the Scout Hut last Sunday. It was a really nice show, and all the bands played really beautiful and amazing sets. Rosa and Roxy brought some very nice cakes and helped serve them, which was fortunate because mine was a massive failure.
So the record is out now! You can buy it from our shop, or even better, you can purchase it from one of these great record shops:
The Here Shop
108 Stokes Croft, Bristol
Spillers Records
36 The Hayes, Cardiff
Monorail Music
12 Kings Court, Glasgow
Rough Trade East
Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London
Rough Trade West
130 Talbot Road, London
Sister Ray
34-35 Berwick Street, London
Action Records
46 Church Street, Preston
Norman Records
Online
In other news, I have been listening to a lot of great records that have come out recently. It's nice to see sam back in the country, and his new album (as previously mentioned) is excellent. Have any die-hard I Know I Have No Collar fans spotted the reference?
Great seven inches out from Vase and Planet Earth too; By the River is tense and hushed and dramatic, whilst Bergman Movies is the perfect lighthearted bittersweet song for the spring.
Last night Polite Records put on an excellent show with Sparky Deathcap and Ian Humberstone (Tissø Lake). I bought the latest Tissø Lake LP, Song of the Black Dog. The songs remind me a lot of Thanksgiving, and are surrounded by enough instrumentation to make them magical. You can get it from Mathilde Records (as well as a great new cassette featuring Frànçois).
Ray Rumours Album Launch
#12 | 10th mar 2009
stitch-stitch presents:
22th March 2009
Ray Rumours
http://myspace.com/rayrumours
Vase
http://myspace.com/handidiom
The Madrigals
http://myspace.com/themadrigals
Benjamin Perry Boathouse
Redcliffe Wharf
Bristol
BS1 3SR
2:30pm | £3 on the door
Ray Rumours' new album, Le Pont Suspendu, comes out on Stitch-Stitch records on March 23rd, and this is the album launch.
It's going to be really nice and cosy. There'll be tea and cake. You'll be able to buy the new album from our record stall for £7 (save £3 from the normal price!). Please note the early start time - this is an afternoon show, and the bands will start at 3pm.
Le Pont Suspendu
#11 | 19th feb 2009We're so excited to announce the next stitch-stitch release! Le Pont Suspendu is the amazing new album by Ray Rumours. It's coming out on March 23rd, but you can pre-order it from our online shop today.
don't forget the discothéque
#10 | 5th feb 2009we've teamed up with local kids local kid to put on a weekend of music on the 14th and 15th of february.
click the poster for more information!
The Length of the Rail
#09 | 20th jan 2009I think the second record that stitch-stitch was supposed to release was an album by the balky mule. sam lived with aaron in south bristol then, and now he's in australia and aaron's in canada.
stitch002 never happened, but now fat cat are due to release a brand new balky mule record. very exciting!
Keep an eye out for this, and go and buy it when it comes out in March.
New Music for the New Year
#08 | 4th jan 2009Happy New Year to everyone! If you've got a few pounds left over from christmas and want to buy some new records, then here's a brief guide to some of the more excellent recently-released ones (not from us, but elsewhere!):
Our good friend Rozi Plain (Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains, Arctic Circle, Cleaner Records) has just released her second album, called Inside Over Here, on Fence Records. She's been on tour with the Pictish Trail and has been getting some really great reviews. Needless to say, the record is amazing.
Sleeping States has a 10" out on bella union (his first for the label) which documents some of the faster versions of old songs he's been playing with his band at recent live shows. All five tracks are on one side, whilst the reverse is etched. It's called Old vs New.
And finally, there was no greater pleasure than recently discovering that Frànçois has finally released the songs from Brother as an EP. It's on Spanish label Lejos Discos (who released his Tour de France EP last year) and comes as two coloured 7"s in a gatefold package. I can't recommend this more - it is probably the best record that you will buy all year!
News about the next two exciting stitch-stitch releases coming soon. I leave you with this:
A Winter Tour
#07 | 12th dec 2008
the middle ones
http://myspace.com/themiddleones
the mountain parade
http://myspace.com/themountainparade
A special winter tour across the country.
Poster by the ever-brilliant michal william.
Arctic Circle 7" Out Now!
#06 | 10th oct 2008
Our new two-track seven inch by Arctic Circle is out now! Click on the cover for more information.
Peter and the Wolf
#05 | 5th sep 2008
stitch-stitch and the cube present:
20th September 2008
Peter and the Wolf
http://myspace.com/whiskeyandapples
Planet Earth
http://myspace.com/planetearthsongs
I Know I Have No Collar
/artists/i-know-i-have-no-collar/
The Cube Cinema
Dove St South
Bristol
8pm | £6 advance / £7 on the door
Tickets available from:
here shop
20th century flicks
bristol ticket shop
This is going to be truly amazing, so i hope you can come along!
New Releases for Autumn
#04 | 22nd aug 2008Hi there! Bristol seems so busy this summer. It seems like every band is playing shows and doing some recording. We should hopefully be seeing the fruits of all this hard work over the next six months.
We have some exciting news for you! The first stitch-stitch release of 2008 (has it really been two years since our last?) will be a 7" from arctic circle, whose smiling faces are pictured above.
I think every time that I've seen them over the last few years they have just been better and better, and they just can't stop writing brilliant songs! If it were a "single", then it would be a double A-side, i guess - I find it very hard to choose a favourite between the two tracks, Prancing Pearl and Mother's Ruin. Aaron has done some lovely artwork for it,depicting forested islands in the arctic circle.
It will be released on the 10th October at the Bristol County Sports Club on Colston St, with support from Munch Munch and Katapulto. You'll also be able to order it from the site as well.
Roxanne's new project with friends from Oxford, Bristol and Manchester, the mountain parade, recorded five songs in my kitchen a few weeks ago. We're going to release them as a split album with the truly amazing middle ones sometime later in the year. I can't wait!
If you are an independent record shop and would like to stock our records then please get in touch on our contact form; we would love to work with you, no matter where you are in the world.
Here's another treat from youtube; the complimentary video to the last one I posted; Ray Rumours - Mr Bear:
Scout Hut
#03 | 9th aug 2008
SLEEPING STATES (myspace)
ARCTIC CIRCLE (myspace)
I KNOW I HAVE NO COLLAR (myspace)
HEADFALL (myspace)
THE BUMBLEBEES (myspace)
TEAM BRICK (myspace)
ROXANNE:THE EARLY YEARS (myspace)
THE MOUNTAIN PARADE (myspace)
plus more music, films and food and stuff
sun 10 aug
the scout hut
on harbour, opposite thekla, nr st mary redcliffe
b r i s t o l
all day: 11am - 11pm
all ages
free entry
Swimmers / Drifters
#02 | 24th may 2008Just a quick update to encourage you to watch Frànçois' enchanting new video for Swimmers / Drifters (on the Too Pure 7"). It was filmed by Edwin Mingard in Peacehaven.
Spring and summer update to follow soon!
New Site
#01 | 5th mar 2008Hello and welcome to the new Stitch-Stitch Records website! We're really excited about it and hope you are too. It's not perfect though; there are quite a few things that need straightening out and some other stuff that needs filling in. It looks its best in Firefox, but is perfectly useable in other browsers (we're still working on grumpy old Internet Explorer).
Lots of stuff has happened over the last year; here's most of what I can remember:
In the coming weeks the shop should begin to get up and running, as we get all our records together. If you sign up to the mailing list (just to the right there) then we can let you know when the shop is opening.
Frànçois and Ray Rumours have a new split 7" out as part of Too Pure's singles club. If you sign up, then you can get a whole year of singles (starting with last October's) for £30. It looks amazing:
You can also get Ray Rumours' split CD with Caz Mechanic over at Tome Records. It's got some great songs on it, including a live track with My Two Toms and Kasper from Bare Knees/Arctic Circle.
Aaron's drawings were featured over at Said the Gramophone in December, along with the My Two Toms, Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Frànçois songs they were drawn for. He's also got a new website for all of his drawings.
roxanne:theearlyyears self-released her album last year. You can get it from the Here Shop in Bristol, and you'll be able to get it from here when the shop is open. She's also on tour with Winston Echo in May - keep your eye on the Run-Run page for more information.
I Know I Have No Collar have been playing a few shows here and there. They have some new songs, which might be recorded soon; plus I'm Missing will be re-released and These Are Our Numbers will be mixed and given a full release.
Ladybird is off travelling the world again. You can find all of his tour dates on his myspace page. He needs some help with dates, so if you live in the US/Canada you should get in touch and put him on!