YEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! It's almost Christmas and we're in hibernation for another week before we start recording our first album so it's time to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who supported us in any way this year.
We've had an absolute blast playing around 90 shows all over the UK and Ireland, highlights have included supports with Mono, ZU, Kong, Adebisi shank and Chickenhawk, Our tours with Monsters build mean robots, Double handsome dragons, Kasper rosa and This is our monument (So many good times), Filming for the I'm NOTT from London movie, The Hockley Hustle, Being introduced by the BBC, Joining the Field records family, the 123.EP going to Japan and finally partying with all the awesome people we've met on our travels :-)
Special thanks to Ross Hunter for his continuous help, Tim Waterfield for all his time and support and of course recording the 123.EP, Osamu @ Linus records in Japan, Ali from BTPAM, Jay, Jim & Callum @ Dub:rek, Dean Jackson @ BBC Nottingham, Will Robinson, Leftlion, all the promoters who put us on, Will Hapgood, Dan Robertson and Dan Barrett...anyone else we've not mentioned you know who you are...you all mean alot to the three of us...mwwaaaaahhhhhh xxx
Extra extra special thanks to Hayley and Neff for being so understanding and supportive..you both know why!!!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
See ya in 2010
Love,
Alright the Captain
x
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Thursday, 10 December 2009
"Alright the Captain? are from all over, right? They're from Birmingham, Northern Ireland, Norwich, Leicester and Notts. Either this means that the composite members all live / have lived in lots of different locations (apparently there are only three of them) or they're HUGE! Reigning down their perilous tyranny from the skies, destroying Britain one step at a time. Personally, I hope it's the latter.
This three are evidently very talented musicians whose prowess is noticable from the first hammered on riff from Marty's guitar to the second slapped funk moment from Todd's bass. The music's all instrumental with time signatures designed to make dancing difficult unless you already know the song really well. That is, there's a big jazziness to the sound and you get the feeling the three of them are writing the exact music they want to create. There's a lot of variation in their sound also, just when you think you can hear some bastardised combination of Primus, Battles and Mogwai, it explodes into a Tool, Mars Volta, Squarepusher moment which changes again before you even had the chance to acclimbatise. For instrumental rock, there's a sense of impatience in the song that sees them moving into completely different sonic environments within a little space of time and before you know it, the song's over in just under four minutes.
In that sense, it's very difficult to really place direct comparisons with these guys but just to go with the flow of their impatient sound. They put it well themselves when they say "from the distorted synth bass to the angular dissonance of the rhythm guitar through to the ambient delayed lead guitar textures and the solid drum tracks kicking against the glitchy electronic loops and trippy samples, Alright the Captain? have a unique musical character and an open minded approach to their genre bending anti-rock".
Over prolonged periods of time this may make your head explode, but you can picture it going down a storm in a live environment.
If you like your post rock but find many miss the point with their one-trick-pony 4/4 cinematic sound tracks for imaginary films when there's a whole world of possibility to be explored" - GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE
This three are evidently very talented musicians whose prowess is noticable from the first hammered on riff from Marty's guitar to the second slapped funk moment from Todd's bass. The music's all instrumental with time signatures designed to make dancing difficult unless you already know the song really well. That is, there's a big jazziness to the sound and you get the feeling the three of them are writing the exact music they want to create. There's a lot of variation in their sound also, just when you think you can hear some bastardised combination of Primus, Battles and Mogwai, it explodes into a Tool, Mars Volta, Squarepusher moment which changes again before you even had the chance to acclimbatise. For instrumental rock, there's a sense of impatience in the song that sees them moving into completely different sonic environments within a little space of time and before you know it, the song's over in just under four minutes.
In that sense, it's very difficult to really place direct comparisons with these guys but just to go with the flow of their impatient sound. They put it well themselves when they say "from the distorted synth bass to the angular dissonance of the rhythm guitar through to the ambient delayed lead guitar textures and the solid drum tracks kicking against the glitchy electronic loops and trippy samples, Alright the Captain? have a unique musical character and an open minded approach to their genre bending anti-rock".
Over prolonged periods of time this may make your head explode, but you can picture it going down a storm in a live environment.
If you like your post rock but find many miss the point with their one-trick-pony 4/4 cinematic sound tracks for imaginary films when there's a whole world of possibility to be explored" - GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE
Thursday, 3 December 2009
ATC in Japan.....kinda!
We received a lovely email yesterday from a guy called Osamu in Tokyo, it turns out he wants to stock the 123.EP through Linus records...
we're all obviously chuffed that anyone in Japan had even heard of us let alone taken the time to contact us about putting out our little DIY EP :-)
Saturday we played our last show of the year in EYE and it was fuckin awesome, it was so much fun and a great way to end a busy gigging schedule so big thanks to Jane, Sophie, Lee and everyone else involved in organising the party :-)
Since then we've locked ourselves up in our new lockup while we crack on with getting the album and split 7" done for release in 2010, we have 2 more new songs (working title for one of which is called Peanut worm) in progress and a few more ideas floating around to be worked on too :-)
time for a coffee tho now!
x
we're all obviously chuffed that anyone in Japan had even heard of us let alone taken the time to contact us about putting out our little DIY EP :-)
Saturday we played our last show of the year in EYE and it was fuckin awesome, it was so much fun and a great way to end a busy gigging schedule so big thanks to Jane, Sophie, Lee and everyone else involved in organising the party :-)
Since then we've locked ourselves up in our new lockup while we crack on with getting the album and split 7" done for release in 2010, we have 2 more new songs (working title for one of which is called Peanut worm) in progress and a few more ideas floating around to be worked on too :-)
time for a coffee tho now!
x
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