February 2012
8 posts
BBC Radio 2!
We are very happy to have been played out by the generous Steve Lamacq, on his Saturday late night BBC Radio 2 show. You can listen to the show on the BBC iPlayer (link below)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c3dlk/Steve_Lamacq_18_02_2012/
The song featured is Grassmarket, the title track of our extended play, compact dsic!
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January 2012
6 posts
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Happy New Year!
Our resolution was to update our blog a bit more than we have been but we haven’t done a very good job so far! We thought we’d jump on the end of year list and show you some of our favourite music of the year that was 2011.
Boat To Row Best of 2011
Click the link to check out some of the bands we’ve played with and admired or artists whose latest work we’ve eagerly...
December 2011
5 posts
Grassmarket EP!
Tomorrow, Monday 5th December, sees the release of our first EP Grassmarket! We had a lot of fun at the Hare and Hounds last week with the launch party and we were thrilled with how many people picked up their copies early! We just want to say a massive thanks to My First Tooth and Joe Summers once again for playing, their sets were fantastic and everyone we spoke to really enjoyed them! We...
November 2011
2 posts
Countryfile And Our New Website!
Hello!
Today is proving to be a busy Sunday for us, we have a couple of cool new bits of news to share with you all. Firstly, our music is being featured on BBC 1’s ‘Countryfile’ tonight! If you tune in from 6.25 you’ll be able to hear some snippets of our songs during the ‘Andy’s Farm’ feature. We’re very flattered to be used on national...
Demo's & Sessions Free EP
Today, we are giving away 5 free tracks under the title of ‘Demo’s & Sessions’, building upto our ‘Grassmarket’ release on the 21st of November
Follow this link: http://boattorow.bandcamp.com/album/demos-and-sessions-2
Download away!
BTR x
October 2011
5 posts
EP Launch!
Hello everyone,
Welcome to another round of excuses as to why we haven’t updated our long neglected blog. We moved, we’ve started new jobs, we’ve been busy, we’re just unorganised. Well now we have some lovely news to share, we’ve finished recording our next EP, ‘Grassmarket’, with the fantastic Craig Wainwright and the lovely people are putting on a...
July 2011
1 post
WatchWe’re so excited to be playing with Sea of Bees on Sunday! Such a stunning album, I’m looking forward to seeing how it sounds stripped back. It’s this Sunday at the Hare and Hounds (July 10th) in Birmingham if you’re around.
We’re also playing at 2000 Trees festival on Saturday 16th July on the Leaf Lounge stage. It should be a brilliant weekend, all our...
June 2011
2 posts
Green Man 2011
We’ve entered the Green Poll to play at this year’s Green Man festival. We’d be ever so grateful if you could take a second to vote for us! It’s really easy to do, just click the link below and vote through Facebook:
http://tinyurl.com/6y5oqfh
Some of our absolute favourites are playing, including Fleet Foxes, Iron and Wine, Explosions in the Sky, Josh T Pearson, Laura...
May 2011
1 post
'A Boat to Row, To Row To You' 7" out now!
We are delighted to announce that our new single ‘A Boat to Row to Row to You’ is available to purchase! It’s limited to 250 copies so grab them whilst you can, from this link here:
http://istartedthefire.bigcartel.com/product/boat-to-row-a-boat-to-row-to-row-to-you
Our single launch shows went great, better than we could have anticipated! A big thank you goes out to Jim Lockey...
April 2011
1 post
BBC Nottingham Introducing Session & Record Store...
We had the pleasure of recording a BBC introducing session that was aired Saturday 16th of April.
You can listen back here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00g0l2d
Or watch us here:
we also had the pleasure of playing @ Rise Records in Cheltenham on Saturday, we had lots of fun playing our first instore performance as such and spent lots of money. Hopefully get some videos or...
March 2011
1 post
'A Boat To Row, To Row To You' Video
BOAT TO ROW /// A BOAT TO ROW, TO ROW TO YOU from B A N K S on Vimeo.
We have our debut single coming out on May 2nd through istartedafire records and we were hoping to spread the word about the release as much as we could, so we made a video, as you do.
The video was produced by Pete Banks, who has been working with Dog Is Dead and Jonquil on their recent singles, and was shot over 3...
February 2011
3 posts
Here’s an a capella version of...
ANALOG: Trends in Sounds.
Today we had a brilliant afternoon at the Riflemaker Gallery in London recording with Lewis Durham of Kitty, Daisy & Lewis. This was no ordinary recording session though, it was recorded entirely on mono recording equipment and cut straight on to a 10” vinyl as we played! The microphones, desk, preamps and recording lathe all date back to the period between the 1930s and early 1950s...
‘Pricilla and James’
Recorded live to...
December 2010
2 posts
04/12/2010
Last night we had the immense pleasure of opening up for our lovely Birmingham brothers Goodnight Lenin. We’d been anticipating this show for weeks ever since the boys asked us and even the hoards of rabid Christmas shoppers that tried to lock me into Moor Street car park couldn’t stop us from making it in time.
There couldn’t have been a more perfect setting for a show than St...
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
1 post
Autumn's Here!
As is a special download of our new single! It’s called ‘Autumn Glow’ and is available here on our new bandcamp site. We have been really excited about getting it out there for you all to listen to, which is why we are offering it to you for free! The previous ‘Crossroads e.p is also downloadable if you fancy it.
Artwork by Rosie Moss.
On the night of the Autumn Glow...
September 2010
1 post
Summer 2010!
We’ll start at May, the month that we released ‘Crossroads’. In my eyes this was the month that summer started, not only as it was beautifully sunny but this was the month where things started to happen. With the joint effort of the 5 of us, Sarah Abbott for providing the beautiful artwork, D!L!P!R! for providing the tapes and Ondryland for representing the Digital front,...