A Little Update
All's been quiet here recently, and it looks to stay like that for the next few months. Finbar is in Australia for six weeks, and the band are in a period of composing and recording, rather than gigging. Because of this the site and band will be quiet for a while, until gigs and recordings start again, probably around September.
The band is still very much together and I may be posting a few unseen videos from the archive over the coming weeks.
And We’re Back…
Blimey, that was a long night. While I was away over the weekend, our hosting company decided to go kaput and we had to revert to a backup of the site database. However, the database only keeps things like pages, posts and comments so the site had to be rebuilt, re-uploading pictures, songs and themes.
We should be back to normal now but if you experience any bugs or problems using the site please leave a comment. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
This Week’s Gigs – New Song Played
A little update about the two school gigs Episode played this week. On Thursday they played three songs at the Orleans Park School Summer Concert - Alien is an Understatement, Angel of the North and Drowning. Two of the songs are available to watch below:
Yesterday Episode also played the Haliford Summer Concert, which was also recorded and videos should be coming soon. Episode played Alien is an Understatement, Drowning, My Definition, Angel of the North and then a totally new song, never played before - Breaking Us Up.
New Theme
As you may have noticed, we're trying out a few different themes as we are long overdue a better design, and we needed to change to a design that would work with the new automated gig management system. This may mean you experience a few problems using the site but in general it will be taken down while we update things.
We'd love your views on the new design so please feel free to leave a comment on this post.
New Gig at Heatham House
Date: Saturday 5th June 2010
Venue: Heatham House, Whitton Rd, Twickenham, TW1 1BH
Time: 14:00-22:00
Price: £5 (TBC)
Age limits: None
Episode will be playing Mike's last band night on the 5th of June. As Mike is leaving there will be many people and activities going on throughout the afternoon.
More info on the gig's page and the official Facebook event page.
In other news, you can now access the site via http://episodemusic.com (however this is simply a redirect for now), and we are finalising details about Strawberry Hill Festival, which we played last year.
NEW SONGS!
Update: We have had several requests to allow downloads of these songs. However, they are not finished and we do not want people distributing and keeping the unfinished versions, thinking they are the final perfected versions.
Original Article: The time has come, and you can now listen to the three new songs recorded at Ash Milton's studio last week. Please note that these are not perfect and some work still needs to be done on them, including adding a 12 string on Angel of the North and re-doing the vocals on Alien is an Understatement. However:
Release TONIGHT
You may have already noticed that the counter on the front page of the website shows only hours to go. This is because the three new songs, Alien is an Understatement, Drowning and Angel of the North are being released at 8pm tonight.
At about 7 the website will be taken off-line and all you will be able to see is the counter on the front page. When this counter gets to 0 you will automatically be redirected to the website which will have been updated and you will be able to listen to the new songs.
Please note that these songs are not perfect and some changes still need to be applied at Heatham. However they are still good and merit a release.
Join us again at a few minutes to 8 and enjoy the suspense counting down the seconds with us.
Release Delayed
As you may have noticed, the second EP due to be released last Sunday has been delayed indefinitely. This is due to several reasons. Firstly, I have been stuck in China for the last few days and only managed to get back at 3am this morning so have not had a chance to update the website (the Chinese government seems to have blocked us). Also, the producer has not finished mixing them and a few things need to be overdubbed at Heatham sometime soon that did not get finished during the session. With the recording on Tuesday and the release on Sunday, we thought we were giving ourselves enough time to sort out any problems but some, including the volcanic ash cloud, could just not have been planned for.
At the moment there is no set release date although we hope to release it within a few weeks.
New Gig: Episode and Boycott Monday at Heatham
As posted earlier, Episode will be playing Heatham on Saturday the 24th of April 2010. However we can now confirm that the other band also playing will be Boycott Monday. Boycott Monday are another local year 11 band, with one member going to OPS (Kai). Although this is strictly a band night, we are under the impression that no other bands will be playing, however there will be a DJ.
Episode have a history of aranging gigs with Boycott Monday, and Boycott Monday have a history of pulling out! However we are confident that this time they will be playing, so please come along and support.
Whether you regularly go to Heatham, used to go to Heatham or have never been, please come along as it is a nice, friendly venue and a chance to hear some great music.
If you have never heard any of Boycott Monday's tunes, or want to find out more about them, please go to my other website boycottmonday.co.uk.
We look forward to seeing you there.
More info at the gig's page here.
My Definition – Track of the Day on Garageband.com
Episode's track My Definition has been named as the Hard Rock track of the day for Wednesday , 31st of March 2010. Read the reviews, listen and vote on Garageband.com
here.
