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hi all, firstly apologies to those who still check this blog for updates.  With one thing and another, we’ve been more than a little bad at keeping this up to date.  There’s not been a lot happening very recently - Scott’s been touring the UK and the world with a variety of bands, Smithy has been wishing for sleep, Chris & Noah have been working with Sky I on his ‘Sky Like Static’ project for the last few months.  Now Scott is back around, he’s providing his percussive talents for this project too.

Fingers crossed we’ll all be getting back into the studios with some new tunes fairly soon (at least before the end of the year!).  It will be good to blow the cobwebs off the guitars! 

In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled on www.skylikestatic.co.uk for info about upcoming gigs.  Since Sky Like Static involves 4/5’s of echograph, you may be interested in checking them out!

That’s all for now…

…that’s what we’re doing! No gigs for a couple of months - babies, songs and microphones in the way.  We’ll keep you up to date on the latest!

Tickets for this show are selling fast - both with us, and the venue.  If you want a discounted ticket (£6) let us know as soon as you can - first come, first served!

You can still get tickets from the venue, or the ticketmaster website for £7, and also on the door on the night.

See you there!

and it’s going to be great! 

It might have been a while since the last West Coast gig, so it’s nice to have a couple coming up.  The short break we had also allowed us to get some new tracks ready to gig, so listen out for ‘Secret Sadness’, ‘Stand Away’ and (for most people) ‘More’.  We’ve also got a couple of tracks that are just not quite there yet, but now we can dive into the recording of these to have some EP’s ready for the new year.

Remember if you want tickets for any of the gigs, send us an email or use the contact page to let us know and we can sort you out.

Cheers! 

Check the gigs page for details….

For any of you podcast fans out there, I’m sure you’ll have heard of the tartanpodcast.  tartanpodcast was the first podcast I’d ever listened to, many moons ago in the early summer of 2005.  Mark Hunter, the host of the show, has consistently brought fantastic unsigned Scottish bands to the fore, and through his show I’ve come to love (and get to know) bands like Amplifico, Finniston, Futuro, Stop Starts, Team Salt & The Hotrod Cadets. In fact the other guys will admit that I’ve gone on about the quality of this particular ‘cast, and how much I love it…

So, guess what?  Yes, we’re on it (get in there!).  I’m well chuffed, and surprisingly Mark asked us via the echograph website if he could play some stuff, rather than us submitting directly to him.  On the down side, Mark seems to have forgotton to mention us in his show notes, so the thousands of tartanpodcast fans probably won’t be surfing over here (ARGH!) - if you are here after listening to the tartanpodcast, leave us a message!

Anyway, I really can’t recommend this show enough, so go and visit www.tartanpodcast.co.uk and see what you think!

Chris

Gabor from The Electrical Language Podcast has played ‘Break Me Down’ on his show (show 29).  This is an excellent podcast, that we’d definitely recommend you check out (and not just cos we’re on it ).  Visit Gabor’s site at http://www.electricallanguage.co.uk/podcast.html

Hi all! Here’s what’s happening in the world of echograph…

Firstly, some booking mix ups mean that the June gigs at Tut’s are no longer happening, but we’re booked in for August (29th).  Before that we have another Edinburgh gig at Bannermans on the 19th July.  We’ll probably be booking quite a few more gigs for August/September/October so keep checking for updates.

Between now and then we’ll be working on some new songs, recording our second EP and looking into getting some nice bits and pieces (T-Shirts, posters and such) produced - if you have any ideas for cool merch let us know.  The podcast is developing, and we’re kinda ready to start recording some bits and bobs for that too - again let us know of any bands we should be trying to play. 

We’ll also be introducing Sky I into the fold, and hopefully he’ll be making some interesting musical contributions…

Factor in the various other things happening over the sunmmer and it’ll be a busy old time!  We’ll keep you up to date with progress as it happens - keep checking back here!

That’s all for now - enjoy the sunshine!

It’s with regret we have to announce the departure from the band of drummer Colin.

Colin decided that he couldn’t fulfil his commitment to the band as much as he’d have liked, and didn’t want to carry on just for the sake of it. It came as a bit of a blow to the rest of us, coming so soon after the very successful gig at King Tut’s, but Colin explained his decision, and had clearly been thinking about things for a while.

Colin was a founder member of our first band – smuj – nearly ten years ago, and we have had some amazing times and memories to look back on with him – playing Tut’s for the first time, travelling to London for a showcase gig, playing to 1500 people at Fir Park football stadium…

With this announcement, we had to decide what to do next, and it wasn’t an easy decision to keep going after such an important part of the band decided to call it a day, but Colin was really keen that we keep building on what we have achieved so far…

So, after a lot of thought and discussion we have asked our close friend (and fantastic musician!) Scott to come in and take over the lovely warm drum throne that Colin has left behind. Scott will, I’m sure, add his own thoughts to the blog as soon as he figures out how, but in the meantime we’re happy to have him on board! At this point we also put into motion our long standing idea of where the band might head next, and luckily we were able to grab fantastic musician ’sky i’ who has come on board to add keys, percussion and noises…

If you have any messages for Scott, sky i, or Colin, feel free to click on the comments link below and let us know your thoughts, or send an email to us - band@echograph.co.uk!

Click here to check out some of the photo’s taken at our recent gig at King tut’s!  Let us know what you think!

p.s. Andy - you’re a star!!!