The Hair Thieves are a duo from Shropshire UK, creating an eclectic mix of indie pop rock with a smattering of soundtracks, punk, rost rock and any other genre we think of on any given day.
2020 is the 20th anniversary and we still don't take this very serious at all.
Things have been a bit slow in Hair Thieves land since Bridgnorth Music Festival, mostly due to my lack of a car and thus not being able to get to our weekly meetings, (we live something like 19 miles apart).
This is depressing me somewhat.
So although some work has been progressing on EP5, not enough has happened to get the thing to release anytime soon.
So we will regroup soon and move onwards and upwards.
So that time of year comes around for the annual live outing by The Hair Thieves.
We were originally booked to play the out door Quayside, but with the mixture of rain and electricity, the outdoor concert was cancelled and moved across the road to Gabrielle's wine bar.
We have played Gabrielle's before at open mic nights (when it was known as the Lounge. Incidentally, it was the venue we first performed live together in 2008), so knew it was going to be an up close and personal experience. So, with that in mind and breaking with the norm, we ditched the effects pedals.
We aired the new song "Invisible Wall". An acoustic version of which you can listen to on our Soundcloud page. The EP version will be fuller with drums and bass and keyboards added.
We also did our "Donate to charity and get a free CD" deal, with a very limited CD featuring said acoustic version of "Invisible Wall" and the now very old (can't get it anywhere else) track "Tilly".
Other tracks we played were "Bad Consumer", "A Journey of the Soul", "Break The Casino" and a couple of covers by Idlewild and Stereophonics.
Here is how we closed the set with "Break The Casino". Filmed by Tracy Breeze.
It has dawned on me that we haven't blogged for many months on the happenings of the Hair Thieves.
Sorry about that. We have been busy writing and recording (and now rehearsing).
So here is the latest news:-
EP5 is ongoing. We have temporarily scrapped one of the songs and written, (surprisingly quickly for us) another tune. So we now have three songs with lyrics and the obligatory instrumental.
I believe the track listing of EP5 will be (not necessarily in this order)
Invisible Wall
Beijing Morning
Assimilation
Bathmophobia
So the rush now is to get the recording and mixing done in the next two or three weeks for an end of August release.
We also have our annual live gig outing booked for Monday 27th August at the Quayside in Bridgnorth as part of the Bridgnorth Music Festival. We are looking forward to playing once again against the stunning backdrop of the River Severn.
The line up is:- 12:00 Rhi Moore 12:30 The Moonshine Runners 13:00 The Hair Thieves 13:30 Num Nums 14:00 Claire Diamond 14:30 Midset Buka 15:10 Matt Barker 15:40 Thomson Oldeman 16:30 ToyPOP 17:20 The State of Things
Given it is 29th February 2012, that makes it 320 years today since the first warrent was issued in the Salam Witch Trials (according to the BBC website today anyway).
Now, if you read back through this blog, you will find numerous references to the four part Guilt of Innocent Blood instrumental suite, (loosly named on bits I read from a book on the witch trials) that I started writing in 1990. Well, half it is is complete, one quarter is partly written and the other bit is started.
But for all intents and purposes it is mostly abandoned.
So here, is part four of the suite. The curse of the circle girls. This is a free download, (or you can contribute some pennies if you like). It is limited to 200 free downloads. This will be pulled in probably a week. It may resurface later, it may not. So grab it now.
