EP5 & Live

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

So hopefully, see some of you there!!!!

More news on the EP and maybe a snippet soon.

Curse Of The Circle Girls

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.

EP4

After being pulled from all the major retailers at Christmas, we are happy to announce that you can listen to and purchase EP4 from our Bandcamp site.

EP3

EP3 is now available on our Bandcamp site for a modest fee.

EP2

After an absence of over a year, EP2 is now available to listen to and purchase online (for the first time) at our Bandcamp site.

EP1

Is now available for streaming and purchasing on our Bandcamp site.

Minumim price of 50p.

Happy 2012

Hope you all had a wonderful end to 2011 and wishing you all happiness and success in 2012.

Though we took the last two weeks of December off, We had been making progress on EP5.

We still have no official release date yet, but it will be in 2012.

In December, our tune "Apotemnophila" was included in the Alternative Shropshire Vol 2 compilation CD. Click here to download a free copy of the CD featuring us and many other Shropshire acts.

In December we also started the process of pulling EP4 from our online retailers. This was purely a finincial decision. The cost incurred by using the distribution company we were using was too much. We will re-issue EP4 later in the year or possibly sell it direct from our website.

So here is to a fruitful 2012.

Later,

Rollasoc