+ Sky Larkin + http://www.weareskylarkin.com Official website for the band Sky Larkin Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bandstand Busking – This Sunday, Arnold Circus http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/bandstand-busking-this-sunday-arnold-circus/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/bandstand-busking-this-sunday-arnold-circus/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:59:36 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1182 ARNOLD CIRCUS.

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]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/bandstand-busking-this-sunday-arnold-circus/feed/ 0 Sky Larkin ‘Still Windmills’ (Ghost Hunter remix) http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/sky-larkin-still-windmills-ghost-hunter-remix/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/sky-larkin-still-windmills-ghost-hunter-remix/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:39:30 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1173 Hi everyone,

We asked Ghost Hunter to remix the new Sky Larkin single – click to listen below.

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/sky-larkin-still-windmills-ghost-hunter-remix/feed/ 0 Like some sort of 21st century backhanded compliment… http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/like-some-sort-of-21st-century-backhanded-compliment/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/like-some-sort-of-21st-century-backhanded-compliment/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:18:13 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1157 ..our record has leaked onto the Internet with a month to go before the official release date. Boo.
So, we’ve decided to stream the whole darn thing on the homepage of this here site (click here or on kaleidoscope above to reach it), and if you pre-order the physical copy you get a high quality MP3 download instantly to take with you wherever you go!
So if you wish, have a look and a listen.
Luv/h8 u 1nternetz.

In other equally exciting news, here be the information for our headline tour today kicking off in Brighton on 10th September. Tickets go on sale this Friday 9th July. The dates are as follows:

10/09 Brighton | Audio (tickets)
11/09 Bristol | Cooler (tickets)
12/09 Leicester | Musician (tickets)
 14/09 Aberdeen | Cafe Drummonds (tickets)
15/09 Glasgow | Captain’s Rest (tickets)
16/09 Manchester | Night And Day (tickets)
17/09 Nottingham | Bodega (tickets)
18/09 Aldershot | West End Centre (tickets)
20/09 London | Lexington (tickets)
21/09 Cambridge | Haymakers (tickets)
22/09 York | Fibbers (tickets)
23/09 Leeds | Brudenell Social Club (tickets)

If you can’t wait that long, we are playing these shows before then:

09 / 07 Sheffield | Corporation w/ Broken Social Scene
14 / 07 London | Wichita 10 year Anniversary show @ The Garage w/The Cribs and Lovvers)
25 / 07 London | Bandstand Busking, Arnold Circus, London 14.00 w/Vivian Girls
02 / 08 London | Cargo w/ Best Coast
05 / 08 London | Banquet Records, Instore show 17.00
05 / 08 London | New Slang, Kingston, 20.00
19 / 08 Edinburgh | Sneaky Pete’s (Edinburgh Fringe Festival w/ Frankie & The Heartstrings)
21 / 08 Sunderland | Independent – Pop Sex Ltd night

See you soon!

t’Larks x

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/like-some-sort-of-21st-century-backhanded-compliment/feed/ 6 Hear New Single ‘Still Windmills’ + vote it onto the BBC6Music Playlist! And Photographers…? http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/hear-new-single-still-windmills-vote-it-onto-the-bbc6music-playlist-and-photographers/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/hear-new-single-still-windmills-vote-it-onto-the-bbc6music-playlist-and-photographers/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:12:37 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1121 Happy July everybody,

Hope you enjoyed the free sneak-peek EP prelude to our new record. As another ankle-flashing tease we offer you a listen to the first single proper (7″, iTunes, B-sides, remixes, possibly a commemorative plate) from Kaleide, ‘Still Windmills’. Head here weareskylarkin.com to listen and here to pre-order the vinyl – though you can download the single and ‘b’ tracks right away!

Still Windmills artwork by Jack Hudson

‘Still Windmills’ has made it onto super-gent Steve Lamacq’s Rebel Playlist Vote. This means if we get enough clicks then our song will be played on every daytime 6music show. And we heart 6Music. So please spread the word and help us out? Here’s a new mixtape from Nestor as a thank you.

Being in direct competition with other bands does however feels weird and battle-of-the-bands-y (Hi Male Bonding! Not met you Villagers but we’re kind of label cousins) but at the end of the day the winner will be Football, I mean Music. And if we lose we can always blame our managers right? I went to see an England match at a sports-pub-chain and I’m scarred for life (“just f’in skin ‘em!”).

Also, are you a photographer that would be interested in taking part in an online collaborative Sky Larkin photo-project? Top secret at the moment, but involves no expense on your part and can be done from the comfort of your own home. If you’d like to take part please contact us here and we will send you something fun in the post…

Have a fun tube-sweatin’, cut-off-wearin’, strawberry-pickin’, cider-drenchin’ Summertime.

Before we go, Nestor tells us that the Jumbo Recordstore in Leeds amazingly still has a few copied of the Antibodies tape!

Katie (and Nest and Doug)

xx

and PS this is one of the greatest accolades we could ever hope for

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/hear-new-single-still-windmills-vote-it-onto-the-bbc6music-playlist-and-photographers/feed/ 0 Supporting Best Coast at Cargo, 2nd August. http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/supporting-best-coast-at-cargo-2nd-august/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/supporting-best-coast-at-cargo-2nd-august/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:25:26 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1111 Fellow Wichita band Best Coast are over in London playing a show at Cargo. Sky Larking are supporting – grab your ticket here

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/07/supporting-best-coast-at-cargo-2nd-august/feed/ 0 LAST MINUTE SHOW IN BRISTOL http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/06/last-minute-show-in-bristol/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/06/last-minute-show-in-bristol/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:27:34 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1101 Sky Larkin will be playing brand new songs and songs of old at the Louisiana in BRISTOL, this Wednesday – which is the 22nd. Tickets on the door. Or head here

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/06/last-minute-show-in-bristol/feed/ 2 Escape from Captivity (video, BSS dates, tour photos) http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/06/escape-from-captivity/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/06/escape-from-captivity/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:12:32 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1041 We got lost inside a strange mountain of glass in North Yorkshire. It was tough but we made it out…

TRUTHS TO SHARE

- our new album Kaleide will be released on the 9th of August 2010 via Wichita Recordings

- this is exactly 18months to the day after The Golden Spike was born

- the tracklisting is as follows

1. Still Windmills
2. Kaleide
3. Tiny Heist
4. Landlocked
5. Anjelica Huston
6. Spooktacular
7. Year Dot
8. Coffee Drinker
9. ATM
10. Shade By Shade
11. Guitars and Antarctica
12. Smarts (Shh version)



- we can also happily announce that we will be supporting super-troopers (and fellow Wichitans) Broken Social Scene for two of their UK dates.

These are Birmingham 26th June at 02 Academy (tickets) and Sheffield at Corporation (tickets) on 9th July.

- This is rad. I went to see Broken Social Scene the night before the last of my University final exams because I’ve got my priorities straight.

-Thank you to everyone that came to see us at the festivals we’ve done recently, Brighton, Leeds, Bristol, Nottingham, Glasgow, New Cross, Shoreditch, we salute you.

And thank you to whoever left this polaroid on my pedals at Stag and Dagger festival!

I’ll leave you with some tour POV snaps from the last few weeks, see you soon. K x (+N+D)

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/06/escape-from-captivity/feed/ 2 Hibernation period is over! http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/05/hibernation-period-is-over/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/05/hibernation-period-is-over/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 14:54:01 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1026 Hello everyone,

our hibernation and gestation period is over. This August, our second record ‘Kaleide’ will be released via Wichita Recordings worldwide. It feels so good to finally be able to let you know!

In March we returned to Seattle (where we made The Golden Spike) to the same man (John Goodmanson) but to a different room with equally strong coffee on offer. The studio was pretty far out of town, with few distractions in easy reach and the experience was intense and immersive. And fun.

We’ve grown all sorts of new muscles and I only nearly fainted once (too many coffees, not enough water).We will be announcing full details of the album soon, but for now we offer you a FREE three track EP for download (see front page).

The EP contains;
KALEIDE (album title track)
SPOOKTACULAR (demo version)
MATADOR (acoustic)

Spooktacular and Matador Acoustic were both recorded in the Crypt of a Victorian church in Yorkshire, which was our second home in between touring over the last year. Spooktacular is one of the many demos we recorded in the belly of The Crypt and a full version of the song features on the new record.

In addition, I can happily reveal that art for the record has been created by illustrator Jack Hudson. The collaboration with him to turn our songs into hard format has been an exciting process. We will also soon be inviting you to generate content to an ongoing, online version of the album artwork project so that we can entertain your eyes as well as your ears.

We hope you enjoy this EP, pass the word on and if you are in any of the following places, see you soon!

Katie, Doug and Nest x

May
14th Brighton, The Great Escape Festival (LIFE venue)
21st London, Stag & Dagger Festival (Old Blue Last venue)
22nd Glasgow, Stag & Dagger Festival (Nice N Sleazy venue)
27th New Cross, Amersham Arms

July
15th London, The Garage (Wichita Recordings 10th anniversary show w/ The Cribs)

August
19th Edinburgh, Sneaky Petes (Edinburgh Fringe Festival show w/ Frankie & The Heartstrings)

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/05/hibernation-period-is-over/feed/ 3 Sky Larkin and Telekinesis in Seattle http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/04/sky-larkin-and-telekinesis-in-seattle/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/04/sky-larkin-and-telekinesis-in-seattle/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:22:53 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1017 Part three from Seattle, our dear ol’ buddy Michael (the man behind the brilliant band Telekinesis) took us on a magical mystical tour of Seattle. Whaddaguy!

Music by Telekinesis (Michael Benjamin Lerner), video cobbled together by Katie.
http://www.myspace.com/telekinesismusic
http://telekinesismusic.com/

]]> http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/04/sky-larkin-and-telekinesis-in-seattle/feed/ 1 Nestor’s Seattle Diary and another video blog from the studio http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/03/nestors-seattle-diary-and-another-video-blog-from-the-studio/ http://www.weareskylarkin.com/2010/03/nestors-seattle-diary-and-another-video-blog-from-the-studio/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:44:47 +0000 Team Larkin http://www.weareskylarkin.com/?p=1015 Another installment from the studio of John Goodmanson. Enjoy.

Nestor’s full Seattle diary for the lovely guys at IMYOUARE, take a read here

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