Here’s a little heads up for people wanting to see the UK shows. Some of the venues have started to sell out. The Cabaret Voltaire show in Edinburgh is sold out completely and Milton Keynes is currently selling the last remaining tickets via their website.
So if you want to see the band live next month, in whatever venue, you really should buy tickets now as they appear to be going fast.
The iTunes single of Sea Change comes with an exclusive b-side, called Heaven Is a Clear Horizon.
There’s a preview on iTunes as well.
The single is already in out in several European countries, including The Netherlands.
Olly joined BBC 6Music show Jon Holmes for the light-hearted quiz Ken Brucemaster (instead of BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce’s Popmaster, a quiz Olly has been a guest on as well). Olly talks about the new album as well as his mother in law and her clothes so let’s hope for him this radio segment hasn’t resulted in a family crisis… The whole thing ends with an airing of Sea Change, which is out on the 22nd.
Listen again here (it starts after one hour and a couple of minutes) or download the Turin Brakes related bit from Rapidshare (click on free and if a countdown starts wait for it to finish).
If you’re a frequent reader of this website, you may already know Turin Brakes wrote Here for Take That. BBC 6Music has now run a news story on the matter:
“We took that money that we made off that song and reinvested it in our studio and this album,” revealed Olly. “So technically, you know, without Take That…I don’t know if we’d have a Turin Brakes album.”
“I’m not going to say we made a huge amount but we made enough money to cover a few debts that we’d built up over a couple of years of not being signed. We had to find some money from somewhere. Neither me or Gale have made enough money to sit back and relax by any stretch, so we have to find money. It is about that.”
Also, Olly will be on Jon Holmes show for the Ken Brucemaster Quiz after 5 pm (UK time) today.
It’s a cover of the sea! Who would have thought it!?
The Amazon single is just the single mp3 track that you can buy. Usually with Cooking Vinyl releases there’ll be an exclusive b-side available, which we’ll know about by Monday morning.
You like it? I definitely do!
With all these Outbursts around us, one would almost forget that there’s still the song of the year 2009 to be announced. From October to December 2009, visitors of this site were allowed to send in their favourite Turin Brakes songs. Well, here are the results:
1 Mind Over Money
2 Underdog (Save Me) (most UK votes)
3 Emergency 72
4 Painkiller
5 Fishing For A Dream (2008 winner)
6 Last Chance
7 Ether Song
8 Paper Heart (most popular ‘Outbursts’ song)
9 The Road
10 Feeling Oblivion
11 Blue Hour
12 Rain City
13 The Sea Change
14 Come and Go
15 Dark On Fire
16 For The Fire
17 Future Boy
18 Self Help
19 The Door
20 Forever
21 Full Of Stars
22 Little Brother
23 New Star
24 Stalker
25 Everybody Knows
26 Love Is All You Deserve
27 Rise
28 The Seagull
29 State Of Things (2006 winner)
30 Time Machine
31 Clear Blue Air
32 Jet Trail
33 Lasso
34 Never Stops
35 Average Man
36 Bright Golden Lights
37 Last Clown
38 Nine To Five
39 Other Side
40 Above The Clouds
41 Balham To Brooklyn
42 Long Distance (2005 and 2007 winner)
43 Over and Over
44 Starship
45 Stone Thrown
46 The Optimist
47 Building Wraps Round Me
48 So Long
49 The Boss
50 They Can’t Buy The Sunshine
51 Timewaster
52 Capsule
53 Here Comes The Moon
54 Real Life
55 Red Moon
56 Cumulous Clouds
57 Bye Pod
58 Ghost
59 Something In My Eye
60 Falling Down
61 Panic Attack
62 Asleep With The Fireflies
63 Jackinabox
64 Road To Nowhere
65 By TV Light
66 Slack
67 5 Mile (These Are The Days)
68 Brave New World
69 Eveready
70 Invisible Boy
71 Loopa
72 The First Time
73 Where I’ve Been (XFM Acoustic Version)
74 Where’s My Army
Thanks everyone for voting. Seems like a nice winner this year. New voting round starts on 1 October 2010! So stay tuned!
The first of three Sea Change videos has been posted on MUZU.tv. It’s a stop motion (frame by frame) video of miniature soldiers fighting in what presumably is the second world war. Olly made at least one of the three videos (he mentioned on Twitter he was editing one), I don’t know whether it’s this one is. To accompany the video release, Muzu are giving away signed album copies if you join them and befriend Turin Brakes (and answer the video related question – so pay attention).
You can watch it all here.
So, do you like it?
Together with Huey from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals and Holly Walsh (comedian), Olly joined Steve Lamacq on the BBC 6Music roundtable. On the show, the guests listen to new music and then talk about it. Olly was also asked about the new album. It’s a nice listen, especially if you decide to play the “spot the chatroom comment by the webmaster of this site’ 
. Seriously though, the program is available for a week here (thanks for the link, Shazia).
Every red moon, month, sea change or when the bright golden lights make you feel magic, Ether Site will recommend a band or singer/songwriter that you might like… Today we recommend Tom McRae.
Tom McRae has been going strong since his selftitled debut in 2000 was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. He didn’t win but has been making nice to very nice records ever since. Late 2009 he was ready to release an ambitious project consisting of two CDs. But then he got a new record deal at a record company who were willing to release it for him (which is the same company that is releasing the new Turin Brakes album). And thus, now we have this album and it’s his most diverse one to date. His songs are dark, sometimes even depressing and benefit from the open and honest production of these songs. Tom’s voice is that of a fallen angel. Single Please is a glorious bittersweet love songs with an anthemlike feel. Other highlights on the new record include Won’t Lie and Out Of The Walls.
The Alphabet of Hurricanes is released on the 22nd of February, on Cooking Vinyl. The download single Please is available now! Listen on Myspace to some of his songs. There you’ll also find a tour schedule for the longest tour he’s ever done, lasting over a month.
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New TurinBrakes.com, features podcast
Besides a brand new look, the website features news, a discography, a photo and video gallery and a new community page where people can upload photos and videos. Also new is the podcast, featuring Olly and Gale talking for almost 30 minutes on things they like (including music, lunch and the instruments in their studio). They also play a cover of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (originally by Neill Young). Let’s hope we’ll see more of these as time goes by (perhaps on the road as well “Live from Scotland/Germany/The Netherlands/Italy”?).