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Charity single release ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee’ for Shelter

Stefan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:48:44 +0000

Turin Brakes have released one of the covers from their Xerox EP as a charity single. Chim Chim Cher-ee, which has been played on BBC Radio 2 and played live at The Optimist live tour (here’s a video I taped in Edinburgh on Monday night).

Philip Bloom made a moving video showing the povery that some people have to endure. Like the TB version of Chim Chim Cher-ee it’s both dark yet beautiful: these people seem strong in their own way.

Following the positive reception of the video, the band decided to release the single on iTunes. The proceedings of the iTunes sales will be donated to the shelters Philip Bloom approached to make his video and SHELTER UK.

If you want to download the single, click here.

Tour week 1 update

Stefan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:12:55 +0000

So the first few days of the tour are well over… Time for a round up. First of all, here’s two blogs from TB.com: (click to enlarge)

Furthermore, the setlists so far has been a mix of oldies and new ones. TB tweeted the setlists for the first two dates, Rich also sent me an email (thanks!). If you notice changes, please let me know!

SEA CHANGE
MIND OVER MONEY
STONE THROWN
MIRROR
FEELING OBLIVION
NEVER STOPS
RAIN CITY
EMERGENCY 72
PAPER HEART
APOCOLIPS
PAIN KILLER
FISHING FOR A DREAM
DARK ON FIRE
RADIO SILENCE
LONG DISTANCE

OUTBURSTS
ROCKET SONG
UNDERDOG (SAVE ME)

THE ROAD
STATE OF THINGS

The Road hasn’t been played live in many years and this tour sees the first outings of Rocket Song, Outbursts, Radio Silence, Apocolips and Mirror.

Rich (who sent the setlist in) also mentioned that Olly said Rocket Song will be the second single from the Outbursts album. These days TB are regularly tweeting lunch and tour updates, so keep an eye on their Twitter page.

‘The Sea Change’ single played on BBC Radio 2 (listen again)!

Stefan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:07:02 +0000

Dermot O’Leary premiered the new Turin Brakes single The Sea Change in his radio show last Saturday! You can listen to the show here, the song starts at 1 hours and 52 minutes. The Sea Change is the debut single from the new Turin Brakes Outbursts album.