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05/11/06 Reynolds reform for one off show in London! Reynolds perform at Silver Rocket's bash at The Buffalo Bar, Islington, London on December 15. Below them on t'bill are the excellent Kling Klang, Twinkie and called Stranger Sons Of WB. Anyone on the indie club's mailing list can get in for nowt. Which is nice, isn't it!? Reynold's Chris Summerlin said of the show: "The proper official last ever Reynolds gig was in Nottingham in May '03, with 90 Day Men, and it went with a shoulder-shrugging fizzle. Then drummer Kevin moved to Japan to teach English. To celebrate his return from the East and one member's impending fatherhood we've decided to play a one-off show with the line-up that made the album Love Songs and maybe some extra members too, if we can get our shit together. Also, it's worth pointing out that Slint reformed recently and we always copied all our ideas from them." 23/10/06 LORDS T-SHIRTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE! 06/09/06 I'm off to Chicago/Seattle/Olympia for a few weeks! Any orders made between 6 -23 September may have to wait until I ge back, unless I can persuade my housemates to post them! Gringo is very pleased to be planning a release by SAILORS, a rather excellent band from scattered between Newcastle, Leeds and Saltaire. Chris from Lords reckons they sound a little like Circus Lupus, and who am I to disagree? They will be recording in October and we'll try and get a record out as soon as possible. Sophie from Sailors also drums in Chronicity, who feature Pete Dale of Red Monkey. Another new band to welcome to the Gringo fold is SOUVARIS. Dear friends of mine, they have been recorded their second album which will hopefully be out by the end of the year. BILGE PUMP feature on Run of The Mill's next split single in the 'They Do Them' covers series. This beautiful item has Bilge Pump and Pifco covering Jonathan Richman songs. We have copies of this in our distro! Bilge Pump are have almost written a new album. If you want to write them a song, please send your music to the Gringo PO Box address. Jonesy is buying a house, I think. SOEZA's horn player, Dan, is now the proud father of a bouncing baby boy, named Henry Logan Cornfield. This lovely news means that Soeza have begun recording for their next album. Mark Simms of The Electric Press is recording Soeza for the first time, using the magical power of computers instead of magnetic tape. One of the other Soeza projects, LINE, will have a records out soon on the excellent Super-Fi label from Bristol. CLAMBAKE have no gigs, no announcements, no plans, no nothing! But the 'Bake will be doing some recording in September. At the moment they only wish to proclaim love of blues rock, hard rock and seaside rock, beer gardens and the lovely English countryside. DESIGNER BABIES have been recording too. I've been promised a cool somewhat unique and interesting record. I wouldn't expect anything less. Joy! Chris Mack recently visited Glasgow for the duration of August and ESKA did some recording. This may be the second Eska album! Colin tells me the album has a working title of 'Sonic Chess'. He even gave me a tentative tracklisting (just to whet my appetite): Arab
Horses LORDS lots and lots of gig action. An Irish tour with The Unit Ama among them. THE
UNIT AMA have been taking a break for the summer. I saw Steve play solo as
THE HORSE LOOM and he was breathtaking. Plans may be afoot for a Gringo release. 31/05/06 The first ever Gringo compilation is now ready!!!! It is titled 'Oh Yeah!' and can be purchased online here for the measly sum of £3 in the UK!! Or, we'll send it our free with any order over £15. Tracklisting is as follows... LORDS
- I Shook The Royal Throne (from Gringo split 10") Got to haul myself off to work, but The Unit Ama LPs are now ready! And they look totally amazing! Hand stamped / glued sleeves with 1/2 a mile of ribbon wrapped around them. 12/03/06 Lords and Polaris LPs are now available My front room is currently chocka full of boxes of beautiful vinyl. So visit the Gringo Shop to order the new Lords and Polaris albums on vinyl. The Unit Ama LP will be ready in about a week. Joy! 20/02/06 4 Band Split On Sale Now! The Todd, Part Chimp, Lords and Hey Colossus 10" is now on sale in all good record shops and direct from Gringo! Visit theGringo shoppie and send us yr money. We only have 100 copies of this so be bloody quick like, things have been flying out recently. Four great bands and four labels (Gringo, Jonson Family, Rock Action and Southern) bring you this awesome 10". 27/01/06 Lots and lots of Gringo news and releases. We have four (FOUR!) new records. The Lords, Polaris and The Unit Ama cds are now available to buy over our website. There is a special deal where you can buy all three at a discounted price of £22. You can also pre-order the three albums on vinyl. Just go and visit our shop. The Part Chimp, TODD and Hey Colossus split 10" will be available to buy online in three weeks! BILGE PUMP play 'Fishos the Undeniable' on the newly released, Unlabel, double CD compilation 'un40rmulated'. This track features Mick Flower playing his African reed wibble horn as counterpoint to the pugnacious ride. Fishos appears alongside 39, count them, 39 other tracks by 39 other quality artists. Get to http://www.unlabel.net/ and get yourself a copy for the sum of £8. Fancy! See the Bilge Pump live Experience in the following gothams… 17/2
- Milton Keynes @ Bletchley Leisure Centre (w/ Riotmen) DESIGNER BABIES are holed up in their practice room writing and recording new songs with their amazing new drummer Patch. Witness a rare Babies gig in Derby @ Bar Vida on 6th February. KILL YOURSELF will have a new album out later this year. I've heard talk of it being a double album! Those boys… Andy and James have just released the second That F*cking Tank through Jealous Records, copies of which we have available in the Gringo Distro LORDS star on a split 10" with Part Chimp, TODD and Hey Colossus which is being released by the mecha-label might of Gringo, Jonson Family, Southern and Rock Action. This will be in the shops and available to buy from Gringo on February 20th. If you can't wait that long the bands are getting together to play some gigs over the next two weekends and the 10" will be getting flogged… 27/1
- Oxford @ Wheatsheaf (w/ Hey Colossus, Part Chimp, Todd) The Lords album "This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's A Love Thing" will be officially released on vinyl and cd on 10th April, but in the meantime you can get the CD direct from us! Go and listen to an mp3 here. Lords will be playing more gigs in the coming months, including a possible European jaunt. Confirmed dates so far.. 03/3
- Sunderland @ Pure (w/ B>E>A>K) POLARIS. It is finished, some seven years after 'Belated', the second Polaris album. It is obviously worth the wait and copies of the CD have been flying out. Vinyl will be available in around a month. Official release date is 3rd April. Go and listen to the mp3 of 'Kissing'. Polaris gigs are also being booked… 25/2
- Leeds @ Common Place SOEZA have just had a compilation of older material released on the very fine Unlabel, recently played a live session for Resonance FM and are planning some more gigs in March and June. So far we have the one date confirmed in London @ Pleasure Unit (w/ Gertrude) on Saturday 4th February. THE UNIT AMA's album can now be bought in CD format from our online shop, it won't be available in stores until 17th April. Vinyl will be ready in around four weeks and will be beautiful. You can download an mp3 and buy the album here. The Unit Ama are also playing live, do not miss them! 23/2
- Edinburgh @ Henry's Cellar Bar (w/ Vom)
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