Yarrr, there be a new song to hear

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Me and Pete have recorded an acoustic version of Sea Shanty. You can hear it on our ReverbNation profile here, it’s the first song in the list or you can click this link to open up a little music player in a new window.

Check it out and let us know what you think.


Karrot - It’s Trippy but not as you know us…

A little while ago myself and Pete wrote a tune for our awesomely talented friends at Karrot Animation which they have used for their current showreel. We roped in Simon from Ground Dust to help out with some super shuffley brushes and snare too. It’s very different from the usual stuff we play though it has had a live airing at a couple of our acoustic gigs.

Check out the Karrot Animation website and it’s the music that plays along with the showreel at the top of the page.

Be warned - if you do listen to it you’ll be humming the tune ALL DAY LONG!


We are Heading South of the Border + 20 Free Posters

We are gonna be live n loud 27th May 2009 at South of the Border, Old Street, London. It’ll be our last gig in these parts for a little while as we have some plans for June that involve Dorset, Caravans and 16 track tape. Intriguing eh? We are on first so get there earlyish and we’ll be blasting out a couple of new songs too.

It’s a little short notice I know but I’m sure one or two of you lovely people will be free. A poster is being put together by the talented Mr Mindzap aka Jack and we are going to be giving away 20 of these beauties for free on the night. I’ll update this post with the poster as soon as it’s ready. (It’s ready!)

For those that are interested here are some links to the gig…

Event on Facebook

Event on Last.fm

27thMay


iTunes, Amazon and other places you can hear our music in full

There are various places all over the internet where you can hear our music and I’ve listed the best here. They will all be updated with any new music and videos we produce so you’ll always be able hear anything that you want.

Places to Hear

Everything is on Last.fm and I would thoroughly recommend heading over there to check us out and then checking out some of the associated artists. It’s an awesome service and I use Last.fm a lot for discovering new (and old) music.

All our music is also on ReverbNation which is another great service and they have extra stuff like widgets (see below) that you can grab for yourself and put on your own website if you desire.

Of course we have our stuff on our MySpace and Facebook pages but I doubt anyone uses either of these as their music player of choice. Finally there’s iLike if you use this site.

Places to Buy

Lowering the Tone is now on iTunes, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and a multitude of other digital online stores. If you use another place to buy mp3s then it’s probably there. Both iTunes and Amazon sell mp3s DRM free now.


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The Water Can Make Us Clean and I Wanna Leave

Here’s another live video. We had a whole lotta stuff going on in April 09 so we got some on video. This is The Water Can Make Us Clean and I Wanna Leave at The Unicorn, Camden 11th April 2009. Thanks to Rich for the filming.

Check it out on YouTube right here

This one’s for Saul.


I Wanna Be (In HD)

This is I Wanna Be live at Watford Walkabout 2nd April 2009. It was a strange place for a band of our weight to be playing but we had an awesome gig. Thanks to Paul T for the filming and TCCF Promo for putting us on.

Check it out in Full HD glory on YouTube right here


Bovine Suprise: Hark at You

We made a video of us playing one of our new tracks - Hark at You. Have a butcher’s…


Gig updates

We’ve had quite a few gigs added to the diary recently (including our first acoustic set!) so here’s an up to date list.

Friday 6th February – The Flag, Watford. Another bonkers night put on by the Inspiral collective. Bands, jugglers and a market.

Saturday 7th February – The Unicorn, Camden. Heathen uprising £free entry all dayer courtesy of Slaughterhouse promotions. We’ll be onstage just after 3 in the afternoon. Featuring many fine bands including Dead Existence and Centurions Ghost.

Friday 27th February – The Horn, St Albans. Trippy Wicked, Toxins and Zeropunk.

Sunday 15th March – The Amber Rooms, Watford. This is gonna be our first acoustic gig. Expect blues, a Uke, a cover or two and some reworked Trippy classics.

Thursday 2nd April – Walkabout, Watford. Trippy Wicked, Illusion and Screaming from the Ashes.

Saturday 4th April – TBC - The Grosvenor, Stockwell, London. Doom to the Tomb All dayer featuring Trippy Wicked, Dead Existence and the offensively loud Pombagira. This is still to be confirmed so check our website or MySpace to confirm.

Thursday 9th April – Old Wharf, Birmingham. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Fest. Trippy Wicked, Alunah, Grifter and Gringo.

Saturday 11th April – The Unicorn Camden. Trippy Wicked, Alunah, Grifter, Stoner Turner.


First gig of 2009, Monday 19th Jan

Our first gig of the year is gonna be at South of the Border on Old Street courtesy of KBY Rocks.

It’s gonna be an awesomely heavy and groovy night starting with metallers Soused with Sidious, then it’ll be our filthy low rumblings, grins and gurns followed by stoner rock muchos voluminous headliners Krampusz.

Aces!

South of the Border is downstairs under the El Paso restaurant – you have to go in to the eatery to get there.

Event linkage:
The gig on Facebook
The gig on Last.fm