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The single features two live favourites, If No One Else Saw It and Flying Machine, and will be available as a limited 7″, super limited CD with handmade linocut cover, as well as digitally via iTunes, Amazon and all the usual outlets. You can hear short samples of both tracks below:

If No One Else Saw It (Sample)
If No One Else Saw It (Sample)

Flying Machine (Sample)
Flying Machine (Sample)

The band will be playing a special headline show at the Shacklewell Arms in London on Wednesday 3rd July. You can buy tickets here for £4, or for £6 you get a ticket and a copy of the 7″ on arrival! We’ll update you soon with further details on both the show and the release.

The band recently came down to Brighton and blew away crowds at our ECHO show with Damo Suzuki. You can also catch them at this year’s End of the Road Festival, Secret Garden Party and supporting Landshapes at their album launch for Bella Union.

APRIL TOUR

Friday 19th – Prince Albert, Brighton
Saturday 20th – The Wilmington Arms, London
Sunday 21st – The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle
Monday 22nd – The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Tuesday 23rd – The Bicycle Shop, Norwich
Wednesday 24th – Ort Café, Birmingham
Thursday 25th – Golden Lion, Bristol
Friday 26th – The Revelry, Exeter
Saturday 27th – Miss Peapod’s, Cornwall

All those shows also include supporting sets from Emma Gatrill and Martha Rose. Laish then play the following one-offs:

May 7th –  Daniel Green solo, Golden Lion, Bristol
May 26th - MEADOWLANDS FESTIVAL
June 1st – Sebright Arms, London
August 30-Sept 1 - END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL

12 April - Liverpool (with Beth Orton)
13 April - Nottingham
14 April - Leeds
15 April - Norwich
16 April - Brighton
17 April - Birmingham
18 April - Bristol
20 April - Glasgow
21 April - Manchester
22 April - Portsmouth
25 April - London

Released April 1st 2013

The Leisure Society release their new album, Alone Aboard The Ark, on Monday April 1st via Full Time Hobby. You can preorder it here or even play a game based around their new single, Fight For Everyone, here.

The band are touring around the UK very soon too, click the name of the town for more information about each show:

12 April – Liverpool (with Beth Orton)
13 April – Nottingham
14 April – Leeds
15 April – Norwich
16 April – Brighton
17 April – Birmingham
18 April – Bristol
20 April – Glasgow
21 April – Manchester
22 April – Portsmouth
25 April – London

A decent recording of last Friday’s Damo Suzuki set has surfaced so we’ve put it up for free download over at Soundcloud. You can stream it above too. The band features members of Sons of Noel and Adrian, Soccer96 and Eyes & No Eyes. There are videos surfacing on YouTube too.

The EP launch will be at The Lexington in London on March 18th (tickets here) and the band will be on tour supporting Willy Mason.

Rowan Coupland has self-released a new album titled Slow Wave of the Future.

You can preview it above and buy it from his Bandcamp page.

In his own words:

“SLOW WAVE OF THE FUTURE fell into place over a 6 month rootfinding expedition to the suburbs, forests and islands of British Columbia. A spiritual odyssey fought on bicycles, transit without a ticket, the backs of pest extermination trucks, voyages shared with washed-up sherpas, the first ever sights of whales in the company of elderly Sikh gentlemen, and Christmases spent on boats surrounded by fluorescent jellyfish. With songs charting the movement from Europe to Vancouver and back again, the album is fragments of sounds, friends, songs and precipitation all recorded and glooped into one. These are songs of a loss of nationality, of love and family, and of a return found in leaving.”

Aside from found sounds and field recordings, all playing of instruments and all lyrics were by Rowan Coupland, except for track 9, which is an American traditional, (version: Cass Wallin) based on an English ballad.

The Brighton show with Damo Suzuki, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Soccer96 and Eyes & No Eyes is two months today. As a New Year’s special offer, if you buy a ticket in the next 48 hours we’ll email you a free album download link for SONAA’s “Your Tunnel…” Tickets available here, read more about the show here, read about the album here. The video for the track above features on “Your Tunnel…” and also features guest vocals from Kristin McClement.

In the past we’ve created several collaborative Willkommen projects for free download over the Christmas period.

This year we asked as many Willkommen related artists as possible to simply contribute thirty seconds of sound. I stitched them together in the order in which they arrived to make a sonic patchwork quilt. The result is incredibly diverse and beautiful despite the random nature of its composition and form.

Thank you to the following people for contributing:

Alessi Laurent-Marke (Alessi’s Ark)
Woodpecker Wooliams
Said Speaks
Landshapes
Marcus Hamblett
Soccer96
Eyes & No Eyes
Hamilton Yarns
Thomas Heather
Danny Green (Laish)
Gravenhurst
John Smith
Fiona Sally Miller
Nick Hemming (The Leisure Society)
This Is The Kit
Rachael Dadd & Ichi
Rozi Plain
Birdengine
Helen Whitaker (The Leisure Society)
Steve Aston Trio
Rowan Coupland
Turbo & Silke (Martha Rose / OCDC)
Jacob Richardson (Sons of Noel and Adrian)
Emma Gatrill
Chimes (Christian Hardy)
Mary Hampton
Alphabets Heaven
François Marry (François & the Atlas Mountains)

Here are a few links to past collaborative projects for free download on last.fm:

• Willkommen Covers The Sleeper – various artists covered each song from The Leisure Society’s debut album. Originally released as a free Rough Trade bonus CD.
• Willkommen Foxswap – various artists covered each other’s songs before the Foxtrot festival
• Willkommen Christmas 2008 – again various Willkommen related bands covering each other’s songs

January 12th sees them play at King’s Place in London with Meursault and Woodpecker Wooliams as part of ‘The Stranger The Better’ series.  More information here.

Then the band do a series of ten headline dates across Europe. A very exciting support band still to be announced, and hopefully one more show to be added too.

15th – London – Lexington more >> (support from Eyes & No Eyes and Soccer96)
16th – Brussels – Botanique more >>
17th – Münster – Pension Schmidt more >>
18th – Hamburg – Kampnagel - more >>
19th – Dresden – Beatpol
20th – Nürnberg – MUZ - more >> 
21st – Reutlingen – franz.K - more >> 
22nd – Ebensee – Kino - more >>
23rd – Nyon – La Parenthèse – free
24th – Düdingen – Bad Bonn - more >>

Then the band play with the legendary Damo Suzuki as well as Eyes & No Eyes and Soccer96 as part of Willkommen ECHO:

March 1st – Brighton – Green Door - more>>

Hamilton Yarns have released an excellent new album, called “Calm Down Grandad”. Band member Iain Paxon says, “It’s a mixture of experimental pop, instrumental interludes and wandering sound journeys.  You could conceivably dance to some of it – if you try, please report back and let us know what happened!”

The Wire magazine call it ”beautifully layered, free-breathing electroacoustic pop… the use of environmental sound is inspired”

The 42 minute CD is packaged in a hand-cut gatefold sleeve and with a double sided A3 poster. The first 30 or so will come with a free 25x25cm screen print. It is also available as a download.

You can read more about it and buy it here.

Since 2009 Willkommen’s ECHO micro-festival has accompanied our larger festival FOXTROT as an outlet for weirder sounds. In the past we’ve brought you the likes of Diane Cluck, Anders Griffen, Woodpecker Wooliams and many more from the more avant-garde end of the folk spectrum, this year we’re dropping folk all together and going kosmiche.

Headlining is the legendary vocalist Damo Suzuki of krautrock pioneers Can. This man needs no introduction. His band will be composed of musicians from the support bands - Sons of Noel and Adrian, Soccer96 and Eyes & No Eyes.

Music presented in glorious technicolor thanks to the Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow, who will be painting the performances with their vintage oil wheel projectors. More details about the show here.

I am putting thirty tickets up for sale today at an ‘early bird’ price of just £8.50. Snap them up here – once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Sons of Noel and Adrian will perform at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen this Monday (Oct 29) with The Mariner’s Children. Tickets are available here. Here’s a new video for the song “What Work Could Do For You” featuring the heavenly Kristin McClement. The song features on the band’s compilation album “Your Tunnel..“, find out more about that here.