Another new release! The debut solo album by Marcus Hamblett – who plays with most other Willkommen bands including Sons of Noel and Adrian, Eyes & No Eyes, Kristin McClement and Emma Gatrill – will be released on May 25th, 2015.

The album launch takes place on March 31st at The Prince Albert where Marcus Hamblett will team up with drummer Thomas Heather as the Heather Hamblett Duo, supporting the incredible Stara Rzeka. Details here.

Copies of the album will be available then and there, three weeks before the release date. You can also preorder from here and receive an instant free download of the track ‘Three Four’, which you can stream above.

Please have a listen and let us know what you think!

Eyes & No Eyes have released two more free tracks, following a storming set to a packed out tent at End Of The Road Festival.

Check their Bandcamp page for a remix of ‘If No One Else Saw It’ by band members Marcus Hamblett (also of Sons of Noel and Adrian and more) and a remix of ‘Flying Machine’ by Richard Knox (of Glissando, The Rustle of the Stars and more).

Both the remixes and the original tracks are all available FOR FREE.

For those of you off to End of the Road festival this weekend, there are lots of Willkommen related bands that you should go and see.

FRIDAY

• Woodpecker Wooliams at 12:30pm on the Garden Stage
• Landshapes at 1pm on the Wood stage
• Rachael Dadd at 1:45pm in the Tipi Tent

SATURDAY

• Laish at 1:45pm in the Tipi Tent
• Eyes & No Eyes at 2:45pm in the Tipi Tent
• The Leisure Society at 5:15pm on the Wood Stage

SUNDAY

• Ichi at 12:30pm in the Tipi Tent

We should have our own stage shouldn’t we?! Yes I think so too. We also highly recommend but aren’t yet affiliated with Joe Gideon and the Shark (0:30am, Saturday night, Tipi Tent), Bo Ningen (5pm, Sunday, Big Top) and the mighty David Byrne (9:30pm, Friday, Woods Stage) – one of the best live performers I’ve ever seen. This is quite a handy page for seeing all the stage times in one place. See you there!

The debut single by Eyes & No Eyes, If No One Else Saw It, is released today on Willkommen Records. It is available via digital download or as a 7″ vinyl or extremely limited CD with hand made linocut sleeve.The best place to buy any of the three formats is directly from us over at Bandcamp (where the tracks are available digitally for FREE).

The fantastic blog Gold Flake Paint are running a premiere of the video accompanied by an interview with the band talking about the single as well as their debut album and announcing details of a conceptual side project about extinction… check out the video and interview here.

Why not buy the vinyl from real life shops made of bricks? Rough Trade (London), Resident (Brighton), Pie & Vinyl (Southsea) and Music’s Not Dead (Bexhill) all have copies available. You can also get the tracks in digital form from iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify and many other digital retailers.

The band also had their first BBC 6Music radio play courtesy of Tom Robinson on Monday.  Thanks Tom. You can download the whole show as a podcast here.

The band play London’s Shacklewell Arms on July 3rd – tickets are available for just £4 or £6 including a copy of the 7″! You can get them from wegottickets.com or read more information about the show on the facebook event page. Keebo support with Wild Palms DJing.

You can download two new songs from Eyes & No Eyes for free from Bandcamp now. You can also order them on 7″ vinyl or extremely limited CD with linocut covers.