Gwildor's Blog

Good vibrations.

gwildorband — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:18:12 +0000

After a long break (Gareth is in the Caymans until July and Alison is busy changing nappies!) we’ll be pulling our fingers out and dusting off our instruments and vocal chords hopefully towards the end of summer 2010 (if I have any say in the matter!).

It feels like a massive gap since our last gig (and has been!). We have only played a couple of gigs since the album came out -hardly the way to make an impression we know! We’ll be giving the album a quick airing I’m sure and then be looking ahead to another album.

Until then I (Andrew) will be playing a few more gigs as ‘Simon and the Witch’.

We’ll keep you posted!

Andrew

New tracks recorded

gwildorband — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:07:17 +0000

Gareth briefly came back from the Cayman Islands last week so we (Andrew and Gareth) recorded a couple of tracks which will see daylight after Gareth finds time to mix/master them back in the Caymans. The first track is called ‘Easy to be cold’ which may or may not end up being a ‘simon and the witch‘ track. I (Andrew) played it a few times in public last year, its sound is influenced by a track called ‘could have been a sign’ by (the sound of) Bailey. The other track is heavily influenced by Leonard Cohen and Murder Ballads era Nick Cave – quite a dark little tale of murder on the high seas (can you spot a theme running through our lyrics yet?). It may well be called ‘blood on your hands’ but we are yet to settle on a name for it. We started off using the Kaossilator on the track (and a few squeeks have made it through) but we soon reverted to our usual sound!

We’ll post something here when you can listen to the new tracks. We’ve also uploaded some different tracks from the album to our myspace.

Until next time…

You just lost your way video

gwildorband — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:18:49 +0000

Here is the video for ‘You just lost your way’ which was produced, directed and twisted by our good friend Gareth Evans.

“drink me”

gwildorband — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:48:43 +0000

Gareth is in the Caymans at the moment but we are getting itchy feet to do something Gwildor related. As the flights over there seem to cost around a grand (and I can’t see there being that many venues over there that would appreciate our quiet/noise!) I don’t think we’ll be flying out! So.. in an effort to keep us entertained Andy(Keys) and myself shall be spending some time next week messing around with ableton, a kaossilator (because we can’t afford a KP3) and some Gwildor tracks (old and new).

I’m a bit worried what the results will be as I’d like them to turn out like a poor-man’s/bad version of something James Yuill would make before breakfast. The reality is likely to be the tracks will sound like something akin to Doop Doop. It’s Mr Yuill’s fault for making it look so easy I suppose. The problem is that Andy has a strange alter ego you see. He may seem to fit in well but in reality he has a secret love affair for cheesy charty dance tunes. I’m sure we’ll be posting the results at some point soon.

get one!

Anyway… thats enough for now I think.

its Japanese

gwildorband — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:53:05 +0000

Turn that down, turn that down.
Look, wait until you see this.
I heard you were good last night
at Club Zero.

Thanks. We’re going to be better tonight.
I want you to take a look at this baby.
All right, here.

What do you think?

I’ve seen these before.

- You have?

- Yeah.

It’s Japanese.

No, no, no.

I don’t think so. Here, look.

Press a few of these buttons. Go ahead.

Now press that red button in the front.

Go ahead.

Far out. Fantastic.

You know, I guess if you’ve seen one,

you’ve seen them all, right?

We suppose this would be cheating. folk n roll!

Gwildor have gone all web 2.0 (honest)

gwildorband — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:37:52 +0000

Have a look at gwildor.co.uk – I’m sure you’ll be pleased by our web design skills.