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Hey everyone. Hope your all having fun. As a pressie from us to you for giving us such a good 2008, we’ve uploaded a bonus demo, a version of the mid-section from “wave those arms, airmen” from the night we first jammed it. We recorded over an hour of it, but here is the best 18 minutes. Rough and ready, but it has it’s charms. . You can go to sleep to this one, we promise it won’t wake you up at the end

Find it HERE!

We’ll still be holed up writing new songs until april and may, when we’ll be touring the UK, Ireland, and mainland Europe, hopefully with a few more constructions for your ears, head, heart and belly.

Happy 2009!
xXx

For those interested in a geeky track-by-track breakdown of our album, we did one for GodIsInTheTV and it can be found HERE.

We played our last gig of 2008 last night at ClayFest, in honour of a friend of ours. Please check out the charity set up in his name and some of the movements he championed on the links page.

http://www.rikclayfoundation.org/

http://www.rikclayfoundation.org/links.html

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Hey yo. We’ve had a video made for us by the talented peeps at LEFT EYE BLIND. It’s been some time in the pipeline (hence the fact that it’s summer in the video and it’s snowing outside now) but hopefully it’s worth the wait. It also features our smug little faces getting fully pied, so check it out on the myspace or here on the videos page.

We play our last gig of 2008 on Sunday at the Brudenell. It’s a tribute gig for a friend of ours, Rik Clay, who passed away this year. Please come down if you can and we can raise some money for charity and celebrate his life and his love of music with rocks in it.

Peas.
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We’ve finally got back into jamming some new ideas about down in our little basement. Early days, yet, but it’s nice to go there knowing that we don’t have to play the same songs over and over.

As a little side project, me and Lee have been working on an ambient piece as the soundtrack to an Art exhibition in Leeds @ Holy Trinity Church all this week. It’s a half-hour long journey through the seasons of a tree - Autumn through to Summer - and it’s been a good opportunity to utilise every synthesiser we could get our mitts on. Knowingly titled “Look at that Tree!”, we are performing it at the church on Wednesday evening, so come down if you can. It might even appear on the music section of this website at some point…..

We had a lovely gig in London last monday at the Big Chill House with Spokes, and here’s Owain from the band giving his answer to whether or not we could eat all their dinner while they were on stage……

We are pleased to announce that the wonderful people at Headquarter-entertainment will be managing our gig-bookings next year, and we should be heading to Ireland and the continent in spring, as well as another jaunt round the UK. Keep checking here and the myspace for updates.

Any body wanting to book us for gigs please email

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Also, We’ve a had a lovely live review in this month’s Rocksound magazine of our 20-minute, 3-song micro-gig that we played at In The City in Manchester on the 5th October, so check it aaaaowt. Aaaah Slipknot.

We’re all back home and fully rested after the tour, ready for our first actual rehearsal in ages which will take place this evening. Hopefully we’re gonna push the boat out and start to write some new tunes (having only managed to finish 1 new song this year so far, we’re chomping at the bits to make some new sounds).

The tour was all coooooooool. Thanks to everyone for coming out to play, or putting the gigs on / letting us crash etc. etc., and a massive swishy thanks to Jonathan our megatastic sound-man for doing such a sterling job twiddling the nobs.

We’ve got some T-Shirts left-over, so we’l endeavour to get a paypal button up on here A.S.A.P with a list of sizes / colours available.

Those Vesselians living across the channel on what is known as “The Continent”, we might just be playing in your viscinity in the new year. Hold that thought.

ps if you see either of these men, please tell them that you love them.

Thanks to those of you who came to see us in Manchester, London, Cambridge, Chichester and Reading! All gigs were ace fun and well attended, and apart from Cambridge fairly Gremlin-free, amazingly.

Once again Pete is making a more detailed blog over at the megaboon so follow our disparate trail of lost possessions using his special map of fun.

We recorded an Xfm session on Monday as well, so we’ll let you know when that’s getting aired.
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The tour has begun! Last night we played an extensive 3-song set at In The City in Manchester, tonight we played at the Brudenell with Solus Locus (who had gremlins on board but were still cool as) and Errors who totally blew me away. Funky and filthy. aww yea.

YOooooooooooo! If you’re reading this it’s likely you’ll have seen the spectacular intro animation to this site. Thanks again to Luke Drozd for the art and thanks to Szymon Szulakiewicz for bringing it to life with his magic flash-powers!
(ps. if you’re having trouble skipping it just enter the URL “http://vesselsband.com/index.php”)

Also, the lovely and talented Claire McArdle has made us a super super-8 video for Yuki, which can be seen on the vids/music page. Go watch!

We’re heading off on tour in a fortnight, so please come and say hello if we’re playing near you. Look at the gigs page for full listings.

As well as having the album for sale, we also have T-shirts, which for now will only be available at gigs - we’ll get them in the web-shop when we get home from touring.
Ooooh, looky!

Also available in light brown and grey.

In the interim between the last post and this one, lots has been happening in our little world. We’ve played Album-launch shows in London and Leeds, played at the muddiest Bestival in history (can be watched on the BBC introducing site), been played a few times on Radio 1 and even on Radio 3’s Late Junction show. We’ve also had lots of lovely things written about us in various respectable publications;

“Awe-inspiring….This is a glorious, beautiful, unique, moving and magnificent album” 4/5 Kerrang

“a quite brilliant work of art” 8/10 NME

“riffs calibrated to the last nanometre” 3/5 MOJO

“this album reveals itself in all manner of thrilling ways…a debut of impressive power” The Word

“a stunningly assured record” 8/10 Rock Sound

“their mixing of Battles-like, math-prog precision with Sigur Rós-styled glacial sweetness and Ligeti-goes-glitch drama makes for a pretty impressive trip.” 4/6 Time Out

“Vessels are quite simply one of the best new bands of recent years.” New Noise

“one of the most forward-thinking, non-generic records you’re likely to hear this year.” 8/10 Drowned in Sound

“both thrilling and thought-provoking in equal measure” BBC Music

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