Vessels

Two new live announcements for you! First is on Saturday 1st November in Glasgow for the recently expanded Simple Things festival. Other fine acts performing include Autechre, Clark, Nightmares On Wax, Hookworms, Actress, and The Haxan Cloak. If the last Simple Things show we played is anything to go by, this will be a massive boonfest. Tickets here.

Second is a headline show in London. a sweaty Saturday evening on 6th December when we descend on the capital and ascend the stairs at Pentonville Rd’s finest, The Lexington, to host a party for you fine folk. Expect new tunes, fine company and a generous sprinkling of Teff nebbs to help you get your wiggle-on (in layman’s terms, we’ll be DJing till late after the gig!). See you there!

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And finally…

Continuing our DJing residency at the In/On/Up/Down nights at Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds, Vessels DJs will be playing with the awesome Nathan Fake (original composer of ‘The Sky Was Pink’) and Wesley Matsell.

This is going to be massive. Tickets available HERE – get them soon to avoid crying uncontrollably with disappointment.

HI EVERYONE!

In a triple instalment of news today we bring you links to consume the joy that is Lee’s new Jinjé single ‘Amya’ (out today (15/9/14) on Messrs Kick & Drum records) which can be purchased via iTunes or Boomkat.

Also, for those of you dwelling in the UK who have access to the TV channel Watch – Tune in this evening at 11pm to hear ‘Yuki‘ – our first single and White Fields classic – form the soundtrack to the closing scene from tonight’s episode of the Vampire/Ghost/Werewolf drama Being Human (U.S. version).

Thirdly, for those of you who are film-makers, game designers or simply those who like free stuff, Tom and Lee’s new sound design website tonenoise.com is up and running and has a growing library of Creative-Commons licensed tracks available for free download and use in non-commercial projects.

Get stuck in!

Xx

The multi-faceted talent that is our Lee has notched up another release, this time under the name Jinjé. Lead track Amya is available to listen to above, and it’s an absolute stonker (with easily one of the cheekiest vocal samples I’ve ever heard). The single will be available through Messrs. Kick and Drum Records on 15th September 2014, and a sampler vid for all 3 tracks can be found here. Enjoy!

Dear Friends

We’re home and rested after an amazing weekend, and hope that those of you who joined us are too. We wanted to offer a few words of explanation, and apology, regarding the insurmountable hurdles that led to our pulling the show at Fell Foot Sound.

Our setup is intricate and complex. And on that Saturday night, despite large amounts of effort from everyone involved, we couldn’t get it to work. This is a first for us. It meant that we could not perform our show. After three mortifying false starts, we let Lee and Tim takeover with some improvisation instead – using whatever was still working.

We spent several more hours trying to fix things, but the following morning, after another couple of hours of double checking, we had to concede defeat. This pains us all very much. It is without a doubt an enormously disappointing and regrettable scenario.

We’d like to offer an unreserved apology to every single person who had turned out to see us, and to the wonderful organisers of Feel Foot Sound, who we must reiterate, were in no way responsible for what happened, and further to that, were tremendously professional and compassionate in the face of our flaccid offering…

We’d like to make it up to as many of you as we can, as soon as is appropriate. We take what we do tremendously seriously, so please accept our deepest apologies, stay in touch and we’ll put this right!

with love

Vessels

 

DARLINGS.

We’re chuffed to announce a last minute Vessels jiggle that’s happening in London on Monday 19th May (yes that is VERY SOON) at Electrowerkz near Angel. Tickets can be grabbed HERE and we’d appreciate to see every single one of you who could make it down at such short notice – in fact we’ll give free kisses on the face to any attendee that requests one (assuming the absence of contagious facial rashes). We have tunes from the new album under our belt, as yet unperformed in the capital, so those curious about the new material should definitely get there finest dancing pants on and join the party.

IN OTHER NEWS…..

 

 

We’re pleased to be joining the stellar line-up that is the Beacons Festival this August in the Yorkshire Dales. Other notables performing there include the wonderful Jon Hopkins, Daniel Avery, Daphni and Erol Alkan.

We’re also pleased to announce yet another festival appearance this summer, at Tofeelmore fest in Ojén, nr Malaga in Spain. This is a charity festival raising money for the Bangassou Foundation helping rebuild the city of Bangassou in the Central African Republic after recent troubles there.

IN OTHER OTHER NEWS…

We remixed the recent single by Maximo Park and mangled it into a psychedelic throbber. Listen below.

 

Take care all!

Xx

Miitten Salvers

Here are the facts on the ground:

Vessels will be performing live this summer at the following two woodland themed weekend mini-breaks:

Friday 18th July, Beat Herder, Ribble Valley, Lancashire

Saturday 19th July, Fell Foot Sound, Fell Foot Wood, the Lake district

We are booning for these shows. Festies are always a massive deal on the Vessels calendar. In case you missed our last missive, we have a date in Barcelona at Aloud Music Fest this week on the 4th April. Mr Nathan Of Fakeness is playing in the same building that night, OMFG indeed.

See you down the front.

Tomorrow – yes – tomorrow night we will smash out loads of brand new tunes in our first ever gig at Leeds’ new venue the Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen.

To warm your cold bits, Kit Grill will be hefting out his DJ sounds at some point after doors open at 8pm.

To put you in the mood, our very own bearded pan handler Martin Teff has put together the Belgravity mix – a heftous mix of buncing tunes and remixes that he does lunges to in his utility room. The lovely fellows at Clash did one of those premiere type jobbies. Download it now over at our Booncamp page. Skeft off yr tickets here

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See you down the front.

Flap Jilbers

Despite the fact that we have been beavering away finishing our album (that’s right I said ITS FINISHED) you know we get bored pretty easily so we’ve smashed out this belting remix of ‘Says‘ by German ivory tickler and all round lovely chap Nils Frahm. Boon it up from Soundcloud/Bandcamp here, and whilst you’re on it check out the original, it’s a complete megaskeft…

And for you Yorkshire folk we have a very special treat, as we wanted to let you know that we will be booning up our first show of the year in our very own Leeds, at the newly established Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen on Thursday 27th March. Buy yersen a ticket here (Facebook event), and keep your ears peeled and your eyes unblinking for news of supports and further gig announcements for the year…

Reckon this year is shaping up pretty Flifty so far…

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Flapnarders

Pretty hard to believe that its been a full year since last year’s Christmas and New Year’s Eve shenanigans, why it feels like only yesterday that I was down at the local police station on a frosty New Year’s morning bailing out a dishevelled and vague Martin Teff and then spending the rest of the day phoning up local Emu farms to try and arrange Mildred’s safe return…

Anyhow: Here’s a rundown of the Vessels 2013 Best Of Lists:

Tim Mitchell’s top 6 films of 2013:

Nebraska
The Great Beauty
Blue Jasmine
Gravity
Bullhead
Before Midnight

Tom Evans’ top 5 ales of 2013:

1 – Golden Champion (Badger Brewery)
2 – Mary Jane (Ilkley Brewery)
3 – Banana Bread Beer (Wells Brewery)
4 – Fursty Ferret (Badger Brewery)
5 – Leeds Pale (Leeds Brewery)

Martin Teff’s top 6 list of the year:

1 – Music – Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
2 – Activity – DJing with Traktor
3 – Festival – Dimensions / Shambala
4 – Food – homemade roast chicken / tonkatsu ramen
5 – Gig – Forest Swords @ ATP End of an Era Weekend One
6 – Film – Before Midnight / Heli

Peter Wright’s top 5 notable deaths of the year:

Michael Winner
Donald Byrd
Doris Lessing
James Gandolfini
Mel Smith

Lee J Malcolm’s top 5 directions of the year:

1. Left
2. Left
3. Left
4. Left
5. Left

That’s about it from us. We’ve almost sold out of Elliptic tees, so grab one now before they sell out.

SHOP
Prices-
– £14 t-shirt alone
– £20 12″ bundle + t
– £17 digital bundle + t
– £13 special t-shirt price for those who’ve already bought the 12″ or download

…and we’ll be back in 2014 with Vessels album no.3, which is so close to being finished it hurts…

Happy Holidays

Vessels x

So then Gweft Badgers

It’s been a busy year for us and we’d like to thank each and every one of you.

Recent UK shows were sweet – playing the at Simple Things was a blast and ending the year in a Tuncenatingly rammed Macbethaboon of a show was deeply spesh. Also big shout out to our Norwegian brothers and sisters, for the wonderful time we had at Ekko Fest.

We’ve been beavering away ourselves on a new album and we reckon it might even be completed by December. Watch. This. Space.

We’re also deeply pleased by the love that everyone is showing for the wonderful remix of Elliptic that Barker and Baumecker have befted. It is truly euphoric yet also deeply tasteful.

More announcements and bunce tingling gwelmnards on their way in the coming weeks and months.

2014 gonna be big.

M x