Sugardrum - Where once were Roads. Now available on CD.
oooh look… it’s the new Sugardrum EP, now available in CD format as well as a download from iTunes, Amazon mp3 and numerous other online stores. Hurrah!
The CD version will be available to buy at the gig tomorrow in Brighton and at the Small World Festival at the weekend if there are any left by then.
Sugardrum recently had a song played on the Quentin Woolf Arts show… and you can now download the full version of the show, complete with the song, “Where Once were Roads” in the middle of it.
http://www.blog.nquentinwoolf.com/?p=924
Be sure to check out the full show as there’s lots of interesting musical info in there!
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Yay! Massive thanks to Mark Hellewell who recorded and recently uploaded the semble vs sugardrum gig we did as part of the wupadupa Freedom Festival for Amnesty International last October.
You can find the Sugardrum videos on our youtube channel or follow the links below…
Under the Stairs
Are we there yet?
Easily Pleased
Thank you to all those who came to see me and Matt play at Glastonbury last weekend. I had a great time and ended up doing around 7 gigs altogether, a couple on my own but mostly with the amazing Matt Kelly.
Thank you also to the equally amazing Matt Tweed who did some great bazouki playing with me at my 4.30am gig on Wednesday night/Thursday morning and did sterling work getting the cafe to keep us fuelled with Brandy Hot Chocolates 
Performing with all these wonderful people has made me realise that sugardrum is not really a band as such but a cross between a Solo and a Collaboration project. Not sure what you would call that… a collaborsolo…. mmmm. Tis all fun anyways!
sunset... or sunrise... in the Greenfields at Glastonbury 2010
All the free promo CDs went within the first 2 days… must take more next time.
The BBC decided to film me whilst sitting in the permaculture garden in the Greenfields eating my breakfast which was a bit strange. I’m not sure they’ll use the footage as I had a rather puzzled look on my face at the time whilst questioning the vegetarian status of the sausage from said breakfast
For those wondering, it was vegetarian.
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For those going to Glastonbury Festival next week, here the times and places I’ll be performing, all in the Green Futures Field area…
Although, these may change to the nature of things at a festival.
I’ll also have a free CD to give away with a song from each sugardrum EP, shown below being given the once over by our quality control officer
sugardrum - 3 for free
Yay, the new sugardrum EP, Where Once Were Roads, is now available to purchase and download from itunes and amazon for the bargain price of around £3.
Just follow one of the links below to go to either store.
Buy now on itunes. OR Buy now on amazon.co.uk
It has the following tracks on it…
Recorded at the Thursday Club, produced by Nigel and Matt and featuring Nigel on vocals, guitar, piano, organ and percussion, Beth on cello, vocals and flute, Sara on percussion and vocals, Danielle on vocals and Matt on bass and tambourine (not bass tambourine, although thinking about it that would be kinda cool if such an instrument existed…).
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our new ep is due for release soon, initially as a download and then later as a cd.
I’ve just added a player to the music page where you can listen to all 4 tracks form the new ep.
I just got back from India a couple of days ago. Been away for so long feels a bit strange to be back now, everywhere seems so much quieter and I’d got used to random people coming up to me to just to say hello
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I had lots of lovely feedback after the solo gig I did at the beginning of Martha Tilston’s gig at the Rose Theatre in Kingston recently. A number of people asked some interesting questions which I thought it would be good to share the answers for here…
which CD has the 1st song you played on?
you mean “fallen guru”, I’m afraid none at the moment as we are yet to record it. It’s quite a new song and she’s just getting used to being performed live., but hopefully she’ll be ready to be recorded soon.
are you on facebook?
yes… well I’m (Nigel) not personally, but the band is in the form of a page. You can find us at…
http://www.facebook.com/pages/sugardrum/289395918859
Danielle and Sarah are both on facebook.
Sarah also has her own music profile for her music which you should definitely check out at:
http://www.myspace.com/littlesisterblue
why are you giving away CDs for free?
actually no one asked me this, but I thought it would be good to answer it just in case people were thinking it.
We have a new ep coming out of brand new recordings and I felt it would be a nice thing to give away the few remaining copies I had left of the current eps. That and I also hate taking money from people for stuff, which made working in a bookshop for many years fun, but a little hard at times
so is fallen guru going to be on the new cd?
see answer 2 above. Basically no, not this time around, but hopefully on the next one. I have many, many lovely songs that I want to record, it’s just difficult finding the time to record them all which is good I think as it’s means there’s always something new to wait to for.
do you play in London much? when are you playing next?
Mmm, that’s technically 2 questions, but that’s ok, I’ll answer them with 2 replies… As often as is possible, but sometimes it’s just an open mic at a folk club or singer/songwriters night. See the gigs page and/or join the mailing list to keep upto date as to when we are playing next. We’ve been very busy with the new recordings recently which hasn’t left much time to do gigs.
What tunings do you use?
Alot of my songs are either in DADGAD, DGDGAD, EGDGBE, DADGBD, DADGF#D or normal tuning. As I’ve no idea what the notes are on the guitar and just play the shapes I see or feel it makes it easy to experiment with alternative tunings as I’m not confused by notes I expect to be there suddenly being in a different place.
You must listen to alot of other acoustic artists such as John Martin and Nick Drake?
Not really, I like them but the music I listen to and am inspired by goes well beyond the realms of acoustic and folk music. Check out my last.fm page if you wish to find out what I listen to on my ipod most. I believe we shouldn’t necessarily presume that the style of music we create is simply the product of the music that we listen to.
Thin or thick crust pizza?
Thin crust, although it depends on how think the thick crust is. I made some pizzas recently myself but added too much yeasty dough to the base so it ended up like eating a shallow loaf of bread with some topping resting on top which gradually slid off the pizza as I tried to eat it. Mental note to self – don’t make pizza base as if you are making a loaf of bread
Anyways, as much as I love talking about bread related foodstuffs, this is getting a bit too far away from being music related so I’ll leave it there.
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At last! I’ve finally managed to find the time to update the lyrics section of the site!
Just click on a song title over there on the right, and the lyrics for that song will magically appear on the screen.
I’ve added the lyrics for our 2 EPs, plus some other songs not recorded.
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just uploaded a song onto our myspace page, recorded at our recent house gig.
please feel free to listen, download and hopefully enjoy its unplugged and acoustic raw loveliness…
more recordings, both live and studio on their way soon
huge thank you to all the artists and audience who helped make the house gig one my favourite gigs this year!
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