April 2011
20 posts
people who leak are low, but new tellison album... →
tellison:
Hi there. We’ve decided to stream our brand new album “The Wages Of Fear” at www.facebook.com/tellisontellison
About one week ago the album was illegally leaked. To add to our frustration the leaked version was not the final version of “The Wages Of Fear”. It was an advance mix for the press…
FACE TO FACE play Kingston!
Im so stoked on this.
We do enough shows all the time. We’ve had some crazy good gigs, some unbelievable shows from some brilliant bands. When you think about Vampire Weekend at New Slang, New Found Glory at the cocks, Movielife at The Peel, these shows have all been such great moments.
But few have excited me as much as this gig!
Face To Face (via Mark Beggars / The Loft and the...
Approaching Tomorrow: Record Store Day Preview →
approachingtomorrow:
So Record Store Day 2011 is tomorrow! In a musical age which is dominated by digital downloading. Record Store Day celebrates Independant Records Stores. These record stores are so significant for musical communites.
I spoke to John Tolley, the main man at Kingstons brilliant Banquet…
#rsd11 interview for @rocksound
I really think Rocksound is the best of the music press big players
Here’s a piece about #rsd11 on their blog
BBC > NME →
we're cancelling the under 18s night on Tuesday...
Its with great disappointment that we’ve decided to pull the under 18s night at The Hippodrome, planned for Tuesday 19th Its not something we do lightly. Banquet has always been about providing services, gigs and clubs for the Kingston music community. Whilst it is our business and livelihood, not all decisions are made from a purely financial perspective. This is one such example. The...
an interesting read on record retail. In the... →
FIREWORKS: First off, we would like to sincerely... →
wearefireworks:
First off, we would like to sincerely thank everyone for all the warm comments and for keeping us in your thoughts.
After we finished our set last night we received a phone call that Dave’s dad had passed away unexpectedly. We rushed home as soon as we could and we will stay here for as long as…
We Are The Ocean Official Blog: UK in-store... →
wearetheoceanofficial:
To celebrate the release of our brand new album ‘Go Now And Live’, we’ve set up a few in-store signing sessions whilst we’re on tour in the UK!
April 25th BANQUET RECORDS, KINGSTON.
Not only will we be signing copies of ‘Go Now And Live’ but we’ll also be serving behind the counter, so you…
rocksound gets it. NME doesnt →
NME / enemy
NME blog’s why i dont care about record store day
this article is so utterly dogshit i aint gonna waste any time on it.
but what i dont get is why NME would put their name to it.
anyway, have a look at the article, then have a look at the responses. and also have a look at the @banquetrecords twitter replies to us on it. they’re pretty jokes.
NME was always struggling to retain...
“those guys are the dudes”
– @miketreat talking about @wearefireworks
£2400 from the FUN(d)-RAISER
so we had our fund-raiser for Japan at New Slang last night. i really get confused when thinking too much about all this stuff. Trying to do some good. Knowing its not really all that good. How much of it is ‘good’ or how much is it ‘branding’. Does it matter if the end justifies the means? why am i even writing this here…?
Sometimes when on the shop floor,...
