Recent Gigs

Our gigs over the last two weekends at Smokin’ Aces have been friggin’ awesome. Yellowgroove’s mate Tim Heywood (http://www.hopefm.com/) who was at both gigs, has written his independent review of the events. We also did an interview and unplugged session with Tim last week, and recorded the whole session. We hope you tuned in and loved Simon’s awful jokes. We’ll be making the tracks available as part of the Live on Hope FM release some time soon. Last night’s Amnesty International gig was great, a fantastic mix of music and poetry for a really worthwhile cause, in the year of it’s 50th birthday.

A Yellow Christmas

Jon Gregory and Nic Fair, some close friends and fans of Yellowgroove, have been deviously doing good deeds concerning Yellowgroove. Secretly, the two have been conspiring to get Yellowgroove to the number one Xmas spot. Slightly ambitious we must admit, but if you want to know more please check it out at “The Best Xmas Present Ever“. Behind bands are great mates, and we sincerely thank these guys for their efforts, and apologise for our nosey behaviour that led us to finding out.

If you want to help out you can buy “San Francisco bay” from the 18th December in order to help out.

San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay on Amazon MP3

San Francisco Bay on The Yellowgroove Record Shop

San Francisco Bay  on Play.com

A Change of Rhythm

For those who have visited our recent gigs would have noticed the drummer is of similar height, a lot hairier and has an apish-like gait. His name is Chris Tyjberg, and he’s our new drummer. We’d like to extend many thanks to Jack, who was with us for 2 years, wishing him all the best on his future endeavours.

Merch

A few months ago we got some Yellowgroove t-shirts made. We’ce got 2 designs a Yellowgroove regal crest, and one with Austin Powers fully endorsing YG…

Finally, a big thanks goes out to Jason Petrou and his gran. Today we’re heading off (fully fuelled up on our recycled chip fat) to a lovely little cottage in the Peak District, up north. A week’s worth of rehearsal, songwriting and demo-recordings will ensue, so stay tuned for the results.

Peace out all, and remember, if you haven’t seen the vid, give it a look

If you like your music on Spotify you can listen there

In the week leading up to the release party and Oxjam, Ben and Simon will be roaming the streets of Bournemouth with their newly formed G-Team (like the A-Team but more groovey) spreading the sounds of YG and collecting money for Oxfam along the way. Keep an eye out for them!

The Oxjam Bournemouth Takeover will feature 34 local artists performing at 6 venues over the whole day, with this year’s aim of raising in excess of £8,000. Advance tickets are just £5 and are available here up until midnight on 21 Oct. These will be exchanged on the Takeover day (at 60 Million Postcards from midday) for a wristband, which will allow you entry into all six venues. Wristbands can also be purchased on the day at any venue for £6.

We will be playing at Champions at around 10pm and doors open at 7pm.
For more info about the whole day, visit the Oxjam Bournemouth event page, or our event page.

We have had our first pre-release review of the single from George at Rock-Regeneration and it’s a good one!

“If you’re looking for a song to kick back, relax and reminisce of the gorgeous summer times, then blast this tune out this winter and you may not even feel the summer has passed you by. “

Click here to read the review in full.

Our review in listed

What’s that noise? It’s not the sound of the asteroid of ROCK crashing to the ground is it?

No it’s not, sorry I’ve been watching that Wonders of the Solar System again on iPlayer. Am I infringing somebody’s copyright or something again here? *Beeeen!” Anyway, it’s another awesome review for us! Hooray! We got Tim’s Choice in this month’s Listed magazine, so we thought we’d ram it down your throats  or rather share it with you here on our website. Generous to a fault ma’am.

Love,

The Rings of Saturn (Ooh that’s quite a cool prog-rock side project name, anyone?)

In all seriousness,

Yellowgroove

Martin Sirl over at Playing out Loud has kindly reviewed the Son of a Working Man Single, and with comments like “beautifully hard to categorise” he is fast becoming a new best friend. Check out the review on their website.

http://www.playingoutloud.co.uk/playing_out_loud_reviews.html

Somerset Session EP Review

As if you needed any more of an excuse to get the Somerset Session EP, Bournemouth Echo’s Sarah Cartlidge has given it a review. It goes a little bit something exactly like this.

Yellowgroove – Somerset Session EP - 4/5

The combination of stoner rock, folk and blues may feel like it’s going to be challenging when you hear opener These Times, but stick with it. The four-piece draw on their influences from the likes of Mac and Zeppelin, delivering a penetrative, retro,  and surprisingly hypnotic sound.

So if you still haven’t been hypnotised by the Somerset Session E.P. you can grab your self a copy here.  http://music.yellowgroove.co.uk/album/somerset-session-ep