Last weekend we performed two songs at Centre Stage in Bournemouth as part of the first round of the Dorset Music Awards which is being organised by Devil’s Music.  One of the judges, Tim Heywood, has made a comment on his blog about the performance of all of the 39 bands that played over the two days. Very kindly, he said [about Yellowgroove's performance] , “Love it!”. The other judge must have also agreed with Tim because last night we found out that we have made it through to the quarter finals!

Best Live Act

19 other bands are left in the competition and only 10 will get through this next round. 5 will be voted for by judges at the upcoming live heats and 5 will get through on the results of an online public vote and this is where we need your help! Please could you give us 10 seconds of your time and vote for us at the following link

http://www.dorsetmusicawards.co.uk/bestLiveAct.php

One Great Song – San Francisco Bay

If you’re feeling especially generous and you have 20 seconds, then please also give us your vote for “One Great Song” for our track “San Francisco Bay“…

http://www.dorsetmusicawards.co.uk/oneGreatSong.php

You can only vote once per computer but if you have a phone, or are in an internet cafe, you can vote again!

The date of the quarter finals will be confirmed by the end of this week, so we’ll let you know within the next few days!
At the moment we can confirm that it’ll be at the Winchester in Bournemouth on one Friday in February.

A good start to our year, I’m sure you’ll agree!

If you’re feeling the January blues, cast your mind back to warmer times with a little help from our single, San Francisco Bay!

If you like your music on Spotify you can listen there

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

Our first event is this Friday at the Smokin’ Aces rock cocktail bar in Bournemouth. It’s Trevor Hill’s (from Devil’s Music and the DMAs) Birthday and he’s asked us to play! We can’t wait and it’ll be our first gig in Smokin’ Aces. If you haven’t been before, you certainly won’t be disappointed; more whiskey than you can shake lucifer at, free entry all night and we’re starting at 9pm. We’d love to see you there if you’re around! If all goes to plan, we’ll hopefully be springing a little surprise during the evening. For more info, here’s the event on Facebook and on the Smokin’ Aces website

No less than 8 days later and we’ll be playing a follow up gig to our debut at the Smokin’ Aces! This time we’ll be playing in celebration of the venue’s 1st Anniversary and we’re very honoured to have been asked. There will be music from DJ Leeroy and the party will keep flowing until 6am! As always, it’s free entry all night. More info to come!

Our third part to the trilogy is on Saturday 3rd December at Centre Stage. It’s Amnesty International’s 50th Birthday and the Bournemouth branch are throwing a big night of eclectic music! There will be performances from the Bournemouth Community Gospel Choir, the SUSBUS Ukulele band, The General Public, Colanadan and of course, us! Tickets are £7.50 with proceeds going to the charity and, once again, we’ll be posting more info closer to the date.

Although not (yet) officially a party, but to carry on the party theme, we’ll be having a Yellowgroove Christmas party at the Cellar Bar in Boscombe on Saturday 17th December.

Anyway, we hope you’re in the party mood because we definitely are! Come and help us bring a rocking end to the last parts of 2011!

Oh and don’t forget, we have a couple of new t-shirts for sale as modelled here by the gorgeous Groovettes! Come and see us at any of our upcoming gigs or contact us for more info.

Our Gorgeous Groovettes with the fantastic new YG Tees

Oh and just in case you haven’t seen it the official  video for San Francisco Bay.

Get San Francisco Bay on ,  at Play.com or Amazon MP3. If you like your music on Spotify you can listen there

After all it’s a Monday, it’s October and it’s raining… We’re not far enough into Autumnal Blues to forget the Summer, neither ready to buckle down, pull up our coats and accept that Winter is indeed coming…

It must be time to kick back and live just one more day in the Summer. Get onto iTunes, because today is the official release of San Francisco Bay, and Sunshine memories are needed more than ever!

Get San Francisco Bay on ,  at Play.com or Amazon MP3. If you like your music on Spotify you can listen there

Get an Ice-cream, sit by the oven while dinner’s cooking and try to forget that British Gas will probably raise the prices again.

Oh and just in case you haven’t seen it the official  video for San Francisco Bay.

However, as we were soon to learn, trying to look cool and nonchalant can somewhat distract you from your surroundings, and the perilous sea…

Don’t forget, our debut single comes out on Monday 24th October from all good online music shops. Also, for the grooviest party this October come down to see us at our release party on Saturday 22nd October at Champions in Bournemouth for the annual Oxjam Bournemouth Takeover! 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.

If you still haven’t checked out our video for San Francisco Bay, have a gander, right now!!

An all action short film documenting Yellowgroove’s extreme lack of concentration. WARNING This feature contains Exploding Rocks, Actors Forgetting lines, Stones being kicked in a rock and roll manner, Simon’s AHHH Face and the big man himself… Jon Gregory. No music video would be complete without all of the above, see for yourselves the fun we had…

Don’t forget, our debut single comes out on Monday 24th October from all good online music shops. Also, for the grooviest party this October come down to see us at our release party on Saturday 22nd October at Champions in Bournemouth for the annual Oxjam Bournemouth Takeover! 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.

If you still haven’t checked out our video for San Francisco Bay, have a gander, right now!!

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.

The release date for the track is Monday 24th October, just a few weeks from now (and the anniversary of when we started recording). Over the next three weeks we’re going to be sharing a series of videos with you delving deep into the workings of Yellowgroove, in the studio behind the scenes and a making of the video errr video. What more could you want?!

We’ll start off with a short clip of Ben and Simon enjoying a lovely English, summer day where they’re attempting to re-enact a famous scene from the history of rock’n roll……

For those who missed out on the show last week you still have another 5 days (and counting) left to listen on BBC iPlayer.

The session includes an interview and 2 live tracks, San Francisco Bay and Lovin’ Man.

Listen online here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jc8y7

While we were in Jersey we took some time out to swing by BBC Radio Jersey play some tracks and and chew the fat. You can listen to the interview and songs tonight at 7pm.

Listen online here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jc8y7