A total of 20 bands are playing at the four events. 10 bands will go through to the semi-finals; here’s how it works….

The top 5 bands from the online voting, with the most votes for “Best Live Act” will go through automatically.

From the remaining 15 bands, the judges will vote on the best 5 acts to go to the semi final.

You can help us to get to the semi final by giving 10 seconds of your time to vote for us! All you have to do is visit this website and vote for Yellowgroove for Best Live Act. You can only vote once (per IP address) but if you’re in a University, Internet Cafe, Library or on a phone, you could be able to vote again! (just give it a go!)

If you’re feeling especially generous; we’ve also been nominated for the “One Great Song” category for our latest single, “San Francisco Bay”. You can vote for the song to win by visiting this page.

We’d love a big crowd to play to on the 2nd March and it’d be great to see as many of you there as possible! Tickets are £5 and are available from this website.
Here is the event on Facebook too. 

Ask us if you want any more information!

In other news, we’re going “cottaging” again this weekend.  We’ll be shutting ourselves away in a small cottage in the middle of nowhere to make lots of noise as well as rehearsing and writing some new songs. We might even get a few of our new tracks recorded to let you all hear what we’ve been up to!

If you haven’t heard it yet, here’s a little teaser of what we got up to on our last cottage session before Christmas….

Related show

• Artist: Yellowgroove
• Tour: The Dorset Music Awards 2012
• Date: Friday, March 2nd 2012
• Time: 7:00pm
• City: Yellowgroove in Bournemouth
• Venue: The Winchester
• Address: The Winchester, 39 Poole Hill, Bournemouth, BH2 5PW
• Country: United Kingdom
• Admission: £5
• Age restrictions: No Minors
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• Notes: The Dorset Music Awards 2012 Quarter Final
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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