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

The Isle of Wight was indeed triple awesome. We played out of our skins friday night, had a great response from a great crowd, we also did a bunch of interviews over the weekend. More news to follow about that and everything else…

I got home really late last night, fell asleep on the last ferry and almost got stuck on it all night (with the van and all the equipment!)

To see a replay of friday night, don’t forget to come down to the surface unsigned on wednesday night.
Vote for us! simply text WEST followed by 4059 to 64343!
see you all soon,
Simon

Yellowgroove @ The Joiners

We’ve recovered from our intense R’n’R period and got back into the groove last Wednesday night with an interview and unplugged session on Bournemouth’s local radio station, Hope FM. The session also included an exclusive preview of our final masters for the upcoming EP The Somerset Sessions, which will be available to download from our website from Monday. For gig-goers who purchase a copy of our debut single, you will receive the digital EP download for FREE! Hoorah!

In case you missed the radio interview, it did clash with Eastenders after all, we will be making the whole hour available to download, also for free, from our website. Stay tuned for that. Free stuff on free stuff.

Our leap back onto the live stage begins this Saturday at Eastleigh Recreation Ground, where we will be performing at the Young Persons day, for, er, young people. We’ll be bolting off in a cloud of Transit van dust shortly after to go and do some more recording in Somerset, but we will be back in time to entertain fresh freshers at Southampton University on Monday, for RAGfest.

There are plenty of other gigs booked up for the autumn-winter period, so if the fall of leaves is starting to get you down, take a look at our gigs page or myspace to check the listings, come down and see us, and get your wee hands on our debut EP!

Friday 10th July sees the band take over the Hobbit supported by FROCK, a rocking band from Bournemouth. Both bands will play an hour set with FROCK on at just before 10.30pm and Yellowgroove at around 12.00am. Entry is free before 10pm and after is £2.

On Saturday 11th, Yellowgroove are playing two music festivals. The first is in Eastleigh town centre for the Eastleigh Music Festival. Yellowgroove are headlining the free section of the festival day and will be playing a 30 minute set on the main stage at 4pm. The guys will then head across the country to a small village called Guestling, the other side of Hastings, where they will be playing at the Guestlingbury Music Festival around 10pm.

There will be most likely be spaces for any of you that want to follow along.
It’s certainly set to be a mad one! Hope to see you there

YG will of course be sandwiched between this mayhem at around 6pm, performing a completely acoustic set. So if you want to see us while we’ve escaped “The Ol’ Mill”, head down to 156 Portobello Rd, London (nearest tube station Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove).

See you there,

Yellowgroove