Cross-posting from my Illustration blog:
8 years of What Price, Wonderland? merch
Some things are missing, such as the first 7", but I'm not so proud of the artwork for some of the older stuff anyway!
/Andy
Sunday 22 August 2010
Saturday 21 August 2010
End of tour, future plans, a new blog
After another awesome tour - our fifth UK tour in the eight years we have been a band, the sixth tour overall having toured mainland Europe three years ago also - it is again time to say thank you to the many people who made the past week as fantastically fun as it was. So quickly, thank you: Ellie and Sam and everyone at Albany Road, Manchester; David in Glasgow; Everyone who turned up at the rushed show at the Peanut gallery, and a big thank you to Eva and John for cooking for us all; Phil and everyone who turned up at the Jam Café in Nottingham; Jay and everyone who came to the Brighton show, also to Lizzie who cooked us awesome food and put up with 8 smelly punks walking through her bedroom to take a shower in the morning; Al, Steve and everyone who came to the Kingston show; The Hipshakes who played both the Manchester and Nottingham shows and who were outstanding; Especially big thanks to Jay who put on the show and put up with all of us being in his house a bit too long in the morning and making him late to work, sorry!; Also to Al who made a huge effort, both cooking vegan food for the first time (which was lovely!) and make the three of us feel particularly at home and comfortable on our last night sleeping away from our own beds; Thanks to anyone who turned up to the Cardiff show. Shame about the local rockstars who played for nearly one and a half hours before Twisted, without any consideration for the touring bands, but hey, when you only play local shows to your friends, how would they know?
As for Twisted - truly one of the most intense and entertaining live bands we have had the pleasure to tour with. This has been such a fantastic week and I wish we could have done a longer tour because Twisted simply get better every time I hear them and spending this week with the five of you has been an absolute pleasure. Buy their newest 7", Stockholm, it is absolutely outstanding: http://www.twistedleeds.org.uk/
I am sure I have forgotten to mention some people, but I have tried my best so please forgive me should that be the case. Be assured we are grateful to anyone and everyone who has come along to the shows, helped make them happen or simply done the little (vital) things such as putting a poster for a show up in their shop or local pub or simply telling their friends to come along. Without you we couldn't have the privilege of being able to do things like this tour.
So what now? The majority of people that know us personally or as a band will probably know the three of us live quite a distance apart. To be exact, 149 miles between Joe and James, with me (Andy) somewhere in-between the two. This obviously brings about its own problems, heightened by the fact we all have jobs now, as well as Joe doing really well with his mastering/producing/DJ work and James playing shows with his other band. As such, we unfortunately don't practice often and, though we try to as often as we can it makes it quite hard to write new songs and, moreover, record them or play them at shows.
However, after eight years this band has become a firm fixture in our lives and I don't think any of us could imagine not trying to do at least a couple of shows a year and to keep writing songs, practicing and touring. We have been toying with the idea of writing and recording a new record of some description while on tour and that will probably be a renewed focus for us in the immediate future, as well as keeping our eyes and ears open for the potential of another tour. Who it will be with, when or where it will be is hard to say but as ever, if you would like to see us play, would like to play with our band our would like to offer us a show, please get in touch.
Thanks for reading.
Andy/What Price, Wonderland?
whatpricewonderland@gmail.com
As for Twisted - truly one of the most intense and entertaining live bands we have had the pleasure to tour with. This has been such a fantastic week and I wish we could have done a longer tour because Twisted simply get better every time I hear them and spending this week with the five of you has been an absolute pleasure. Buy their newest 7", Stockholm, it is absolutely outstanding: http://www.twistedleeds.org.uk/
I am sure I have forgotten to mention some people, but I have tried my best so please forgive me should that be the case. Be assured we are grateful to anyone and everyone who has come along to the shows, helped make them happen or simply done the little (vital) things such as putting a poster for a show up in their shop or local pub or simply telling their friends to come along. Without you we couldn't have the privilege of being able to do things like this tour.
So what now? The majority of people that know us personally or as a band will probably know the three of us live quite a distance apart. To be exact, 149 miles between Joe and James, with me (Andy) somewhere in-between the two. This obviously brings about its own problems, heightened by the fact we all have jobs now, as well as Joe doing really well with his mastering/producing/DJ work and James playing shows with his other band. As such, we unfortunately don't practice often and, though we try to as often as we can it makes it quite hard to write new songs and, moreover, record them or play them at shows.
However, after eight years this band has become a firm fixture in our lives and I don't think any of us could imagine not trying to do at least a couple of shows a year and to keep writing songs, practicing and touring. We have been toying with the idea of writing and recording a new record of some description while on tour and that will probably be a renewed focus for us in the immediate future, as well as keeping our eyes and ears open for the potential of another tour. Who it will be with, when or where it will be is hard to say but as ever, if you would like to see us play, would like to play with our band our would like to offer us a show, please get in touch.
Thanks for reading.
Andy/What Price, Wonderland?
whatpricewonderland@gmail.com
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