Hello All,

We haven’t got round to any blog posting for a good while, we’ve been busy bees. Hope everyone is good and enjoying the oncoming of the warmer slice of the year. Roll on Summer…

A couple of bits of interesting news from Gallops. We have been confirmed for both the BBC Radio 1 Weekend and Wakestock festivals this Spring/Summer! Happy Days!

Radio 1 Big Weekend will take place on May 9-10th at Lydiard Park in lovely Swindon, we’ve bagged the penultimate slot on the BBC Introducing stage thanks to various good eggs at the British Broadcasting Corporation and are eternally grateful. The line up for the event is really quite good with all the big names you would expect at an event this size. Check out the web page link below for further details, we’re playing on the Sunday at 6.20pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/

Also confirmed is a slot at Wakestock 2009, Europe’s Largest Wakeboard Festival. If you haven’t heard of Wakestock we suggest you check it out. The festival site is on the outskirts of the coastal resorts of Pwllheli/Abersoch in Gwynedd, North Wales. I’ve been there as a punter for the last few years and it really is worth the ticket. Good Music, ‘Extreme’ Sports Events and Great People all set against the stunning backdrop of the North Wales coast. It will definitely be interesting for me to see the festival from a different point of view and we are all immensely excited about this event! We will be playing on the Main Stage at the event alongside Super Furry Animals, N*E*R*D, Dizzee Rascal, Joy Formidable, Moby etc. The festivals take place on the 10-12th July. More info in link below, check it oot.

http://www.wakestock.co.uk/

We also have some more gigs lined up over the month or so. This Sunday (May 3rd) we are headlining a gig at the Sacred Trinity Church (actual church!!!!) in Salford as part of Huw Stephens (Radio 1) showcase at the Sounds From the Other City Festival 2009. I’ve never been to this festival but i’ve been told many good things. We are playing alongside:

Marina and the Diamonds
Peggy Sue
Sweet Baboo
The Tombots
Nia Morgan

plus DJ sets from Huw Stephens & Jakokoyak

We’ve never played a church before. This is Sick..

If you read this in time, we have a 3 track live session being broadcast on Radio Wales tonight from 10pm on Adam Walton’s show. Listen in if you get the chance, you won’t be disappointed…

JG BALLARD RIP. Your work will never be forgotten…..

Here’s a little Melodius Thunk for your head space.

LOVE

GALLOPS

A big pancake shaped hello to all,

Hopefully February has treated you as well as it has treated us. Have not posted anything for a while as we have been a lot busier than usual, plus there has not been any interesting goings on to update you with to be fair. Practicing, working, writing, financing, planning and generally procrastinating (<repeat) have generally been the order of the day for the past month or so. All of these being activities that hold little interest to anyone but ourselves and are most definitely not worth writing or posting pictures about. Anyhoo…

We were back down in Cardiff over the weekend for a show at Barfly on Friday supporting the brilliant This Town Needs Guns, whose LP ‘Animals’ is phenomenal might i add. Buy it via their Myspace page, don’t download it! Do as i say not as i do. Also playing was Zail who were very interesting according to various sources, unfortunately we missed them due to the mandatory trip to Wetherspoons for pre-show beer and burger deals. Hope to catch the two-piece play at some point in the future! This Town Needs Guns were as good live as on record and impressed all of us suitably. Barfly in Cardiff however doesn’t seem like ‘our kind’ of venue though to be fair, didn’t seem to get much reaction from the crowd who seemed to be more interested in sending texts and updating their Facebook statuses on their iphones than watching us perform our work. Are we that boring??? However, it soon became apparent that this was the general mood of the venue/crowd who didn’t seem too enthusiastic about seeing the headline band they had paid their hard earned nuggets to see either. There was some mild head nodding but nothing to raise the spirits. Shit choice of beer too Win some, lose some. Big thanks to This Town Needs Guns, Zail and most importantly the people in the crowd who gave a fuck, you were all splendid. See you next time.

Having had more beers than we intended to and 2-3 hours sleep on Meilirs living room floor, Saturday morning was a little vile but a few rounds of beans and eggy bread soon made it all better. I’ll take this opportunity to both plug Meilir and thank him for his hospitality once again. Check his brilliant music at: www.myspace.com/meilirmusic and be astonished. A top bloke indeed. Diolch.

We headed to the ITV Machine Room studios on the outskirts of Cardiff to record our session for Bethan and Huw’s Radio 1 show. An hour late (naturally) we were met by engineer Nick Palmer and studio owner/composer/arranger/all round good egg John Rea. The studio was modest in size but the gear was fantastic, I had my first experience of playing a mk 1 Rhodes organ and if i’m honest nearly did a little love wee. The session went well and after a minor hitch with Dave’s hi-hats (thanks to the Music Box for the loan btw!) we finished recording the session in a couple of hours. The session was produced and mixed by Richard Jackson who knew his way round Pro Tools like a mutha. Legend. Overall we are more than pleased with the overall sound of the session and it was a pleasure to work with all of the above. We really can’t thank you enough! Big thanks to Nick for warming up the Leslie for us!

The session is being played next Wednesday sometime after midnight on Radio 1 Wales so tune in. The stems of the session are also being remixed by a handful of producers and will be played as an extra special ‘Gallops Remix Session’ at a later date which of course we will update you on. If you’re in Wrexham this weekend we are playing at The Talbot again on Sat 28th with support from F.O.E (amazing) and DJ/Noise sets  from myself as Birfmarq (Shite) and Wondercut (Shite) Doors are at 8 i believe, get there early as we are expecting it to be as busy as ever, 3 sheets entry. Word

Heres some motherfucking average pictures from the session, hope you like them:

Ta

Holla,

Here’s a little somethin’ somethin’ for your ipods, cars, train ride or bedrooms. A collection of music thats floats the Gallops! boat so to speak. Its not beatmatched or any of that jazz (time is precious at the moment) but hopefully that won’t bother you in the slightest. The first in a series of mixes….

GALLOPS! KNOWS BEST – VOL 0.25 (Click Here to DL!)

Tracklisting:

1. SUN RA – THERE ARE OTHER WORLDS (THEY HAVE NOT TOLD YOU OF)
2. BURIAL – SHUTTA
3. JAH DIVISION – TRANSMISSION DUB
4. VLADIMIR COSMA – PROFIL GREC 1
5. TORTOISE – SIX PACK
6. FLY PAN AM – UNIVOQUE/EQUIVOQUE
7. CAN – COME STA, LA LUNA
8. DE FACTO – FINGERTRAP
9. DICK HYMAN – ALFIE
10. FLYING LOTUS – 1983 (DAEDELUS ODD DANCE PARTY REMIX)
11. THE TUSS – SHIZ KO E
12. KADENZA – LET’S STAY TOGETHER
13. JAMES PANTS – I CHOOSE YOU

Don’t forget Gallops!, Talons and Meilir live at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff on Saturday 24th January!!! DO IT!!

Evening all, 

First of all thanks very much to all who came to our gig at Clwb Tafod, Cardiff on Saturday. The crowd was larger than we expected it to be considering the slightly ‘off the beaten track’ location of the venue. The venue was nice too, the bar upstairs had a sweet smoking balcony overlooking the river and the Millenium Stadium  whilst downstairs had an almost sleazy East End snooker hall vibe to it and despite the sound in the venue being poor as hell (through no fault of the promoter/engineer mind, the whole system was gash at best) our performance seemed to go down surprisingly well with the punters. Head nods all around, I say I say!

We definitely recognised some faces from our gig at Kaz Bar during the Swn festival, nice to see a bit of a following, we are grateful as fuck! Surely you’ve got better things to do than come out in the cold and see us play on a Saturday night?!? Thanks again! Also thanks to the promoters, DJs and staff at Clwb Tafod  as well as Jen Long from Kruger for the interview and putting up with our cocky answers and in-jokes. We know we are cunts……

If you are reading this and you came to the gig on Saturday and enjoyed it don’t forget we are playing at Clwb Ifor Bach on Saturday 24th January with support from Talons and Meilir. If you didn’t come on Saturday don’t miss out this time!

Here’s a link to the event of Facebook, become a fan too. If you are one that is…

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44693985107

NEIL YOUNG IS GOD, NOT ERIC CLAPTON. AND THAT’S THE REAL….

Here is some pictures from our gig at The Talbot in Wrexham on 20th December, courtesy of David Eventffoto. Check out his myspace his pictures are of the highest standard…..

MASSIVE THANKS TO ALL THAT CAME ALONG TO SEE US, DAVID EVENTFFOTO, LIGHT SYNDICATE, ARFICEDEN (with one of the tightest rhythm sections ever known to man!) and also JKLMNO….
BIG UP

GALLOPS!

How is everyone? Things are going swimmingly well for us at the moment with lots of lovely reviews from high rolling media types such as NME and the BBC. Also we are featured in this months Kruger magazine as a ‘one to watch’ for 2009, apparently, we are yet to get hold of a copy due to living in the black hole of culture that is Wrexham (we love it really.) Thanks very much to all of the above, we really do appreciate it, but not in a gay way, of course.

We will be recording a live session of three of our most bestestest tracks for Adam Waltons show on BBC Wales very soon, as well as going into THE STUDIO to record an EP as yet untitled.

We have two shows lined up in Cardiff in January too!

January 10th – Lunaria @ Clwb Tafod

January 24th – Clwb Ifor Bach w/ support from Meilor

Hope you can make it to these dates, as we will be playing at the very least two of our new tracks.

Xxplosive

Have a good Xmas people,

GALLOPS!

Hello,

GALLOPS! will be playing at The Talbot in Wrexham on the 20th December with support from the awesome:

Light Syndicate http://www.myspace.com/lightsyndicate 

Arficeden http://www.myspace.com/arficeden 

JKLMNO http://www.myspace.com/jklmnomusic 

plus DJ’s until late

Doors 8pm – get there early to ensure entry as its a small capacity in The Talbot. Last time we played it was 1 in 1 out.

This show is not to be missed! Hope to see you all there!

Love, GALLOPS!

Helloo

Big thanks to anyone reading this blog who said nice things about our performance in Cardiff last week, you made us collectively blush! We’re still doing a lot of writing at the moment, so keep em peeled as there will be some new recordings up on our myspace soon enough. As well as some remixes of tracks that we will post here for you to enjoy. Just to let you know as well we will be playing at the Christmas Gig at The Talbot in Wrexham alongside Light Syndicate and others 

For now here’s a video of a legend doing what he does best, be sure to check out his symphony for 100 guitars. 

GALLOPS!

A happy Monday to you all….

Not much going on today as far as Gallops! is concerned, just writing/scrapping new music and wasting hours getting zoned out penning monotonous sequencer loops that will hopefully develop into something fit for public consumption. Or not. Ableton is ruining my life…..

In the meantime i thought i’d share the trailer to one of the greatest/worst films about a killer baboon i’ve ever seen. If you can find this on DVD i can’t recommend it enough, you are most likely to find it in one of those bargain DVD baskets in bookshops amongst badly-dubbed 1970’s kung-fu movies. We’re thinking of covering the theme tune live, we will see.

Don’t pay more than a pound, if it’s more than a pound steal it……

Mark, Gallops!