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| WEDDING PRESENT
SUPPORT CONFIRMED We're supporting
the mighty Wedding Present at Colchester Arts Centre on TUESDAY
2nd DECEMBER 2008. Tickets are £13, available from www.colchesterartscentre.com or
by phone on 01206 500900. Doors are at 8pm - we'll be on about ten
minutes later. Thankyou Misters Gedge and Stringfellow. |
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ACOUSTIC RADIO SESSION We'll
be playing an exclusive acoustic session on Shane Quentin's lovely GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS on CRMK 89.8FM. Tune in if you're in the Milton Keynes area, or listen online (I think): www.gardenofearthlydelights.com |
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| INTERVIEW
Southend Residents - grab a copy of tonight's ECHO (tonight being 19th November
08) to read an interview with the band. |
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To hear witches or our other stuff you
can go to last.fm
To Purchase witches you can go to roughtrade or
norman
records or if your in Southend go to bubblegum
record shop (by
the sunrooms). |
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Album review from 17 SECONDS:
Beatglider - 'Witches' (Enraptured)
Shoegazing -let's not shy away from that word here -is known in the US
of A as dreampop. And that makes sense when you listen to a record like
the third album from Beatglider. Not only does their name evoke My Bloody
Valentine, but the sounds -and I mean this as a compliment - definitely
owe much to those seminal albums Isn't Anything and Loveless.
Another influence on this wee gem of an album is Fotheringay, the fabulously
flawed band fronted by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention
and before she embarked on a solo career. There's an influence of Pagan
imagery here too, though I'm going to have to put my hand up and admit
that that's something I'm far from an authority on. It's a very English
sounding record and beautifully dreamy.
Will it change the perceptions of those who are not heavily into dreampop/shoegazing?
Sadly, probably not - but that's their loss. For those of us who like
to focus on their music and almost live in their soundtracks, this is
a record for the likes of us. It's a record that seems to live in another
place in time, rather than being retro, existing in its' own little world,
and all the better for it.
http://www17seconds.blogspot.com |
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our favourite review:
BEATGLIDER: WITCHES
Don't punish yourself, avoid this.
"Fighting hard to make shit the way they want to
make it. Salute the Beatglider for they are rubbish."
There's much to be said for bands and musicians that don't always do
what they are told. Why should that be? Well, because we don't generally
like to see bands that would bend over backwards, or in some cases (and
NN definitely does not mean to suggest any particular bands, in particular
not Boyzone (who look so natural as 30+ year old men dancing like pricks
in their comeback cash-run) bend over forwards and spread 'em. We? Yeah,
the general 'we' of interpretive faculty and discernment.
Well, back to the somewhat laboured point, Beatglider have a history
of refusing to play by the indie-rock manufacturers handbook. That is
to say, their debut album 'Dreaming Of Roads' is all but unavailable
because the Beatglider boys refused to do what they were told. And that
might have been it. Picture them as bitter old men occasionally dragging
out their copy of the unreleased album and crying a dry tear.
But not to be for these lads. No sir, they found someone willing to put
up with difficult young men trying to do something that they do their
way - “we're a bit random and far odder than I can articulate”,
keyboardist Adam Radmall barely articulates.
So, what have we got here then? Well, for a band that stuggles to conform
to record company expectations, it seems a bit odd that there doesn't
seem to be much that a sale-watching A&R man might need ironing.
Basically, it's lazy, boring and uninspired indie rubbish.
We kick off with over seven minutes of 'Rattlesnake', a tune that
shifts between typically apathetic vocal breaks and typically rising
guitar crescendos to become a track that shouldn't even be three
minutes long - and maybe that's where the record company got pissed.
Almost every other track on 'Witches' is over five minutes in length.
Inside the dreariness and pale emotional vacuity of any one of these
tracks, that's an age that will leave you praying for the apocalypse.
Take another one – 'Dark Dark Woods' - which actually starts
with what sounds like some lovely wavering musical saws but is all too
quickly mired in the irritatingly depressive vocals against, oh my god,
another salvo of crescendo-headed guitars.
And the title track, 'Witches' - a mammoth eight minutes 45
seconds - offers nothing in the way of a break from this music-by-numbers
approach that characterises the whole approach, and in general, the whole
indie genre. And these guys are supposed to be at the edge of the scene,
making waves.
Actually, it's the short tracks that stand out amongst the grey, basically
anything under two minutes on 'Witches' is worth listening to and
the rest is overblown offal. 'Layers Of Bark' offers a beautiful whimsical
lullaby and the instrumental sleepers a deep and twanging taste of what
might have been. Don't punish yourself, avoid this. |
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WITCHES goes down well again:
Thanks to E-Zine BAD ROBOT for this review:
Its been a long time since the debut album by the Southend based outit.
They formed in 1996 and they apparently are slacker pop legends. It is
a strange sound which takes in Shoegaze,haunting folk and alt indie pop.
They are not a band afraid of a risk and its an album full of paganism
and an eclectic mix of influences meet to create a weird and wonderful
album.An album to track down and savour as its revels in creating a collection
which challenges the listener.
Ian Todd
www.badrobot.co.uk |
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OCTOBER 08
There are things happening. |
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GRAMMATICS support 04/11/08
We are supporting Grammatics at Colchester Arts
Centre on Tuesday 4th
November. We are on second (about 9.15pm). Tickets
are £6 in advance, £7
on the door. Doors open 8pm. Buy online via www.colchesterartscentre.com |
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WITCHES ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
We will be taking over the Railway Inn in Southend
to play a headline show in celebration of the new album finally emerging
into the world. There will be another band supporting and a rumoured DJ set from a terminally
pissed-up landscape gardener. More on that soon. It’ll be in November.
Speaking of Witches, you may like to read another review, this one courtesy
of underground tome THE ORGAN:
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| BEATGLIDER – Witches (Enraptured) – Still slanted
and enchanted and they really don't sound like a band from Southend-On-Sea
do they? Beatglider must be the most un Southend band in the world, sound
like they should be from Portland or Seattle or some strange Scottish island
where they all wait for the solstice sunrise wearing nothing but homemade
horse-heads. Thankfully Jon Hannon is also from Southend and he has the
happy knack of letting bands breath, he and his studio have been responsible
for a lot of the good things that come from the Essex seaside town over
the last decade and for this he must be thanked. Last we heard of Beatglider,
they were caught up in a music industry nightmare and one of the major
affiliated "clueless boutique labels", good to see they made out alive,
creatively intact and indeed sounding better than ever. Witches is
an easy going album, a refined gentle rewarding sound and an album that
takes a little time to reveal itself. An album for fans of simple flowing
intelligent alternatives like Pavement or Elliot Smith. English though
and alive with little details and spiritual textures and the feel (and
gentle fire) of Albion. Yes, Witches is an album alive
with spirit – especially with the impressive eight and half minute
track title track – alive with field colour and sunrises and, without
being twee or clichéd, alive with pagan warmth. Beatglider
are slightly weird, rather wonderful, they're eclectically rewarding and
delightfully different - actually the title track is something very special
indeed once you've lost yourself in it, as is the solace of the following/closing
track Nature's Arms. Witches is a glowing album,
this is sitting in a field watching clouds, watching sunlight on your arm,
watching everything unfold. We could mention delicate Godspeed You Black
Emperor flavours, never obvious though, post rock before it became just
another pigeonhole, we could talk about space and slowly uncoiling dreaminess,
of slowdives and the effortless coherent delight of it all, the mysterious
ritual and slowly uncoiling simple beauty. Beatglider's finest moments
and a highly recommended album. |
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THE WEDDING PRESENT
We still might be supporting the Wedding Present in Colchester. |
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UK TOUR
We are working on some other shows which, if some
or all of them come off, could be considered a tour. If you are a promoter
and would be interested in arranging a date please contact Stafford via staff@colchesterartscentre.com |
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WITCHES Album
Review, courtesy of Playlouder.com
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AUG 08 - CANCELLED SHOWS
We're no longer supporting Camera Obscura at Colchester Arts Centre on
Wednesday 15th October. We don't know why.
The gig at The Ship, Leigh on Sea has been postponed due to Ad's golfing
holiday. News on that soon.
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| JULY 2008 -
BEatglider material
recorded throughout 2006-7 now to be released by
the uks ENRAPTURED
RECORDS.Material
collated to form a new full album to be entitled "Witches".
checkout myspace.com/beatgliderband and
you may catch a sample. - release date
OCTOBER 6th 2008. (for real this time
we have copies in our hands) |
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| May 2008 -
new Staff!!__
beatglider welcome the addition of a new bass player Stafford Glover-
and at the same time mourn the loss of our boon companion
KEvin Reed from the line up. Stafford is a long time friend of the band
and a talented
musician. An amicable switch was made due to commitment
difficulties so that the band can carry on the way it always has. |
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| December 2006 - NEW - album due 2007_!__ the uks own mighty alt label Enraptured plan to release new beatglider material recorded throughout 2006. - will keep you posted. |
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| August 2006 - BEatglider tracks featured on new british snowboarding film - The film, mastermind of bristish snowboarding pro Danny Wheeler, features various tracks from beatgliders back catalogue, tracks from beatglider members side project The hillmisters plus electronic tracks from BG member Paul stride-Noble's home recordings. It will be available on the cover on November 2006 issue of onboard magazine- Dont miss it. info here |
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| march 2006 - beatglider are currently recording tracks for a new album with jon hannon at no recording studios - release info to follow. |
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JAn 2006 - new split e.p. beatglider v shinri. 2 tracks each, released through enraptured records. info here
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| nov 2005 - GIG - beatglider will be performing at the rough trade rota show @ notting hill arts club - november 19th 2005 with Whip and Ramp. |
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BEATGLIDER, The Grand, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
22/10/05 read review here by mulefreedom |
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beatglider customer review on amazon read it here |
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