Hi guys, we looked back at our diaries and realised that 2012 had been a big year for us so we thought we’d have a look back and see what hijinks we’d gotten up to.

Our EP

We kicked off the year with our Debut EP - Songs & Shadows, which we had spent the end of last year recording at the lovely FIsh Factory Studios in Willesden Green. It was a great feeling to get people we loved into a studio and to spend a whole weekend just doing what we want to do forever. 

European Tour

This was our first go at touring and it was pretty intense! We played in five different countries in ten days, met a lot of wonderful people and played in some great venues. We did it because we wanted to see some old friends and thought “why not combine that with gigging as well?”. You can see some photos and read more about it here.

Amazing gigs

We’ve played some great gigs through the year and had a lot of fun doing it too. We played in the gardens at the Gallery Cafe in boiling sunshine, in the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden as part of the Urban Meadow Festival and in a mini big top at the London Orchard Festival. We also played to 7,000 scouts from around the world on the biggest stage we’ve ever played on at the Essex International Scout Jamboree, and got to play in the Palm Court at Alexandra Palace for their Summer Sessions. 

LFF Presents…

Late last year we had had enough of trying to play gigs in the regular haunts with mismatched bands of varying quality and decided to set up our own nights. This started with the original “Light Up The Night” last December and we haven’t looked back. We put on two shows this year - Heartstrings and Music & Meadows - and they were great fun. We were able to ask friends of ours to play (Sea Stacks, Bleeding Heart Narrative, George Frakes and Union Starr so far…) so everyone got to see stuff that was actually good rather than submit to the lottery of band nights.

Germany Tour

Having had such a great time touring Europe in Spring, we decided to go back in Autumn but this time just to go around one country instead of five. We went back to some places we played before and found some new places to explore as well. Every gig went brilliantly and we were given such a great reception, Cafe Galao even baked a cake for Charlie for our gig there on his birthday! We also sold all the EPs we took with us, just in time to start on the new one. You can read more about it here.

The Perfect End

We finished the year having one of our tracks - Here & Now - played on Tom Robinson’s 6Music mixtape and his evening show. We’re very happy to have been picked and hope this is the start of things to come.

We’ve also been back at the Fish Factory to start recording our second EP, Journey, which we’re very excited about and looking forward to getting to you all as soon as we can. More news on that will follow soon.

Here’s the second set of photos from “LFF Presents… Heart Strings”. Featuring Light Falls Forward, Eek N’Grr and Bleeding Heart Narrative. We’d like to say thanks to everyone who came down and made it such a great night. Keep your eyes peeled as we’re going to be announcing our next night soon!

Here are the first set of photos from “LFF Presents…. Heart Strings”. They feature Eek N’Grr, Sea Stacks and Light Falls Forward performing their sets on the night.

After the success of our first charity show - Light Up The Night - LFF Presents an evening of all things strings to raise money for The British Heart Foundation! 

Featuring three live bands with strings at their heart; Sea Stacks, Light Falls Forward and Bleeding Heart Narrative will envelop, enthrall and entertain you.

We have also lined up an exclusive live puppet show created especially for this event - it has never been performed before and it will never be performed again! Who knows, you might end up more involved than you imagined….

The event is being held at the City and Art Music Project in Old Street. Tickets are £6 on the door, £5 in advance and £1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the charity.

Advanced tickets are available from www.wegottickets.com/LFF.

Sea Stacks - This is the creation of Davy Berryman. Combining orchestral instrumentations to create wind and string-strafed indie music that takes influence from Jonsi/Sigur Rós and Sufjan Stevens, amongst others. 

http://www.seastacks.co.uk/

Light Falls Forward - is a London based band that is the creation of Charlie Evans and Naomi Paget. They are a refreshing blend of Acoustic Folk and Indie, with melodic harmonies and storytelling lyrics. People who have caught their live shows have likened them to Belle & Sebastian, Beth Orton, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Nick Drake. For this night they will playing as an eight piece with electric guitar, drums and string quartet. It promises to be quite a show!

http://www.lightfallsforward.com

Bleeding Heart Narrative - Bleeding Heart Narrative are a London sextet who weave together beautiful sounds with a haunting intensity. As interested in textures and orchestration as they are with rhythm and melody, theirs is a distinctive and captivating style that never settles on a single genre or approach. In creating their own music, Bleeding Heart Narrative incorporate their more abstract influences into traditional song structures, applying pop sensibilities to them as they go. You might hear the shimmer of Tortoise or Steve Reich built into a song that could be played on an Arcade Fire-sized stage, or pick out a Battle-esque repetition in a Mogwai-sized crescendo - but it’ll always be Bleeding Heart Narrative you’re listening to.

www.bleedingheartnarrative.com

Doors are at 8pm.

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