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JANUARY
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Happy new year ! looking forward
to seeing you all at Sheffield PLUG (jan 27th), Oxford Zodiac
17th feb , or London Islington Academy 21st feb. cheers, Were
all getting ready for Australia at the moment in March which
will be fun....fun fun
Hey.
The Egg are playing this Friday and Saturday 8 & 9th December
in club Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey. Also confirmed so far for
2007: UK: Oxford Zodiac (17th February), London Islington
Academy (Feb 21st) and a tour of festivals in Australia
and New
Zealand March 3rd to 17th....yeah! see you there
HI
Thanks for a great summer. Everything was brilliant, many
thanks to all who came .Were playing at Cargo , London, Thursday
9th november, Fopp records in Oxford ST on the 16th, and a
few more in December, including Reading, Swindon and Instanbul
September: Hi The Egg ' Forwards Special Edition '
is
out now with a freeCD of remixes: Tocadisco, David Guetta,
Mylo, Atomic Hooligan , Greg Hunter, and more , so get out
there, if you like...
Also
a new tune 'nothing' features on the CD, and a Cd rom with
photos, and a drum machine, with a movie or two thrown in...
Squarepeg records, or on line , at itunes, amazon , etc (ps
if you do look on amazon, please dont confuse us with bands
called just 'egg'- that's not us: We've 3 albums so far ;
Albumen, Travelator, and Forwards..
Anyway
thanks for going out and helping us to no.3! it was amazing
playing in Ibiza, everyone was djing it everywhere...a real
Kevin and Perry moment... ha
Tuesday 15th August: DAVID GUETTA vs the Egg at no.2 in midweek
chart positions! please go buy this, and get your mates too,
with your help we can get this to no.1 !!!!!!!!!
Well
thankyou for packing out the Big Chill Gig last weekend, we
were blown away by the crowd reaction, and sorry we couldnt
play longer, we had more funked up tunes ready to rock..!!
Still, it kicked off with the tocadisco remix...all good but
odd, in a good way, playing someone elses take on us, and
then jamming it back into an eggness thing...but a good angle
we think and you liked it so..and who spotted the new oil
share price samples tune ?- its our carbon neutral song to
counteract going on a car advert!! ha
..Anyway
Well be able to do more another time, theres more gigs coming
up, including, just confirmed, Ragged
hedge fair (sorry the whole foundation
festival was cancelled) but its the same weekend (2nd &
3rd September), and nearby, and itll be great.. Saturday night
headline. so all the videos should be there.... Thanks for
all your support xxx see Gigs
page for all others (Fawlsey
Fayre 18th August , Bestival & more)
DAVID
GUETTA VS THE EGG ' LOVE DONT LET ME GO -14TH August...
A quick reminder, If you haven't heard, UK radio 1 have been
hammering this for the last month and it may go top 5 !!
Its the mash up David Guetta did, with new vocals over the
Tocadisco
remix of 'walking away', which has grown from a cheeky bootleg
into a
bit of a hit..If we all buy it at once, who knows....
David Guetta VS The Egg " Love dont let me go, out on
Gusto records on
14th August in the UK... Also featuring the previous club
hit, the
Tocadisco extended remix, and available on CD & 12"
too. For digital
download (available now), ringtones, videos etc please use
the link
below:
http://www.lovedontletmego.com/ecard
JULY:
HI . been a busy time (again!) As you may have seen , Citroen
used the tocadisco remix of our tune'walking away' for their
robot dancing and skating car ad on ITV and Channel4. Its
been wierd because Pete Tong made it essential new tune, and
everyone went a bit nuts.
Then,
David Guetta, whos a big DJ in France, mashed it up with some
vocals from one of his previous tracks, and bootlegged it
out on 12". sounds wierd but happens alot in the music
industry . The mash up became a super big hit in the Miami
music conference earlier in March , and before you know it,
Pete Tong and everyone's playting it, so its kind of unstoppable
now.. This week its the Pet Sound on the Jo Whiley show (Radio
1), played every day and released August 14th.on GUT records.
a new video sometime too
Weve done a new song, called 'Nothing' out as a single in
September, and featuring on the Album 'Forwards', which has
been recut, with an extra CD with all the current remixes
on too (Mylo, Tocadisco, Abstract Geometry (Greg Hunter)..release
September 4th
Also
just done a Freddy Mercury remix for EMI who are doing a remix
compilation, and Queen approved it, so that's ok!! lots of
slide guitar, if you can imagine it....
And
were half way through an EP project in tribute to one of the
best drummers ever: Toby Pascoe, with contributions from Tiplane,
The Egg, Tim Holmes (death in vegas), Greg Hunter and Chris
Weston (original ORB members), the cover by Banksy, (toby's
best mate). no schedule yet, but watch this space...
see
you at the festivals : The Glade, Big Chill, Fawsley Fayre,
TDK, Bestival. See Gigs
page or our .myspace
page...
APRIL:
Hey just done a full on video for the GUT
record's release of 'Walking Away' Tocadisco remix on
April 10th.It was weird and yet wonderfully exhilirating and
had us laughing our butts off in places.fun with red boiler
suits, red robots, girls, boys, crap dancing, we can do it
all...!!...had a great time time with the collision film dudes
in Bristol for a few days, and played an impromptu late night
stage hijacking slot at Mr Wolfe's to pop the top off the
bottle .....Its being shown on MTV dance and a few others
at the mo..
Anyway
its been the essential new tune on Pete Tong on 12" .
but now available in all formats with the upcoming GUT
records release with KIKI's mix too and Mylo's mix of' wall'
with a remastered original, (which we prefer to the album
version by the way. and so did Pete Tong who played it) ,
and was 8 in the buzz charts last week... so....go get it
we may even chart.....@£$%%^^&& hers a bit more
info:
Essential New Tune on Pete Tongs Essential
Selection BBC Radio 1 show
Number 11 in the DMC Buzz chart
Number 8 in Cool Cuts chart
Number 8 in Music Week Club Chart
Number 4 in DMC Club Chart
Sureplayer in DJmagazine - 4.5/5
Top Tune in House section IDJ magazine - 5/5
House Pick of the week DMC Update - 5 dancing meng
Also Were doing saturday night this year at the big chill
which will be fabulous,all the projections etc, and the Glade
festival, and a few more European dates to come. The Album
is being repackaged, with a new tune or two, remixes on, maybe
a few extras...details soonand oh great you can buy it all
over again..
Theres
been a few gigs recently, london CARGO wasnt yhat top !!.
it rocked the max, and oxford ZODIAC , Bristol FIDDLERS, we
did them too .. thanks for coming down ...see gigs
page.. they were real good. and a chance to experiment and
freak it out a bit. we recorded it all multitrack for future
release/new material ....hey cats by the way that battersea
thing was a thing huh, nice one for coming although quite
short notice but what the hey hey..
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WALL
single out on 12"
on monday 25th oct go on go get it
you know you want it. its highly
praised in dj mag this week too !. heres a few reviews:
mylo mix (large),(small),
atomic hooligan mix |
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oct
04
Wow
just got back from burning man festival in Nevada, which quite
frankly, blew our minds..we met some great people, maybe fixed
up a few gigs in san francisco, new york, maybe a festival
or two, and brought the funk back to its birthplace, ok not
atlanta (james browns birthplace), but near enough..and saw
some trippy stuff, its quitw a visual festival, rather than
a big focus on music, which is good, a few 'art cars' with
bands on and much more wierdness besides...anyway we came
back for shoreditch carnival last sunday 19th short set eh?
technical problems they say - always a good un, that, anyway
lots of fun...its be en a crazy ol summer- 10 festivals in
all !-
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BBC6
sun oct 24th done it! ... 2hr
show.. were 'presenting' - oh my!
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ACE its
out. since august 16th - forwards,the
new album, listen /download at www.bleep.com/squarepeg
in normal shops and delivered from amazon.com
. theres
games/drum machine on it too
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Kholoho
Mossala , our v. tal;ented mate , just went back to Cape Town
after a while here doing a few gigs, did a good un last week
with marimba, 8 backing musicians etc.. he plays a bit on
the album too..
RADIO
1
on sunday 29th august One world show after giles peterson
hour long interview/ album play...ace about 2 am we think--------weve
done it now and you could listen again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/oneworld/index.shtml?focuswin
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done fawsley and secret garden party- the sun shone it
was great! thanks for going nuts |
| wasnt
big chill ace! we had a great time , got some recordings , so
well see what happens, heres
a picture The Egg at Big Chill 31st July. thanks to those
there for making it happen. if you liked the video mixing, it
was by todd graft at
microchunk.com , who helps us out when not super busy, and
rod wilson from bubble vision doing our 16mm films and some
of his own slides and extraordinary stuff.. |
heres
some reviews:

-and
our favourite:
"
like New Order floating on a cloud"- Observer
ok
enough hype! heres more news
9
weeks ago:
Hi
there thanks for all the
mails along the lines of "wheres this album then ? eh? eh?"
and right you are. we got delayed by record comp situations so it
s been a bit delayed, and hopefully out aug 9th, with copies at
the festies (glade & big chill) in the changing world stalls...................well
put up the info if it changes...
yey
thanks for coming to make the glastonbury glade gig rather special.
We all had a real good time, and as the all say; 'experimentation
was always part of us' in some unpredictable way(thats when it all
goes wrong and we have to make it up) . nice to try out a bit of
singing, being a non projecting daytime gig. For those who couldnt
come,
a mate andy took some pics . here have a look .....................
http://homepage.mac.com/andy_eakins/PhotoAlbum30.html
well
theres a bunch of gigs coming up; glasto, glade, tureya festival,
secret garden party, fawsley fayre, Amsterdam Blijberg , BigChill,
Shoreditch Carnival, Burning Man and the album out August sometime,
its all a bit exciting...check the gigs
page
the drum
machine's on the album too, as a cd rom, and you can save and load
your grooves, so maybe youll all be sharing them, well set up a
forum perhaps. theres also gonna be an interactive thing you can
download from www.noodleheaven.net where the'rll be anotherfunked
up tune, (unlockable free if you buy the album), not finished yet...
Ps yes
that was us playing ' for lovers' with pete doherty on top of the
pops the other day ..... We played on the single too ... it was
no 7 you know!! If only they all knew it was the egg.......theyre
doing another, called 'Napoleon' full on darkness rock and probably
get banned.. great.
Ace,
well see ya soon....
Thanks for your
support , email us and
we'll put you on the mailing list . We do try to reply to every
message ....
Cheers for now
The Egg
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MARCH
04
Sorry its been
a while, been very busy getting this album finished, its been nearly
nine months now!
Anyway its sounding
really good, theres quite a variety of stuff on it, a really full
on rocker, and some superfluff mellow, and an edgy funk thing or
two, interviewing pissed people in guilford etc .. will say no more
for now , but itll be out in july, and you can all run screaming
to the hillls , if you like.
The Venice Beach
e.p. mellomania-a-like thing is out april 12th. its got surprisingly
enough; venice beach, lost at sea, a vocal-ish thing ( and for the
pure funksters the instrumental version of that tune ,on the CD
ROM section of the cd, which also has games, a drum machine and
videos). Greg Hunter (engineer and co collaborator of The Orb's
first two albums) has done a great very abstract remix too.
We played supporting
SPARKS at the Ocean in Hackney, London on sun 21st March, which
was short but good , previewed a few new tracks.... For a full set
with projections etc why not come to Neighbourhood
(old Subterrania) in Londons Notting Hill on May
27... Fragile State are doing it too...details of tickets
to follow soon....
Oh Franz Ferdinand
borrowed Maffs drum kit for their 'Matinee' video, that battered
old thing, its a classic you know (1974!)
AUGUST 03
thanks
to all who made it to glastonbury ,(weve had lots of nice emails
aout the lost stage - thanks , its allways great to hear), the green
gathering (*big brown gathering actually) and Shambala festival
, which was ace.. , sorry to all who thought we were at the liquid
do , it was moved from somerset to kent and then cancelled, after
police stopped it ( despite it apparently being a legal site etc
etc
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