Keshco News

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July 2011

Lots of live performances at the moment. Do check the gigs page for details. If we're not coming to your town, why not make a request?

Our Record Store Day single has found a home online and will shortly be available via 4-4-2 Music's Bandcamp page (I'll add in the link once this is up). Also, we have a batch of instrumental recordings from our sister band Bleak House coming out soonish.

Deforestation of Dak can now be purchased in the Truck Store in Oxford...

It was World Oceans Day on June 8th, and for the last few years aquatic act Notebook Of A Mermaid has curated compilation CDs to mark the event. This year we submitted a cover of Brian Eno's "By This River". You can see our promo on YouTube here. We have a couple of copies of the CDs, if anyone would like one...

Finally, our cover of Squeeze's "Bang Bang" is finally available to buy, as part of the 4 CD set "Songs of Squeeze Revisited: If I... If I... If I..." released by Burning Sky Records. Catch it here:
http://www.burningskyrecords.com/bsrsqueezev2.php

April 2011

Plenty of news, dear reader. If you reside in or around London, you can see a live Keshco set on 17th April as part of arts'n'crafts club Hungamunga's 5th birthday. It'll be our second one, and our third visit to the salubrious surroundings of the Bethnal Green Working Mens Club. Vimtos all round.

Further ahead, Keshcologists are getting pleasantly salivatory over the threat of another Trolley Crash at the start of August, including a screening of Johnny Cocktail's epic adventure in a dangerous netherworld, which is 55 minutes long and avoiding being trimmed as I type.

Luke's birthday was commemorated with the gift of a lap steel. Wide open vistas beckon. Slide guitar is go! Robert has made a percussive frame filled with chimes, keys, necklaces, random bits of metal. Jingling is go! Andy is excited that his Morley Sapphire is finally working properly. Flange is go!

Accountants By Day has now been uploaded to the Internet Archive, podcast sourcing directory Music Alley, and WFMU's Free Music Archive. A few kind souls have been playing some of our tracks in their shows.

You've seen our Fly By Night promo, I hope - featuring action figures from Dr Who, Buffy, Preacher and Star Trek. It's on YouTube. Also on the video front, look out for a sneak preview of some new Keshco songs which aren't even scheduled for our next EP (out June-ish).

November 2010

Our new digital multitrack (woo!) has been put to good use recently, recording a glut of new, mainly instrumental library style tunes down in Exmouth, and also preparing our next EP, "Accountants By Day", which has been virtually all recorded live. Seasoned Keshcologists will know that's a big change. We're hoping it'll be out for Christmas.

Also recently, we've contributed to a couple of cover projects, submitting a version of Squeeze's long-forgotten "Bang Bang" to a US compilation, and our take on Frank Zappa's "Who Are The Brain Police?" (yes, ho ho) to a Creative Commons tribute.

August 2010

Our latest EP is "Lego Of Me", released on 2nd August 2010 by our friends at WM Recordings. It's 24 minutes long with six tracks, including prog-fest "James Harries" about the curly-haired antiques prodigy. As usual, it's a Creative Commons release, so once you've listened please feel free to drop us a note to say what you thought, or even your own remix!

Another new Keshco track - we entered a cover of the Ladybug Transistor's "Oceans In The Hall" for this year's International Ocean Day compilation curated by Notebook of a Mermaid. You can download our version from the audio page.

We're updating the lyrics section on the site, hope you like it. There's also a new Art gallery.

January 2010

Our latest free EP came out on 23rd December 2009. "The Power Of Hot Air" is 22 minutes long with eight fabulously eclectic tracks that touch on aging, clutter and calculator watches. You can download it from Swedish netlabel 23 Seconds - but do please drop us or them a note to say what you thought! It's Creative Commons, too, so all you budding remixers by all means get tweaking...

In the spirit of free and easy living, a spot of midwinter madness has entered our feverish brains. For the rest of this month, "Deforestation of Dak" will be FREE TO DOWNLOAD IN ITS ENTIRETY from the Keshco page at Last.fm. Be quick now!

June 2009

"Deforestation of Dak" is to be released on 5 August 2009. Get your pre-orders in now! It features 17 tracks totalling a whole hour of newish Keshco sounds.

"Softened Fingers" is now available through Amazon, for those of you who don't like buying it direct from us.

September 2008

What would you like to see more of on this site? Get in touch!

Please download the EP. It's free and delicious.

We are, as ever, looking for gig shares, collaborations and fruity flapjacks.

August 2008

Two exciting developments. On 8th August, it's Keshco's first ever night, Trolley Crash at the Dry Bar in London. More details on the gigs page. Do come along and make yourself known.

Keshco's new FREE EP, also called "Trolley Crash", is now downloadable through WM Recordings. You can also get it via the Internet Archive. It's 22 minutes long with eight tracks, five of which are destined (in one form or another) for our next proper CD album. But in the meantime, grab yourself some lovingly-crafted freebies and do let us know what you think...

April 2008

Time! No time! Keshcologists are planning for the summer months. We have a couple of gigs coming up, but want lots more. A residency would be good. If you could offer us a whole night/week/year to ourselves, that would be brilliant.

Robert has unveiled Fallen Music Volume 5, which features over 40 (!) tracks from the last few years - awkward love songs, creepy comedy and wild freakouts. It's spread over two CDs and each pack comes with homemade artwork, for £5. Now I know that you want to get a copy, so why not get in touch through this site rather than buying more Quavers?

January 2008

A new year brings a new diary and, this time around, a new site. Keshco has been upgraded, and not a moment too soon. So, what's going on?

SKIP Theatre: On 31 January Keshco will be playing their first gig of the year down in New Cross. Expect strawberry-flavoured shenanigans and dancing girls. This all takes place at the Amersham Arms, London. Try our MySpace page for updated gig info.

Johnny Cocktail: Keshco's favourite lifestyle guru/private investigator returns in new episodes coming to YouTube. Filming now!

Beware!: The fanzine written by Keshcologists old and new is onto its second issue, and an annual is mooted. Beware! is available for free at gigs or via the post (see the Contact page for details).

Albums: Keshco's next CD release is "Deforestation Of Dak", lovingly homemade and currently about two-thirds recorded. This is to be accompanied by "Keshco's Butter Mountain", a stream-of-consciousness collection of odds and sods.