We had some fun asking you good people out there in Myspaceland to come up with a short story containing all of the Beecake songs that we have performed live over the past few years and we have been,to say the least,gobsmacked! with the standard.
We would love you to put your short stories here,below this blog,within the comments section and let everyone read these great short stories.

Here are the rules:
You must have fun and let your imagination go wild!
The story must start with "The Beecake guys walked into the bar" and end with "Rick shouted,this is not an exit" The story should contain the title of as many songs as you can remember that we have performed live or recorded since we became Beecake.

Who's up for it?

As you may or may not have noticed we have started Twittering...the main aim of Tittering for us is to keep it fun and entertaining for everyone who wants to take part.We will try and leave updates as regularly as possible...mainly silly stuff & some not so silly stuff.We will still keep our myspace page up to date with any Beecake news as soon at it breaks so all of our friends on myspace shouldn't and won't miss a thing.

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Join Twitter & find us at @OfficialBeecake

Here are a few new tracks from our forthcoming debut album. A sneaky peak of what to expect. No release date as yet but we will keep you all posted...Please feel free to add them to your profile page.
New songs now on our player:
1.This is not an exit
2.Broken songs
3.A ball of earth 
 
Hope you all like what you hear and enjoy them as much as we did while recording them...Enjoy!
 
John, Rick, BJ & Billy
Beecake

Tartan Clef Music Award

Peoples Choice "Best Live Act" 2008

BEECAKE

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who took the time to vote. We couldn't have done it without the constant support we get from our fans/supporters and friends.

Winning the award meant a great deal to us and being up against such great artists such as Glasvegas and Amy MacDonald made winning the award very special to the four of us.

We had the pleasure of playing one of our songs after receiving our award, our new version of "Soul Swimming" in front of some of the best Scottish music talent around at the moment which included The Fratellis, Sharleen Spiteri and the guys from Orange Juice.

We also enjoyed performances from Sharleen, Hue & Cry, Eddie Reader, Dougie MacLean, The Almighty, The Fratellis and surprise guest presenter, comedian Peter Kay who made the journey from Bolton to surprise Sharleen with her Award.

It was a pleasure and an honour to attend the ceremony and give our support to The Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Charity. To lend your support to this great music charity or find out more go to www.tartanclef.org

 

John, BJ, Billy & Rick

BEECAKE

Beecake are up for best live act in the Tartan Clef Music Awards,thanks for voting... keep voting!

Go to -  http://bestliveact.visitscotland.com to cast your vote.

Finalists for the 'Best Live Act' Award announced!

For the past few months, music lovers across the country who have experienced the magic of a live gig or music festival in Scotland have been voting in their thousands to help decide who should win the VisitScotland 'Best Live Act' Award at the Tartan Clef Music Awards 2008. We can now reveal that the five finalists in line to scoop the Award are :

Amy MacDonald

Beecake

Sergeant

The Haze

Glasvegas

There can only be one winner, and your favourite act still needs your support to win this prestigious award.Visit our Finalists page to check out what the acts on the shortlist had to say on hearing they'd reached the final five, and what their fans had to say about them. Then ensure you vote for them to win the award. When you vote you'll automatically be entered into our free prize draw to win a trip to Glasgow, including tickets to attend the Tartan Clef Music Awards at the city's Old Fruitmarket on 22nd November 2008. This fabulous prize also includes a 2 night stay for 2 at the luxury Fraser Suites, return transport to Glasgow, dinner at the Corinthian or Arta on the evening of Friday 21st November, a 2-hour snowboarding or skiing lesson at SNO!Zone Braehead and £250 spending money.Get voting now!


The Tartan Clef Music Awards are held each November in Glasgow to recognise and celebrate music talent. Last year's winners included Franz Ferdinand, Biffy Clyro and Amy Macdonald, and for 2008, the event is set to be bigger and better than ever.


The Awards are part of a major fundraising programme in support of the charity Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland. The charity helps children and adults with a wide variety of special needs to improve their quality of life through a range of music-based therapeutic treatments.


To find out more about the Tartan Clef Awards and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland and how you can offer your support see www.tartanclef.org

Highest myspace chart positions to date...

Well what can we say folks another first for Beecake.We are Number 1 both in the myspace unsigned (yes...still unsigned) Alternative and Rock chart's...a great achievement i'm sure everyone will agree...thank you again to everyone who visits our myspace and supports us from all over the world...we are lucky to have you and we will keep doing what we do...making music...because it's fun and we love doing it,that's the bottom line.

We have also hit new highs on the UK unsigned chart and World Wide unsigned chart...in fact all of the unsigned (did we mention still unsigned) charts.To make things a little sweeter you may have noticed we have also had over 2 Million plays and on our way to over 2 Million views...it's turning out to be a great week for Beecake and everyone (thats you) involved with the band.

Any A & R people out there...you know where to find us!

Myspace charts for 24/25th April 2008

No 1 UK ALT
No 1 UK ROCK
No 2 UK UNSIGNED
No 7 World Wide ALT
No 11 World Wide ROCK
No 36 World Wide UNSIGNED

John,Rick,Billy & BJ...

BEECAKE

MYSPACE UNSIGNED CHARTS FOR 13TH APRIL,2008

Well folks we're up there again,thanks to everyone who keeps coming back for more.

Beecake positions:
U.K. ALTERNATIVE -  No1
U.K. ROCK -  No2
U.K. UNSIGNED -  No6
WORLD WIDE ALTERNATIVE -  No16
WORLD WIDE ROCK -  No29
WORLD WIDE UNSIGNED  - No88

NEW ENTRY IN THE WORLD WIDE UNSIGNED AT No 88

Hope you all enjoy our photos from our last two recording sessions (now posted within our pictures section)...we had a blast!

 

BEECAKE

BEECAKE MYSPACE UNSIGNED CHART FOR 8TH APRIL 2008

No 1 U.K. ALT
No 3 U.K. ROCK
No 7 U.K. UNSIGNED
No 19 World Wide ALT
No 32 World Wide  ROCK

Thanks to everyone who visits our page and samples our tunes...we love making music together,we have fun doing it and enjoy playing live together and to be so successful on the myspace charts is credit to everyone involved with Beecake,we know we have great fans/supporters (lets face it the best) and we thank every single one of you who comment and message us on a daily basis...We hope you continue to enjoy our music and hope to have some new songs on our player in the not to distant future.

Cheers from the four of us.

John, Billy, B.J. and Rick.

BEECAKE

The Wickrman Festival 2008 will be held on the 25th & 26th July,08 and as you may already know BEECAKE will be performing this year...for more information on this years festival please go to www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk .

Here is some information that may answer some of your questions, any others please consult the relevant page within thier website.

Information kindly provided by The Wickerman Festival 08 website:

The Wickerman Festival takes place at East Kirkcarswell, near Dundrennan, South West Scotland, down the A711 and just over an hour’s hop from the M74. 

2008 Weekend Etickets - £75 (+ booking fee)
Including car parking and camping for the full Weekend.

2008 Saturday Etickets - £50 (+ booking fee)
Including car parking and camping on Saturday 26th July only.

As in previous years Children 12 years and under go FREE! 

Caravans & Campervans will be charged at £20 per van.

International Purchases

For international purchases please email support@skiddle.com

The Do’s

PLEASE DO attend.

PLEASE DO remember your ticket (unfortunately we will not issue replacements)

PLEASE DO remember that the gates close at 23.00, so we urge you to arrive safely and in time unless you want to wait in a holding bay until the gates reopen at 09.00 the next morning.

Gate opening hours:

Thursday 24th July: 12.00 – 23.00

Friday 25th July: 09.00 – 23.00

Saturday 26th July: 09.00 – 23.00

Anyone arriving out with these times will be asked to wait in holding bay until the gates reopen (with the exception of Saturday when gates will not reopen).  No one will be allowed access into the car park, campsite or indeed the main arena.

PLEASE DO park your car in the designated area and by this we do not mean the campsite. Anyone naughty enough to attempt parking in the campsite will find that the offending vehicle has been towed.  The same principle is true for abandoned vehicles.

PLEASE DO remember that the caravan and campervan field is for caravans and campervans only (the clue is in the name) and as such please do not pitch tents within this area. Both this and the above rule are put in place for health and safety reasons, not to try and spoil your fun.

PLEASE DO obey the NO GLASS on site rule; whether it is your booze, coffee jars/tables, drinking receptacles or indeed ketchup bottles, the rules are the same (optical aids or spectacles are the only exception to the rule). We are very strict on this as we must bear in mind the safety of the wonderful people inhabiting the site for the weekend and the wonderful animals who inhabit the site following the festival.

PLEASE DO leave any animals at home. Unfortunately they are not allowed on site, this includes dogs, cats, gerbils, horses & goldfish!  Anyone arriving with an animal will be turned away at the gate and should any animals be found on site both they and their owner will be removed from site at the owner’s expense.  No refunds will be offered in any case.

PLEASE DO remember to pack for all weather conditions. Obviously we are all looking forward to the Scottish summer therefore we recommend that you don’t forget to pack warm clothes, wet wipes, condoms (if over 16), sun cream and other essential camping gear.

PLEASE DO leave any valuables at home. We would strongly urge you not to bring any valuables on site but understand this is necessary in some cases and if this is the case please look after them and do not leave them unattended.  The Wickerman Festival cannot be held responsible for any losses or in the worst case, theft.

PLEASE DO make much merriment.

PLEASE DO leave the ceremonial burnings to us by avoiding starting any fires. Fires, like fireworks and pyrotechnics are very dangerous.

PLEASE DO bring a mate.

PLEASE DO dress like a spiv.

PLEASE DO be aware that mobile phone reception is patchy across the site, therefore, we would strongly suggest that should you need to speak to someone over the course of the weekend you bring everyone on your contacts list with you. (Most major networks have coverage somewhere on the site, finding out where is the fun part).

PLEASE DO support the British potato industry by eating prawn cocktail crisps for your starter and beef crisps for your main course!

The Don’ts

PLEASE DON’T carry alcohol into the main arena (alcohol can be carried into and consumed in the campsite), please make use of the fine refreshment establishments in the main arena should you feel a thirst.

PLEASE DON’T bring generators onto the campsite as petrol and tents are a bad combination.  In addition the noise of a small generator is very intrusive.

PLEASE DON’T bring amplified instruments or sound systems onto the campsite.  As square as it seems some people use their tents for sleeping, you will find a whole host of musical entertainment in the main arena.

PLEASE DON’T bring any fireworks or pyrotechnics. They are strictly prohibited and indeed rather dangerous especially if you or your party have partaken of some fizzy pop. Anyone found in breach of this rule will be escorted from the site without refund.

PLEASE DON’T forget it is a festival and as such you are there to have fun - we see it is as our job to do all we can to ensure that!