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Monday, November 30, 2009 

Hi folks!!!!

Our last gig of the year is fast approaching!!! We will be sharing the stage/floor with these lovely bands across two rooms at The Cockpit on December the 5th -

PULLED APART BY HORSES / CASTROVALVA / FRIENDSHIP / HOLY STATE / DUTCH UNCLES / DEAD CONFEDERATE & SWOUND.

Tickets are £9 each, but don't panic if funds are low! The lovely peeps at the Cockpit have offered the cheaper option of advance paying guestlist, but only if you email here quick: guestlist@futuresoundevents.com (one guest per email)

Alternatively, you can purchase tickets in advance here also:

Jumbo Records - Leeds 0113 245 5570
http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort=&event_id=9237

Crash Records - Leeds 0113 2436743
http://crashrecords.co.uk/online/product.php?xProd=8269&xSec=20

Luna Tickets - https://www.lunatickets.co.uk/event_page.php?eventID=792
See Tickets - http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=436919&userid=%7b19B67DF1-ACBE-45F8-AADB-D51D03BC3882%7d&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch

For further updates as they come, visit: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181100892262&ref=ts

CHICKENHAWK 'REMIX' AVAILABLE
This month also sees the release of the 'Us & Them' compilation. Which includes our new track 'Reverse 2012.' The basic premise being Djs remixing bands songs, in this case Gavron (yes boss) remixing I Hate this, do you like it?' and us taking snippets of some of his tracks, putting them in a blender adding saffron, riffs and hawk and distilling the result.

The compilation is free and will be available in music shops across Leeds as well as on the front cover of the next 'Vibrations' magazine. A snippet will be available very soon on our myspace, keep your eyes peeled for now 'enjoy' a video diary from the recording http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=11139193&blogId=518442255


NEW ALBUM IN THE MAKING
Finally, we have lots of plans for next year including some very special tour supports we will be announcing next year. Some new releases, but most importantly a NEW ALBUM! Currently in the making, we are pretty much half way through to completing it! Watch out in 2010 - the year of the HAWK!
Hawk

HALLOWEEN LIVE VIDEO
And finally what happens if you mix Chickenhawk with a Carpark on Halloween, the answer is many people kicking the fuck out of each other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE_yC-Ou7rM

Hawk

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Saturday, November 14, 2009 
Hawk Gigs this week:

This week in Hawk land we partake in the following gigs with Fall of Troy

Tuesday 17th Nov Leeds Cockpit w/Fall of Troy

Wednesday 18th Nov Manchester Academy 3 w/Fall of Troy

Saturday 21st Nov The Garage London w/Fall of Troy

 
and the following gigs with Black Elk (ex Icarus Line) on Friday in Leeds now at Santiago's not Brudenell Social club:

Friday 20th Nov Santiago's w/Black Elk


I Hate this, do you like it 20,000 hits!

Our zombie themed video for 'I Hate this, do you like it?' now has over 20,000 hits on you tube, have a goosey gander if you haven't already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2iGSmbaesI

New Hawk track on Djs vs Bands compilation

This month also sees the release of the 'us and them' compilation. Which includes our new track 'Reverse 2012.' The basic premise being Djs remixing bands songs, in this case Gavron (yes boss) remixing I Hate this, do you like it?' and us taking snippets of some of his tracks, putting them in a blender adding saffron, riffs and hawk and distilling the result.

The compilation is free available in music shops across Leeds and on the front cover of the next 'Vibrations' magazine. A snippet will be available very soon on our myspace, keep your eyes peeled, for now 'enjoy' our video diary....


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 

Hawk News #4

 

Hi folks,

 

New Release on DTTR
Chickenhawk are very pleased to announce that the long-awaited Dance to the Radio 4 x 12 Series Vol. 3 is released today! Featuring our previously unreleased new track 'Scorpieau'. Available on 12" vinyl and limited download for one week, you can purchase Vol. 3 here.
 
Last week Huw Stephens was also kind enough to play 'Scorpieau' on his Radio 1 show, he liked it so much, its on this weeks podcast available here.
 

 

‘Us & Them’ Free Compilation
In other news, next month on the front cover of Leeds magazine Vibrations, will be a free cd - 'Us & Them' - a bands vs DJs style face off. We took some of Gavron's (Yes Boss) loops, added our own parts, mashed it up in the practice room and came out with the track ' Reverse 2012'. Over 2000 copies of the limited Cd will be circulating in and around the Leeds and West Yorkshire area, so keep your eyes peeled, it will be your only chance to hear one of our forth-coming album tracks before its release next year.
 
You can read studios diaries for this recording and look at photos of empty pot noodles here. Videos coming soon....
 

 

Halloween Crossfire

On Saturday we are playing Crossfire's annual Halloween event. This year’s line-up sees the UK debut of Lady Gaga’s DJ Lady Starlight who will be playing a Hair Metal set! In addition to this, the party will see DJ sets from Stereo:type and XFM’s Eddy Temple-Morris as well as ATP and Total Rock Radio. Plus, live performances from ourselves and The Fuckin’ Hate. The event will take place on October 31st at a secret venue in East London.
 
WIN TICKETS AT GLASSWERK.CO.UK HERE IF YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION CORRECTLY:

 

Which of the following is playing the event?

a) Chickenhawk
b) Pigeonsparrow
c) Turkeyeagle

 

Solid innit?


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Monday, October 19, 2009 
Ayup folks,

As it says on the tin. Compliments of Chickenhawk and Artrocker, you can download the track 'Bottle Rocket' absolutely free from their website here:

http://www.artrocker.com/node/17884

Its a track taken from our previous self-titled album out now on Sound Devastation Records.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009 
Day 1 recording
Location: Ghost Town Studios with Ross Halden in Leeds
Reason: New track 15PETER2012 for 'Us and them' remix compilation album.
 
Ok so the idea behind this new compilation is that bands take songs created by DJs and transform them into something of their own and vice versa. So Gavron (yes boss) is remixing 'I Hate this, do you like it?'
Mr. Gavron sent us excerpts of 4 of 5 of his songs to which we listened to and decide which parts of sections would work as a chickenhawk riff or as part of a song, we then created a song around these parts adding lots more riffs and sections. The final result being a million miles from the starting point we were given.
 
Having recorded with Ross before he knows how we work and vice versa and we know he does a fantastic job, the only problem is that he when we first recorded with him in 2005 he was clean cut, shaved hair hip hop beat making guru, now he resembles Mr. Grunge, this is what recording riffs does to you.............be warned...........
 
Day 1 is Matt Reid day, we arrive at the studios 6:30 on a tuesday, Ross has turned into Mr. DIY and really transformed his studios since we recorded 'Scorpieau' with him a matter of months ago. Matt sets up all his drums and Ross fiddles with microphones while i get down to more important business such as getting the coffee machine to work. Stick is out of it at home ill so we are already a man down.......
 
I have to say we (i say 'we' i really mean ross and we supervised) achieved an awesome drum sound very quickly, previous recording sessions we have fiddled with microphones and room positions for a long time before being happy......
 
I sit in with Matt and create a guide track for guitars whilst he smashes the s h i t out of his drums, again the track seems to come together very quickly as we only really run through the song 4 or 5 times. In the control room listening back to the drum track there is some pretty impressive stuff that Matt plays on this song, it might well even be my favourite Matt Reid drum track he has done with Chickenhawk yet........  Ill try not to ruin it tomorrow.......


Videos, Photos and more to come.........
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 

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DTTR 4X12" COMPILATION FEATURE

We will be appearing on vol. 3 of Leeds local label - Dance To The Radio's recent selection of 12" record compilations. Limited pressings are part of 4 volumes, each including one new song by 4 different bands.

It will feature a new track called 'Scorpieau' recorded at Ghosttown Studios earlier this year as the first song on side A. We have been opening our sets with this one for a while now, so some of you might be familiar with it already, but this will be the first official release of the track. Other bands included on Vol.3 are Esban & the Witch, Olfar & Airship.

Previous bands to feature on Volume's 1 & 2 have seen the likes of Pulled Apart By Horses, Bear Hands & Holy State to name a few. So we're very pleased to be included in the next installment.

To be released on 12" vinyl (with mp3 downloads) on 26th October at DTTR's website, from us direct and in all good record shops.

There will also be mp3's available for one week only commencing on the same date, so if you lack a record player, here is your chance to get it!

Buy here: http://dancetotheradio.bigcartel.com/

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Head over to www.dancetotheradio.com for more information on the release.

thanks,

Hawk.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 

http://www.collective-zine.co.uk/reviews/?id=7046

http://www.voxy.co.nz/entertainment/chickenhawk-or-not-ep-review/905/23583

 

http://www.music-dash.co.uk/releases/release.asp?item=6385

 

http://www.tastyfanzine.org.uk/singles90sep09.htm#Chickenhawk

 

http://www.dieshellsuit.co.uk/article_detail.asp?rID=3936

 

http://www.nme.com/reviews/nme/10805

 

http://awmusic.ca/2009/08/16/chickenhawk-%E2%80%93-a-or-not-ep-review/

 

http://www.rock-metal-music-reviews.com/ep-review-chickenhawk-a-or-not/

 

http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/review/4031/Chickenhawk_A_Or_Not_Ep_Review.html

 

http://www.alterthepress.com/2009/08/album-review-chickenhawk-or-not-ep.html

 

http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10975/

 

http://dieshellsuitdie.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-chickenhawk-or-not_30.html

 

http://glasswerk.co.uk/reviews/national/8509/Chickenhawk

 

http://www.cerebralmetalhead.com/2009/09/chickenhawk-or-not-ep-brew-2009.html

 

http://www.hellridemusic.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=20713

 

http://www.diskant.net/blog/2009/09/06/chickenhawk-a-or-not-cd-single-brew-records/

 

http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/album/chickenhawk_aornot.php

 

http://www.rockmidgets.com/releases.php?&id=3735

 

http://musosguide.com/chickenhawk-a-or-not/7013

 

http://thesonicminefeild.blogspot.com/

 

http://www.clickmusic.com/articles/12094/Chickenhawk---A-Or-Not.html

 

http://www.organart.demon.co.uk/neworgan307.htm

 

http://www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=154&t=7206

 

http://www.losingtoday.com/tales.php?id=296

 

http://www.metalinside.it/RECENSIONE09chi.HTM

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Monday, September 07, 2009 
The wait is over. The Chickenhawk mega zombie epic video is here!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2iGSmbaesI




Feel free to embed it on your site / blog / anywhere!

Shot in four days over a three week period, the Chickenhawk music video/zombie epic pulled together hundreds of people and created a community based blood fest that Leeds had never seen before. The project was designed to not only be a vast scale, but living(dead) proof that a high level of film production can be achieved with a small budget, as long as you keep your hanging eyeballs on the cash and the ambition.

Written and directed by NME Photographer Danny North and developed by Roach Productions, the video spent three months in pre-production creating a story that could be loyal to influences such as Day Of The Dead (2002), 30 Days of Night and 28 Days Later, but still be maintained in the confines of a music video. Modern zombie horror cinema saw a change in the pace or horror and this had a massive influence on the styling of the film.

The whole film was shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire with local locations including the huge open space in Hyde Park and the Brudenell Social Club. The locations that were selected all suited the grittiness and bleak apocalypse of the lo-fi style whilst maintaining the accessibility needed between sets. Though no actual sets were built, the idea behind the use of the open sets was to add to the increasing fear element of it being just like everyday life.

To coincide with the series of videos the band has been involved with the A.Or Not? EP is officially out this Wednesday!

The A.Or Not? EP is the first Chickenhawk release on Brew and a follow up to their S/T debut album. These tracks lead the way towards a new album and plenty of touring. All tracks were recorded, mixed & mastered by Jason Sanderson (The Plight, Rolo Tomassi, Mirimar Disaster, Azriel, The Freezing Fog). Chickenhawk will be touring the UK in September, October and November.

Tour dates at www.myspace.com/chickenhawk

EP available at all good UK record stores or order online now:

http://brewrecords.bigcartel.com/product/brw008-chickenhawk-a-or-not-enhanced-ep-cd-dl

Exclusive EP / t-shirt combo’s are also available:

http://brewrecords.bigcartel.com/product/brw008-chickenhawk-a-or-not-enhanced-ep-cd-dl-t-shirt

“Yorkshire’s premier new rock n roll terrorists” - NME

thanks for looking!!
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Friday, September 04, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Hi folks,

We have been featured twice in the latest NME (September 09) with a live review from this years Reading / Leeds Festival PLUS we are No.6 out of 10 'tracks that must be heard', the track being 'I hate this, do you like it?' off our new EP released TODAY!

Also, the icing on the cake being Artrockers 'Recommended' band of the month. We're all pretty stoked about this, as Artrocker say, they don't recommend to many bands like this!

Get yourself down to our EP and video launch erm...tonight!

Thanks for all the support!

Hawk x
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 
Directed by Danny North and Roach Productions online now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF28gImteNg


enjoy

x
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