Hello



I just looked out of the window, and it's snowing!  I have a friend in Australia who has never seen snow, and sitting here now I find that a hard concept to grasp. Brrrr.

 So we come to the end of the year-again. Where on Earth did the time go to? The months have just flown past us, and I feel slightly cheated if I'm honest. Someone changed the scenery when my back was turned and now it's snowing when it ought only to be summer. Or something. But not Christmas time, anyway. Still too much to do!

 So if you are in Glasgow or nearby, we are having a Christmas Party at The Admiral Bar on Waterloo St this coming Wednesday night, the 23rd December. Also playing is RM Hubbert (who will be selling his beautiful new record and book. All hand-bound and featuring illustrations and prose from some of his closest friends), Burnt Island and Olympic Swimmers as well as us of course. Davey can't make this show so instead we have asked Kim Moore from Zoey Van Goey to join us for some songs and lovely it's sounding, too! Jonny is playing guitar and drums at the same time, it's a wonderful thing.
 Also, Dave Gow of Sons And Daughters/Make Love will be playing Christmas tunes for us all and there'll be a raffle, possibly live pass the parcel (maybe, if we can figure out how to start and stop at the same time) and mince pies.

We're starting at 7pm and will run till 1 am so please come down and have a nice time with us all! Any questions, just ask. £5 on the door



For those not attending, may I wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and also extend a massive thankyou if you've bought Seven Roads, The Face or both records. You have made us very happy!

Look out for shows in the new year, there'll be plenty



Jxx

Hello!
  
 How's it going? If you're in the U.K, I hope you're safe and dry. The floods are crazy. I went to see 2012 the other night-fricking amazing! Has anyone else seen? My friend's a geologist and even she was impressed, though that might have been more to do with the sexy Russian pilot.
 
 Just wanted to let you know that we'll be having a Christmas party in Glasgow on the 23rd December at The Admiral Bar on Waterloo St.  It's going to consist of slightly Christmas-themed live sets from us, RM Hubbert, Burnt Island and Olympic Swimmers, mince pies, prizes and music to dance/sway/cry/pass-out/drink to courtesy of our guest D.J, Sons And Daughters' Dave Gow. There's also a 1am licence so plenty of time to make merry. Doors are likely to be 7.30pm and we'll be asking £5 on the door. Keep in mind the fact that you might win terrible prizes though so it'll all good value, in the spirit of good will to all men-except for the following:

3 Customer services-total bastards
people who jump the queue in traffic jams
Asus laptops and the people who "fix" such things
Rip-off merchants in general

If you want to add anyone to this list, please let me know and I'll happily oblige.

 We'll also be announcing more shows for next year very soon-in the process of planning a European tour so that's very exciting! More details shortly....

Jxx

just a quickie, you can listen once again to the Vic Galloway Radio 1 session from last week by going here:



 http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/vicgalloway/r1
sessions/strike_the_colours/

 you can leave comments and stuff! And Oxjam last night were great, I discovered Buckfast for the first time.


Jxx

Me AGAIN! My God! It's just there's such alot happening and I don't know where to start....I hope you don't mind.

but Itunes have now got the album up for download here so download away!:


http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=333819947&s=143444


 We went to Manchester yesterday to visit Marc Riley and play some songs on his show. You can listen to us again here, by choosing Wednesday's show from the right-hand listen again column:

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/marc_riley/

The Glasgow launch show is tomorrow night!

Friday, Oct 2nd @ Stereo, Glasgow: w/ Zoey Van Goey and Brother Louis Collective and an aftershow at The Flying Duck. Doors: 7.30pm

Then us and the Zoeys  trot on up to Aberdeen and Inverness for these:

Saturday, Oct 3rd@ Snafu, Aberdeen

Sunday, Oct 4th @ Hootananny's, Inverness


There was something else, what was it?.....think, think. Oh, yeah! We're now on Facebook, here so please add us:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strike-The-Colours/144842770795?ref=ts


I will stop there, I think. I'm going to post up links to all the reviews and stuff the album's been getting because they've all been great but I won't do it now. Too tired! Brain all gooey!

The next time you're in Topshop, though keep an eye out for our video....

a disconbobbulated, knackered but otherwise very contented


Reeve xx

Hello!


 We're back from our London/Shrewsbury jaunt, we had a lovely time! The London show was great. Great audience, promoter, sound-man and venue. We had a really brilliant night, so thank you if you came along and thanks also to Will at Electroacoustic club for putting us and the Zoeys on.
 Shrewsbury was also a fun show, and thank you to Kim from Zoey Van Goey and her family for putting us up, feeding us and plying us with booze as well as putting so much work into promoting the gig. All in all, a great few days! Pictures will be up shortly....

 So we play Edinburgh tomorrow night at The Electric Circus with Zoey Van Goey once again,  also joining us will be St Jude's Infirmary. If you are able, please come along. We'll be selling our new album too!! 

Humm, what else? Well, hopefully by now you'll have seen the video for Breathing Exercise up on Clash music (it's emedded on the Myspace here) and we'll have it up on Youtube, Vimeo etc soon too. Converse music have us on their front page just now, with an exclusive free download of Breathing Exercise so if you go here:


                              www.conversemusic.co.uk

you'll find the feature and the download. Trainers!


 So the album comes out on Monday in record stores across the U.K, on Itunes and on our webshop which you can find by going here:


                        http://www.strikethecolours.com/shop.htm


The webshop link for Seven Roads isn't live yet, but it will be in the next 24 hours. Plus it'll be me that's sending out the records from the webshop so if you buy from us, I will also throw in...I dunno. A surprise. Maybe.

 Some lovely reviews happening, here's one from The List:

          http://www.list.co.uk/article/20985-strike-the-colours-seven-roads/


Ok, so I'll go now and stop sitting around in my pyjamas and go and get some stuff done.

Incidentally, no-one seems to comment on my blogs anymore : - (  Write some random shit, please!! Help a girl out.

More soon, as you'd expect


Jxx

 Just to let you know I've uploaded an acoustic version of Breathing Exercise that Davey and I recorded with Jim Laing the other day. You are welcome to download it-the album version is now available for download from Itunes here:


http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=327783346&s=143444

 I've also uploaded another track from the forthcoming album called Cat, hope you like it!!

 All the live dates and info are now up so have a look and see if you can make any of them! Edinburgh support will be from St Judes Infirmary  and in Glasgow, Brother Louis Collective will be playing too. All these shows are joint-headliners with our friends Zoey Van Goey. All truly excellent bands!
 

Tickets for the Glasgow show are available now from Tickets Scotland: 
www.tickets-scotland.com


We got played on Steve Lamacq's BBC radio 2 prgramme the other night! What a nice surprise that was. Hopefully he'll play us again. The video for Breathing Exercise is coming soon

Arg! Too much information, I feel. I wish I knew how to format these bloody blogs properly. Someone tell me how.

 I'll be back soon with more news in a slap-dash fashion

Jxx

http://www.myspace.com/zoeyvangoey

http://www.myspace.com/saintjudesinfirmary

http://www.myspace.com/brotherlouismusic