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Last Updated: 12/1/2009

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City: London
State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 10/26/2005

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Friday, October 09, 2009 

Current mood:  bouncy

Greetings all

Just to remind you - next Wednesday we are having a party to celebrate the imminent release of our debut album! There will be live music from ourselves, alongside the phenomenal Broadcast 2000 and Dry The River, with tunes being spun by the good folk at Black Cab Sessions! Extreme merriment is promised, and we will be selling pre-release copies of our album at a special knock-down price, just for that evening!

The venue is Zigrid Underbelly on Hoxton Square, and it's quite a small place, so pre-booking tickets is a good idea. Click below to do that...

Click for tickets

The record doesn't come out officially until the end of the month but the title track has been doing the rounds on the radio, and one review has already surfaced in Culture Deluxe, which you can read by clicking the quotation...

...one of the most brilliantly realised orchestral pop albums of the year. 9/10.

 

Also - we're playing live on the Dexter Bentley Show tomorrow (Saturday 10th Oct), between 12-2pm on Resonance FM. We'll be performing 3 songs live on the show, and giving a short interview!

See you all next week for the party!

Love Left With Pictures

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music
.. .. Howdy there! Just another reminder that we have our biggest headline show to date on Friday - at The Bush Hall. I don't know if you've ever been to Bush Hall, it's a lovely, lovely place and the evening will be a treat I'm sure - especially given the caliber of the support acts. It's also a HUGE place, too big for small fry like us really, so your support would be greatly appreciated!!

Buy tickets

Some of you may know that we made a last minute appearance at Camp Bestival last weekend. It was BRILLIANT FUN! The journey down was traumatic though. Not only were we hung-over as hell, but the traffic was so bad, we were able to get out of the car and rehearse on the M3...



Thanks to Howard @ The Local for having us down at short notice.

We are also playing a special stage at Big Chill Festival, hosted by the folk at Black Cab Sessions, at which we're playing out of the back of a van! Think we're playing on the Sunday, so come and say hi if you're going.

Finally - our debut album is oh so near to completion, and will be released in the autumn. It's going to be called "Beyond Our Means" and there's another single (1,2,3...go!) coming soon which is now on our myspace page, and will be available to download on iTunes etc very soon. Very exciting!!

All the best for now

love LWP XXXX
Currently listening:
The A To Z Of The Cuban Brothers
By Various Artists
Release date: 2006-03-13
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

Current mood:  happy
Hi all

We're delighted to announce that our double A-Side single - Every Stitch Every Line / Her Father's Nose - is out now.

Click the link on our page to get your copy, on 7" vinyl + CD copy included. There are only 300 - so hurry.

We've been chuffed to bits with the praise we've received for these tracks so far. Here's a few examples below. Thanks to all writers for taking the time to listen and write about us.

REVIEWS
Click on quotations to read the full articles

Left With Pictures have pretty much written the perfect folk-pop song.  Someone should tell Noah and the Whale. - Culture Deluxe

...very accomplished, very sunny, very singalonga and impossible to resist. - Drowned in Sound

Gloriously engaging pop that we really ought to cherish. - The Line of Best Fit

… a timeless melody. Made of the purest honey….the most capturing track of 2009. - MyMusos.com

...they'll have to work hard to match this…A great sign for the forthcoming album. - Pop Musicology

...with its delicately infectious melody and intricately orchestrated backing, it's a track that will radiate on cloudy days and be a perfect accompaniment to summer afternoons. - Loadsafun blog

See you soon!

Love LWP
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics)
By Alasdair Gray
Release date: 2007-05-31
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Monday, April 27, 2009 

Current mood:  breezy
Greetings once again

As you may know we're having a party to celebrate the release of our new double A-side single - Every Stitch, Every Line / Her Father's Nose - on Saturday at The Lexington in London! It should be amazing - The Lexington is great - and we are priveleged to have an excellent bill of support acts joining us. See the flyer below for proof of that....

We'd love it if you all came and joined us. We have an unlimited £4 entry list - so to get in on that reply to this with names and you can consider yourself cheap listed!

SATURDAY 2nd MAY - 8PM
EVERY STITCH SINGLE LAUNCH NIGHT
THE LEXINGTON - PENTONVILLE ROAD, LONDON
(with support from - My Sad Captains - The Outside Royalty - The Riff Raff)

The cheap list doesn't guarantee entry - so to be absolutely sure - pre book tickets here

Click to pre-order tickets

The single itself is out on a lovely limited edition 7" vinyl (300 copies) - but for those who don't have a record player - you get a CD copy with it. It's not in shops until 18th May - but you can buy pre-release copies on Saturday. Huzzah.

A couple of blogs have run pre-release reviews of the single already. Have a look here - and here in which Every Stitch is very generously described as "The most capturing track of 2009 thus far"

Judge for yourself by having a listen on our myspace now.


EVERY STITCH, EVERY LINE / HER FATHER'S NOSE - Organ Grinder Records
limited edition 7" Vinyl (with CD copy included)

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Building Blocks
By Broadcast 2000
Release date: 2008-08-25
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Friday, February 27, 2009 

Current mood:  aroused
Greetings

Our offering to the superb Black Cab Sessions has just gone up. It's our cover of 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson....Have a look at it here if the video below doesn't work!
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Left With Pictures from Black Cab Sessions on Vimeo.

Following us in the cab were a CBS news crew...who also filmed the session, interviewing us and the lovely BCS folk. It was aired last night in the states, and apparently they played our session over the credits....which was very good of them!



If you liked all that...come see us play tomorrow (Sat 28th Feb). We have a free afternoon show supporting Micachu @ Notting Hill Arts Club. Doors 4pm...we're on at 4.30pm. Should be a blast.

More news soon....

Love LWP
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 

Current mood:  blessed
We are thoroughly looking forward to Sunday (30th Nov)...which is the Time Out recommended official launch party for our recent EP "Secretly". Entrance is free, and as there is a very special guest performing....who's identity cannot be revealed....you'll have to come down to find out...needless to say, it's one of our favourite performers and we're very very excited! We realise the EP came out last month, but better late that never!

Not secret, but very special performances will also come from Magic Arm, Sons of Noel and Adrian and Dominic Moran. It genuinely is an awesome line up and we're privileged to have such superb support. It's an all-dayer, and they serve food, so come early to make sure you can squeeze in.


Left With Pictures All Day EP Launch Party
Sunday 30th Nov
@ The Slaugthered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX
4pm - 11pm
FREE ENTRY!


Here's the facebook event page - let us know if you're coming along!



In other news, we recently filmed a live set for the bandstand busking series. These guys have recorded busking sets by the likes of The Wave Pictures and Of Montreal, and it was great fun to do. Go here to see the full set, which also features us performing "Professional Help", "We Clutched", and an interview in which we talk all sorts of nonsense! Here, for your enjoyment, is our cover of Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning".


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Next week we are filming our set for the black cab session series...which we're very excited about. Should be up before Christmas.

Also, we are recording a live radio session next Saturday afternoon on London 104.4 Resonance FM. It's part of Dexter Bentley's Hello Goodbye show. We'll be playing 3 songs live in the studio and "Dexter" will be interviewing us. The show goes out live 12-1.30pm on Saturday 6th December. Non-Londoners can listen live online - so do join us for that.

All the very best, and see you on Sunday at The Slaughtered Lamb!

love LWP XXX

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Glory Hope Mountain
By The Acorn
Release date: 2007-10-08
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Friday, October 10, 2008 

Current mood:  vibrant
Hi all, hope you're well!

First news, our new EP is now on iTunes and all the rest for those who enjoy their music digital!! It's also in these shops for those who prefer it physical...

Rough Trade (London)
Spillers Records (Cardiff)
Piccadilly Records (Manchester)
Norman Records (Leeds)

We thought we'd collect together the reviews our EP has been receiving. Including a rather controversial one from Drowned in Sound! DiS journalist Daniel Ross wrote a very well written, thorough review...and gave the EP 8/10. When it appeared on DiS it had been savagely edited, and given 7/10 - prompting a (albeit minor!) backlash on the user comments board, notably from Daniel himself. Do weigh in with your own protests, always nice to be the centre of controversy!!! It's still a very good review, though it is badly edited; some of it doesn't even make sense. For those interested the full review is at the very bottom of this. But in the meantime....

...see the DiS Secretly Review here and join the little debate!!

Here are the others...click below to read the full articles...will add more as they appear...

"How great is this? ...five tracks stuffed with beautiful harmonies, rustic instruments and Lenin references."
Tim Jonze - The Guardian

"Perhaps the master-stroke of this modest collection of songs is its unpredictability.. each passage in them is distinct from the others, helping to make this a consistently engaging, charming and memorable musical excursion. Keep an eye on these guys - the future's looking bright."
Line of Best Fit - "Secretly" review

"...an enchanting stroke of chamber pop genius."
Line of Best Fit - "Introducing" feature

"Like early Belle & Sebastian, fronted by Euros Childs, and gently exposed to jazz"
Time Out - no link for this, it was in the magazine!

"This is simply one of the nicest pieces I have been allowed to hear this year and even if you are of the R&B or Metallic persuasions I urge you to listen to what great English music can sound like."
Music News.Com

elegantly crafted songs.... lovely arrangments - all swooping oohs and aahs and carefully stroked violins... a cracking little EP!"
The Daily Growl

A gentle, life-affirming if awkward treat."
Culture Deluxe

....Click here to go to the Organ Grinder Shop to buy it!!!





1. Secretly
2. Super-8
3. We Clutched
4. Professional Help
5. Boats

UPCOMING SHOWS:

Sat. 18th Oct.
Octoberfest @ The Cross Kings, York Way - N1 0AX
Facebook Event Page


Monday 20th Oct.
Ill Fit @ The Old Blue Last, Great Eastern Street, London
Facebook Event Page

Friday 24th Oct.
Fortuna POP! Presents The Beat Hotel @ Buffalo Bar, Islington, London

and finally...the real DiS review...

See you soon

LWP XXX


I interviewed Left With Pictures some time ago for DiS, and was very struck by how bright they were. Answers needed no editing for ums or ahs, everything they said was meticulous in its delivery, eloquent and illustrative. Can you see a parallel flying at your face?

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There are so many artists whose press releases nonchalantly fart out phrases such as 'classically trained' or 'baroque pop' or, maybe, 'channelling the majesty of Haydn's sturm und drang period' or something equally flaccid. On almost every single occasion, these claims are included to impress the reviewer and the listener, to foist upon them unjustly the idea that this particular record is that little bit brainier than most, that because these guys know the difference between exposition and development that their complex, terribly rewarding music is just the bollocks. On almost every single occasion, this is terrifyingly wrong, tiresome and, frankly, quite insulting to the listener. Let us judge for ourselves how brainy they are, we don't need to be told to listen out for the string arrangements. And you've use the word 'crescendo' incorrectly.

Left With Pictures are one of the very few examples of the tide turning right back on this rough maxim. A bendy hybrid of early classical chord shapes, very pure pop melodies and brilliant nuances, hilariously correct and satisfying in their deployment, they manage at all times to be terribly aware of how to fill the musical spaces. They can't really be described as a rock act or a folk act or, really, a pop act - they're just an ensemble. They use traditional instruments, but sensitively. The temptation when, y'know, doing one of those records where the singer stands at the front of patronised session musicians and conducts a song that really needs no conducting, is to just use 'an orchestra', 'a string quartet', 'some horns'. Left With Pictures use the right instruments to involve the listener with the right sound, to augment melodies, harmonies and lyrics, they don't just throw everything at it. The arrangements here are expert.

'We Clutched' is a soft tale told in rubato, gently teased into acceleration and finally settling into a dainty dance, all the time carefully letting us hear clarinet harmonies, double bass throbs and a lovely lyric. The chord progression is simple, functional even, but it's the variety of ways in which it is tweaked, the attention to detail in what we're allowed to hear that makes the whole thing special. Similarly, 'Boats' is a tiny miracle of escalations and descents, of fine and pleasingly florid instrumental harmonies and another lovely lyric. I'd never really noticed before that Left With Pictures' lyrics are very poetic, idiosyncratic and conversational without being ridiculous and, at times, quite moving. There's nothing at all bad about a line like "I can't push this boulder from out of the door, could you help me please?"

To bring this all refreshingly into context, it seems that Left With Pictures will have to be a pop band for the sake of practical things like record labels, venues to play live at and the internet, but they know what they are really. They are an ensemble, some musicians and writers and composers that painstakingly arrange their pieces. A more complex description than that would undermine their excellence.

8/10
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 

Current mood:  bouncy
So...we're in Time Out this week. Alongside Oasis! In this little feature they discuss "the pick" of the weeks new tracks....





We were also reviewed very favourably in The Guardian's singles club feature. We particularly like the reference to Last of the Summer Wine! Have a look at that here.

The Guardian also have a free download, as a sneak preview of the Secretly EP, so go here to download your free mp3 of Professional Help.


....while your at it...go and buy the EP from the Organ Grinder Shop!!


over and out

LWP
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The Seldom Seen Kid
By Elbow
Release date: 2008-04-22
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 

Current mood:  accomplished
We are pleased to announce that our new EP - Secretly - is now available to buy via Organ Grinder Records for £5.

We're very proud of these recordings and priveleged to be working with the fine people at Organ Grinder. So...without further ado....

....Click here to go to the Organ Grinder Shop to buy it!!!



"How great is this? ...five tracks stuffed with beautiful harmonies, rustic instruments and Lenin references."
Tim Jonze - The Guardian

"...an enchanting stroke of chamber pop genius."
Line of Best Fit


1. Secretly
2. Super-8
3. We Clutched
4. Professional Help
5. Boats
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As Fools We Are
Release date: 2007-05-22
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 

Current mood:  blessed
The superb online music mag Line Of Best Fit have a feature about us up this week. It features a preview of our forthcoming EP - "Secretly" - and an interview with Toby. They very kindly describe our new record as "an enchanting stroke of chamber pop genius", which instantly puts them in our good books! Go have a look here.

Line of Best Fit also do a free compilation album every month, and our track "Super 8" is featured on the September edition. There's also a track by our label-mates, the superb Fireworks Night. Go here to download that.

That's all for now!

Stu x
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