Just a quick update on the recording... It's going a little slower than we'd like due to other distractions but it's getting there. The first phase is almost complete, and the backing tracks are nearly done, just a few more bits to do. This means that in the next few weeks we'll be heading to the rehearsal studio to practice the songs, to make sure we can play the songs along to the defined structures...

More to follow, but in the mean time you can listen to our previous recordings which we've now uploaded to Grooveshark and Blip.fm, along with the places they were up before.

We've been a bit quiet of late, but we've also been busy. And so to keep you abreast of our goings on here is a brief bit of news...

We've been planning some rehearsals in order to head in to a recording studio in the summer with the view to recording an album. So far we've put together our favourite songs into some kind of coherent running order, which we think flows rather nicely, and soon we'll be laying down backing/click tracks. Once that's done we'll do some rehearsal with these tracks to make sure everything is in tip-top shape, and then we'll be ready to start recording the drums. From there everything else should hopefully flow...

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our performance at Club Fabulous next week (25th Feb) due to our drummer having sustained a serious back injury. We’re sorry to disappoint those who were looking forward to seeing us.

Hello all,

Just a little announcement of our next gig date. It as the title of this post suggests it is on the 25th February.It is at The Fiddler's Elbow, 1 Malden Road, Camden NW5 3HS. The venue can be found on this here map

Entry is £5, and we'll be performing with the following bands:

The Peppermint Apes
Kudabox
The Messengers

Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm or Kentish Town

http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
http://www.myspace.com/thepeppermintapes
http://www.clubfabulous.co.uk

It's five days into 2009, so it seems it's a great time to wish you all a Happy New Year. I hope everyone had a good holiday season, whatever you were celebrating (or not celebrating as the case may be). Also thanks to all those that have given their support, in whichever way this has been.

Anyway pressing on, I think the usual thing to do is give an overview of how the last year went,  what we were up to, and what we plan for the coming year. I'll be brief: in short the last year was pretty good for us Wizards, playing a few gigs around London, and even managing a brief summer excursion to Tamworth. We also got mentioned in Shindig magazine, a fine publication on psych/garage/folk music. The coming year promises more gigs, and maybe we'll manage to get in to the studio and record an album. So keep an eye, or ear, out...

And that's about it really. Hope to meet you all at one of our future gigs.

Silver Wizard :)

It's been brought to our attention that we've had a mention in the July-August issue of Shindig, a pysch, garage, beat, powerpop, folk magazine. It's just a short piece in a section called "My Generation... Your Generation", written by Phil Istine on new bands to watch out for.

Here's what was written:

"The Silver Wizard Project, also from London, would be included here if only because they have a kraut-psych song called 'Psychedelic Fucking Machine'. The real ale-supping five-piece group seem too rural in appearance for the capital, but then the sound does have a hard, almost metalic edge to the songs that I reckon puts them in the rarely spotted gothic-folk-psych genre. With their violins, theremin, and outlandish stage attire, the 'fairytale rock collective' are most definitely out there on their own, and all power to them for that."

We've got two more gigs lined up:

* SUN 12 OCT - Buffalo Bar (Highbury & Islington), 259 Upper Street, London N1.

Facebook event page -> http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27199812522

* TUES 25 NOV - The Comedy (Leicester Sq.), 7 Oxendon Street, London SW1Y 4EE.

Facebook event page -> http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=38788644760

The Tamworth Herald has a review of our last gig at Spitfire (14/6/08):

"...it was down to out-of-town band The Silver Wizard Project to open up the show.

The band, who had travelled all the way up from London, played a well received and performed set of psychedelic folk rock, containing ancient poems revived from years gone by and other off-the-wall ideas.

The combination of the theremin and violin gave a haunting depth to their sound and, as a whole, they produced something entirely different for a local show."

http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=159430&command=displayContent&sourceNode=244752&contentPK=20901342&folderPk=97158&pNodeId=244756

Sometimes you wake up too early, when you don’t need to get out of bed for hours, and you can’t get back to sleep... yet you are still tired and sleep is needed... but certain words keep spinning in your head... these are the words:

Dance to the beat of a firing squad
Tapping out a horrid tune
The harmony of cash registers
Singing "Death to the World"....

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Ittai xx

We will be playing an event organised by Shot By Both Sides, on 25th March 2008, at the Old Queens Head, Islington.
Lots of great bands..
Giveaways: Fanzines, cakes, mixtapes and more...
Free entry...

We've put up some photos from our gig last week at the Dry Bar, which can be found here.

Thanks go to Tom for taking them.