July 29th, 2010Californian Machine
The Answering Machine have arrived at the base in Laurel Canyon to start a series of LA dates showcasing both their debut album Another City Another Sorry and also to allow eager West Coast audiences a chance to hear some tracks from their second album due out later this year.
The play a special show at the historic Madame Wongs venue tonight 29th and at the Echo tomorrow 30th. More details on http://www.theansweringmachine.co.uk
July 23rd, 2010Ask Rapids! any question you like
The Rapids! know everything, well they think they do…. Anyway, click over to here and pose them the impossible questions.
July 13th, 2010Rapids! play Guilfest
New Heist signings Rapids! play Guildford’s ‘Guilfest’ on Sunday 18th July at 9.15pm
July 9th, 2010‘Dark Indie’ News from Heist Towers
A wave of excitement flowed through the normally calm cavernous halls of Heist Towers today as time came to tell a drooling world of the newest member of the Heist family, Rapids!
(And for once the exclamation mark at the end of a band’s name falls grammatically correctly at the end of our sentence)
Rapids! play ‘dark indie’ in their own unique style. Hailing from the perhaps un-indie town of Bournemouth, the band have quickly come to the notice of bands and radio alike. Opening shows for the likes of The Chapman Family and Errors, the band have a live show that transfixes audiences. Without any team around them in the early days, the band impressed by gaining notice from Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy and Tom Robinson with Steve Lamacq interviewing Matt Holliday on air on his 6Music show.
Expect the first release from the band in September 2010, in the meantime listen to them on http://www.myspace.com/listentorapids
Heist expects great things from Rapids! even if the exclamation mark does make a mockery of Heist’s previously perfect grammar.
Rumours that Heist signed a band from Bournemouth in the height of Summer just for the free holidays on the south coast are completely unfounded.
July 7th, 2010The Answering Machine go all app on us.
The Answering Machine are pleased to announce their totally FREE app for iPhone users (sorry, androids, symbians, two cans and a string users, no app for you just yet). However for those who are part of the iPhone generation, search for ‘the answering machine’ in the iphone’s app store or go to the band’s spendid iTunes app page as follows.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-answering-machine/id379383212?mt=8
A special prize goes to the one millionth downloader……….
Oh and whilst we are getting all tech’ie on your ass, why not follow Heist on Twitter (@heistorhit) plus The Answering Machine (@theansmachine), LoveLikeFire (@lovelikefire) , The Crookes (thecrookes) and Pomegranates (@pomegranatesart)
June 11th, 2010The Answering Machine – A line in our Life
The Answering Machine at the JD Set courtesy of Shirlaine Forrest
Fresh from completing the tribute to the Buzzocks JD Set on Channel 4 together with Tim Burgess, The Answering Machine are off to the mixing studio next week to start mixing their second album. The album, recorded in Manchester by the band themselves and produced by vocalist Martin Colclough, suggests a mature progression from their first album. The following are Martin’s thoughts on what the band were trying to achieve with their sophomore album.
We ended 2009 with a wonderful feeling in our hearts. We had created the debut album we’d been dreaming of since the band formed. It packed a punch and we believed it captured the boisterous energy of the infancy period of The Answering Machine. We spent the month of November 2009 hanging out in an apartment in Brooklyn, NY, feeling somewhat anxious as to the new direction of the band. As any band will say, the pressure placed on a second album is like nothing else. There’s a sense of finding some middle ground between the start and end product. We explored a few avenues, creatively. Beginning with a raw Sonic Youth-eque track called ‘Winter Without You’. The intensity and passion was there, but we just didn’t feel it reflected where we were at.
At this time, there was a certain sense of anxiety within the band. Not with each other, but more a reassessment of who we are and what we want to be. Something of a mid-mid-life crisis struck me, and the result was a song called ‘3 Miles’, the first track we completed as a band for the new record. It draws on emotions like we never have before in The Answering Machine, and is a ‘heart-on-sleeve’ account of where my head was at. It was also the creative spark we needed, and it triggered an outpouring of ideas and themes that would ultimately shape this second record.
I write this on the final day of tracking. We have produced the record ourselves, something which we felt strongly about. It means alot to me that we have full control over the finished product, as I want people to hear these tracks how we want them to be heard. No egos here, we are just extremely proud of what we’ve achieved.
The band will be assisted in the mixing process by the infamous Manics/Idlewild producer, Dave Eringa who produced their first album. The album is scheduled for release worldwide later this year.
