A Genuine Archive

Behold....

2009-10-08T13:01:00.002+01:00

THE ELEPHANT GRAPE!

It shall be dehydrated until raisin form.

Updates regularly.

Edinburgh

2009-10-01T08:58:00.001+01:00

"'ave you got a problem pal?!"

On my day off...

2009-09-10T14:19:00.002+01:00

I went to see Vienna Ditto. Come and see them with us at the Oakford in Reading this Sunday..

Waf x

Shoes for sale!

2009-09-07T13:39:00.003+01:00

Ahoy,

Right, I', skint. Who wants to buy my shoes?!

Tim x

First-gig-of-the-tour syndrome

2009-09-04T13:27:00.002+01:00

So many things went wrong yesterday, maybe it's best we forget about that one - Chichester can't come fast enough!

At least the first one's out of the way now though, plus Mandog got to break in his new tank top, so it's not all bad news.

Dunce - Day 8

2009-08-02T11:46:00.001+01:00

Kinopo Funhouse

2009-08-01T16:06:00.001+01:00

Mandog - Day 7

2009-08-01T15:19:00.001+01:00

Wounds

2009-08-01T03:04:00.000+01:00

2009-08-01T01:37:00.000+01:00

Producers Rollie

2009-08-01T00:48:00.000+01:00

Mandog at work

2009-08-01T00:15:00.001+01:00

More Bass

2009-07-28T21:42:00.001+01:00

Bass Day.

2009-07-28T19:42:00.004+01:00

Day three.
Adding some bass to the mix. We got five songs down, so four to go.
Roll on Wednesday.

Drums 2

2009-07-27T16:37:00.001+01:00

Drums

2009-07-27T14:53:00.000+01:00

Mewsic that i've been liking...

2009-07-05T13:37:00.005+01:00

Erm, I'm making a list of music I've heard so far this year that I've liked. Some famous, some not so.

Some are albums or EP's, some our single tracks. There's no boundaries here.

I think I will update this list as and when I remember something good!

Check this lot out using your music stealing/previewing weapon of choice. I'm more of a Spotify man myself :)

Regina Spektor - Far
Mew - Introducing Palace Players
Vienna Ditto - Dang
Cats and Cats and Cats - A Boy Called Haunts
Dry the River - The Chambers and the Valves
Tim and Sam's the Tim and Sam Band - Summer Solstice
Lady GaGa - The Fame

Waf x

Cats podcast

2009-06-30T22:07:00.002+01:00

Hey team,

Our friends Cats and Cats and Cats have recorded a podcast for Small Town America Records and were lovely enough to play 'Holding Hearts' towards the end. Yay!

Their record is due out in September, make sure you catch them live as they are sensational!

If you plan it carefully, you'll probably catch us and them on the same bill sometime soon ;-)

Tim x

2009-05-25T14:24:00.000+01:00

Hey team,

Hurrah for Brighton and all who squashed into a tiny space and made us feel like kings!

That's the first time we've played 'Hopscotch' live so we have now played everything from the forthcoming 'Oftentimes' album.

Speaking of playing live, we are playing at the Louisiana in Bristol THIS SATURDAY with The Northwestern and Tripwires.

We will be playing 'Hopscotch' again but this time with vocals. Two vocals, in fact. Which means one of two things: either Simon is singing again or we have a guest vocalist...

Advance tickets from www.bristolticketshop.com

This is our last show outside of London until September, so make the journey to the West Country for what promises to be blinder!

Then it's back into the studio. Some more exciting stuff coming your way soon...

Waf x

2009-05-18T18:02:00.000+01:00

Hi all!

Here's an update of what's happening in Freakshow Land.

Last week we enjoyed ourselves playing at Katie Fitzgerald's, Stourbridge. Thanks to any of you who came along and gave us such a great reception. We always have a great time there!

The album's ticking along but there is still lots to do! Strings should be all finished next week, then it'll be Tim's turn to add vocals before we tidy up any loose ends. We're practically buzzing with anticipation about it and are very proud of how it sounds so far. Watch this space for more news!

We will all meet sometime this week to work on some new material, including a cover!! So look out for that as well...

Upcoming shows:
The Druids, Brighton this Sat, as part of the Nice Weather for Airstrikes Festival. It's free. Need I say more?
Bristol Louisiana Sat 30th May supporting The Northwestern (ex Hope of the States). This will be a stonking show so do not miss it! Also playing are Tripwires, who are good friends of ours.

That's all for now!
Love

Mel Freak x

Bristol show announced

2009-04-29T14:11:00.000+01:00

Hello,

We will be playing with The Northwestern (Ex Hope of the States) and Tripwires on the 30th May at the Lousiana in Bristol.

Tickets avaiable from http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/

Or e-mail us for a cheap list place for £5 info@agenuinefreakshow.com - please e-mail, don't myspace!

Waf ski x

Twitterific!

2009-04-29T13:50:00.000+01:00

Ahoy sailors,

Join us on twitter, www.twitter.com/agenuinefreaksh

Real time Freakshow updates/nonsense!

Thanks to everyone who came to this weekends shows in Reading and Chichester, we hope you enjoyed it, you certainly seemed like you did!

The venue manger in Reading gave us free drinks because we looked angry during sound check - we neglected to tell her we always look annoyed and feasted on free cider. Hurrah!

Album update:

We are continuing work on the album this weekend, so far we have drums, bass, trumpet, cello and violin committed to tape. So it's guitars next!

The artwork is still in development but is coming on leaps and bounds, we're working on something very special, you're going too love it!

Hope you are all well,

Waf ski x

Trad Films - Tim Emmett

2009-04-28T01:25:00.000+01:00

Trad Films - Tim Emmett

Reading Uni gig

2009-04-22T14:39:00.000+01:00

Reading Uni 3Sixty Bar: Students get in free, or £2 for those with a printed flyer!

Click on the flyer to be Linked to the Facebook event page and check the other bands, they are awesome!

Hope to see you guys there!

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T10:45:00.000+01:00

Hey ho everyone!

Apologies for no pictures or updates recently. We have been away recording 'Oftentimes' and there was no internet. But there was a lama farm and a pub!

Pictures to follow this week!

Thank you to the lovely people who came to see us in Kingston last night, most notably the people who saw is Holland. You're all lovely people.

Tonight we play the Oakford Social club in Reading with Vessels, stage time is 8pm. Come one down and watch us tear our way through our new record!

Waf ski x

we are busier than we let on...

2009-04-04T12:03:00.000+01:00

mostly ghost hunting!

next week we should be able to upload some pictures of the 'magic' happening with dan lucas.

'magic' - ha ha!

waf

Track from first ever EP uploaded!

2009-03-26T15:09:00.001Z

Hello,

To celebrate the recording of our new record, i've uploaded a song from our FIRST EVER DEMO!

'The Horrible Truth' was recorded in 2006.

it was recorded as part of what ended up being a 6 or 7 track record that we of course made by hand :-)

We made them to order so please don't ask us for copies! There used to be a download but i don't think that still exists.

i'd upload something from 0.008% but i know you've all already illegally downloaded it anyway :-)

We have a few other 'old' gems kurking around, you might get another, unless simon stops me from uploading them :-)

enjoy our youthfullness

waf ski x

Home demos saved!

2009-03-26T14:27:00.000Z

Hurrah!

i thought my computer had died and gone to jesus, but i have saved it!

along with 4 years worth of home demos, including the very first versions of our new stuff: we are the undercurrents, new houses, holding hearts, jacob and i can feel his heartbeats. Includes drumming by the folky folkster matthew taylor.

NOT the portsmouth midfielder. The acoustic jangler.

Safe as houses

Safe as new houses

Waf x

Radio 2

2009-03-25T14:08:00.003Z

As an aside, Steve Lamacq (spelling?!) played 'New Houses' on Radio 2 a few weeks ago.

How ace is that?!

Waf x

holland!

2009-03-25T14:04:00.001Z

Ok,

so,

What am i supposed to write?!

Where am i meant to start?

Thank you to Erik, Graham, Sam, Tim, Lucy, Jonno and everyone else involved.

I think the show is best explained in pictures and video, we will post links very soon!

Never ones to blow our own trumpets...

2009-03-19T13:44:00.000Z

(except for dunce)

But more than happy to let others do so!

We've been playing material from 'Oftentimes', and it seems to be going down pretty well:

http://thefourohfive.com/2009/03/06/hooked-on-music-presents-cats-and-cats-and-cats-the-lexington-260208/#more-8840

http://www.buckleuppromotions.com/V1/?p=1150

Happy birthday too me :-)

We're going to Holland tomorrow and then we start recording 'Oftentimes'! See you at the Peelin in Kingston on the 11th for AdCat's last show with Cats x 3.

Waf ski x

BBC, Staines, Holland

2009-03-13T13:53:00.000Z

Ahoy!

For the ease of reading, this blog will be in sandwich form with a drink:

Slice of bread with mayo:

We are on BBC Berkshire this Sunday at 7pm. They play songs, a nice lady asks us questions, we answer nervously, we reveal artwork secrets etc.
Also included on this show are Vienna Ditto. More about them later.

Filling of your choice:

We are playing in the Hobgolin, Staines on Sunday night. You should come.

Slice of bread with mayo:

Next Sunday we are playing in Holland with Marillion. Usuall we play too 100 - 200 people.
The Marillion show is sold out. 3,500 tickets.
Sweet mother of God.

Glass of orange juice: Your going to want to buy our new record, there's so many extras, you're going to looooooooooooooooooooooove it!

Waf ski x

Free Cd's

2009-02-28T16:39:00.000Z

You would not believe how many different countries we've sent CD's too. Here's a picture of one in Peru

:-)

Waf x

London and new shows

2009-02-28T10:48:00.000Z

Word up team,

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Lexington on Thursday, it was great too see so many people there and what a fantastic night of music!

Apologies for our averageness, we are still working on the new material and its taking time to develop it, so thank you for being so kind to us, we hope you all enjoy the free cd's that went within about 30 seconds of their announcement!

We have added a few new shows to our myspace list:

11th April - The Peel in Kingston supporting Cats and Cats and Cats. More news on why you HAVE to come to this show will be announced sooooooooon....

24th April - Reading Uni - This is not properly confirmed yet.

23rd May - Nice Weather For Airstrikes Weekender thingy in Brighton

Festival news soooooooon!

EP release and pre order dates soooooooon!

Artwork news soooooooon (We're REALLY going to town on this one)!

Download info sooooooon!

Sheryl Crow cover neverrrrrrrr!

Waf x

We've made progress!

2009-02-24T11:59:00.000Z

Hurrah,

For two reasons:

a) mulled wine
b) the recording of full band demos

So we set up with our chum Erik on sunday night and recorded 6 songs that are up for inclusion on disc one of our new EP 'Oftentimes':

Jacob - Instrumental inspired by a mythical(?) tv character who lives in a shed that moves. Possibly through time travel.

She's got a shooter - An 8 minute epic about dissarming your loved one. We often end with this.

I can feel his heartbeats - The single, the 3 minute, throw away, pop sensation of 2009.

Our bodies - A love song. Huge sounding, almost uplifting, with a beautiful trumpet melody in the chorus.

You cut me out - A dark, brooding, elbow-esque 6 minutes of balladry.

Unitled, unfinished new song - Math pop meets Sigur Ros. Get your dancing shoes on for this one. You're gonna wanna boogie!

It's all still a bit rough around the edges, but it's certainly getting there.

Hopefully this keeps us on schedule for a May/June release...

Waf ski x

London show this Thursday!

2009-02-21T18:29:00.001Z

Hurrah!

Tickets for our London show with Cats and Cats and Cats are in short supply, buy them from here.

As recommended by Time Out magazine.

Lol.

We'll be playing tracks from our new EP 'Oftentimes'.

Waf x

An open letter to Michael Eavis

2009-02-18T14:47:00.000Z

Dear Michael,

We are poor and cannot afford tickets to your festival.

Please book us!

Waf x

Home of the G

2009-02-11T12:15:00.000Z

Checkin' it,

We are playing in the Hobgoblin in Staines on 15th March. Put it in your diaries!

We had some pictures taken on monday night. Make up and everything. Jack looked like he'd been hanging out with the Topshop crowd, all orange cheeks he was! Pics to follow next week I believe.

In other news, if you live in Reading you should make your way down to the Oakford Social Club on Sunday. Fan Farlo and Godwits are playing, both are stupidly good, it's free. I hope to be there. With bells on.

Oh yeah, and we've named the new record. We just need to finish writing it.

Waf ski x

Stourbridge

2009-02-08T21:05:00.000Z

Hey y'all,

We shall be playing at Katie Fitzgerald's in Stourbridge on the 10th May. At 9.oopm.

Guildford - Thank you for having us, it was a lovely night. It was a rare occasion as t'other bands were great! Yearner Babies especially, top stuff that.

We're going to have some photos taken tomorrow. Hmmmmm.

Im going to watch pineapple express now.

Waf x

The derailment of plans

2009-01-31T21:11:00.001Z

Hey up,

Everything is delayed. EVERYTHING.

You'll have to wait, it needs to be better. It needs to be more sorrowful. It needs more time to breathe.

It won't be an album. But it will be tied with string.

And there's a 50% chance of candle wax.

There's a 10% chance of positivity.

There's an 85% chance of nothing, no one, no how.

It will make you c r y.

I don't want to watch casualty

fin

London tickets!

2009-01-27T17:54:00.000Z

Hello

Tickets for our London show with Cats and Cats and Cats our available from here.

They are like, the most musically sexy band i've ever had the pleasure to share a stage with. So, anyone who hasn't should check them out and donate them some cash to pay for the album they've just made!

The show is promoted by Hooked on Music, who often promote shows with stellar line ups so worth checking there website out if you are a Londonite.

Waf x

A couple of things

2009-01-25T21:09:00.000Z

HI!

These are they:

Thank you to Oxford. What a lovely way to play our first show for 3 months. It was so lovely to see so many people and we thank you for the reception you gave us. And that was our first ever encore! We'll remember last night for a while. With so much writing and rehearsing for the new record and so many changes afoot it was nice to finally get out and play!

Guildford - We are now coming on the 5th Feb. Construction of the mega dome has been postponed until further notice so we'll be playing at the Boiler Room instead. It's an Ep launch for the headline band so we'll post a link to their stuff in the next few days.

Lost. It freaking back man!

Heads up to Ute who we all agreed were fantastic last night. Some people just don't know a good thing when they hear it...

Waf x

Guildford is no more

2009-01-22T21:02:00.000Z

Check it,

Due to a venue change, we are no longer playing in Guildford.

We have decided to wait until the Guildford Mega Dome opens in June instead!

Waf x

More UK shows

2009-01-20T19:46:00.000Z

Hurrah for mulled wine!

We have confirmed some more UK shows:

Latest list:

24th Jan - Oxford, Jericho Tavern
5th Feb - Guildford, Platform 9
26th Feb - London, The Lexington supporting Cats and Cats and Cats
12th April - Reading, Oakford Social Club supporting Vessels
10th May - Stourbidge, Katie Fitzgeralds

We hope to announce more UK shows for May/June.

Does anyone want to tour with us in the UK?

Waf x

A directory!

2009-01-16T17:34:00.001Z

FAcE!

We have a new website - agenuinefreakshow.com

It has links to our myspace, lastfm, our blog and bookface.

This blog will give you news, the website will host the ***** for members of the mailing list, the myspace will have naked pictures of jack, and the bookface. well. im not sure what that's for.

If you're reading this and you haven't signed up to the mailing list, e-mail info@agenuinefreakshow.com with subject 'i am a gold statue'.

Waf x

Oxford group

2009-01-10T15:48:00.001Z

Ahoy!

There is a facebook group for our show in Oxford you can join it by clicking here

f a c e b o o k!

Zig a zig ahh!

Waf x

New shows...

2009-01-08T15:27:00.000Z

Hey hey,

It's with great pleasure that we can confirm our first ever show outside of England!

We are supporting Marillion at their Marillion Weekend 2009 in Port Zelande, Holland on the 22nd March.

You can purchase tickets for the weekend from here.

We have also confirmed a couple of UK shows for Febuary on our myspace page...

Waf x

Oxford tickets!

2009-01-03T16:07:00.000Z

It's worth mentioning that the Oxford show are is over 18's only!

Waf x

Free CD's

2009-01-02T14:36:00.000Z

Happy New Year!

We were inundated with requests for free CD's so apologies if anyone one is still waiting to receive their copy - it should be with you very soon!

I think you can download some other tracks from last.fm as well. You can even hear mandog sing!

Waf x

Best of 2008

2008-12-29T12:27:00.000Z

End of year cheer!

Click here to listen to Tom Robinson's best of 2008 on BBC 6 Music.

Muchos thanks to Tom Robinson who's been lovely to us this year, go listen to him play We are the undercurrents. It'sabout 35 minutes in.

Waf x

Tea party!

2008-12-27T00:43:00.000Z

Welcome to the tea party:

If you live in Europe and are reading this, you should start to get excited about 2009 :-)

If you live in Oxford and are reading this, you should buy tickets to our show on the 24th January by clicking here

If you live outside of Europe you're gonna need to start getting some cash together because we can't afford to go to most of the places that we have been sending free CD's too!

Waf x

Bags of gold

2008-12-18T16:07:00.000Z

Welcome to our new blog.

Daily-ish freakshow related-ish nuggets of gold.

We are rehearsing lots and writing more songs - yessssssssssss!

We have a couple of special things to announce, they will be here first as will our new songs...

Did anyone say album? I think they did.

Waf x

Test

2008-12-17T21:12:00.000Z

I am testing to see if this works.

mandog, can you make it so agenuinefreakshow.co.uk goes to this site?

waf giraffe x