Archive for May, 2010

Free sugardrum EPs to download

Friday, May 14th, 2010

sugardrum - where once were roads
I’ve got a new EP coming out on iTunes, amazon and about a dozen other sites next Friday called ‘Where Once Were Roads”. It takes about 6 -8 weeks to get your music on these sites and fortunately I had just enough time to get everything ready before I went away to India. Unfortunately I ran out of time to send off any promo CDs, do some kind of gig launching the EP or do pretty much anything to promote the EPs arrival into the big wide world of downloadables.


What I have did time to do though is get my previous 2 EPs available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from the lovely Pondlife Studios website.

http://www.pondlifestudios.com/artist_information.asp?id=83

sugardrum - an absence of friendssugardrum - 1 of 1

here’s a quote from a review losingtoday.com did about them:

…this church like beauty equipped with hushed vocals and the lull of watery guitars is a gorgeously laid back life affirming pop portrait that emerges from its initial fog bound haze into a quietly majestic and measured aching love note. ’Absence of friends’ the title track is without doubt the jewel in the crown, flighty pastoral florets, vocals a la Tim Buckley and a stately fragile persona make this a touching gem in the making, the shy eyed undulating craftsmanship giving way to the sumptuous moments of flowering vibrancy of the beautifully conceived bouquets of Nick Drake like thoughtfulness

Transition Towns

Monday, May 10th, 2010

I recently went to the launch party for my local Transition Town movement. I’d heard the term, Transition Town being used for a while as one of my housemates is an architect involved with this, but I had no idea what it was all about apart from knowing that it’s something eco friendly and generally groovy.

According to their website, Transition Towns is all about…

a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction

So I was right, it is about something eco friendly and groovy. There were all sorts of different ideas being presented at the launch party, among them, sustainable architecture, a food co-op selling locally grown produce, how to make your garden more wildlife friendly and bee keeping.

I didn’t get a chance to speak to the bee keeper but I hope these new bee keepers are being taught how to keep their bees ethically – i.e. to encourage the bees to produce a surplus of honey so the bees aren’t left just feeding on the sugared water that some bee keepers leave them after taking their winter food.

To find out more about Transition towns visit their website at… www.transitionnetwork.org/