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5th July 2008 - Press clipping from 'The Cornishman' newspaper
The consensus is that there is something a bit 'Ron Jeremy' about Nigel in this photo... 10th June 2008 - Interview Uploaded For those of you who weren't able to catch us live when we went into the Palm FM
studios for an hour long special last month, we've now managed to
upload the entire session onto the web site for you. To access
the interview just click here.
We've also made the acoustic version of Under The Bridge available too on our sounds page. Plus we've update the whole sounds section so that it will stream for you rather than having to download the track (though you can still do that too). 9th June 2008 - We're all going on a summer holiday Well
we've finally come to the end of our manic run of constant gigging with
our first trip to the Bullers Arms in Brixham. Right on the
harbour-side this will be a great place to play in the summer. It
was quiet as you'd expect for a Sunday night but we kept the locals
happy with a long set including some new numbers. Next time we
play there it will be a Saturday in August so we'll look forward to
that.
We're now going to take a few weeks break before coming back with some great gigs next month. Our first trip to Cornwall at the Lifeboat Inn in St Ives (another harbour venue - we should tour by yacht!), then the Parklife Festival and then our first visit to Exeter's newest, and already the best apparently, music venue - The Zephyr Bar. 25th May 2008 - Parklife 3 Festival (they love a bit of it) As
we exclusively revealed live on the radio last Friday we have been
selected to play at the Parklife 3 one-day festival in Tavistock on
Sunday 6th July. There are some great bands in the line-up so
we're well chuffed to be there.There
are a varied selection of music acts lined up for the main stage as
well as workshops,
stalls, circus performers and much more. It's a
really family friendly festival so put the date in your diary and
come down
for a great day out.
Tickets are £5 for an individual or £15 for a group of 4. See www.taviparklife.co.uk for more details. 24th May 2008 - Indigo Charlie Interview on Palm FM Last night we went in to Palm FM
in Torquay for an hour long special. It's the first time that
we've done something like that and we had a great time. Thanks to
Dom, the evening show presenter, and the rest of the Palm FM crew for
making us feel so welcome.Thanks also to everyone from the mailing list and our Facebook group who tuned in to listen. We've had lots of positive feedback and even a booking as well. It seems that you liked the acoustic version of 'Under The Bridge' that we played. We haven't done anything acoustic before and we only knew about it 20 minutes beforehand so top marks to Richie, Steve and Ian for pulling it off without any rehearsal! If you didn't catch the broadcast then we should have it up on the web site in the next few days. 21st April 2008 - May Mayhem We
know it's been a couple of months since our last update but things have
been so hectic recently with gigs every weekend. When we played
our first gig almost a year ago we never expected that we would get so
busy so quickly - so a big thanks to all of you for supporting us over
the past 12 months.
To celebrate one year of Indigo Charlie we have our busiest ever month
planned for May with 7 gigs crammed in to just 4 weeks, so please come
along and help us celebrate our first anniversary. The gigs
nearest the actual date are at the Creek's End Inn in Kingsbridge (which is always a great night out - those guys just love a party!) and our first visit to Nick's local the Lamb Inn in Silverton, which we're hoping is going to be a bit special too.
After May we take a well earned break for a few weeks whilst various
band members go off on holiday, to festivals, even do some proper work!
But we'll be back in July with some extra special gigs...
21st February 2008 - Indigo Charlie on Facebook People have been asking us
at gigs recently why we aren't on
Facebook. We didn't have any good reason why we shouldn't be
so now we are! Please click here to join our Facebook group.
28th January 2008 - Creek's End Inn We were curious how our
first gig at the Creeks End Inn
in Kingsbridge was going to go. Kingsbridge is a nice town,
the
Creeks End is a nice pub, they haven't really had a 'rock' band play
there before...
We needn't have worried.
In true Indigo Charlie style we went
straight at it from the first song to the last, well you'd expect
nothing less from us! The pub filled up and stayed full with
quite a young crowd in. They were dancing and singing and as
the
night wore on the place was just buzzing, in fact I think they were
having almost a good a time as we were!
Great pub in a fantastic
location with a top landlord. And the
good news if you missed us is that we're booked in for a few more gigs
there this year so keep an eye on our gig
list and put it in your diary.
18th November 2007 - Indigo Charlie For Sale! Have you ever wanted to own
Indigo Charlie? Well now you can. Just visit this web
site
and scroll down to the bottom. We were pleased to learn that
we
were "well handled, regularly wormed and vaccinated" but were more than
a little concerned that we had been gelded last month. Ouch! Many thanks to
one of the guys on our mailing list
for sending us this little snippet of info.
Although
you may not be able to buy the band, you could always do the next best
thing and hire us for your party or special occassion.
25th September 2007 - Need the latest gig info? We know how worried you are
that there might be an Indigo Charlie gig
in your home town and you're not the first to know. Well now
you
can find out as soon as a gig is announced (often before half the band
know about it!) by using the Gig Alert function on our favourite
listing site, Lemonrock.
Just go to lemonrock.com/indigocharlie
and click on 'Alert Me'
at the bottom of the page. You can then have alerts sent
direct
to your email or even your mobile - pretty nifty! You do need
to
register with lemonrock for this feature but no worries because it's
free.
We've got a lot of new bookings coming up so this is an ideal way to keep up to date. 29th August 2007 - And the award goes to... We've been made 'Artist of the Week' by lemonrock.com!! Okay, so we know it's not a Brit Award or anything but it's the first time anyone has given us anything (except maybe a free pint) so we're secretly quite chuffed about it. 15th August 2007 - Put The Needle On The Record We have finally, finally
got around to recording a couple of tracks for the web site.
It's
very much a 'home' recording but you never know, we might get into a
studio one of these days...
Please go over to our Sounds page and have a listen. Don't forget to let us know what you think! 2nd August 2007 - In the Summertime Well
it has finally stopped raining so that means that it must be
summer! Assorted band members are away on holiday throughout
August and September but the diary is already starting to fill up
nicely for the rest of the year with bookings in some new venues.
Check out the gigs page for details.
We're planning on making good use of the summer months though to add some more songs to our set. We've had a few requests at gigs and we've put in some suggestions of our own to come up with the list below. What do you think? Let us know your thoughts and help us to pick ten new songs from this list: 3rd July 2007 - Bowled Out We're sorry to say that our
upcoming gig at The
Bowling Green
has been cancelled. The pub will not be hosting bands through
the
summer but will be starting up again when the students return for the
autumn term. We know that lots of people have been waiting
for us
to play in Exeter so we're busy trying to get an alternative gig sorted
out.
2nd July 2007 - Monkey See, Monkey Do Last
night was the first night of the smoking ban so it was nice to get home
stinking of nothing more than sweat and beer (how appealing)!
It
was also our first night at The Brass Monkey
in Teignmouth. A warm welcome from landlords Bob and Jan and
an
enthusiastic welcome from the locals was a good way to kick off the
start of live music at this great little pub. I'm sure it
will
soon be a firm fixture on the local live circuit.
When you play a venue for the first time you hope that the management like what you do and invite you back at some point in the future. We must have done something right because were going back there again this Sunday! 17th June 2007 - Pant
Throwing in Exmouth
We've just played our first
gig in Exmouth at the Famous Old
Barrel.
This was a good venue and we even had the benefit of a stage
-
albeit only 6 inches high. The first set was well received but it was
after the break that things really got moving with some of the most
mental dancing that we've yet to witness!
Some
other firsts included our first travelling fans, although I suppose if
you lived in Basingstoke it wouldn't take much to get you down to
Devon... We also witnessed what we hope will be something of
an Indigo Charlie
trademark - pant
throwing.
Richie was the lucky recipient of pair of ladies smalls that
were
anything but! He thinks its because he's the youngest and
best
looking, the rest of us think it's just because he's at the front and
is easier to reach! So if you're coming to see us in the
future,
be sure to pack a spare pair...
All in all another good night and we'll definitely be back here again. 28th May 2007 - Singing in the Rain What
a night we had last night! Booked to play at a 40th birthday
party, we were all set for our first open-air gig. There was
a
sizeable marquee complete with heaters, lights, glitterball and smoke
machine - the poshest tent we've ever been in. Then there was
the
rain - gallons of the stuff, all night long. Not to worry
though,
the marquee held up and, with the additon of a few plastic sheets to
our usual gig rig, the show went ahead as planned.
The
dancing started with the first song and never let up. The
'dancefloor' slowly turned to mud but nobody cared. It was
like a
little bit of Glastonbury come to Exeter! We had a great
night
and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, as did all the guests. We
don't
know how we managed to play for so long and so loud without any of the
neighbours phoning the police but we'd like to think that they were
enjoying it too!
23rd May 2007 - Up and Running A big thank you to everyone
who came down to The Yacht Club in
Teignmouth on Saturday to support us in our first performance.
It
was a nice little venue and it was good to see so many people enjoying
themselves. We were pleased with how it went and have been
very
flattered by the feedback we've received. We hope you'll come
back and see us regularly over the coming months and years.
We must have been doing
something right because we've already picked up
a couple of further bookings from people who were in the audience and
have had some positive reviews posted on the Lemonrock web site.
You can read
them here.
If you were at the gig and would like to write a review, click here. 13th May 2007 - The Final Countdown (no we don't play it!) Preparations for our debut
gig at The
Yacht Club, Teignmouth are well advanced. After
months of rehearsal and the hard slog of learning almost 30 of the best
rock and indie tracks we just want to get out there now and play.
This is a closed gig to a specially invited audience but if you talk to us nicely I'm sure one of the guys can slip you an invite. |
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