Hey space kittens, February is going ace so far. The new LPs have finally landed and are looking well-tasty featuring cartoon artwork by Jay at http://newgiraffecity.com/ all hand screen printed by the lovely people at http://www.idressmyself.co.uk/ with eco-friendly water based inks onto card. (no of yer plastic nastiness here).
LPs are on CD in a neat little parcel pack and on 12" vinyl. It'll be hitting the online shops from end of March and is also gonna be in a few hand picked record stores in the UK and elsewhere. If you wanna get your hands on an LP earlier than that make sure you get down to the Musci Exchange record store in the west end arcade in Nottingham on Saturday 10th March for our 'shop takeover day' and you can buy one from us! PLUS.. you'll also be able to get a very limited edition compilation CD of artists remixed by Rob Spaceman himself.
And if that wasn't all... we'll be supporting Slow Club down at village underground in London on March 27th.
After a long winter of working in the studio, pressing records and printing sleeves and practicing a brand new live set, we are going public in March! Starting on the 10th of March by taking over The Music Exchange record shop iin the middle of Nottingham where we will be spinning the new LP and some of our favourite tunes on a shiny orange record player & handing out some gingerbread spaceships from 2pm then finishing at 5pm with an acoustic set. This will also be your chance to get %20 of all spaceships merchandise during the day!
23rd of March is the eagerly awaited launch party for the new LP. It'll be at Jam Cafe in Nottingham and there'll be spaceships TV, origami rockets (with a chance to find the golden origami rockets that get you free signed copies of the LP!), and a full band live set of songs from the LP. Gonna be great, be even greater if you come along.
27th March is our first trip to London in quite a while. we are gonna being playing at Village Underground in Shoreditch with some mystery artists! the venue is well worth checking out just for the art studios in converted tube train carriages.
So time moves quickly and we're already onto week 3 of our free download on a Friday season. this week's track is called Gamma Rays and features some eerie string arrangements from our very own Helen maddison. It's also a kinda role over week where the 1st free tune will now be taken off the website to make way for this week's tune. If you're very good we may put these back online at a later date! Happy listening m'dears. x
I Found You To Be is the 2nd of our free download tunes available on (you guessed it) the tunes page. week 1's track is still up there but will be taken down next Thursday as track 3 is posted, so keep downloading to collect them all.
Once you've got them all, send us your preffered running order & we'll send you a customised PDF/Jepg cover.
Greetings space cadets,
starting next week we are gonna be posting a short instrumental tune every Friday for you to download for FREE! It'll be a bit like when you used to get a cheap little plastic toy out of each packet of breakfast cereal back in the good old days. Collect them all to make your own special 'not available in shops' LP!
Buy any spaceships are cool vintage wash t'shirt before xmas and you will get a FREE Heart echoes CD!!!!! how cool is that. It's a limited offer so get your orders in quick!
Be the first to get your virtual hands on the digital release of the new LP 'WE WERE HERE' available now from our favourite online music store: Gogoyoko
http://www.gogoyoko.com/album/we_were_here
Let us know what you think x
It may be cold outside but all is warm and cosy here at Escape pod studios. The new LP 'WE WERE HERE' is now finished and mastered! The LP will feature artwork by New Giraffe city and both CD and Vinyls are being hand screen printed by the lovely people at I dress myself, we are hoping for a physical release in February (digital release should be just in time for the holiday season!).
The big news this month is that we are now proud to have French label Alter-K as our publisher. Rob Spaceman has been working with Alter-K for some time as a remixer (Bernard Fevre, Symboter and NZCA/Lines) so it's now really wonderful to have spaceships officially onboard. All this will mean lots of adventures in France during 2012!
There are just two more live performances until 2012: Rob, Helen and Ben will be playing a special acoustic set at the House of Commons in support of Attitude is everything's 'State of access' report to MPs. It is an absolute pleasure to be part of this campaign to get better access to UK music venues for disabled and deaf audiences because lets face it, some of our venues here in the UK are rubbish!
The second (and last) gig of the year will be a chilled out set at The Jam Cafe in Nottingham for Notts Live Radio's festive party, so expect some presents and Dean Martin covers.
Hello, hello. So finally unpacked the last of our tour gear from Iceland and straight back into the studio for work on a remix of NZCA/Lines song 'Okinawa channels' for Alter-K records. Many thanks to everyone who came out and saw us play in Akureyri, Egilstaddir & Reykjavik, you guys and gals were awesome!
The tour was full of amazing adventures, here are just a few: Eating shark @mamma & papa Bloodgroup's House, skimming stones at icebergs, Helen playing in Bloodgroup's string quartet during their headlining show at Airwaves, Ben seeing Yoko Ono, handing out origami under the glitterball @Barbara Sunshine, tea with Svavar Knutur, the amazing veggie burgers @the laundromat cafe, driving past glaciers, late night studio porn talk with Janus & Hallur, Rob & Helen celebrating their wedding anniversary, Tim, Rob Y & Johnny rocking out in the moonscapes of Northern Iceland and meeting all our new friends.
Next up: we play at the last ever 'Fuck art, let's dance' night @The Chameleon in Nottingham on Friday 11th November and a special acoustic show @The Jam Cafe for Notts Live Radio's 'festive office party' on the 21st December.
It's looking like it's gonna be a busy week over in Iceland this October with even more gigs confirmed during Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik. Spaceships, Yunioshi & Bloodgroup will be heading up to play in Akureyri on the 8th & then onto Egilsstadir on the 9th before driving back to Reykjavik for the start of Airwaves on the 12th.
the first day of Airwaves for us will start with a Folktronica-is-cool set performed by Rob Spaceman, Hallur & Raggi (from Bloodgroup) @Reykjavik Backpackers. Then it's off to Barbara club to check out Yunioshi. Thursday is a day of rest and record shopping until Yunioshi's gig @Bar 11 at 8pm.
Friday has developed into a double-dater with an early-bird show at Barbara and then on to Bakkus (definitely our fave venue in Reykjavik). Our Icelandic adventures finish on Saturday with a 2nd show @Barbara, where if you came to the first you may get some special treats @the 2nd! See you there.
Just sorting out our busy schedule for our trip to Iceland this october. So far it's gonna start with two awesome gigs in the North of the country with Bloodgroup and Yunioshi. Returning to Reykjavik for Iceland airwaves shows.
So far you can expect to see Rob spaceman & the spaceships folktronic allstars at daytime gigs in cafes from wednesday until Sunday and Spaceships full band shows on Friday and Saturday night. Also make sure you come and check out Yunioshi's gigs throughout the week.
There will be more info up on the tour pages soon so keep watching this space.
Rob & Helen have just returned from playing three acoustic shows at this year's Melodica festival in Reykjavik.
Held over three days this year's Melodica featured ten international artists and fifty Icelandic artists at four small venues on laugavegur. Rob & Helen were joined by Hallur & Raggi from Icelandic electro band Bloodgroup to form the 'Spaceships all star folktronic experience' which has not been seen since their debut appearance at CMJ in New york in 2009.
We met loadsa great people making great music over the last few days and you should really check them out:
http://www.videodaymusic.com/socialise
http://www.svavarknutur.com/fr_home.cfm
http://www.myspace.com/elliotrayman
http://www.owlsoftheswamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/myrraros
There are some super-duper photos from the festival here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordajarra2/sets/72157627530309168/with/6093100943/
August is seeing us just finishing off the new LP 'WE WERE HERE' It's full of all the usual bleeps and spaceships nonsense but has a much more tasty side to it that has developed out of the sounds from the live shows.
As we really don't like to waste space on CDs, we are making sure that the new LP fills a full 60 mins. Though this may mean dropping in the odd secret-special studio out take! Other news this month is that Rob Spaceman is off to Reykjavik next Thursday to play some acoustic gigs as part of the Melodica festival. Totally looking forward to playing some new venues as well as old faves like Hemmi & Valdi, Rob is also taking the opportunity to get some new tattoos done @Reykjavik ink! (though we are told that it won't be of a spaceship).
The full band will be heading back to Iceland in early October to play some dates with Icelandic electro masters BLOODGROUP in the north of the country before heading back to Reykjavik for more performances at Iceland Airwaves.
Ta ta for now, S.A.C mission control. x
A great weekend was had by everyone at this year's Summer sound festival in Liepaja, Latvia. Our journey started off with sharing a tour bus with amazing Portuguese band KANDIA http://www.myspace.com/kandiamusic who played the alternative stage (on the beach & facing the sea!) Great fun hanging out with these guys and eating ice cream.
Despite some serious rain, the weather cleared up just before we went on stage in the Fantasy Gardens, surrounded by stuffed woodland animals (the giant goose being the band's favourite) to play to an amazing crowd of people dancing in their waterproof ponchos.
top festival highlights:
Sharing our stage with a wide collection of stuffed woodland animals.
the guy out of Toploader getting his picture taken with Johnny coz he had same haircut.
the portaloos being washed out to sea.
Playing superman theme tune on a rye bread piano (video footage up soon!).
meeting Janis from Goran Gora http://www.gorangora.com/ .
off road wheelcharing on the biggest beach ever!
the dance tent being blown away.
ladies on the main stage dancing in their pants (Rob Yunioshi there with his camera).
Having our picture with Captain morgan and his pirate ladies.
Dancing to Calvin Harris DJ set on the beach at midnight.
Helen went paddling in the sea.
Tim dancing to the Jackson 5 blasting out at 2am at the Fantasy Garden stage.
our crew member dropping her ice cream on the floor whilst spinning to avoid wasp attack.
eating sausages in the VIP tent at 3am with Kandia.
We are on our way to Liepaja in Latvia to play at this year's summer sound festival! we are playing at 10.30pm on Friday 23rd July in the Fantasy Gardens next the the beach. gonna be a good one. we will be keeping you posted with lots of pictures and stuff on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/spaceshipsRcool
and you can see all the festival action right here: http://www.summersound.lv/
It's on it's way! two fantastic tunes will soon be available to buy exclusively from gogoyoko....
The Tanuki project song TOYS remixed by Spaceships are cool
Spaceships song DON'T BE ALONE remixed by the Tanuki project.
This remixing collaboration was put together after our Canadian Music Week gig with them in Toronto.
It's finally here! our new 'North atlantic lights EP' is now available for streaming and downloading over at gogoyoko.com http://www.gogoyoko.com/album/North_atlantic_lights_EP It features a brand new version of Don't be alone, a great big studio version of North Atlantic Lights and a very special recording of 'This will be my dream' featuring the amazing Tatatamoto whilst at Canadian Music week last March. see the 'making of' here: http://youtu.be/39gLJDhNtlk
After a busy studio month in June we are now gonna be showing off our brand new live set at the following venues:
Saturday 2nd July @ the infamous Stealth vs Rescued club night in Nottingham.
Friday 15th July @The beautiful octopus club at the Albany in Deptford, London.
Saturday 22nd July @the fantasy gardens, Summer sound festival Leipaja, Latvia.
We took over the Gallery space @The Maltcross music hall in Nottingham and filled it with cardboard spaces station boxes designed by cartoonist Jason Allsebrook from New Giraffe City and a large amount of 1970s Tupperware.
Get yourself over to http://www.flickr.com/people/spaceshipsarecool/ check out the new spaceships press photos from our wonderful day's shoot with Carla Mundy http://www.carlamundyphotography.co.uk/.
We have been asked by the lovely people @ French Label Alter K http://www.alter-k.com/ to produce a remix of 1970s synth music pioneer Olaf Schirm. The track we are busy working on is called Crime and will hopefully go out as part of a remix compilation of Olaf's tunes later in the year.
Go check out Alter K's website! there's a whole loada great music on there including the awesome Black devil disco club (the brainchild of Bernard Fevre, who we remixed for LO recordings last year).
Hello hello, so we've been locked away in the studio all winter working on the new LP which is set to be released late summer. Ok this seems a long way off so in the meantime there's a brand new EP coming your way in July! The 'North Atlantic Lights EP will feature a brand new mix of Don't Be Alone along with new track North Atlantic lights as well as a very special live recording of This Will Be My Dream from our session at Liberty studios in Toronto (http://www.wideawakeliberty.com/) during Canadian music week.
We made a little video of our time at Liberty studios, which mainly shows us drinking cups of tea and playing drums whilst Johnny dances like a robot. http://youtu.be/39gLJDhNtlk.
Get ready for the new EP! Get ready for the new live set! Get your shoes on and come see us at : Stealth in Nottingham on 2nd July and if you're diggin that, come and join us at Summer sound Leipaja festival in Latvia on 23rd july.
So it was such a busy year in 2010; Playing at NXNE in Toronto, KME in Cagliari, Truck in Oxfordshire, Korrinader in Karlstad & Iceland airwaves in Reykjavik. Loadsa studio stuff including; x2 remixes of French synth legend Bernard Fevre (for Universal), a special folktronic remix of Icelandic electro band Bloodgroup, and our tracks appearing on MTV, BBC, Canadian fashion TV, US eco film Houston we have a problem, American airlines & Sky sports (even appearing on a US gym workout cd for ladies!) to name but a few.
We are off to a great start in 2011; brand new single Don't be alone is already out as a digi-single on iTunes, spotify, gogoyoko, eMusic with radio play on BBC 6music.
The new LP is underway (sampler tracks over @the tunes page as free downloads!) and is set for a summer release. An all new live show was debuted @the Bodega social in Nottingham as we supported Visions of trees (moshi moshi) and we are now only a few weeks off our 1st international trip of the year, Headling a show @Canadian Music Week in Toronto on March 12th.
As we approach summer there are more trips scheduled in Iceland, Canada, Latvia, Japan & Scotland! Seeya there. x
TRACK 7! ANOTHER LAST NIGHT ON EARTH is out Friday. it's the final one in the series to collect.
so get it while it's hot.
