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Satchel Blue
Another Fine Day by Satchel Blue is released
It’s there! After a long, drawn out release process, including the competition to find our cover artwork, Another Fine Day by Satchel Blue has finally been released on iTunes. If anyone wants to organise a Rage Against The Machine style charge to the top of the charts then just let me know.
Another fine Satchel Blue album is ready for release
It’s been a long drawn out process but the latest Satchel Blue album, ‘Another Fine Day‘, is finally ready for release. We ran a hotly contested competition for the album artwork with many suggestions coming via an announcement on Flickr and my previous blog post on the subject. The winner is PHOTOabruzzo who took the [...]
Provide the next Satchel Blue album cover
[update] See the winner here. How would you like to provide the design or photograph for the next Satchel Blue album cover? Our fifth album, Another Fine Day, is due for release in February and we’d like your ideas for the front cover. There’s no prize as such, but if you’ve got the perfect cover [...]
Through to the semi-final!
Last night we (Satchel Blue) qualified as one of the bands to go through to the next round of Surface Unsigned 2008. Thanks to everyone who turned up on the night and to everyone who voted for us by text. We do have an audio copy of our performance taken from the sound desk so [...]
Surface Unsigned – Round 2
Tomorrow night we (Satchel Blue) are playing in Round 2 of the Surface Unsigned competition for 2008 – although noticing that my favourite band in our Round 1 heat, Olly Dabblers, haven’t made it past Round 2 then I’m not holding out much hope. If you fancy supporting us, or just coming along to see [...]
Satchel Blue through to Round 2
So we made it through to Round 2 of Surface Unsigned 2008, somewhat helped by the fact that only 4 bands out of 7 actually made it on stage and the top 4 bands from each heat qualify for round 2. Congratulations to Subjects of the City, Olly Dabblers, and The Kinells who also managed [...]
Satchel Blue to play Surface Unsigned 2008
This coming Saturday, Satchel Blue will be playing in Round One of Surface Unsigned Festival 2008. The best way of demonstrating your support, to us and the 6 other bands playing in our heat, is obviously to come down to The Rainbow in Digbeth on Saturday night for 7pm. Alternatively you can help the Satchel [...]
Band Photos
Blimey, it’s been a while and there’s plenty been happening. However, more of that very soon. In the meantime, check out The 20 Worst Band Photos from Spinner.com. My particular favourite is the Freedom Fighters at number 19 (left). “First we form a band, then we get a dented van … then we’ll get the [...]
‘Satchel Blue’ mentions via Technorati
How search results can be deceiving! English posts that contain Satchel Blue per day for the last 90 days.Get your own chart!
Satchel Blue on Facebook
In this age of social-networking, virtual community, and all power to the long tail, etc etc etc then it would be simply wrong for Satchel Blue not to have a presence on Facebook. So, now we do, the Fans of Satchel Blue Facebook group. Come along and join.
Satchel Blue release ‘February’
Our latest album, titled February, has now been officially released. It’s the fourth album released under the Satchel Blue name, although the first to really feature the complete band. It’s also the first to be released with AWAL. View Satchel Blue – February on iTunes. A very limited number of CD’s will be available very [...]
From bad to worse
Not only is it, apparently, National Yo-Yo day tomorrow (although Wikipedia doesn’t appear to recognise this historic fact), BlinkYou can help you celebrate the occasion with their delightful range of glitter graphics. Go MySpace-decorate crazy! Slightly more worrying is the indication from my Last.fm Weekly Top Artists widget (lower down this page on the right [...]
Satchel Blue on iTunes
Andy‘s already beaten me to the big announcement, but for those that don’t already know… Birmingham based band Satchel Blue (yes, that’s us!) now have a track available to download via iTunes, and theoretically other music download stores, for 79p. Download here. This technically means that if enough of you purchased this track we could [...]
So I went to Wales…
… for a week and did some sightseeing (most impressively, Harlech Castle and Criccieth Castle), play a round of golf at Pen Y Berth (well, 9 holes anyway), walked up the 59th and the 40-somethingth highest peaks in Snowdonia (according to a book in the house we were staying in at Croesor), spent far too [...]
Satchel Blue start recording
At long last we (‘we’ being the band, Satchel Blue) have started recording our next album with the first session last weekend. Despite a long and varied back catalogue of material ranging from the first release in 1999, this will in fact be the first full album release with the full band line-up – let’s [...]
Download free music!
After much hassle and annoyingly niggling problems I’ve finally managed to properly upload the latest Satchel Blue EP to last.fm and have made all five tracks available as mp3 downloads. Visit the Satchel Blue – The Bristol Sessions page if you’re interested. Although varying in quality I’ve also uploaded all previous recordings under the Satchel [...]
Mud, tigers, and a band in need
In the absence of a new cider test I thought I’d post a random update featuring bits and pieces from the last few days. Firstly, aren’t tigers simply great? My favourite three animals in the world (tigers, penguins, polar bears) are all present at Singapore Zoo and I eventually got around to adding some tiger [...]
Satchel Blue TTV
Much to the confusion of everyone in the band, I took my red striped contraption along to band rehearsal on Thursday. The results aren’t overly impressive but still vaguely interesting. All were taken with a shutter speed of 1 sec due to the low lighting in the rehearsal room and quite a few suffered from [...]
Something to talk about
Ok, so i don’t really have anything specific to talk about once again but I was getting fed up with pictures of Bethanie’s nose on the website all of the time. The band, namely Satchel Blue, play at the B91 Festival in Solihull recently which, while not the biggest crowd we’ve ever played to, was [...]
