It has been A WHILE since we blogged! So blog I shall...
Walking along the Brighton seafront today soaking up the rays and wagging chins I find it had to believe it was only a couple of months ago I was gunning it down a cold white hill on a bodyboard. Since then we have had a couple of real cool shows (thanks to everyone at Borderline and Audio, great nights!), and Guiding Star has reached the world at large.
Onwards and upwards...
If you are on our mailing list (and if you aren't, WHY?!), then you will already know that our album is now available for pre-order. I can confirm, from a completely unbiased angle *cough* that it looks and sounds amazing!
...this weekend we are going to be filming the video for our next single release, "Simon's Song". We don't hang around! Pretty excited.
And if all this isn't enough we are booking dates now for our album tour, for festivals and more. Some have already appeared on our myspace and some will be coming shortly.
In the meantime let's all keep working on our April tans (I have been back in shorts for over a month of course so my legs are already leaving the realms of 'pale') and keep smiling.
Play safe,
Matt and TSG x
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Sunday, 12 September 2010
21st September is Peace Day.
What does this mean? Sound's like it has the potential to be some wishy-washy hippy stuff, right?!
WRONG!
OK so despite being an overall pretty positive person, at times I find myself depressed by the violence in the world and can't help but fall into a pit of despair at the thought of it. Well how's this? 21st September, every year, is a GLOBAL CEASE FIRE! Who knew? I know I didn't! What an amazing thing. This is the result of lots of people endlessly campaigning for lots of years and what an achievement!
Two Spot are performing as part of Peace Jam (as you may already know) in celebration of this day. Many artists are getting together and broadcasting the results via the internet [Watch Here]
If the whole world can lay down their weapons for a day, the sky is the limit. If the world's people can use this day to let peace overcome all the hate in their hearts, we are moving towards a better planet for everybody.
To quote peaceinourlifetime.org, "PEACE will bring not only an END to WAR, but to POVERTY and HUNGER too. Peace in our hearts will find us naturally taking care of our ENVIROMENT, NATURE, all our planet's creatures along with the inhabitants we share this gorgeous earth with".
Enough out of me, it's over to you.
Matt and TSG x
What does this mean? Sound's like it has the potential to be some wishy-washy hippy stuff, right?!
WRONG!
OK so despite being an overall pretty positive person, at times I find myself depressed by the violence in the world and can't help but fall into a pit of despair at the thought of it. Well how's this? 21st September, every year, is a GLOBAL CEASE FIRE! Who knew? I know I didn't! What an amazing thing. This is the result of lots of people endlessly campaigning for lots of years and what an achievement!
Two Spot are performing as part of Peace Jam (as you may already know) in celebration of this day. Many artists are getting together and broadcasting the results via the internet [Watch Here]
If the whole world can lay down their weapons for a day, the sky is the limit. If the world's people can use this day to let peace overcome all the hate in their hearts, we are moving towards a better planet for everybody.
To quote peaceinourlifetime.org, "PEACE will bring not only an END to WAR, but to POVERTY and HUNGER too. Peace in our hearts will find us naturally taking care of our ENVIROMENT, NATURE, all our planet's creatures along with the inhabitants we share this gorgeous earth with".
Enough out of me, it's over to you.
Matt and TSG x
Friday, 30 July 2010
Top o' da mornin to ya!
Top o' da mornin to ya!
It's TSG's first visit to Ireland! Fuelled by Guiness and sleep deprivation we have made our way through two gigs already.
First stop was Sean's Bar (where I write this from now); the oldest pub in the world! A diverse range of nationalities were on board to make the evening a drink-dance-drink-dance kind of night - just the kind we like! We followed this the next day with a gig at "The Local". Despite the name, we played again to both an Irish and European audience, more Guiness was consumed and more friends were made.
Today we are chilling with yet more Guiness and looking forward to playing Athlone Festival tomorrow, hoping we can beat the questionable Irish weather!
Attached for your amusement is a visual introduction blog-style to Ben Bass...
Until next time...
Matt and TSG x
It's TSG's first visit to Ireland! Fuelled by Guiness and sleep deprivation we have made our way through two gigs already.
First stop was Sean's Bar (where I write this from now); the oldest pub in the world! A diverse range of nationalities were on board to make the evening a drink-dance-drink-dance kind of night - just the kind we like! We followed this the next day with a gig at "The Local". Despite the name, we played again to both an Irish and European audience, more Guiness was consumed and more friends were made.
Today we are chilling with yet more Guiness and looking forward to playing Athlone Festival tomorrow, hoping we can beat the questionable Irish weather!
Attached for your amusement is a visual introduction blog-style to Ben Bass...
Until next time...
Matt and TSG x
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
YOU made it easy
Good morn/evening/night one and all!
It has been a few weeks since brother Ellis enlightened everyone with the current activities of the band so I thought I would check in to see what’s up and to let you know a few things.
First off, we would like to sincerely thank everyone who has shown us so much love and support for our music and for our progress. It is indescribable to know that our music is reaching people all over the world and that through various communication channels we are able to speak with, share with and even meet people that know us before we know them. For us it is just the beginning of the creation of a whole network of friends, positive souls and music lovers in every corner of our great planet. We welcome friends old and new and remain confident and excited at the thought that we will get to connect with each and every one of you at some point in the near time.
Secondly, we had an awesome time touring in May and June road-testing some of our new sounds around the country and it could not have ended more aptly than with the fun that we had at our Borderline show in London. To have people singing our words is a powerful thing and it spurs us on tremendously. Thankyou so much J.
And so thirdly we look ahead… There are many massively exciting things brewing at Two Spot HQ. We are once again stretching our gaze overseas and will be touching down for the first time in Ireland at the end of the month as well as a visit to France and some of the rest of Europe around September time. Of course we will also be making our way back over the Atlantic Ocean to visit our dear friends in the United States and we obviously cannot wait to share more songs from our Second album – ‘The Sun Will Rise’.
Stay on this frequency for more updates, pictures, videos, podcasts and more and if you haven’t already make sure you check out all things Gobi at our new look web address…
www.twospot.co.uk
The last thing of all that I have to say at this time to you, dear reader, is that on this creative adventure into the unknown space, there are many new bridges to build, dreams to live, oceans to cross, words to write and hurdles to hurdle. Know that with your love and friendship we can only grow stronger and with your light, the fires in our bellies burn brighter.
Mark Twain said that the truly great people in life are the people that make you feel that you too can become great. With this in mind I can say with absolute conviction, from myself and behalf of my dear Gobi brothers, that YOU make it easy!
Speak soon
JR, RL, BD, BM, ME, DR!
It has been a few weeks since brother Ellis enlightened everyone with the current activities of the band so I thought I would check in to see what’s up and to let you know a few things.
First off, we would like to sincerely thank everyone who has shown us so much love and support for our music and for our progress. It is indescribable to know that our music is reaching people all over the world and that through various communication channels we are able to speak with, share with and even meet people that know us before we know them. For us it is just the beginning of the creation of a whole network of friends, positive souls and music lovers in every corner of our great planet. We welcome friends old and new and remain confident and excited at the thought that we will get to connect with each and every one of you at some point in the near time.
Secondly, we had an awesome time touring in May and June road-testing some of our new sounds around the country and it could not have ended more aptly than with the fun that we had at our Borderline show in London. To have people singing our words is a powerful thing and it spurs us on tremendously. Thankyou so much J.
And so thirdly we look ahead… There are many massively exciting things brewing at Two Spot HQ. We are once again stretching our gaze overseas and will be touching down for the first time in Ireland at the end of the month as well as a visit to France and some of the rest of Europe around September time. Of course we will also be making our way back over the Atlantic Ocean to visit our dear friends in the United States and we obviously cannot wait to share more songs from our Second album – ‘The Sun Will Rise’.
Stay on this frequency for more updates, pictures, videos, podcasts and more and if you haven’t already make sure you check out all things Gobi at our new look web address…
www.twospot.co.uk
The last thing of all that I have to say at this time to you, dear reader, is that on this creative adventure into the unknown space, there are many new bridges to build, dreams to live, oceans to cross, words to write and hurdles to hurdle. Know that with your love and friendship we can only grow stronger and with your light, the fires in our bellies burn brighter.
Mark Twain said that the truly great people in life are the people that make you feel that you too can become great. With this in mind I can say with absolute conviction, from myself and behalf of my dear Gobi brothers, that YOU make it easy!
Speak soon
JR, RL, BD, BM, ME, DR!
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Jersey
Hello hello!
This is Matt/Schmittles here reporting in for the horn contingent!
So we just about made it over to Jersey - an unfortunate set of circumstances (by which I really mean us being slack with time!) led us to cut it VERY fine for the ferry. A stressful way to start our trip!
We made our way to the Watersplash where everybody was in fine spirits and proceeded to blast out some summertime tunes to suit the weather. A highlight of the set included me getting heavily involved in a mid-song pileup on the dance floor!
Today has pretty much been taken up with surfing and binge eating (both regular TSG past times) and we plan for tomorrow to be the same!
We are very excited about some amazing pictures we took yesterday evening, and about the new T-shirt designs we have just finalised. They will be available on the tour.
So until next time, keep spreading the love!
M x
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Another new beginning
Hey folks,
So after a pretty solid month of touring and playing some amazing gigs, we're now settled back in Brighton and up to the point of writing this, have also been enjoying the sunshine...but now it's raining, damn!
The last few days have been exciting for us as we've started work on our new album which we're set to record in California this summer at a very special location (more to come on that).
It's been great getting back into the swing of writing songs and we're super excited about some of them. Infact, instead of writing about them, next blog perhaps we'll give you a sneak preview of some of the ones we've been rehearsing fresh from the source.
Over the last few months we've been writing as much as possible in the small gaps of time we had, so now it's a matter of taking the millions of different ideas, sifting through them, using the best bits and laughing at the worst bits. Kind of like taking loads of photos of places you've been and storing them away until there comes a day when you have time to put them in order, pick the best ones and show people a journey you've made.
To do this it's essential that there is lots of pizza and now our new drink of choice Gin and Tonic. Stay tuned....
Rob
Sunday, 12 April 2009
Gobi Infant Squad vol 4
Bonjour! Bom Dia! Hola! Hallo! Wassup!
How’s everybody keeping? Happy Easter! Hope everyone is enjoying Easter Sunday and is eating plenty of the choccywoccy good stuff…
Half way through our spring tour now and the momentum keeps on flowing. After leaving Jason and his crew last Tuesday we are so pleased that our own headline shows have been selling-out and that we have been joined every night by wicked crowds and happy faces.
Last night in Plymouth was awesome at the Barbican Theatre and we are going to be showing you guys footage and live clips from the intimate show that we did there last night very soon…
For anyone living in the South West – we will be doing a last minute surprise show at the Ride Café near ....Plymouth.. ..University.... tonight. We got asked last minute to fill in for another band and were happy to oblige even though it was our day off ;)
Head on down for free barbecue and awesome music…
Here are some pics that my ma dug out of me when I was just a wee nipper… Why is it that so many babies are blonde but then end up having different hair colours later on in life? Puzzling!?
Oh dear!
Big wassup to all our new friends, hope everyone is chilling and is taking it easy fo’sheasy on this holiday weekend
Take Care and we’ll see you soon
Easter love from up above
How’s everybody keeping? Happy Easter! Hope everyone is enjoying Easter Sunday and is eating plenty of the choccywoccy good stuff…
Half way through our spring tour now and the momentum keeps on flowing. After leaving Jason and his crew last Tuesday we are so pleased that our own headline shows have been selling-out and that we have been joined every night by wicked crowds and happy faces.
Last night in Plymouth was awesome at the Barbican Theatre and we are going to be showing you guys footage and live clips from the intimate show that we did there last night very soon…
For anyone living in the South West – we will be doing a last minute surprise show at the Ride Café near ....Plymouth.. ..University.... tonight. We got asked last minute to fill in for another band and were happy to oblige even though it was our day off ;)
Head on down for free barbecue and awesome music…
Here are some pics that my ma dug out of me when I was just a wee nipper… Why is it that so many babies are blonde but then end up having different hair colours later on in life? Puzzling!?
Oh dear!
Big wassup to all our new friends, hope everyone is chilling and is taking it easy fo’sheasy on this holiday weekend
Take Care and we’ll see you soon
Easter love from up above
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Headline Gobi
Hey folks,
Just a quick one to say how nice it was meeting so many of you great people at the Mraz shows, we all had a wicked time.
We now leave Jason for a bit head down the motorway to Brighton to start our own headline tour. We hope you'll come and join us for one of the shows and follow our progress.
Best wishes
Rob
Just a quick one to say how nice it was meeting so many of you great people at the Mraz shows, we all had a wicked time.
We now leave Jason for a bit head down the motorway to Brighton to start our own headline tour. We hope you'll come and join us for one of the shows and follow our progress.
Best wishes
Rob
Monday, 6 April 2009
Manchester, Sunshiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, Cargo and Gobi infant squad volume III…
Y’all!!
What’s happening friends old and new?
I hope this blog post finds you all well and if you are in the UK as we are currently, I trust that you are getting plenty of vitamin D and are soaking up the solar goodness that has come to please us over the last couple of days…
As you’ll soon be able to see from our visual installments, Two Spot Gobi are officially on the road! With our new tour bus and our new gobi crewsters: Adam (Tour manager) and John (engineer) we headed up to Manchester on Friday night with Jason Mraz, Marit Larsen and co for the first show of our UK tour…
We were told Manchester is a party town… We can now confirm that this is definitely the case. The show was amazing and we would like to say a big ‘wassup!’ to all the people that we met at the Academy that night. Thanks to everyone in the crowd for being awesome and we will be back in Manchester on our next tour without doubt…
As for news – we are super excited to announce that STRONGBACK (formerly Palladium check them out: http://www.myspace.com/palladiumofficial) will be supporting us at our official London album launch on THURSDAY 16th APRIL… This show is going to be very special indeed so grab a ticket as soon as you can – they are flying out! click here to buy your ticket
Today we are getting prepared for our biggest London show to date at the Hammersmith Apollo. Can’t wait to see some of you ladies and gents later…
And now for what you’ve all been waiting for… After digging around the Lewis family photo archives we stumbled upon these little gems.
Who would have thought that this little scamp would turn out to be such a fine young cellist…
HA HA!
Like butter wouldn’t melt. We know better.
Anyways – off to soundcheck now… Check out the new video of the week from PORTO on our profile and we will be uploading more tour videos and blogs over the next few days. So don’t touch that dial ;)
Lots of love from us to you – from me and all the Two Spot crew
Peace
JR et la Gobi
x
What’s happening friends old and new?
I hope this blog post finds you all well and if you are in the UK as we are currently, I trust that you are getting plenty of vitamin D and are soaking up the solar goodness that has come to please us over the last couple of days…
As you’ll soon be able to see from our visual installments, Two Spot Gobi are officially on the road! With our new tour bus and our new gobi crewsters: Adam (Tour manager) and John (engineer) we headed up to Manchester on Friday night with Jason Mraz, Marit Larsen and co for the first show of our UK tour…
We were told Manchester is a party town… We can now confirm that this is definitely the case. The show was amazing and we would like to say a big ‘wassup!’ to all the people that we met at the Academy that night. Thanks to everyone in the crowd for being awesome and we will be back in Manchester on our next tour without doubt…
As for news – we are super excited to announce that STRONGBACK (formerly Palladium check them out: http://www.myspace.com/palladiumofficial) will be supporting us at our official London album launch on THURSDAY 16th APRIL… This show is going to be very special indeed so grab a ticket as soon as you can – they are flying out! click here to buy your ticket
Today we are getting prepared for our biggest London show to date at the Hammersmith Apollo. Can’t wait to see some of you ladies and gents later…
And now for what you’ve all been waiting for… After digging around the Lewis family photo archives we stumbled upon these little gems.
Who would have thought that this little scamp would turn out to be such a fine young cellist…
HA HA!
Like butter wouldn’t melt. We know better.
Anyways – off to soundcheck now… Check out the new video of the week from PORTO on our profile and we will be uploading more tour videos and blogs over the next few days. So don’t touch that dial ;)
Lots of love from us to you – from me and all the Two Spot crew
Peace
JR et la Gobi
x
Spring Gobi
Y’all!!
What’s happening friends old and new?
I hope this blog post finds you all well and if you are in the UK as we are currently, I trust that you are getting plenty of vitamin D and are soaking up the solar goodness that has come to please us over the last couple of days…
As you’ll soon be able to see from our visual installments, Two Spot Gobi are officially on the road! With our new tour bus and our new gobi crewsters: Adam (Tour manager) and John (engineer) we headed up to Manchester on Friday night with Jason Mraz, Marit Larsen and co for the first show of our UK tour…
We were told Manchester is a party town… We can now confirm that this is definitely the case. The show was amazing and we would like to say a big ‘wassup!’ to all the people that we met at the Academy that night. Thanks to everyone in the crowd for being awesome and we will be back in Manchester on our next tour without doubt…
As for news – we are super excited to announce that STRONGBACK (formerly Palladium check them out: http://www.myspace.com/palladiumoffi... will be supporting us at our official London album launch on THURSDAY 16th APRIL… This show is going to be very special indeed so grab a ticket as soon as you can – they are flying out! http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?reg...
Today we are getting prepared for our biggest London show to date at the Hammersmith Apollo. Can’t wait to see some of you ladies and gents later…
And now for what you’ve all been waiting for… After digging around the Lewis family photo archives we stumbled upon these little gems. Who would have thought that this little scamp would turn out to be such a fine young cellist…
http://img18.picoodle.com/img/img18/...
http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/...
http://img18.picoodle.com/img/img18/...
HA HA!
Like butter wouldn’t melt. We know better.
Anyways – off to soundcheck now… Check out the new video of the week from PORTO on our profile and we will be uploading more tour videos and blogs over the next few days. So don’t touch that dial
Lots of love from us to you – from me and all the Two Spot crew
Peace
JR et la Gobi
What’s happening friends old and new?
I hope this blog post finds you all well and if you are in the UK as we are currently, I trust that you are getting plenty of vitamin D and are soaking up the solar goodness that has come to please us over the last couple of days…
As you’ll soon be able to see from our visual installments, Two Spot Gobi are officially on the road! With our new tour bus and our new gobi crewsters: Adam (Tour manager) and John (engineer) we headed up to Manchester on Friday night with Jason Mraz, Marit Larsen and co for the first show of our UK tour…
We were told Manchester is a party town… We can now confirm that this is definitely the case. The show was amazing and we would like to say a big ‘wassup!’ to all the people that we met at the Academy that night. Thanks to everyone in the crowd for being awesome and we will be back in Manchester on our next tour without doubt…
As for news – we are super excited to announce that STRONGBACK (formerly Palladium check them out: http://www.myspace.com/palladiumoffi... will be supporting us at our official London album launch on THURSDAY 16th APRIL… This show is going to be very special indeed so grab a ticket as soon as you can – they are flying out! http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?reg...
Today we are getting prepared for our biggest London show to date at the Hammersmith Apollo. Can’t wait to see some of you ladies and gents later…
And now for what you’ve all been waiting for… After digging around the Lewis family photo archives we stumbled upon these little gems. Who would have thought that this little scamp would turn out to be such a fine young cellist…
http://img18.picoodle.com/img/img18/...
http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/...
http://img18.picoodle.com/img/img18/...
HA HA!
Like butter wouldn’t melt. We know better.
Anyways – off to soundcheck now… Check out the new video of the week from PORTO on our profile and we will be uploading more tour videos and blogs over the next few days. So don’t touch that dial
Lots of love from us to you – from me and all the Two Spot crew
Peace
JR et la Gobi
Friday, 16 January 2009
New year....
YO!
First things first. Happy New Year to one and all. We hope you return from the festive season having been suitably re-freshed/ re-charged/ re-ignited and that the days to come are full of the things that put a smile on your face. Here's to 2009.
And now, down to Business...
Goodbye. As some may know just before Christmas our dear bass player Ben Rosairo flew to pastures new. He has left the bass guitar behind to pursue his various dreams and who knows where you will see him next. Whether it be cycling towards the Pyrenees, travelling across the USA in a burnt out cadillac or hurtling along the sea front on his skateboard we know he will be living life to the full and we wish him well. He was a friend, comrade and one of the founding members of Two Spot Gobi and we are saddened by his leaving.
However...
With every turning page there comes a new chapter and with every open door there are new possibilities. Today we welcome a new face to team Gobi and we are fully stoked to have Matt Harris as a new fully fledged member of the band. He joins us after having been part of the Stiff Dylans www.myspace.com/stiffdylansmusic
After receiving his name badge and matching hat and performing the initiation ceremony Matt has settled in well and we now are looking ahead to 2009 confident that it is sure to be our most exciting and successful year so far.
Check Matt's page out here: www.myspace.com/mattthebass
To the future and beyond...
Take care wherever you may be and we will be in touch in the very near future with more news about the album, our UK tour and our second US tour and more videos and podcast etc. In the meantime check out the latest Gobi podcast (follow link on our profile)performed by Rob and I...
Much love as always from me and the gobis
James
x
First things first. Happy New Year to one and all. We hope you return from the festive season having been suitably re-freshed/ re-charged/ re-ignited and that the days to come are full of the things that put a smile on your face. Here's to 2009.
And now, down to Business...
Goodbye. As some may know just before Christmas our dear bass player Ben Rosairo flew to pastures new. He has left the bass guitar behind to pursue his various dreams and who knows where you will see him next. Whether it be cycling towards the Pyrenees, travelling across the USA in a burnt out cadillac or hurtling along the sea front on his skateboard we know he will be living life to the full and we wish him well. He was a friend, comrade and one of the founding members of Two Spot Gobi and we are saddened by his leaving.
However...
With every turning page there comes a new chapter and with every open door there are new possibilities. Today we welcome a new face to team Gobi and we are fully stoked to have Matt Harris as a new fully fledged member of the band. He joins us after having been part of the Stiff Dylans www.myspace.com/stiffdylansmusic
After receiving his name badge and matching hat and performing the initiation ceremony Matt has settled in well and we now are looking ahead to 2009 confident that it is sure to be our most exciting and successful year so far.
Check Matt's page out here: www.myspace.com/mattthebass
To the future and beyond...
Take care wherever you may be and we will be in touch in the very near future with more news about the album, our UK tour and our second US tour and more videos and podcast etc. In the meantime check out the latest Gobi podcast (follow link on our profile)performed by Rob and I...
Much love as always from me and the gobis
James
x
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
tis the season to be Gobi
Festive greetings one and all!
Winter has properly set in. It's been dry and extremely cold solidly for about two weeks now and Christmas has crept up and suddenly hit me like an avalanche.
Aside from the hype, the adverts and the questionable music I have become quite a fan of this time of year recently. I now understand Christmas as being a time where you are with the people who mean the most to you and with whom you can appreciate one another for being the people that you are.
I have had an incredible year this year and we have managed to do things in this band that we never imagined we would do together, I feel at this point part of a musical family not just with people within the band but with people that we have met and people with whom we have shared our music with. People we have shared stages with, people who have shared their music with us, friends we have made at shows, people who have continued to keep in touch with us and all of you people who have generously helped and supported us in so many ways throughout the course of the last 3 years.
Wherever you are and whatever you may be doing. Thanks for commenting, writing, calling, blogging, clapping, singing, supporting and most of all thanks for listening...
Enjoy time with your friends and families over the next few weeks and we will see you on the other side!
Sending you buckets of Happy Xmas cheer
James and the Gobi wan Kanobis
x
Winter has properly set in. It's been dry and extremely cold solidly for about two weeks now and Christmas has crept up and suddenly hit me like an avalanche.
Aside from the hype, the adverts and the questionable music I have become quite a fan of this time of year recently. I now understand Christmas as being a time where you are with the people who mean the most to you and with whom you can appreciate one another for being the people that you are.
I have had an incredible year this year and we have managed to do things in this band that we never imagined we would do together, I feel at this point part of a musical family not just with people within the band but with people that we have met and people with whom we have shared our music with. People we have shared stages with, people who have shared their music with us, friends we have made at shows, people who have continued to keep in touch with us and all of you people who have generously helped and supported us in so many ways throughout the course of the last 3 years.
Wherever you are and whatever you may be doing. Thanks for commenting, writing, calling, blogging, clapping, singing, supporting and most of all thanks for listening...
Enjoy time with your friends and families over the next few weeks and we will see you on the other side!
Sending you buckets of Happy Xmas cheer
James and the Gobi wan Kanobis
x
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Launching the Two Spot Gobi podcast
We are excited to announce that we now have a Two Spot Gobi podcast. Matt (Trumpet) and Ben (bass) launched it. As it's the first one, we thought we'd give you a free song 'Borrowed Time' from the new album.
We'll do it every few weeks. If anyone has any suggestions of what they might like to hear in the podcasts please drop us a line...
You can get it on itunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=297096028
Or if you don't like itunes:
http://podcast.com/show/107156/ Ennnnnnnjoy.
Rob and the boys from Gobi land
We'll do it every few weeks. If anyone has any suggestions of what they might like to hear in the podcasts please drop us a line...
You can get it on itunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=297096028
Or if you don't like itunes:
http://podcast.com/show/107156/ Ennnnnnnjoy.
Rob and the boys from Gobi land
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Home...
So after another flight, a bus journey and then a short walk, we have arrived back in Brighton ready to get things moving....
It is a little weird coming back from somewhere like California, where the sun shone all the time we were there (ok, perhaps there was a little rain in Berkeley but we understand!) to England in November where it seems like it's dusk throughout the whole day.
Ahhh, ok I just realised I'd started a blog about the weather and so I think I'll change the direction here so as not to appear to British!
In Berkeley it was great to meet so many of you, but I thought I'd share one of the funnier moments.
A lady comes up to me whilst we are signing stuff by the merchandise table shortly after we played and asks me to sign a cd for her husband who's a HUGE fan. I take the cd and open it stoked with the compliment and start writing a message to him saying "hope you enjoy etc etc..:" and continue speaking to her. She tells me how they're always listening to our music and even played one of our songs at their wedding. Slightly surprised, I asked her which one....she tells me it's the big single 'I'm Yours', and then says she's really looking forward to seeing me play later.
I didn't have the heart to tell her that I wasn't Jason Mraz, so instead I smile having just signed her CD and say "thankyou".....I hope her husband can forgive her!
Rob :-)
It is a little weird coming back from somewhere like California, where the sun shone all the time we were there (ok, perhaps there was a little rain in Berkeley but we understand!) to England in November where it seems like it's dusk throughout the whole day.
Ahhh, ok I just realised I'd started a blog about the weather and so I think I'll change the direction here so as not to appear to British!
In Berkeley it was great to meet so many of you, but I thought I'd share one of the funnier moments.
A lady comes up to me whilst we are signing stuff by the merchandise table shortly after we played and asks me to sign a cd for her husband who's a HUGE fan. I take the cd and open it stoked with the compliment and start writing a message to him saying "hope you enjoy etc etc..:" and continue speaking to her. She tells me how they're always listening to our music and even played one of our songs at their wedding. Slightly surprised, I asked her which one....she tells me it's the big single 'I'm Yours', and then says she's really looking forward to seeing me play later.
I didn't have the heart to tell her that I wasn't Jason Mraz, so instead I smile having just signed her CD and say "thankyou".....I hope her husband can forgive her!
Rob :-)
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Blackberry's, Blueberry's and Rasberry's..
So enough of Matt's postcard to mum style blogs, here's something a bit different........
We are now on board the magnificent Continental flight to Phoenix having left NYC. As advised by our air steward the mobiles, blackberry's, blueberry's and raspberry's are switched to the off position and we have just enjoyed possibly the rankest (gross for our US readers) airline meal ever...infact it was so rank/gross that I had to give my microwaved chicken burger to Dino to eat and even he had trouble finishing it off.....
Then with the meal came the Hershey's chocolate bar, the most talked about chocolate bar in the whole of America. Having heard all the hype and being a complete chocoadict I decided to give it a go and here is my review............YUK! It tastes like sick, sorry Mr Hershey's I is sticking to Cadbury's or even better, that eco conscious wonderful multi-national Nestle for my extreme highs and damaging sugar lows.
So all in all not a great combination. Then just when you think it can't get any worse, this happens:
I mean what do you think I am Dino? your mum?:
We are now on board the magnificent Continental flight to Phoenix having left NYC. As advised by our air steward the mobiles, blackberry's, blueberry's and raspberry's are switched to the off position and we have just enjoyed possibly the rankest (gross for our US readers) airline meal ever...infact it was so rank/gross that I had to give my microwaved chicken burger to Dino to eat and even he had trouble finishing it off.....
Then with the meal came the Hershey's chocolate bar, the most talked about chocolate bar in the whole of America. Having heard all the hype and being a complete chocoadict I decided to give it a go and here is my review............YUK! It tastes like sick, sorry Mr Hershey's I is sticking to Cadbury's or even better, that eco conscious wonderful multi-national Nestle for my extreme highs and damaging sugar lows.
So all in all not a great combination. Then just when you think it can't get any worse, this happens:
I mean what do you think I am Dino? your mum?:
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
tour diares vol 1
We're aliens, illegal aliens… Englishmen in New York!
Yes sports fans we have touched down over the Atlantic and embarked on our very first US tour. This is to be the first of many entries into what will eventually become our tour diary.
We arrived mega late last night after an annoying delay, got a taxi [giant Chevy bus!] from the airport to our digs, ate some disgustingly unhealthy food and went straight to bed.
This morning, the fitter members of the band (!), Matt and the Bens, were to be found participating in that favourite New York local past time of jogging around Central Park. It was a beautiful morning and, after breakfast, the whole gang walked the entire length of the Park to get to Manhattan where we spent the day in awe of the shops and buildings and generally mucking about.
We had lunch in the Hard Rock Café, Times Square and then went to register at CMJ HQ. This evening we rode the subway back up to Harlem, where we are staying, and thankfully got back without dying!
So assuming our luck continues into tomorrow, see you then with news from our first gig here!
Gobi x
Yes sports fans we have touched down over the Atlantic and embarked on our very first US tour. This is to be the first of many entries into what will eventually become our tour diary.
We arrived mega late last night after an annoying delay, got a taxi [giant Chevy bus!] from the airport to our digs, ate some disgustingly unhealthy food and went straight to bed.
This morning, the fitter members of the band (!), Matt and the Bens, were to be found participating in that favourite New York local past time of jogging around Central Park. It was a beautiful morning and, after breakfast, the whole gang walked the entire length of the Park to get to Manhattan where we spent the day in awe of the shops and buildings and generally mucking about.
We had lunch in the Hard Rock Café, Times Square and then went to register at CMJ HQ. This evening we rode the subway back up to Harlem, where we are staying, and thankfully got back without dying!
So assuming our luck continues into tomorrow, see you then with news from our first gig here!
Gobi x
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Have a listen
Our bags are packed all ready to go for our first US tour, before we go we thought we'd show you what we've been up to for the last few weeks...pay a visit to our myspace page to hear 4 tracks from our debut album 'Everywhere You Should Have Been'.
www.myspace.com/twospotgobi
We hope you enjoy them and let us know what you think.
We will be touring USA in the next few weeks:
22nd October - National Underground, New York, NY, $10, http://www.myspace.com/thenationalunderground
25th October am - Good Morning Arizona TV, AZ
25th October pm - The Clubhouse Music Venue, Pheonix, AZ
28th October - The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles CA - $11.50, http://theroxyonsunset.com/sleeping-at-last/
31st October - SDSU OAT supporting Jason Mraz, San Diego CA
1st November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Los Angeles CA (TBC)
2nd November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Berkeley CA
We hope you'll follow us on our travels, through our blogs/videos etc, and look forward to seeing you at a venue near you...
Thanks
Rob and the Gobi boys
www.myspace.com/twospotgobi
We hope you enjoy them and let us know what you think.
We will be touring USA in the next few weeks:
22nd October - National Underground, New York, NY, $10, http://www.myspace.com/thenationalunderground
25th October am - Good Morning Arizona TV, AZ
25th October pm - The Clubhouse Music Venue, Pheonix, AZ
28th October - The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles CA - $11.50, http://theroxyonsunset.com/sleeping-at-last/
31st October - SDSU OAT supporting Jason Mraz, San Diego CA
1st November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Los Angeles CA (TBC)
2nd November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Berkeley CA
We hope you'll follow us on our travels, through our blogs/videos etc, and look forward to seeing you at a venue near you...
Thanks
Rob and the Gobi boys
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Mixing
Goooooood morning madam!
Matt here (gobi spare part) reporting on our latest shenanigans.
Maestro Lewis and myself are back in the studio for four intense days of mixing, after which we hope to have finished the recording part of our album! James has picked up the artwork from our kind personal artist and it looks fantastic; we are all very excited!
We are expecting the other boys to pop in at random intervals and make sure the drums/bass/vocals are loud enough (!) and generally cause trouble.
Well must go now I have a lot of important tetris to play.
Ta ta for now!
Matt and the Gobis x
Matt here (gobi spare part) reporting on our latest shenanigans.
Maestro Lewis and myself are back in the studio for four intense days of mixing, after which we hope to have finished the recording part of our album! James has picked up the artwork from our kind personal artist and it looks fantastic; we are all very excited!
We are expecting the other boys to pop in at random intervals and make sure the drums/bass/vocals are loud enough (!) and generally cause trouble.
Well must go now I have a lot of important tetris to play.
Ta ta for now!
Matt and the Gobis x
Friday, 10 October 2008
US TOUR
Hello all.....
We are delighted to announce that we will be supporting Jason Mraz on 2/3 dates during our US tour. We'd also like to wish him congratulations on being number 1 in the American charts...good job! The tour so far looks like this:
22nd October - National Underground, New York, NY, $10, http://www.myspace.com/thenationalunderground
25th October am - Good Morning Arizona TV, AZ
25th October pm - Freakin Frog, Las Vegas (TBC) NV
28th October - The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles CA - $11.50, http://theroxyonsunset.com/sleeping-at-last/
31st October - SDSU OAT supporting Jason Mraz, San Diego CA
1st November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Los Angeles CA (TBC)
2nd November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Berkeley CA
We hope that if you happen to be in reaching distance of any of these dates then you'll come alone, and perhaps even bring a friend or two! The Roxy in LA is looking like it's going to be a great show, so get your tickets now!
Thankyou to all of you who came to Komedia last night and made it an amazing experience for us, we hope to see some London folks at Proud Gallaries tonight, on stage at 11pm, should a be a great night.
We are delighted to announce that we will be supporting Jason Mraz on 2/3 dates during our US tour. We'd also like to wish him congratulations on being number 1 in the American charts...good job! The tour so far looks like this:
22nd October - National Underground, New York, NY, $10, http://www.myspace.com/thenationalunderground
25th October am - Good Morning Arizona TV, AZ
25th October pm - Freakin Frog, Las Vegas (TBC) NV
28th October - The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles CA - $11.50, http://theroxyonsunset.com/sleeping-at-last/
31st October - SDSU OAT supporting Jason Mraz, San Diego CA
1st November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Los Angeles CA (TBC)
2nd November - Greek Theatre supporting Jason Mraz, Berkeley CA
We hope that if you happen to be in reaching distance of any of these dates then you'll come alone, and perhaps even bring a friend or two! The Roxy in LA is looking like it's going to be a great show, so get your tickets now!
Thankyou to all of you who came to Komedia last night and made it an amazing experience for us, we hope to see some London folks at Proud Gallaries tonight, on stage at 11pm, should a be a great night.
Monday, 6 October 2008
Stuff
Hey people!
So a few weeks later on and we're back in the studio to record Vocals
for the album after an action packed weekend of gigs, shmigs and
birthdays!
We've been busy planning the US stuff and getting ready for another
blast at Komedia this thursday and for our first show at Proud
gallaries in Camden on friday which is set to be a classic.
We may very well have some exciting news soon so stay tuned!
Best
Rob and the TSG massive
So a few weeks later on and we're back in the studio to record Vocals
for the album after an action packed weekend of gigs, shmigs and
birthdays!
We've been busy planning the US stuff and getting ready for another
blast at Komedia this thursday and for our first show at Proud
gallaries in Camden on friday which is set to be a classic.
We may very well have some exciting news soon so stay tuned!
Best
Rob and the TSG massive
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