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…
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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
Monday, 6 April 2009
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
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