Ho!
A third preview for tomorrow's sob-filled shenanigans courtesy of the ever-excellent KNEEL BEFORE ZOD:
And have that much-promised LAST EVER interview with Pawl Klotschkow/Kalashnikov at Left Lion:
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/souvaris/id/4289
Until tomorrow!
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
Friday, 10 February 2012
THE END: One week to go
Bloody hell. In 8 days' time this band will not exist. It's hard to process.
We heard that some people were getting charged a fiver a ticket when they bought in advance from certain outlets. This has now rectified... if you did get charged a fiver, let us know and we'll ensure you're refunded your pound at the door on Friday.
We've been in touch with various friends and families as we make plans to HAVE A GODDAMNED PARTY on Friday night. It's going to be messy and we look forward to joining you at the heart of it. Personally, I can't wait to see Kogumaza busting out some new material and Gareth Hardwick playing something so new and secret that he can't tell me any details about it! Oh, and seeing YOU there.
See you in a few days.
svrs
xxxx
We heard that some people were getting charged a fiver a ticket when they bought in advance from certain outlets. This has now rectified... if you did get charged a fiver, let us know and we'll ensure you're refunded your pound at the door on Friday.
We've been in touch with various friends and families as we make plans to HAVE A GODDAMNED PARTY on Friday night. It's going to be messy and we look forward to joining you at the heart of it. Personally, I can't wait to see Kogumaza busting out some new material and Gareth Hardwick playing something so new and secret that he can't tell me any details about it! Oh, and seeing YOU there.
See you in a few days.
svrs
xxxx
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
THE END: The second preview PLUS TICKET DETAILS
Tickets now available online from Gigantic (booking charges apply, sorry) or in person from the ever-fabulous Music Exchange in Snottingham.
Enjoy!
Monday, 9 January 2012
Saturday, 31 December 2011
AN ANNOUNCEMENT: The end is nigh. No, really.
Greetings,
As the final hours of 2011 trickle by and the (Gregorian calendar-reading) world's attention turns to 20 and the 12, so the members of Souvaris also turn our attentions to new things. We're sorry to say that from Saturday 18th February 2012, this band will cease to exist.
We're extremely proud of what we have achieved with SOUVARIS - SOUVARIS SOUVARIS. It's the culmination of over 2 years of work (including a few self-inflicted delays, admittedly) and quite honestly we don't know where to go from here. Our lives are now in such different places to where we began and our energies are diverted into other avenues to the point where it is difficult to get us all in one place, let alone in a position to make more music. So we've decided to stop.
Now into its twelfth year, we never for a moment imagined that this band would come to dominate more than a decade of our lives, playing hundreds (just about) of shows around the UK and Europe, sharing stages with some of our favourite bands and meeting too many of the loveliest people imaginable who we are now proud to call friends. Looking back across the years stretching back to the late months of 2000, we have innumerable fond memories to look back on and share as stories whenever we see each other.
)
This goes back to include our two former (and founder) members Mike Beevor and David Moult, both of whom are both still dear friends and brothers in arms. The seven of us actually managed to get ourselves into the same room for the first time in memory - twice in the space of a fortnight! - to celebrate the marriages of David S and Simmo in the summer of 2011. Look! Here's a picture, taken by our esteemed friend Romain Didier of Crëvecoeur and Jean-Elliot Senior:
So what do we do now? Well, first we have to persuade you to buy SOUVARIS - SOUVARIS SOUVARIS so that Matt Gringo makes back some of the cash he spunked on getting it pressed. All our relatives got predictably red CD-shaped presents this year. Why didn't yours? BUY BUY BUY. It's our legacy. Our swansong. One last bow. Etc. You get the picture.
The second thing we decided to do was to at least do one last hurrah; or rather ONE LAST GIG before we call time on things. We're still planning various things to put a special evening together for anyone who decides to come, but you can rest assured that it probably won't be like the KLF. Full details will be forthcoming, but we have booked THE SPACE at Nottingham Contemporary for Friday 17th February as the air-infused vacuum in which we will perform our final show. So put the date in your diary, or just add this Facebook event to it: http://www.facebook.com/events/294835213891238/. There'll be more soon.
Lovingly,
SVRS
xxxx
As the final hours of 2011 trickle by and the (Gregorian calendar-reading) world's attention turns to 20 and the 12, so the members of Souvaris also turn our attentions to new things. We're sorry to say that from Saturday 18th February 2012, this band will cease to exist.
We're extremely proud of what we have achieved with SOUVARIS - SOUVARIS SOUVARIS. It's the culmination of over 2 years of work (including a few self-inflicted delays, admittedly) and quite honestly we don't know where to go from here. Our lives are now in such different places to where we began and our energies are diverted into other avenues to the point where it is difficult to get us all in one place, let alone in a position to make more music. So we've decided to stop.
Now into its twelfth year, we never for a moment imagined that this band would come to dominate more than a decade of our lives, playing hundreds (just about) of shows around the UK and Europe, sharing stages with some of our favourite bands and meeting too many of the loveliest people imaginable who we are now proud to call friends. Looking back across the years stretching back to the late months of 2000, we have innumerable fond memories to look back on and share as stories whenever we see each other.
)
This goes back to include our two former (and founder) members Mike Beevor and David Moult, both of whom are both still dear friends and brothers in arms. The seven of us actually managed to get ourselves into the same room for the first time in memory - twice in the space of a fortnight! - to celebrate the marriages of David S and Simmo in the summer of 2011. Look! Here's a picture, taken by our esteemed friend Romain Didier of Crëvecoeur and Jean-Elliot Senior:
So what do we do now? Well, first we have to persuade you to buy SOUVARIS - SOUVARIS SOUVARIS so that Matt Gringo makes back some of the cash he spunked on getting it pressed. All our relatives got predictably red CD-shaped presents this year. Why didn't yours? BUY BUY BUY. It's our legacy. Our swansong. One last bow. Etc. You get the picture.
The second thing we decided to do was to at least do one last hurrah; or rather ONE LAST GIG before we call time on things. We're still planning various things to put a special evening together for anyone who decides to come, but you can rest assured that it probably won't be like the KLF. Full details will be forthcoming, but we have booked THE SPACE at Nottingham Contemporary for Friday 17th February as the air-infused vacuum in which we will perform our final show. So put the date in your diary, or just add this Facebook event to it: http://www.facebook.com/events/294835213891238/. There'll be more soon.
Lovingly,
SVRS
xxxx
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
FINALLY RELEASED: Souvaris Souvaris Souvaris Souvaris Souvaris Souvaris Souvaris...
Hey ho chaps and chapettes,
Some obligatory HUGE THANKS to Emma and the lovely blokes from Dear Thief/Gung Ho and Doig and the dudes at Power Lunches for having us at a super-special, super-sweaty London gig the other weekend. We had a hugely enjoyable time playing and seeing lots of faces old and new. If you came out; we salute you.
But now, to business, for this week finally marks the official release of SOUVARIS - SOUVARIS SOUVARIS. Some of these songs took literally months to write, and we first started working on recording the whole thing over 2 years ago and only just managed to finish it this summer, so it's extremely gratifying to have it released by our great friends and still hugely vital Nottingham-loving label Gringo Records. Similarly, in these times of massive cutbacks, record labels and distros dying on their arses and shops going tits-up, it's extremely kind of Cargo to take on a record as uncommercial as ours and stick a few copies in local record shops... if you're lucky enough to live near any that still exist, we implore you to go out and support it by buying AS MANY COPIES AS YOU CAN.
You mean you haven't heard it yet? Well my dear, here are some thingummies from Bandcamp and Soundcloud:
Latest tracks by souvaris
And if that sonic onslaught didn't persuade you, we received one of the most well-considered and thoughtful of our venerable 11 years courtesy of the generous Tommy Dski at Pocket Jury:
"Somewhere between [NEU!75 and Can's "Landed"] is the wonderful Souvaris, an amalgamation of the inventiveness of early krautrock with western pop music, creating something of a unique art-rock sound. The surging crescendos favoured by many post-rock bands are still there but the sense of dynamics is far more varied, with many moods covered over the forty minute duration... one of the great British treasures at the absolute peak of their considerable power."
I think we all genuinely blushed when we read this review - so many thanks to Tommy.
Now what are you waiting for? It's the perfect Christmas present! Buy one for yourself! Buy one for your other half! Heck, buy our Gringo's entire stock so we can stop owing Matt so much money as well as all the good karma he's passed our way over the last few years! BUY! BUY! BUY!
Some obligatory HUGE THANKS to Emma and the lovely blokes from Dear Thief/Gung Ho and Doig and the dudes at Power Lunches for having us at a super-special, super-sweaty London gig the other weekend. We had a hugely enjoyable time playing and seeing lots of faces old and new. If you came out; we salute you.
But now, to business, for this week finally marks the official release of SOUVARIS - SOUVARIS SOUVARIS. Some of these songs took literally months to write, and we first started working on recording the whole thing over 2 years ago and only just managed to finish it this summer, so it's extremely gratifying to have it released by our great friends and still hugely vital Nottingham-loving label Gringo Records. Similarly, in these times of massive cutbacks, record labels and distros dying on their arses and shops going tits-up, it's extremely kind of Cargo to take on a record as uncommercial as ours and stick a few copies in local record shops... if you're lucky enough to live near any that still exist, we implore you to go out and support it by buying AS MANY COPIES AS YOU CAN.
You mean you haven't heard it yet? Well my dear, here are some thingummies from Bandcamp and Soundcloud:
Latest tracks by souvaris
And if that sonic onslaught didn't persuade you, we received one of the most well-considered and thoughtful of our venerable 11 years courtesy of the generous Tommy Dski at Pocket Jury:
"Somewhere between [NEU!75 and Can's "Landed"] is the wonderful Souvaris, an amalgamation of the inventiveness of early krautrock with western pop music, creating something of a unique art-rock sound. The surging crescendos favoured by many post-rock bands are still there but the sense of dynamics is far more varied, with many moods covered over the forty minute duration... one of the great British treasures at the absolute peak of their considerable power."
I think we all genuinely blushed when we read this review - so many thanks to Tommy.
Now what are you waiting for? It's the perfect Christmas present! Buy one for yourself! Buy one for your other half! Heck, buy our Gringo's entire stock so we can stop owing Matt so much money as well as all the good karma he's passed our way over the last few years! BUY! BUY! BUY!
Monday, 12 September 2011
A CAREFULLY PLANNED FESTIVAL
Hot off the monitor screen: Souvaris will be appearing at Manchester's Carefully Planned Festival on Saturday 15th October.
We're rather pleased about it. It's been a while since we've played Manchester! Hopefully we'll have physical copies of our new album, "Souvaris Souvaris", to sell by then too. Hot cakes, goddammit!
More details about the event soon including full line-up and what time we'll be playing.
xxx
EDIT: We'll be playing at Gullivers at 10pm on Saturday 15th - that's tomorrow!
Weekend tickets are only £10 in advance from wegottickets and day tickets are £7 on the door.
You can see a full programme of the weekend at ACarefullyPlannedFestival.wordpress. Other bands playing include our good friends The FTSE 100, PLANK! and Crash of Rhinos - check it out!
We're rather pleased about it. It's been a while since we've played Manchester! Hopefully we'll have physical copies of our new album, "Souvaris Souvaris", to sell by then too. Hot cakes, goddammit!
More details about the event soon including full line-up and what time we'll be playing.
xxx
EDIT: We'll be playing at Gullivers at 10pm on Saturday 15th - that's tomorrow!
Weekend tickets are only £10 in advance from wegottickets and day tickets are £7 on the door.
You can see a full programme of the weekend at ACarefullyPlannedFestival.wordpress. Other bands playing include our good friends The FTSE 100, PLANK! and Crash of Rhinos - check it out!
Monday, 22 August 2011
SOUVARIS SHOEVARIS SCHMOOVARIS
Jesus, another blog post? Already? What possibly could the occasion be? Oh, just THIS. Out in October y'all:
OH YEAH.
OH YEAH.
Sunday, 21 August 2011
AWAKENING FROM OUR SLUMBER
Hola!
After successfully maintaining radio silence for another extended period over the spring and summer, the behemoth that is THE SOUVARIS finally peeps open an eyelid and stirred at the start of August. After successfully sleeping through the marriage of two of its members and a whole lot of other things going on in everyone's lives, we finally got together and decided: IT'S TIME TO FINISH THE ALBUM.
And guess what? We actually went and did it. Okay, it took Matt Gringo threatening to castrate the lot of us if we couldn't get our act together for an October release, and then the promise of playing with our good friends (who also have their own, incredible, album coming out) Zun Zun Egui if we could get things sorted out in time, but we finally, finally have finished it. And it only took 21 months. Easy.
So, we worked our arses off...
(well, some of us did)
... and a few long days, late nights and good-natured arguments later, we haz dun it and it's finished. THANK GOD FOR THAT.
More news with some details of what to expect soon, but in the meantime, visit our new Facebook page - the old group got deleted - where you can find some sexy new information. Don't bother with Myspace though, it's old hat and we hate it. You probably do too.
Toodle-pip!
s.v.r.s.
xxxxx
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Souvaris/Sincabeza - "Clown Jazz" digital release - available now!
Dear friends without record players,
Fret not! If you buy a copy of the new LP, you'll find a download code snuck inside so you can get your digital kicks alongside those (admit, much nicer sounding) superior analogue sounds emanating from your stereo.
Alternatively, if you don't want a weighty great 12" clogging up space in your fashionable abode, you can always buy a digital version of the Souvaris side to clutter up your hard drive instead. And you should be able to find a version in just about any format you could possibly want!
Check out http://souvaris.bandcamp.com, or just have a click below:
Fret not! If you buy a copy of the new LP, you'll find a download code snuck inside so you can get your digital kicks alongside those (admit, much nicer sounding) superior analogue sounds emanating from your stereo.
Alternatively, if you don't want a weighty great 12" clogging up space in your fashionable abode, you can always buy a digital version of the Souvaris side to clutter up your hard drive instead. And you should be able to find a version in just about any format you could possibly want!
Check out http://souvaris.bandcamp.com, or just have a click below:
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Souvaris/Sincabeza - "Clown Jazz" split LP (Gringo Records), released 22nd February 2010
So, the first new release in 18 months is about to be let out the door... full details and a full stream of the entire record here:
http://www.sincabeza.org/sincavaris/
We'll put up some links to reviews as and when we approach the 22nd February release date, but don't delay! this record is limited to 500 copies and when they're gone they're gone! You can buy yourself a copy from a decent independent record shop if you live in the UK, or you can get one direct from Gringo records for a mere £8.50:
http://www.gringorecords.com/catalog/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=397&osCsid=s6sjb82t860b3vlderrhcmpm56
Nice, eh? Ooh, and don't forget we're playing two special gigs to celebrate the launch of this beauteous beast, in Manchester and Nottingham! After that, it will be silence from us, as Aaron is about to spend six months finding himself in India. The rest of us will be recording the remainder of our long-in-the-works third album, which we're hoping to complete sometime before the end of the year. But more on that later.
Lovingly,
Souvaris
xxxxxxx
Sunday, 10 January 2010
The January 2010 Microtour is soon to commence!
Femmes! Hommes! Garcons et filles!
Sorry for the prolonged silence, but we've beavering away in the background on some new recordings.... However, with our split LP with Sincabeza finally approaching a firm release date (more details when we know them), we though we should drop a quick note to let you know that we will be embarking on the smallest tour ever in a couple of weeks time. TWO whole consecutive shows in two different cities! First up a trip to Manchester, followed by an LP launch party in Nottingham. Crikey!
THURSDAY 21st JANUARY
@ THE RETRO BAR, MANCHESTER
w/ These Monsters, FTSE 100
7.30pm / £5
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=165966476748&ref=ts
FRIDAY 22nd JANUARY
@ CHAMELEON, NOTTINGHAM
Celebrating the release of our split LP with Sincabeza on Gringo Records
w/ Tenebrous Liar, Hatchling
8.30pm / £5
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=252147462501&ref=ts
Very soon we shall write with solid news about exactly where, when and how you can buy our forthcoming release on Gringo - we are expecting copies back from the pressing plant any day now....
Hopefully see you at one of the shows - do say hello.
Toodle pip,
Souvaris xxx
Sorry for the prolonged silence, but we've beavering away in the background on some new recordings.... However, with our split LP with Sincabeza finally approaching a firm release date (more details when we know them), we though we should drop a quick note to let you know that we will be embarking on the smallest tour ever in a couple of weeks time. TWO whole consecutive shows in two different cities! First up a trip to Manchester, followed by an LP launch party in Nottingham. Crikey!
THURSDAY 21st JANUARY
@ THE RETRO BAR, MANCHESTER
w/ These Monsters, FTSE 100
7.30pm / £5
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=165966476748&ref=ts
FRIDAY 22nd JANUARY
@ CHAMELEON, NOTTINGHAM
Celebrating the release of our split LP with Sincabeza on Gringo Records
w/ Tenebrous Liar, Hatchling
8.30pm / £5
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=252147462501&ref=ts
Very soon we shall write with solid news about exactly where, when and how you can buy our forthcoming release on Gringo - we are expecting copies back from the pressing plant any day now....
Hopefully see you at one of the shows - do say hello.
Toodle pip,
Souvaris xxx
Sunday, 6 September 2009
FLOODIT 3: Saturday 26th September 2009
WASTEYOURSELF & GRINGO RECORDS PRESENTS
Floodit - An evening of live music & screen printing at The Art Organisation with
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Live Music from:
PART CHIMP - http://www.myspace.com/partchimp
Back in Nottingham for the first time in over two years, in support of their new album, "Thriller". My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr play loud but their tunes have never really had the heaviness to match their mammoth volume. Part Chimp, however, match their cacophonous sound levels with the weightiest rock imaginable. Their records are released by Rock Action Records (founded and maintained by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai).
SOUVARIS - http://www.myspace.com/souvaris
Souvaris are a 5 piece rock band from Nottingham, UK, comprising of two guitarists, bass, synths and drums. Now nine years old, the band has spent the best part of a decade building their reputation as one of the UK’s most inventive and versatile acts. This autumn will see a new split release with Bordeaux’s excellent art-rockers Sincabeza on Gringo Records. Having played countless shows with bands ranging from Do Make Say Think to Polar Bear, The Shipping News to Thee More Shallows, Fly Pan Am to old friends Explosions in the Sky, Souvaris deliver a live show that is as entertaining as it is subtle, as direct as it is layered.
BAD GUYS - http://www.myspace.com/badguysfuckingrock
BAD GUYS played their first gig at ATP curated by The Melvins and Mike Patton. Neither knew BAD GUYS were gonna play but they did it anyway. You ever seen someone crowdsurf in a living room? BAD GUYS have. You ever seen Jared from The Melvins force his way through your window to get to your gig? BAD GUYS have. You ever trashed a place so bad it needs to be rebuilt from scratch? BAD GUYS have.
GUILTY PARENTS - http://www.myspace.com/guiltyparents
Punk trio knocking out snarling garage punk which'll make your nuts swing taking in influences like Die Kreuzen, Make-Up, The Mummies and the Bad Form.
Special guest DJ:
EXTNDDNTWRK - http://www.myspace.com/extnddntwrk
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Live Screen Printing from:
Julie West, N4T4, Philth, Billy, One Ten Eleven, Stu Subism, Waste, I dress myself, Chris Baldwin.
"£5 A PULL" Bring your own tee and customise with any artists work for just £5.00
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8pm - midnight
£4.50 advance tickets available from Anarchy Records (no booking fee) and http://www.wegottickets.com/event/57648 (50p booking fee). Advance ticket holders will get a free poster on the night, while stocks last.
Fully licensed bar - so please don't bring your own booze as you will not be allowed in with it.
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This event is supported by our good friends at:
Subism / I Dress Myself / Spinsters Emporium
Monday, 29 June 2009
ONLINE SHOP
Hey folks, been looking to get some Souvaris music in a physical format? We know it's not that easy to track down our stuff, especially as a lot of it has flitted in and out of print down the years. Therefore, we are now offering a public service - buy our music direct from us! Here's what's currently available that we have in stock - with free postage to wherever you are in the world!:
"GET MARRIED" European Tour 2009 CDR - 50 numbered copies only!
Four songs, 45-odd minutes of music.
£5.00, including postage worldwide
"A HAT" (2007) CD album, on Gringo Records
Six songs, 65-odd minutes of music.
£7.50, including postage worldwide
"UNTITLED" (2003) 12" vinyl, on Telesphere Records
Two of our oldest songs, 25-odd minutes.
£3.50, including postage worldwide
"GET MARRIED" European Tour 2009 CDR - 50 numbered copies only!Four songs, 45-odd minutes of music.
£5.00, including postage worldwide
"A HAT" (2007) CD album, on Gringo RecordsSix songs, 65-odd minutes of music.
£7.50, including postage worldwide
"UNTITLED" (2003) 12" vinyl, on Telesphere RecordsTwo of our oldest songs, 25-odd minutes.
£3.50, including postage worldwide
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