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

Thursday, 3 September 2009

CANCELLED: FREE GIG in a car park in Shoreditch - Sat 19th Sept 09

***THIS GIG HAS BEEN CANCELLED - APOLOGIES***

Clique Clack and This Is Not A Canvas present:

WAX STAG (People In The Sky)
SOUVARIS (Gringo)
THE TALL POPPIES

In A Car Park On The Whiston Estate, Shoreditch E2 8SE
10am - 10pm (live bands 5 - 9.30pm)
FREE ENTRY


WAX STAG
8-bit electronic joy with live powerhouse drumming = YES. Music to dance (in a car park) to. Check out the youtube video below, and then tell me you don't want to throw some awkward shapes all over that shit.

SOUVARIS
Once described as "clown jazz", expect rhythmic, textured and slightly silly grooveable rock - part Tortoise, part Fela Kuti, part Supertramp. Not as bad as that sounds - rather good in fact.


THE TALL POPPIES

This event coincides with European Mobility Week and aims to demonstrate the versatility of car parks as urban spaces. Not only shall fine live music be at your disposal but you'll also have the opportunity to sample the:

URBAN GARDENING
FILM SCREENINGS
BICYCLE WORKSHOP
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES

And much more. Read more here:
http://thisisacanvas.blogspot.com

See you there!

More details, links, photos and videos here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125036863911&ref=nf

And here's the best music video of 2009 as a treat for you:

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Get Married? Get Lost!

Hi Folks,

Just a quick note to tell you that "Get Married", our European Tour 2009 CDR has now SOLD OUT. That's it. No more copies. Nada. You missed out. Sorry!

More news soon.

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Yo! Bum rush the show!

Just a quick note to say that we're down to our last ever copy of the European Tour 2009 CDR, "Get Married". If you want it, better act quick and click on the Paypal button below. We've also found the last! ever! copy of our split 7" with The Workhouse that came out on Awkward Silence waaaaay back in 2003, so let us know if you want that one too.

Oh, and someone has asked us to play a gig in a car park in London this autumn. It sounds brilliant - more details soon!

Monday, 6 July 2009

New blog? New shows? Same old shit.

So, the old website is dead and with it a gazillion unnecessary words and whatnot. From this point onwards, this here blog will act as your gateway to Souvaris information. We'll be expanding the Flickr account too so that we can put some more of the literally thousands of photogrpahs we've amassed over the years and you can have a good giggle.

Seeing as we've been going a good few years now, we'll be offering a series of future posts about previous recordings and releases, with links to where you can buy the good shit or just download the old shit for free. It'll maybe give our back catalogue some kind of coherent narrative too, which could be interesting. Or it could be a load of old cobblers. We'll just have to find out together! Good, yeah?

There's also the question of how we publicise when we're playing live. Gigs will posted onto our Myspace and Facebook pages (see links just over here--->), and we'll blog about stuff when we know about it. Right now we have nothing confirmed for future live performances. If anyone wants to book us for a gig, get in touch (souvaris[at]gmail[dot]com). We are handsome, well-behaved and dead funny:





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
SOLD OUT


"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




CHECKOUT:


Sunday, 28 June 2009

Welcome, welcome

Hey there, welcome to the new Souvaris blog. This fucker will be replacing our bloated old website in favour of a streamlined approach to updating you about the band and what we're up to. We'll also be posting up some links to free MP3s and offering an online shop service again so you can buy our music for cheap direct from us. Watch out!

In the meantime, we'll also be continuing to update two nefarious social networking sites:
MYSPACE
FACEBOOK

Feel free to drop us a line with suggestions for what content you want to see!