THE END: 27 hours to go...

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!

THE END: Four days to go...

Dunno if you already saw it, but another ridiculously generous review of SOUVARIS SOUVARIS SOUVARIS, courtesy of Mr Tommy Dski, is at Pocket Jury: http://pocketjury.net/albums2011/. Thanks Tommy, the cheque's in the post!

Also check out the wholly accurate words about Kogumaza; an amazing band that we just so happen to be looking forward to sharing a stage with on Friday at The End Of This Band: http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/souvaris#content

Obligatory Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/294835213891238/

We've also done a final interview with Pawl Kalashnikov which should appear in next month's Left Lion. Think of it as a final eulogy. We can't promise that it will be any more enlightening than Dick Venom's...

Oh, and if you think this is all we've done recently you're wrong. We just got back from playing our principle Roadie Thing One's wedding, helped out by special guests Eleanor Lee and Christopher Baldwin. Spot the ex-Souvarian on Kerry King-besting guitar solo duties:

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

THE END: The preview

NEXT GIG: Saturday 26th November - LONDON

Aye up,

Cheers to everyone who came out to the shows with Zun Zun Egui last week. We had tremendous times in both Coventry and Nottingham and it was great to see some old friends and to meet some new ones.

Next up is OUR LAST GIG... OF 2011:



This'll be the first time we've played London in a couple of years, so we're really looking forward to it. The Gungo Ho lot are great people and have been waiting literally MONTHS for us to pull our thumbs out of our arses and start playing gigs, so we're grateful for their patience... more information here: http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/
It's only a fiver - in London - how cool is that? Hope to see you there!

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!

EUROPEAN TOUR 2010

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone who came out for our tenth birthday! We had an excellent time and really, really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks too to Ed Wood Jr and Fresh Eyes for the Dead Guy, both of whom threatened to blow us off the stage, and to all of you who indulged in munching cake, stomping on balloons and letting off pathetically weak party poppers. Left Lion have written a very kind review of the night here.

But now! We are about to depart these shores for some excitement (and 2,000-odd miles) in the continent, visiting France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany:

SOUVARIS EUROPEAN JAUNT NO.4

Friday 22 October | Liege, BE | La Zone
Saturday 23 October | Nancy, FR | Le Coup De Monocle
Sunday 24 October | Freiburg, DE | White Rabbit Club
Monday 25 October | Zurich, CH | Boschbar
Tuesday 26 October | Day off
Wednesday 27 October | Lyon, FR | Le Sonic
Thursday 28 October | Bordeaux, FR | Le Nouveau Locale
Friday 29 October | Day off

Saturday 30 October | Le Havre, FR | McDaid's
Sunday 31 October | Arrive home for for a nice cup of tea

As you can see, we have a couple of days off due to impending shows having to be cancelled. If you live anywhere near where we're likely to be (between Zurich and Lyon, and Bordeaux and Le Havre), and fancy having a sweaty sextet of young Englishmen take you out for a beer/play your front porch/crash on your sofa, please get in touch! Currently we're planning on investigating vinyards and avoiding getting caught up in riots. Fun! Email: ichbinsimmo@gmail.com.

To soundtrack this momentous occasion, our fourth (and most ambitious) European tour, we have prepared a load of mixtapes to soundtrack our glorious travels/counter terminal boredom encountered by spending 50% of each day in a smelly van. Here's a random slice of goodness for you - it's not very representative of our collective tastes (we argue about music all the time - it's one of the reasons we've stayed together), but more of what my (David's) aural receptors have been getting off on in recent weeks. Named in honour of a random pronouncement by Nick of Chameleon infamy, we present you with...

"Just Get Me A... Mermaid" - A Souvaris Mixtape
1. Leftfield feat. Afrika Bambaataa - Africa Shox
2. Sir Lord Baltimore - Master Heartache
3. Disco Inferno - It's a Kid's World
4. The Para-monts - I Don't Want To Lose You
5. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
6. W. John Ondolo - Tumshukuru Mungu
7. Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Mother's Love
8. Gavin Bryars - Raising the Titanic (Big Drum Mix)
9. PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
10. Harvey Milk - I Do No Know How To Live My Life
11. Speed, Glue & Shinki - Mr Walking Drugstore Man
12. Shorty - Coopie and Me
13. Daft Punk - Around the World
14. The Jesus Lizard - Boilermaker
15. Pumice - Pumiceraft
16. Mike Hanapi's Ilima Islanders - Hilo Hula

Enjoy!

SOUVARIS IS: TEN

Woot woot and word up.

In exactly one week's time we will have finished blowing sound down your earholes at the distinctly impressive Nottingham Contemporary - look, there's even a proper webpage and poster and everything here: http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/music-exchange-present-souvaris.

Then you might have noticed that we're heading off for our holidays in late October, stopping off in Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland for some quality shows (and Luxembourg for some cheap petrol, no doubt). But what are we going to do inbetween?

Oh yeah, it's only our MOTHERFLIPPING TENTH BIRTHDAY.

Yeesh, we've been pissing away our spare time, money and hearing on this shit for a decade now. Just think what much more productive things we could have done in the meantime. So what are we going to do to celebrate? Well, throw a fucking cool party, of course! We've invited some pals to play, and, heck, we'll even make some noise ourselves (and probably a load of different songs to the Contemporary gig). Simmo and Helene have been fantastic enough actual humans to organise a swanky Saturday night out for you all:
That's Saturday 16th October, at Chameleon, Nottingham.
SOUVARIS (Gringo, UK)
ED WOOD JR (Lille, FR)
FRESH EYES FOR THE DEAD GUY
...STOP EJECT
£5 / DOORS 8.30pm

Clique Clack is delighted to invite you to a warm-up show for Souvaris' upcoming European tour. In the spirit of international exchange, Ed Wood Jr from Lille, France will be representing the froggy side of the Entente Cordiale. Add a couple of local rock behemoths to the proceedings in the form of Fresh Eyes For The Dead Guy and Stop Eject, and you have yourselves quite in evening indeed! Mmmmmm.

Full details at http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=153931577958482

See you there! Bring cake. It's gonna get messy.

October 2010 Excitement: EUROPEAN TOUR 2010

Ho!

For the fourth time, the lumbering post-rock behemoth known only as "Souvaris" (apart from that time we were billed as "The Savouries", but let's not get into that one...) will plant all four paws firmly onto the continent and belt around Western European for a series of concerts across a few of our favourite places. Here's where we're orf to for our October holidays:

Friday 22 October | Liege, BE | La Zone
Saturday 23 October | Nancy, FR | Le Coup De Monocle (our favourite wine bar)
Sunday 24 October | Freiburg, DE | White Rabbit Club
Monday 25 October | Zurich, CH | Boschbar
Tuesday 26 October | Lyon, FR | super-secret activity that we couldn't possibly tell you about
Wednesday 27 October | Lyon, FR | Le Sonic (a boat! woo!)
Thursday 28 October | Bordeaux, FR | Le Nouveau Locale
Friday 29 October | La Roche Sur Yon, FR | Venue TBA

Saturday 30 October | Le Havre, FR | McDaid's
Sunday 31 October | Arrive home for for a nice cup of tea

Yup, that's 4 countries in 9 days! And about 3,000-odd kilometres to cover. Our trusty driver Jim "Thing One" Alexander is already in training and licking his lips in anticipation.

So come join us at a show if you feel so inclined (and live anywhere nearby)! We'll post some details about door times, prices and some of the lowlifes we'll be sharing a stage soon.

The live comeback: Thurs 30th Sept, Nottingham Contemporary

Alright, told you we were going to do something special for our first live show in 2010. Obligatory Friendface event page here (invite yourself!), or read the details below:


The Music Exchange Live and Prefab Kraut presents SOUVARIS
Date: Thursday 30th September
Time: 19:00 - 23:00 (band plays at 21:00ish)
Venue: Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Price: FREE (Record and CD donations gratefully received)

"Having not played in this city since the launch of their split album w/Sincabeza - "Clown Jazz" (Gringo Records), we're all looking forward to this show. http://www.myspace.com/souvaris
Exchange DJs Joey Bell and AntrØnhY 7pm onwards."

That's right, we've got the whole night to ourselves and we'll be the only band playing. So see you at the bar! God knows what we're going to play or how long we're going to play for, but if we play every song we've ever written we'll be on for at least 3 and a half hours. So we won't be doing that. Any requests (including joke cover versions)?

European tour and random mixtapes details coming soon.

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

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

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: