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!

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!

SEXY WORM GETS THE BIRD

Zun Zun Egui - Fandango Fresh from Bella Union on Vimeo.

Somehow this song is even better when performed in the flesh by possibly the best live band in the country right now. If you're in Nottingham, do pop by the Contemporary after 8pm tonight and find our FOR FREE:


http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/zun-zun-egui-souvaris-and-johnny-crump

THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: Coventry and Nottingham shows with Zun Zun Egui!

Hi folks,

We don't seem to have blogged about this, but the gigs have been up as dates for ages, so hopefully you've noticed that we're playing at Taylor John's House in Coventry this Thursday (tomorrow!) and then at Nottingham Contemporary on Friday (free show!). Both are in the excellent company of our exalted friends and insanely fantastic band ZUN ZUN EGUI.

Facebook events with full details are here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112532672178408
and here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=227891143933263

We'll have copies of our new album in advance of its December release, so bring yer readies. See you there!

FUCKSTICKS

Really sorry for the late, late notice, but unfortunately we've had to cancel our appearance at A Carefully Planned Festival today due to illness. We're really sorry to disappoint anyone who was planning on seeing us!

A CAREFULLY FLAMMED PESTIVAL

A Carefully Planned Festival update: 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!

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!