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Hello everyone! This is not really an event, more of an ongoing project...Ever wished someone you know and love was in a wildly successful rock band? Well your dreams could well come true.We'vejust...
Hello everyone, well, we entered a battle of the bands to play Truck so, like Dancing Bears that we are, please come and support us!BBC Introducing Battle of the Bands Thing - Wednesday 22nd July - Th...
Cockermouth Tomorrows is the name of a brand new musical, written by Borderville, which we will be enacting live from tomorrow onwards. The plot runs thus:
Plucky young band Borderville climb in a van and go to Cockermouth in the Lake District in the pissing rain to play a festival called CockRock 09. Will the trusty Bordervan make the journey? Will Joe cope with the weather after honeymooning on a Greek island for a week? Will James impress his girlfriend sufficiently that his on-stage marriage proposal will be successful? Will Woody finally tell Matt how he feels? Featuring classic songs such as 'I Said Turn Left', 'Lake of Feelings', 'That's Not Mist (I'm Just Crying Microscopic Tears)', and 'The Swearing Paradox Rock' this episodic farce is not to be missed.
All of which is just another way of saying that Borderville will play the Slingshot Stage at 16:15 on Sunday at the wonderfully named CockRock festival in Cockermouth this weekend. So if you're in Cumbria and have a paltry £30 to spare you can see them play and the Holloways and Max Raptor and all sorts of others. http://www.cockermouthrock
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Plucky young band Borderville climb in a van and go to Cockermouth in the Lake District in the pissing rain to play a festival called CockRock 09. Will the trusty Bordervan make the journey? Will Joe cope with the weather after honeymooning on a Greek island for a week? Will James impress his girlfriend sufficiently that his on-stage marriage proposal will be successful? Will Woody finally tell Matt how he feels? Featuring classic songs such as 'I Said Turn Left', 'Lake of Feelings', 'That's Not Mist (I'm Just Crying Microscopic Tears)', and 'The Swearing Paradox Rock' this episodic farce is not to be missed.
All of which is just another way of saying that Borderville will play the Slingshot Stage at 16:15 on Sunday at the wonderfully named CockRock festival in Cockermouth this weekend. So if you're in Cumbria and have a paltry £30 to spare you can see them play and the Holloways and Max Raptor and all sorts of others. http://www.cockermouthrock
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Hey kids.We got a nice review of Glambulance from the chaps at OxfordBands.com, namely, our new favourite one, Mr Tim Lovegrove. You can download the tune at http://www.borderville.com
From Joby Mullens:
"If Borderville needed to submit a dubious expenses claim it could be for theatrics – such is the overblown, dramatic of their performances, no-one would bat an eyelid.
Without fail the quartet bring the house down show after show and tonight is no exception.
The stage lights dim and candles flicker eerily on tables in the audience as singer Joe looms centre stage, chanting repetitively into a cradled mic – as if enacting some kind of paganistic ritual, the only thing missing being the sacrificial slaughter of a lamb or some-such creature.
Opening single Short Sharp Shock is a musical stab to the jugular with its abrupt riff, barked vocals and cascading piano melodies, while on a new number Joe Swarbrick croons theatrically about Berlin being like a blank canvas like only a drama graduate in love with the stage could.
Teetering and toppling on the verge of the abyss of preposterousness but managing to keep balance, Borderville resurrect the thrill of the glam rock era and could well be on a mission to save music."
Thanks Joby! Although I was actually singing Sunarise by Rolf Harris at the beginning of the show, I just did it in a moody fashion.
Joe xx
"If Borderville needed to submit a dubious expenses claim it could be for theatrics – such is the overblown, dramatic of their performances, no-one would bat an eyelid.
Without fail the quartet bring the house down show after show and tonight is no exception.
The stage lights dim and candles flicker eerily on tables in the audience as singer Joe looms centre stage, chanting repetitively into a cradled mic – as if enacting some kind of paganistic ritual, the only thing missing being the sacrificial slaughter of a lamb or some-such creature.
Opening single Short Sharp Shock is a musical stab to the jugular with its abrupt riff, barked vocals and cascading piano melodies, while on a new number Joe Swarbrick croons theatrically about Berlin being like a blank canvas like only a drama graduate in love with the stage could.
Teetering and toppling on the verge of the abyss of preposterousness but managing to keep balance, Borderville resurrect the thrill of the glam rock era and could well be on a mission to save music."
Thanks Joby! Although I was actually singing Sunarise by Rolf Harris at the beginning of the show, I just did it in a moody fashion.
Joe xx
First things bloody first: the results of the Culinary Competition, or Come Dine With Thee or whatever the.
Day 1 - late result:
Woody: 8
Day 4: Pork BBQ with Burgers (beef), Sausages (pork) and Steaks (pork), Stuffed Sweet Red Peppers, Paprika Baked Potatoes, Cous-Cous and Burgers (soya). James sort of cooked it. James manned the BBQ most of the time, but James did have considerable help from Chris and Moira, who own the house and studio. In fact, Moira was the one that ensured we weren't just eating burnt pork with our hands while squatting like noble savages. So that has altered his scoring somewhat.
Joe: 7
Matt: 7
Woody: 8
So here are the scores on the doors:
In joint second place it's James, Woody and Joe with 22 points.
In first place with 27 it's Matt. Matt wins nothing but the honour.
OK.
Phew.
Right. Well, our week at Vale Studios has been absolutely amazing - we've come up with some really cool stuff and we've finished that goddamned album. It's great working intensley for a week and it's not something we normally get the chance to do - all sitting in a room at once (and a lovely, air-conditioned, leather-sofa-d room full of vintage gear at that) and mixing was a fruitful experience. Only once did I feel the need to start shouting or stabbing, and Woody managed to avoid fruity talk of his preferences until the early evenings.
The results of our labour are three tracks, thusly titled:
1. Flights - it sounds a bit like Lights Part II, a bit like the Polyphonic Spree or I'm From Barcelona or one of those bands, and a bit like the hugely-underrated Dogs Die In Hot Cars. Basically, it's pop genius, with a rockabilly middle-eight, a huge chorus and a verse that sounds a bit like Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown (spotify it if you dare...not for the weak of stomach). Could it work? Why yes! After MUCH practice, mind.
2. Blood On The Kitchen Floor - somewhere between The Leonard Cohen and The Arcade Fire...chimey guitars that sound like organs, Closing Time-era Waits-style piano and a genuinely morbid vocal. Interestingly, some Hammond organ has appeared on the track even though we never recorded any...more than a bit creepy...
3. GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE!
And here's the Brucie Bonus: you can download Glambulance for free! HERE: http://www.borderville.com
Only the people of Evesham incurred our genuine wrath. Now, I'm a tolerant man...but I also believe strongly that if you wish to sell an aubergine, you should know what one is. And it is not a courgette, for it is a different colour to that particular fruit (seeds). And with sideburns like mine, I could not possibly be seventeen years old.
Anyway...we are happy and so close to a finished album that it's like waiting for Christmas. But wait we all must...
We're playing this Wednesday at the Jericho in Oxford and it looks like it might be our last show for a good while, so come down to that.
Signing off,
Joe xxx
Day 1 - late result:
Woody: 8
Day 4: Pork BBQ with Burgers (beef), Sausages (pork) and Steaks (pork), Stuffed Sweet Red Peppers, Paprika Baked Potatoes, Cous-Cous and Burgers (soya). James sort of cooked it. James manned the BBQ most of the time, but James did have considerable help from Chris and Moira, who own the house and studio. In fact, Moira was the one that ensured we weren't just eating burnt pork with our hands while squatting like noble savages. So that has altered his scoring somewhat.
Joe: 7
Matt: 7
Woody: 8
So here are the scores on the doors:
In joint second place it's James, Woody and Joe with 22 points.
In first place with 27 it's Matt. Matt wins nothing but the honour.
OK.
Phew.
Right. Well, our week at Vale Studios has been absolutely amazing - we've come up with some really cool stuff and we've finished that goddamned album. It's great working intensley for a week and it's not something we normally get the chance to do - all sitting in a room at once (and a lovely, air-conditioned, leather-sofa-d room full of vintage gear at that) and mixing was a fruitful experience. Only once did I feel the need to start shouting or stabbing, and Woody managed to avoid fruity talk of his preferences until the early evenings.
The results of our labour are three tracks, thusly titled:
1. Flights - it sounds a bit like Lights Part II, a bit like the Polyphonic Spree or I'm From Barcelona or one of those bands, and a bit like the hugely-underrated Dogs Die In Hot Cars. Basically, it's pop genius, with a rockabilly middle-eight, a huge chorus and a verse that sounds a bit like Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown (spotify it if you dare...not for the weak of stomach). Could it work? Why yes! After MUCH practice, mind.
2. Blood On The Kitchen Floor - somewhere between The Leonard Cohen and The Arcade Fire...chimey guitars that sound like organs, Closing Time-era Waits-style piano and a genuinely morbid vocal. Interestingly, some Hammond organ has appeared on the track even though we never recorded any...more than a bit creepy...
3. GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE! GLAMBULANCE!
And here's the Brucie Bonus: you can download Glambulance for free! HERE: http://www.borderville.com
Only the people of Evesham incurred our genuine wrath. Now, I'm a tolerant man...but I also believe strongly that if you wish to sell an aubergine, you should know what one is. And it is not a courgette, for it is a different colour to that particular fruit (seeds). And with sideburns like mine, I could not possibly be seventeen years old.
Anyway...we are happy and so close to a finished album that it's like waiting for Christmas. But wait we all must...
We're playing this Wednesday at the Jericho in Oxford and it looks like it might be our last show for a good while, so come down to that.
Signing off,
Joe xxx
Welly welly welly.We've just finished recording everything and it's amazing. I've not much idea what any of it sounds like. Dudes, prepare. Dudes, listen. Dudes...Culinary news:Day 1: macaroni c...
It's the day before we head off to record a new set of songs and we are happy. The sun is working properly and our new songs are also working properly.We've melded polka, rockabilly, post-punk and l...
All this from a chap named Joseph Rowan...
http://www.musosguide.com/
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The coining of glib new hybrid genres seems to be an ever popular activity in music journalism. If one had to create such a genre for Oxford-based oddballs Borderville the words “glam punk” may come to mind, after a few minutes of searching. The influence of androgynous ’70s rockers is fairly clear in ‘Short Sharp Shock’ - it bears more than a passing resemblance to The Sweet’s ‘Ballroom Blitz’ and is also reminiscent of Bowie’s glam anthem ‘Suffragette City’.Yet the band have a strong theatrical influence as well, like a jollier counterpoint to The Dresden Dolls’ brand of “punk cabaret”.
The overblown vocal harmonies and sudden guitar rock-out in the middle of ‘Short Sharp Shock’ wouldn’t be too out of place in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but the best, and most unexpected, part of the track is the vaudeville inspired piano part that kicks in just before the two minute mark.
Ultimately one gets the impression that the band are trying to squeeze slightly too much into the song’s relatively modest running time: a bit of space would have allowed the ideas on show here to develop nicely. However, the slightly manic throw-everything-in style the band are clearly going for is definitely fun, and helps attain a certain level of theatrical showmanship. Plus, as an added incentive, the single comes with a completely pointless yet irresistibly silly techno remix, further suggesting that Borderville are a band one you can have a fabulous fun time with.
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Excellent. Thanks, Joseph.
If you haven't heard the single yet - you can download it from Amazon, Napster, iTunes et al...
http://itunes.apple.com/We
http://www.musosguide.com/
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The coining of glib new hybrid genres seems to be an ever popular activity in music journalism. If one had to create such a genre for Oxford-based oddballs Borderville the words “glam punk” may come to mind, after a few minutes of searching. The influence of androgynous ’70s rockers is fairly clear in ‘Short Sharp Shock’ - it bears more than a passing resemblance to The Sweet’s ‘Ballroom Blitz’ and is also reminiscent of Bowie’s glam anthem ‘Suffragette City’.Yet the band have a strong theatrical influence as well, like a jollier counterpoint to The Dresden Dolls’ brand of “punk cabaret”.
The overblown vocal harmonies and sudden guitar rock-out in the middle of ‘Short Sharp Shock’ wouldn’t be too out of place in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but the best, and most unexpected, part of the track is the vaudeville inspired piano part that kicks in just before the two minute mark.
Ultimately one gets the impression that the band are trying to squeeze slightly too much into the song’s relatively modest running time: a bit of space would have allowed the ideas on show here to develop nicely. However, the slightly manic throw-everything-in style the band are clearly going for is definitely fun, and helps attain a certain level of theatrical showmanship. Plus, as an added incentive, the single comes with a completely pointless yet irresistibly silly techno remix, further suggesting that Borderville are a band one you can have a fabulous fun time with.
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Excellent. Thanks, Joseph.
If you haven't heard the single yet - you can download it from Amazon, Napster, iTunes et al...
http://itunes.apple.com/We
The coining of glib new hybrid genres seems to be an ever popular activity in music journalism. If one had to create such a genre for Oxford-based oddballs Borderville the words “glam punk” may come to mind, after a few minutes of searching.
Greetings peoples,It is Thursday....A mundane fact? Perhaps. Perhaps so mundane, you find yourself about to tear the eyes from your head and imbibe the inner fluids. But this is not just any Thursd...