Over the last few months we have been busy working with the guys in Epic26. Hopefully you have been following along, have caught them live and\or received some preview tracks from their new self titled E.P.  Which, now complete will be released on Mon 8th June.

In celebration of the E.P. release we are hosting a launch party on Sat June 6th @ Edinburgh’s newest venue Electric Circus. We were down there earlier in the week and they have really made an amazing job of the refit (it used to be the club Massa) lots of personality in the decor, a great lighting rig, A.V. equipment I haven’t even seen in a venue before and most importantly a serious P.A. system!

Joining Epic26 on the night will be Edinburgh clubbing phenomena Tokyo Blu whose remix of Epic26’s “Sorry It Hurts” features on the E.P. Also featuring on the E.P. as a bonus is one of Tokyo Blu’s original tracks. Which is kind of a unusual thing to do but we feel that by introducing Epic26’s fans to Tokyo Blu’s music we are contributing to strengthening the music community in Edinburgh.

Everybody who buys a ticket to the launch party will receive a copy of Epic26’s new CD on the door. You can get your ticket at the advance price of £5 via the widget at the bottom of this post.

This is obviously an important night for Fredag & Epic26 and we would love to see you all there to share in this celebration of a record we are all very proud of.

All the best

David

Being an early adopter (read sucker) I have been on Twitter for nearly 2 years. I have to admit initially I didn’t really get into it but that really changed when I found an iPhone app to “tweet” from and I was able to fit it in around my life.

Since then I have gotten our artists into Twitter and they have loved it . When people asked what the hell Twitter was I would always refer them to this video:

Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Now of course the celebs have piled in, its getting old media attention . Which has grown awareness of what is a great social network.

Which brings me to the reason for todays post: Twestival . Which is happening 12th Feb in over 175 cities around the world bring together the Twitter community in meatspace for an evening of fun and music to raise money and awareness for charity: water . 

Fredag artist Epic26 is fortunate to be headlining the Edinburgh Twestival and will be joined by our good friend The Amazing Rolo .

Tickets sold out pretty much immediately for this event but fortunately the whole thing is going to be live video streamed and live audio streamed on Second Life by the good folks at AICR who are ANOTHER worthy cause.

There is another way you can support charity : water. Bloc Party, Epic26, Mystery Jets & over 160 other artists\labels have donated tracks to Twestival.FM who will be streaming them in exchange for donations. 

So find out more about charity : water , give what you can afford and get plugged in to the Twestivals in Edinburgh and round the world . 

All the best

Twitter.com/DavidMurray

Happy new year everyone! I hope most of your hangovers have faded by now, though if you were at the Epic26 party then probably not!

2008 was full of ups and downs but mostly ups thankfully. It was a busy year for Fredag with many many gigs and lots of hard work in the studio which resulted in Any Color Black’s first record the “Touch Me EP” and the completion of Epic26’s new record which will be released in Q1 this year.

Any Color Black has produced a cool short video to profile their 2008 :

Our 2008 from Any Color Black on Vimeo.

As well as a remix\cover by way of a new years gift:
Keep Me Hangin On - Any Color Black
download here (right click, save as)
Originally written by Holland\Dozier\Holland but this version is closer to the one by Kim Wilde\Ricki Wilde.

Looking forward to this year we are kicking it off with two big shows in Glasgow.

Epic26 are playing their first gig of 2009 at the legendary Glasgow Barrowland on Sat 10th Jan, you can get your tickets from the band by email or here.

Any Color Black are kicking of a UK tour of the O2 Academy venues @ the Glasgow Academy on Sat 17th Jan, you can get your tickets from the band by email or here.

Thanks to our artists, partners and the fans who have supported us in 2008 and I hope to see you all at our first shows of 2009.

All the best

David

Taking the title of the EP as inspiration, audience members were photographed and then made into a collage for the front cover. Fans were also asked to submit their own footage taken on the night through a bluetooth receiver.

An electro rock duo from Glasgow, consisting of Louise and Andy, their ‘house-rock’ sound developed from their meeting at 4am one morning on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street while in search of some post drink snacks and a taxi home. Having recently supported Ladyhawke and Goose, they will play the Buff Club and The Mill before a Academy Live tour at the beginning of 2009.

All the details on the Touch Me EP including the artwork in all its full glory can be found on the www.TouchMeEP.com mini site.

joining them on the bill is epic 26 and the amazing rolo