Elba Sessions

Firstly, a reminder that you can still hear the Elba Sessions Podcasts with Dean Owens, Pearl and The Puppets and Le Reno Amps on our myspace page. I’ll hopefully get a couple of them up here on the blog soon.

Elba Studios have just been awarded the YMI demo fund from the Scottish Arts Council, more news to come on that soon.

September’s Elba podcasters and the busiest band in showbiz, Le Reno Amps, seemingly not content with releasing The Stand Off EP on Monday (21/09/09), have released a follow up to their album Tear It Open with a new compendium of B-Sides, covers and a few remixes, including a remix of The Stand Off by The Cinematics. Inventively titled Torn Open, it is available at their forthcoming shows and from the fantastic Drift Records. A word of warning though, a trip to the Drift shop will inevitably result in bankruptcy with the sheer quality of artists on their roster. Le Reno play a couple of shows in London and Bristol this weekend along with fellow ‘Drifters’ Something Beginning With L and Muddy Suzuki before returning north to play the 13th Note next Thursday (24/09/09) with Super Adventure Club, Peter Parker and the new look Elvis Suicide as part of the Merchant City festival. We’ll be heading along to that and can’t wait!

In other news, we are just about ready to announce full details of the first Elba Sessions @ The Free Candy and we are very excited about the line-up!! Also, I was so happy to read this earlier. Totally rad!

Anyway, off to blast out some Pavement to drown out Coldplay’s racket at Hampden.

Just an update on the goings on at Elba Studios. Daniel Wylie is in the studio recording today working on his forthcoming album which is sounding great. Norman Blake is also making his way to the West End to help out! An exciting day in prospect!

We are also busy planning our first Elba Sessions live shows. Mark October 8th in your diary and keep your eyes peeled for more info in the very near future!!

Hi Guys,

The Le Reno Amps Podcast for September is now up and it’s brilliant!!! You can hear it right now on our myspace.

We thought we would give a bit of background since you may have noticed that it’s over two parts. This is down to us having loads of material to use which includes 3 exclusives for Elba.

We eventually got the session down to 30 minutes.

In Part 1 you can hear live performances of All You Gave Me, Golden Futures & You Do Your Thing as well as chat about the new EP, Drift Records and much more.

In Part 2 you can here chat about Le Reno future ventures (4th & 5th album chat) and the sessions finish with a brilliant performance of Long Gone.

Note – All You Gave Me & Long Gone are exclusives that don’t appear on any Le Reno releases; Golden Futures is from The Stand Off EP; You Do Your Thing appears on LRA 3rd album Tear It Open.

Enjoy!!!