It’s been a few years since ‘Departure’ well and truly put IT on the UK prog map. The ensuing years have seen the band hard at work gigging and recording the new album at their own Spacehouse studios. Nick Jackson informs me that the album is 90% written and recorded but (like Departure) the album package is going to include several extras to make it even more special than the Departure CD/DVD double set.
September 2013 is now pencilled in for release.
Litterbug recordings and gigs have been few and far between recently, but they are now recording 4 new songs in the next month or so hopefully. Titles… ITS NOT FUNNY / SICK OF…. / LIVE IN A VAN / I DONT WANNA LISTEN TO THE RADIO….
In the pipeline are live internet streams and a visit to NYC. Wow!
Dropshard have slated 2013 as the year to release the follow up to the acclaimed debut ‘Anywhere But Home’. The band are now reunited with original bass player Alex Stucchi. We’ve only heard some rough MIDI files but the new songs look set to take the progressive rock world by storm.
As an interim treat take a look at this performance of The Musical Box, the Genesis classic which they performed with The Watch bass player Guglielmo Mariotti on 12 string guitar and backing vocals. Absolutely superb.
We’re back with a new minimalist website. We’ll be updating this one more regularly. Lots of legal issues regarding our former artist Steph Fraser (still unresolved) have been taking up my time. Basically we were informed that Island Records had signed her. They contacted us to say they were interested in the website and back catalogue.
We’re now waiting for further developments before we can assess the impact on our back catalogue and steph’s website stephfraser.co.uk
We’re still on the lookout for new material and we are really pleased with our ongoing collaborations with Aurovine and Fundervine.
Look out for new albums by Dropshard and IT in 2013.