http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk The Autumn Store is Birmingham's night of indiepop, and this is it's blog. Topics include music and gig reviews, tips on promoting, maybe guitar chords for songs I love, and music chit chat in general. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:01:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Robots records are releasing what looks like it will be a fantastic electronica/pop compilation on 29th September - entitled Botpop Volume One. There's a heap of information on their myspace. They've got some great bands on it, including the outstandingly lovely Hong Kong in the 60s, Birmingham's Mike In Mono, and ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/154 KateGoes are doing a theme tune for a new BBC sitcom called Coming of Age. The production team have joined forces with new music strand BBC Introducing to find the perfect original theme tune for the show. Kate Goes, a young, unsigned band, has been chosen to work with experienced composer ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/150 One of the "must haves" at Indietracks was the Liechtenstein canvas bag, which was available at the merch stall and was the perfect solution to having more items than you have hands. The penny dropped a few weeks ago that the picture is of the Clydesdale Tower and Cleveland Tower, that ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/144 This is Tomorrow have organised quite a POPshow at The Yardbird on the 3rd of September! I'm particularly looking forward to see The Bumblebees, who are a young pop band from Bristol and they've played at Spiral Scratch before. Plus it'll be good to see Das Wanderlust play in Birmingham again. I'm ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/142 Of all the bands who I saw at Truck Festival earlier this year, the most ace band that I'd not heard before were We Aeronauts. They played on the Saturday in the pub tent plugged in with keyboards and electric guitars etc but they also recorded this video below on the ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/139 Death Cassettes are a new Birmingham cassette label. I can't tell you much about this other than what it says on the Death Cassettes myspace - "We play Death Metal, 80's Disco, Ghetto Crunk and Chicago Pop in the space of 3 minutes. Death Cassettes. Two Sides to a Tape. Great. ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/135 The next in my occasional series about how to put on a gig, (I really wanted to call this post Money-go-Round after The Haywains song but thought a more descriptive title was in order) Much of this post may obvious if you’ve got a bit of experience about playing or putting ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/116 Is not only a Smittens song, but it's also shaping up to be an ace new indiepop night in Glasgow. The first one is in the the Kitchen Area of The Flying Duck on Saturday 13th of September and hopefully it'll be a regular thing. They have a myspace and there's ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/108 I’ve finally got my head round Indietracks enough to be able to have a stab at blogging it (or in fact blogging anything as you may have noticed).I’m not sure the classic gig review format of 'I-did-this-and-it-was-either-good-or-not-so-good-actually' works when extrapolated out to a whole festival without it being either dull ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/105 Another quick post reminding you of good upcoming gigs and nights. I promised I'd do more of this!Friday 18th July - Robot vs Dinosaur are running a free night at the Island Bar with more excellent electronica and interestingly named genres.Tuesday 22nd July - Ooh, this is one of ours. ... http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/104