We’ve been pretty quiet since Indietracks. It was an honour for us to be the opening band in the Shed, and just plain brilliant to finally make it to the festival. Indietracks is a perfect model for festivals – small enough to be manageable, a great bar, and lots of fun to be had on the trains as well as on the stages. It was quite something for us to be on stage and watch the Shed fill up as we played. We finally met Roque, who put out our first EP, “A Visit” on Cloudberry Records, and got lots of nice feedback (we were delighted by the Drowned in Sound review of the weekend) – only downside was Grant ending up with a ripped thumb and blood all over his bass (as Jimmy McGee said, ‘putting the punk back into twee’).
We did manage one new song since the summer, which appeared on the WIAIWYA christmas compilation, “Christmastime, approximately” – we’ve got five copies to give away, ready for chrimbo 2011 – just email us and tell us where Carlos comes and the first five will have a copy in the post.
Our Come Outside EP is nearly sold out. Something like 8 copies left and then that’s it. It’s a nice feeling.
We’re starting 2011 helping out Darren Hayman on his amazing January Songs project, where he writes and records a song every day for the month of January. We’re up on Sunday 23rd – wish us luck! After that, we’re back in the rehearsal rooms at Antenna Studios to write a bundle of new songs, with the idea of having an album ready for the end of the year.
Happy new year to all you good people from us three Hillfields…
The Hillfields 