Big fat update

Hello Sparrow friends! We're overdue an update, but it's a good 'un :) As of today our album Playtime is out everywhere! You can buy the cd (and some other tasty merch) directly from us here, or download via itunes here, or all the usual suspects etc... If you really want to do the right thing, we'd love you to pop along to your nearest indie record store and buy it there (they'll be able to order if it's not already in stock), because proper record stores make the world go round! Well mine anyway.

We've just had a couple of great reviews for the album, including a four star review in the Sunday Times , and being made album of the week on Tight Mix Blog (who are also streaming the album all week if you want to give it a listen). Ta very muchly to those who have been saying nice things about us, you're lovely.

Other exciting news from recent times includes that we've been played on BBC 6 Music by both Jo Good and Tom Robinson (not Rom Tobinson as I originally typed), which was a bit of a dream come true for all of us. We also did a live session on BBC South for Phil Jackson, who is as far as we're concerned, THE MAN. That was a great evening, and a special thanks to Dan for doing sound and making us feel very at home.

Right that's it for now. Go buy the album! (Please)...

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Secret single edit video!

Here's our video for our first proper single "Secret', out February 2011 via Numbskull/TCF/Proper Dist.

This video was really fun to make, we filmed it all ourselves on one handheld camera and all in one shot! We passed the camera around inside the car as we were driving and mimed along to the music from the CD player. Different sections of the song were at different speeds for us to mime to, which is why the outside of the car moves at what looks like a different speed to the inside of the car :)

So when we edited the video we had to slow down or speed up different sections of what we'd filmed, so then it would line up with the song at the right speed. It was a little confusing... In all fairness the magnificent Barney Douglas did all the editing, I just lay on his sofa.

Hope you enjoy, let us know what you think!

Ali

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Things.

Here are some things that have happened since our last blog post.

We mailed out all the promos for the february release that are going to radio and magazines etc.



Bryn got married! It was a lovely day and everyone had an awesome time. Lots of love to Bryn and Pip from all of us xx

We also played an awesome gig at The Good Ship in Kilburn, with Vicky Smith standing in on bass while Bryn was on his honeymoon.

We're playing at The Hydrant in Brighton on Saturday with The Stars Down To Earth, The Beautiful Word and Dead Cars. Come along - it's going to be a fun one!

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Playing in London

Come and see us playing at the Good Ship in Kilburn this Saturday 25th September!

Check out the facebook event for all the details. It's our first London gig and it'd be lovely to see you there :)

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Everyone Leaves video!

Big thanks to Josh, Matt and Jamie for making us this great video for our song Everyone Leaves!



Check out their other vids here.

Playtime

It's exciting for us to announce that we've been signed to a brand new indie label Numbskull HQ to do a national release of our first album! If you check out the older posts here at Our Street you can follow the progess of our mini self release of the album, which sold out quickly and has now lead to a very nice deal with Numbskull HQ - which will let us get the album out nationally and hopefully get some more press and exposure for the record.

We're really chuffed with how things are going with Numbskull - they are a very artist friendly bunch and are very supportive of what we are trying to do musically, so we're looking forward to working with them!

Right now we're working on a music video for the single, which is going to be an edit of Secret, and will come with a couple of remixes as well as the full length album version. We're also working on some of the practical things like deciding exactly how the album will be packaged and getting the cds printed up!

We'll keep you up to date with what's going on... In other news, our next gig is at Hector's House in Brighton, on the 5th of August. We're headlining a night with The Stars Down to Earth and Bucket Joy - should be a good one!

If you're looking for anything else to do in the next week or so, we massively reccommend dropping in on WITIDE the fourth on Wednesday the 4th... :D

Caz xx

Good afternoon...

We've started writing some new songs. You can see us gigging a brand new one called Down River at the moment, and we've got a few more in the pipleine which will gradually trickle into the setlist over the next few months. We're loving playing the album songs out and about, but we're all itching to start really working on our new ideas, so keep a look out for them...

This summer is looking good for Sparrow. We'll fill you in again soon!

Meanwhile, come and check us out at The Albert on July 24th in Brighton :)

Right now I'm listening to School of Seven Bells - they're great, might even have to check them out at Resident on Wednesday... :)

Caz xx