Pete Greenwood, Heavenly troubadour and sometime Loose Salute guitarist, plays a series of gigs in the lead up to the Festive Season. The first four are with Danny & The Champions Of The World, the latter gigs are as part of a Green Man Festival tour.

November

18th - JDP, Oxford
20th - Glee Club, Birmingham
21st - Firefly, Leicester
22nd - Betsey Trotswood, London

The Green Man tour dates...
 
25th  Glasgow – Captains Rest 
27th  Newcastle – All Saints Church
28th Manchester - Dulcimer 
30th Eaglescliffe – Waiting Room 
 
December
 
1st  London - Luminaire
3rd Bristol - Cube Cinema 
4th Cheltenham - Slak Bar 
6th Brighton - Unitarian Church 

Ticket prices vary from town to town, check locally for more information.
 

Sorry about the blatant bit of advertising here... but, what the hell... from the makes of The Social's in-house magazine, Socialism, comes the Rough Pub Guide... published today by Orion, it's a celebration of the Great British Boozer - part guidebook, part paean to a disappearing Britain, and part investigation into a completely insane drinking culture. It's a road-trip across the British Isles and a celebration of some of our most unique public houses - establishments where food is an afterthought, but a decent atmosphere and original Double Diamond beer pumps are prerequisites. Available here, website here. Join our Facebook group, we're doing competitions and giving away free beer... possibly... Cheers!

Sorry for a delay - here's the Paypal stuff for the Forever Heavenly merch... Pictures are posted in the Flickr section on the right hand side of this page (can't load pictures to here and can't be bothered to waste anymore of your time!). Rough Trade might be taking a few if you're in that neck of the woods... Please note that bags are currently out of stock - if you're interested, mail us (info@heavenlyrecordings.com) and we'll print a few more. Cheers!
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Blue t-shirt sizes

Small £10.00 Medium £10.00 Large £10.00 X-Large £10.00

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Green t-shirt - sizes

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Hi Folks,

With the nights drawing in and the onset of winter imminent we thought it an appropriate time to release some new Loose Salute material to warm your cockles!! As of today the single "Why'd We Fight?" Is available for download on iTunes here. It features 2 NEW tracks, "Karate Chop" which The Independent described as 'a ballad clear as glass in its pure construction, which Linda Ronstadt would have been begging for back in Laurel Canyon in 1971' and the whiskey-soaked, soulful stripper-stomp "Nudie".  To support this release the band will be having a party and playing live at the Colony Room Club, a legendary soho institution that has been a private members club for artists and bohemians such as Francis Bacon, George Melly and Damien Hurst, since the 1950's. It's a chance to spend an evening at a really special hangout and soak up some of that decadent atmosphere with The Loose Salute providing the soundtrack. Climb up the creaking stairs with us and enjoy the place for a last time before it closes forever in December. Thursday 16th October at 8pm. We've also made a rather beautiful video for 'Why'd We Fight?', check it out on our myspace page.
Finally, we are happy to report that we've been busy beavering away on new songs and will be recording them soon. They will form the basis of the follow up album to 'Tuned To Love'. We're all pretty excited about the new tunes and can't wait to share them with you, plus we're still hoping to put together a full UK tour before the end of the year to play the songs from 'Tuned To Love' and maybe a few of the new ones!!, we'll keep you posted on that. stay warm, love Ian & CO XX

Just setting up a Paypal account so we can take orders - the merch is all up online in the Flickr section just down on the right hand side of this page - scroll down, have a look, chose your products and email me - prices and details on here start of next week, sorry for the delay, you'll have them just in time for the Indian summer... honest... we'll also be doing the 40 page programme for gigs here too, it's a freebie, postage and packing only. cheers!

Pete Greenwood hits the road with a guitar and a headful of songs over the next couple of months in support of his debut album "Sirens". If you're quick, there's a free download of the title track from the record on the front page of the iTunes store. Anyways, Pete plays at:

Sep 23rd - London, 229 (supporting Eugene McGuiness)
Sep 27th - London, Nail The Cross Festival
Sep 28th - London, Amersham Arms
Oct 5th - Manchester, Forever Heavenly In The City gig at the Deaf Institute
Oct 27th - Brighton, The Freebutt (headline)
Nov 9th - Bristol, Start The Bus
Nov 13th - London, Hoxton Bar and Kitchen (supporting James Yuill and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man)

Ticket prices vary from venue to venue - check locally.

...over at our friend Neil Thomson's website - he shot every single thing... these are the first fruits of his labour. He was the first man there every day and the last man standing at the weekend. Thanks dude, fucking incredible work!

Edwyn exhibition at The Smithfield Gallery, 21 October – 1 November, 2008 
 
"Edwyn Collins’ legendary music history as one of the UK's most respected singer song-writers, runs from his early years as the founder of Glasgow’s acclaimed indie rock outfit Orange Juice in the late 1970s and early 1980s, to a long-standing solo career which continues into the present day, most recently releasing the solo album Home Again, on Heavenly Recordings. 
 
"Collins' creative output has not been confined to music however. The son of an art lecturer, Collins began sketching at school and later trained to be a draftsman. From the outset one theme demanded his attention: British Wildlife. 
 
"Whilst building his musical career, Collins harboured a private dream to revise and update the prints of Archibald Thorburn in Lord Lilford's of the British Isles, first published c1880. The detailed draughtsmanship of each coloured plate fascinated Collins and encouraged him to replicate these images with 
outstanding precision. However, bird illustration soon became incompatible with the life of a successful pop star and the hobby wained. 
 
"Having suffered a life threatening brain hemorrhage in February 2005, Collins’ life was put on temporary hold. Affecting his main motor skills, speech and walking, the priorities of survival dominated the next period of his life. However, it was during the process of rehabilitation, and gradually regaining his abilities, that Collins again re-found his love of illustration. Whilst speech, playing music and mobility were taking their time to recover, Collins focused his attentions on art. Re-learning to draw with his left hand, from October 2005 Collins has drawn one bird, studiously, every day, each titled and dated, and mapping this extraordinary process of recovery via art. 
 
"For the very first time this October, Edwyn Collins’ drawings will be exhibited in a London gallery, detailing a diary of recovery and an impassioned rediscovery of a love of illustrated bird life."

The Smithfield Gallery 
16 West Smithfield 
London  
EC1A 9HY
Tel: 020 7489 7550
 
Smithfield website