ECHOES

Hello world! So we’ve been quiet, we know, we’re sorry. BUT, we’ve been working on something that we hope you all will enjoy and it’s ready!  Well, almost, but ready enough to give the (not so secret) game away.  Our new EP “Echoes” will be released through Ubiquity Project Records on Saturday 25th May!

Echoes will have four new tracks recorded by us over the winter at Silver Street Studios, we have played a couple of them live once or twice and they went down really well. We hope you’ll enjoy the other two just as much.  Echoes represents a slightly different direction to our older recorded material and perhaps is the culmination of the changes started back when we renamed ourselves to Noise Trade.  As artists we continue to evolve and that process is always a slow one, but we really feel that these four tracks sit together as a whole and represent where we are at the moment. We are incredibly proud of the EP and can’t wait to share it with you all.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!… wait, what do you mean it’s almost February??

Evening all.

So 2012 has been great for us, but we hope 2013 will better!

Firstly, gigs.  We are playing live at the Queens Arms on Great Knollys St in Reading on the 2nd February with the very wonderful Violet Class, Terrics and the Cottenettes.  It’s a fiver to get in, but you can save a £1 here by buying in advance:

www.wegottickets.com

Doors 8pm till very late; £3 a pint £2.50 a shot (if you’re so inclined).

We have some exciting prospects lined up in the summer so I suggest you keep you eyes affixed to Facebook and arrange absolutely no trips abroad at all for the forthcoming months.

Secondly, the EP.  Well what can we say, it’s on schedule for release on the Ubiquity Records in May/June time.  These songs are slowly creeping into our live set, so even more reason to come see us.

Thirdly.  Speaking of the Ubiquity Records.  Some lovely things coming up:

1) The August List and Vienna Ditto are playing at College Arms in Reading, tomorrow!!

2) Bear & the Woods have released another EP entitled Sink or Swim.  You can buy it here.

3) A ubiquitous gig in the future?? Maybe…

So eyes wide, stand up straight and ears ajar, we’ll speak with you soon.

Long live fruit cake,

Noise Trade / Lyndon x

Some acoustic music for y’all.

Last week we quietly rocked up to Woody’s Open Mic Night to play a few songs for the nice people of Farnborough.

I Won’t Hold Back

Whatever It Takes

Out Of Time

We also played our semi final of Hubcap Promotions Battle of the Bands and successfully progressed to the final which will be played on Saturday December 8th.  Here are some photos…

Prologue I and the Battle of the Bands! (plus a bit extra)

Some years ago Graeme, Max, Chris and Lyndon set about recording some tunes.  It really is about time that we shared them with you as Noise Trade.  So, it’s with great pleasure we give you PROLOGUE I (click the image above).  Three tracks, free to download or stream at your leisure.  Enjoy and rest assured there are more where these came from!

Last week we also won the first heat of Battle of the Bands run by Hubcap Promotions.  This was a bit insane in truth, we all seemed to have some sort of outer body experience.  So the upside of this was we all had a great night and we get to play in the Semi’s next week.  Can’t say better than that!

So come support the Noise Boys (we’re trying to make this a thing) on Saturday 17th @ the College Arms on Wokingham Rd, Reading around 8pm.  Drink promos, live music and FREE ENTRY!!

Here are some wicked live shots from the first battle taken by the very lovely Joe Rideout:

We’re so cool!  But not as cool as you’d be if you came to the semi-final on Saturday!!!

OK, enough self promotion.  UPR buddies The August List are releasing their EP Handsome Skin on Saturday, to help make matters more complicated they are also playing live at the Harcourt Arms in Oxford on saturday too, and appearing on Reading4U radio show at 6pm on Sunday!  So, buy the EP, listen to the radio show and if you really can’t make it to the College Arms we implore you see these guys play!

And if that wasn’t enough Bear and the Woods are playing on Saturday too at the Rising Sun.

We are truely Ubiquitous, so if you haven’t liked the label on Facebook yet, do it now.  Also look out for everyone on twitter, no doubts they’ll be updates galore!

Right! TO BATTLE!!!

Noise Trade / Lyndon

Episode One – We’ve Been Busy

Start of a Journey

This Sunday we’re heading into the studio to start recording some new music. One song, Neverwhere, you may have heard us perform live at our last two shows. It may take us a while to get it perfect, but we’re determined to do just that.  There will be more formal announcements of what we’re working on sometime. But for now, this is just a post to let you know that we’re alive and well and very excited to be working on something new.

This is going to be great!

First of all: A huge thanks to everyone who came to support the Noise Boys at Wickedfest last night. Needless to say, but it was the sweatiest, tiniest and (in my case) bounciest venue so far, but regardless we had an absolute riot.  So thanks to Bones, all the bands that played, and the people who continue to support and motivate us!

 

NEWS:

Right let’s get to it.

Last night saw us play the first of what will be a new set of material.  This as-yet-un-named-song will eventually become our next single and will also be our first release as Noise Trade under The Ubiquity Project label.  It’s about time to be honest, I mean what have we been doing with ourselves all this time?!

GIG:  So, if you missed us at Wickedfest (shame on you) you’ve got one more chance before we take a hiatus to hibernate into the studio.  This Thursday we’re playing at Plug’n'Play in Reading in the Best Before Fest.  Even if you’re not going to Reading Festival this weekend, this is still a great opportunity to see some absolutely class bands, including our label buddies Kicking Television and my personal recommendation Sleep Room.  This is what you need to know:

• How much?: £5 (on the door)
• When?: THIS THURSDAY!! (i.e. the 23rd August)
• Time?: 7.30pm (we are on stage 7:50pm prompt)
• Where?: At Plug’n'Play Studios (33-35 Milford Road, Reading, RG1 8LG)
• Who?: Just about everyone who’s anyone!

Enjoy the rest of the week and we’ll see you on Thursday.

Noise Trade Baker

Important information about WickedFest.

I’m sure you all know that the Face Bar has been closed a while, and why. It was initially intended to reopen in time for WickedFest, but unfortunatly that is not possible.  The long and the shoft of it is this: We are now playing our WickedFest show next door at The Butler venue on SUNDAY 19th AUGUST, a day later. All tickets are still valid and please still do come along and support local music and us!

On a lighter note, we intend to play a couple of new things that we’ve been working on to keep it fresh for those who have been to see us recently already. So please do still come along if you can! Tickets are £5 in advance and £6 on the door.

Dear Internet, we played some shows

I’m gonna keep this brief. Over time I’ve found that words are like heroin in that the more you use them, the more likely you are to have to inject them straight into your genitals for them to properly take effect.

So a week or so ago we did music at people until we ran out of music to play for 3 days in a row. To all of you who came out for any one of those, let alone more than one of them, I cannot possibly thank you enough. We love playing music together and we probably WOULD play to an empty room forever and be pretty content, but it is genuinely awesome that we don’t have to.

It was also great to play with such an eclectic and interesting array of cool local bands, from our labelmates Kicking Television (http://www.facebook.com/WeAreKickingTelevision) through high adrenaline hardcore band Escape Artists (http://www.facebook.com/UKEscapeArtists)to Pendulum inspired hiphop/rock fusion UKID (http://www.facebook.com/UKIDmusic). All hugely talented bands as well as genuinely nice guys.

Special thanks to Nico Di Cillo, Hubcap Productions, Producktions and all the other promoters, sound guys, venue staff and anyone who took and sent us cool pictures of the nights.

Speaking of pictures, here are some

Noise Trade at the Starr in Guildford (Picture by Graham Smart)

Noise Trade at the College Arms in Reading (Picture by Producktions)

Noise Trade at K3 in Reading (Picture by Clare Allison)

Well anyway, those gigs were cool as heck but we must look onward! We’re headlining the saturday of WickedFest, put on by Wicked Boy Promotions. It’ll be at the Facebar in Reading. Last time we played there was pretty damn excellent and this time it can only be better, louder and more intense. It’s on the 18th of August, tickets are a fiver. Be there.

Upcoming Shows

Hey gang*

We have FOUR (!!) shows booked that we’d like to tell you about.

Firstly, we are playing with our friends and label mates Kicking Television as they play their first show since releasing their début single. Find the join the Facebook event here. It’s at the K3 bar in Reading town centre, near The Hope Tape. It looks like a nice venue and not a total rip-off drinkswise either. KTV are great and it should shape up into a great gig.

Secondly, we’ll be down in Guildford on FRIDAY 20th playing the famous Star Inn. We don’t know a lot about the show yet, but there will be an entry price and a few other bands playing, naturally. I’ll keep this blog updated.

Then on SATURDAY 21st: we’ll be playing in the College Arms on the Wokingham Road. We’ll be opening that show. There is a diverse range of full, loud bands playing. Here’s the flyer:

Finally, we’re headlining the Saturday of WickedFest this year! We’re really psyched about it!

Totally amazing, please put it in your diaries as we will need your support! Weekend tickets look like a good buy!

Lots of love,

Noise Trade

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*There probably isn’t a gang.