April - July......

........Ok, some thing to fill you on that we've been involved with over the past few months;

After our UK mini tour in January, we set about working on new material and playing it live as much as possible. However, this process was stunted by the closure of one of our favourite pubs/ practise space, The Fiery Angel in late April.

MAY

 

After this temporary set back, we quickly got back to practising on a regular basis, and the new songs began to breathe and take form.

We were grateful to be asked to headline the Fairview Convention, held at The Kemble pub, which gave us a great opportunity to play a new track, No Bonfires, as our opening song. This proved effective, so has remained an opening favourite.

We were also honoured to be asked to headline the Pomme stage at Wychwood Festival in Cheltenham. This was a great experience and again gave us tremendous confidence in our new songs!



 

 

JUNE

Over the course of the last month, we have built upon the new songs, as well as our current material, to the point where we now feel comfortable playing any set and drawing upon any of our songs, past or present.
This was put to the test when taking part in a battle of the bands competition for the up and coming Sports Beat festival in Gloucester. We got through to the second round of judges and were hugely inspired by the appreciation and respect we received from not only the judges, but the other performers.  This gave us a lot of confidence and has driven us forward.
We were also very excited about being asked to do a session for BBC Radio Gloucestershire! We were invited after having met Claire Carpenter at Whychwood Festival, who enjoyed our set and asked us to appear on the show.
This again was a great experience and really cemented our confidence in our new material, as we had the opportunity to record new song 'Lucy'. Tune in to BBC Radio Gloucestershire on Wednesday 3rd July to listen to this show.

Now

 

 

We are currently racking up more and more songs into our repertoire and we are preparing for our headline show on 5th July at Sound Music Venue, with Andy Oliveri and Welcome To Marathon supporting. We are really looking forward to this event and would love to see you all there! Please visit our Facebook page for more information.

Alternatively, visit our new shiny website for more information on up and coming shows and updates Visit here - -  http://www.stressechoes.com/


Oh, and finally, something I probably should have mentioned much earlier, WE ARE TOURING EUROPE IN SEPTEMBER!!!!! Well mainly Germany, but Holland and Belgium will also feature! This is courtesy of Songs And Whispers, who cater for bands looking to tour in Germany. We are EXTREMELY excited about this and are itching to air all of our material to a different crowd.

That's all for now.

Rest assured that you wont have to wait long until the next drop of Stressechoes knowledge.

L8ers!