BBC Radio 3 – Warm Digits collaborate with Field Music – 26/1/12
Next week, we have a special radio broadcast – a session for BBC Radio 3′s Late Junction – a collaboration between Field Music and Warm Digits.
When we released our album, it tickled Late Junction’s interest enough for them to invite us for a session. Their sessions are unique, one-off collaborations between musicians and bands who haven’t worked together before. So in early December, we spent a day at BBC Maida Vale Studios with Field Music.
You will, surely, all know Field Music : David and Peter Brewis from Sunderland, who’ve released a chain of glorious, uniquely coiled and beguiling melodic pop albums over the last six years (the latest one, Plumb, is coming soon). Marc Riley says they’re currently the best band in the country, and that sounds about right to me. So we were very excited that we had this opportunity to spend a day making music together.
We composed and recorded four completely new pieces of music together on the day at Maida Vale, and these form our session for Late Junction. We’re very pleased with how they’ve turned out and can’t wait for people to hear them.
The session will be broadcast on Thursday 26th January on Late Junction, from 11pm, on BBC Radio 3.
You’ll be able to hear it afterwards for a week on BBC iplayer and also on a downloadable podcast, both accessible from the Radio 3 Late Junction website.
You can see some photographs from our recording session at Maida Vale on Facebook.
Upcoming gigs
FRIDAY 27th JAN 2012
DURHAM
Jam Jah – Allington House, DH1 3ET
SATURDAY 28th JAN 2012
MANCHESTER
FAC 251 – The Factory, 112-118 Princess St
8pm, £6
Tickets
FRIDAY 17th FEB 2012
LONDON
Andrew Weatherall Presents “A LOVE FROM OUTER SPACE”
WARM DIGITS + NIGHT ANGLES
DJs: ANDREW WEATHERALL + SEAN JOHNSTON + OPTIMO (ESPACIO)
The Garage, Islington
£5 + BF – Tickets
Event website
THURSDAY 8th MARCH 2012
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
The Great Northern Presents
FUTURE ISLANDS + WARM DIGITS + WAY THROUGH
The Cluny, Lime St, Ouseburn
8pm, £8
Tickets
Facebook Event Page
Warm Digits’ Debut Album Available Now!
“Keep Warm… with the Warm Digits” is our first album and it is OUT NOW on Distraction Records of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on deluxe double gatefold vinyl and download.
You can mail-order the vinyl (with download card) here and here, buy a download via Bandcamp, Amazon or itunes, stream it on Spotify, or buy it in person in Newcastle at RPM and Beatdown.
Hear three songs from the album over at Soundcloud, or watch a film accompanying “Weapons Destruction” here.
Andrew Weatherall says it’s “machine funk kraut-a-delia. It’s rather lovely!”. The album gives you ten tracks of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics; taking our cue from the hypnotic repetition of Neu!, the textural overload of My Bloody Valentine, the glacial otherworldliness of Emeralds, and the sensuous modernity of cosmic disco. There are hints in the mix too of Eno, Giorgio Moroder and Holy Fuck, along with a pinch of Brian Eno-esque melody. Get to it!
Tracklisting:
Warm Welcome
Keep Warm
Trans-Pennine Express
Weapons Destruction
Grapefruit
One Track Groove (Living Stereo)
The Surplus Of Seeing
A Warm Front, Coming From The North
The World In Small Doses
Here Come The Warm Digits
A short film for “Weapons Destruction”
Here’s a mindblowing handmade 16mm film by our friends Deborah Bower, Mat Fleming and Annette Knol using our tune “Weapons Destruction” from the forthcoming Warm Digits album.
Pre-order the album now!
Pre-orders for “Keep Warm… with the Warm Digits” are being taken now!
It’s out on September 5th, but you can pre-order from the Distraction Records website and bandcamp page NOW for only £11.99 (+ £4 P+P UK, £6 Europe, £8.50 RoW)!
Orders will be despatched a few days before release day. Orders via bandcamp are a quid more expensive to compensate for their cut, but you do get a bonus track – Happiness is a Warm Digit – as part of your download and you get Weapons Destruction to download right away! Oh yes, and each vinyl will come with a download card, as all vinyls should do these days.
Booking dates now for a tour in October
We are now booking shows for a UK tour in October!
Bookings via Lee at TUSK MUSIC ; find full details here: “like Neu! and Cluster formed a supergroup with Giorgio Moroder, Emeralds, Kevin Shields, early 70′s Eno and Keith Levene”.
We’ll post full tour dates here when they’re confirmed.
Album Sampler available to stream & download
You can now hear and download three songs from our forthcoming album on our Soundcloud page or via the player on the right.
Album Launch Party – Sep 3rd, Star & Shadow, Newcastle upon Tyne
SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2011
WARM DIGITS + SPECIAL GUESTS + SILVER FOX
£5, 8pm
Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
Album launch party. Warm Digits is the krautophonic blizzard-wave duo of Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, who make a semi-improvised brew of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics (think Neu!, My Bloody Valentine and Emeralds with a hint of cosmic disco).
They bring their multisensory overload live show, along with friends and special guests, back to their spiritual home of the Star & Shadow for this launch party for their debut album, “Keep Warm… with the Warm Digits”, released on Distraction Records.
Fine noisy pop support from Silver Fox, and special guests TBC.
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Warm Digits debut album release announced
We are very excited to tell you that our debut album, “Keep Warm… with the Warm Digits”, is now ready for release.
“Keep Warm” will be released on double gatefold vinyl and download, on September 5th, on Distraction Records.
The songs on this record developed our of our totally improvised early gigs, gradually coalescing into a set of crisp, propulsive pieces. We aim for a brew of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics, dual-laptop electro, swathes of no-wave guitar and frantic free jazz drumming; taking our cue from the hypnotic repetition of Neu!, the textural overload of My Bloody Valentine, the glacial otherworldliness of Emeralds, and the sensuous modernity of cosmic disco; there are hints in the mix too of Eno, Giorgio Moroder and Holy Fuck, along with a pinch of Brian Eno-esque melody.
We’ll be posting more about the record including films and downloads in the build-up to release. We will also be playing a launch gig in Newcastle-upon-Tyne followed by dates around the UK, details of which we’ll post here when we have them.
Scene Not Herd – New Band of the Week
Thanks to Scene Not Herd blog for making Warm Digits their New Band of the Week – check out their piece on the band here.
