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New studio version of ‘The Ice Sculptor’ – Free Download

We’ve recorded a new version of ‘The Ice Sculptor’ – one of the songs from our acoustic first album Common Knowledge. The new track has an expanded studio arrangement – rather than just being a rendition of what we can perform live in the duo – and a reworked lyric.
The new version of the song [...]

She’s So Dark – Live

 

Live video of She’s So Dark from a gig at the Black Swan, York, earlier this year.

Live Second Life Gig – video

Just found this video that someone made of one of our Second Life gigs and posted on YouTube:

Make sure you hit the ‘HQ’ button to see it in better quality.
The Second Life grid was kind of crashy that night and logging people out all over the place, so it’s a shame there aren’t that many [...]

Pillowfish hi-def video on Vimeo

Our first high definition videos are now up on the HD video site Vimeo – live recordings of our songs ‘Wider’ and ‘Narcissus’.
View them on our Vimeo channel here: http://www.vimeo.com/pillowfish

Virtual Worlds Conference Video Streaming

During a recent Second Life / Real Life conference in London last month we played a video gig at the Blarney Stone in Virtual Dublin, which was broadcast on a big screen in the Bedford Pub in real-life London as a demonstration of the technological developments in virtual music at the conference ‘icebreaker’ event.
Live performers [...]

“Seven Stolen Stars” on Proper’s Folk Rising 2 Compilation

Our track Seven Stolen Stars is included on the Folk Rising 2 compilation of folk and folk-influenced acts signed to Proper Distribution. Since almost the entire English folk scene (and beyond) is distributed through Proper, there’s quite a selection. The CD is to be released on 7 July.
You can hear our track, and all the [...]

Why we play on Second Life Part 1: The sound is better

Having started performing in SL as a publicity/promotional exercise, we found that actually there are a number of ways in which playing gigs on second life is superior to most real life gigs available to not-totally-famous-yet acts.
In fact SL has been so much better for us that we’ve stopped taking the crappier gigs in RL, [...]

Pillowfish recordings released on Creative Commons licence (free downloads)

We have released high quality 192kbps mp3 files of all our original studio recordings to date under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Licence.
This means that they are available for free download from the Pillowfish audio page, where you can read more about what this form of licensing entails.
We do ask that if you enjoy [...]

thesixtyone.com account

We now have an account at thesixtyone.com. This is a music site on which the main activity is bumping. We’d be delighted if you’d log on and join in with bumping us to the next level.

We have a Subscribe-o-Matic

For our Second Life friends and fans.
We recently got a Subscribe-o-Matic list management system.
This allows us to send messages and inventory items to our fans inworld without requiring them to join the fan group.
This is great for those fans who have too many groups and cannot join another.