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"immediate and markedly individual presence
... nobody else on the current scene sounds quite like them"
- David Kidman, Netrhythms
"Great songs, played superbly with intrepid
musical skill and liveliness." - Kath
Tait
"a really great sound and terrific musical
interaction" - Al Parrish, Tanglefoot
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Eclectic yet cohesive, Pillowfish combine folk traditions, political song, accomplished musicianship, and a distinctive delivery.
"a distinctive originality ... intriguing songs are twinned with constantly moving melody lines that belie the well crafted care and attention to detail at the core of the duo's work ... stimulating, inventive and rewarding" - Rock'n'Reel magazine
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| Whisky in the Dark photos
August 5th, 2008
We have a new photo stream on Flickr- and we’ve got it started with some pictures taken by Jeaninne Mathilde at the Whisky in the Dark single launch party - you can view them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pillowfish/.
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| Whisky in the Dark single release party TONIGHT!
August 1st, 2008
Our new studio track Whisky in the Dark is released today as a download.
You can download it by signing up to our email list at http://pillowfish.co.uk/audio.html
The release party is being held tonight at 8pm BST at Therapy, on second life. Thanks to Raven Skall for hosting us!
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| “Seven Stolen Stars” on Proper’s Folk Rising 2 Compilation
June 30th, 2008
Our track Seven Stolen Stars is included on the Folk Rising 2 compilation of up and coming folk acts signed to Proper Distribution. Since almost the entire English folk scene 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 others [...]
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| Why we play on Second Life Part 1: The sound is better
June 22nd, 2008
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, [...]
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| Pillowfish recordings released on Creative Commons licence (free downloads)
June 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
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| thesixtyone.com account
June 9th, 2008
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.
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| We have a subscribe-o-matic
June 3rd, 2008
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.
We will be using the subscribe-o-matic [...]
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| Why You Want a House Concert:
March 18th, 2008
It’s a really nice way to hear live music: you don’t have to go out and drive to a venue, buy overpriced drinks, compete for seats or pay extortionate prices. You know everyone else in the audience, you don’t have to drive home afterwards and, perhaps most importantly, you hear the artist in an intimate [...]
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