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15th May 2012
We've just been confirmed as support to Milagres, from Brooklyn, at the Musician in Leicester on Tuesday 29th May 2012 from 7.30 pm. Check out Milagres, who have recently played with Field Music, Alabama Shakes et al here: http://milagresmusic.com/music and the excellent Musician venue here: http://www.themusicianpub.co.uk/
25th April 2012
09th April 2012
07th March 2012
09th February 2012
21st January 2012
11th January 2012
6th January 2012
Happy New Year Herdsfolk.
Seemingly out of nowhere we’ve got a ruck of shows coming up in the next few weeks to help us all banish those start of year blues.
We start with a show as part of the obsUnplugged programme at the Musician in Leicester on Tuesday 10th January. We'll be playing a 20 minute set of acoustic highlights in the delightful company of Lisa DeVille and lots of other acts. Visit theMusician's website here:
http://www.themusicianpub.co.uk /
Next up, we’re playing at Nottingham Live’s night at The Maze in Nottingham on Friday 20th January with Great British Weather, Emily Needs and loads more. Full details here:
http://www.nottinghamlive.co.uk/live/listings/event/nottingham-live-the-maze/
We’re then supporting the excellent Dead Wolf Club at Lock 42 in Leicester on 2nd Feb:
http://www.liveinleicester.net/Listingspage?week=1328054400
Following this our next scheduled show is a special headline at the Maze on 22nd March with Strings of Seville and the astonishing Library Music. More on this one later.
19th December 2011
15th November 2011
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at the Good Ship in Kilburn on Saturday night for what proved to be an excellent show and a very eventful night.
For those desparate to review us, here's the setlist: Bonfires, Catching Time, Red Gold, Painbirds, Three Ring Circus, Leaving Home, Foot Tapper, Stage Fright, Thursday
It's been a great year and we're really grateful for all your support. Highlights range from the This Town EP release, Bearded Theory, High Voltage and Headstock and it was great to end our year with such a well recieved set on Saturday.
We'll be back very soon indeed with new music, more high profile festival appearances and our first shows overseas. See you then. TAH x
29th October 2011
After tonight's astonishing proceedings at the Lord Nelson Cancer Research benefit where, incidentally, we played Thursday, Leaving Home, Bonfires, Three Ring Circus, Painbirds, Magnolia, Girl In The War and Stage Fright, we wanted to give something back by way of thanks. As such, we've hatched a plot to transport you lovely people from Notts to London and back for our headliner at The Good Ship in Kilburn on Sat. 12th Nov. The bus will leave the Lord Nelson at noon that day so you'll have plenty of time in London for sightseeing/ X mas shopping/ ale drinking before The Amber Herd end the night at the Good Ship. The bus will leave at some point following our set and we'll arrange some local drop offs on the way back. We don't want to do this if it's gonna cost you more than £20.00 all in, including your gig ticket, so we could do with knowing if you're up for it ASAP, please. Email us by Friday 4th and we'll be in touch to confirm. Ta!
26th September 2011
The Herd hit the Euro zone! Follow this link for a review of the new EP from Static Magazine in Germany:
14th September 2011
Following Drowned in Sound last week, this from Left Lion:
"The Amber Herd did Nottingham proud with notions of Woodstock flooding to mind"
Read what else they had to say about the Headstock festival here:
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/live--headstock-festival/id/3896
07th September 2011
A post- punk masterclass. See what the hugely influential Drowned in Sound website has to say about the Herd and a host of other great Notts. bands in Drowned in Nottingham No.5:
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4143483-drowned-in-nottingham-5
04th August 2011
We're pleased to announce that we'll be playing at the Headstock Festival at Newstead and Annesley Country Park, Nottingham on Sunday 11th September. The Lightning Seeds are headlining on our day, following Echo & The Bunnymen's headline set on the Saturday. Tickets, including day tickets and camping are still available from the festival website:
This is a great way for us to finish an incredible summer of festivals, coming hot on the heels of our appearance at the Green Peaks festival now confirmed for Saturday 3rd September. Come and join us at one of these, or, indeed, at the Lord Nelson all- dayer in Nottingham on 13th August before we get back to the serious business of playing in sweaty clubs at night!
26th July 2011
Well, that was a laugh, wasn't it? Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come and see us tear apart the beer festival stage at High Voltage on Sunday. We'd also like to thank Neal and everyone at Mean Fiddler and HV who looked after us so well. High Voltage shot some video of Leaving Home as well as a post show interview so please check out this links:
www. youtube.com/watch?v=VLa_XWVmNjs
Our next gig is at the alldayer at The Lord Nelson in Sneinton, Nottingham on 13th August and our next festival show is the Green Peaks eco fest at the Knockerdown Inn, Carsington near Ashbourne over the weekend of 2nd- 4th September. Hope to see you at one or both of these.
I'm sure we'll post a lengthy blog about Sunday's events when the dust settles but for now and for the record, the set we played on Sunday at HV was: Thursday, Catching Time, Leaving Home, Three Ring Circus, Magnolia, Bonfires, Painbirds and Stage Fright. We'll see you soon.
14th July 2011
Further details and stage times for the acoustic beer festival stage at High Voltage have just been released. Given the amount of decent bands and ale on we'll be surprised if anyone chooses to leave the tent all weekend!
http://www.highvoltagefestival.com/attractions/high-voltage-beer-festival/
4th July 2011
Our next big show is at the High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park, London on 24th July!
More info here (and have a look at the Folk Off section):
http://www.highvoltagefestival.com
22nd June 2011
Painbirds by the amber herd
18th June
Another review of This Town. This time from our friends at The Derbyshire Times:
http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk:80/lifestyle/music/not_following_the_herd_1_3483365
9th May 2011
A great review for This Town from Nottingham Live: http://www.nottinghamlive.co.uk/live/2011/05/review-the-amber-herd-this-town-ep/
19th April 2011
The new EP "This Town" was released on Monday 2nd May. It contains 5 tracks: Bonfires, Leaving Home, Catching Time, Days Like These and a re-recorded version of Magnolia.
Forthcoming gigs:
Friday 6th May- Bunkers Hill, Nottingham. Also playing are Howling Buddha, Marc Reeves and a DJ set from The Electrician.
Friday 13th May- Beard Top Stage, Bearded Theory Festival, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. Also playing are The Waterboys, Athlete and Alabama 3 amongst many others. We're on stage at 3pm.
Sunday 29th May- The Lord Nelson, Sneinton, Nottingham. This is a bank holiday all-dayer in the Nelson beer garden. Other acts playing include Lisa de'Ville, Strings of Seville, Betty Munro and Wwolves.
Hopefully we'll see you at one of these. Enjoy the EP!
25th March 2011
With just seven weeks to go until our appearance at Bearded Theory on Friday 13th May, we'd like to share some ticket and competition news with you.
On 1st April, Quay tickets will be releasing a limited supply of day tickets for the event so if you can't quite afford to come for the whole weekend, who not get tickets just for the Friday? Go tohttp://www.beardedtheory.co.uk for more info.
Meanwhile, our friends over at efestivals have launched a competition to win a full weekend family pass for the festival. You'll need to register with their website to enter but it's a great site with up to the minute news about all of this year's festivals. Go to http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/beardedtheory/2011/competition1.shtml to join and enter.
Keep your eye on this site over the next month as we gear up for the new ep launch and the festival. We also hope to bring you some news about a special BT warm up show very shortly.
17th January 2011
We are very pleased to announce that we will be playing at this year's Bearded Theory Festival, at Kedleston Park, Derby over the weekend of 13th - 15th May 2011. This festival has swiftly become the acknowledged start of the official festival season and has many wonderful acts playing including The Waterboys, The Undertones, Alabama 3, The Orb, Justin Sullivan of NMA, Miles Hunt of The Wonderstuff, The Beat, Eat Static and many more. The band are playing the second stage, AKA the Beard Top Stage, on Friday 13th May. Visit http://www.beardedtheory.co.uk/index.php for further details, including full ticketing info.
29th December
We were thrilled this week to gain the coveted number 1 slot in Sherwood Radio's Notts Live's Festive Thirty for our song Thursday. There were some incredible songs from a huge cross- section of Notts unsigned artists in the list and we are honoured to be in such esteemed company. Visit .http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=139307832771751&topic=270 to see the full list.
To celebrate, we'd like to share with you a download of an acoustic version of Thursday, recorded live earlier this year:
The Amber Herd- Thursday- live acoustic by the amber herd
Nottingham Live e magazine has just published an article about this end of year chart with a quote from us and you can read it via this link:http://www.nottinghamlive.co.uk/live/2010/12/news-amber-herd-top-notts-live-festive-30/
We'll be back with some huge gig news for 2011 very soon indeed. In the meantime, have a great end to this year and a great start to the next one. Thanks for all your support in 2010. Check out the blog section of the site to see our potted history of 2010. We're looking forward to adding to this as we move into 2011.
8th December
It's been a busy couple of weeks for us - Neil and Paul have been running around doing acoustic sessions for all and sundry (including almost an hours live set on Fly FM) . They've been sounding great, and we'll be posting a few songs on here in the next few weeks (including the Matador Records cover version we'll be playing at the "Sound For Sore Eyes" gig on Sunday).
In other news:
- We have just done an interview with the fabulous Nottingham Live - you can have a read here: http://www.nottinghamlive.co.uk/live/?p=571
- We've just been confimed for a gig at Hotel Deux in Sherwood, Nottingham on the 20th December. the session will be broadcast live on http://www.sherwoodradio.com/. other acts confirmed include Satnams Tash, Rosie Rojo and many more
- We have just had a really big gig confirmed for next year. One we are all very excited about. We'll update you all as soon as the i's have been dotted and t's crossed!
Don't forget we're playing the Old Angel this Saturday and the Boat Club on Sunday. We're really looking forward to both of these and hope to see some of you there.
14th November
Where has the year gone?? It has flown by and we've neglected this site a little. We'll get better at updating it, we promise. We do have a couple of dates for your diaries though:
Friday 19th November - a few of us will be playing an acoustic session on Fly FM between 7 and 9pm (www.flyfm.co.uk)
Saturday 11th December - we'll be playing a Funeral Party #4 with the Death Notes, The Last Cry and Simon York from Luxury Stranger djing at the Old Angel in Nottingham. (http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=121161594599561)
Sunday 12th December - is an acoustic show at the the Boat Club in Nottingham. This is to celebrate the 21st birthday of Matador Records, and all acts will be playing a cover from their back catalogue. Acts include: Lorna, Strings of Seville, Sugar & Lust & Japanese Sleepers.
We're hoping to be able to announce a big show in the next week or so - so stay tuned
30th August
The summer gigs were a lot of fun (we even sneaked in a quick acoustic gig at the Nottingham Riviera). You can check out pictures from them all here: www.myspace.com/theamberherd/photos
We'll be back soon. we're playing the Old Angel on the 9th October with the awesome Luxury Stranger (if you're a fan of early Cure (Pornography/Faith era), The Chameleons, David Bowie and Joy Division, they'll be right up your street) and the Hockley Hustle at the end of October (we'll let you know the date and venue when it's been confirmed).
8th July
It's been a while since we updated you but we haven't just been sat in the sun drinking copious amounts of beer (although there has been a lot of that!).
So what have we been doing?
At the start of June we played our biggest gig to date supporting Delays at the Bodega Social in Nottingham. we had an awesome time, and played to a sold out crowd (just the way we like it). we went down really well, and have had some great comments and feedback from the band and their tour manager
Since then, as Rachel is now on maternity leave from the band, we have been practising with our good friend Ollie from Made of Leaves who will be playing keys for us for a couple of months. We 're really looking forward to playing live with him in the next few weeks.
Neil and Fitz took part in an interesting experiment in June for Tom Whiter's last show on URN. Tom got members of four great local bands (us, Frontiers, Dog is Dead and Sharp Knees) to go in to the studio and write and record a song in an hour. you can check out the results here
So - back to the present, and we're about to return to the stage. we have 4 great gigs coming up over the next 4 weeks, including a return to London for another headline show, and Fitz's birthday. I hope you can make it to at least one.
Don't forget you can still buy our new single from itunes, and Amazon. we are getting very low of CDs too - so if you want one, get in touch!
Our upcoming dates are:
17th July - The Good Ship, Kilburn, London
24th July - Moog, Nottingham (Fitz's birthday party - with The Trestles (from Liverpool) and the fabulous Lois)
31st July - Influx Festival, Nottingham (with Euler, Sharp Knees, Long dead signal and many more)
6th August - Out The Box festival, Alfreton (with the Petebox, Luxury Stranger, Eskimo Fires, Lost Controllers, In Isolation and many more)
28th May
on Tuesday (1st June) we will be playing our biggest gig yet - supporting The Delays at the Bodega in Nottingham. This is expected to sell out so get your tickets soon!! We're playing at 8.30pm (doors at 8pm)
In other news we have just been confirmed for the Influx Festival on the 31st July. This is taking place over 5 stages down by the canal in Nottingham - we're actually playing at the Fellows Morton and Clayton. More details are here:
www.influxfestival.com If you'd like cheap tickets (£3), please e-mail info@centralmusicvenue.co.uk, and say you want to see us!
After our gig on Tuesday our next gigs are:
17th July - The Good Ship, Kilburn, London
24th July - Moog, Nottingham (Fitz's birthday party)
31st July - Influx Festival, Nottingham
6th August - Out The Box festival, Alfreton
So an exciting couple of weeks - and hopefully we'll have some new songs to play you!
.....oh, and don't forget to buy our single Red Gold/ Thursday at the link above!!!
10th May
Here's our interview with Dean Jackson on BBC's The Beat show from Saturday night. Dean plays the radio edit of Thursday, and Neil and Mark talk about the single, and the Sparklehorse tribute night. take a listen here:
BBC the beat 8th may by the amber herd
and here's an article from URN's Tom Whiter about the Sparklehorse tribute gig:
http://urn1350.net/blog/twhiter/2010/05/
Hopefully see you at the Rescue Rooms on Saturday!
7th May
Even more exciting news for the Herd - I can't keep up - I hope you can! earlier this week Neil and Mark went in to the hallowed BBC studios to be interviewed by Dean Jackson about the upcoming Sparklehorse tribute gig. This will be broadcast this Saturday (8th May) sometime between 6 and 9pm (or if you are out we'll post a link to the listen again on iplayer when it is up). The radio-edit of Thursday will also be getting it's first public outing on the show!
We've also had a couple of awesome gigs confirmed. On the 1st June we'll be supporting The Delays at the Bodega Social in Nottingham, and then on the 6th August we'll be playing out first festival show of the year at the Out The Box festival in Alfreton. We can't wait for these - hope you'll come and support us!
Our next show is the Sparklehorse tribute gig next Saturday 15th May. We can't wait to play this, and see the likes of We Show Up On Radar, Lorna and Peter Morely playing their favourite Mark Linkous and Sparklehorse tracks.
I think that's all for now - but check back again, as i'm sure we'll have more news soon! And don't forget you can get our new single now from itunes, amazonmp3 and cd (links above).
2nd May
Thank you to everybody who came to our single launch party on Saturday - we had an awesome night.
Our new single Red Gold and Thursday is available to buy from today. the single is available as a limited edition cd (only 100 produced) from this site (link below) and gigs, or in a digital format from itunes and amazonmp3.
TO buy the single follow these links:
Limited edition cd (£3.50 including postage and packing):
Digital format:
