Monday, 9 August 2010

EP.1 EUROPEAN RELEASE

Ladies & Gents...

We are proud to announce that Red Drapes are now signed to Humming Records, Berlin!

We will be releasing 'E.p 1' and touring Germany, Switzerland & Austria in the coming months.. Also support dates with Flashguns are to be announced soon...

Thank you to Colin, Peter & Jörg from Humming Records, Laurie Latham Jnr from Hot Sushi Productions, Laurie Latham for all of his hard work producing and engineering and to all our friends and family for their support over the last year..

Stay tuned.. new songs coming soon...



Humming Records - Berlin
www.hummingrecords.com


Hot Sushi Productions
www.hotsushi.co.uk


Love.

 R.D

Thomas

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

BBC 6 MUSIC INTERVIEW WITH TOM ROBINSON

Dear all,

Tom Robinson of BBC 6 Music has kindly been playing 'Reflection' for the past few weeks on his show 'Fresh On The Net'.

We were invited in to the 6 Music studio last week to face the 'Inquisition' and a chat. In short, a number of questions prompting a quick response from us and we did our best under these pressures to deliver some witty remarks. After that Tom himself chatted with us about our recent sold out release of E.p 1.

You can listen back to us being interview by Tom via our soundcloud below. Simply follow the link and hope you enjoy.

  Red Drapes BBC 6 Music Interview with Tom Robinson 'Fresh On The Net' by RED DRAPES 


Not all went to plan tho, before the interview I went to the toilet and pulled on a cord which I presumed was the light but was actually an alarm. Two men came to the toilet swiftly after. I then explained my mistake but was not informed of what it did.

We were suitably pleased with our complimentary Terry Wogan postcards and BBC visitors badge, which we hope will be one of many.



6 Music is very important to new bands and it simply has to stay. We are very pleased to be a part of it.

Thanks to Tom Robinson, the team, and all the listeners.

Tom Robinson



Sunday, 4 July 2010

JAPAN

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are proud to announce that our limited edition first release 'E.p.1' was shipped directly to File Under Records store, Nagoya City, Japan where it sold out in just 4 hours!! 

Thank you to all in Japan who purchased our first record and posed for a picture, we are looking forward to releasing our new recordings and would love to play a Japanese show soon.


& a big thank you to Take for making it possible!


File Under Records - Japan
www.fileunderrecords.com


Knew Noise Recordings - Japan
























Love.

R.D.

Thomas

Monday, 31 May 2010

MORE KIND WORDS...

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have had some more nice words written about us of late. We would like to thank everyone for taking the time to write such pleasantries.

Click on the links below to read more...

This Is Offset - E.p.1
http://thisisoffset.co.uk/?s=red+drapes

The Dumbing Of America - Blog and Interview
http://thedumbingofamerica.net/2010/05/17/your-new-favorite-band-red-drapes/

Hot Sushi
http://hotsushi.co.uk/reddrapes.html

Sublime Silence - Blog
http://sublimesilencemusic.blogspot.com/2010/05/red-drapes.html


R.D
Thomas

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

E.P 1. 'FREE 2 TRACK DOWNLOAD SAMPLER'



















Dear all,

As a taster, for a limited time only we are giving away 2 tracks for FREE from our E.p 1. Simply follow the link below and enter your email address and download 'Reflection' and 'First Hand' now completely free.



 Enjoy

R.D

Friday, 23 April 2010

E.P 1

Dear all,

We have recently designed a handmade limited edition Ep which we have titled Ep.1 limited to 100 copies. They are handmade by us and are available from Rough Trade stores now.

Enclosed is 5 track cd and booklet of the full lyrics to each of the songs. We plan to make another edition titled Ep.2 late summer which will also be limited and handmade.


Ep.1 

Reflection
First Hand 
Subside
Hush Now The Dockyard
Dirty Windows

Lyrics booklet

The Ep is available from Rough Trade East, Brick Lane & West, Notting Hill stores, London.


Rough Trade Website
Click here to order E.p 1 from Rough Trade Website



Rough Trade East
Old Truman Brewery,
Brick Lane, London.


Rough Trade West
130 Talbot Road, London


We hope you enjoy.

R.D
Adam

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

BERLIN








Dear all,

Apologies for a slightly delayed post. We have been very busy but have gathered together some thoughts and photographs from our recent visit to Berlin to play a headline slot at the renowned venue Bang Bang Club. This was Red Drapes first visit to play Germany and was made to be very special.

It all began with a lengthy coach journey which took us through many cities upon the way, passing beautiful streets and land that adorns Europe. Arriving in Berlin quite sleep deprived we made our way to the place where we were staying and an afternoon sleep was had. The flat we stayed in could not be more perfect, a traditional pre-war loft apartment that we could describe as being very poetic and felt highly nostalgic. A place such as this very much suited our moods for the duration of the short visit.

We arrived at sound check to be met by people outside who had been waiting, which astounded us, but a great surprise which we welcomed. To receive such a welcome was very unexpected and for our first visit to Germany can only make for great things to come. The best part of all was the decor, playing in front of some beautiful red drapes made us feel very comfortable and that it was all very much meant to be. The show itself was fantastic and showcasing the songs and our sound to the people of Berlin and Germany will remain to be a fond memory. We had some limited edition handmade ep's for sale on the night, which everyone will hear about very soon as we had only just finished making them. We shall write a further blog containing all the details about the ep's and how they can be purchased. After the show we spent the evening drinking the finest German beer which is extremely hard to beat. I must say it has been hard coming back to what is on offer here.

The feeling of being in Berlin is one of complete freedom to choose to do what you so desire. With that in mind we hope to travel back over very soon. From the response we had, Germany and Europe seems to be a place where we and our songs are very welcome. It was really nice to meet some lovely people at the show and thank them for their kind words.

We would like to thank Robert of Quartett Booking, Theresa of C.N.M. Booking, Lisa, all at Bang Bang Club, and everyone who made it a special show.


 Berlin you are a beautiful city and we will be back very soon.

R.D
Adam