murnie‘s original, 2005 debut e.p., Written On the Kitten is now available as a free download over at bandcamp.
This one’s on us!
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The Next Little Big Thing
We are about to start work, in earnest, on what will eventually emerge as our 2nd digital e.p. release of 2012. The title is still to be determined and the songs are still top secret – for now.
So, what can we divulge at this point?
Well…
It will contain some of our most boisterous work since The Kitten… alongside one of our most thought provoking offerings to-date. All of this with a side-order of worldliness.
What’s not to love!?
Stay tuned to our Twitter and Facebook feeds for periodnic updates.
Or if you too are never knowingly cool & deeply old-school; drop us an email and ask to be our friend. We do email updates too. When we remember!
Simon, Neil & Norry
Songs out of Stuff competition
If you’ve been following Murnie for a while (c’mon, we’re getting on for NINE years, you must have stumbled across…no? Oh well) you’ll know we have a longstanding thing (no, madam, titter ye not, etc) about making up songs out of stuff people send us.
That’s right, Stuff. Bits and pieces, odds and sods, random ephemera that come into folks’s heads. No matter how weird they may be. In fact, we especially like the weird ones. That’s how the suggestions of “naked underwater golf” and “fish parts” became the sensitive ballad, Down (on the Glitter Flies ep).
So, it’s competition time again.
Send us you ephemera, your fleeting thoughts, your random stuff, and the ones we like the best we’ll make into a song. We might actually make ALL of them into songs at some point, but for the purposes of this being a competition, we’ll choose one to be the winner.
And what will the “winner” get? I dunno. What do you want? Money? Really? You want money? Cos you can HAVE money…but you know what, I think you’ll like this better: you’ll get a special one-off CD containing ALL of Murnie’s recorded material so far, we’ll throw in a copy of Mutation Press’s amazing Music For Another World anthology of music-related short fiction, some badges probably too and any other bits and bobs we can fit in the jiffy bag.
And all you have to do is go over to our facebook page, friend us if you don’t already, and give us your best random thought for us to immortalise in song.
Easy as that.
sundaymouth roots
If you are interested in learning a little more about the background of the sundaymouth songs; they’ve hopped up into the dentist’s chair over at Neil’s blog and they’re saying ‘Ah’, right now!
Summer is here…
Gantin for a bit of mouth
So the sundaymouth ep is officially available for listening, purchase and downloading at wur Bandcamp page from next Monday (March 26th). If you find you like them and you want to take them home and cherish them for ever, pledge a minimum of a quid, but you can give more if you think the songs are worth it.
If you are a hardcore member of the murnie massive and have a burning desire to receive your download link the very moment it is released – you can pre-order it on bandcamp now.
Putting on our Sunday Mouths
It’s probably okay to announce that barring a few wee tweaks the new Murnie ep is almost ready for release. All the recording is done, the mixes are settling nicely and the art director is looking happy with the visuals. Here are the details:
Title : sundaymouth
Tracks : 1/ Whitehouse, 2/ Shaking A Fist At God, 3/ Soft Brown Voice, 4/ Smile
Release date – Monday 26th March (the Bandcamp page will accept pre-orders from Friday 23rd).
This is the first ep containing tracks that were originally intended for the album, and we’re really please with the way they’ve turned out.
More details soon!
The New Plan
If you’ve been a friend of Murnie for a bit you’ll know that we’ve had an album “in production” for a little while**. Over that time various challenges have presented themselves that have prevented us calling the thing Done and Good and getting it out to those that wants to hear it. The chief among them being the amount of time we’ve had available to us to spend on it. After a lot of huffing and puffing we finally came to the realization that a 12 track album is a Really Big Project. So we made a new plan.
It so happens that the album tracks fall neatly into three categories: “Nearly Ready”, “Not Very Far Away” and “*Sucks breath in through teeth* Yeah Mate, That’s A Bit Of An Old Job, Innit? It’s Gonna Costya”. So in 2012, instead of an album, we’re going to release three EPs, in roughly that order.
The first one is a gnats nadger off being ready to roll, and the tracks (in no particular order) will include: Soft Brown Voice, White House, Shaking A Fist At God, and Smile.
So that’s good news, eh? New Murnie songs at regular(ish) intervals throughout the year.
Even better, once this flock of albatrosses has flown the coop, we’ll finally be able to look forward to getting some writing done on new material. And that makes *us* happy too!
[**where "little while" is measured on the scale of the heat death of the universe]
Twurnie!
The great Murnie social media engagement continues with our new Twitter account. Follow us on @murnietheband to keep up to date with the newiest news.
Radio Radar
We’re just back from recording an hour’s worth of chat for Pulse FM’s Under The Radar show. This is the third time we’ve been invited onto the show and this time round we talked about our Glitter Flies EP as well as a lot of nonsense. It was a lot of fun, and if you’re in the Glasgow/East Renfrewshire area it’ll be broadcast tomorrow, Thursday 8th December, at 11pm and then again on Sunday 11th at 4pm.
Wads of thanks to presenter Raymond Weir for inviting us.
