October 2011
1 post
Heading West
A quick update on how we’re getting along with the album. Thanks to everyone who’s been checking in and offering us kind words of support, we do feel a little bad that we’re making you wait for it, but we just want to make sure it’s as perfect as we can make it before we release it.
We’ve just finished the main recording stage. All the drums, bass and guitar parts...
September 2011
1 post
There's a new post on Kathryn's blog: The words I... →
everythingbuttheocean:
There’s a storm over London tonight. The trees outside my window push back against the wind. Listening to their hushed and tired sounds, I think they’re trying to comfort each other.
A close friend of mine lost her cousin in a car crash last week. It’s difficult, being far from the people you…
August 2011
3 posts
Exciting news this week:
We’ve been invited to play at Indie Week Canada in October! (www.indieweek.com) Our first ever shows in Canada will be kicking off in Toronto. More details to follow as we get them…
New show announced in London at Bush Hall on... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .September 23, 2011 - London, United Kingdom - Bush Hall Address: 310 UXBRIDGE ROAD - Map Time : 8:00 PM Tickets: £15 Buy Now -…
We’ve had a few emails the past week or two wondering where we’ve gone, and why the website has been quiet. Some of you asked after the album. One of you asked if cake would help. (Our answer being: we’re not sure Royal Mail delivers confectionery, but we’re willing to try). We’ve posted a new entry in our studio diary to fill you in on what we’ve been up to....
May 2011
1 post
Irish Dates Cancelled
Hey folks, we’ve had to cancel our Irish dates due to some personal stuff. Sorry for anyone who’s disappointed, we’ll reschedule them soon.
April 2011
1 post
Selling out?
As some of you seem to have noticed - or may notice in the coming days - well, we’ve sold out. A few weeks ago, we were contacted by the advertising agency that represents Clearblue, who wanted to use our song Boats (Swept Away) in their latest tv ad campaign.
We took some time to think about what this meant for us. There are people we respect who are firmly against bands dealing with...
March 2011
2 posts
Free Catch-up EP
For those of you who haven’t got it yet, don’t forget to pick up our catch-up EP ahead of the release of our new material, coming very soon:
Website updates
We’ve done a couple of website overhauls, added a Videos page and a place to download our free catch-up EP. As always, do let us know if you follow a link that takes you down a dark and mysterious alleyway and then tickles you mercilessly.
February 2011
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January 2011
1 post
Our Studio Diary page is up!
Click on the handsome dog above to find out what we’ve been up to and tune in to our rehearsals…
November 2010
1 post
Quick Update
Hey folks,
Sorry for the information blackout, we’ve been moving into our new studio and getting everything setup for the recording. Sadly the phone company are clearly not as excited about this as we are and they’re taking their sweet time putting a line in, so we’re on pretty minimal internet for now.
All’s going well though, we had our official meeting with...
October 2010
2 posts
New show announced in Derry, NI at Masons Bar on... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .October 20, 2010 - Derry, NI - Masons Bar Address: 10 Magazine Street - Map Time : 10:00 PM All Ages See Full Details
October Tour and Free Single Download
To thank everyone who’s gotten involved with our fund-raising effort and to celebrate this achievement, we’re giving away a free download of Lifelines from our recent EP, Time To Leave, which you can download from here (click the poorly named Buy link for your free download!):
Lifelines by I Am Not Lefthanded
Before we lock ourselves in the studio in November/December,...
September 2010
4 posts
Financed! Where we go from here
We want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who invested in us in recent months. We’ve been blown away by your generosity, your words of encouragement, and the idea that you’re as excited to hear the album as we are to make it. We can’t wait to get into the studio and start recording in November - and we’ll be keeping you updated every step of the way.
What really...
Hey folks,
As you may be aware, the people at SliceThePie have implemented some pretty big changes recently. We wanted to take a moment to explain how they affect you.
One of the main things you might have noticed is that they’ve changed their operating currency to US dollars. You can still invest in any currency that you like - pounds, euro, yen, yuan, florins and more - but your...
New show announced in San Francisco, CA at Mission... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .September 28, 2010 - San Francisco, CA - Mission Workshop Address: 40 Rondel Place - Map Time : 7:00 PM All Ages See Full…
August 2010
7 posts
New show announced in New York City, NY at The... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .September 4, 2010 - New York City, NY - The Living Room Address: 154 Ludlow St - Map Time : 8:00 PM 21+ See Full Details
Big News!
Hey folks,
We’ve a little announcement to make:
It’s been a big month for us - we’ve quit our jobs, put all our possessions into a storage locker (minus our instruments, of course) and are hitting the road full time, touring throughout Ireland and the US from now until the end of October. We’re saying goodbye to our London life and we’re off to see the world....
Thing A Week #23 - The Place That Won't Take Me...
Here’s another live track from our session in Camden, this one’s called The Place That Won’t Take Me Back.
It’s been a fantastic week for fundraising, we’re up £327 to £5,523. Thanks so much everyone who’s invested so far, and for those of you who are considering it, why not have a look at our incentives again? ;-)
For those of you who are here...
New show announced in Dublin at WDAR 96FM - The... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .August 17, 2010 - Dublin, Ireland - WDAR 96FM - The Session Suite Map Time : 2:00 PM All Ages See Full Details
New show announced in Galway at Roisin Dubh on... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .August 19, 2010 - Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh Address: Dominick St - Map Time : 11:00 PM 18+ See Full Details
New show announced in Cambridge, MA at The Loft @... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .September 2, 2010 - Cambridge, MA - The Loft @ Tommy Doyle’s Address: 96 Winthrop St Harvard Square - Map Time : 9:30 PM All Ages
Thing A Week #22 - Lines in blue
This week’s Thing is an old song from the archives, Lines in blue, that Kathryn wrote when she was in California. It’s to get us in the mood for our US tour in September, we’re getting really excited already! It’s a bit jazzier than we normally get up to and features the very talented Yaniv Fridel guesting on the trumpet. Enjoy!
Fundraising’s going great -...
July 2010
9 posts
New show announced in Slane at Boyles on October... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .October 28, 2010 - Slane, Ireland - Boyles Map Time : 8:00 PM All Ages See Full Details
Thing A Week #21 - Alone (live)
Here’s another one from our live recording session. This is our newest song, though some of you might recognise an early version of it from our Time To Leave EP. Enjoy!
For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome to our Thing-A-Week. We’re curently raising funds to record a full-length album with the good people at SlicethePie - and to show you how committed we...
New show announced in Dublin at The Lower Deck on... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .August 20, 2010 - Dublin, Ireland - The Lower Deck Address: 1 Portobello Harbour - Map Time : 8:00 PM All Ages See Full…
Thing a Week #20 - Persuade Yourself
This week we brought the cameras down to practice again, here’s the first song we recorded, it’s called Persuade Yourself.
We passed a big milestone this week, so far we’ve raised £5,047 - we’ve still a way to go, so keep investing and spreading the word, we really appreciate everything you guys are doing to help us out. For those of you who are here for the first time,...
Filming went great today...
despite having to put the camera underneath a leaky aircon unit! We’ll tidy it up tonight and should have the first song up tomorrow.
Thing A Week will be in a couple of days, we’ve some more live recordings coming for you this week, woo!
Thing A Week #19 - The Smallest Piece
This week’s Thing is an old song from the archives that we’ve dusted off called The Smallest Piece. It’s a sweet little number that we co-wrote with the delightful David O’Brien.
Fund-raising’s going great, so far we’ve raised £4,794 - we’ve still a way to go, so keep investing and spreading the word, we really appreciate everything you guys...
Thing A Week #18 - Lousy Reputation
This week is our most involved Thing A Week yet. Sorry for the delay but we got a little carried away, as you can probably tell from the video. It’s a cover of one of our favourite songs by We Are Scientists.
So far we’ve raised £4,726 to help us with our album recording. Thanks so much, and keep sharing our music, and spreading the word!
For those of you who are here for the...
June 2010
6 posts
Thing A Week #17 - The Place That Won't Take Me...
This week we’d like to share the session we did in the BBC studios in Belfast - definitely the fanciest studios we’ve been in - a mysterious engineer had to be summoned from the depths of the building to test our amps before we were even allowed to plug them in! Luckily they passed the test okay, so here’s us with The Place That Won’t Take Me Back
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Thing A Week #16 - Investment Incentives
Thing A Week this week is something special. Our fund-raising’s going really well so far, but we want to kick it up a notch. If you believe in us, we want to give you something special in return. So here’s the list of incentives we’re offering to you in return for your investment:
SliceThePie is back up, and working away
They’ve upgraded their servers to cloud-based hosting. Apparently that’s a fancy thing… oooh :-)
Thing A Week 15 - Irish Tour Wrap-up
We’re back on English shores now, but we just wanted to say a giant thank-you to everyone who came out to one of the shows or listened in to one of our radio sessions - or really just put some good vibes out there for us. We covered over 2,600 miles and we’re definitely thankful for the new Irish roads that made it all a lot quicker and easier than it would’ve been a few years...
Mullingar, you finished out the tour well - I think the Stables is the best venue of that size that we have yet seen! All that remains is for us to return to our London lair and plot our next move. Thanks everyone for an awesome tour - we’re going to post a big wrap-up blog with the highlights in the next few days.
Thing A Week #14 - BBC Radio Ulster Session
We wanted to share the video of our BBC session with you, but it won’t be ready for a day or two, so for now here’s the audio link - our bit is one hour into the programme, with three songs and some free-flowing banter!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sk63v
May 2010
9 posts
Thing A Week #13 - Alone (live on Dublin South FM)
Thing A Week this week is another report from the road. This time it’s a live track we did for the sterling Brendan Hickey live on Dublin South FM last Thursday. You can find the interview plus another live track at:
OnTheVerge.ie
For now, please enjoy this extended version of Alone that we just finished writing last week - the ink’s still wet!
So far we’ve raised £3,989 to...
Tour starts today! Portlaoise we are coming for you…
Thing a Week #12 - Time to Leave Irish tour photos
For Thing A Week #12, we had plans to make a short video of our time traveling from London to Dublin this weekend - but in the absence of a good internet connection, we’re putting up some of the photos* we took along the way. Daniel & I drove for the best part of a day, with the car jammed full of everything we might need. Most of the things we need. It’s lucky that Ben’s...
Sincere apologies folks, our Thing for this Week just won’t upload from our Irish HQ, we’re working to address this as soon as we can.
Thing a Week will be on Monday this week - we’ve a special tour-themed Thing, but it’ll take a little longer to compile from our mobile HQ. Stay tuned!
Thing a Week #11 - Kept
Preparations for our upcoming Irish tour are keeping us busy this week, so here’s another track from our archives - but this one’s a little different. This is a song from Daniel’s first band, Coyote Blue, back when he was a young whippersnapper in Dublin, it’s called Kept.
So far we’ve raised over £3,600 to help us with our album recording, thanks so much for...
New show announced in Portlaoise at Bar Habana on... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .May 28, 2010 - Portlaoise, Ireland - Bar Habana Address: 67/68 Main Street - Map Time : 8:00 PM All Ages See Full Details
Thing A Week #10 - Rushing
This week we’re presenting you with another track from the archives. This one was quite a formative song for us. We’d written together for a quite a while, and veered in different directions from song to song. Rushing was the first song where we just got the feeling that it was working - that we’d stumbled on something good. It’s still a bit rough around the edges,...
Thing A Week #9 - Lifelines (live)
Thanks everyone for the fantastic feedback on last week’s track - we thought we’d share another live one with you this week. This is our rock version of Lifelines - which some of you may know in it’s gentler piano and strings incarnation - hold on to your hats!
This has been our best ever fund-raising week, we’ve raised an amazing £476 - in one week! At this...
April 2010
12 posts
New show announced in Lisburn, NI at The Point on... →
I Am Not Lefthanded has recently added the following shows. .May 30, 2010 - Lisburn, NI - The Point Address: 88 Bridge Street - Map Time : 8:00 PM All Ages See Full Details