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13/10/09 : Basement Scam and Beyond Retro instore

Basement Scam

We're playing at the Fortuna Pop! night 'Basement Scam' at the Buffalo Bar, Islington on the 23rd - we'll be on last at 11:30pm, so prepare yourself for a late night! We promise to be finished before the last tube though... Also playing are: The Silver Adbuction + Samson & Delilah + 5 Cent Theatre + The Notebook. Tickets at: www.wegottickets.com

AND! As if that wasn't enough, that same day we'll be squeezing in an acoustic instore at Beyond Retro for their Haloween party - so you can come see us play twice in one day. We'll be playing at about 7:45pm before heading up to the Buffalo Bar. x


5/10/09 : Royal Cafe invites: The Lost Cavalry, performing live and acoustic

A few weeks ago filmmaker Bryan O'Neil recorded us performing some of our songs acoustically in my front room in Ealing, West London. If you're extra observant you may recognise the room from the video I made a while ago for Fanfarlo's 'Outsiders' :-)

Here's a couple of the videos from the session that we recorded especially for Portuguese music site the Royal Cafe, of 'Oh Sally' and 'Secret Steps'... royalcafe.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/royal-cafe-convida-the-lost-cavalry/

Enjoy! More to come at a later date! x


16/9/09 : Recordings, videos and gigs

No One Died: Enterprise, Camden

On Saturday 3rd Oct we're playing at Enterprise in Camden, supporting Joana And The Wolf - I think you should be there... You can buy tickets here.

We've been working away like musical devils the last few weeks and are almost ready to present the fruits of our demonic labours... three tracks recorded by ourselves and producer Paul Jones.. "Oh Sally", "Secret Steps" and "Up For Air". They are sounding evil. We've also been filmed playing some songs acoustically by filmmaker Bryan O'Neil recently and these are almost ready too, you'll be able to see our ugly faces soon.


09/9/09 : Offline Club this Thursday

Offline Club

We're playing a free gig at Dogstar, Briton this week for Offline Club... Here what they have written about us: "A new project by Mark West, the former guitarist from Fanfarlo, we've been loving the beautiful indie/folk sounds of this great new band."

And also Mark will be DJing at The Wonderland 3rd Birthday Party on Friday 18th September, at Jacks club, Crucifix Lane, SE1, London.


6/7/09 : Flow Machines - We Are Starlight EP

The Flow Machines remix EP 'We Are Starlight' is released today exclusively via digital download.

The EP features a version of 'Mio & Mao' remixed by The Lost Cavalry (that's us folks!) as well as remixes by people like Martin Carr, Akira The Don and Cian from Super Furry Animals.

We remixed the track last month, taking the original track (from the 'Every Last Drop' album) and adding ukulele, concertina and echoey guitar to make the track more atmospheric without loosing the catchy and upbeat melodies.

You can get the EP by going to www.flowmachines.com/we-are-starlight/ and then also visiting www.twitter.com/flowmachines and spreading the word...


22/5/09 : The Lost Cavalry web site

While everyone else was out enjoying the sun at the weekend I stayed in and created a web site... this one... www.thelostcavalry.com ...hope you like it!

And we also have www.myspace.com/thelostcavalry complete with a demo of our song 'Secret Steps'... take a listen and enjoy! :-)

We've also started booking gigs, take a look at the web site for up to date details...


30/6/09 : Acoustic gig and recording

Our first gigs have been going well... we're playing this Sunday at www.thefellow.co.uk near Kings Cross next, come along, it's free. Then we have various gigs booked over the summer, and more on the way not yet confirmed.

And most excitingly, we're going in to record some tracks properly next week with Paul from Stolen Recordings who I recorded the Fanfarlo 'Harold T Wilkins' single with last year, and who also has just produced the My Sad Captains album. It's going to be good to work with him again, and we're looking forward to having some properly recorded songs to let you all hear!


16/6/09 : Acoustic gigs coming up

We've got a couple of acoustic gigs coming up, the first as part of an all night party organised by the Wonderland Festival this weekend... it goes on until 9am the next day but we're very unlikely to last that long... we're playing during the day on the Saturday. Email us if you want an invite, as there's only 100 tickets available for the event. Then a couple of weeks after that we're playing a laid-back Sunday gig at The Fellow in Kings Cross, as part of the No One Died Sunday Flophouse... with a BBQ and Sunday quiz too. Plus it's FREE entry. Here's a link to the Facebook event. x


22/5/09 : The Lost Cavalry

So, since February I've been hiding myself away, working with my new band, who I can now reveal as... The Lost Cavalry. So far, there's four of us, and the nice thing is that they're all friends who I've been in band with before - Nick from my uni band 'Amber', Oliver from Xup and Dave from my first ever band at school. I'm playing mainly guitar, uke and concertina and most importantly - I'm singing too.

Our first gig was last night at a bar in Camden - we'd been keeping it quiet to see how it went, but it was a definite success so now we're ready to unleash ourselves into the world! ;-)

So expect some demos and photos on a new web site and myspace very soon...


11/4/09 : NME Loves Fanfarlo

Check it out! NME only went and gave our album 8/10... quite right too I say.



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