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Hotel bar sessions
Just before we left Istanbul, we found time to record a little acoustic session in the hotel bar. The clerk from the front desk held the iPhone to record it and the barman lent Mike an apron.
Half way through Dead On Arrival the taxi guy turned up and started talking to the clerk. I’m no expert in Turkish, but I’m pretty sure you can hear him saying “WTF?!”.
We persuaded the taxi guy to hang on for a minute while we did a quick rendition of You, Me & The TV. Mike’s great idea of hitting a glass with a spoon backfired on the last beat of the song, when he got an interesting cymbal effect by putting the spoon through the glass.
The hotel staff were very understanding, and really cool. If you ever need a reasonable place to stay right in the heart of Istanbul, try Hotel Pera Rose.
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Little Fish in session on Bob Harris Sunday (Radio 2)
From the BBC site:
We had a great time recording this with Bob. When you’re playing in a “talk radio” studio you don’t get monitor mixes through headphones. Juju just sang and played completely acoustic and I had a little quiet practice amp to hear the organ. Listening to it this morning, with the radio compression and tasty reverb it sounds much better. ;)
This embedded player should work for a week (until Santa comes down the chimney to switch it off).
— Ben
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A great Truck review
I hope you’ll forgive a bit of own-trumpet-blowing, but we spotted this review of our acoustic sets at Truck over on music-news.com and we’re quite chuffed with them, especially since we had some serious technical woes. Here’s Saturday:
When I finally get to the Cabaret tent, 2 members of Little Fish are just setting up for a stripped down performance. It’s just guitar and organ today and I am a bit concerned this might not work in this format. Despite breaking her guitar and having to borrow one, the short set was nothing less than amazing. Juju and Ben work together brilliantly delivering amazing vocal performances with a lot of humour. When they play a sad song the singer Juju sounds very much like Patti Smith, which is a good thing in my book! They are playing in the merchandise tent again tomorrow. I can’t wait.
And here’s Sunday. Apparently I’m called Tim:
The time has come to see Little Fish again, this time they are playing the tiny merchandise tent. Unfortunately their technical problems continue and this time their keyboard breaks down completely. Not even an impromptu service by Tim can save the day. They struggle on though with tim playing a borrowed harmonica. Juju (Julia) is so relaxed about the whole thing it feels like she is playing to a group of mates and delivers one strong performance after another. Many artists would have cracked over the problems they have been having this weekend but it only makes Little Fish more fun to watch.
It’s a great review for us, but David Thorpe also managed to see almost every band that played! Check out his reviews of all three days and Jo Cox’s Truck photos to immerse yourself in the full Truck experience…
— Ben
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Little Fish @ Truck 14 (by theradicallight)
Check out the whole set. Great photos. ;)
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Tomorrow! Gig! At the Jericho! Here are the details!
- Saturday 25 June 8pm
- Coo @ Oxfringe
- Little Fish Acoustic + Boxes (solo set) + Matt Winkworth + Samual Zasada
- @ The Jericho Walton Street
- Buy tickets (£6 advance, £7 on the door)
- UPDATE We’re on quite late (10:30pm ish). Just so you know. ;)
See the acoustic side to Little Fish, Oxford’s raucous garage-rock three-piece, as Juju and Ben perform an exclusive stripped down set of songs from their forthcoming second album!!! Little Fish emerged from Oxford’s vibrant rock scene and went on to tour with Blondie, Placebo, Hole, Juliette Lewis and Alice In Chains before headlining the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals last year and supporting Them Crooked Vultures at The Royal Albert Hall.
Check the Coo site for details of all the acts…
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Playing the iPad, singing songs, selling badges
We played another acoustic gig at the Drawing Room in Chesham on Saturday. It was a long night, but worth every minute. We played a good mix of songs, and I played iPad on a few as well as the usual harmonica. On Better Tell God I used the Polychord app (a digital version of the old Omnichord synth) and on Too Late and Wonderful I used the flute and strings sounds on the M3000, a Mellotron app. The M3000 is sampled from the original Mellotron tapes and sounds beautiful…
But mostly it was a good old fashioned rock’n’roll acoustic set. We had been rehearsing with Nez all morning so there was a bit of Bonnie Tyler in some of Juju’s high notes (which just makes them sound even better ;). Petrus took some great photos and a cool video of Morning Call (thanks, Petrus!).
We took along the new badges too, and sold them five at a time in little bags (you can get them in the shop too). There are twenty different designs, and at the moment you can only buy a bag of five random ones. Already people are asking how they can get all twenty, so we’ve added that option to the shop today. Aren’t we thoughtful?!
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By popular demand, we’re playing another acoustic gig at the Drawing Room in Chesham (that’s right, the one run by Richard) on Saturday 18th June. Call Richard for a ticket (with or without dinner) on 07973 664 551.
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This one is going to be really fun. The venue is a strange little magical theatre, and Jont always puts on a good show… We can only fit about 150 people in and Jont has been in Australia for months, so it’s worth getting tickets early. ;)
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Umbilical Cord - Little Fish (by David Callier)
Ben and I played a very hyper (in case you don’t know, we came home from our gig at the Drawing Room with a new coffee machine!) version of The Umbilical Chord at George’s Jamboree the other night.
The Jamboree for those of you who have never been or experienced it can only be described as an ‘experimental-folk-advant-garde-crazy-night ‘hot pot’ where all kinds of comedians, poets, authors and singers come to perform. The night is hosted by the wonderfully talented poet and compère George Chopping. It is held on the first Monday of every month, usually at The Chester Arms in Oxford, but next month will be held at The Jam Factory (where I think my mum has even been invited to come along and sing some French songs!)…
Well, you get the picture. This little video was filmed by David Callier. You can follow him (@sledgecallier on Twitter) and find out more on his blog.
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