NEWS:

14 Sep LONDON Breakout @ Proud

15 Sep WOLVERHAMPTON Slade Rooms

17 Sep LECIESTER Lock 42

18 Sep MANCHESTER Deaf Institute

20 Sep BRISTOL louisiana

Europe:

11 Oct FRANKFURT Das Bett

12 Oct SCHAFFHAUSEN Tap Tab

13 Oct BASEL Kaserne

16 Oct VIENNA WUK

17 Oct DRESDEN Groovestation

18 Oct OBERHAUSEN Drucklufthaus

19 Oct ZURICH Papiersaal

22 Oct BOLOGNA Covo Club

24 Oct COPENHAGEN Pumpehuset

25 Oct OSLO John Dee

26 Oct STOCKHOLM Barn Owl-Debaser

29 Oct AMSTERDAM Paradiso (small)

New T-Shirts
So we’ve decided to produce a fancy new T-Shirt, Designed by Jill it features a fancy monoprint she did…This will be AVAILABLE SOON, keep your eyes and ears to the ground.


ok, take care and hopefully see you at one of the shows..!

Jill, Nick and Gregor x

Hellu!,

How’s a goin’? Nice summer? It’s been a while so I thought we should catch up.

So what have us Sparrows been doing this summer? Apart from a handful of festivals (London Calling, the Great Escape, Rockness and Secret Garden Party), we’ve been keeping busy with bits and bobs. Budding film director Gregor (who kind of looks like Ron Howard-just saying) has been challenging himself with the task of creating videos for most of the tracks of our last album (We can’t show you his video for Faded Glory yet but check out Snakes in the Grass in the meantime), Nick has been working on his ‘2nd Rate Pedals’ project, where he builds FX pedals from scratch and then paints annoying people your favorite people on them. Here’s the paint-job he did for the ‘Bejeebur’ which he made for Liam from John Knox Sex Club

And me, I’ve been writing a lot of material lately; I’ve also had the pleasure of working with a lot of other musicians and been lucky enough to sing on some really exciting forthcoming albums coming from John Knox Sex Club, Grand Gestures (Jan from Spare Snare) and Rod Jones and the Birthday Suit, and I’ve even had the chance to get the ole’ violin out for Project Serendipity ( here’s a pic of myself and the incredibly talented Jenny Reeve of Strike the Colours recording violin parts in our livingroom state-of-the-art recording studio this morning…

Anyhow, amidst all this we’ve been dying to get back out on the road and play some gigs and AT LAST it’s looking like we’ll get Old Yeller (our beautiful-on-the-inside tour van) a whirl on the M1/5/6 this Autumn - Below are some UK dates and we will announce our full OCTOBER European tour in the coming weeks.

Hope to see you around. High fives.

Jill

ps. Feel free to check out our website for tour dates and our shop for Sparrow Merch.

Tour Dates

19 Aug  Mad Ferret Preston                                              

6 Sep    SPEX live - Mondial Club @ Indra Hamburg          

7 Sep    SPEX live - Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin                  

8 Sep    SPEX live - Gebäude 9 Köln                                  

9 Sep    SPEX live - Ampere Club München                       

14 Sep  Breakout @ Proud  LONDON                                  

15 Sep  Slade Rooms (rescheduled show) Wolverhampton 

17 Sep  Lock 42 Leicester                                                  

18 Sep  Deaf Institute MANCHESTER                                 

20 Sep  louisiana BRISTOL                                                

11 Oct  European Tour TBA Europe                                    

Last year I was lucky enough to take part in a collaborative project with 8 other Scottish Artists as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival. Myself, Rod Jones (Idlewild), Scott Hutchinson (Frightened Rabbit), Jenny Reeve (Strike the Colours), Emma Pollock (Delgados), James Graham (Twilight Sad), Karine Polwart, James Yorkston and Alasdair Roberts spent a snowy week in a house in Perth and wrote an album titled “Fruit Tree Foundation-First Edition’.  We originally performed the songs in two shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh later in the year, where a limited amount of the albums were available for purchase, but now Chemikal Underground Records have awesomely agreed to release it to the wider public. It is now available to buy here and you can download two free tracks from the Fruit Tree Foundation website here.

You can read more about the conception of the Fruit Tree Foundation here. Hope you can pick up a copy, 50% of the profits will go directly to the Mental Health Foundation.

Cheers,

Jill