Monkey Love Records News

Friday, 13 July 2007

Imagine yourself 7 days from now. You have a smile on your face and you are doing a slightly drunk version of the 'robot dance'. You spill a little bit of your pint on your shoes, but you don't care, you just carry on letting your arm pivot effortlessly left and right at the elbow. You are having fun.

Yes people! The event of the summer is a mere week away and there will be plenty of opportunities to 'robot dance' (or any other dance) your socks off.

Not only are we giving you 6 resident Beat Brew DJ's, who will play you everything from Calypso to Electronica, but we are also giving you ALL the Monkey Love artists playing LIVE, and special 8-bit guest Jellica from underground dance label KittenRock.

'Where is all this happening?' I hear you say. Well, here's all the info;

Date: 19th July 2007
Time: 2130-0300 (live music starts from 2200, so don't be late)
Place: The Mustard Lounge, Westlegate, Norwich, NR1 3NA
Cost: £3

More information about this event can be found on the Beat Brew MySpace or the Monkey Love MySpace.

This event promises to be extremely eclectic and will appeal to the broadest of musical tastes, so if you like music then this is the place to come.

To listen to tracks and get more info on all Monkey Love artists, follow these links;

Red Cassette . sonofsam . Robberriff . Joy Tourette

Finally, in conjunction with this event, Beat Brew head honcho Joe has appeared on Episode 8 of the Monkey Love Podcast with a bundle of dazzling tracks from 'Dave Boakes', 'Jon Kennedy', 'Concrete Breaks Live', 'Robberriff', 'DJ Vadim' (exclusive remix!!!), and 'Funky Wormhole'. It's beat-tastic!

See you Thursday banana-faces,

Monkey Love x

Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Folk-wizard Red Cassette has appeared on a marvellous sampler, released by Boy Scout Recordings, with the track 'Thin King Twice'.

Rough Trade says

'...boy scout recordings provides a home for the worlds best urban pastoralists, or nu pholk artists, or anti folkists... or something like that.'

Nice! Simon Hawkins says

'Talk about a hidden gem. Expecting nothing more than some droll, twee folk, this compilation of singers on the Boy Scout Recordings label is a fantastic introduction to what appears to be a label jammed full of low-fi talent. Run by Tim Love Lee, from his Brooklyn base, TB&C highlights artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Dawn Landes, Turner Cody and Red Cassette are the stand outs, each providing their own off-kilter folk-rock. In a never-ending land of dull and dreary identikit singer-songwriters, it's very uplifting to find a batch of artists who bring something different to the genre. A total and utter surprise. The perfect summer evening album.'

Double nice!

You can get the sampler in CD format from Rough Trade or Selectadisc and in download format from Tune Tribe.

Well done Red!

Monkey Love x

Monday, 09 July 2007

Big news coming, hold onto your tails people...

The Monkey Love Records Shop is now open for business!

Thanks to everybody for all your emails concerning the availability of our products. You can rest assured that 'Shop Monkey' Gregory has been working his little hairy knuckles to the bone gathering together a great selection of them.
These products currently include our very special hand-printed t-shirts, 4-pack badges and 2-pack stickers. We also have a fantastic Monkey Love sampler which includes 10 tracks from all of our artists, a great starter if you are new to our music.

We will be continuing to update the shop with new and exciting products, so keep your eyes peeled.

Not literally peeled though...obviously,

Monkey Love x