It's official - Summer is here! We hope that you're all getting the same lovely summer evenings that we've been getting recently - perhaps the song is working... (see the Media page if that makes no sense).
Three gigs this month, with the first being this FRIDAY (4th July) down at the amazing Bull and Gate, Kentish Town. It should be a really fun month, as we're adding more songs into the set-list, and generally warming up for a full-on full-length set at the Hamswell Festival in August (you should come - it'll be amazing).
Those dates in a little more detail:
Friday, 4th July - The Bull & Gate, Kentish Town
It's amazing! It's wonderful! We LOVE the Bull & Gate! It always seems like a little bit of a home-coming there, and we're really looking forward to this gig. It's a full night, with four bands - Fat Lips (Funk-Brass Indie), Riddler (um, us), Prince Edward Island (Arab Strab-esque Indie) & Laugh Now, Cry Later (Urban Folktronica) - it's going to be a traditional, varied B&G Night!
Monday 14th July - Feed the Monkey @ Jrink, Soho - FREE GIG
We've been asked to do a couple of Mid/Early-week show(cases) recently, and this is the next one! Jrink's really lovely (we've been to 3 or 4 gigs there) - lovely atmosphere, great, great music and amazing drinks just off Soho Square. The crowd down there are really friendly, and you can get seriously up close and personal with all the bands. It's basically brilliant! And FREE...
Monday 21st July - Rhythm Factory - Spoonful of Poison - FREE GIG
The legendary Vis the Spoon liked our truly strange acoustic set so much last time, he's invited us back (hell, we were giggling our way through it - Dan nearly spat into the Mic - it was amazing). What can you expect? Well, this is probably London's best Open Mic night - and it's certainly its strangest.
You should get around 10 acts (anything from Comedy to Performance Poetry to Acoustic acts) and around 10pm, you'll get us. And what will we play? Who knows, but it's sure as hell not going to be acoustic :). Well worth popping down to if you can...
There's much more going on in the background at the moment, and hopefully we'll say much more on that soon - make sure you keep an eye on our Blog for those little additions to our world - and we hope we can see you at a gig soon.
News
July - Sunshine, Music, Free things...
UPDATE! June - Gigantic Jellies, Sun & Music
**A Little Update - we've been asked to do a last-minute set on Tuesday the 24th June at The Good Ship, Kilburn High Road so some lovely people can come and listen to us - we should be on stage some time shortly after 8:30pm - and it would be marvelous to see anyone who'd like to pop along and support us!**
It's the start of the Summer, and Riddler are back from the sweaty depths of London to the leafy hills of Hertfordshire for the next gig...
Friday the 6th of June @ The Horn, St. Albans. It's about a fiver on the door, three bands (perhaps +1), two DJs, open until 2am, dark rooms, tons of booze, interesting characters and sweaty jumping around - only a couple of steps from St. Albans station too (what more could you ever possible ask for!).
It's a bit like a home-coming, but we're straight back into London for Odd Wednesdays on Wednesday the 11th June and The Legion, Old Street. This is an utterly fantastic (FREE) night with buckets of atmosphere, cool people and interesting musical vibes just dripping off the ceiling. The night kicks off around 8pm, Drinks are cheap until around 9.30pm (which is about that Riddler should amble onto the stage).
Well worth it.
PS - pop over to the Odd Wednesday's MySpace for a truly original wallpaper :P
ULU Duck 'n' Dive on Sat May 24th!
We'll start with this! Riddler are playing 2 sets for Band Republic at the University of London Union (Duck 'n' Dive Bar) on Saturday the 24th of May. Full details are on the Live page, but it's basically Students, Cheap Beer, 5 Bands, 10 Sets, great night right in the centre of London!
It's £5 on the door or by Ticket (£3 Conc.), which also gets you membership of Band Republic. (Band Republic allows its members to be 'A&R Guys' for their acts, and chose pretty much everything about their future single releases, from the Band that gets released, right down to the Cover Photo that's used - awesome idea!).
If you'd like tickets, you can get in touch with us directly at ulu@riddlermusic.co.uk, and we'll get you all the details!
In other news - we've been sent a fair few photos from recent gigs, and they should end up on the site in a couple of days. We're also winding up for the 6th of June @ The Horn, St. Albans - a bit of a home-coming, as that's always an awesome night, and there may be a surprise Headline to go with it.
It's £5 on the door or by Ticket (£3 Conc.), which also gets you membership of Band Republic. (Band Republic allows its members to be 'A&R Guys' for their acts, and chose pretty much everything about their future single releases, from the Band that gets released, right down to the Cover Photo that's used - awesome idea!).
If you'd like tickets, you can get in touch with us directly at ulu@riddlermusic.co.uk, and we'll get you all the details!
In other news - we've been sent a fair few photos from recent gigs, and they should end up on the site in a couple of days. We're also winding up for the 6th of June @ The Horn, St. Albans - a bit of a home-coming, as that's always an awesome night, and there may be a surprise Headline to go with it.
May Madness and More Music...
It's nearly May. ARGH! With the year tumbling past at horrendous speed, let's start by thanking all you lovely people who came to the Fused gig at the Inn on the Green on the 5th. Your support is amazing, and it was a blinder that everyone we've spoken to seems to have loved. Thank you!
Also, a little note. We've recently got back the photos from the Pete Doherty support gig a month or two back - they're up in the Live gallery if you fancy a butchers.
On to May - two gigs to speak of. The first is an opportunity to get over that Bank Holiday hangover with a slightly different sit-down-strange-acoustic affair down at the Rhythm Factory for A Spoonful of Poison. Blatantly London's best open mic night, Riddler are headlining it with an altered 'acoustic' set with just Lise, Mike and Dan (and some gizmos).
Monday 5th May - Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW
Doors 8pm (Sign-up if you fancy a go in front of an audience - 7:00pm)
Compere: The LEGEND that is Vis the Spoon
Also, we've been asked to do a few mid-week slots, and the first of these is also this month. It's at Westbourne Studios (just off the Portabello Road and a couple of minutes from the Inn on the Green), which is an amazing venue where you can chill on some sofas, relax at the bar, play pool, then come into the gig room to listen to a load of bands. Will be great!
Tuesday 13th May, Grand Hall @ The Cobden Club, Ladbroke Grove, W10 5BN
Near lots of tube stations!
Doors around 7:30pm - Stage around 10:15pm
That's about it for here - more stuff on our blog, new tunes going up on our media page, lots of rumour and scandal to follow.
Also, a little note. We've recently got back the photos from the Pete Doherty support gig a month or two back - they're up in the Live gallery if you fancy a butchers.
On to May - two gigs to speak of. The first is an opportunity to get over that Bank Holiday hangover with a slightly different sit-down-strange-acoustic affair down at the Rhythm Factory for A Spoonful of Poison. Blatantly London's best open mic night, Riddler are headlining it with an altered 'acoustic' set with just Lise, Mike and Dan (and some gizmos).
Monday 5th May - Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW
Doors 8pm (Sign-up if you fancy a go in front of an audience - 7:00pm)
Compere: The LEGEND that is Vis the Spoon
Also, we've been asked to do a few mid-week slots, and the first of these is also this month. It's at Westbourne Studios (just off the Portabello Road and a couple of minutes from the Inn on the Green), which is an amazing venue where you can chill on some sofas, relax at the bar, play pool, then come into the gig room to listen to a load of bands. Will be great!
Tuesday 13th May, Grand Hall @ The Cobden Club, Ladbroke Grove, W10 5BN
Near lots of tube stations!
Doors around 7:30pm - Stage around 10:15pm
That's about it for here - more stuff on our blog, new tunes going up on our media page, lots of rumour and scandal to follow.
Everything happens at once!
Righteo - lots been happening, lots to talk about :).
Just to start with, a little thank you to those who came down to the Doherty gig @ Rhythm Factory - we know it was a bit pricey, but it was a lot of fun, and the crowd were lovely!
While The Horn gig has been postponed, we're looking forward to the 5th of April, down at the Inn on the Green, Ladbroke Grove, where we're gigging for Eclectic Fusion (who kindly featured us on their site). It's a great venue (really cool gig room), and while we're doing fewer gigs to give us time to write, record and rehearse new songs, the gigs are getting more important each time - it would be brilliant to see you there.
5th April, Inn on the Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, Ladbroke Grove, London
Doors: 8pm, Stage: Around 9:30pm or a bit later.
Compere: The LEGEND that is Vis the Spoon
Lise & Mike have also appeared in a video! It's a reworking of a song by some amazing friends of ours, RemembeR. It came about as a pan-European project between Artists, Designers and Musicians (and us!), and it's one of our favourite RemembeR songs.
It's also currently number 3 (was 15 in MTV Hungary's Top 50 videos chart, and number 8 (was 15) in their Rock Chart, which puts us only 12 places behind Radiohead - that's just freaky. Go and give it a watch and a rating over on YouTube!
We were also featured on Kooba Radio - one of the best podcasts out there (especially in the UK) for catching up with quality unsigned musicians (discluding ourselves, of course - modesty required). We were on (a seriously talent-filled) Johnny Yeah Show this week, where Johnny very kindly played an early demo version of one of the new songs, Lipstick Blonde. So if you'd like to hear a work-in-progress version of that (and from the lovely things they said, they liked it), pop over to Kooba Radio! If you don't, pop over and subscribe anyway - it's awesome.
Finally, work on the new website is coming along nicely (while we lose our Kidney's) - it's will appear magically at http://www.riddlermusic.co.uk (that would be here then!) in a few weeks. In the meantime, we've put up some demos of some songs we're working on on our MySpace and we've also started a Facebook Page - come and be our friend again!
There are loads of new photos up on Facebook (along with the video), and there'll be new music up there shortly.
See - lots happening :). Come, subscribe to our MySpace Blog, join us on Facebook, or just sign up to our mailing list, and we'll keep you in the loop on what looks likely to be a very busy 2008.
The Riddlers
Just to start with, a little thank you to those who came down to the Doherty gig @ Rhythm Factory - we know it was a bit pricey, but it was a lot of fun, and the crowd were lovely!
While The Horn gig has been postponed, we're looking forward to the 5th of April, down at the Inn on the Green, Ladbroke Grove, where we're gigging for Eclectic Fusion (who kindly featured us on their site). It's a great venue (really cool gig room), and while we're doing fewer gigs to give us time to write, record and rehearse new songs, the gigs are getting more important each time - it would be brilliant to see you there.
5th April, Inn on the Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, Ladbroke Grove, London
Doors: 8pm, Stage: Around 9:30pm or a bit later.
Compere: The LEGEND that is Vis the Spoon
Lise & Mike have also appeared in a video! It's a reworking of a song by some amazing friends of ours, RemembeR. It came about as a pan-European project between Artists, Designers and Musicians (and us!), and it's one of our favourite RemembeR songs.
It's also currently number 3 (was 15 in MTV Hungary's Top 50 videos chart, and number 8 (was 15) in their Rock Chart, which puts us only 12 places behind Radiohead - that's just freaky. Go and give it a watch and a rating over on YouTube!
We were also featured on Kooba Radio - one of the best podcasts out there (especially in the UK) for catching up with quality unsigned musicians (discluding ourselves, of course - modesty required). We were on (a seriously talent-filled) Johnny Yeah Show this week, where Johnny very kindly played an early demo version of one of the new songs, Lipstick Blonde. So if you'd like to hear a work-in-progress version of that (and from the lovely things they said, they liked it), pop over to Kooba Radio! If you don't, pop over and subscribe anyway - it's awesome.
Finally, work on the new website is coming along nicely (while we lose our Kidney's) - it's will appear magically at http://www.riddlermusic.co.uk (that would be here then!) in a few weeks. In the meantime, we've put up some demos of some songs we're working on on our MySpace and we've also started a Facebook Page - come and be our friend again!
There are loads of new photos up on Facebook (along with the video), and there'll be new music up there shortly.
See - lots happening :). Come, subscribe to our MySpace Blog, join us on Facebook, or just sign up to our mailing list, and we'll keep you in the loop on what looks likely to be a very busy 2008.
The Riddlers
Pete Doherty Support @ The Rhythm Factory
We just thought we would keep all you lovely people posted about some changes to the band....
But we'll start by letting you know about this coming Wednesday (the 27th) we are supporting Pete Doherty down at The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel.
Late notice, but if you are around you can get tickets from the Rhythm Factory (http://www.rhythmfactory.co.uk) and online soon. We are one of four support bands, and we will sometime before Mr Doherty, probably around 9:30pm. Should be an interesting evening!
As for the band..... We are slowly loosing our Kidneys and becoming 'Riddler'.
It would be great if you could have a listen to some new songs on our myspace profile, as we're always interested to know what you all think. There should now be a fairly steady flow of new material appearing... mostly in demo form. A new website is being finished right now, but you will be able to get to it directly from the old one, so it's all very straight forward.
Thanks to those who made it to the gig on Friday in Clerkenwell! See you soon.
But we'll start by letting you know about this coming Wednesday (the 27th) we are supporting Pete Doherty down at The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel.
Late notice, but if you are around you can get tickets from the Rhythm Factory (http://www.rhythmfactory.co.uk) and online soon. We are one of four support bands, and we will sometime before Mr Doherty, probably around 9:30pm. Should be an interesting evening!
As for the band..... We are slowly loosing our Kidneys and becoming 'Riddler'.
It would be great if you could have a listen to some new songs on our myspace profile, as we're always interested to know what you all think. There should now be a fairly steady flow of new material appearing... mostly in demo form. A new website is being finished right now, but you will be able to get to it directly from the old one, so it's all very straight forward.
Thanks to those who made it to the gig on Friday in Clerkenwell! See you soon.
*OLD SITE* Thursday February 21st, 2008
Massive Night this Saturday!
A Massive night down at Leonards EC1 in Clerkenwell next Saturday (23rd Feb). 10 Bands, Two Stages, Five quid on the door with a Flyer. First gig of 2008. New Material. 'Nuff said.
Please please come if you can. We're also on stage with the awesome 'Contingency Plan' - deck bashingly entertainingly brilliant, and they're on straight after us.
The Bands include:
(In the Electro Room) Red Antennae, Contingency Plan, Riddler, The Insomniax, The Boy Nutko
(In The Acoustic Room) Jenny Maynard with Simon Lockstone, Claire Toomey, 5 Minute Promo
A Massive night down at Leonards EC1 in Clerkenwell next Saturday (23rd Feb). 10 Bands, Two Stages, Five quid on the door with a Flyer. First gig of 2008. New Material. 'Nuff said.
Please please come if you can. We're also on stage with the awesome 'Contingency Plan' - deck bashingly entertainingly brilliant, and they're on straight after us.
The Bands include:
(In the Electro Room) Red Antennae, Contingency Plan, Riddler, The Insomniax, The Boy Nutko
(In The Acoustic Room) Jenny Maynard with Simon Lockstone, Claire Toomey, 5 Minute Promo
*OLD SITE* Monday December 17th, 2007
CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS SATURDAY
The Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel
Hope you are enjoying the month of December (the month of parties!). How about one more? The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel are hosting their Christmas Party on Saturday the 22nd of December, with stuff on from 8pm until 5am.
We should be on around 10pm - please keep your eyes on Facebook/MySpace or our own website for confirmation of this, as we don't have the running order for the night yet.
You can also get your let-me-in-for-much-less-money flyer directly from HERE
Come on down, and we'll all have a very merry Christmas party indeed.
The Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel
Hope you are enjoying the month of December (the month of parties!). How about one more? The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel are hosting their Christmas Party on Saturday the 22nd of December, with stuff on from 8pm until 5am.
We should be on around 10pm - please keep your eyes on Facebook/MySpace or our own website for confirmation of this, as we don't have the running order for the night yet.
You can also get your let-me-in-for-much-less-money flyer directly from HERE
Come on down, and we'll all have a very merry Christmas party indeed.
*OLD SITE* Thursday November 22nd, 2007
***TONIGHT***
22nd November, @ The Fiddler's Elbow, 1 Malden Road, London, NW5 3HS. Nice and near Chalk Farm Tube (and not far from Kentish Town!).
Stage @ 9:00pm.
The live page seems to think it's already passed :). Would be amazing to see you if you're free.
22nd November, @ The Fiddler's Elbow, 1 Malden Road, London, NW5 3HS. Nice and near Chalk Farm Tube (and not far from Kentish Town!).
Stage @ 9:00pm.
The live page seems to think it's already passed :). Would be amazing to see you if you're free.
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