The wonderful Golden Fable have put together this practical guide to touring, featuring "funsize" apples, tyre pressures, coffee and fuel efficiency. What more could you ask for? Day 1. We've been touring under various guises for around seven years now, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to share our secrets of life on the road, Golden Fable style. Planning is essential. We always follow these important steps before setting off: 1. Check oil level of tour bus [...]
Straight on with day two of The Great Escape and Friday starts with a period of stewing around the lanes drinking excessive coffee and then running to Hove and back to wash away a few of yesterdays ales. Kill or cure, that's the motto with running. A shower later (you'll be glad to know) and I'm at Above Audio awaiting Embers . The quartet come quintet (with the addition of Sophie from PINS on violin) are crammed onto the tiny [...]
Straight on with the second part of my Great Escape 2013 preview - if you landed on this page and want to see the first part - head here and your wish will be granted... Golden Fable - Facebook / goldenfable.com Friday 17th May - 19.15 - Sticky Mikes Frog Bar A band I'm very much looking forward to breaking my live duck with are Golden Fable, the duo [...]
The VPME And so it came to pass that on the third day of Liverpool Sound City our hangover had swelled to Brobdingnagian proportions! We awoke gripped by 'the F.E.A.R.' aka 'hangover anxiety', and resolved we needed something to expunge the darkness, to cleanse us like bleach. BLEECH Ironically, the first gig of the final day was from Bleech, a band we've been long time fans of but never managed to catch live, but whoooaa, was [...]
The dust is settling and the after shocks are still being felt....What has happened? Why is my head still all awhirl with psychotropic visions and random noise bursts. Can things ever be returned to sanity? Maybe the facts will help...now where are the facts? What was this FOCUS Wales event all about? By Martyn Coppack
Facebook / http://www.goldenfable.com/ Golden Fable return with an alternative version of "Crossfire" from last years wonderful Star Map LP, a record that was one of my 2012 albums of the year - I highly recommend you to get the special edition from their Bandcamp too - it comes with some to die for acoustic version and a rather snazzy poster edition all put together by the band themselves. Speaking of to die for, this updated version of "Crossfire" is absolutely gorgeous, the [...]
Currently recording their second album with Jimmy Robertson (Anna Calvi, Florence + The Machine) and David Wrench (Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything) , Welsh two-piece Golden Fable will be appearing live at this spring’s showcase festivals, as well as offering one of their more melancholy tracks, the vocally haunting ‘Crossfire’ , out June 3rd. WATCH // Golden Fable - 'Crossfire' (St. Giles' Sessions) 2012 was a significant and successful year for [...]
The VPME It's time for the annual VPME Awards, as we reflect on the all that was awesome astounding and amazing during the musical year! It's also a time to reward our favourite artists with our version of a musical Oscar, the quite stunning and splendiferous "Pipster." Hewn from genuine 24-carat pixels, and then sculpted onto 5mm thick glossed, laminated PVC Board, this magnificent trophy will surely brighten up the drabbest of downstairs loos, tour vans, rehearsal spaces, or even garages. But on a serious note it's our chance to say thank you to a host [...]
Just Music That I Like's Favourite Albums of the Year 2013 - Part Three Previously posted: Part One // Two // Three // Four // Five 15. Golden Fable - Star Map Facebook // Order CD An album which has criminally managed to stay off many peoples radar this year, perhaps due to the self-released nature of the album, still with support slots [...]
Facebook / goldenfable.com / A couple more seasonal posts on there way now and I doubt you'll hear a Christmas song as beautiful as this first one from Golden Fable this year , it is to-die-for gorgeous. Rebecca Palin's angelic voice brings to mind all sorts of wonderful things no matter when you hear it and it resonates even more with festival choral thoughts at mind, this track "Blithe Spirit", is the perfect summation of the duo's subtle and effective elegance that they delivered on their stunning debut Star Map earlier [...]
I don't remember where I first heard about Golden Fable, but it seems I've been subscribed to their news feed and awaiting their debut album forever. That debut, Star Map, was finally released this month and you can watch the video for the album's first single, "Always Golden," below. The band is also offering an [...]
Golden Fable revision Duologue 's breath-taking Underworld into something more cinematic and similarly beautiful (exclusive) The Knocks have added some danceable pop euphoria to HAIM 's Forever (via KickKickSnare ) Duke Dumont has turned AlunaGeorge 's Your Drums, Your Love into a 90s house classic (via Cruel Rhythm ) La Felix gives Daft Punk's aerodynamic a funk groove (via DiscoDemons ) Mighty Mouse splashes his [...]
Perhaps "Sugarloaf" by North Wales' chill indie poets Golden Fable is so titled for singer Rebecca Palin's sweet vocals. Following that logic, though, Golden Fable's whole upcoming debut album should be named Sugarloaf , or perhaps the band itself should be so named. Instead, their upcoming album (out Oct 9) is entitled Star Map , and the band is still Golden Fables. read more
Facebook / goldenfable.com/ Golden Fable have recently announced their debut full length Star Map, scheduled for release September 10th it will be available through a variety of options, perhaps most impressively a ndeluxe version (available to order straight from the band via bandcamp ) which comes with an exclusive download of acoustic versions of material from the ten track LP as well as some exclusive content and a poster etc... That extra packaging is a nice addition of course but the thing you'll get the most [...]
Articulating with hindsight, to bill a band as being endowed with a Midan touch – however lustrous any glinting first impression may be – is perhaps somewhat exaggerated; a dramatisation destined to rust and delude like the most brittle of metals. However here to spare blushes and to again emphatically vindicate such aggrandisement are our beloved Golden Fable , who return with Sugarloaf. Driven by the nagging cafard of compatriots Manic Street Preachers at their more drivetime – think The Love of Richard Nixon stripped of its irksome bombast – luscious orchestrations eddy underneath Rebecca Palin's comforting [...]
Golden Fable, winning my heart since August 16, 2011 . Music so precious I could hug it and it would hug back. "Sugarloaf," Golden Fable's new single, is due August 13. Their debut album, Star Map , is out September 10 via their own Full of Joy Records.
This is the Saturday Surf, our lazy weekend blog post where we offer very little commentary and let the music do the talking from some songs that we haven't found time to devote a full post to. Ghost Loft – Seconds Ghost Loft is a project from LA-based Danny Choi and is another one of those acts [...]
Remixed is a column that will highlight remixes we actually think are worthy of praise, be they old or new. Because most remixes are rubbish. // Words: Saam Das London electro-pop duo BLUEBELL release their debut single 'Normal Heights'/'Cinderella' today, through our buddies Killing Moon Records. In addition, there are a smattering of remixes of the former track available, including by the likes of Worship and Draper . Our favourite is by Golden Fable , a [...]
Golden Fable is the side project of Tim McIver and Becca Palin, otherwise known as cult act Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam. Got that? Tim and Sam are known for their gentle instrumental pieces and produced a well-reviewed album in 2010’s 'Life Stream', but mid-2011 they decided a new style and name was in order, and Golden Fable was born. Maintaining the delicate instrumentation, but adding more loops and proper lyrics to their material made the name change worthwhile. First single ‘The Chill Pt. 2’ [...]
Oh! Inverted World returns to the Old Queens Head on May 24th with (as ever, obvs) an AMAZING line-up of Good Dangers , Amber States , Natalie Findlay and Golden Fable . You'd expect to pay good money for such quality, but no, IT'S TOTALLY FREE! ----GOOD DANGERS---- Here are Good Dangers cycling through woods in the dark (which is very dangerous, please don't try at home kids, this could be a Bad Danger (haha, geddit?!)) [...]
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