We were asked recently by French webzine Attica to list 5 records that we had enjoyed listening to this year.

You can read the article here:

http://www.atticawebzine.com/2010/08/la-quinte-de-dale-grundle-the-sleeping-years/

We have recorded a cover of ‘Cattle and cane‘ by The Go-Betweens for release this month with The Explorer’s Club.
‘The Explorers Club is a collaboration between LOAF recordings and Arctic Circle. Together we plan to bring you a series of special, one-off singles released once a month from 30, or so artists from the four corners of the globe.‘
http://www.l-o-a-f.com/explore

‘Cattle and cane‘ will be released on the 18th Aug and you will be able to order the track on its own or you can subscribe to access all tracks released so far on The Explorer’s Club.

You can listen to the song now on soundcloud:

Cattle and cane by thesleepingyears

Available to order from:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003T3PA46/ref=dm_sp_alb
Boomkat: http://boomkat.com/downloads/312799-the-sleeping-years-homelife-explorer-s-club-8-reykjavik-dublin
Juno: http://www.junodownload.com/products/1593758-02.htm
HMV: https://www.hmvdigital.com/artist/the-sleeping-years-homelife/explorers-club-8-reykjavik-dublin

Recording credits:

Dale Grundle – Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, percussion
Dan Wood – Keyboards
Alex Beamont – Cello
Tom Page – Drums

Damian O’Hara has helped to design all of The Sleeping Years‘ artwork from the beginning. Originally one of the three members of the design team Pika Pika, he has now branched out on his own.

You can follow his other projects on his new blog here: http://damianohara.blogspot.com/

The first show of this year will be at Kings Place in London on the 26th Feb.
Accompanied by members of both The Sleeping Years and Catchers – and the Arctic Circle Brass Ensemble – Dale will perform songs in special arrangements by John Jermy and Nick Drake-collaborator the late Robert Kirby.

Alice Lemon will be joining Dale on stage to perform some Catchers songs.

Tickets are on sale now with very limited SAVER SEATS available online at £9.50 for all concerts. Prices (unless stated otherwise): £24.50, £19.50, £15.50 Premium seats available.

Tickets http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes?theme=102

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=244640127919&ref=mf

Order your copy of ‘Into sunlight‘ limited edition vinyl with free download now from our shop at http://sleepingyears.com/shop . Artwork is by Damian O’Hara http://www.damianohara.com with

All four tracks are available from iTunes, emusic, amazon, etc.

You can listen to ‘Into sunlight‘ and ‘Katherine cove‘ from the single streaming on our myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/thesleepingyears

Trace Recordings have just released a compilation album featuring a new TSY track – an acoustic version of ‘The king grows tired‘. The CD also features Edison Woods, Martina Bertoni, BLK w/BEAR, Sarah June, Roshi Feat. Pars Radio, Stephen Spera, The Resistance, Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks with Mark Beazley and David Hurn.

Trace Recordings is run by Mark Beazley of Rothko and at the moment he is offering a free CD of Rothko remixes and other tracks with all copies of ‘Ten‘ purchased from the Trace website.

You can buy your copy by going here:

http://www.tracerecordings.com/releases.html

Hello.
We are very excited to be supporting one of our favourite bands at a special show coming up in London.

After a series of celebrated concerts in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Munich and Cologne, The Notwist and The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra will be playing a very unique show at the Union Chapel in London on the 12th December.

This combination of a 20-piece orchestra with a 5-piece band from Bavaria holds a lot more promise than the typical “Rock meets Classical” set up. Instead, old and new Notwist songs are elaborated upon to form extremely complex orchestral arrangements that are sometimes moody and often happily insane.
The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra make music in their very own galaxy – a similar one to which Raymond Scott, Sun Ra or Bach and Beethoven must have once passed by.

These evenings celebrate a new interpretation and elaboration of the Notwistian songbook, which due to the obvious logistical reasons involved can only take place on a few very special occasions.

Tickets for the show are on sale now from
Wegottickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59125

For further information please visit the Arctic Circle at: http://www.jointhecircle.net/

The Notwist: http://www.myspace.com/notwist
The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra: http://www.myspace.com/..andromedameo

Here are youtube clips of past performances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?..v=RZkt8PmJf8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?..v=Q0Wox0-ZseI