The Catchers – Concerts du 7ème Ciel from Les concerts du 7ème Ciel on Vimeo.

French music webzine Popnews recorded an acoustic video session of Catchers performing 4 songs prior to the 7ème Ciel show in Paris.

You can watch the band perform ‘Christina, ‘Aqualapping‘, ‘Cotton Dress‘ and ‘Song for Autumn‘ above.

‘Rarely does a new play text inspire such excitement in ABSOLUT Fringe HQ as this new play by Jo Holmwood. It’s sharp, insightful, and very engaging.‘

‘My Word is my Bond‘is a new play by Jo Holmwood and features music by The Sleeping Years.

Tired of the same old group dynamics, six members of a writers’ group and their mentor ditch their attempts at fiction in order to embark on a journey of truth and tell their own stories. But memories have been known to play games, manipulate the facts and lie and the stories of truth that we weave may not be so reliable. This new play provides an entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of the boundaries between reality and fiction, creativity and vanity. A funny and increasingly surreal production, this is a fresh, captivating show by an exciting new writer.

The show runs from the 9-16 September at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.

Tickets available from here: http://www.fringefest.com/event/my-word-is-my-bond

2011′s Green Man Festival is coming up this weekend. If you happen to be going, you can catch me playing on the Pub Stage on Sunday 21st at 5pm.

Other events to look out for are the Arctic Circle‘s curation of the Cinema Tent on Saturday and Sunday featuring Paper Cinema, Sone Institute, North Sea Radio Orchestra, etc, and Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo, who play on Friday night at 9.45pm.

Full line up: http://www.greenman.net/lineup

See you there!

I was asked recently by French webzine Attica to list 5 records that I 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