Big Announcement by RAPTUSOUND

In case you forgot to subscribe to the newsletter or the band Raptusound, here is the what they happily announced yesterday:

Hi,

We have some very exciting news. On Monday 19 Aug we will be releasing our first single ‘The Filter’, and will be played first on BBC 6 Music by the marvellous Tom Robinson under the prestigious BBC Introducing banner. The Filter is taken from our forthcoming acoustic EP ‘Healing Breaks’ (released in the autumn in Leicester) and will be promoted vigorously on our first UK TOUR lined up for Aug/Sept/Oct/Nov which sees the band play in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, London and more. Dates are being added all the time so please visitwww.raptusound.com/live to keep up with events and to see the current tour schedule. We’ll give more info in the coming weeks.

After a challenging start to the year this has all happened quite quickly and is a significant breakthrough for us.

You can listen to 'The Filter' now here: 

https://soundcloud.com/raptusound/the-filter-healing-breaks-ep

CAN WE PLEASE ASK A FAVOUR?: if you are on Facebook then please ‘share’ our latest facebook post which can be found here:www.facebook.com/raptusound. The post reads:

“BIG NEWS: On Mon Aug 19 we will be releasing our first single ‘The Filter’, and will be played first on BBC 6 Music by the marvellous Tom Robinson Band of BBC Introducing. The Filter is taken from our forthcoming EP ‘Healing Breaks’ (released in the autumn in Leicester) and will be promoted vigorously on our first UK TOUR lined up for Aug/Sept/Oct/Nov which sees the band play in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, London and more. We’ll give more info in the next few weeks. MASSIVE. You can listen to 'The Filter' now below.

https://soundcloud.com/raptusound/the-filter-healing-breaks-ep”

In sharing the post (done by pressing ‘share’ at the bottom right hand corner of the post) it exposes the band to people who are not reachable by us and thus promotes the band further – which is the most important and significant way bands are being promoted today. YOUR HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!

Many thanks.

Christopher, Tristan and Jack.

From My Hands- an EP by Raptusound-

Since this monday, you can buy online the new and very first EP of the band Raptusound . From My Hands is composed by 4 songs : Alibi (which is my favorite since I know them!), Wasted, Always Ready, Truth Not Fashion.

This EP begins with a big and good sound of synthesizer of Leigh on the song Alibi, then the voice of Christopher joins the music, like a complaint, like a man screaming his pain. You can imagine him in the studio hands on the headphone and eyes closed. The synthesizer comes back between each verses like a lively chorus asking you to dance and feel happy. This sound is really my favorite but I always think that it's too short!!!
Alibi is followed by Wasted which is so much calmer, the voice is also quite different, using differents microphones and singing more slowly give a new perspective to the voice, Christopher is one of this singer who can use his voice in all sort of range and you can feel it in this song. You can feel the emotion thanks to the harmony of all the instrument for the last minute of the song. I honestly imagine a very dark videoclip for this song...
Always Ready is the kind of indie song you can find in a lot of EP. Attention, Im saying it's a bad song, just that it's THE indie song of the EP and I think that despite the good harmony in the song and the voice, this song sounds a little bit too much like a lot of indie rock songs but it's one song over 4. But the lyrics are quite pretty. :)
The last song, Truth Not Fashion is the dancing song of the EP, beginning with a good guitar riff that gives you the rythm of the song, les lyrics are quite interesting and you just wanna sing them like a big karaoke and move your body at the same time. I like the synthesizer takes his place in the chorus following by the guitar and the bass while the drums is bigger and better. 
I really like the harmony of all the instruments in all the songs of this EP and you can feel that the guys put everything they have to autoproduce it all by themselves. This EP must and will be followed by a lot of others. It's a real good beginning for this young band. From My Hands is the positive things with what the band will finish the year 2012.
You can buy it on amazon , Itunes , spotify, eMusic and Rhapsody or you can simply order the cd to the band by using This email adress

Raptusound

Here is another band from Leicester!! I heard of them last year during the Oxjam festival in Leicester (where I was of course). I couldn't see their whole set but I saw 2 or 3 songs. I quite liked what I heard but there was sooo many good bands on that day that I couldn't meet everybody!!!

Then a friend of mine asked me to promote a gig where they were playing so I had another listen to this band and suddenly remembered what I heard live and since I wanted to introduce them here but as you could notice, I was too busy out of the internet world and was unable to promote my new loves!!!!

Raptusound is a brand new band, they formed after last summer so they're going to celebrate their First year as a band and what a first year it was!!!! 

You can find: 

Christopher Brown on the Vocal and Guitar

Leigh Dunning at Synths and Keyboard
Jack Liquorish at the bass 

Tristan Owen at the drums

They're playing and electro-rock music. If you were fan of Muse when they begun or even Radiohead then you might adore their music. Their sound is loud but melodic at the same time, once you heard a song, you wanna hear the others. Of course, Christopher's voice is what makes you feel like flying with the birds while you're just listening to some music. You can NOT move your head on the rythm of Raptusound's music. 

If Top of The Pops was still active (here in France) I would love to see them on that stage surrending by red, pink and orange lights. 

Raptusound is singing some poetry.

They're quite often on stage since they begun, they will be playing twice during the Strawberry Fields Festival. One electic set and one accoustic and I think that everybody should see the 2 sets.

For the moment, my favorite song is Alibi which you can hear on the following video. But I don't know all of their songs yet! ;)

 

You can find the band on their Official Website , Official Facebook page , Twitter page , Reverbnation page ,Listen to their music on their  SoundCloud page and watch some good videos on their Youtube page .

Leigh, Jack, Christopher, Tristan

They're gonna be on tour after the summer, in England en even for some dates in Europe so open your eyes and ears!

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Strawberry Fields Festival 2012

In few weeks, the Strawberry Fields Festival will "re-open" his doors for a 3rd edition. I've been able to be at this festival last year, but unfortunately (and because of the day job), only for the Saturday, that's why I didn't review what I saw there BUT it was a brilliant and great festival. I know that here, we hear more about Glastonbury, V Festival or Reading but there's a lot of other great festivals and Strawberry Fields Festival is one of them! This festival is becoming bigger each year and this year, it has an even more amzing line_up than last year. 

By reading this blog, you know how the Leicestershire is important in my life and this festival has become the little point where I can have fun and see all my "lovers" sharing the stages! Oh yeah, they need to become more and more and more important and I know that maybe not next year, but soon, they will be named as one of the "NOT TO BE MISSED FESTIVAL".

At this year festival, you'll be please to see SuperEvolver , Modern Faces, MovE, Danny Greet's new band The Vanishing Point (I'll write soon about that new band), The Great KAV, The amazing Bibelots, Red 'n ' Pink, Raptusound, but also The Dash, KAROVA , By The River, Martha Makes Mistakes, Marner Brown, Buster Shuffles, FC-20, Preacher and The Bear, Young Knives, The Carpels, Kyla La Grange and Of course the legendary The Charlatans and Labrinth.

Raptusound's gig

A great gig will happen in my second home in March. SO if you're in or around Leicester on the 20th of March you MUST go to that gig because it's great and because a good friend of mine is involved in this gig and needs the most support you can give. Share this event to the most people you can meet in your life!

You can find Raptusound HERE.