Lover Best Forgotten – official video

Yes, that’s right, official video.  We pulled our fingers out and made one, so now you can see how beardy we are.  It’s on

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Some HowManyDevils for your ears

Good evening.  It’s about time I told you where to listen to us again.  Tonight it’s Spotify:

D4 – it’s been out a little while…

Exciting things have happened in my life and I’m a bit lax doing other things at the moment, but I’ve got 5 minutes spare so I’m going to share our latest band product with you.  It’s D4, our latest EP/album of many/no names.  You can get it for streaming or download in several places, the major ones being:

• Apple Music/iTunes
• Spotify
• Amazon
• SoundCloud

Go give it a listen.

And watch this space as something else will happen soon…

D4 4U

Last year we spent some time in an actual studio recording five tracks that would become the D4 album. Now they are ready for the good people of planet earth to buy and listen to online!

Find it on your favourite music streaming site/online store and enjoy. 

Heavy Mind Owls on SoundCloud

It is what it says on the tin.  Heavy Mind Owls, our latest EP, is all recorded and available on SoundCloud.  We’ll get it to Spotify and other stores in a bit.

 

You hurt me inside

Don’t worry, I’m not really hurting inside.  It’s just a lyric from Tortured Soul, the latest and last song to be recorded for our Heavy Mind Owls project.  We recorded it last night – still need to mix it though, so you don’t get to hear it just yet.  I have spotted that we’ve all been a bit lax though.  We recorded Pretty Sun and didn’t shout enough about it.  It’s also a song for Heavy Mind Owls and it’s on SoundCloud

Nudge

It’s nearly 2017.  We’ve had a little break to see families over Christmas but we’ll get things going again soon.  It’s a little over 5 years since we got back together as HowManyDevils, so I’ve updated our profile pages.  Some things change in that amount of time…

Interested? Here they are:

• Band
• Pete
• Rob
• Simon
• Stumpy Boxhead

Plans for next year are: name and release the Yellow Arch EP, finish recording and release Heavy Mind Owls, find a drummer, GIG!! :-O

Heavy Mind Owls

Evening.  We’ve been recording today.  Not the EP – we will get around to that though – this was the procrastination project, which I named ‘Heavy Mind Owls’ without telling anyone else.  It’s the Complete for Pete project, where we record some songs that Pete noticed we hadn’t got proper recordings of.  Today we did ‘Freaks R Us’ and got it more or less instantly (a first for us) to SoundCloud.  Have a listen here:

More Merch, no EP yet…

We’re either halfway through recording the next album, or 90% of the way through doing an EP.  Probably an EP.  It needs a name, it’s the fourth thing we’ve done in the current incarnation of the band – and almost all of it is played in drop-D, so we were playing around with names the were to do with the letter D or number 4 (with the added coincidence of D being the fourth letter of the alphabet).  Even without a name for the EP we got thinking about cover art, and with D being delta in Greek we got on to trying to use triangles (yes, we’re getting abstract).  Then we looked through for symbols that were triangular and ended up looking at old Alchemical symbols.  So, stealing the idea from Led Zeppelin 4 (four again!) we chose a symbol each.  Tonight, those symbol entered the glorious world of merchandise – meaning I put them on some T-shirts.

You might have to wait a little while for the music, but you can buy things to wear here: http://www.redbubble.com/shop/hmd+mens-graphic-t-shirts?cat_context=u-tees&accordion=product

Revisiting old haunts

Rob and I spent the evening at The Mullberry Tavern last night where we saw four pretty awesome bands. I would say the they probably represented a bit of our style in a way. Firegarden are a brilliantly talented rock and prog (and a little grungey sometimes) act that never fail to put out a good set. Then there were two other bands (who’s names passed me by [Baranovich and Modern Day Dukes :Rob]). One did covers of traditional rock tracks whilst the others were more on the punk side. The headliners were the super amazing Hands Off Gretel who put on another dynamite show. So much stage (or lack there of [Tiny, tiny stage. I think Sean’s hair probably reached across it :Rob]) presence and songs that sweep high and low as well as full on power tracks. Lauren’s voice seems to get stronger every time I see them. A brilliant night all in all. I can’t wait to start gigging again!  [I just hope we’re as good as these bands :Rob]