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S.E.N.T. – Week 6
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Foreword Lordy lordy, here we are, the final week. What a rollercoaster. It’s all becoming very emotional as we drag these tired, battle worn musical ideas over the finish line.…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 5
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Week 5 – Flowering IDEA #5 – SI Open up this week’s project. First listen…it’s not bad…got some groove, some sort of pop/indie thing. Another listen…oh no, hang on, maybe…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 4
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Foreword After last weeks telling off you’d think we would have ironed out all our technical difficulties. Not so. It turns out somebody has been uploading the wrong weeks audio,…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 3
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Foreword Before we get into the quick witted literary delights below I wanted to add a small preamble about discipline. Discipline is something that is entirely non-existent in this band.…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 2 – Germination?
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Week 2 – Germination IDEA #5 – HUX Bless Ed. You may have read his self deprecating words in last week’s blog, “I’m not very good at writing music by…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 1 – The Seeds
Making music together….apart… Two weeks ago we were due to pick up where we left off with writing and recording the next album. Unfortunately due to the current world situation we were unable to all be in the same room and make music the way we most enjoy. With the novelty of Joe Wicks wearing…
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What do you know about…
… Christmas… and Vinyl Christmas comes but once a year. Factually incorrect if you’re Belgian. It comes TWICE a year for our favourite trappist-beer loving, moules & frites pedallin’ chocoholics. We’ve been doing our homework here at H&S Towers and finding out all things culturally Belgian-related; Tin-Tin, Brel, The saxophone, Danny DeVito (Ok… not Danny…
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How To Be An Artist Ally: Part 1
Or “7 Ways to Help The Bands You Love… …A Guide For The Enthusiastic Fan” It’s a tough ol’ business keeping an artistic career going. The constant need to feel like you’re moving forward, the increased control of the interwebz by large corporations (see this thread by Lee Parson‘s CEO of our online distributor Ditto…
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“Do It All Again” on The Radio
Awesome news everybody! Wowser. Thank you all for an amazing first week of our new album “Happy Bread (& Cruel Hangovers)“. Lots has been happening but first up, a heads up. We’re overjoyed to be able to announce that our lead track Do It All Again will get it’s international radio debut on National Treasure…
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New Album “Happy Bread (& Cruel Hangovers)” OUT NOW!
That’s right, Hope and Social’s brand new album “Happy Bread (& Cruel Hangovers)” is out now. We’ve lots to tell you about… downloads, streaming, where to get it on CD and all about the pre-order for vinyl, posters, tee shirts… but more on that in a minute… why not press play, then read on..? Happy…
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Happier Breads (and Apple Turnovers)
Gary writes all about the food it takes to make a really great record.
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Album Drop – 30/09/19
“Happy Bread (and Cruel Hangovers)” Hope and Social to release their 6th studio album on the 30th September SAVE THE DATE! Yep, you heard it here first. The 6th eagerly (meagrely?!) awaited album by Hope and Social is in the can. Recorded, mixed, mastered & sent to the pressing plant. “What’s it all about then?”…
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A Change Of Scenery
They say a change is as good as a rest. Find out what happens when H&S take their album writing shenanigans to the inimitable Harewood House.
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This is not just any old Christmas show…
This is an H&S Christmas show (at a former M&S… no less)! This Christmas, we’re super-happy to be working with Rich Warburton (Recognise this lovely face? Thought you would!) of Theatre in The Mill to bring a whole bunch of Christmas present wishes to life. What the Frock is H&S’s Secret Santa? Three things. 1)…
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Hope and Social’s Secret Santa
in partnership with “Theatre In The Mill” Christmas is a special time for H&S. We always try and do something that’s special for us, and you… stuff like performing a singalong with 200 people on Leeds Town Hall steps and becoming a big-band, making an acoustic album and performing it as a one off set…
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This Must Be The Place – Grassington Festival
The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray! Hope and Social have their hats on aaaand This Must Be The Place. Ok so it doesn’t scan quite so well, but the sun has definitely been out. Gary is even more sun-kissed than his usual complexion suggests, and we’ve been busy completing our…
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This Must Be The Place – Grassington
This Must Be The Place – Why? Do you have that one place in your hometown that when you’re there, you’re the most [insert your home town here] that you can be? The place that most speaks to you, that draws you home when you’re not home… a place and a time you shared with…
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This Must Be The Place – R’n’D
This Must Be The Place Ah, Grassington. Lovely Grassington. Where would we all be without Grassington with your bleak moorside, chocolate box village square, dog and walker friendly country pubs and your AMAZING FESTIVAL!!! We’re working with the awesome Grassington Festival once more this year on a new project “This Must Be The Place”. We’ve…
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Yorkshire Electric: The EP that wasn’t an EP
So here we are in the Crypt and with all the urgency of an oil tanker we’re racing to finish our new EP for release into the wild next Wednesday. For once it isn’t just our terrible planning that has left us with so little time to get the record done. In fact there wasn’t…
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Yorkshire Electric
New year, new music, new tour, new van! With Santa and his reindeers safely back in Lapland, this years surviving turkeys breathing a sigh of relief… not only that they’ll see another few months before the Bernard Matthews gang get their hands on ’em, but also that if they traipse north of Watford Gap they’ll…
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Hope and Social’s Christmas Feast
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Yes we know you’ve barely had time to coat your candy apples or pick the cinder toffee out of your teeth but this year at Hope and Social towers we wanted to give you more than eight minutes notice about our Christmas party. So without further ado and before we use…
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FEEL Again – Oct 2017 Tour
FEEL Again Well, that was quite a night wasn’t it! All hands on deck, full steam ahead, let’s set sail for obscurity, safe in the knowledge that Hope and Social are at least forty times more strong and stable than the chuffnuts left in charge. In moments of clarity, when you come to the harrowing…
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FEEL – The Album Tour Part Deux
We’re back at it again! Through January and February we’re going to be huddling together for warmth in the back of our rusty red steed as we hurtle across the country bringing our ramshackle bonhomie to a venue near you. This time out, we’re heading to pastures new hoping to see old friends and make…
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The Polar Excess: THIS SATURDAY!
(WARNING, CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you’ve already bought your ticket and want the day to be a surprise, then look away now) Ho Ho Ho Holy $h1tballs! … that’s rolled around quick! This coming Saturday the 10th of December is “The Polar Excess”, our Christmas dooo, our end of year bash, our bidding farewell to 2016,…
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FEEL – a song a week #4: Dig Hard
Dig Hard The Song Si: In our original set of demos for this album there was a song which we all agreed had a lovely melody, but not necessarily one we’d want on one of our albums. It was a little too MOR, even for us. It was certainly a strong melody but it just wasn’t…
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FEEL – a song a week #3: London
London The origins of this song are lost somewhere in the depths of time. It might even go back to a time when some of us were in another band. We shall mention no names. (Although you can buy all of their back catalogue somewhere on the internet and in doing so clear some space in…
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FEEL – a song a week #2: The View from Above
The View from Above The View from Above was the final song to be completed for the album, although it started life pretty early on as a very loose and somewhat synth heavy demo. The recording process broke down into two periods really: the first where we were definitely finding our way and trying to…
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FEEL – a song a week #1: FEEL
FEEL Right then let’s delve back into the memory banks and try and string a few thoughts together about the nine songs on FEEL. It’s been quite a lengthy process spread over three years and several sessions down the Crypt but over the next few weeks we’ll try and write a few words about how…
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FEEL – The Album Tour
Dunno if we’ve mentioned it but this Friday 7th Oct, we’re putting our new album out! Not just any album either. It’s our first since 2013, and we’re putting it out on big fancy crowd-funded blue vinyl too. And as nine beautiful videos… with a worldwide premiere at Leeds’ favourite indie cinema. Plus our usual…
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“Sunrise Laughing” Available NOW!
Our DEBUT Single “Sunrise Laughing” Ladies and Jellyspoons, we are positively brimming with excitement to give you the first taste of our forthcoming album “FEEL”, and our first ever single Sunrise Laughing!!!! For you delicious lovelies, we’re sneaking you an early listen of Sunrise Laughing as an exclusive Bandcamp stream and Free/Pay What You Want…
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9 Videos Launch at Hyde Park Picture House
The Story So Far…. You may not have heard but we’ve got a new album about to come out, it’s called “FEEL” we’ve mentioned it once or twice ;-) Back in June we put out an open call to video makers around the world to pitch us an idea. We wanted to commission a video…
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Album and Single Launch
Three new releases coming your way, courtesy of your ever loyal Hope & Social. It’s nearly here. At long last and after two years of work, our fifth studio album “FEEL” is finished. Done, signed off, gone to print, gone to press… [gulps] complete! So complete in fact, that we have release dates! “Sunrise Laughing”…
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The Vinyl Countdown
A Way To Blue. . . 12″ Vinyl Wheels are in motion, cogs are whirring and spreadsheets are being filled in here at H&S HQ, readying ourselves to drop our brand spanking new album ‘FEEL‘ on your laps on Monday the 10th of October. It’s all recorded, we’re just at the stage of signing off…
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Booking Ace
Double “O” AWESOME – introducing “Agent Leila” We’re super happy to announce that Hope and Social are to be working with the lovely people of Strada Music. Formed in July 2016, and out of the merger of the Adastra & Regent Music agencies, Strada Music work with some fantastic artists across Folk, Roots, World, Jazz…
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Greenbelt – A Band Anyone Can Join
So… you wanna join the band… The summer is fast approaching… or we might have just had it, I can’t decide. Either way, the Hope and Social ‘Summer Festival Tour’ is most definitely upon us and on Monday 29th August we’re going to be donning our Hunter wellies and heading back to see our friends…
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9 Videos for 9 Songs
We need YOU to make our next music video It is with great excitement that we’re putting a call out for film makers for our new album. We’ve poured heart and soul into our new record. It’s taken 3 years to get it to completion, we’ve lost and gained band members, we’ve talked and talked…
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Festivals 2016
I’m guessing you don’t have much experience with heat Bees will buzz, aaaaand so will a worn and unraveled G-string (we’re talking guitars here people, not skimpies). You can expect to find all of the above and us, probably getting gorgeously tanned, at this summers festivals! Already this season we’ve been at York’s “The Ebor…
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Halifax Minster, are you ready?
!WARNING! Obligatory, unromantic link to buy tickets – Well, the summer is thus far shaping up to be a veritable smorgasbord of festival delights. We’ve played out in the pouring rain in Brill and just about managed to convince the ukulele lovers of Huddersfield that we can play the damn thing. There’s plenty more to…
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The 12 Signs of Christmas in New Yorkshire
Hello Dear Reader & a merry Yule to y’all, We’re writing to you just now to put a bit of a shout out to all those of you who like helping people at this time of year… and when we say people, we mean us! As you may know, we’ve putting on a Christmas event…
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The Fairytale of New Yorkshire
Friday 11th December! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! Apologies for the radio silence these past couple of weeks, but oh me my, what fun we have planned for our 2015 Christmas Doooo, “The Fairytale of New Yorkshire“… AND for that matter, what fun we’re having planning it! This is not gonna be some standard, badly…
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Big Beautiful Brash BRASS Bash Bonanza
We love a bit of brass in Hope and Social. Other things we love include dancing, being ‘entertaining’, making loud noises and making stuff up on the spot, so when we were asked to work with New York Brass Band at Durham BRASS Festival, we jumped at the opportunity. As usual, we bit off slightly…
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Autumn Tour 2015
I’ll Take a Tango Yessssss indeedy, after a fun-fueled, festival-tastic time over the summer (check out Jo Cox’s ace Underneath The Stars Festival pic over there on the right – jocoxphotography.co.uk), we’ve decided not to pack it all in and do something more important, but to hot-foot it around the UK one last time in…
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“Difficult Tenth Album” Syndrome
Whoa there Horsie! ————- The good ship H&S has recently returned from a month having THE best fun at 11 shows at Grassington Festival, Oakwell Festival, Durham Brass, Scarborough Seafest and Underneath The Stars. Prior to that, I started this blog-post, to reflect on where we’re at in the making of this next Hope and…
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July Festivals Preview
After spending the 5 hottest weeks of the year holed up underground in a natural refrigerator, we are poking our moley noses out of the soil, dusting off the blue jackets and donning the factor 50 for 10 shows at festivals this merry month. Sat. 11th July: Kirkstall Festival It all kicks off this Saturday…
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Introducing…
Day six at the crypt, and we’re in uncharted territory in a number of senses. It’s different, as I hinted at at the start of the week, both in terms of how we’re approaching this record… and that for the first time since November 2009, we have a change in personnel. First up, we want…
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