Plus bored and beats have dropped us in their weekend playlist along with Wild Beasts (‘Two Dancers’ is a favourite at GG Towers), Lil Wayne and Massive Attack:
Comics (Captain Britain/Dark X Men and more)/novel (Something More/British Summertime)/TV (Doctor Who etc) writer Paul Cornell dropped in a bit about us in the Christmas music post of his 12 Blogs of Christmas:
Wears The Trousers have put up ‘Foolstide’ (more info here) and a little review as part of their Free Music Friday feature. We’re very pleased as they always write about interesting stuff and they have good design and illustrations etc (these things are important).
People make things up when writing about Golau Glau based on the little bits of information they do have, pictures (two masked figures, dark and light, sometimes are used to represent the whole collective) and what other people have said. We quite like that though. Invent us. We are yours.
…Crying tears of Joy of course. Lovely Huw Stephens played ‘Foolstide’ on his 9pm show tonight. This is the iPlayer link, which will be live for a week, and here’s the tracklisting:
We’re very happy to be sitting alongside brilliant folk like Paul White, Memory Tapes, Wetdog and Munch Munch.
Also, in our flurry of excitement earlier, we totally forgot to post who was behind the artwork for ‘Foolstide’:
The original illustration was drawn by Mr Steven Horry the Second – whose sketches we saw recently and loved - and the graphic design is by us, the Golau Glau collective. Look out for more collaborations with Mr Steven Horry the Second in future, as we’re rather fond of the way he interpreted the idea of showing how Father Christmas was used as a weapon in the war between Puritanism and Yuletide festivities.
UPDATE: 2011 free Christmas EP HEREand 2010 Christmas free EPHERE
Thanks to our good friends at Bedtimebunnage (their post about ‘Foolstide’ is here), who are kindly hosting it for us, you can download a tasty zip file containing:
‘Foolstide’ – our Christmas tune, about when the Puritans banned Christmas for 13 years in the 17th century.
‘A Tragic Error’ – the B-side, combining writings about Greek tragedy and The End Of Time (Doctor Who) and more of our favourite 8 bit sounds.
A ‘Foolstide’ songsheet – print it out on both sides of one bit of paper and go a-wassailing in your neighbourhood.
Full artwork – both MP3s have artwork embedded, and we include the artwork as a JPEG for you to gaze upon also.
The Golau Glau collective is 6 months old today, 2nd December. Thank you so much if you have listened to us, we really appreciate it.
PASS IT ON – tweet links to this post, blog it, play it on the radio, burn a CD and print the songsheet and give it away at gigs or gift it as a cheap present to your work Secret Santa or extended family…
