I can see you, Spring!

I can see you, Spring – you have been well and truly caught. You win the prize though for longest hiding time. Bravo! Oh, hang on – you’re sneaking off again. COME BACK!

So,  over the week we’ve seen pasty legs around the country come out too early to bathe in the fringes of Summer, and so have we been basking in our own sunlight that was still shining from the memories of our EP launch night. I don’t want to repeat myself, but it was just so bloody brilliant! Thank you, again for making it thus. Especially to those that swayed along to “Take Me”, to the roof shattering applauders, the enthusiastic post gig imbibers and the end of the night dance floor MOVERS – you all made it great!

You know when you are on a train at a platform, and you look outside to another train next to you and get the feeling you are moving when in actual fact it was the other train? Within this time post gig, the buzz of the EP launch has tricked me into feeling like that.  But as all you clever clogs will already know, that still train is not what stuff TIW are made on. We want that moving train! So next up we are hoofing it into the hills of Hertfordshire for a private festival which we can’t wait for. And beyond those hills is where we journey to next. It’s gonna be fun so do come along if you’re free. Anyone at our launch can step into the first class carriage. 

Welcome to our new likes & followers!

Memories Call: The Best of our EP Launch Party!

As promised, the best photos and, as it turns out, video(!) of our EP Launch Party on Saturday! See if you can spot yourselves in the crowd…

Video: I Can’t Let You Leave

With thanks to Simon and Charlotte!

Wishing Leaves EP – Everything was illuminated

The Infinite Wilds at The Heavenly Social (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

View from the stage (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alice getting ready (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Crissi and the crowd (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alexei’s guitar (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

The stage from below (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alice cheating (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alexei and Alice (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alice singing and Simon playing (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

The band in action (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alexei and Simon singing (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Alexei (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

Crowd shot (EP Launch Party 13th April 2013)

China Town. 2am.

Thank you all for coming down and making our night so bloody fantastic! And thanks to Simon and Vik for the photos too!

It’s Almost Here…

Hello you lovely people, and welcome to the weekend. Tomorrow finally sees us release our début EP – Wishing Leaves. And by release, we mean that we got a bunch of CDs pressed up, and are going to play a set and then party drunkenly well into the night. If you’ve been living in a cave (Hello! Pull up a pew and have a cup of tea; there’s a lot to update you on!), it’s at the Heavenly Social and the doors open at 7pm. More details here.

We’re really really proud of the songs and we think you’ll love them all. We’re also really humbled that so many of you are coming along to support us tomorrow – it truly means the world to a little band like us; without you lot, we’re just a bunch of music geeks who drink a lot!

If anyone fancies a preview of the tracks to whet their appetite (or learn the words!!), you can listen on our site here.

At some point we promise to get around to putting this stuff out digitally as well!

Finally, if anyone fancies hearing us play acoustically, we’re also doing a free gig tonight in Stockwell, or another one on Wednesday in Barnes.

Here we are, getting ready:

Big Love
TIW OUT!

The Weekend is so near – what can you hear?

TIW! BANGING ON! (with violin, guitar and bass accompaniment) ABOUT ….THEIR….SUPPPORT ACT! Ha, fooled you all.

So, we’ve not really told all you lovely people about many of the details of our big PARTY next week. Yus, it will be £5 in (including an EP and badges) and doors open at 7pm. It’s in London’s trendy Heavenly Social. But what else? Well, firstly the aforementioned support. 

I am very happy to tell you that my personal Suffolk ally Cristabel will be performing a small, exclusive set on guitar to get our party off to a quite brilliant start around 8:15. Don’t miss her – she’s brilliant! 

Then, around 8:45, it’s us. We’ll be playing through our EP, but also all the songs you guys know and love. Well, our ones anyway. So if you fancy a little boogie, shuffle, or just a bobbing of the head, make sure you get down in time! We’re very punctual (some of us).

Finally, The Disco. We’re curating and DJing until 1am – who will be the last ones standing with us?!

Once again, doors to this place of wonder within which your favourite Saturday night awaits will open at 7pm. We can’t wait to see you there!                                              Cristabel can’t wait either

EP? What EP?

You may have noticed some excitement diffusing from The Infinite Wilds oriented around our EP Party on Saturday 13th April?

WELL for everyone who emails us to say they’re in (theinfinitewilds@gmail.com) and to everyone down as “Going” on our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/325850940848818/), your door entry is a mere £5!

Not only does this allow you the pleasure of watching TIW And Friends, dancing the night away til 1am at The Social (http://www.thesocial.com/) and generally a bloomin’ fun night; but is also gets you a copy of our quite wonderful, exquisitely sleeved EP ! (Shocked with glee face).

Your name, that which was bestowed upon you at birth, is your ticket for this exceptional honour. If it’s there, on that “Going”list on facebook, or if it’s there, in our email inbox as a YES I’LL BE THERE, the honour is yours.

You want it, don’t you? Just like this cat wants his fly:

Gigs! Gigs! Gigs!

So, a few things to let you lovely people all know while we’re waiting for the sun. We’re looking to book a few gigs in the run the up to our EP Launch Party at the Heavenly Social which are all going to be in or around the London area. We’ve already confirmed one with The Cavendish Arms, but watch this space for (hopefully) a couple more that week.

The Infinite Wilds 13th April @ The Social

We’re also gearing up for what is starting to look like a busy Summer. It’s not very rock’n'roll to plan too far ahead, but thankfully, we’re anything but rock’n'roll anyway. One or two festivals are on the horizon, and we’re hoping to make it a few more. People keep bugging us to play more gigs, so hopefully this will satiate the hunger!

Finally, we retreating, once again, to the country in the next few weeks to write some more songs, walk in muddy fields, and probably get lost in the dark. If you don’t hear from us for a while, send a search party…

A Sneak Preview…

Our songs new and old are currently having a little polish and shine with the lovely people over at Black Saloon Studios. In the meantime, while we’re not going to bang a drum about it, we thought we’d slyly put up the un-mastered versions of the new tracks to give you all a little sneak preview of the wondrous things which lie ahead.

• Love is not a Love Song (unmastered)

• Vow (unmastered)

You can also hear the tracks on our Music page.

The Studio. Where we hear EVERYTHING. Part III.

The new beats are laid down! Slowly but surely, interspersed with glimpses of Brick lane daylight and Dead Pony Club ale, two days in a den of practised and instinctive sounds was a mighty fine way for us to spend the weekend. 12 hour days fly by in there with the similarly mighty fine Bryan Wilson and his insured ears at our side steering us adventurously through to land.

And land we did. Ourselves. With two more The Infinite Wilds tracks on record. Which, for any die-hard fans who have been counting, gives us six recorded of which four will be winging their way onto our upcoming shiny new EP! A launch you ask for? A LAUNCH WE BRING YOU! Get your indelible ink out and write us in your diaries (ok, smart phones will do) for the 13^th April. Right now please. Details to follow! (TIW ED – Yes, I’ll get this up soon as I get a chance!)

Alice TIW.

No glockenspiels were harmed during the making of this media

A walk in the Forest

So, we decided to take a leisurely stroll through Epping Forest last weekend. It was a damn sight colder than you might think and, also, who knew forests were so muddy? Not great for those of us in brogues.

We had some excellent shots taken of us, however, by friend-of-the-band, photo-jedi, and all round good egg Steven Anthony. Not a whiff of Instagram for miles.

Enjoy. (Click for much bigger versions).

The Infinite Wilds. Colour. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

Side on. Black and white. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

The Infinite Wilds out in the open. Black and white. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

 

Side on. Colour. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

Full band and tree. Black and white. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

Alice. Colour. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

Anjay. Black and white. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

Simon. Colour. Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

Alexei. Black and white.Copyright Steven Anthony Photography.

See our gallery for more pictures.

2013 and all that Jazz

Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. And a Delightful Detox as of yesterday too (if, like us, you’re still kidding yourselves about trying to be healthy for a few days).

Having wound down for December and had some well earned R&R, The Infinite Wilds ARE GO FOR 2013!

Well almost. After another mince pie.

And maybe a nap.

And what a few months we have ahead of us. We’re expecting to be busy with recordings, mastering, and gigging in the months ahead. With any luck, we’ll also have a brand new shiny EP to show for it all as well.

Artwork, photographs, and other visuals are all simmering away nicely on the back-burner and we’re going to get our teeth into them over the weeks and months that follow, though we should have something to tantalise you all with sooner rather than later.

But first and foremost, we’re really looking forward to getting back into the studio with Brian, and putting down one or two tracks in our session in January. It’s always hard to know exactly what you’re going to come out of the studio with, but we’re in good hands up in Brick Lane, so are hopeful that we’ll get a couple of excellent recordings of songs we know you’ll love out of it.

We’re also looking into gigs in the immediate future, but as always we’re very selective about where and when we play (there are FAR too many graveyard slots on a weekday night out there – we’re looking at you The Monto Water Rats) so we’ll announce any details as and when we get them.

In the meantime, we’re trying to think of words that rhyme exactly with “infinite”. Any takers?

TIW