all the sets of wiaiwya-7777777 2018 have now sold

but don't worry, there are still sets of 2017, 2016 and 2015 available - seven amazing, and beautiful, singles per year

release date - the Catenary Wires

yep - the first Catenary Wires single is released today

release date - Birdie

it's a lovely bank holiday weekend here in London, and to top it off, the new Birdie single is released today!



sorry to say the individual copies of the vinyl sold out very quickly, but you can still subscribe and get all seven of the 2018 singles club releases (so far announced - Spearmint, the Orchids, the Catenary Wires and Birdie)

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77 days is too long - Birdie

here we go - the second single from the 2018 club is now available for non-subscribers to buy, and it's by Birdie!

yep, that's Debsey from Dolly Mixture and Paul from East Village



and here's a little reminder of their second single from 1999

the Catenary Wires are recording with Andy Lewis

yep - Amelia and Rob are in the studio recording for their new single, to be released as part of wiaiwya-7777777 2018

sleeve approvals - Birdie

these have been given the nod:

sign up to wiaiwya-7777777 2017

yep - we're all ready to go on the sixth (and penultimate) wiaiwya-7777777 annual singles club

i'm sure you are aware, but previous years have included exclusive 7"es from the likes of Allo Darlin, Darren Hayman, The Wave Pictures, Comet Gain, Deerful, Shrag, Standard Fare, Citizen Helene, Norman Blake and Woodpigeon

so, don't delay! sign up today! and get seven 7" singles in the post throughout 2017... the ones that are in (and have been sent to manufacture) are crackers, and i'm sure you won't want to miss out

the schedule, as it stands at the moment is:

7th April - Famous Problems

7th May - The Great Electric

7th June - Scrabbel

7th August - DJ Downfall

7th October -

7th November -

7th December -

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77 days is too long - Milk Skin

yep, the remarkable debut from Milk Skin is out on 7th October:


Milk Skin are Laura K (from Tigercats and Laura K) and Tom Wade (from Owl & Mouse) helped out by Johnny Helm (the Wave Pictures) and Paul Rains (Allo Darlin and Tigercats)

the record?... a bit like a picnic with Broadcast, Beefheart and Belle and Sebastian, but don't take my word for it

Milk Skin single release countdownCountdown

still folding inserts for the Deeful single

77 days is too long - Deerful

yep - just 77 days to go until the debut vinyl release from Deerful, and you can pre-order the record here:


Deerful is Emma Winston. Emma is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who, after several years spent as a keyboard player and vocalist for musicians including Darren Hayman, Owl & Mouse and Enderby’s Room, decided to indulge her love for synthesisers and storytelling and begin making music of her own. She writes and performs electronic pop about running away, staying in place, brokenness, recovery, and taking up space in the world.

She plans to release an EP, Staying Still, on cassette and download this summer.

and just to add to the excitement - here's a countdown clock!

Deerful single releaseCountdown

trains and knights for the Deerful single

lots more licking for the Deerful single sleeve

the rubber stamp for the Deerful single has arrived

stamps for the Nancy Sin single

yep, ordering a LOT of low value stamps for the sleeves for the 2016 club... each one will have stamps adding up to seven on the front... that's a lot of licking

boxes of sleeves

proofs for 2016 sleeves

proofs for the 2016 sleeves are here from footprinters - looking pretty good i think

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Posters - Bill and Hannah Botting

this year's singles all come with posters, and they look a lot like this:

Release Date - Woodpigeon & Norman Blake

as you may or may not know, wiaiwya-7777777 is a seven inch singles club, a very ambitious seven inch singles club, due to last for seven years

today we reach the mid point, the 25th single of the set...


The Woodpigeon and Norman Blake 45 is the sound of the Laurel Canyon recorded on a feather, with a bit of Prefab Sprout and Fairport Convention added for good measure; delicate wispy harmonies, intimate acoustic instrumentation, and the West Coast feel that Glaswegians do so well.

Woodpigeon is fundamentally Mark Andrew Hamilton writing songs. Starting off in Edinburgh (with members of eagleowl), then moving to Canada for the band's first full-length album, entitled Songbook, released in late 2006. Three years later the second long player, Treasury Library Canada c/w Houndstooth Europa was long-listed for the Polaris Prize, and Hamilton served as the curator of the first annual Sled Island Festival in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2010 saw the band's third album, Die Stadt Muzikanten, then 2012 marked a move to Vienna and 2013 the release of Thumbtacks + Glue on Fierce Panda.
Woodpigeon has collaborated with over 70 musicians, and has played alongside Withered Hand, Ólöf Arnalds, Broken Social Scene, Patrick Wolf, Iron and Wine, Grizzly Bear, and Calexico, has appeared as part of Ray Davies’ Meltdown, and played Iceland Airwaves festival twice.

Of course Norman Blake needs no introduction, but here goes anyway: Norman has been recording hits since the Boy Hairdressers ep in 1986, after a stint in the BMX Bandits he formed Teenage Fanclub in 1989, two years later they released one of the best albums of the 90’s – Bandwagonesque… aside from 10 Fanclub LPs (with another in the pipeline) Norman has recorded with Joe Pernice, Euros Childs, Jad Fair, the Pastels, Tenniscoats, Kevin Ayers, Bill Wells, The Reindeer Section, Snowgoose, Yeon Gene and The Pearlfishers.

Today we’re adding Woodpigeon to that list.

77 days is too long - FeverDream and Laura K

the first new FeverDream recordings since their LP, MoyaMoya, along with Laura K from Tigercats

and ALL THREE ARE PLAYING INDIETRACKS THIS WEEKEND!

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the first two singles should be coming out to all you lucky subscribers in the next fortnight or so, so now's the time to renew your subscription (if you haven't already) or sign up for the first time

as a member you will get all 7 of these lovely, and exclusive, singles in the post, along with some very special bits and bobs

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release date - the Human Hearts

Evoking the spirit of both el and Postcard records, American indie icons Franklin Bruno and Jenny Toomey return to recording with the classiest 7” you’ll hear all year.

 
Billed as the Human Hearts, Toomey and Bruno swing, crackle and POP through two instant classics – the reflective Loyal Opposition, and the Motown meets Orange Juice stomp Distracted.

Bruno is an American singer-songwriter, academic, writer, and blogger originally from Upland, California. He has been a member of Nothing Painted Blue since its inception in 1986, has worked on two Mountain Goats albums, written a book on Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces and is a professor of philosophy.

Alongside Kristin Thomson, Toomey booked the first Riot Grrrl shows in DC and co-founded the prolific indie label Simple Machines in 1990. She played and sang in Tsunami, Liquorice, Geek, So Low, Choke, Grenadine, My New Boyfriend, Slack and her own Jenny Toomey band (with members of Calexico). After Simple Machines shut down, Toomey co-founded the Future of Music Coalition while on sabbatical from a copywriting job at the Washington Post. Now she splits her time between New York and D.C., doing important-sounding work at the Ford Foundation—and for the last decade or more, it seemed like she had put music on the far-back burner. But now, Toomey is back at it again.

For the first time since 2002’s Tempting, Jenny Toomey’s voice appears on a new record via English label Where It’s At Is Where You Are. Not only is it a collaboration with songwriter Franklin Bruno (her long-time pal and off/on creative partner), but violinist and vocalist Jean Cook, who has played with Pulp, The Mekons’ Jon Langford and D.C.’s Beauty Pill, among others also adds strings and ahhhs.

The picture disc is illustrated by Sarah Lippett