Tom Humberstone and the British Comic Awards

thrilled to say that Tom Humberstone, who illustrated the Freschard (with the Wave Pictures) single earlier this year, is on the short list for Best Comic in the British Comic Awards - for In The Frame, his weekly comic in the New Statesman...

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great news Tom!

oooh-oh, we're half way there...

we're at the half way point of 2014's wiaiwya-7777777 schedule, and subscribers should now have had the first 3 picture discs, and a download code for the School single (the record will follow)

i've got the final mixes for the Human Hearts single (the return of Jenny Toomey!!! - i'm thrilled) and the eagleowl christmas record (gorgeous and melancholy, lovely) with the brand new My Favorite single being mastered this weekend

7th April - Freschard and the Wave Pictures

7th May - Trick Mammoth

7th June - the Leaf Library

7th August - the School

7th October - My Favorite

7th November - the Human Hearts

7th December - Eagleowl

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release date - Freschard (with the Wave Pictures)

Fresh from the success of her latest album (Boom Biddy Boom, out now on wiaiwya) Freschard releases her first picture disc!

Recorded in an afternoon at Soup Studios with the Wave Pictures, it features a re-recording of one of the album’s many highlights – And The Rain

Freschard grew up in a farm in French Burgundy. She started organizing shows in the barn when she was about 12 years old. Aged 18 she moved to the big city, Paris, where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called Andre Herman Dune wrote a few songs for her to sing. She called her first E.P. “Neon Orange”. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own songs. She recorded her second e.p., "Shower Gel", with Mike Gomez on lapsteel guitar. In 2004 she moved to Berlin, where she recorded her first LP, "Alien Duck". Her second album, "Click Click", recorded in 2006, features a drummer (Leo Bear Creek), and electric guitar by Stanley Brinks. On her third album, “Moonstone”, she plays the drums herself. On her fourth “Shh...” she also plays the flute.

Gideon Coe has been playing Freschard (with the Wave Pictures)

yep, DJ-with-impeccable-taste Gideon Coe played Clemence's single again last night, you can listen again here, or buy your own copy here:

And The Rain by Freschard, recorded live at the Union Chapel

here's an acoustic recording of the lovely And The Rain from when Clemence played the Union Chapel earlier this year

you can get the original on the album Boom Biddy Boom, or the recording with the Wave Pictures here:

release dates

the first 3 records should be shipping out this week and next, so if you have subscribed keep an eye on your postbox - just to clarify the release dates this year will be

7th April - Freschard and the Wave Pictures

7th May - Trick Mammoth

7th June - the Leaf Library

7th August - the School

7th October - My Favourite

7th November - the Human Hearts

7th December - Eagleowl

and if you haven't subscribed yet, you still can, HERE:

to subscribe to wiaiwya-7777777 2014 (seven 7" picture discs)

incl UK p&p £35.00 GBP incl EUR p&p £42.00 GBP incl US & ROW p&p £49.00 GBP

add 2013 membership number

artwork for the Freschard single

as you know, we have a different artist illustrating each picture disc in this year's series of sevens... the first is Tom Humberstone, and here's what he's done:

77 days is too long - Freschard

yup... just 77 days until the first single of wiaiwya-7777777 2014 is released!...

and you can pre order Freschard (featuring the Wave Pictures) here... remember there are just 77 copies available individually (the rest go to subscribers)