LATE NIGHT TALES VOLUME 2

ARTIST PROFILE: Taking a side step out of the usual Late Night Tales timeline, Tom Findlay from Groove Armada presents a special Music For Pleasure selection of some of the finest soulful pop music of the 70s and early 80s. Press play and suddenly life somehow feels so much better. The sun is shining because it always does round here. In your mind, you are roller-skating down Venice Beach, the breeze gently kissing your blonde hair. You live in an apartment up in Laurel Canyon. Life has never been better. Although California plays an obvious role, it™s not just the Pacific Coast representing here. We™ve got some Scots, a Yorkshireman, some Brummies; but as the saying goes šWhen the legend becomes fact, print the legend.› This legend has been compiled with some love by Tom Findlay from Groove Armada. As part of Groove Armada, he™s had Grammy-nominated singles (˜Superstylin™), and started the Lovebox festival in London. With Tim Hutton he™s one half of Sugar Daddy who are responsible for the rather tasty cover of Ace™s ˜How Long™ here. Also present and correct are Steve Miller Band with ˜Fly Like An Eagle™, ˜Work To Do™ by Average White Band, Michael McDonald weighs in with ˜I Keep Forgettin™™, while there™s room for a special Balearic edit of 10cc™s ˜I™m Not In Love™. The summer™s coming and Music For Pleasure has merely accelerated its arrival. Let your hair down. Slip on your blue jeans and cowboy shirt. Make yourself at home by the pool. Shake up a cocktail and stick this on the sound system. Lay back and think of Laurel Canyon. BUY! HERES WHY! The release features a brand new recording exclusive to the album, a cover of the Ace classic šHow Long› This will be the only new Groove Armada recording made available in 2011 In depth track by track comments and intro liner by the legendary Bill Brewster The album tracks have been re edited + remixed to make the mix a truly unique listening experience MARKETING Groove Armada are assisting in the marketing of the release and will be targeting a worldwide database of over 100,000 subscribed fans Groove Armada will be targeting there very loyal facebook and Twitter followers Late Night Tales will be alerting 45,000 facebook friends and 30,000 subscribed latenighttales.co.uk week of release Youtube Album trailer movie PROMOTIONS Press, Online and Radio is being handled by Echo EmpirePR and reviews have been secured in The Times, Observer Music Monthly, Guardian Guide, Q, Mojo, & Mixmag, with features to follow ADVERTSING Page Adverts booked in Uncut, Word, Mojo & Mixmag Facebook campaign Google Adwords campaign CD Album 1 Broadcast - Ominous Cloud 2 The Wonder Who? - Watch The Flowers Grow 3 Joe Pass - A Time For Us 4 Mulatu Astatke Yekermo Sew - A Man Of Experience And Wisdom 5 Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Tudo Que Você Podia Ser 6 Marie Laforêt - Et Si Je t'aime 7 Bonnie Dobson - Bird Of Space 8 Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations 9 McDonald And Giles - Tomorrow's People 10 Gold Panda - Quitters Raga 11 Broadcast - Chord Simple 12 The Pop Group - Savage Sea 13 Stan Tracey Quartet - Starless And Bible Black 14 The Lovin Spoonful - Darling Be Home Soon Sony 15 Belle And Sebastian - Crash (Exclusive cover version of The Primitives) 16 Roland Vincent - L.S.D. Partie 17 Toro Y Moi - Still Sound 18 Ce'cile - Rude Bwoy Thug Life 19 Scottish Widows - Remember Remember 20 Trees - Streets Of Derry 21 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel 22 Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Dub) 23 Steve Parks - Still Thinking Of You 24 David Behrman - On The Other Ocean 25 Paul Morley - Lost For Words pt.3 (Exclusive spoken word piece) ARTIST PROFILE: Belle and Sebastian formed in Glasgow in 1996 where the success of college recorded cult debut album ˜Tigermilk™ led the band to signing to Jeepster for ˜If You're Feeling Sinister™; listed by Pitchfork at #14 in its top 100 albums of the 90s and is widely considered the band's masterpiece. Following the critically acclaimed ˜The Boy With The Arab Strap™ B&S signed with Rough Trade (UK) and Matador (US) and have released a further five albums, most recently ˜Belle And Sebastian Write About Love™ in 2010. Other accolades include being voted Scotland's greatest band in a poll by The List in 2005, This selection delves deeper into their shared influences and inspirations, along with a subtle nod to digging for rare sampled beats: not perhaps an trait usually associated with B&S. World-wise psychedelic breaks thread the mix together; significantly so with two tracks from Broadcast bookending a first half that includes late 60s dreamers The Wonder Who? and Joe Pass, father of Ethio-jazz Mulatu Astatke, harpist Dorothy Ashby and the 21st century beats of Gold Panda. Following a mid-section detour through dissonant post-punk and deep jazz courtesy of The Pop Group and Stan Tracey Quartet; recent releases from fellow Scots Remember Remember and South Carolina™s Toro Y Moi rubs shoulders with Ce'cile™s 2002 Cure referencing riddim ˜Rude Bwoy Thug Life™ and Blood, Sweat & Tears classic version of ˜Spinning Wheel™. For the obligatory Late Night Tales cover version, Belle and Sebastian have chosen The Primitive™s 1988 pop-punk classic ˜Crash™, recreated in the band™s own inimitable style. Two beautiful records close the mix: Steve Parks haunting soul vocal ˜Still Thinking Of You™ and an excerpt of the calm improvisation ˜On The Other Ocean™ from David Behrman™s 1977 experimental album. As ever, the trip concludes with our bedtime story with the third part of Paul Morley™s ˜Lost For Words™. SERIES PROFILE: The šLate Night Tales› series was launched in 2001. The idea: pick an internationally known artist with a great musical knowledge, offer them the chance to choose and mix all their favorite šhome listening› and musically inspiring tracks, together with an exclusive cover recording of an all time favorite song. 27 albums and over 1 million sales later, Late Night Tales is proud to return Belle and Sebastian to the fold as we enter our second decade of releases. BUY! HERES WHY! The release features a brand new recording exclusive to the album, a cover of the Primitives classic šCrash› This will be the Belle and Sebastian recording made available in 2011 In depth track by track comments and intro liner by the legendary Bill Brewster The album tracks have been re edited + remixed to make the mix a truly unique listening experience