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The Draytones – ‘Today’s Memories’ album review
The Draytones
‘Today’s Memories’
6 track EP
Forever on Records
www.thedraytones.com
“Very exciting times over here! Forever On Records is one of the most exciting things we’ve done as a band”.
Gab
Just landed on my desk is the album I’ve been waiting for The Draytones incredible new ‘Today’s Memories’.
We’ve been been huge supporters of The Draytones at Broccoli for as long as we can remember, we have all their music on limited edition vinyl (good to pass on to the grandkids one day) and when the band told us they were putting their new album in the post we had to make sure they sent us more than one copy to stop any potential mass office brawls for the album.
So on goes the album and silence hits the Broccoli office (which hasn’t happened for as long as I can remember) as we’re all enchanted by six truly stunning tracks.
Stand out track on the album is ‘This Will Always Hurt’. Two minutes twelve seconds of pure pleasure with proper rock n roll riff’s you just can’t help but move to. This track has all the beautiful elements you expect from The Draytones making yet another classic for the band.
This is a must buy album.
The Draytones have pushed the boundaries exploring new heights musically and lyrically producing what can only be described as a piece of art. The Draytones are clearly one of this generations greatest bands and long may they continue to entertain our ears.
ALbum fact:
‘Lemon Trees’ features Chris’s unborn child’s heartbeat at the end of the track…how cute it that?!
We last had The Draytones play for us at The December Sessions event at The 02 last year. As usual the band stole the show with their flawless performance and stage presence.
We grabbed them for a quick chat on the British Music Experience bus, check it out…
We put The Draytones forward to perform at this years Strawberry Fields Festival where the band will be performing on the main stage on the same day as The Charlatans!
Tickets are now on sale so click here and come see The Draytones live this summer!
www.strawberryfieldsfestival.co.uk
So you’re going to have to go buy ‘Today’s Memories’ to listen to more music from the album, but we’re going to leave you with another classic from The Draytones, one of our all time favourites in the Broccoli office… ‘Keep Loving Me’
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The Draytones – December Sessions @ The O2
One of our all time favourite bands hit the stage at the December Sessions at The O2 on Sunday 18th December, The Draytones!
We caught up with them before their set for an interview, check out the video below featuring their track ‘They Will Always Hurt’.
The December Sessions at The O2 kicked off on December 3rd and finished on December 22nd 2011. Five of the UK’s best emerging bands a night took to a specially constructed stage in London Piazza at The O2.
With a huge potential audience of thousands, December Sessions at The O2 gave these new acts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play to a huge audience, at London’s most famous entertainment venue.
Four of the twenty nights were managed by Broccoli Events, programming the entertainment, stage managing the event and documenting the event by filming and photographing the live performances and interviewing the bands.
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Broccoli Events, December Sessions @ The O2 highlights video
December 2011 saw Broccoli Events put together 16 of the finest bands currently on the UK new music scene on a purpose built stage at The O2 arena! December Sessions at The O2. 100 bands, 20 dates, the biggest free music festival going.
Broccoli Events were brought in to programme and run four of the nights. So as well as booking our top 16 bands, working on the promotion and PR, supplying music and video for the official trailer, the radio ad which was played on XFM and Capital Radio and the December Sessions free download, managing the event, hospitality, photographing the performances, we managed to squeeze in an interview with each of the bands and film them on stage. These are the highlights…
Looking back over the footage we filmed this was an incredible event to work on and we’re looking forward to lots of new and exciting projects we have in store for 2012.
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INVEST IN THE DRAYTONES AND MAKE A LOAD OF MONEY
Broccoli’s all time favourite THE DRAYTONES are part of the My Major Company UK Label which gives the general public a chance to be share holders of the bands album.
They have currently hit over £11,000 and they need to get to £100,000
You can own 1 to 100 shares of your favourite artist’s next album campaign. Each share is worth £10. Your money will only be committed when the investment target is reached. It is then transferred from the third party escrow account to the My Major Company UK label and used strategically to fund the artist’s album campaign.
Get over to THE DRAYTONES site and be part of something big!!
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Broccoli’s best bands of 2010 announced!
Happy New Year!
We thought here at Broccoli Events that our first day back at work in 2011 should be spent celebrating what a fantastic year we had in 2010 working with some incredible bands on some amazing events.
So…we have put together a Spotify playlist featuring our top bands from 2010, here it is…
(in no particular order)
Bibelots
Man Like Me
Buster Shuffle
The Black Dove Experiment
Black Daniel
The Palpitations
Jersey Budd
The Draytones
The Dash
Beau And The Arrows
Missdavinalee
Joana and the Wolf
Dirty Amps
Karova
Black Wildes
Unfortunately not all the tracks featured on the list can be played on Spotify so over the next day or so we will be putting up all the bands music videos so keep checking back.
Bring on more great bands for 2011!!
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Broccoli Music’s Pull Up The Roots reviews…
Pull Up The Roots – Wednesday 18th August
’The Monarch although only small was without a doubt the place to be!’
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“Just wanted to say a huge thanks for having us down last night. I’d said it to Katie before but you guys have absolutely been the best promoters that we’ve ever worked with so thanks again for organising such a great night with an awesome line up.”
Silicon Kid
Missdavinalee review by Gigjunkie
“In the almost regal looking The Monarch of Camden, with its portraits of “nobility” and its assortment of chandeliers and other stately decorations, Missdavinalee prepared to play their set. Prior to coming to the gig, I had had a listen to some of their songs on their Myspace to get a feel for what they sounded like, but I needn’t have bothered. Their Myspace recordings do not do them justice at all; they sound about a bazillion times better live, trust me.”
Read more @ Gigjunkie
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The Draytones @ Broccoli Music’s Pull Up The Roots!
THE DRAYTONES
Psychedelic / Garage / Latin
http://www.myspace.com/thedraytones
“We have some bragging rights here…We were the first promoters to put The Draytones on a stage! cha ching!
The band have since been touring Spain, Japan, Argentina, Switzerland, France and played support on the Paul Weller tour!
They will be releasing their second EP soon so watch this space…
The band recently played a live session at MERC Clothing store on Carnaby St…see the video below”
Broccoli Music
The video for MERC was created by one of our affiliates!
Heavyweight Media
‘THE DRAYTONES bring Rhythm & Beat with vocals harmonies reminiscent of groups like the Zombies & The Beatles.’
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The Draytones Merc in store gig
Last week The Draytones did an an store gig at The Merc store in Carnaby Street London, check out the video below, plus its filmed by the very talented Daniel Burdett of heavyweight media.
Tickets will be on sale for their gig at The Monarch 18th Aug at Pull up the Roots, keep checking back for details!
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The Draytones
We hear from Broccoli Music that they have The Draytones playing their next event at The Monarch in Camden. We’ve just had a listen and are incredibly impressed and are very excited at the prospect of getting them on board with some Broccoli Events projects.
If anyone has any party/event ideas please get in touch.
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