Wiaiwya

27/10/2023

happy Portable Radio album release day!

it'll drop a little summer into your late October - for fans of West Coast cool, melancholy ballads, bubblegum bangers, and echoes of Wings, 10cc, Lemon Twigs, Of Montreal, Weyes Blood, June and the Exit Wounds, Nick Lowe, Carole King and more!

catch up on the videos for the album's singles here:

I Feel Like A Dog
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AevIp8ahvsU
Good News
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmzwabXVNrg
Where The Is Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4a0ZKmE-8
Chas and Morph
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiQqbtRE55A

and get your copy here:

wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/counting-to-three

13 track album

05/10/2023

taken from SNÖ (a 30 track compilation album of ambient, acoustic and electronic tracks all called "snow") available to order from Friday 6th October 2023htt...

05/10/2023

here's a new video from the British Stereo Collective taken from SNÖ (a 30 track compilation album of ambient, acoustic and electronic tracks all called "snow") available to order from Friday 6th October 2023

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/sn

the idea was to put together a Christmas album for escaping the stress of the holidays - cancelling Christmas parties to turn the lights down, put on your slippers and have a listen over a sherry… it's a triple CD in die cut sleeve or download...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq90z27D0iY

taken from SNÖ (a 30 track compilation album of ambient, acoustic and electronic tracks all called "snow") available to order from Friday 6th October 2023htt...

16/09/2023

STEP OUT OF CHRISTMAS - this week I sent 30 ambient and acoustic tracks off to manufacture - it’s a Christmas album for those times you just don’t need Noddy Holder shouting in your ear.

It’s a triple CD, in a diecut sleeve, each act has called their track a different word for snow (including BSL), and it goes up for presale on Friday 6th October from the wiaiwya bandcamp page.

There are new tracks from wiaiwya favourites Spaceship, Sweet Juice, Beneather, the Great Electric, World of Fox, and the Autobahn of Life and well as a load of others (and the first new recording from the French (Darren Hayman and John Morrison’s marvellous post Hefner group) for two decades).

The full cast will be announced soon, but suffice to say it’s as superstar heavy as a Ustinov Poirot film (oh, and happy birthday Agatha Christie)

15/09/2023

The tastemakers at Shindig! Magazine... the latest! know - here’s where to get it

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/counting-to-three

At Shindig! we adore PORTABLE RADIO. Their sophomore album Counting To Three is due soon and can be pre-ordered here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmzwabXVNrg Portable Radio are back with more harmony pop and hooks galore with their second album, Counting To Three. This follows their eponymous LP....

25/08/2023

it's Portable Radio preorder day!

a must for anyone who likes the sound of the sound of Welsh caravan holidays wishing they were San Francisco love-ins and summer love sensations with a sizeable Stiff and Postcard collection! (or Big Star, Nick Lowe, Teenage Fanclub, Bay City Rollers and the Beach Boys)

basically, anyone with two ears and a heart

and yes, here's the video for the first single taken from the LP

https://youtu.be/AevIp8ahvsU?si=Kgjv_ze9g7SZVbxO

and you can get your copy here (there are a few double packs with the bands debut LP available too - while stocks last)

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/counting-to-three

13 track album

29/07/2023

The mighty spearmint have announced their new album with a single, video and rockshow in London

Vinyl can be preordered here:

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/this-candle-is-for-you

By Spearmint, from the album 'This Candle Is For You', released on 17th November 2023. Video by Moth Media.

16/07/2023

There’s a piece on Darren Hayman and his night-time paintings in the Observer today

Exhibition starts on Thursday, accompanying book available now:

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/merch/the-last-dog-walk-exhibition-tie-in

http://hefnet.com/lastdogwalk/

Mysterious landscapes by the Hefner musician invite the viewer to imagine what’s happening behind lit windows in the dark

18/04/2023

Μουσική - O Tim Vass, ιδρυτής των Razorcuts, μιλάει για το νέο σχήμα Silver Biplanes, το indie rock και τα 80s, πριν τη συναυλία τους στην Αθήνα, στο 1ο Athens Pop Fest and Convention. | Athens Voice

28/02/2023

LITERALLY FRIDAY

20/01/2023

happy release day to silver biplanes

12 track album

25/11/2022

one month to - and here a little present from silver biplanes to help with the Christmas shopping

"In these often bleak and sometimes difficult times, we make no apologies for inviting you to join Silver Biplanes for three minutes of festive frivolity. It’s got silver bells and sleighbells, acoustic 12 string guitars, soaring melodies and, heck, there’s even a theramin in there somewhere. It’s Blondie, Buzzcocks, New Order and Bing swirling around in a blender.

It’s Christmas Time in the City!"

https://youtu.be/t5TUGE-iztw

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/silver-bells

Silver Bells written by Jay Livingston and Ray EvansArranged by Tim and Produced by Piers and TimPerformed by silver biplanes (Vanessa Vass, Tim Vass and Rob...

14/11/2022

Shifting units at Independent Label Market

03/11/2022

Debut silver biplanes album available to pre order from Friday 4th November

Released at the end of January 2023

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/merch

02/11/2022

4th November is Bandcamp Friday, and A Moment In The Sun, the debut silver biplanes album, will be up for presale:

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/merch

silver biplanes features wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass and Tim Vass. Tim was bassist and lyricist in cult Creation label band Razorcuts, co-writing all of their songs, and Vanessa was the singer in much-loved 90’s indie band The Melons. The album is the pinnacle of a musical career which has previously seen Vanessa and Tim release songs on no fewer than 30 different labels between them!

The band are lifelong fans of the highways and bi-ways of music and the album draws upon a wide range of influences. It’s a heady mix of choruses, hooks and catchy tunes in which you’ll hear traces of psychedelia, post-punk, krautrock and more.

Tim was bassist and lyricist in cult indie band Razorcuts, co-writing all of their songs. Razorcuts releases regularly featured in the higher reaches of the independent charts throughout the late 80s, and included two top five albums recorded for the famous Creation label. Both albums were reissued in sellout deluxe vinyl editions in 2020. Razorcuts continue to appear on numerous compilations and their influence is often cited in books and internet articles. Tim has also played in Red Chair Fadeaway, Dandelion Wine and the Forever People.

Vanessa was the singer in 90’s indie band The Melons who are probably best remembered for their two legendary live sessions on Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 1 show. The Melons released 6 singles and were regularly featured in the British music press.

release schedule:

24 June 2022 - Parallel World - debut single, on 7" lathe cut

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-world-think-again

youtu.be/R5Y8Q13RKro

7 October 2022 - Songs That Don't Exist - download single

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/songs-that-dont-exist

youtu.be/G8jDhoD_8fM

you should also ensure you get a copy of Library Music: Volume One by The Leaf Library before they sell out

wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/library-music-volume-one

lovely!

see you friday, take care, John

16 track album

14/10/2022

out today - the second single and video from silver biplanes - Songs That Don't Exist

"We are excited to announce the release of “Songs That Don’t Exist”, the second single from the forthcoming debut LP by silver biplanes.

Sounding like a collision between early Cabaret Voltaire Official and The Shop Assistants, “Songs That Don’t Exist” demonstrates that silver biplanes aren’t afraid to take on board a range of influences. The result is something special - a catchy pop song with a twist of cosmic weirdness.

The song celebrates the transitory nature of existence (“all we have is a moment in the sun”) whilst incidentally posing the question, with so much great music in the world, why worry about songs that don’t exist?

The band features wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass and Tim Vass. Tim was bassist and lyricist in cult Creation Records band Razorcuts, co-writing all of their songs, and Vanessa was the singer in much-loved 90’s indie band The Melons."

1 track album

05/10/2022

brace yourselves!

this Bandcamp Friday is all about the Leaf Library*:

Library Music: Volume One is going up for pre-order, it's a 16 track double LP of 7" singles, comp tracks and one-offs covering the last 14 years. Their version of a Switched On compilation (we like to think).

it's available:
on it's own,
as a money saving vinyl bundle with the Beneather LP (Lewis from the band) and the SeaGlass LP (Matt and Melinda from the band),
or
as an exclusive vinyl bundle with Melody Tomb, the collaboration the band did with Tokyo artist Teruyuki Kurihara

The first 30 copies of the album (alone, or in the bundles) sold will come with an A5 lyric book covering every track by The Leaf Library since 2008. They'll go up for sale about 9am UK time.

*well, maybe not ALL about - let's not forget:

the amazing new EP from cult New York ensemble My Favorite:
wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/tender-is-the-nightshift-part-1

the spectacular new Front Person LP (100 copies in Europe)
wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/parade

and a LOAD of 7" singles for just 99p each (i really need the space!):
wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/merch

hope all is good

speak soon
John

01/10/2022

Got a call from Craig Cargo Records UK so headed to Camden to join him at the Roundhouse for The Lemonheads … popped into the Dublin Castle, Camden and The Good Mixer for old times sake, and Courtney Love joined Evan Dando for Into Your Arms…

17/07/2022

pour yourself a cold drink and enjoy the new video from silver biplanes - https://www.facebook.com/silver-biplanes-103332992439517

https://youtu.be/R5Y8Q13RKro

debut single from Tim and Vanessa Vass (ex-razorcuts, ex-Melons)... taken from their debut long player, to be released on wiaiwyahttps://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com...

24/12/2021

it's - and the last day of our

here is Papernut Cambridge who Know What They Want For Christmas

thanks again to Dolour The Popguns spearmint The Orchids Pete Astor Jeff Mellin Building Rockets Firestations The Edible Eyes Cecilia Lund Corvair Parenthesisdotdotdot The BV's Piney Gir The Martial Arts Love, Burns European Sun Golden Spike Helen McCookerybook Robert Rotifer Woodpigeon Famous Problems Whoa Melodic The Rhynes and Papernut Cambridge

Happy Christmas one and all!

https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/24