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Mar 12 News
Our next gig is at the Good Ship, Kilburn, London with a new band member and a new setlist (see flyer, below for details). The album 'I was cured alright!' is reaching it's final stages with just two more tracks to record...
Jan 12 News
Second gig of the year at The Amersham Arms (opposite New Cross tube). Free E.P. for everyone coming to see us (with the opportunity to win a 'Boy From Space' cocktail).
Dec 11 News
Our first gig of the new year will take place at The Enterprise in Camden, London:
June 11 News
Our first gig of the year is going to take place at The Hope in Brighton:
May 11 News
Rehearsals have now finished and we will be playing in June /July- date tbc. Check out a vid of our rehearsals at Brighton Electric in the player above or at Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7pfNxQkSg
Jan 11 News -
The fruits of two days filming in Brighton this year have now been released, culminating in the 'Don't Call Me Sir' video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZ3jYg-Zg0
The Boy From Space battle with the Queen in various locations including Brighton's famous 'Fortunes of War' and 'Great Eastern' pubs and a classic red phonebox.
The song is taken from the 'London Paris Tokyo Space' album available on Sunset Records to buy from all main retailers (incl. iTunes, Amazon etc.):
http://theboyfromspace.sunsetrecordings.com/
Sep 10 News - Finished 'Meetings' and it's possibly one of the best songs we've recorded so far!!!:
'I spent all day waiting for your call
but I was stuck in meetings that meant f**k all'
Jun 10 News - Back in the studio recording new song 'Meetings' for the 'I was cured alright album'.
Mar 10 News - check out the funky new Artist page on the Sunset Records site:
www.theboyfromspace.sunsetrecordings.com/
Mar 09 News - London Paris Tokyo Space is now out on Sunset Recordings. Buy it now from the Sunset site:
http://www.sunsetrecordings.com/
Feb 09 News - only 4 weeks until the album's release. Check out the Sunset news page for more details or just our Artist page at the Sunset site. We also filmed a video for 'Come Home' in Brighton this weekend with benevolent film director/taxidermist 'Chalky' Dave Goodall - which will be out soon!
Jan 09 News - the boy from space sign to Sunset Records in the US
Their album 'london paris tokyo space' has a release date of 24 Mar 09
More to follow...
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Dec 08 News - The new single - 'it's so easy' is now available to buy on itunes or at the Interstella shop:
Also available at 'Stand Out' - Salisbury, 'Rough Trade' - London, 'Rounder' - Brighton, 'Spillers' - Cardiff, and 'Action' - Preston
Listen to 'It's So Easy' on Radio Rhine-Welle on Feb 1st: http://www.radio-rheinwelle.de/index.php?id=johnpeel
Click here to
read reviews of 'It's So Easy'
'The Fly' Magazine 'Artrocker' Magazine
Simplistic electro undercurrents provide a charming foil to the boyish vocals as
The Boy From Space duo ooze out their 'sticky' songs with no respect for
compositional ethics. Their songs, as shown again here, always seem to have big
popish hooks and they deliver said songs with an elegance that belies their
diminutive form. 'It's So Easy' though can't be called 'radio-friendly'; oh it's
catchy alright but, the liberal use of expletive will exclude 'It's So Easy'
from radio play-lists. However, there are still two other similarly weighted
songs accompanying 'It's So Easy' - 'Don't Call Me Sir' and 'Origins Of The
Sound Of The City'; the former definitely fit for the air-waves, the latter,
rather more unusual, but also 'broadcastable'.
The Boy From Space is duo Marshall Ward (singer) and Frant (guitar, bass) and with a little help of some 'horns', samples and other modern niceties the guys make their infectious blend of pure-pop music that's as obvious as it is succinct. So, The Boy From Space don't exactly push at the envelope, rather they utilise pop simplicity and rely on likeability to make their distinctive sound. Oh, it works alright!! The Boy From Space make the most of their openly commercial pop-sensibilities and keep coming up with the goods.
SOUNDS LIKE? It’s always big
news when some tin pot nation like China, chuck another dustbin into orbit, but
when a couple of brothers from an undemanding and largely undelivering county
like Wiltshire drop a few tons of pop-rock brass, bounce and nous from their
airlock...
IS IT ANY GOOD? It’s top.
They’re probably a bit posh (Wiltshire) but ideally placed to rip the arse from
the Levellers with some artfully self-aware agi-pop on “Don’t Call Me Sir” and
well enough funded to go space rocky-rural indulgence beauty with “Origins of
the Sound of the City”.
Apr 07 news - EP SOLD OUT!!!!! There may be a few copies hanging around the record stores listed below (click on the names on the poster below for shop contact details).
Jan 07 news - tbfs played on Radio 1. Hear 'Wouldn't You Rather Be A Winner' appear on Huw Stevens show 11/01/07 and 18/01/07!
Described by Bracken as:
A short burst of - dare I say jazz? I do dare - jazz-tinged instrumental hand-clapping catchy-as-an-edge-to-slip loveliness opens things up, followed by an electromagnetic ditty all about customer service. It’s all rather diverse yet oddly cohesive and splendid.
More reviews:
The e.p. is shared with New Jersey act Schizo Fun Addict and is currently being played on American college radio station 'WRSU' (11.00pm onwards English time!) as well as on XFM Manchester.
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The second single 'don't call me sir' is now available to buy from www.interstella.co.uk and at Rough Trade (Covent Garden). See 'Classic Songs' for details...or read the Vanity Project review below...
The
Boy From Space – Don’t Call Me Sir (Interstella)
A bold drum motif, perky
but polite brass, a sarcastic Half Man Half Biscuit cadence, car chase squalling
and a chorus with ‘I Could Be So Good For You’ barra’ boy charm. Can’t
go wrong. ‘In Possession’ is a more loopy ambient effort, while the Belle
& Seb nursery hymnal ‘Where People Are Going To Be’ closes a distinct
playful single. Skif
Residents of the deeply unfashionable town of Stoke on Trent but named after a 70s kiddie cult TV show, The Boy From Space clearly aim to put the fun back into pop music. There's a cartoon-like dance friendly Britpop feel to Don't Call Me Sir!, an anti-monarchy tirade set to big drums, parping horns, girlie harmonies and er car crash sound effects. Clearly like all bubblegum the flavour doesn't last but pretty tasty for a while. Fans of Saint Etienne will also enjoy track 3, Where People are Going To Be, which resembles a chiming soundtrack to two Frenchmen doing the mashed potato down Primrose Hill. Farout! Paul M
The debut single from the boy from space - 'if i was crap like you ' is still available on CD or Vinyl fromwww.interstella.co.uk.
You can also check out the boy from space at myspace:
www.myspace.com/theboyfromspace
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Our live bassist Stuart 'Monkey Monastry' Barr also stars in the Ultra-groovey Arjuna Fights.
All our recording is done at ‘Fluke Productions’ in Dalston.
