SAMOANS

27th May 2013

We’ve almost finished work on our first music video for our next single ‘Antlers’. We made the decision not to ‘play’ in this video as we find videos like that creatively restrictive (which is just another way of saying we just wanted to dick about wearing animal masks).

Our friend Michael Partridge is filming the video for us and I suspect he is having more fun than us, as it involves a lot of people abusing me throughout, including one of our favourite people Ashli Todd at Spillers Records dressed as an eagle.

We’ll keep you posted on when the single/video will be available. For now enjoy this image (in a non-sexual way).

7th Mar 2013

We’re really excited to announce that we will have our first ever Record Store Day Release this year thanks to Transgressive Records and Jen Long at Kissability.

The release is entitled ‘First Kiss’ and will come on limited white label vinyl, kissed and stamped with kissability logo.

Tracklist:

01. DZ Deathrays - The Mess Up
02. Cut Ribbons - White Horses
03. Deaf Club - Sunday
04. Samoans - Catamaran
05. Fever Fever - The Chair
06. Splashh - The 15th
07. Among Brothers - Keep
08. Without Maps - Naked Light
09. Death At Sea - Drag
10. Thumpers - Velveteen

You can listen to the tracks on the release, via the soundcloud link below.

https://soundcloud.com/transgressive-records/sets/kissability-first-kiss-12

7th Mar 2013

So we recently Started work on our album with Todd Campbell at Skwad HQ. We can’t gig due to my back injury but we’re putting all our effort in to working on the new record. We’re really excited by the new material!

We’ve recorded our next single, entitled ‘Antlers’, and will keep you posted on its release date/format in the near future.

The new record doesn’t currently have a working title but it does have a theme which has allowed us to experiment a lot more with ideas and sounds musically and vocally.

We will be testing out some of the new material in some of our upcoming shows in March and April, so be sure to keep an eye on our Live page for the latest dates.

We can’t wait to start playing live again after the frustration of being out of action for so long with my fractured spine.

See you guys soon!

D x

27th Jan 2013 | 3 notes

jenlong:

And Thumpers makes it 10. Kissability back-catalogue <3

Kissability love-in!

18th Jan 2013

$tab·la·ture [tab-luh-cher, -choo r] noun 1. Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate thestrings, frets, keys, etc., to be played. 2. a tabular space, surface, or structure. So we’d thought we’d do something a bit different to a new year release and give something away for free to our fans. We’ve had a few requests over the past few years to tab some of our songs and now that I seem to have a considerable amount of free time due to my fractured spine, I thought it’d be a good time to finally do this. Each week we will post up a guitar tab in a shared dropbox folder, which you’ll be able to download as a pdf and includes a step by step guide on how to play each song (and obviously won’t look as crap as my handwritten versions!). The first song we have chosen to tab is San Marino 1994 and is available now. If you’re interested in signing up to the Samoans Tab Club or have a specific song you’d like to play then message us at wearesamoans@gmail.com. Thanks! Dan x$

tab·la·ture [tab-luh-cher, -choo r]

noun

1. Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers,

or other signs to indicate thestrings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.

2. a tabular space, surface, or structure.

So we’d thought we’d do something a bit different to a new year release and give something away for free to our fans.

We’ve had a few requests over the past few years to tab some of our songs and now that I seem to have a considerable amount of free time due to my fractured spine, I thought it’d be a good time to finally do this.

Each week we will post up a guitar tab in a shared dropbox folder, which you’ll be able to download as a pdf and includes a step by step guide on how to play each song (and obviously won’t look as crap as my handwritten versions!). The first song we have chosen to tab is San Marino 1994 and is available now.

If you’re interested in signing up to the Samoans Tab Club or have a specific song you’d like to play then message us at wearesamoans@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Dan x

13th Jan 2013

Samoans Live at The BBC 18/12/12

If you missed our BBC Radio Wales live session last night on Bethan Elfyn’s show then you can listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t2f6s

We recorded exclusive live versions of Secret Sixth, Catamaran, our forthcoming single Antlers and old favourite Brothers/Blisters.

Hope you guys enjoy the session as much as we did recording it!

11th Jan 2013 | 2 notes

Samoans

Finally up on Spotify! Get on it!

9th Jan 2013 | 1 note

BBC Live Session 18/12/12 (photos by Simon Ayre)

5th Jan 2013 | 2 notes

Dan has for the past few months been working on a new project, entitled Moken Operetta with established house DJ Tom Ellis.

The duo have been writing an album and are making steady progress. It’s an extreme departure from the sound of Samoans, but if anyone has ever had the chance to listen to Dan’s earlier offerings as Analog_In then you’ll probably see this as a natural progression.

There’s exciting prospects on the horizons in 2013. For now you can listen to some demos on their Soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/moken-operetta

Let us know what you think of Dan’s new direction!

5th Jan 2013 | 3 notes

Kissability: Happy New Year from Kissability.

clubkissability:

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

This time 12 months ago we were pretty new with just two releases under our belt (DZ Deathrays’ Ruined My Life EP, and Cut Ribbons single, White Horses).

Now we’re gearing up to hit double digits in 2013 with our TENTH release due on Feb 4th. It’s from the very…