Keep abreast of the latest FGH news on your iPhone. Some of you may already know about this feature and some might not. So I thought I would make a quick little how to:
For starters, open Safari on your iPhone and go to our tumblr blog. http://www.fromgreatheight.tumblr.com
Once at the blog you will see a picture of Adams nipples. Ignore them and click on the icon in the middle of the lower toolbar. As highlighted below. (Adam is also helpfully looking at said icon, he is so clever!)
Some options will open. Click the bar that says 'Add To Home Screen'.
A new menu will open allowing you to name the 'icon' accordingly. e.g. FGH
A pretty little icon now shows in your iPhones home screen for one click access to all things FGH. SIMPLES!
Our 'tumblr' blog is a mirror of our official FGH blog so you wont miss a beat. There you have it, hope this helps.
Oh and as the late great Peter Falk would have said... 'Just one more thing'. With the 1st of July fast creeping up, this means the monthly 'FGH Newsletter' is nearly upon us. If your not on the mailing list and would like to be contact me at fromgreatheight@hotmail.co.uk
Just a quick one to say thank you to all who came down to Friday nights show at the Boston Arms. Between us all we raised over £700 for Sandra. I am sure the money will go some way to helping her. we were happy to be a part of the show and we wish her all the best for the future.
Here here some pictures from the show taken by our good friend Mr Derrick Wess, who never fails to capture the moment perfectly. Derrick has shot us since the early days and we will be taking some promo shots with him on July 3rd so look out for those. In the mean time visit/follow his blog over at The Eye of the Aperturefor regular photo updates and info on his forthcoming projects. On top of all this i have heard from good authority that he bakes a mean cookie!
Here are some of his shots from Friday:
Whilst we are here let me also point you towards a great review of the all day festival 'Mattfest' which we played earlier in the month. Fantastic review with some kind words said about us, so a big thank you to James for this. http://www.starjump.org/jamesa/?p=18
We got no live dates now until July 29th when we hit Hoxton town. more details to follow on that. The time between now and then will be spend preparing and rehearsing our remaining new songs in preparation for the forthcoming release. But feel free to message us any questions or if you just want to chat. We do so enjoy hearing from you. We are all on twitter by the way, you can follow us at the following addresses:
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow night we play 'The Boston Arms' in Tuffnell Park as part of a fundraiser for 6 year old Sandra who is currently battling Cancer. All money made on the door will go toward helping her in her fight for life. Tickets on the door are £5. More info can be found over on our facebook events page by clicking here.
And you can also read more about Sandra's story here.
Other than that, we had a successful rehearsal last night finishing up the instrumentals for new song 'Between The Divide'. We can now start on writing vocals but you can expect to hear it live very soon. Its sounding pretty good to my ears, I will hopefully post a sample online soon so keep an eye out for that.
Mad couple of days that was. Great showings at both The Peel, Kingston and The Purple Turtle in Camden (yeah that's right. we only play places beginning with the letter 'P'). Thanks to everyone who came down and showed support as always.
I have put some pictures below proving just how awesome these events were. Massively enjoyed Matt Stevens too. Was great to see him again. I have posted a live video I made on his new track 'Rusty' have a look if you enjoy digital looping/acoustic guitar/noodling stuff.
But onwards and upwards my friends! Those gigs are in the past. Gone! Finished! Over! Time to move on. Our next show is for a very good cause. The event is called 'Music For Life- Charity Gig For Sandra'. Now Sandra is a 6 year old girl with cancer. We have been asked to play this show by our good friends in The Mercy House. We don't know Sandra personally but I have been affected by cancer and unfortunately a lot of people these days have. One hundred percent of all door takings will be going towards helping Sandra in her fight for life and will help her beat cancer for good. Anything we can do to build steps towards beating this horrible ruthless disease is a good thing. Go to the facebook events page by clicking HERE.
Some of you will have already heard our latest song Disciple (what do you think by the way? enjoying the darker sound?) but we also have two more on the back-burner. We shall be completing them in the next couple of weeks, hopefully with a view to air them at a live setting soon. As well as this we are putting the wheels in motion to bring you all a new EP. I can exclusively reveal that currently the track-listing so far looks like it will be 'Mayday', 'Disciple', 'Contact, Release', ' The Calm That Comes After' and 'Between The Divide'. this is subject to change but it's looking more and more concrete that this will be the new as yet unnamed EP.
Finally our 'Merch Store' is imminent. I will be making an announcement on that very very soon. So sit tight and i will let you know more info in the next couple of weeks.
That's all for now. Hope your all good, keeping well. Keep in touch. Love hearing from you all.
TTFN,
FGH
The Purple Turtle, Camden 1/6/11
Pictures by 'James Turpin'
Mattfest @ The Peel, Kingston 4/6/11 Pictures by me :P
Soundchecking
Flora our tres glamorous 'Mailing List Lady' for the night!
