From Great Height - December 2007 to October 2011

Hello all,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the end of 'From Great Height'. After much discussion and deliberation we have decided that we have taken FGH, creatively, as far as we can and it is probably better to bow out gracefully now as opposed to sticking blindly to something we don't 100% believe in. It wouldn't fool anyone let alone fans who have followed us these past 4-5 years.

I won't go on too much, but in short, we have had a fantastic time. Whilst we perhaps didn't set the world on fire we have been knocking flint together for a while and enjoyed every second of it. We have achieved many of our personal goals and feel grateful for, and appreciate every single person who ever came to see us, listened to us, told someone about us. Real music is art not product and if you can make even just one person understand and connect with you, then you have won and it was all worth while. That many of you over the years have showed us continued support and put your belief in us is overwhelming and humbling indeed. So thank you.

I would also just like to say a few thank you's from the band to people who have helped and supported us along the way. No band can do it alone and underground music relies on a support network of music lovers who do it not for money but for kicks.

We want to thank Jenn Selby for giving us our first national press via Terrorizer. Thanks to Stu Tovell for showing us great support and supplying us with his vast knowledge. It was invaluable to a band like us just starting out. Thank you also to Ross Tovell, Andy Hall, Cherie Collins, Melissa Atkin, Lydia Martin, Sarah Squires, Rich Miller, Chris Reeves. Jake Slisz & Jason Blackford (and the house of blackfrost), Lea (Dark Violetta) and all the people who came to our shows and regularly paid their way in and supported the local scene and spread the music around (Sorry, i know i have missed out many people here. But thank you to everyone who came out to see us). Thank you to Derrick Wess, and his tireless work taking pictures that make us look much cooler than we really are. Thank you to Mark Seibert and 9blind, Dmonic (RIP), Syn X, Jack Cooney and Follly, Hal Sinden and the boys in Talanas, Beth Sinden, the boys in Talk Show Hosts, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, and all the bands we have ever played with and supported. Kunal Singhal over at Chaos Theory (One of the best independent promotions in London). Thank you to Jon and George at The Peel for making us feel so welcome time and again. All your help has been immeasurable and we can't thank you enough. A special thanks to Gary Boast our first drummer who helped get us off the ground in the early days and to Nick Beere at Mooncalf for being so patient in helping us record our first two EP's. Thank you to all the people at totalrock.com Malcolm Dome, Tina Saul & Sara Harding (been following TR since i was 16 and to get to be involved in some form was just a life dream realised). Thank you to everyone at Classic Rock: Presents Prog, Jerry Ewing and Holly Wright for all your help and advice, reviews etc... we will never forget that.

There are so many more people we should thank, friends and family who supported us throughout and i could write a list three pages long. So we will just say thank you to everyone for making FGH such a big part of our lives and for making it fun since day one.


Adam, Tim, Paul, Michael

From Great Height

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As one journey ends, another begins.

We will still continue to write music. If you are a fan of From Great Height you can still follow it's members and their music.

Tim can be found creating some of the UK's finest Dubstep. With well over 7000 listens on his remix of DJ Fresh's 'Louder' and over 40,000 views on YouTube you would be a fool not to watch him with both eyes as closely as possible. Big things lay ahead for him. Head on over to his soundcloud page for more!

Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/flyte-one

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FlyteOne


Adam & Michael the greatest partnership since Tuna Fish and Jelly have already begun work on a new EP for their new project titled 'Five Points Of Articulation'. Whilst probably the closest thing to FGH of all the side projects, do not be fooled. FGH this is not. Expect a dark electronic edge and a glaring simplicity that makes for a moody, darkened, heavy, post-industrial sound. If you can imagine NIN wrestling with Depeche Mode and Mogwai then you are half way there.

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/FPOA

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fivepointsofarticulation

***July Round-Up***

Hello all,

Hope you all had a fantastically productive month. The weather here in London has been..... shall we say, sticky? But thats how we like it. Please read "like" as deteste.

Just another monthly round up of all things FGH. Here we go...

First things first only one gig this month. This will be on the 29th of July in Hoxton at The Workshop with Old Street being the closest tube station. It's a new venue to us, we haven't played there before so we are not completely sure what to expect but it should be a right ol' knees up anyway. To be taken to our facebook event page click here. We look forward to seeing you at that one, we will be airing a brand new song too called 'The Calm That Comes After'. A snippet of which can be heard at the end of this video FGH YouTube Channel.

FGH Will be getting all dolled up this coming Sunday 3rd July as we are getting some new promo shots done with our good friend Derrick Wess. I will post them as soon as we have something worth posting. But the reasoning behind the photo's is to make us look uber-cool *giggles*, but more because we are creating some flyers promoting our website and free music. We will be handing them out at gigs and leaving them in relevent establishments kind enough to allow us to do so. If you think you could help and would like some mailed to you or you know somewhere good to suggest we leave some then let me know. You can email us over at fromgreathieght@hotmail.co.uk and just whack 'flyer distro' in the subject line.

All the pre-production for the new EP is moving along nicely (it has a working title now aswell). Also we now have a venue for the drum recordings and will be getting them done as soon as possible. We are currently discussing artwork and themes (what you would like to see? send ideas to us on twitter at @fromgreatheight we love hearing them). We are also toying with the idea of download only 'Bonus Material'. Keen followers with great powers of deduction will already know what i am talking about. The rest of you will have to wait. It's a surprise.

And thats it for July i am afraid. It's quietly busy for us, what with lots of behind the scenes action going on. But FGH will keep moving and bringing you the best new music we can. 

Look forward to seeing you out there.

FGH

P.s. If you are into your Prog-Metal (you are) then head on over to www.talanas.org. Our good friends in Talanas have just announced a warm up tour of England in support of their appearance at this years Bloodstock festival. They are playing one of our favourite London venues in The Peel, Kingston on the 5th August. Try and get down there and see them tear it up. It is also a great opportunity to pick up their debut album 'The Waspkeeper' which features an awesome (if i do say so myself) guest apprearance from our very own Adam Ever. A review of this album can also be found in the current issue of Metal Hammer magazine. TTFN!

***Charity Gig for Sandra***

Hello all,

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.

Until next time,

FGH

***Aaaaaaand RELAX!***

Phew....

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!

And here is the Matt Stevens vid as mentioned.

***It's a two gig week***

Not one but TWO gigs for you this week. First up in Camden Town we have the 'MIDWEEK FREAK #1: Experimental bands for your inner freak!' then fast forward to Saturday when it's FGH @ the Peel for Mattfest 2011 (we're on first, get there early!!!). doors for that one are at 1pm. It's an all dayer with a cracking line-up with the mighty Touchstone headlining.

It would be awesome to see you at one or both of them. click on the links for ticket details!

Mikey