We’ve just about recovered from our week of recording at Millennium Point, Birmingham.
Thanks again to Ed Taylor, George Hawkins and Robin Emery for capturing our sound.
3Some shots from the Kerrang! Radio and Academy of Music & Sound Unsigned Lounge. [Taken by Jon Dow]
If you are out and about in Birmingham tomorrow evening, don’t forget we are playing at The Flapper with these guys;
ROOKERS
SUGAR
SUNRISE OVER EUROPE
Doors open 7.30, follow the link below for more details.
Just a quick note from us, though we did not win the competition we did have a great evening and enjoyed performing to so many new faces.
Congratulations to Lake Komo for winning, to the other acts for playing so well, and to the Academy of Music & Sound, sE Electronics and Kerrang! Radio for organising the event.
If you didn’t see us play last night at The Fleet Street Kitchen, you can catch us again this month at the Flapper, Birmingham on the 4th, or at the Bull’s Head in Moseley on the 31st.
Peace out!
Saturday 4th May
The Mourning Suns at The Flapper: Birmingham, Midlands
Mesmerising Brummie five-piece The Mourning Suns are taking to the stage at The Flapper tonight alongside Sunrise Over Europe. Their powerfully poetic and skilfully creative alt sound is something that needs to be experienced live; combining touches of sixties psychedelic folk, occasional nods to jazz instrumentals and Kate Bush-style harmonies. As this show follows soon after an appearance in Kerrang’s Unsigned Lounge, there’s plenty to suggest that this is an act with the ability to continue impressing fans and critics alike. We’re definitely sold, so do make a note of getting to their show if you can.
http://www.emergingicons.com/News/Article/345/TopFiveEmergingIconsLive-Apr29th-May5th2013
Thank you to everyone that voted for us! We are through to the next round!
We will be performing at Birmingham’s Fleet Street Kitchen on Tuesday 23rd April, in a battle-of-the-bands style competition against the other finalists.
You can get your tickets here:
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10026109
Thanks to your support we now have a good shot at winning lots of cool things!
A 4 track recording in the Academy of Music and Sound studio worth £2,000
An sE Electronics X1 Vocal Pack worth £169
Endorsement from sE Electronics
http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/win/unsigned-lounge/
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Or if you can’t make the 23rd April, we have an awesome gig on 4th May at the Flapper, Birmingham. Follow this link for details http://www.facebook.com/events/537241106297592/?fref=ts.
It’s gonna be a wild one!
As some of you might have seen already, we’ve been selected for the Kerrang Radio Unsigned Lounge Competition, and we need your vote to move to the next level!
Only the 8 most popular will progress to the showcase event at the Fleet Street Kitchen on 23rd April. So follow this link to vote, and vote for us http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/win/unsigned-lounge/
We are counting on your vote!
We didn’t quite make the finals but we made the Longlist and we think that’s pretty awesome seems we are only a year old!
We also got this awesome review by Peter Lanceley on the Glastonbury Festival Website:
“The Mourning Suns latest track “A Cloud” - recorded as part of EMI/The Roundhouse’s 30/30 project for 2012-13 - is a stunning foray into the realms of sprawling, folk tinged rock music. Warpaint immediately spring to mind on first listen, as does a touch of the sinisterness of Esben & The Witch. But besides the gorgeous crunch and reverberation of the guitars, there is much to be said for the patience with which TMS both choose and subsequently develop their ideas; the realisations of which are refreshingly well-constrained and ineffably powerful.”
26/02/13 http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/2013-emerging-talent-competition-longlist-announced
Let’s see how we fair when we take another crack at it next year!
Photo’s of us live at The Yardbird, Birmingham 20/03/13
Photo’s courtesy of Kim Lowings.
Emerging Icons have announced us in their Top 5 Live Bands to see - and are spreading the word about our gig next Wednesday, at The Yardbird, Birmingham.
Since featuring them in our ‘You Need To Hear This’ feature a couple of weeks ago, we’ve been wondering just how awesome a band like The Mourning Suns might be live. Well, as luck might have it- we have our chance to find out. Taking to the stage at Birmingham’s hot little nightspot, The Yardbird, this beguiling bunch will have the chance to smoulder on that intimate stage. Impossibly intense and brimming with drama, a set from The Mourning Suns won’t be for the faint-hearted…but for new music fans in search of something uniquely creative and driven with raw self-expression, definitely give it a go. With a strongly guitar-driven alt rock sound, it’s a venture through dark, haunting soundscapes and curious dreams, and hopefully you’ll come out at the other end feeling inspired, stunned if not a little bit mind-sh*gged.
[Posted 11/03/13]
http://www.emergingicons.com/News/Article/318/topfiveemergingiconslive-mar18th-mar24th2013
We’ve been very lucky so far this month, we’ve received a lot of love and support from Emerging Icons.
We’ve featured in their blog for New Music - You Need to Hear This:
The Mourning Suns- Metal Horses
Fresh and unique creativity are qualities we champion in new musicians, and The Mourning Suns are a prime example of just that. To dare to be so different is something to be admired- which may be why they’ve made the longlist for Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition. With their intense and powerfully haunting sound, the Birmingham-based quintet caught the eye of leading blog This Music Wins on the judging panel. ‘Warpaint immediately spring to mind on first listen, as does a touch of the sinisterness of Esben & The Witch. But besides the gorgeous crunch and reverberation of the guitars, there is much to be said for the patience with which TMS both choose and subsequently develop their ideas.’ We couldn’t agree more. The vast cinematic quality of ‘Metal Horses’ could probably fit quite well in a nouveau-Western soundtrack too; but for now we’ll sit here hypnotised by this video mind-warp.
[Posted 01/03/13]
http://www.emergingicons.com/News/Article/310/YouNeedToHearThis-FeaturingKovak
The article was then featured in The Huffington Post on 04/03/13.
AWESOME
