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Kilau has a lot of regular customers. Most of them are lovely, some you'd rather not see again for the rest of your life but yet they still come in and you fight the temptation to gouge their eyes out with the nearest tea spoon to hand, why a tea spoon? Because its dull, it'll hurt more. But then we get our favorite regular customers. Such as Mr and Mrs Cappucino, Alan Cynic and Topher Henderson. We'd hate it if any of these customers just suddenly stopped coming, but still the annoying frequentuers turn up in their drones with their eye balls crying to be heaved out by coffee stirring implements. Well one said customer IS leaving us. John Hekert. He has brightened up many a day with his Dutchness, beardyness and plain silly banter. He's decided to move back to Holland (its a long story in-appropriate to talk about on my blog) leaving a new position of nice regular customer to be filled.
So in honor of this big beardy man Kilau are holding a gig to say thanks for the last few years of custom, you crazy dutch bastard. And this is the poster I've designed. Katerwaul are playing as are John's two musical projects in Green Pony and Welfare Mothers. If you're in aberdeen on this day come along. I think we're going to premier a new song called "take heart from watching something die" we like it so much that we've pushed back the release of our new album to record it and crowbar it in there.
There is no release date for the album but it will feature tracks like the wintery "December Doesn't Hurt", the bleak anti love ballad "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" and fan's favourite "I Moved Forward Out Of The Blackest Sleep".
"Here There Is No Why" is the first full length LP by Katerwaul and is again produced in colaboration with "Prologue" (Katerwaul's first EP) producer David Milne. While Prologue was an entirely live EP Here There Is No Why sees us record using overdubs as well as live takes, a process we've never used before.
A special edition version is planned as well as a deluxe edition for those who helped out with the acapella singing on "The Beat That My Heart Skipped". The special edition will feature the entire artwork booklet with the CD and a bonus live EP featuring re-imaginings of our songs performed semi acoustic at Kilau Coffeeshop in Aberdeen earlier this year.
To Topher Henderson, Sarah Henderson, Rae Duncan, Shaun Hughes and Duke; for your sterling help in singing acappella with us, you guys will get a hardback edition of the album to say thank you for coming along.
The new album will be out Feb/March 2009
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Emily is in its final stages of post production. After a whole year of punishing personal issues for myself and Shaun we have finally put together a final edit and David Falconer is in the middle of brushing up the sound for us. We've already sent a copy off to the Glasgow Film Festival with any luck it will be accepted. I'll keep you updated of any up coming screenings.
This here is a movie poster I designed. Its not the final official one but I thought I'd put it online as a lo res sketch. Its inspired by old Hitchcock posters like "Vertigo" and the new Cohen Brother's film "Burn After Reading" poster.
Emily is a 15min short film due for release early 2009
