Last weekend, we were honoured to be returning to Fieldview Festival to play and DJ and generally party hard! Last year this is what happened on our final song:

This was our highlight of 2009. It was incredible because there was no expectation. (you can see their highlights here: http://youtu.be/5YQFSrFcN-s)

People come to these festivals to listen to music. Whether it makes them dance, cry or judge the musicians! It’s why people listen to music in England. It’s why there are so many bands and venues and its certainly why there are so many websites dedicated to the cause. Its the excitement of being moved to songs you don’t know, or discovering your new favourite band before the clutch of the media grabs them first!

This is where normal festivals fall short.

When you go to Leeds, Reading, V etc for example – you know that you will be drinking Carling, listening to major indie bands that are there for the money (mainly) and surrounded by their closed-minded idiotic fans. There’s no love for one another. There’s too much expectation – and the illusion that surrounds the idillic British festival experience collapses within a couple of minutes of errecting your tent and realising that WHEN the riots kick off, those security guards you were promised, really dont give a fuck about the mob shaking you out of your tent and putting it on the fire.

But anyway – Events like Fieldview Festival reinstall a faith in music that you lost way back in the 90’s with Take That, Boyzone and Atomic Kitten. They give you an excitement that you can taste, and music you can feel all over you. Quality bookings – not whats in the charts. Food that you’ve never tasted. ECO TOILETS. Everything is sustainable. No corporate catches. Love. and the best thing of all – the people give the love back!

Have a look at the love that people have left on the wall of the event: http://www.facebook.com/lorne.b.b#!/group.php?gid=4014518699&ref=ts

Its been over for ONE day! People haven’t even finished uploading their photos and videos yet.

(This is the main stage line up above right – make sure you check out all the bands above – they we’re all amazing bookings!)

I honestly cant stress enough how good it makes you feel just being around that many people so full of love for one another and for music and art.

I just had to write about it.

Thanks for listening.

Lorne.  =)
(Twitter: lornebb)

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FIELDVIEW FESTIVAL is a yearly event run by Dan and James Cameron of Old School Tie. AND IT RULES!

Check them out here:

Fieldview Festival – http://www.fieldviewfestival.co.uk/

Old School Tie – http://www.myspace.com/oldschooltie

Big love should also be given to Oz, Tom, Chris, Mike and Lewis.

If you didn’t know yet we went to London last week to record our first EP at The Hospital with Dan Grech. http://alturl.com/gcfzx. Whose very impressive credentials don’t do his genius justice.

As much as London annoys me, (and we stayed in a hostel) we managed to get four tracks done, ready for release in October.

…and here is a video of all the random shit we got up to in-between.

love and harmony,
Lorne Ashley.

p.s. The video makes it look like Dario did nothing the whole week… and thats not far from the truth.
p.p.s. He did do a little bit of work. Here and there.
p.p.p.s. mainly filming…

In October 2008 we had our first gig, in Manchester. In February 2009 we went on our first UK tour, and released our single, Strangers. We had so much fun, and met some amazingly exciting people! We released our second single, Make a Move, in October of the same year.

At this point we decided we wanted to put on our own nights, which we called ‘Make a Move Club Nights’. We ‘dancified’ our tunes, and collaborated with DJ’s and bands we knew in our city. These have been fun, and have made us realise the kind of sound we want as a band.

We now have new management who are really making us work, and the year 2010 sees a lot of exciting gigs, as well as our track “Strangers” seeing it’s first light of television, as it has been aired on Channel 4, on “Hollyoaks” – these are good days!

At the moment we are taking part in various interviews, doing a lot of gigs, and writing. Thank you for taking this journey with us, we’d like to open up the pages of this book through the lens of this new website, which Katrin, our visual intellect, has set up.

We hope it makes it easier to communicate! Please share with us any thoughts or comments on here, we very much appreciate it!

Happy March! With love,

Greta

4 February 2010: Here’s a first – having a song feature in an episode of a TV series. If you missed tonight’s episode of Hollyoaks – you missed hearing Strangers too.

If you’re in the UK, you can view the episode on Channel 4’s website here.

Picture Book played live on The Pool with Dave Monks on BBC Radio Merseyside

13 December 2009: Picture Book paid a little visit to BBC Radio Merseyside. Dave Monks on the Pool was the lovely host and amongst the chatter, Picture Book played a couple of accoustic tracks.

Listen to the interview on the BBC here.