Having a quality recording makes people sit up and listen, this has proven true at this years Futuresound competition with 6 regular artists competing in the finals featuring, Juffage, Jasmine Kennedy, British Daylight and Ti Amo and two regulars Backyards and  Bearfoot Beware winning a slot at the Leeds and Reading Festivals.

This competition is a testament to our work with fantastic artists who have come from all around Yorkshire and even further and we wish to congratulate all the bands that took part.

It’s been an exciting week for some bands that regularly record at LOOM. The fantastic City Of Lights have reached The Triumph Live final, if they win they will play with the Keiser Chiefs.

Other regulars, British Daylight and Juffage have made it to the final of the Future Sound Competition.They hope to win spots on the bill at Reading and Leeds 2012.

We wish the bands the best of luck and hope they both get spots.

We’ve had some new faces in LOOM this week with the fantastically talented Mavis Seed recording their debut album over the weekend. The band has some quality music and we look forward to the finished product.

July is Busy, Busy !!.- we look forward to August! WAAAAOOOWW!!

An amazing gig is happening on Thursday 19th July at The Hebden Bridge Trades Club, which was a finalist for the NME best small venue. The gig features three top bands which have all recorded at LOOM.

In Echoes headline after the success of their sell out gig at  The Cockpit Leeds

 
with support from the fantastic  City of lights, little vegas lies  also bring their amazing live show to this night as well.

If you are keen on supporting local music and you want to check out three bands that are doing well out there, this is the gig to go to! See ya there!!!!

Tickets are selling fast if you want to go contact the bands through their Facebook pages

York based band – PartyClub. who recently recorded at LOOM has been getting some fantastic support, firstly from NME Radio with the track Shake. Also the band is being played across Radio 1 daytime all this week.

This is fantastic for the lads, as it will help spread the word about PartyClub’s. “Indiebounce” music. They will know doubt move on to bigger and better things as the band has being getting some great responses from the Radio 1 DJs and their listeners.

Check out PartyClub’s. track Shaker on our Soundcloud page. Its in the Alternative/Indie set on the spotlight page. Its also available to listen below.

City Of Lights are recording there debut album at LOOM studio.

The band are still in their infancy yet they have been giging around the UK including recent dates with HMV’s next big thing The Dunwells.

Which makes them a band to watch out for.

To get a taste of what the album is going to sound like check out their Facebook page and studio blog.

The Loom studio Souncloud also has tracks by City Of Lights on there along with many others.

Seen below for links to all of these pages.

http://www.facebook.com/cityoflightsmusic

http://cityoflightsofficial.tumblr.com/

http://soundcloud.com/theloomyorkshire

Recently recorded at LOOM and Produced by Jeff Smith the new single by Heart-Ships “Pin Hole Of Light” is now on our Soundcloud site and here on this blog.

http://soundcloud.com/theloomyorkshire/tracks

Grant K. Fennell’s recently released first album has received a fantastic review from the local music website Croon. The review is highly detailed and praises lots of different aspects of Grant’s album commenting on the use of “small oddities” such as the cough on 3 O clock and the distinctive sound of Grant’s voice which they describe as a “meeting point between the psych-folk tones of Devendra Banhart and the more assured vocal range of Grizzly Bear.”

These comments, along with many others Croon have made about Grant’s fantastic first album lead them to give it an incredible rating of 9/10, telling their readers it’s “time you went and listened to ‘Cold Home & The Family Bones’”

To read the full review click the link below and you can listen to two of the tracks off the album on our Soundcloud or you can download the whole album for £5.53 from iTunes or any major download site.

http://www.croon.co.uk/news/album-review-grant-k-fennell-cold-home-the-family-bones-ep

http://soundcloud.com/theloomyorkshire/

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cold-home-the-family-bones/id450692645?uo=4

Little Vegas Lies, LOOM regulars will be on Alan Raws BBC Introducing West Yorkshire Show performing some songs, followed by an interview.

The show goes out on BBC Radio Leeds on the 25^th August at 7:30pm. This is a great opportunity for the band as it could lead to them getting played on BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music.  We are looking forward to hearing the tracks live on the radio and we know they will smash it.

IN ECHOES have just loaded up a sampler of their forthcoming album on to their Soundcloud page. The fantastic album – “More Of This Is True Than You Believe” was produced here at LOOM studio. Seven tracks were mixed by Steve Whitfield. The 9 track album is an absolute stormer. It’s a rock album with a timeless yet moody feel. Click the picture to check it out. The whole album will be available on CD and download very soon.