Ethryll Newsletter #1 : February 2016

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Welcome, Ethryllites to this, our first newsletter of hopefully many!

Rather than send you lots of individual emails we thought a simple newsletter every so often would be the best way of going, but of course we would love to hear your feedback – you can chat to us in our forums or on our facebook page or even on twitter 

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January was a busy month, comparatively speaking for Ethryll – with two gigs, one at West Street Live and one (a private birthday booking) at The Burton Street Project in Sheffield. Both were very successful, and in particular, the Burton Street Gig which was the first test for our own new PA and lights.

 

So what’s new?

If you haven’t seen, Kris has been very busy with the image of the band – both on the website with a total redesign of our online home, and with a new redesign of the logo. I think you’ll agree that the website looks absolutely great! We also have forums and a lot more content than the previous sites. You can join the website as a member and then you can contribute to discussions, comment on posts and interact in many more ways.

We now have a booking and diary system up and running – so if you’re thinking of booking us for a function, party or event you can check our availability.

We also have a small lighting setup and PA system. It’s only small but from little acorns…

Finally, we have some rather nice band photos – and a full band publicity photo. Feel free to use these in any publicity material regarding Ethryll. We have larger sizes of all of these available on request – just email us if you need them.

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Forthcoming Gigs

We also now have a few more gigs in our books, plus a couple we’re currently hammering down final details on. These are confirmed:

Thursday 17th March – Acoustic Thursdays at High Melton College

Wednesday 13th April – Akoustica at West Street Live

 

But for now; fondest regards

Hannah, Jackie, Kris & Martin

A Website Update

We’ve had a little update to the website:

New photo galleries for each band member (click the link at the bottom, or the photo of the band member on the band page)

The main link font has been changed from green to purple to go in with the green and purple theming of Ethryll.

A return to West Street Live

It’s always bound to be a very strange experience when you are missing an important member of the band, and on this occasion it was Jackie who was struck down with ‘Flu and so she couldn’t play or sing.

Rather than cancel though, we soldiered on and with a hastily thrown together practice before moving on to West Street Live we knocked together a 45 minute set based on what we could play without Jackie.

We arrived at West Street Live, with one eye always on the impending “Snowbomb” (as the Daily Fail seem to insist all frontal systems are). However, the snow never appeared although the crowd was thin on the ground compared to a usual gig – then again it was a wet Wednesday in January – although a couple of Google+ friends came.

Set List

Booby Song

Pot Hole Tambourine

Maybe Tomorrow

Wait ’till I get you home

Fastnet

Tar and Feather

Eel Reel

Slippery Rock

Don’t Snap Your Fingers

Mamma Mia

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All in all it was a very successful gig, although we sorely missee Jackie for her vocal layers and guitar playing at times – we did win over the crowd and we certainly picked up some new fans.

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A little video of Fastnet taken from the side of the stage.

Ethryll in Edlington

When a gig doesn’t quite go to plan, what do you do?

Write a song! – watch out for a new song coming soon.

Set List

Don’t Snap

Slippery Rock

Pothole Tambourine

Starlight and Starlings

As of Now

Eel Reel

I Know My Love

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