Electrum

Update

2009-02-21T17:40:00.003Z

Good God, it's 2009 already. Apologies for the lack of updates, we've been busy with other things. We've got a couple of tunes from the past we might put up on myspace.

Keep checking back, if there's anyone out there...

Update

2009-02-21T17:40:00.001Z

Buy songs!

2007-12-01T13:22:00.000Z

You can buy four of our tracks at indiestore.com/electrum. Please do.

Update

2007-10-14T21:33:00.001+01:00

Things are going quite slowly... We're moving house soon, and selling our current one. We've got about 13 tracks in various stages of completion. Hmm, should really put out a single of the more finished ones. There's some stuff we're really proud of.

Tartan Podcast

2007-06-13T18:57:00.001+01:00

Sadly, Mark Hunter has decided to call it a day on the old Tartan Podcast. Gabor from Electrical Language has put up a tribute, featuring Mark gushing about Interference... Shucks!

Mark has been a great supporter of Electrum since the start, and has plugged many of our tunes, and often. We wish him all the best in his future.

Meanwhile, on planet Electrum, we are still going, just been really busy in our day jobs / university. We're recording some tracks just now (Moving On and Just Don't Think You've Won so far) and hope to put out an album sometime soon (yeah, yeah, yeah - it'll be ten/twelve tracks, some stuff from the previous EPs, some new songs, some very old songs [Moving On was on the first demo of our first band, and is getting an overhaul] and a redone version of Whatever Happens, Happens with a proper chorus this time...).

Thanks for anyone reading this, and please leave comments!

Democrazy 2007

2007-03-01T19:12:00.000Z

We've put "Interference" up for download on the Democrazy 2007 site. Please vote for us, and please vote in the May 2007 Scottish Elections (not for the Tories, or the SNP, or Labour - Lib Dems if you must, Green if you please).

Also, a sidenote that we won't be doing any live stuff. Months and pounds spent finding out it's just not fun.

Feed

2007-02-27T20:50:00.001Z

Try http://feeds.feedburner.com/electrumband

Update

2007-02-27T20:42:00.000Z

Hey, we're still going, just taking a break due to uni and work/book. We'll have a new EP - "A&R" - out in the summer, with three or four songs, maybe as many as six. We've rewritten Whatever Happens, Happens, so something might happen with that.

Thanks, and buy the records.

Website

2006-11-26T13:46:00.000Z

Sorry, our hosting ran out and we didn't notice. Normal service resumed.

rehearsals

2006-11-10T10:44:00.000Z

Right now our attention is mainly going into rehearsals for live shows. Quite a few unreleased songs being thrashed into shape by the four of us. A new chorus here, a better ending there. The limiting factor at the moment is how cold it's getting in our rehearsal room - not good for guitaring fingers and singing throats! There still may be scope for another guitar...
Anyway, we're in a good mood after our lovely review (see below).

5 star review in 'Is This Music?'

2006-11-10T10:21:00.000Z

Electrum
Whatever Happens, Happens
(Criminal)
Sometimes there's just something about a tune which makes you want to play some sort of air instrument. BANG, Electrum's EP kicks off with precise drums, but soon you'll be onto imaginary bass guitar, slung around your knees, Hooky-style. However, this only lasts until the chorus, where feedbacking guitar kicks in and an array of effects pedals do their work in building up a wall of noise. What's not required however is any helping the vocal, as Caireen beautifully and clearly intones a tale of relationship breakup which offsets the frenetic backing perfectly. 5-star stuff. [CC]

Podcast safe tune

2006-09-06T11:15:00.000+01:00

We have added 'One Shot', the third track from our "Whatever Happens, Happens" EP, to the podcast safe music network.

Rehearsal

2006-09-06T10:33:00.000+01:00

We're having a rehearsal on Friday with a drummer. If all goes well we hope to get on with preparing for some live shows. At the moment it would just be a three piece - Caireen on guitar, keyboards and vocals, and Jamie switching between guitar and bass. If anyone would like to audition as a guitarist/keyboardist, please get in touch.

Mperia

2006-07-30T22:03:00.000+01:00

We're on the front page of Mperia. You can buy our whole discography from there.

June

2006-06-24T11:28:00.000+01:00

"One Shot" was played on the Tartan Podcast. Thanks again, Mark!

Thanks for all the nice feedback we've had regarding the "Whatever Happens, Happens" EP. We're working on the follow-up just now.

Song Update

2006-04-25T21:57:00.000+01:00

We've added an MP3 of "Whatever Happens, Happens" to our Mperia page.

Band members wanted

2006-04-08T11:33:00.000+01:00

We want musicians for live stuff. Need a pair of guitarists (rough keyboard skills in one would be good) and a shit-hot drummer. Edinburgh-based. If you're interested, send us an email - us@thisiselectrum.net.

Web stuff

2006-03-19T21:15:00.000Z

Please check the changes to the website. The alteration to the look we made at Christmas time is now finished. The Blog appears in a window, the audio is top, with an MPeria player - go buy the record if you haven't already.

Please feel free to leave comments, we want to hear from people. Check out our new myspace page, and add us.

Music: We've done some more to "Whatever Happens, Happens", and it's sounding even better. Those of you who've heard it knows how good it is, but we're tightening stuff up and making it more melodic, adding guitar parts and so on. "Ding Dong" needs some mixing tweaks, "Despite This" is ready to roll.

Thanks.

Beware the ides of March

2006-03-15T12:37:00.001Z

A quick note to say that the EP is still coming along, but things get in the way of spending all your days making music, like working and studying and so on. Things are going well, just need a window of time where we can get the final mixes done. It will be worth the wait...

We're going to make the "Like I Said" EP available through MPeria, probably tonight, so that you can buy MP3s of the songs. If enough people buy it, then we'll do the next EP that way. It is the 21st Century after all; you should get your records straight onto your PC, not through some 1980s shiny disc, or fulfilling someone's teenage vinyl fantasies.

We will be getting a lot more music done over the summer months, so stay checking it. There are about 8 or 9 songs in addition which are at a very loose stage of development but which sound great.

Oh, and we're getting several hundred downloads of "Army of Me" every month; if you're just linking directly from a search engine, then please stop doing it. If you're not, then drop us an email us@thisiselectrum.net and let us know what you think/thought or what kind of tea or coffee you are drinking right now.

Nice Blogging

2006-01-31T16:26:00.000Z

myrealnameispete

I've said it before, but there is a risk this will become a fan site for Unpopular Records and the sister label I Wish I Was Unpopular Records. I can't help it. I was going to put up Fuck Forever by Babyshambles and write something attempting to be intelligent about how I simply refuse to have an opinion about Pete Docherty. But my thought processes, and will to pretend to be all clever, was HIJACKED by the lush vocals, sharp guitars....'I kept on walking'. When I arrived home I got straight into some paypal action and ordered Electrum's 'Like I Said'.

Bits

2006-01-19T20:20:00.000Z

Hi,

We're working on a new EP which we'll be releasing by the website, ourselves. It'll feature Whatever Happens, Happens and Despite This from the aborted 7", plus a new track, working title Ding Dong. Keep an eye out for it.

Also, found some more airplay:

fallout

Army of Me / Review

2005-11-08T19:00:00.000Z

We switched server on Saturday and there were problems with the Army of Me MP3. It's fixed now... So go download it.

In other news:
Fact gave us a nice review this month,

ELECTRUM
LIKE I SAID
(I WISH I WAS UNPOPULAR)
So, there is life after the death of the sorely underrated Slowloris. A female-led journey through pop crushed by bloody valentines and soothed by another corpse (The Delgados). Electrum should be turning up on a Sophia Coppola score near you.
Stewart Gardiner

Plan B

2005-10-05T20:07:00.000+01:00

Check out this month's Plan B magazine, for an interview with us and a single review of the "Like I Said" EP. Thanks to all at the magazine. If you've trouble buying it, check Plan B website.

Podsafe

2005-09-01T19:47:00.000+01:00

We've been getting a lot of podcast love recently, and many thanks to you all for the play (especially Mark at Tartanpodcast. But here's a little helper, we've made Interference podsafe at music.podshow.com.

Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio

2005-09-01T19:24:00.000+01:00

Lots of nice airplay, podcast and mp3 blogs recently:

Hey there's a couple of amazing little gems out now on the art/music/words zine (and label) site I Wish I Was Unpopular. Of the three new releases the most dreamy and catchy is that by Electrum from Edinburgh (who are a duo comprised of members of slowloris).
Songs:Illinois

Kooba Radio

In Over Your Head Podcast

Press-wise, we've got a couple of features coming in decent magazines, but here's a single review from the next issue of FACT:

“A female led journey through pop crushed by bloody valentines and soothed by another corpse (The Delgados), Electrum should be turning up on a Sophia Coppola score near you.” (Stewart Gardiner)