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For those who know me, know how much I love Newborn. So I'm always excited to hear any Hungarian band because you just don't know! Hungary brought my favourite band ever Newborn to the world, a lot of other bands I like loads like The Idoru, Bridge To Solace, Embers. Right now say hello to SHELL BEACH - absolutely incredible, my heart skipped a couple of beats when I heard this!!! Incredible!
Nice to see Fordirelifesake receive such a great review at Lambgoat.com - 'This is one of more musically varied albums of this year (2005), and I think Fordirelifesake really pulls it off here. Plenty of strange techno 'in-between' tracks, a cover superior to the original, and intense songwriting. This isn't for everyone, but I think this is at least worth checking out.'
As I sang the words of Newborn (the BEST band EVER) 'Ready To Leave, Ready To Live' 9 months ago whilst heading to the airport for my around the world trip, I never really thought what it would be like to finally come back! Well, here I am back in London, flew in from Colombia and the trip has been beyond incredible! Getting used to the cold so I built a snowladyboy yesterday, but apart from that it's so heart-warming to see family and friends again finally. I'm editing my documentary video at the moment, so you can enjoy all the places I've been to without spending a penny/cent/peso soon.
I want to thank Sam Kuper for running the mailorder whilst I have been away, you are a star and I hope you guys have been kind to him! I'm off to see my 2 favourite UK hiphop acts Foreign Beggars and Skinnyman, so catch you guys soon.
So it's been 9 months I have been travelling around the world, and in the words of Deluge the trip has been "A Search For An Answer"! Right now I am sat in Cartagena, North Colombia, it's around 39 degrees outside and blue skies everyday! It's incredible what that can do to a soul. I absolutely love Colombia and the people here are incredible! Hello to all my new friends I've made along the trip! Hope everyone is enjoying themselves, Skippy from Colombia!
I want to wish everybody a Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year. May 2007 bring amazing adventures to everybody and be even better than this year! All the best from Skippy from Colombia.
Hello everyone, my journey took me to Cambodia where I visited the greatest temples in the world Angkor Wat! These are the most incredible ancient temples I have seen in my life! After Cambodia, I flew to Colombia (yes a nice 24 hour flight), where I am currently now enjoying the life and beautiful sights here. I absolutely love it here as I speak fluent spanish it really makes the experience amazing. We went to the Amazon for a week and where at the border of Brazil and Peru and Colombia, incredible time fishing, walking in the jungle, catching baby crocodiles. An experience of my life to spend a week in the Amazon! Skippy
Hey! Skippy here from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in Vietnam! Been about 5 weeks now in South East Asia travelling across Thailand, Laos and Vietnam and it has been beyond incredible. Heading to Cambodia in few days time to see Angkor Wat, supposed to be one of the world greatest temples! So many crazy times, I have met so many new friends and incredibly funny and talented people, good times! Saigon is beyond incredible, this place is the mix of old and new, anything is possible here trust me! Tomorrow heading to see the tunnels used during the war. Seems like I've made it in time for the best weather too, its hardly ever below 30 degrees here and sunny everyday! Hope everyone is ok, Skippy
I know that Jairus are not signed to Skipworth anymore but we did spend a couple of wonderful years working and touring together around the world and I feel we are still friends. So just to let you know, Jairus have posted a very informative update on their forthcoming new album and future touring and a new video, check it out at Jairusonline.co.uk. The Jairus 'The Need To Change The Mapmaker' 2004 debut album and their Japanese Tour CDep are still available from our E-Store, so grab a copy before they are all gone.
Hi everyone, just dropping a quick hello to everyone. It's a beautiful sunny Saturday in London and it's amazing to be back to see family and my friends after my 4 months travelling around the whole of Europe. My highlight for sure was Croatia - I can't even begin to describe how beautiful Croatia is in every sense. It's a paradise, trust me wait till you see my travel video. My travels took me over the last 4 months to Portugal, Spain, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Italy (for 1 night haha) and Greece.
So, these days I'm just chilling at home reading a huge Lonely Planet guide to Asia (don't worry I have loads of recommendations from friends too), relaxing at home and just waiting to fly out next week to Thailand.
Sam is still processing all the e-Store orders and I'm delivering more stock to him this week. Thank you so much to everyone who has been buying the releases, Sam tells me there's been a huge amount of orders in the time I was gone which is amazing to see. Thank you again. Ok that's all for today, I'm going to catch up with the album releases I've missed over the last 4 months. Enjoy the weekend! Skippy
Well, here I am at Athens airport it's coming up to midnight and my flight back to London is at 3am - nice! I have been travelling and hitchhiking and camping throughtout the whole of Europe for the past 4 months, it has been beyond incredible! Picture it as the 'Skippy Europe Tour'. I have so many fond memories it's unreal. Meeting my very close and old friends like Sam Kuper (Abjure drummer) and Frank Turner (Kneejerk, Million Dead) along the way brought back amazing memories of touring back in late 90's and memories of Skipworth. These are great guys and very close friends. But I also met so many other friends along the way, it's been unbelievable and made me feel alive and happy again. Ok enough of my ranting. I'm going to spend a few days in London at home with family and see all my friends, and then few days later head out to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and then come back and go to Colombia for November and December with my best friend Laszlo! This is the trip I dreamt of for years and a trip of a lifetime. I am loving every single second. OK, the free internet is running out so I'm off for a shot of Ouzo and some fresh air. Skippy from sunny Athens!
I'm in a beautiful place called Naxos Island in Greece, it's 36 degrees everyday and Matisyahu is on the radio - beautiful music and incredible places. I have been travelling around Europe now for almost 4 months and next week I finally fly home to London. It has been more than incredible hitchhiking and camping around Europe, it's been incredible to meet so many amazing people and new friends. Ok I write more when I'm back in London next week, stay safe and enjoy every single day in your life!!! Love from Naxos Island, Greece - Skippy
Hello to everybody from sunny and hot Croatia. I have been in Croatia for the past 3 weeks and this is by far the most beautiful place I have seen. Architecture, history and the islands are simply like paradise and it doesn't hurt to have blue skies and 40 degrees weather everyday whilst island hoping. So I didn't make it to Montenegro and Albania so had to get ferry to Bari in South Italy (where I am now killing the day whilst waiting for my overnight ferry to Greece). Just wanted to say hello, I'm still alive and few days ago I celebrated 3 months on the road ;) Yeah. A bit hello to all my friends, miss you guys. Big shout out to all my new from from Croatia - Ewen, Jazz, Ray (g'day mate) and Kyle. Also to Jenny, Helen and Laura - peace enjoy Sopot! And not forgetting the Frenchies Cedrik (I'll be back hehe), Bruno and Tibo 'Be Careful' haha. See you soon, Skippy 'Ready To Leave, Ready To Live'
Hi everyone, so my travels continue, I am now in Hungary and currently at the Sziget Festival about to go see Living Colour and then Prodigy (Yes yes). Enjoying the hot sunny weather out here and company of friends. Budapest is such a beautiful city, especially in the summer. Got to go, bye Skippy
Hello from Riga, Latvia! I am having an awesome time visiting my close friend Edgars and today checked out the old town. Yesterday managed to see Sequioa (France) play in Riga. Great show and they are such nice guys, partied with them till the morning! Quite funny because they sent me their demo about 2 years ago so was a great surprise to see them live.
Just got an email from Sam saying that he will be away on a conference in the USA until the 9th of August. Therefore, all orders between now and the 9th will not be sent out until the 10th. You guys will be ok, right? Take care from Skippy and Sam.
I am right now at the Polish Lithuanian border, reminds me of 4 years ago when I was here with Deluge on tour! So I missed my train to Riga so have to stay the night here. My trip through Europe is still an amazing adventure, I've seen so many places and met so many new friends it's unreal. I advise everyone to travel! Apart from that my next stop is Vilnius and Riga. Then I will head back to Poland and to Hungary.
Apart from that, I want to thank everyone who has been ordering CDs - from people's feedback I hear Sam is doing an amazing job. Thank you Sam! Hi to Will from South Africa (thanks for all the nice emails and orders).
Last but not least, SHAI HULUD, yes the one and only SHAI HULUD are playing in Greece when I'm there doing the island hoping! I'm seeing them on 19th September in Athens! One of my all time favourite hardcore bands, it's going to be incredible. Ok take care, Skippy
I've been so many places, I've seen so many faces... Portugal was incredible, an amazing roadtrip through the whole of Portugal with some of my closest friends! Then I hit the south coast of Spain - this was insane, extremely beautiful and a lot of fun. Hoolllaaaa! Then on 5th of July we flew from Jerez (Spain) to Gdansk (Poland) and been hanging out in Sopot. Incredible weather, beautiful women and very friendly people. I love my home country. Ok I will write more soon, enjoy the hot weather wherever you are. Skippy
So, you are probably wondering what the headline is all about? Well, Skippy has decided to go travelling, leaving today to go for 4 months around Europe. Imagine this as a little 'tour' of my own. I'm getting to see a lot of amazing European countries and to travel with some of my best friends! I'm really restless and excited about it, can't wait to leave as it's always been my dream to keep traveling. Before I go, I wanted to say again THANK YOU to all the bands on Skipworth that we have worked with, it has been incredible. Things are not shutting down here as such, the online store will continue working as usual being run by a good friend of mine. I also have to extend my thanks to everyone who has been ordering CDs and written us emails, again thank you so much for checking out what we and our bands do. So, it's goodbye for now and enjoy the summer whilst it's still here. Skippy
Fordirelifesake "Dance.Pretend. Forget.Defend" CD only $4 incl worldwide delivery at Myspace.com
Breathing Is Only Half The Function CD is SOLD OUT!
Fordirelifesake 'Breathing In Is Only Half The Function' CD is now completely sold out and out of stock in just 2 days! Thanks to everyone who grabbed the last copies! Hope you enjoy this classic release.
The Fordirelifesake 'Breathing In Is Only Half The Function' CD is now only a few copies away from being sold out, so be quick if you want a copy of the European red version in our e-Store. The Deluge / Fordirelifesake 'Split' CD is now completely sold out. Thanks to everyone for ordering these.
Just joking! Don't set your body ablaze, only the mighty Shai Hulud can do that in musical styles offcourse. And Newborn! You see Newborn and Shai Hulud are life-changing (for me anyway) bands! So as I sit here listening to the above, I thought to drop a quick hello to you all. Who has seen the NEW Fordirelifesake DVD? Amazing in every way! My favourite band also! Other than that, again, thank you to every single person who has been ordering CDs from Skipworth, really it's amazing to see packages going to Malaysia, Latvia, Finland, Denmark, USA, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Australia - I don't know you name it! So again girls and boys thank you so much for that. Over and out!
The video for Ara Pacis is available for download from the Skipworth site because people kept emailing me saying that they cannot find the video and if I can put it up. Funnily enough, I did a little search and can't find a link to the video on neither the Jairus or BSM sites (strange). So I put up a copy of the video I had on my computer on the Skipworth server for people to view. The whole video includes footage Skippy and Jairus filmed during the tours they did whilst on Skipworth (Japan and Baltic States) and also it is a song off the Jairus album which Skipworth released. Hopefully this clears things up.
Almost there now. Sometimes it is enough to only pause for a second and realise that what's really important is a friend's smile, their warm words and friendship! I wish everyone this in the New Year and all the best for 2006, Skippy.
I cannot quite believe I am writing this 'Celebrating the 7th Anniversary of Skipworth'.
It all began in December of 1998, now 7 years down the line and 8 releases! Well, that's not that many releases compared to other labels, but going on around 30 tours all over the world has been absolutely the best experiences ever, releasing what I consider to be amazing albums and meeting some of the most dedicated, passionate and honest people around, as well as some dishonest ones! It has been incredible and hopefully will continue to be, sort of like a roller coaster.
Again thanks to everyone who has been here with me through the good, great and some bad days!
You can view the Jairus video filmed on tour in Japan and Baltic States to Ara Pacis, from The Need To Change The Mapmaker album here. It has some funny moments, enjoy it!
So Skippy didn't go to Australia to see Shai Hulud. All I can say is thanks to everybody for all your orders in the recent months. Look out for a cool announcement in the next few days.
I send Happy Birthday wishes to my very close friend Daiki Takeda of Alliance Trax Japan. One of the most amazing, hard working, passionate and dedicated people I've met. Hanging out twice on tour with him in Japan was amazing so I wish him the best on his birthday!!! Party hard and konichiwa! Skippy
Woah, one of my all time favourite bands and lyricist Shai Hulud are touring (!!!) down under! Let's organize a group trip - who is up for it?
Hi to everyone and thank you to everyone who has emailed me and texted to see that we are ok. Both Skippy and Hugo are fine after the events in London yesterday. At this moment our thoughts go out to the families and people that were involved in the events and those injured.
Wow we have had an overwhelming response to the sale in our e-Store, thanks to everybody from all around Europe ordering CDs and from Japan and USA - it's really amazing that the music is getting out to everybody.
I've said this before and I will keep saying it; a massive thanks to everybody who has been ordering CDs from our sale in the last 2 weeks and also to everybody writing in with kind comments about the label. We will keep going strong and again thanks for all your support, there are so many people to mention so I will just say a general thanks!
For a limited time we have a special offer on all our releases. All CDs are only £5.00 / $9.50 including delivery worlwide, whilst MCDs are only £2.00 / $4.00 also including delivery worldwide. All Skipworth releases are available in our e-Store so check that out. Thanks so much to everybody for such a huge response to this promotion already today and checking out the releases.
Plans are being made for Fordirelifesake Japan and Europe tours this year so hold on tight. We know, we know we all have been waiting.
This months Metal Hammer (My Chemical Romance on the cover) is a fantastic one for Skipworth as we have 2 great pieces in there. Check out the 'Incoming' section page 75 for a short read about FDLS and then jump to page 80/81 for a huge piece about Jairus! We're so psyched about the support MH have shown us and our bands and both pieces are really well written and look amazing. A massive thank you from the Skipworth crew goes out to MH and now all you've got to do is get your asses down to the shops and buy it!!
What are you still doing here? GO!
It's extremely pleasant to keep seeing the amazing reviews the new Fordirelifesake album Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend keeps receiving. Here is another review this time from UK's StraightJacket Promotions website. You can read the full review here. Many thanks to Alex for writing the review! Also, thanks a lot to everybody that has checked out the record, we have had some amazing emails and comments about it so we are glad you like it so much!
Awesome reviews of the new Fordirelifesake album Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend just don't stop coming in, which we are so proud of. The latest are from 2 of my personal favourite ezines from Holland and here are some quotes (click on the link to view full review):
AsIce.net
4/5**** "On 'Dance.Pretend.Forget.Pretend’ they are adding other influences like technoparts, violins, cellos and even a piano. They even rebuild the “March of the Pigs” cover of Nine Inch Nails by adding the typically Fordirelifesake guitar riffs."
InsideKnowledge.net
"This Detroit combo seems to use jazz as the grease to keep the different wheels of their musical machine going".
It may have been released a while ago but people keep sending us their reviews of the Jairus album. It's awesome to see how much people love it. The guys at www.decoymusic.com just sent us the review and its pretty amazing. Have a read for yourself:
Let’s face it: “screamo” is a dying trend; bands like Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein, Senses Fail, and A Thorn For Every Heart have taken a genre that was once a breath of fresh air and make it a trend. Bands like Saetia, Thursday, Grade, and other bands who did played it right are not given the credit they deserve and are often at times blamed for the other bands. Here enters Jairus from the United Kingdom, a band who does the singingscreaming thing justice – finally.
Interestingly enough the album name strikes an interest with me: The Need to Change the Mapmaker could be a reference to the direction music is taking these days; in other words, someone needs to change the direction of music.
The album starts off with an underlying synth and drums; a discordant guitar chord sounds and about twenty seconds in you are met with an explosion. Such energy flows from these guys in every aspect. The guitars are a beautiful blend of distortion, heavy parts, breakdowns, and screechy chords; don’t get me wrong many bands do this to the point of annoyance and make it suck but these guys make an atmosphere with their music. In all honesty this is the album Hopesfall wishes they released. There is an urgency in Jairus’s music that is unmatched. Throughout the album there are traces of synthesizers and a lot of times bands place them in and they are out of place; in this case they blend perfectly with the music.
“Our Modern Red Selfless” is an interlude and it fits in well with the rest of the c.d. unlike many other interludes. It leads you to the song “Abandons Their Exterior Look” which is a more slow-paced song, which leads to echo-effected screams making him seem far away or screaming from the dead if you will.
This album is completely flawless; it shifts so many times, but is able to keep your attention. I think it may be safe to say that Jairus is the Godsend that this genre has been looking for. If you think “screamo” has been butchered to a pulp then listen to Jairus’s The Need To Change The Mapmaker and you will be proven wrong.
RIYL:
Hopesfall
Thursday
At the Drive-In
Poison the Well
--Brian Fargnoli
(http://www.decoymusic.com/reviewscontent.php?review=1528)
Another amazing review has come out for the brand new Fordirelifesake album. Go grab a copy of the new issue of Rock Sound now before it sells out! (Its the March issue with Green Day on the cover)
Rock Sound: March 2005
8/10
There's no messing about here. The moment you press play Fordirelifesake plunge you into fast moving, melodic yet unnerving hardcore reminiscent of From Autumn to Ashes. The cello and violins on 'Something Missing' are masterfully introduced to complement the roaring vocals of Matthew Wedge, while the lyrics are predictably emotional but not comical: always a relief with this style of music. But then, despite their youth, Fordirelifesake are no strangers to this scene. They've supported Walls of Jericho and Poison The Well and they've clearly picked up some lessons from the masters without letting themselves get stuck in one narrow genre. They've even courageously covered 'March Of The Pigs' by NIN and managed to do it justice. An alarming three years since the release of their debut album, 'Dance. Pretend. Forget. Defend' is set to firmly re-establish the band where they left off.
Rachel Simm
The Fordirelifesake album Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend released last week, keeps receiving amazing reviews to our joy. Here is the latest from Big Cheese Magazine UK:
Big Cheese UK: Issue 60 February 2005
4/5 Superior melodic metalcore from Detroit
To describe the whole screamo / metalcore scene as saturated right now would be an understatement and as such a band needs to do something pretty special to stand out from the crowd. Luckily, with their second album 'Dance. Pretend. Forget. Defend', Fordirelifesake have done just that. While the likes of 'Recover' and 'We Are The Company We Keep' don't sound a million miles from Alexisonfire or A Static Lullaby (no bad thing) with screamy hardcore grating against almost ambient melody, the band are at their best when they bring something new to the table:
Witness the female vocals on 'Circles and Cycles', the dance beats of 'Twenty Nine Minutes Defend Twenty Two Years' and a suprisingly successful cover of Nine Inch Nails 'March Of The Pigs'. Top stuff. Nick Mann
The new Fordirelifesake album Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend has received an incredible review in this weeks Kerrang UK and 4Ks (out of 5), which we are stoked about:
KERRANG! KKKK (UK - Issue No 1043 February 12, 2005)
Detroit post-hardcore crew set out their stall.
Fordirelifesake manage something quite remarkable on this, their second album: a post-hardcore sound that's utterly unique. The quintet are at turns artful, angry, frantic, emotional and never more than a few seconds from acerbic shredding guitars. Pinning down their sound is like trying to catch flies with chopsticks, but if you can imagine the ferocity of Poison The Well tempered with the evocative song writing of Brand New, all wrapped up in the artistic depth of Tool, you'll be as close as mere words can get you. A few moody instrumentals and a joke hair-metal hidden track are all that stand between this and the full five Ks. If you've even a passing interest in the genre you need this record.
Download: 'Recover'
For Fans Of: 'Poison The Well, Will Haven'
Mark Griffiths
Today the brand new Fordirelifesake album Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend is officially out in Europe on Skipworth Records. Look out for it at your local music store or you can pick up your copy direct from our webstore. Check out this sweet Fordirelifesake Ecard here. Are we stoked? Offcourse, this album is unreal I tell you that! Thanks so much to everybody who has already checked it out.
Look out for reviews of the new Fordirelifesake album Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend hitting magazines in UK such as Rock Sound, Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Big Cheese and Terrorizer and webzines in Europe this month. The album is officially out this coming Monday 7th February on Skipworth. Thanks so much to everybody that has already checked it out and let us know their comments.
Just a quick hello from lovely Latvia. After being a minute away from missing my flight (I was stuck in traffic), me and Jairus made it to Riga. Jairus, well Jay and Dan, are sitting next door doing an interview at NABA Radio Latvia and playing Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze and The Ileon right now. Everything is awesome, we went out to some great bars and clubs last night and danced our butts off. Also we went go-karting which was awesome, some very fast racing. Right now Jairus have one more interview and then we leave for Lithuania.
Skipworth Records have already released 2 CDs by Fordirelifesake and now we are extremely excited to announce their 3rd release for Skipworth.
Almost three years after releasing their debut album, Fordirelifesake are ready to unleash the stunning follow up: Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend. They have toured the USA and Canada several times, played the main stage at Hellfest 2004 and in 2003 undertook their first Japan headlining tour. In 2005 they are gearing up for a return to Japan and their first European tour.
With this new album the band have drawn on their eclectic influences to push themselves and create a beautiful mix of technical, emotional and frantic hardcore. Building on their loyal following, Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend looks set to take FDLS out of the underground and into the hearts of fans all over the world.
Fordirelifesake "Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend" (SKIPW008) will be in stores in UK and Europe on FEBRUARY 7, 2005. Pre-orders will ship on January 24. You can order your copy direct from our e-Store and check out the awesome 2 Song E-Card.
We all want you to hear the brand new single from Jairus titled "Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze" so head on over to www.purevolume.com/jairus and check it out. Adam has some amazing poetry turned into lyrics here and beautiful vocals.
We all really appreciate the huge support that people and webzines from USA have given Jairus, thank you so much. The Need To Change The Mapmaker is now available in USA from Revhq.com.
Jairus are heading out to the Baltics states next week for the 3rd time in support of their The Need To Change The Mapmaker album. I heard we are on the same plane back with Million Dead so should be some fun! Here are the dates:
18/01/2005 Vilnius (LITHUANIA) @ Green Club
19/01/2005 Tartu (ESTONIA) @ Illusioon *
20/01/2005 Tallin (ESTONIA) @ Rockstars *
21/01/2005 Liepaja (LATVIA) @ Fontaine Palace *
22/01/2005 Riga (LATVIA) @ Railway Museum
PUT ON THE MUSIC FESTIVAL 8 with Million Dead (UK), Pienvedeja Piedzivojumi,
F[ei]K, When My Authorities Fall.
(* with In.Stora)
For full tour details check out the Tours section. See you all on tour!
We are extremely excited to present you with the new Jairus CDEP. I have spent the last 12 months on tour with these guys across 2 continents and 12 countries, and it's been incredible (except for sitting around in airports for far too long!). The brand new Jairus / The Stiff "Japan Tour" CDEP is available now in our re-designed e-Store. It was released in Japan by Alliance Trax and we managed to bring some copies back. The CDEP features one brand new song by Jairus "Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze", one brand new tune by The Ileon (Jairus electronica sideproject) and 2 songs by The Stiff. Surely this is a collectors item!
I want to wish all my friends and everyone the best things in the New Year 2005. Have a great time celebrating today!
It has been without a doubt an incredible year for me and everyone at Skipworth, Jairus and Fordirelifesake, and I want to thank you all so much for your support. I have met so many incredible friends around the world throught Skipworth it has been really touching. I love what I do and running Skipworth for 6 years has been an amazing experience. We are going to kick start 2005 with a new release and as you would expect from Skipworth, a lot of touring! To all my friends around the world and people I work with, thank YOU for believing in me! YOU are amazing! Skippy
Jairus and I landed back in London from Japan in one piece on Monday, next day I had my university graduation ceremony and party, so now I am a graduate. Hooray. Having now recovered from Japan here are some reflections on the tour.
First of all, Skippy and Jairus send massive thanks to Daiki Takeda for organising such an amazing tour, and Shoichi, Aki, Shintaro, Toku, Hino and Adam from The Stiff for showing us support and kindness beyond anything the 6 of us have known so far in our lives. The Stiff are a true inspirational band to all of us! This goes out to the guys from The Stiff and Daiki who have such kind hearts, and now hold a large place in mine! I want to say hello to all the amazing bands we met on tour that played with Jairus such as Naiad (your Kyoto show was the most insane ever!), Endzweck (knowledge), Samurider, Irrivaly, As Meias, Buddihitson, Use My Third Arm, Black Line Fever, Amok, Balloons, Kamome Kamome and The True Path.
I want to thank Jairus for sharing so many great moments on tour with me, we know it was amazing experiencing this together (yeah coz like!). So now that we are back, this concludes 15 months touring in support of their debut album "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" which took Jairus (and Skippy) across 2 continents and 10 countries. Thanks to everybody in Japan that came to the shows, and all the great new friends we met out there.
Hi everyone, I am sitting on the plane with Jairus on our way back from Tokyo to London, and have an 11 hour flight ahead of us. Nice! Sayonara!
Hello from the land of the rising sun Japan! I have been out here with Jairus for about 6 days and the shows have been amazing. Today we have a day off so we are just relaxing and going to centre of Tokyo (Shibuya) soon. The tour has been awesome with The Stiff, who are an incredible band! Parties have been crazy especially the one after the Chiba show. Thanks to everybody who has come out to the shows, it has been amazing so far. Japan in unreal!!!
Here we are again, I am sitting here packing my bag and tomorrow morning I am meeting up with Jairus at London Heathrow Airport and we are flying out to Japan. The tour starts on Friday and hits a lot of cities in Japan, come check out Jairus and the amazing support band THE STIFF. We will also get to see our dear friends in NAIAD and ENDZWECK, and our friends from Alliance Trax. Yesterday I had my going away drinks and meal in a nice Japanese restaurant in London but can't wait again to experience the real thing in Japan with my close friends!
The new song Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze by Jairus is released in Japan for the tour as a CD/EP with The Stiff and The Ileon available at all the shows.
As many of you know after the summer European tour Jairus went into the studio and recorded a brand new song Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze. Earlier this week the mixed version was on a Fedex plane to Japan where it's being mastered tomorrow and released for the Japan Tour with the incredible band The Stiff. The CD single will feature Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze by Jairus, one song by The Ileon (Jairus electronica sideproject) and one song by The Stiff. Check out the full Japan tour dates and get your tickets to the shows, they are going to be awesome. Also full merchandise will be available on the Japan tour including 3 brand new designs, which are beautiful!
Jairus kick off their Japan Tour in just over 3 weeks time. All tour details are fully updated here, also the full band lineups, ticket information and door times. It's going to be amazing and we will see you all in Japan!
Alliance Trax will on December 1st, 2004 release in Japan the Jairus/The Stiff CD Single for their Japan tour. It will feature the brand new song from Jairus "Sabina In The Deceiving Breeze" and a brand new The Ileon (Jairus electronica sideproject) song as well as a song from an incredible Tokyo band The Stiff (tour support). This limited tour single will be available at all Japan shows along with new Jairus merchandise. Check out the full Jairus Japan Tour Dates.
I experienced an amazing weekend in Budapest with my closest party animal friends Laszlo, Mark, Kinga and Alex, now back in London again. Met up with Zoli Totik from Digits Destroy Design (Jairus, Bridge To Solace) and had an awesome time, ate far too much and drunk too much Vilmos (pear?!?). Hope you guys had a good weekend, sorry there's no 'music' news this time. Did I mention we saw Dj Vadim!
For an independant record label like Skipworth to post news that one of their bands is touring in Japan is a dream come true but to announce it a year later again is just out of this world! Last year (March 2003) Fordirelifesake toured in Japan in support of their album and now I am over the moon (sorry just fell of my chair...) to announce that Jairus will be on their first Japan tour 1-13 December 2004 presented by Alliance Trax Japan in support of their 2004 debut album "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" (Skipworth / Alliance Trax). I was honoured to go to Japan with Fordirelifesake and now I will again be accompaning Jairus, which is another dream come true! We want to thank every person that comes to shows for your support this year and all the promoters for their booking work, what a way to end a year! So we will see you all in Japan, arigato.
JAIRUS JAPAN TOUR DECEMBER 2004
Presented by Alliance Trax (Alliance-trax.com)
01/12/2004 Flying out from London
02/12/2004 Arrive in Tokyo
03/12/2004 Yomanashi Kofu @ Kazoo Hall w/ The Stiff
04/12/2004 Yamagata @ Sandinista w/ The Stiff
05/12/2004 Chiba Kashiwa @ Alive w/ The Stiff
06/12/2004 Tokyo Koiwa @ eM Seven
07/12/2004 Sight seeing
08/12/2004 Sight seeing
09/12/2004 Osaka @ Club Water w/ The Stiff
10/12/2004 Kyoto @ Whoopee's w/ The Stiff
11/12/2004 Gunma Maebashi @ Rattan w/ The Stiff
12/12/2004 Tokyo Shimokitazawa @ Era w/ The Stiff
13/12/2004 Plane back to London
It's really nice to see loads of brand new photos on the Jairus website from their European summer tour with Courtesy Blush, the festival in Latvia and few of Finland also. Check them out here.
In other news we just booked the flights to Japan for Jairus and Skippy!
Just posted some new photos of Jairus at Nokia Extreme Festival in Riga (Latvia), check them out in the photos section. A massive thanks to everybody who came out to see them there, it was just amazing!
As you can see on the front page we have a Fordirelifesake video. I think it's a good time to show people outside Japan the live video to "Just A Memory" filmed on their first Japan tour. For slower connections please allow few minutes for the video to load. Hope you enjoy it!
We are really excited to say that it is confirmed that Jairus will tour in Latvia and Lithunia from 17-22 January 2005. This will be their 3rd time in Latvia. We fly back from Latvia on the 22nd to London, then 25th back to the airport to Finland. From 25-31 January 2005 it will be Jairus' 2nd tour in Finland. Please keep checking the tour dates for updates.
Hey everyone, so I am still in Europe after being on tour for 1 month now, but finally I am returning to London tomorrow morning. I don't know if I am looking forward to it or not, but whatever. So the tour with Jairus has been a huge adventure (just read about it on Jairus' website). We are really sorry Jairus had to cancel the last 2 shows but Courtesy Blush are still going to play them. Benicarlo and St Feliu Festival in Spain were incredible shows so thanks to everybody who checked out Jairus and said hello to us at the merchandise stand. I will post some amazing news once I am back in London.
So I have been on tour in Europe with Jairus now for like 2 weeks and it's been incredible, the show with Instil in Holland was great, Fredericia Festival in Denmark was unreal and such an awesome time. Then I went to the last ever Deluge show in Holland which was just incredible but it is so sad for me to see Deluge go, I already miss them a lot! So now we have spent about 6 days in France and the shows have been incredible too, the crowd going crazy and just having great fun. Check out the tour dates.
Hey we are now in Meerhout (Belgium). The show last night was just incredible, both Jairus and Death Before Disco were amazing and the club was packed to the max. Thanks to the people who travelled from Brussels to the show and all the new friends we made.
As many of you know this Saturday is the final ever Deluge show in Holland. Details are in tours section, see you there.
I arrived in Belgium this afternoon and already met loads of cool people at first day of Goodlife Summer Festival. Jairus are arriving in the morning, and have 1 month tour in Europe, it is going to be amazing. See you at one of the shows hopefully.
Me and Jairus made it back from Latvia, flight had a lot of turbulance and we were all so tired after going out the whole night and then straight to the airport. We had an incredible time and want to thank everyone for coming out to check out Jairus (amazing show!), the crowd showed so much passion and emotion it was amazing. A major thank you to our friends Edgars, Agnese, Diana, Kaspars, Ivars & Alternative.lv, organisers at INKsnb.lv and Nokia, Naba Radio, Marina and Egor for fun times.
So right now Jairus rest a few days and on Saturday start the European Tour at Goodlife Summer Festival in Belgium, check out the tour dates and see you on tour.
We haven't mentioned Fordirelifesake for some time but that's because they have been in the studio recording the upcoming album. This weekend they play Hellfest
SUNDAY 25 July - Fordirelifesake - Main Stage - 1:40 PM
You can listen to the Jairus interview on Radio NABA 96.2FM in Latvia here.
Time to look at the map, change the mapmaker, do something, travel thousands of miles, be happy! Imagine Latvia - that's where Jairus and Skippy are setting off for. Tomorrow morning we are flying out, then on Saturday 17th July at 23:10 Jairus will do an interview at NABA RADIO.
Jairus play in RIGA (LATVIA) @ Uzvaras Parks this Sunday 18th July at the Nokia Extreme Event - come out, have the times of your life, come say hello to us, enjoy the whole days events like Etnies Dirt Jump, competitions and check out Jairus - all details including schedule of the day are here. See you there, I CAN'T WAIT for sure.
Brand new Jairus photos from the London @ The Garage show with Shai Hulud few weeks ago are now online in the photos section.
Major thanks to the super talented Alex Wood and Gaz Hardy [DefiantConviction.co.uk] for bringing the live atmosphere onto photographs.
Jairus are heading off on what seems like a never ending tour. This Wednesday they play in Luton (UK) which is their last UK show for ages, so come check it out.
Jairus then play in Riga (Latvia) at the Nokia Extreme Festival in Uzvaras Parks on the 18th July, come out and say hello to us! We can't wait to see everybody there.
I just wanted to say thank you to everybody who came to the Shai Hulud, Jairus, CFS, Aconite Thrill show in London - you made it amazing and offcourse thank you to all 4 bands for playing amazing sets. Sorry to the people who couldn't get in as the show sold out. I had the time of my life, felt really great!
Jairus are playing shows around the UK now until the 16th July, most shows are around the south and Wales so check out the tour dates and catch these guys before they head of to Europe for the summer.
Then Jairus fly out to Latvia to play in Riga at the Nokia Extreme Festival on 18th July - should be awesome to see everyone there again. Last time in Latvia we had an incredible time so really looking forward to it.
And that's not all, then Jairus head off to Europe for 1 month touring starting at Goodlife Summer Festival (24 July) in Belgium, then Holland, Fredericia Festival in Denmark, France, Spain (St Feliu Festival), Switzerland. Check out full tour dates.
Hey, I am just about to grab my bag, go to the airport and head off to Spain - should be fun and I am looking forward to some time off just chilling. You guys and girls have fun and I leave with you with this brand new review of the Jairus album at InsideKnowledge.net. Skippy
Don't we just love photos and videos at Skipworth? Yeah we do. When you are out on tour, meeting amazing people and seeing incredible places, a few photos get taken so check out the photos from the Jairus tour in Finland. Thanks to everybody we met in Finland at the shows, it was just so amazing and they were incredible.
Well, I think the time has come to say a massive major thank you to all the people who have been ordering from us, buying the Skipworth releases and coming out to the shows. It’s still a surprise to me to see everyday so many people come to this website and order stuff, so I just wanted to thank every single person for the amazing support Skipworth, Jairus, Fordirelifesake and Deluge have had from you. We are so amazed at how many people checked out the new Jairus album, again thank you so much.
I also want to take this time to thank everyone who visits this website, spreads info on forums, downloads MP3s and videos, spreads the news around, checks out the gigs, people who help with bookings and everyone that makes friendships with us along the way – it’s something really important to us. It’s so great to see things going so well, it definitely fills us all with a lot of enthusiasm and energy to keep taking things forward. OK, have a great week and salut a Steve Perreux de La Rochelle, our new Skipworth Team Member based in France! Skippy.
Fordirelifesake ohh yes, our Detroit boys have been super busy touring and writing for their next album due out later this year on Skipworth Records (Europe). You have probably seen the announcement that Fordirelifesake are playing this years Hellfest and finally the European Tour is pencilled in too.
The Jairus album has been out for 6 weeks now and here comes the 2nd video for OUR MODERN RED, SELFLESS taken from "The Need To Change The Mapmaker". We finished this about a month ago and just put the finishing touches, the theme is more an insight into Jairus on tour just chilling out packed with loads of photos and videos from Finland and Latvia, us on the plane, Skippy jumping in snow etc. Check the video out here.
Woah woah how awesome is this, check out Jairus being featured band of the month at the mighty ThePRP.COM. Thanks a lot to all the guys at ThePRP.COM for such kind words on the album, it's awesome that it left an impression with them too and thanks to everybody who has got a copy of the album - hope you like it. ThePRP.COM says "Jairus weave the complex sounds of modern hardcore with post rock resulting in a rich tapestry of sound. Epic, meandering, atmospheric, dynamic, and at times beautiful, Jairus have created a pioneering sound that draws comparison to luminaries from as far a field as Poison The Well, The Mars Volta, Hopesfall and the space rock of Mogwai."
THIS Friday at 7am GMT there will be 1 Jairus song played on CMPRADIO.CO.UK check it out crashing radio waves!
If you haven't yet checked out THE ILEON (side-project Ricky from Jairus) check it out as you can still download the whole new EP for free. It's much more ambient electronica kind of stuff, similar to track 5 on the Jairus album.
Hey everyone, I just posted a whole load of new reviews of Jairus album The Need To Change The Mapmaker in reviews. Check it out if you want to know what Poisonfree, Planet-Loud, Wmtd-zine.com, Fury Fanzine and loads of others said.
Online magazine Wmtd-zine.com from Holland gave the Jairus album an awesome inspiring review, it was just a pleasure to read it quite surreal. "From the first tones of "Lucco Sleeps On Screen" I am surprised by the intensity of Jairus. When track five ("Our Modern Red, Selfless"- a very touching interlude) kicks in you'll be amazed by the diversity and technicality of this band. By the time the last song "Ara Pacis" finishes you have been on a journey through various mindstates. Sadness, anger and despair are just some of the emotions fired at you." [more]
I just wanted to say arigato and thank you to everybody in Japan for buying a copy of the Jairus "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" album - thanks a lot again. The Japanese version is an enhanced CD so you can view a live video on your computer.
Jairus are playing a hometown show in Folkestone on 1st May at The Harp Club with also Photobook so come down to the show, it's last one until September/October as they will be on European Tour all summer. You can get tickets for the Shai Hulud / Jairus show from Skipworth here (no booking fee).
Amazing news just in is that The Ileon music will be used as soundtrack to an independant movie directed by my friend Miguel Uhlfelder in Portugal, more on this soon. Seems like a lot of people are enjoying listening to Ricky's from Jairus side project The Ileon. Nearly 1000 people downloaded the EP already which is amazing.
Rock Sound and Metal Hammer magazines hit the shops in UK this week with great reviews of the Jairus album, we are stoked to bits so check those out. Also in addition to the review in Rock Sound there is a feature on Jairus too. Next month Jairus also have a track on the Rock Sound covermount CD.
"This is "the ileon" something I have worked on as a side project to Jairus and maybe now is the time to share it" says Ricky from Jairus. Whilst Jairus were recording the album and in between touring Ricky wrote and recorded his own 3 song ep that is now available for download for free. Then when out in Finland chatting with Skippy (Skipworth Records), Skippy was madly into the stuff Ricky was doing (Our Modern Red, Selfless from Jairus album) and his other stuff so there came the idea to release it for free as MP3 downloads. We think now is the time to share these so head over to The Ileon to listen to the ep for free. Hope you enjoy it as much as we love the songs. Skippy and Ricky.
For everyone in Japan, check out the new Jairus album "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" out on APRIL 10, 2004 in JAPAN on Alliance Trax, it has an enhanced video as bonus. For people in Europe & USA, if you want to import yourself the Japanese version try directly from Alliance Trax or HMV.co.jp. The Japanese version comes in jewelcase format with lovely Japanese writing. A million thanks to Daiki Takeda (owner of Alliance Trax) for his passion for Jairus and working with Skipworth once again. Jairus are also working out details for their first ever Japanese tour for June/July 2004.
Jairus just confirmed for this summer's Fredericia Festival in DENMARK playing on 30th July, it's going to be awesome for people in Denmark to see Jairus live. Also they play Goodlife Summer Festival and tour across France, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy. All details in tours as we get them.
Tickets go on sale this week for the SHAI HULUD and Jairus show in London @ Garage, 24 June 2004 from Ticketmaster, Garage, Ticketweb and all usual outlets! Advance tickets are only £6.50 (door £8) so be quick if you want to be there. It's the final chance to sing your hearts out for Shai Hulud and show your passion for such an incredible band.
Today in UK shops you will find the April TERRORIZER issue that has the Jairus "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" review! There is a super scary morbid face on the front of the issue so you cannot miss it hehe. About the review the album received 8.5/10 and said: "The Kent quintet have evolved beyond their inspirations, incorporating huge washes of atmospheric electronica and jagged discordance into their stylings; the effect an engulfing soundscape of emotion and texture that positively belies their youth..."
"The Need To Change The Mapmaker" is ALBUM OF THE MONTH at Planet-loud.com (UK) we are thankful for another incredible review! Also it's ALBUM OF THE MONTH at Furyfanzine.com with an amazing review there too. A quote from PLANET LOUD review: "To say The Need To Change The Mapmaker is an astonishing piece of work would qualify for understatement of the year. From start to finish this is one of the most beautiful and challenging pieces of work to emerge from any scene."
PLAY.COM are selling the Jairus album and if you are looking for a great deal, you can buy it from PLAY.COM for only £7.99 with FREE SHIPPING! Also online from HMV.co.uk, SAINSBURYONLINE.co.uk (£8.49), Amazon.co.uk and Goodlife Webstore so it's all well priced we think. Again thanks to everybody who has already picked up the album, thanks for checking it out and giving it a chance.
Thanks to everyone who tuned into TotalRock.com radio last night when Jairus were interviewed and sent in nice emails even from as far as Finland (thanks Aleksi!). It was a lot of fun, so Malcolm let's do it again!
The Need To Change The Mapmaker is album of the month at Furyfanzine.com (UK) woah how cool and "Ara Pacis" is MP3 of the week at Wmtd-zine.com (Holland). Anyways, both are amazing sites and especially WMTD with the new design so get your fix.
What can be said? Jairus' debut album "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" is out TODAY! Hooraay, are we stoked? Offcourse, and more than proud of Jairus. You can pick up a copy at your local music shop and online from places like HMV etc. We will soon have news on the Japanese and USA versions of the album for you guys.
Listen tonight to Jairus on TotalRock.com radio over the internet 9-10PM GMT as the guys will be live in the studio in London. Here are some reviews the album has been getting so far:
"It's one of the most sophisticated albums I ever laid my hands on. Skipworth's got another hit." Earfocus.com Belgium
"An amazing, overwhelming listening experience... Jairus is THE new U.K. band to watch out for." Goodlife Distribution
"The Kent quintet have evolved beyond their inspirations, incorporating huge washes of atmospheric electronica and jagged discordance into their stylings; the effect an engulfing soundscape of emotion and texture that positively belies their youth. 8.5/10." Terrorizer Magazine UK
"5/6 stars." FranticSound.dk Denmark
"The sheer musicianship of this record makes your mouth drop open and makes you believe that you will never enjoy a piece of music in 4/4 again. The drumming is amongst the most original I have ever heard. 6/6."Acquired Tastes UK
"The sound which gently flows in your ears, will definately stay in your mind for a long time and you'll keep singing the songs over and over again. 5/5." Alternative.lv Latvia
"There's also something that speaks to you immediately, something magnetic that comes somewhere else than pure songs. There is style. 3/5." Letsmakesomenoise.com Finland
Watch the crazy Jairus live video from Latvia here (stream in Windows Media).
Jairus are going to be live on TotalRock Radio Show in the London studio this Monday 22 March to coincide with their The Need To Change The Mapmaker album release that same day. You can listen online at www.TotalRock.com from 9-10PM GMT and just say hello or email questions for Jairus at studio@totalrock.com. They will also be playing tracks from their "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" album.
It's is extremely flattering to receive a review like the one below, it's written by Steven for Earfocus.com ezine from Belgium. You must check it out, it goes a lot indepth about the album saying "It's one of the most sophisticated albums I ever laid my hands on. Skipworth's got another hit. That's the first thing that slipped through my mind when I even heard the first tones of this cd." You can read the full review here.
Okay have a great weekend and remember Jairus album is out THIS Monday 22 March 2004, run to your local music store and get a copy if you don't already have it. I would also like to say a massive thanks to everyone who pre-ordered a copy and all the editors around the world who reviewed it so far. Thanks!
I flew back last night from Finland with Jairus, the tour was amazing we really thank everyone we met there and talked with. The tour was just amazing!
We need YOUR help and things will happen! Everyone please SMS to BBC RADIO 1 "THE LOCKUP" in UK tonight (well early hours of Tuesday) 2-4AM to 81199 and request to hear the new Jairus album. This is the only way to make Jairus heard and we would really appreciate it. Or you can email Mike now on thelockup@bbc.co.uk.
We are sitting in the venue Stella Star in Helsinki in Finland, Jairus have soundchecked and it's sounding awesome. We flew in on Tuesday and the tour is going amazing, we have made a lot of new friends and seen great Finnish bands. We have loads of cool stories, photos and videos (crazy)! Also we just got some amazing news from Hugo about Jairus doing a radio show in UK but more on that next week. Ok we're going to eat now, take it easy and thanks to everyone who has been at the shows in Finland and buying the record, we really love talking with you all and thanks to all the people ordering the Jairus CD too.
In 10 minutes I'm grabbing my bag and off to the airport to meet up with Jairus, then away we fly to Finland. Hey last thing - you can request the Jairus album to be played on BBC RADIO 1 Rock Show Tuesdays (by sms to 81199 or email) and on The Lockup on Monday nights, as well as XFM (Ian Camfield) I think, all these are UK only. Ok got to run, bye and have a great week.
Hey! It's so busy here so I'm going to keep this sweet & short and all about Jairus:
 New Jairus Video: We had so much incredible footage from Latvia and Estonia, the result is the brand new video for "And Caligula Blushed" you can view here. Trust me there is so much amazing footage people stage diving, singing along, dancing and Jairus just going insane! This was a dream come true, thank you everyone. View Videos.
Rock Sound Phone Interview: Looks like tomorrow Jairus will be doing a phone interview with Rock Sound Magazine UK for a feature from the airport in London before we all fly out to Finland. Look for that in the April issue I think.
Finland Tour: Tomorrow Jairus and Skippy are flying out to Finland, tour starts on Wednesday so please check out the shows and we hope to see you there.
New Reviews: Jairus forthcoming album "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" (out 22 March 2004) is getting raving reviews, this is so nice and pleasant to see. Terrorizer UK, FranticSound Denmark, Alternative Latvia and more have already reviewed it and more as we get them in.
Jairus New Theme Website: Have you guys seen yet the new theme on the Jairus website. Check out www.jairusonline.com.
As you see we have a few Jairus photos on the entrance page and you can check out all 119 photos from Latvia & Estonia, UK and others in the Photos Section. Woah it brings amazing memories of the incredible shows (you got to see it), hanging around at airports, joking around backstage, visiting Riga so it's basically a tour diary in photos.
We have also posted a short 27 seconds teaser video of Jairus in Latvia and it's all of Symon (Jairus) drumming (including in Times Square New York hehe). Check it out in the Videos its like 1MB you will enjoy it (especially for the drummers).
Jairus are finishing up the last few dates in UK now, then going to be in Finland touring with I Walk The Line (Fin). I'm going too so should be awesome time again, come check them out they are awesome live.
JAIRUS FINLAND TOUR 09/03/2004 Flying to Finland 10/03/2004 Tampere (FINLAND) @ Yo-talo *ALBUM RELEASE PARTY*
With I Walk The Line, Abduktio, Prisondream. € 5. cap. 300. www.yo-talo.com 11/03/2004 Lahti (FINLAND) @ Torvi *ALBUM RELEASE PARTY*
With I Walk The Line, Presley Bastards. cap 250. 12/03/2004 Helsinki (FINLAND) @ Stella Star Club *ALBUM RELEASE PARTY*
With I Walk The Line, Presley Bastards, Abduktio.
The Punk Rock Show € 5. cap. 450. www.stella-star.com 13/03/2004 Turku (FINLAND) @ TVO *ALBUM RELEASE PARTY*
With I Walk The Line, Presley Bastards, They Stole A Million. cap 160. 14/03/2004 Flying back to London UK
3 hours at the post office and all Jairus "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" album pre-orders have been shipped today as announced. You can all wait for the album to drop through the mailboxes now, thanks again to everyone who has already checked it out. Get your copy from the e-Store or mailorder.
Reviews of The Need To Change The Mapmaker album are coming in already, check out the first one here starting by saying "This is a genius record." Read Full.
To top things off some new music taken from the Jairus album THE NEED TO CHANGE THE MAPMAKER we have for download the closing track titled Ara Pacis. Now that 22 thousand people have downloaded "And Caligula Blushed", it's time for a new song for everybody to hear. So Ara Pacis is the closing track of the album and I am listening to it right now, probably one of my favourite tracks on the album it's very heavy, has interesting time changes and flavoured with the classic Jairus sound. Drop by the media section for free MP3 downloads.
It's been a busy week, the phone has not stopped ringing and yesterday I went out for lunch with Sam (Abjure drummer fame) and his friends to celebrate his birthday so let's just say we ate while 182 meters in the air (600 feet / 42nd floor)! Damn that's HIGH. Frank (Million Dead / Kneejerk) came along too so it was just fun to catch up and stare at London from this tall building. Onto some news then.
Jairus debut album THE NEED TO CHANGE THE MAPMAKER for Skipworth Records is officially released on 22 MARCH 2004 (Europe & USA) so from then it will be available in record stores. You can pre-order copies now and we'll despatch all pre-orders on 24 February 2004. Jairus have copies for sale on tour with them also. Let me say thank you to all the people that picked up a copy already at one of the shows and also thanks so much as so many people pre-ordered it too, it's very kind that you are checking it out. I hope everybody enjoys it as much as we do.
THE NEED TO CHANGE THE MAPMAKER album comes in a stunning looking CD Digipack with a matt finish and full colour throughout, the whole 9 yards baby we have gone all out on this as it's a special album! Check out the Online Store for some cool real life photographs of the release and to Pre-Order or Mailorder it.
Tonight we are having the album launch for Jairus "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" in London. It's at The Verge starting at 8pm, finishing at 11pm costing £4 NUS Students / £5 normal and with 3 great support bands. The album will be on sale also, see Tours for details and see you down there.
Hi everyone, it is pretty hard to describe how amazing me and Jairus feel right now, our last night in Latvia and we got in at 6am from ice-skating, eating out and then chilling out in a cool Oriental Spa where Liga works (Edgars friend). We fly back to London at 13:40 so we are getting few hours sleep and then to the airport (damn I just remembered I have university at like 9am ohh well going to miss that one obviously). Anyway, last night Jairus played in Valmiera at the Nokia Air Snowboarding Event and every minute felt incredible and straight from the heart. I am pretty speechless still 24 hours later and so are Jairus because the show was just something else! We really want to thank every single person there for making it so beautiful. See you, Skippy.
I am in Latvia with Jairus and everything is really great so far, we are having a blast and adventure.
I think Jairus are heading off to the airport now and I am leaving in a few hours to meet them there. Then we're getting on a big plane to Latvia, should be amazing - check out the shows where Jairus are playing.
I leave you with the latest photo gallery from Deluge last UK Tour with Jairus. Amazing photos and thanks to Balty and Paz for taking them and coming all the way from Spain for the show (great to see you again!). Check out the photos. Got to run bye, Skippy
I think this Jairus journal entry says it all;
Subject: I never wanted a clam-chowder steak...
16:11 GMT Tuesday 3rd February, 2004 by Dan
Not even two days to go now until we board a big, scary plane to Latvia. Apparently it's 'fucking cold' there. But anyway, just enough time for one last journal entry before I start packing bags etc..." Read Journal.
We filmed some live footage on the Jairus UK tour with Deluge in November and have the Jairus video to "And Caligula Blushed" to show you HERE. You will probably see yourselves busting out the moves and some sneak previews of the forthcoming album artwork. Tell your friends and spread the word thanks. View Video.
You will also find Jairus music featured on Frantic Sound website in Denmark, in France on Headinstars.com (with photo report from Nantes show) and played on Radio NABA in Latvia last weekend together with Deluge, Converge, Green Day, Evilsons and many more. Many thanks go to Steffen, Erick and Edgars.
Right I'm out of here, it's snowing in London so time for a snow fight :)
Jairus have a great UK Tour coming up this February starting off in Yeovil on 3rd February and finishing in Liverpool on the 29th. Loads of cool shows and joining them on the road are Shaped By Fate (UK) and Dignity Dies First (UK) as well as on the last leg November Coming Fire (UK). Check out all the tour dates and get down to the shows.
Few days after the UK Tour Jairus will be flying off to Finland to play 4 shows there in March with I Walk The Line (Finland). View Finland Tour Dates.
Last week was cool, I was in Barcelona with Veronique having an awesome time, walking down the Ramblas, bit of shopping and offcourse the tapas bars! So what's happening already in 2004?
Jairus are playing in Latvia and Estonia this February, all dates are in the Tours section. They can't wait to play at the Nokia Air Snowboarding Event and also the Punk Festival so hopefully we will meet a lot of you there.
It's very sad to let Deluge go and see them split up, we have had the most amazing times together on tour, working on releases and just having fun. As they are my close friends we keep in contact all the time and I look forward to their new band. On the UK tour last month we all had an amazing time, so many people showed up to witness the last Deluge shows ever and we want to say thanks to everybody. Here are a few words from Deluge:
Okay peeps, this is it. After almost ten years Deluge has decided to quit. We had the best times of our lives and have reached a lot of goals we set when we were only fourteen years old; playing shows in nine different countries, releasing records and have lots of fun doing it.
There are various reasons for us to break up, most importantly because it seemed impossible to find a new and solid drummer (seems like we suffered from the Spinal Tap curse ;-)) after our good friend Robert left Deluge.
Without him Deluge just wasn't the same anymore and doing some shows and a small tour with Robert as a temporary drummer lately made it extra clear to us. This was Deluge and we all think it should stay like that.
Robert will now put all his effort in his main band Uppercut again and the four of us and a new drummer will appear in a new band sometime in 2004.
It's time to say goodbye, but not without thanking everyone who has been there for us all those years, especially Robert, Taco, Skippy, Maarten and Jothan.
Love,
Auke, Bart, Simon and Tobias
www.deluge.nl
Hey everyone, have a great time during Christmas and offcourse all the best for the coming new year. All praise goes to Deluge, Fordirelifesake and Jairus who I have a pleasure to be a part of and you. From Skippy.
Fordirelifesake never stop touring and today kick off their USA Winter Tour with their friends Rescue. The Suicide Machines, Small Brown Bike, Forever Is Forgotten and loads of others will be sharing the stage with Fordirelifesake so looks like an awesome tour! All dates are posted in Tours or check Trustkillshows.com.
Talking of endless touring, Jairus have lined up all the dates for the February 2004 UK Tour and also they will be flying with Skippy to Latvia to play the Nokia Air Snowboarding Event on 7th February 2004. Then they will return to Europe in March & April 2004.
"It´s 1:15am and we are LOVING our tour!!" are the nice words Jairus posted on their website about their France and Spain tour. Jairus are on the last leg now of the France tour and obviously it's going amazing which is so good to hear.
Deluge also posted a message on their website with cool group photo.
It's strange to be writing this after an awesome 3 day tour with Jairus and Deluge. No words can say how awesome this time was, our friendship and all the people that came to the shows, so I will just say thanks so much to everyone. Both Jairus and Deluge played some incredible sets filled with special energy! Deluge safely flew back home and Jairus rested for a day before...
Jairus set off to Europe very early this morning for their France & Spain Tour with great friends Secondsmile. They are playing in loads of different towns so please go and see their amazing live shows and check out MP3s and Photos. Have fun.
It's strange last year on the 28th November Deluge and I were leaving Holland for the Poland tour, this year on exactly the same date they are flying to UK! The moment we have all been waiting for! Deluge and Jairus are rehearsing whilst Skipworth and Astrid Promotions are getting the show ready for this Friday in London! Wow what more can I say, 3 more days until Deluge get on a big scary plane and fly to London to kick-off a special UK tour with Jairus. A massive thanks to everybody that already has got their e-Tickets for the London show, see you all there. If you haven't then there are still tickets left on the door. Check out full tour details (maps, directions, journey planners etc) and remember you will get a great CD if you are one of the first 50 people at the London show.
Jairus played with Walls Of Jericho on Monday and told me the show went awesome. Thanks to everyone for checking them out. Ohh and Jairus have new merchandise.
France and Spain tour! Yes Jairus just don't stop touring. After a day's rest they will be touring with Secondsmile in France and Spain (2-13 December) so if they are playing in your area check these incredible bands out. View Tour Dates.
Are we excited or what!?! In just over 2 weeks Deluge will be landing at London Luton Airport to play only 3 shows with labelmates Jairus - we got MP3s, videos, photos, the whole 9 yards baby. In short the dates are:
JAIRUS & DELUGE
28 November - London (UK) @ The Verge (w/ Walls Of Jericho)
29 November - Coventry (UK) @ General Wolfe (w/ PSP, Frakkture, Sika Redem)
30 November - Folkestone (UK) @ Stripes Club (w/ Cry For Silence, Winter In June)
View full tour details, maps, directions and buy e-Tickets (NO booking fees).
Skipworth has launched a site for the shows they promote in London. You will find all information on the upcoming shows promoted by Skipworth such as door times, directions, maps, e-Ticket purchasing, travel information, flight info from other countries and loads more. We are using a new e-Ticket system with NO booking fees. Check it out at www.skipworthrecords.com/booking.
Deluge and Jairus made entries to their band journals yesterday with some personal writings about upcoming tours and stuff.
Jairus debut album entitled "The Need To Change The Mapmaker" CD Digipack will be in stores on the 26TH JANUARY 2004 in Europe and USA on Skipworth. In Japan it is licensed and released on 26TH JANUARY 2004 by our close friends at Alliance Trax. Each day you will see more The Need To Change The Mapmaker things appearing on our website, as well as pre-orders starting shortly.
We have added additional payment options to get e-tickets for Skipworth shows including Debit / Credit Cards, Mailorder and PayPal options. You will find those in Tours if you want to get advance e-Tickets for the London Jairus album release party with Deluge and Walls Of Jericho. Just giving people a few options.
You can get your e-Tickets for the London show of Walls Of Jericho, Jairus and Deluge in Tours. There is no booking fee to book in advance. We are already planning a cool stage setup and surprises, so please get your e-tickets early so you get in as it's going to be packed. Thanks to those who already got their e-tickets!
We are honoured to have Deluge return to UK for their 3rd UK tour as they will be flying into London UK for 3 special shows with labelmates Jairus. I am sure both bands will set the crowd going once again with their amazing music and energy, plus Walls Of Jericho for the London show. View the tour dates and get your e-Tickets.
View Deluge live in Spain videos and photos.
Fordirelifesake have a few upcoming shows in the Michigan USA area including they will be headlining on Friday 7 November at the Bottle Rocket Festival.
Jairus are also playing some UK shows in the coming months before touring in France and Spain this December with their friends in Secondsmile. View Tours.
In about 6 hours I am getting on a scary big plane and flying back to London, my 1 year in Barcelona has come to an end. It has been beyond incredible the past year, and today I just spent on the beach and at Merce Festival in Barcelona which was great. Ok I am out of here, prepare yourselves for the new Jairus album.
Hi everyone, I want to say a couple of things here insted of the daily news.
I just want to say a major thanks to Deluge, Fordirelifesake and Jairus for doing what they do best and the amazing friendship we have, the past bands that were on Skipworth for their endless inspiration and friendship, to every single person who has written an email to Skipworth and said hello at shows, seen our bands on tour, to all the people who keep buying our releases in our online store, to all the people who set up shows and tours, to you for visiting this site, to the Skipworth Team of great friends who work along me and share their talents; Hugo, Tom, Zoli and Auke, to all our distributors for believing in us. I don't think I say this often enough but you are such incredible people and thanks so much for everything, and this is amazing because we all enjoy the music. I have to say a special thanks to my incredible girlfriend and my parents, from Skippy
The weekend is over and my girlfriend is still on holiday in France, so yesterday I spent the whole day watching the waves and falling asleep on the beach in Barcelona, it's so relaxing falling asleep to the sound of waves wow you should try it!
Adam from Jairus has only the vocals left to do and the recording for their new album will be complete. Wow the closer it gets the more excited I start to get!
Michigan Michigan Michigan! Go and check out Fordirelifesake rocking out this Friday in Detroit @ The Shelter with Billy Talent (show details) and tell Fordirelifesake to get their asses over to Europe!
I am real excited to reveal the full dates for the Jairus UK Tour in January 2004. Unfortunately we are sorry to say that As We Fight from Denmark will not be able to make for this tour. You can catch Jairus live in 7 different cities. See full tour dates.
Deluge play this week their last 2 shows in Holland for a long time, whilst Fordirelifesake having finished their Canadian Tour with Undying are now playing a few shows in their hometown area of Michigan. View dates.
We are really excited to present to you an insight article into the world of Jairus and their forthcoming album written by our Skipworth Team Member Tom Winter. "Jairus have developed from the typical non-descript beginnings that we nearly all find ourselves presented with when a new unit of musicians get together to play..." Read the full article.
Deluge will be playing only 2 more shows in Holland this September, after which they will not play anymore shows until they have a new drummer. Please click for details.
Fordirelifesake have 8 shows left on the Canadian Tour and say it's going amazing.
Jairus are in the studio right now (read journal) and have more UK shows coming up followed by France & Spain Tour. It's going awesome for the Skipworth Roster bands and we all want to say a big thanks to everybody who is enjoying the music.
Hi everyone, I am back in Barcelona from an amazing holiday, was great to just get away and chill out by the beach and windsurf. Well I hope you guys are having a great holiday too and catching some of the sun!
Jairus have posted a brand new live track from their performance at Goodlife Summer Festival Jairus - Cut The Six Minute Caller (Live) or in MP3s. Wow Jairus start to record the album this Monday 18th August!
With over 25 reviews of the Deluge | Fordirelifesake "Self Titled" CD and 4 new reviews just added including review by Lambgoat.com go read what the reviewers have to say about our newest release. If you like what you read and hear you can buy the CD in our Web Store.
Remember compliments you received, forget the insults, if you suceed in doing this, tell me how. What a night!! 2 hour live concert special about The Smiths on TV right now, such a ground breaking band! In a few hours I am going to grab my bag and set myself free, my girlfriend and I are heading off to the south of Spain on holiday, chill out and windsurf as much as possible. So until August 12th I will not be replying to emails but you can contact the other Skipworth Team Members (urgent stuff ;).
Two things to look forward to when I come back are a full insight article on Jairus written by Tom Winter and a Fordirelifesake full 5 angle camera video from their Japan tour (which is only available on their "Breathing" Japan Version Enhanced CD on Alliance Trax Japan).
I leave you with the latest news; Fordirelifesake are heading off on tour once again starting August 8th (do these guys ever stop touring? hehe), this time all over Canada and many great bands are joining them so make sure to rock out at the shows. Click here for details. Deluge took a short break and are currently practising with who could be their future drummer.
Thanks so much once again to everybody ordering from Skipworth and everybody who has bought a record or written an email to us - I dream that you are enjoying the releases as much as we do. Thanks for making this magic happen and being a part. See you all soon and hope you have a great holiday also, Skippy
I am very sorry to write this but Jairus had to return home to UK last night from their European Tour due to Ricky's very serious illness. Jairus played the first tour show at the Goodlife Summer Festival and said they received an incredible responce and had an amazing time. Jairus send their apologies to the promoters of the shows they had to cancel and will come back to make up the loss very soon. You can read some words straight from the band at www.JairusOnline.com. Once again we are all very sorry for having to cancel.
Jairus are leaving on European Tour this Friday, all the dates are in Tours. Sad news is that their touring buddies Bridge To Solace had to cancel due to their drummer Tom's illness but Jairus will still play.
Yesterday Furyfanzine.com did a little "catch up with Jairus" interview talking about future touring of Europe and UK, album recording and Skipworth - read it here.
It's great to see the Jairus photo gallery in Photos with over 35 photos of them live with some great action shots from all over UK. We also have shows coming in for Jairus France and Spain December Tour so don't miss that as they arrive.
It's soo hot in Barcelona I have just been chilling on the beach, it's too hot to move hehe... hope you are also enjoying some hot weather.
 Got some great news to share with everyone - Fordirelifesake "Breathing In Is Only Half The Function" CD album is out today on Alliance Trax in Japan. This is the Japanese Version including bonus enhanced live footage of Fordirelifesake, brand new artwork and all the music being re-mixed and remastered (listen close Brian went that extra mile to do more funky guitar parts and extra singing!!). We are all really proud of this because not only did Alliance Trax do the Fordirelifesake Japan tour earlier this year but also they are an exceptionally amazing label.
Hi guys and girls - want to read a more in-depth Fordirelifesake Japan Tour report with photos written by Skippy? Check out this month's issue of Inside Knowledge.
As you may have read in the Jairus journals they will start recording their album on August 18th for two weeks with their good friend Ben Phillips who also recorded and produced their recent promo CD ("And Caligula Blushed"). Thanks so much to over 7 thousand people now for downloading "And Caligula Blushed" by Jairus.
Thanks to everybody who tuned in on Saturday night to listen to the interview I did with NABA Radio in Latvia, it was really so much fun, nice to hear Skipworth bands on the radio and many thanks to Edgars for making it happen! If you missed it you can hear it here (Windows Media Player 7 or greater). (The first song is the end of the previous program) and then it starts with Deluge "Bridges Fall" :)
So all is ready to roll with the NABA Radio interview tonight kicking off around 9:00 GMT so tune in either in Latvia 96.2 FM or online (info below).
Yo! We are happy to announce Lionel Scholtes from Belgium as the winner of the Fordirelifesake Japan Tour Giveaway and at the same time thank all the hundreds of people who entered. Lionel your package is on it's way ;)
Skippy will be doing a telephone interview with Edgars from NABA Radio 96.2 FM in Latvia this Saturday night at 9pm (GMT) / 10pm (Central European) playing a song from all Skipworth releases including Deluge and Fordirelifesake and "And Caligula Blushed" from the upcoming Jairus debut CD for Skipworth. People in Latvia can tune in at 96.2 FM, otherwise everybody can listen live on the net at radionaba.lv in "tiesraide" section. Wow I am pretty excited about this and I will play 1 extra special song by the incredible NEWBORN :)
Some sad news have reaches me that Deluge have parted ways with their drummer Taco all on very good terms, you can read it straight from them at www.deluge.nl. Shows will be played still as planned with Robert filling in.
"This Is How We Chill" in Spain at 35 degrees already at 8am, can you say hot. Just posted a little video for you guys and girls (yeah I am getting better at them hehe). It was filmed all this week when Ivar from Wmtd e-Zine and Concept 7 guys visited me in Spain. So this is how we chill in Spain - comes with an awesome soundtrack and yeah that's 24 degrees at 23:53 (ok just watch the Video ;)
Hi! This giveaway has now ended (see winner in news)! We got a little pack together from the Fordirelifesake Japanese Tour to giveaway including the Limited Japan Edition Fordirelifesake / Endzweck "A Collective Property" CD single, Extend Magazine#2 (cover CD w. Fdls, Endzweck tracks), sticker, Japan tour poster and other stuff.
Deluge are hitting Germany in July and also have more shows in Holland (dates). Fordirelifesake tour in USA is in full swing, you can view all the dates here and finally Jairus also have loads of shows all over Europe! Wooopie. If you are still not familiar with the Skipworth bands why not listen to some MP3s.
Fordirelifesake kick off their USA tour with Saving Throw tomorrow - you can catch them at the following places (for those who have been asking - this tour does NOT come to Europe sorry). All you Canadians get ready as Fordirelifesake are planning a 2 week Canada tour for August.
I am back from Madrid just about in one piece and had a great time with some friends hitting bars, hanging out and snowboarding. Check out this Video.
Hey everyone, just a quick hello from me hanging out in Madrid, it's been such a great time, even some snowboarding (wait till you see the videos ohhh my!). Staying few more days then back to Barcelona. Thanks to my girlfriend for her wicked animated card, also to Jairus and Deluge for the cool birthday wishes... ok I am out. Have fun, -Skippy-
Happy Birthday to myself ;) hehe Tomorrow I'm going to Madrid for a few days to hang out with some friends, should be fun.
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Amazing news, Jairus have lined up their first ever France & Spain Tour with their friends and incredible band SecondSmile from 3 - 13 December 2003 in support of their album. We will post all the dates as soon as we have them.
Yesterday was a hot day, spent the morning chilling on the beach and just thinking "it's f*^king hot". Well, loads of people have been asking about the forthcoming Jairus album and track listing etc. OK here is the tentative information we have:
Jairus have been in the studio writing for the album over the last few months and the track listing (not necessarily will appear in this order) is: "Ara Pacis", "And Caligula Blushed", "Sidewalk Dances", "Spindley", "Cut The Six Minute Caller", "Desks And Patterns" and "Street Lights Point The Way". The album will feature 9 songs.
Jairus are planning to hit the recording studio in August. The album will also be licensed in Japan. Jairus are playing in a few European countries, see dates.
Wow today is a great day, we just launched the Deluge | Fordirelifesake "Music Player" which you should be seeing popup right now. You can listen to all the songs from the Deluge / Fordirelifesake CD and read the amazing lyrics along with the music! Listening to it always sends shivers through my body and so I hope you get some emotions from it too. We extend a massive thank you to Alfred and Balty @ 964 Productions for their amazing work, thank you!
Plus scroll down in the news to enter the Fordirelifesake Japan Tour Giveaway which is still open.
So things are going great, Jairus just played some awesome shows over the weekend in UK and Deluge had a great time in Holland, whilst Fordirelifesake rocked out in USA. Thanks to everybody who went to any of the shows!
Jairus are still busy writing their debut album for Skipworth (tentatively scheduled for winter 2003) and tell me they have 6 songs fully completed now that will most definitely make it on the album. Deluge also have been writing new material but have not played any of it live yet.
2 brand new videos from the Deluge Spain Tour are posted now - check out those pretty Deluge boys and Skippy as we hang out in a villa, rock out in Spain, mosh it up & eat snails right here. Your closest experience of being with Deluge on tour from your computer! Also 28 new photos from Deluge Spain tour. Go check out the fully re-coded www.deluge.nl to keep most up to date with all things Deluge.
Jairus are confirmed for this year's Goodlife Summer Festival in Belgium same day as Shai Hulud! (Tours) If you haven't still downloaded Jairus' MP3 then do it now and you will hear how incredible they are! OK I am going to the airport to pick up Auke from Deluge and his girlfriend Wendy... see you.
Hey everyone, I am on tour with Deluge in Spain and the 3 shows so far have been incredible, such great crowds and fun shows with many people. Great times in Tarragona (although we locked the van keys inside!!!) and Benassal festival was awesome. Got videos and photos for you all :)
Hey everyone, the Poison The Well/Stairland/Open Hand/Deluge show last night in Barcelona was incredible, I was not expecting it but 4 incredible and talented bands with such nice guys and packed out venue! It was so amazing. Thanks to everybody that came from Portugal, Galicia, France, Belgium and Spain and enjoyed the show presented by Skipworth, Sunrise and Sos. Thanks again for making it an amazing night!
A massive HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my very special girlfriend as she had her birthday yesterday.
Also Adam, James and Dan from Jairus arrived to Barcelona yesterday so we hanged out the whole day. Right now Deluge are just about to arrive for their tour of Spain so everything is going great. See you guys on tour...
Thanks to all the people who emailed in or posted really nice comments on Jairus, it's really nice to hear that you guys love their music also. Jairus are playing the Denmark Festival this August and organiser Soren wrote this "A very young band with a big future ahead of them! If a band has the chance to go in the footsteps of Poison The Well and Hopesfall, then Jairus has to be that band..." wow congratulations to Jairus. Hear "And Caligula Blushed" by Jairus from their forthcoming Skipworth album.
Also MANY THANKS to everybody who ordered yesterday the Fdls / Endzweck Japan CD, they are still some left so check it out in the e-Store if you want a copy. Thanks guys and girls for picking it up.
Make sure to pick up your copy of the Fordirelifesake / Endzweck CD in the e-Store right now - last copies of this Japanese Import Limited Edition CD and only available from Skipworth in Europe & USA.
Other than that I went snowboarding to Andorra with my girlfriend and dad, and I am soo lucky to be alive! Basically I half snowboarded/rolled down the mountain, the holiday was amazing and relaxing.
Wow Fordirelifesake are number 5 & 17 top selling items at Lumberjack-online.com - congratulations guys! Everybody from Latvia go to Alternative.lv to read a review of FDLS "Breathing In Is Only Half The Function". I am also happy, this morning arrived my copy of the FDLS "Breathing..." album on vinyl - this baby is limited to 200 copies so try grab the last copy at Forge Again Records.
Deluge are hitting the road with ACP (great band) around Spain and France so please try and make it to a show if they play near you. All details are in Tours. This is going to be amazing, see you on tour.
Hi everyone, I have uploaded a full photo gallery (95 photos) from Fordirelifesake Japan Tour with Endzweck so head over to the photos section now to see your favourite heroes on tour in Japan. For new visitors to the site you can still see the Fordirelifesake Tokyo Japan show in videos. Enjoy...
I can't believe it - thanks to Ivar from Wmtd.nl webzine, Jairus "And Caligula Blushed" is MP3 OF THE WEEK there! Wow thanks so much. And Lambgoat.com (USA Webzine) has posted news about "And Caligula Blushed" also so check it out here. Thanks to all the webzines for their support in getting the music heard!
So you are crazy about Jairus? or just want the world to hear them also?!? -> Well we have made it easy, please go and tell all your friends about Jairus MP3 via our easy-as-hell form right here. THANKS!
PS. And we are mapping out Jairus European tour for July & August and confirmed are that they will hit Holland and Denmark.
Initial itinerary for Fordirelifesake USA tour with Saving Throw has been revealed in the Tours section. Go and hear a brand new Fdls song from their split with Deluge at their mp3.com page. (The Fdls / Deluge "Split" CD USA Version is in stores tomorrow 25th March via Thorp / Lumberjack so check it out).
Lambgoat.com has been the first to announce the upcoming Fordirelifesake USA tour with Saving Throw (great band also). Read the news and tour dates here.
Skipworth's latest release the Deluge / Fdls CD has been receiving mind-blowing reviews and I mean it, just read these from Poisonfree.com, Inside Knowledge and Codex4.org. Then pick up your copy of it in the Online Store (you get a FREE Fdls Japan tour poster too).
Finally we announce and welcome Jairus to the Skipworth family. Fordirelifesake joined, then Deluge and now Jairus, this makes quite a family huh?! I am super excited and happy to have Jairus join Skipworth, an incredible live band who go absolutely crazy and make equally outstanding music! I also became close friends with Jairus very quickly and they are people who truly know what Skipworth is about.
As Furyfanzine.com said "Jairus's unique sound is hard to pinpoint – they fuse the raw passion of US peers Hopesfall and Poison The Well with the complex song structures of Tool and At The Drive-In to create something truly worth loving. From gut-wrenching screams to poignant vocals and spoken word, Jairus are pushing the boundaries of hardcore day by day."
View Jairus tour dates with Hopesfall and Eden Maine here, download "And Caligula Blushed" in MP3 section, read Jairus biography and see what the guys have to say in their journal. Jairus have their official website at www.jairusonline.com and their MP3.com page at www.mp3.com/_jairus_.
WOW! Holly crap thanks to over 2000 people having downloaded the Fordirelifesake video in 2 days!!! I guess you all see now what fucking amazing band FDLS are live. Also every online order and mailorder gets a free Fordirelifesake Japan Tour poster! Other than that just to remind you we have an older interview with FDLS from 2002 up. Check it out in Interviews.
After a 13 hour flight, followed by a day of sleeping we are back from Japan in one piece! Once again I want to say the biggest thanks to Daiki Takeda for organising the whole tour, Fordirelifesake for being fucking incredible band and close friends (I couldn't believe it when I finally saw them live it's something else out of this world), shout out to the amazing guys from Endzweck (an inspiration to be with and watch live), Cosmic Note Japan, Kentaro our crazy driver (is this vegeterian? - maybe), Naiad and all the bands we met on tour, the promoters for their hard work and all the people that came to the shows said hello to us and spoke with us, we love you guys! - thank you from the bottom of our hearts we will never stop smiling about how amazing this tour was!!! I will miss Fordirelifesake guys so much, it was great to be on tour with them.
Back to reality - as promised here is a video of Fordirelifesake live in Tokyo Japan with 350 kids singing along! View video (poor sound quality as I filmed it with my digital camera) but you can see Fdls live in action tearing the place apart! I have like 700 photos from Japan so probably new photo everyday in Photo Of The Week.
Deluge mini tour starts today through Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, full dates are posted. Also at www.deluge.nl you can stream Deluge´s part of their new split with Fordirelifesake.
OHHHH MYYY GOD! Tokyo tore the place apart last night, over 350 kids dancing their hearts away, it seemed unreal. Thanks to everyone there who rocked out.
Hey everyone, still in Japan on Fordirelifesake / Endzweck tour - this tour is just beyond incredible! Fordirelifesake have just been ripping everything apart each night, for me it's so great to see them live and they go off so much I didnt even imagine it!!! Endzweck are the best touring buddies and those guys are insane.
The 2nd show was in Shizuoka at Sunash and we drove past Mount Fuji - we all managed to take about a million photos and just going woah woah woah all the time! Tonight the club was packed to the max, Endzweck went so crazy that first the guitarist dived into the crowd followed by their drummer (!!!!) and the rest of the band. We were watching from the side of the stage and couldnt believe our eyes. Tonight Fdls went off even more than in Tokyo with kids singing along, stage diving. We were all amazed by the great welcome. After the show we stayed in a 750 years old temple and once again ate traditional Japanese food in the morning.
3rd show we drove to Nagoya and it was snowing all the way. The show was also really intense with the club being packed to the max also, felt like hell it was soo hot. Before the show we walked around Nagoya, went to a cool record store and just hanged out. At the show, Endzweck and Fdls went crazy and so did the crowd, half of the club dancing was insane loads of stage diving it was becoming hard to control the crowd. After the show Fdls were signing loads of CDs, then everyone headed off to the local bar for the afterparty (more on this later I think I dont remember much of it).
After about 3 hours sleep we were driving to Kyoto half awake for the show at Whopees with Naiad. Before the show we visited the local temples which was incredible, I got like 40 photos in there! The sound today was soo powerful and the crowd danced real hard and sang along. Fordirelifesake went off from the first note I just couldn't believe my eyes and ears, people stage diving, loads of singing along today again and people tearing the club apart! Unreal! Naiad went insane and I thought I was watching Hellfest when they were playing...!
5th show today and we were driving north for like 8 hours through snow after 3 hours sleep once again, we got to the venue Woody sound checked and went to look around town. We found a local music store and Brian Fdls walked in first and just walked out - Fdls was playing on the stereo in the music shop we couldnt believe it!!! Show was great today also, Commune played a really tight set of their melodic hardcore punk and Fdls finished up with another insane set, watching these guys is incredible they have soo much energy and passion for the music and to hear all my favourite songs live like Sometimes Like The Tide its beyong words!!! After the show we had a big feast meal all together and we stuffed outselves with sushi and then drove to the next show in Yamagata.
So 6th show, Yamagata was already sold out before the tour started. During the day we went around the town, just hanging out making phone calls home and checking local areas. Then Fdls were working a bit on a new song until start of show. The show was awesome but it was impossible to breath, it felt like hell. Again an insane show and crowd went crazy, I dont think 1 more person could fit inside the club is was that full!
7th show we headed off to Sendai but shortly after driving through mountains we hit a major snow storm and had to buy special tyres to be able to carry on driving through the mountains. It was sooo scary, snowing and driving on edges of cliffs. So we got to the show a bit later and missed the first 2 bands. Tonight show was great and again there was hardly any space to move in the club with around 180 people in there.
OK 2 more shows left, still cant believe we are in Japan, its rocks here and people are so kind and great everywhere. Got to go...
Japan is unreal, we are all amazed! Fdls just played in Tokyo tonight and it was an insane show. Amazing
In few hours going to grab my bag and head off to the airport for the Fordirelifesake Japan tour. I am soo excited, can't believe this is happening... wish us luck.
Skipworth Booking presents the only Spanish show of Poison The Well. Skipworth's very own Deluge will be supporting too along Stairland and Kinison. Full details have just been revealed at the Skipworth Booking site. Be quick to get your tickets as this is going to be a show not to miss!
This morning I received another new review this time from Rock Sound Magazine. Read all new Reviews.
Just got an email that Furyfanzine.com UK has reviewed the Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Self-Titled" CD and it's a rocking review, thanks Marcus! (Reviews). Rock! Ohh my! Woke up and realised 8 days to go until me and Fordirelifesake fly out to Japan (Tour Dates).
Fordirelifesake did a brand new interview with Loick from TGFOM Australia talking about the lyrics, future Europe / Japan tours, are Fdls Florida style?, Iraq issue and more - check it out at Tgfom.
Reviews continue coming in daily of the Deluge / Fordirelifesake CD and each time I get more shocked by what the reviewers say, I guess everything is possible if you put your heart and drive to it! When Phil from Poisonfree.com sent me the link to his review yesterday I could not believe it! Man how touching can words get? Check out the Poisonfree.com review (or Reviews Archive). If you have the CD and want to share your opinion on it, drop us a line in our phorum, thanks.
Best part is seeing the bands live right? Deluge are touring in Holland, France, Spain and Fordirelifesake touring Japan and dates in USA - as always info in Tours.
From today through till 21st of February, the great guys at Wmtd.nl are doing a contest to win 5 copies of the Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Self-Titled" CD. Check it out here, should be fun. Today we have another awesome new review of the Deluge / Fordirelifesake CD at InsideKnowledge.net.
Everything is running to plan for the Fordirelifesake Japan Tour, me and Fdls have our plane tickets and we just can't wait to leave! As announced by Alliance Trax Japan, there is a Limited Japan Tour Edition CD of Fordirelifesake / Endzweck split (Fdls cover The Cure "Love Song" and Endzweck cover Snuff "That's Enough"). Read news in Japanese at Tribe.jp. Also featuring on Tribe.jp is the brand new Deluge song from the split.
Woah, thanks to over 1200 people for listening to the latest Deluge song. If you haven't heard Part I of the Friendship Falls With Ego concept by Deluge then download it here - expect very melodic, fast and a spheric feel to it as Pitfather.com said. New reviews.
So another great weekend is over too quickly but a new week begins yeah! So those from USA if you haven't entered the Blistering.com Deluge/Fordirelifesake giveaway yet then you have 2 days left (see post below).
We have new reviews of the Deluge / Fdls "Split" from Codex4.org (great great site), Wmtd.nl, Rgmonster.com, Tgfom Australia and loads more so check it out here.
Deluge are playing shows all over Holland this month and in March, then in April coming to tour Spain. Also thanks to over 1000 people who have already downloaded in few days the new Deluge song!
Fordirelifesake played last Friday an awesome show in Canada to 450 kids, woah thanks for coming to that show and making it awesome. In 3 weeks Fordirelifesake and me fly out for their Japanese tour. Full details.
Today's joys: Download new Deluge MP3 (YES bring the f*"king world down), watch Deluge video and then get a free copy of the split.
Joy 1: We have kept the Deluge / Fdls "Split" as a surprise for all you guys and if you haven't got a chance to get a copy then you can now download Heal Broken Words MP3 by Deluge. Enjoy this incredible song!
Joy 2: Watch a cool self filmed Video of Deluge live in Poland (thanks to already over 400 people checking it out).
Joy 3: Those of you who want the Deluge / Fordirelifesake CD for free we have teamed up kindly with Blistering.com for you to win a copy of our new release which we are all so proud of. Enter here (Please note this is only open to residents of United States and Canada).
Woah! I am so excited today (again). In exactly 4 weeks we are flying out to Japan. I and Fordirelifesake will be on the plane to Japan on 27th February - can't wait!
Latest reviews are being added all the time so check them out here to see what others are commenting on the new split. Once again a million thanks to everyone for picking up a copy of the split, we couldn't do this without.
Here is something for all our Japanese visitors to our site. Read a review of the Deluge / Fdls "Split" CD from Alliance Trax Japan here.
Another thing hard to believe but the Deluge / Fordirelifesake CD is no. 1 top seller at Alliance Trax Japan and guess what no. 2 is? Yeah Fordirelifesake "Breathing In Is Only Half The Function" album, Woah thanks so much to everyone for believing in us and checking this out! AND once again the FDLS album is at no.7 Top Online Seller this week at Lumberjack in USA.
Yoo! The brand new Deluge / Fordirelifesake team up CD is out today so run to your local store and get this beauty (take spare pair of pants says Mark) or you can order it Online or by Mailorder. Either way please try and check this out, it´s a beauty I love this release! A little favour - if you see that a music shop does not have it please ask them to order some in so other people can check it out too, even if you have a copy yourself. Thanks.
(drum roll...) Happy Birthday to my very close and special friend Zoli - rock till you are 150 bro :).
5 days until the Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Split" CD is out and Deluge are playing 2 release parties on 24 & 25 January in Holland. Check them out here and then to follow are tours of Holland, Spain, Portugal and UK! On top of that we have a great home recorded live video of Deluge filmed in Poland.
Japan get ready for Fordirelifesake! Yes they are coming to tour Japan with Tokyo's amazing Endzweck from 1 - 9 March. Full details are posted in Tours. A million thanks to Daiki Takeda for organising this. I can't wait to meet him, see Fdls live (9 times hehe) and go to Japan woah!
A million thanks to everybody who has pre-ordered a copy of the split or is going to pick up a copy (already over 600 copies gone). Thanks for checking what we put all our energy into and love so much. Reviews are already coming in so check them out (along with a story by my friend Mark that you will make you laugh your head off!).
Hi everyone, so I somehow got on another flight yesterday and made it back to Barcelona! Yeah. This is amazing - Deluge have made a new layout for their website to coincide with the Split release next Wednesday, check it out and get down to their release parties!
Damn, haha I missed my f*^king flight back to Barcelona this evening cos I was stuck at the post office posting your pre-orders. BUT there is always a bright side to things - the Deluge / FDLS "Split" CDs have been shipped out and they look just breathtaking and sound amazing! You have to all check it out - that's your New Years aim right?
Thanks so much to over 100 people who submitted their addresses to help spread flyers all over the world. It's all been posted so look out for these beauties and thanks again for helping spread the word about the split.
Well, this evening I am flying back to Barcelona from London so I'll post some really exciting news tonight! Bye.
Lambgoat.com has just revealed the full details and info about Fordirelifesake's Japan tour. Click here to view details. Also Codex4.org, Poisonfree.com, Wmtd.nl, Pitfather.com, Insideknowledge.net have posted the tour details and pointed out that the Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Split" CD is out on 22 January 2003.
Thanks to all the 300+ people that were at the Fordirelifesake / Deluge "Split" CD Release Party in the USA and also to the 150 people who bought a copy of their brand new split. I hope you will enjoy it a lot! In other news, I will be posting soon all the info for the Fordirelifesake Japan Tour.
This Sunday, 29th December everyone in the area head down to the Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Split" CD Release Party. You will also be able to pick up a copy of their new split. I am sure it's going to be amazing so check it out:
FORDIRELIFESAKE / DELUGE SPLIT CD USA RELEASE PARTY
29th December 2002. Lake Orion, MI @ The Knights Of Columbus Hall
Other Bands: Forever Ending, Wafflehouse*, Life In Your Way, Saving Throw, Wicked Lumber, The Fullblast, The Separation Suicide, Before I Go, Two Days.
Doors @ 3pm. Entry $5.
Hello everyone, have a great Christmas and a crazy New Year! The craziest and best stuff is going to hit you in 2003 from Skipworth, look out.
Skippy in cold London.
From now you will notice probably the easiest, fastest and most convenient ways to Mailorder (totally new system) and as always Online Order. As well as the launch of our totally new mailorder system, we have started the PRE-ORDERS for the much awaited and anticipated record Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Split" CD.
Pre-Orders can be done by either Mailorder or by Credit-Card. Pre-Orders will be shipped on the 6th January 2003, but the release date is 22nd January 2003 so if you pre-order now you will have it in your hands before it even comes out.
Yesterday was the last day to download "The Promise" MP3 by Deluge - if somehow you missed it then go search it on Kazaa or something! 15,312 total downloads and you can now see the final Top 15 Download Countries. We are really amazed at this and thank everyone who listened to the song, sang along at shows, recommended it to their friends, told their friends about it and submitted comments. You rock!
Wow! Fordirelifesake have hit the big 30,000 downloads on their mp3.com site, so check it out if you haven't yet heard songs from their "Breathing In Is Only Half The Function" CD.
Speaking of MP3s - ONE MORE WEEK left to download the newest greatest Deluge song The Promise.
And everyone head over to AntiTouristGuide bookings to see what awesome tours are going to hit your town in Europe! And remember to tell Zoli that he is doing the best tour work in Europe ok.
Another post and I am in a different country, this time back home in Barcelona! So, you wanna know what happened? The Deluge tour was really incredible, we all had such a fun time and the shows were really great. It was especially great to see everyone going crazy during "The Promise", so thanks to all the Polish people coming out to the shows. It's unreal how much time we spent in the van singing along to Newborn, HHH, dEFDUMp, Mainstrike, Shai Hulud etc.. ha. Everyone seemed so enthiusiastic about Deluge it was very pleasant for us. Oh I remember, go and join the brand new Deluge mailing list.
I installed a new email database on our server - so look to your left and sign up for our email list if you haven't yet ok! Look out for some exciting features within a week - just hold on.
YO! YO! I am flying back to Barcelona this evening blah blah blah... this means some more news soon! Bye bye Deluge guys.
HEY! Me and Deluge got back to Holland from tour yesterday, tomorrow I will post some kind of a tour story or something OK? Photos from tour look awesome by the way and there will be a video online of the Krasnystaw PL show!
Hey everyone - me and Deluge were denied entry twice to Lithuania (for the show in Latvia). We are really really pissed off that we could not get to Latvia because of border control not letting our van pass! We tried at 2 borders and nothing, we are very sorry and upset that we could not be last night in Latvia and very sorry to Edgars.
But the first show in Poland was great great fun, we still have 2 shows left. Deluge fucking rocked at the fist show wow! We had great rest in a hotel last night (rockstars!). It's snowing and very cold and we been in the van for more than you can imagine... Poland rocks.
OK, the van is packed and we are all ready to go. We are all really excited! Did I say it's so cold here....bye
Our amazing upcoming release Deluge / Fordirelifesake "Split" CD (View Page) will be out on 22nd January 2003 in Europe, Japan and Korea. I am really excited about this release and dying for people to hear it as it's simply incredible music! Some stunning artwork was done by Apt13 (From Autumn To Ashes design) so this is going to be HOT! Pre-orders will begin soon too.
This wednesday evening I am flying out to Holland to join Deluge for their Poland and Latvia tour. Check out the full details in tours. See you on tour and remember I will be posting news from the road here and Deluge in their band journal.
"The Promise" download feature has now had nearly 10 thousand downloads! What I can say again - I really didn´t think it would get so crazy. Please keep checking the webzines and tell all your friends, band members to come hear this incredible song.
Here are some more comments that people have submitted about "The Promise":
Country: Thutshui, Assen, NL - Person’s comment: Man! Your promise has just come true! This songs even blows the greatest songs on 'Spot In The Shadow' away! I'm dying to see Deluge live once again!!
Country: poesman, texel, nederland - Person’s comment: mooi mannen
Country: MALAYSIA - Person’s comment: OK
Country: Latvia - Person’s comment: kicks ass!!
Country: Balty Albiol from Spain - Person’s comment: Yeah! Yeah!Deluge come back again
DELUGE "The Promise" MP3 feature at Lambgoat.com.
Thank you once again to amazing people like Deluge, Ivar, Phil, Martijn & IK crew, Pitfather crew, Marcus, Afsheen, Duncan Mow, Alex Lambgoat and to everyone who keeps downloading "The Promise" by Deluge. To the guys in Deluge you can be really proud! Today over 200 emails with comments. WOW what can I say I didn´t think this song was going to spread so far! Malaysia is downloading the song, Japan, USA, Poland, UK, Iceland, Croatia, Hungary, Brazil wow what can I say. I will be posting more comments shortly... well I am speachless right now!
THANK YOU. Thanks again to everyone that has downloaded "The Promise" today (5109 downloads), hope you like the song.
WOW! I am going to be posting comments that other people have submitted after listening to "The Promise" here:
Country: Latvia - Person´s comment: r00lz
Country: texel de koog (NL) - Person´s comment: te gek
Country: xWOERMSx, Leoben, AUSTRIA - Person´s comment: crazy
Country: Hungary - Person´s comment: Fucking A
Country: Roosendaal - Person´s comment: Whoa supervette shit.... zoals vanouds ;-)
Country: Spain (European Union) - Person´s comment: Hi Auke! from here regards, 964crew like Deluge, one of the most interesting european hardcore bands. Come on guys don´t stop the music across the world. 964crew.
Country: Mark McCann, London - Person's comment: The words 'AMAZING' 'REFRESHING' are written all over this masterpiece!
Country: Frank,Charlton,London - Person’s comment: fucking amazing! i like it.
Country: suuz, den burg, holland - Person’s comment: cool! :)
Country: Nozzman - Person’s comment: Incredible. Technique mixed with full fledged up your face metal/ hardcore. Loved them, now love them even more!!!
Country: Simon, Oosterend, Texel - Person's comment: Wat valt er nog te zeggen... :)
Good morning everyone! Hey!
The brand new and much awaited MP3 by Deluge "The Promise" is this moment ONLINE so go and download it! Check it out in the MP3 section.
Hope you enjoy it and stick around the whole day for some exciting features at SkipworthRecords.com.
Our newest Skipworth team member, Tom Winter had a quick talk with Deluge and here is his amazing article. Many thanks to Tom for writing up a great piece! Here it is...
It's been two years since Deluge's last material hit the streets, via the bands "Spot In The Shadow" full-length. But now, you can all get a taste of what is to come from the bands forthcoming split CD with up-and-coming US sensations Fordirelifesake with Deluge's latest track "The Promise". Landing on Internet servers around the globe at 8.00am GMT on Monday 18th of November, the track is a classic slice of the band's original fusion of hardcore and punk. A 100 second blitzkrieg of pure energy and emotion.
Band front man Auke agreed to give me a few words on the track. In relation to the bands older material, Auke feels the track is "More dynamic", describing it as "an energetic oldschool song". The reasoning behind the Internet only release is simple; "As our last release was like 2 years ago it was time to do a new release. Because the split will be released on 22nd January 2003, we all thought of something like why not release a new song just to let the people know we're still alive. But you're not going to release one song on CD, so we combined it with the promotion of the upcoming split". But perhaps it is more than this. This song will make seismic waves from the underground, bringing the band to a worldwide audience. Cracks will begin to appear in the ground that keeps those of you content to wallow in music which is unchallenging and lifeless safe.
The track has almost become a cult-classic before release; "a promise bears high expectations, but I can't predict the future" says Auke. Well on the 18th of November everyone shall know, but I can assure you, contrary to the lyrics in "The Promise", the bands inspiration hasn't gone, and their creativity certainly hasn't been overcome.
Tom Winter
Hi, just so everyone knows "The Promise" MP3 by Deluge will be online 8.00am GMT time this Monday 18th November! Can´t wait for the world to hear this song.
I am sitting here thinking, man does time go by - 7 days left until "The Promise" MP3 by Deluge is unleashed on the world. Ohh my *&$% you guys are going to love this song, I promise hehe. It was back in July I sat down with Deluge on their UK tour and we planned to do this MP3 so it's exciting to see this day coming close. 18th November kids ok?
Tom Winter has just joined Skipworth as our main writer (read below) and decided to catch up with Deluge for a short interview about "The Promise" and future split with Fordirelifesake. Look out for that this week!
Good morning everyone. It's 9am on Saturday morning and I am just about to grab my bag and head up to north of Spain to a city called Girona for the day! Should be fun yeah. Now I feel like a tourist again.
Well Fordirelifesake keeps getting stunning reviews; "I think most guitar players can only have wet-dreams of playing like this", "Maybe this is the missing link between the madness of Converge or early Cave In and the harmonic yet dynamic songs of Newborn?", and the newest review "All these components and the stunning guitarists piling on layers of melody which combine to make a polyphonic sonic masterpiece. Fordirelifesake - from Detroit, Michigan - are set to be your new favourite USHC band." Please check out the full Reviews.
Again, a million thanks to everyone who keeps checking out our releases and sending us nice emails. It's so amazing to see kids from Japan, Italy, USA, UK ordering stuff thank you so much for your support.
Lambgoat.com have posted some news and notes about the upcoming Deluge / Fordirelifesake split CD here. Check it out.
Also, I am very happy to announce that two of my great friends Zoli and Tom Winter have joined Skipworth Records. Man, I am so happy to be working with such amazing people. You can view their profiles in Contact Us.
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