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Click here to visit the Myspace page 06/05/2008
There's been some good news and some good news this week. We've been all over the papers. (That was a crap joke using a rubbish and obvious twist on a modern saying along with the fact that the word 'news' is usually in the 'papers'. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't have bothered.) Errr.... we're on the front cover of Sandman this month, which is an honour and a privilege. The immensely talented Mr Tom Martin took the pictures. Thank you Tom. And there's a little interview that Chris and Davros did during the acoustic Ginger tour, when Wayne was away enjoying his honeymoon and Steve was on tour doing his Derren Brown tribute act. If you want to get hold of a copy, go to any live music venue/music shop/etc in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Hull, York, Bradford or Goole. It's always a good read. Or just check it out on the magical internet here. We're also interviewed for Leeds mag Vibrations, and there was a nice piece in the Yorkshire Evening Post in advance of our appearance on the bill for Live At Leeds alongside The Rascals, The Pigeon Detectives, Metronomy and so on. Thanks to Andy, Si and Phil at Futuresound for all their hard work on an amazingly cool day for all of Leeds to get involved in. Anyway go check the bits out on the press page. Hooray. Other news on the horizon includes the re-scheduling of the tour with AntiProduct, some gigs around and about the country, an actual proper release on a real record label that'll be in shops and everything (around October, hopefully), new tunes a-plenty and the usual self-congratulatory bullshit. Keep smiling. 06/04/2008
As much as it pains us to say it, our UK tour has been postponed due to A. Product, the singer from the headline band AntiProduct, contracting the weirdest immune system/skin disorder/wrongness that anyone’s ever really seen before. Go to their Myspace page for pictures... so long as you’re not eating and have a strong constitution. Specialists in the field have told A. to stop rocking before his fingers fall off, and I’m not even answering the phone to him in case I contract something down cellular networkage, so sadly the AntiProduct/Eureka Machines/Shush tour has been put back to another time later in the year. If any of you are doctors, dermatologists, hypnomotherfuckers or voodoo quackbusters, get over here and tell him what it is that’s making his sore skin seep. The other support band Shush and ourselves were hoping to salvage something from the wreckage, but most of the venues (pretty understandably) didn’t want to take a risk on us. Massive thanks and laudation to Steve Kind for helping us out on that, but sadly it wasn’t to be. That said, we’re doing one or two different dates now, one (at present) with Shush, so check our gig dates out for the latest. These may or may not change, so please check with venues before travelling. I wish we could be less vague about it, but so long as you check with us or the venue a day or three before the gig, you should be okay. One thing that is for sure - we’ve got our first full-band London gig on Sunday 27th April, at the 12 Bar Club on Denmark Street, supporting Shush. If you are a label or press person, do get in touch - we’ll still make you pay in, though. Maybe. We’re gutted about the tour falling through, but it pales in significance to one of our Brothers In Rock being sick, so please bear with us while we sort it out between us. In other news, Seabrooks Wasabi crisps are the best thing ever invented (fuck the wheel), we are in Vibrations Magazine this month (go here for scans), we are in Sandman Magazine this month (live review), Davros bought a computer game, Steve broke his van, Wayne Insane has dyed his fulsome hair blue and I am absolutely arseholed. There’s a couple of festivals in the offing too that we can’t confirm yet. If you have a gig you’d like us to play, get in touch. All the best, and keep checking back, 26/03/2008
Hooray. We've just got our first bit of national press, and it’s not all bad. Kerrang (Rob Bealey) said: ’The younger members of the audience shuffle forward to catch sight of acoustic duo Eureka Machines, who look like punk rock sales reps, but their effortless twin harmonies quickly make up for their dubiously contrived sharp-shirted appearance’ Rock Sound (Paul Raggity) said: ’a fine stripped-down set’ That’s it. Much like our Davros - short, but sweet. Love 18/03/2008
I keep wanting to do fewer blogs, but then there keeps being stuff I feel I should tell you lot about. Go to the eBay auction to see an auction of a load of rock n’ roll funnery. There’s various rare-as-rocking-horse-shit items up there, from a signed Wildhearts/Wolfsbane drum skin (currently at £50), a signed Jackdaw4 album, original artwork for Pandora from Kerrang by Ray Zell... and a Eureka Machines girlie size shirt and promo CD. Which currently has 0 bids. So get yourself over there and get bidding on it, otherwise I’m going to have to buy it so we look more popular than we are. The charity is Rock-n-Emily - and all the money that you pay for stuff goes directly to not one, not two, but (count ’em) THREE charities - SPRING (Supporting Parents And Relatives In Neo-Natal Grief), The Samaritans and the MS Society. So dig deep, whether it’s for our stuff or for the other items (rare, signed and downright weird stuff from Fightstar, Motorhead, Nizlopi, John Lee Hooker, Obsessive Compulsive, John Berry, Iron Maiden, Fats Waller and others) and let us know if you win it. Good luck! 10/03/2008
Last night's Raw Talent Session is now up on their website to listen to again to your heart's content. We did two songs - The Story Of My Life and The One Who Wouldn't Change You - and did a short interview before and after the tracks, which were around 48 minutes into the show. We said we'd be on a little later, but the schedule had changed beyond our control when we got there, so sorry if you tuned in too late. Anyway, you can listen here: (link) - then click on the 'Listen Again' link, then look for Raw Talent. We're on after about 48 minutes, but listen to the rest for live sessions from I Concur and Ben out of Racine. Hooray. Thanks to Alan and Katy at Raw Talent, and to Chris's mum and dad for the cup of tea on the way. 06/03/2008Bit of bad news... our Polish mini-tour has been postponed by our agent over there, due to problems with some of the dates. We are looking at re-booking around the end of May, if all our schedules collide in the right way. More news to follow as soon as we can. But in good news... the tour supporting Ginger has been an unmitigated success, with almost 500 CDs sold, nearly 1000 new names on the mailing list, a bunch of t-shirts flogged and, last night in Winchester, the Exclusive Official Eureka Machines Tea Bag (As Dunked By Chris Catalyst) was sold to superfan Steve. Here he is with his proud purchase.
Check our blog for the latest in what's been going on on the road. For an utterly new band on their first tour, selling that many CDs is unbelievable and a testament to the public's unerring faith in new rock and pop. As well as how bloody great we are. So thank you to you all - we have been astounded nightly. Really, and seriously, huge thanks. And thanks to those who've helped on the tour - Ginger and Scott Motherfucking Metzger, obviously, but also all the venues, sound guys, promoters and venue staff for being flipping marvellous. Plus big thanks and love to Gav and Lex for Remote Tour Management Services. Some interesting stuff has come out of these gigs - look out for a couple of festival announcements fairly soon, hopefully. All the best. And seriously, and sincerely, thanks again. 04/03/2008
The tour with Ginger is going ridiculously well. Thanks to everyone so far. We're blogging it over on the blog page, so go have a look. It's not that rock and roll but we're having a bloody marvellous time. Anyway the news is that we're in session for Raw Talent THIS SUNDAY. It's broadcast on Radio Humberside (95.9 FM for all you Hullites, of which 1/4 of Eureka Machines are) but tune in to any BBC local station across the North between 2000 and 2200 UK time on digital and you can hear us playing a live acoustic set in stereo sound. And we'll be doing an interview with lovely Alan Raw (hence Raw Talent... do you see what he did there?) and lovely Katy Noone. Should be fun. So tune in and text in your questions. We will be on air from around 2130 to perform two songs and having a little chat. But tune in from 2000 to hear the brilliant I Concur in session too. You can listen online here. No other news. We'll fill you in on the tour when it's done. EM x 08/02/2008
Welcome to the all-new singing and dancing whooping and hollering Eureka Machines website. Someone once told me that with the advent of Myspace, bands don't need websites any more. On the contrary, with the proliferation of the media everywhere and the incredible accessibility people have to stuff now ("I'm a photographer... here's my camera phone"), I think now more than ever bands need their own websites. Bands that mean it, anyway. Don't expect flashing and dancing elephants and waterslides. We leave that up to people who are amazing HTML web guru geniuses. We're only good at pop music. And there's only so much time in the day. But, with the aid of our friend Damian (thank you x 10,000 for all your webby help) we aim to use this as a platform for information about the band and so on, because there's only so much that you can do on Myspace. Plus it only works 3/5ths of the time. You can still get in touch on Myspace here. Anyway, check the gig dates for what we've got coming up - there's a bunch of acoustic dates with that Ginger of The Wildhearts across the whole of the UK, then a brief stint in Poland, then a full debut UK tour supporting that AntiProduct. It'd be nice to see you at some of the gigs. Please remember, we are unsigned, managed by ourselves and our PR company is... well... us. We are for the moment totally DIY, and any help YOU can give us - whether that be flyering, talking about us in your blogs, podcasting us, putting a track or two of ours on compilations for your mates, or simply telling some like-minded pals about us - would be much appreciated. There's a million and one bands in the same boat as us in the UK, and we rely on YOU, the avid supporter of the underground and underpaid, to help spread the word. Thank you. Chris (08/02/08) |
