Release Date: 13-Aug-12
Catalogue Number: DD007
Recorded and mixed by Ali Chant at Toybox Studios. Bristol.
Stuart Kidd – Drums / Backing Vocals. Meilyr Jones – Bass. Stephen Black – Guitar, Saxophone, clarinet. Euros – Piano / Vocal / Backing Vocals.
Written by Euros Childs.
Mastered by Donal Whelan at Hafod Mastering
Photo by Kirsten McTernen
Tracklisting
Download That's Better Here (MP3) or Here (Wav)
You can listen to an interview I did with Georgia Ruth on her Radio Cymru show (in welsh) click HERE
The debut album by Short & Curlies can now be pre-ordered just a little to your left and down a bit.
‘Green Cluster Facial Invasion’ by Short & Curlies (taken from the forthcoming album At The Dance) was played on Georgia Ruth’s Radio Cymru show on Thursday. It can be heard at 2 hours and 42 minutes in HERE
Above: A bit of a test pressing
The next National Elf release will be the album ‘At The Dance’ by Short & Curlies. Short & Curlies consists of myself, Stephen Black (Sweet Baboo), Laura J Martin, Robin Edwards (R.Seiliog) with Megan Childs and Huw Evans (H.Hawkline). The album will be available on vinyl and download and released sometime in May. Watch this space kids!
The compilation Record Las is availbable to listen to and purchase HERE Ymarfer Corff (myself and Peter Richardson) contribute two tracks to the compilation, ‘Hi Yw’r Haul’ and ‘Mewn a Mas’.
An example
In the last few weeks I’ve been taking photos and posting them up on Instagram in the name of National Elf (someone’s got to do it). A selection of the worst/best have been added to the Audio/Visual section.
A selection of doodles and photos I’ve been posting up on Twitter over the last few months have been added to the Audio/Visual section.
A collection of 2012 gig posters has been added to the Audio/Visual section.
Read a write up of the London gig at The Lexington: Here
Read a nice Summer Special related article in The Belfast Telegraph HERE
3 Summer Special Tour gig reviews: Salford : King’s Arms // Brighton : Sticky Mike’s // York : The Basement
A Summer Special album biography penned by the journalist and author Ben Thompson can be read in the Audio/Visual section accompanied by promotional photos taken by Kirsten McTernan.
A snippet of Beyond The Wizard Sleeve Door To Tomorrow featurin Euros Childs can be heard here: SNIPPET! The release is now sold out.
I’ll be a releasing a new single Spin That Girl Around on the 28th May. It’s a re-recording of the Ends album track. It’ll be backed by the previously unreleased Just a Dream and available to download from this site with the usual donate option.
Cousins is available to purchase from Spillers Records in Cardiff, Awen Meirion in Bala (see above) and Tangled Parrot in Carmarthen.
Cousins: 2 album reviews JENNPOPS & A Musical Priority
An Euros Childs interview with the Cardiff publication Minotaur Music Press
If you’d like to listen to a live radio session I recorded for Marc Riley back in December you can HERE
The National Elf Library is home of The National Elf record label, which is a record label run by me (Euros Childs).
You can download all the music posted on the site for free or donate something if you so wish. Physical releases are also available to purchase from this site, although many releases are download only.
The National Elf roster so far includes myself and Croydon based poet Graham Thompson. New acts will be signed to the label as time passes.
Euros
p.s DD stands for digital download.
© Copyright 2013 