Hair-piece Champion

KIBBO KIFT!

2011-03-11T03:03:00.000-08:00

GLOW-WING is a new band made up of William Edmonds (Now Owl), Nicolas Burrows (Glaciers) and Lawrence Byrne (Yayyei etc). We're playing at this lovely event curated by Rob Lowe (aka Supermundane). It is gonna be HUGE!

More info at http://kibbokift.blogspot.com/

VIDEO EVIDENCE

2011-03-04T01:57:00.000-08:00

Glaciers live in Milton Keynes! From December last year at Milton Keynes art gallery.

Glaciers from Milton Keynes Gallery on Vimeo.

DOWNLOAD!

2011-02-22T06:57:00.000-08:00

Hei!

I've just returned from Oslo where I played a set for the Metronomicon festival, by;alarm.
You can listen to the whole thing here.

Takk

Claus

FREE SONGS

2010-12-14T02:03:00.000-08:00

'WUNDER' by GLACIERS

Little demo EP.
Recorded through the built-in mic on my laptop. Will re-do them at a later date.

Tracks:
1. Both of You Back
2. Do and Don't Say
3. Diane
4. Valley by the Lake

DOWNLOAD

VFT on The Radio

2010-09-12T04:52:00.001-07:00

Vest for Tysso have a song on BBC6 Music this evening at about 1am.

RADIO

2010-07-25T06:14:00.000-07:00

'Happy Halloween' gets an airing on Monday morning on Tom Robinson's show on BBC 6 Music.

SWIMMING SONG

2010-07-10T15:42:00.000-07:00

A SONG BY GLACIERS

Now Owl - General Topography EP - For Free

2010-05-20T03:36:00.001-07:00

The Mist of the Freezing Dogs by Now-Owl
This Night of FAlling WAter by Now-Owl

2010-04-25T03:25:00.000-07:00

11-track album, edition of 100.

Risograph printed sleeve.

LIVE AT LEEDS

2010-04-15T03:53:00.000-07:00

Date / times have been confirmed

1st May / 12.00 midday / Holy Trinity Church / VEST FOR TYSSO

1st May / 2pm / Holy Trinity Church / GLACIERS

LIVE AT LEEDS 2010

2010-03-21T17:36:00.000-07:00

Vest For Tysso and Glaciers have been confirmed as playing at this year's LIVE AT LEEDS thing.

Date / time and venue to be confirmed.

Check their website out for further info

LIVE AT LEEDS

Thanks

AYAYAYAY!

2010-03-06T04:07:00.000-08:00

A new Glaciers tune I've been working on. Hopefully to form part of an EP later in the year...

Download here

Finally...

2010-02-10T17:08:00.000-08:00

Some demos we recorded live at the Chemic Tavern, late last year.

Download them here for your ear.x

Ball Game Songs

2010-02-01T04:20:00.000-08:00

Here is a free download of the piece of music I made for the Nous Vous show as part of 'Rotate' at the Contemporary Art Society in London, which opened recently as is there until April. It consists of two, fifteen minute passages recorded live. In the show it was on tape, in a walkman, with three pairs of headphones, so this is a rip from the tape, and is best listened to on headphones, with eyes closed.

Ball Game Songs (a) / Ball Game Songs (B)
Recorded live in two 15 minute sessions

Written and performed by William Edmonds, 2010
especially for Nous Vous at Contemporary Art Society,
‘Rotate’, January - April 2010
Now Owl

(Photos courtesy Contemporary Art Society, photographer: Matthew Blaney)

Metronomicon 4.0

2010-01-24T05:00:00.000-08:00

The lovely chaps at Metronomicon have just released their 4th compilation, which features a rather old Glaciers track called 'Husk'.

The launch party is on 28th January, so if you're in Oslo go have a listen.

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Glaciers interview / live session

2010-01-09T05:06:00.000-08:00

Our friend Felix at Golden Owl recorded some songs and interviewed me back in November, he's just put it up on his blog, so you can hear some live versions of songs, including a cover of MIA's paper planes.

Best

Now Owl - Under, Open, Heaven, Outside

2010-01-06T09:40:00.001-08:00

Now Owl - Under, Open, Heaven, Outside

Just over 30 minutes of music from the last 6 months of me messing about on my own.
Hand screenprinted cover and poster with mini zine featuring new drawings, limited to an edition of 40.

Tracklisting:
1. The Gravel, the Stone and the Marble
2. Old Gold
3. Now Owl
4. Sightings
5. My Thumb, Like Your Big Toe
6. Your Body, a Sea of Feathers
7. I Find Anana Again
8. Boatswain

£6+p&p

Thanks

Happy New Year!

2010-01-06T07:05:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year from all at Hairpiece Champion.

A 10-track Glaciers album will be available soon, but in the meantime to free up some head-space and freshen up in 2010, I have put together 11 tracks of odds and ends, bits and bobs, hits and shit. I'm probably not going to do much with them now, and they're better being on the internet and in someone else's ears than sitting languishing on my computer. It's just under half an hour long, varied recording qualities and a range of songwriting quality too...

Download 'They Sang Right Through My Mouth' for free here

Tracks: Oak Tree - Basho Song 1 - I Drink Milk - Monsters & Bears - Coco - Basho Song 2 - Ice Cream - Sunday22Nov2009 - Inside The Glacier - How They Howl - Girls

(All written by Claus except 'I Drink Milk' by Claus and Matthew S)

Welcome to 2010

Back soon

Thanks

2009-11-02T08:44:00.000-08:00

Hairpiece Champion Showcase No. 1

Mechanical Owl

Glaciers

Vest For Tysso

24th November

Nation of Shopkeepers

Leeds

8pm

Free Entry

2009-11-02T08:04:00.000-08:00

GLACIERS

Glaciers is artist and singer Nicolas Burrows, with a revolving cast of band members for live shows, currently William Edmonds (Now Owl), Laurence J. Byrne and Oli Deakin (Olfar, Bear Driver). Fueled by a trip to Norway and continued with time spent wandering in North America, Glaciers is largely the result of being away from other musicians and having to work things out alone, with minimal equipment and living in temporary residences.

Glaciers is graceful folk-tinged songs based around a love of singing. Influences include west coast US musicians such as Phil Elverum, Karl Blau and Kyle Field. Solo shows are intimate and quiet.

Nicolas / Glaciers is based in London, UK and can be contacted below:

nic@nousvous.eu

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4-TRACK ALBUM SAMPLER

Here Come The Glaciers / 2010 (zip. download 12mb)

Maelstrom

Happy Halloween

Brooklyn

In the Meeting of Tides

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Other material / releases available for download:

Live in Oslo! / 2011
Just under 30 minutes set at 'Sound of Mu' in Oslo, Norway, February 2011. Part of Metronomicon's 'By;alarm' festival.

Wunder / 2010
Short 4-track demo e.p. available in a very rough state! Recorded in November / December through the little mic on a laptop

They Sang Right Through My Mouth / 2007-2010

Odds and ends from the last few years of home recordings

Glaciers live at Rendezvous Jazz Festiva l / 2009

45-minute live set from October 2009 in Setubal, Portugal. Performed alone with guitar, shruti box, kick drum and tambourine

More Rugby Songs / 2009

a very short e.p. with found lyrics, created for a residency with Conway + Young

An Excellent Field Geologist / 2007

3 Track e.p. recorded in Montreal

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Video Evidence

Live in Milton Keynes! December 2010, 'Scratch Night' at Milton Keynes Art Gallery

Glaciers from Milton Keynes Gallery on Vimeo.

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Articles / Reviews

Session & interview with thegoldenowl

Album review, Song by Toad

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2011 dates:

Jan 22nd
The Slaughtered Lamb, Farringdon, London (solo)

Feb 26th
Sound of Mu, Oslo, By;alarm festival (solo)

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hairpiecechampion.blogspot.com

myspace.com/eventhemouseandtheglaciers

nicolasburrows.co.uk

nousvous.eu

2009-11-02T07:23:00.000-08:00

Vest For Tysso is a band led by William Edmonds, musician, artist and designer who works with Nous Vous Collective. Over the past few years the band has seen a few different formations, the current one featuring Stephen Clatworthy, Jonny Fryer (These Mountains) and fellow Nous Vous member Nicolas Burrows (Glaciers).

Vest For Tysso was born in Norway when William and Nicolas went travelling around Scandinavia. Ice, mountains, bears and fjords still inspire many of the songs. For their second gig they were invited to play Pop Montreal festival and now after a brief break they are back having recently supported Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Blue Roses and Vetiver, among others, with a new sound and new songs.

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Reviews:

From the Leeds Music Scene website:

“Awash with beautifully melancholic vocals and a healthy combination of dreamy acoustic and synthesised arrangements, Vest For Tysso serve up a delicious helping of electronically charged indie-pop with a resonating experimental outlook.”

From the POP Montreal program:

“Comin’ straight outta Compton, or rather, Leeds, Glacier fans will enjoy the UK’s newest jam bringing pop down from the mountains and into your Japanese living room. Sometimes it’s just best to go to a show, rather than try to describe one. Quite possibly the festival’s sleeper hit.”

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Selected Tracks:

Skin Heels
Hawkes A Land
Y-Station

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Find us:

On Myspace - www.myspace.com/vestfortysso
At our home - vestfortysso.blogspot.com/
Download our demos - here

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Forthcoming Dates:

First weekend in May (date and venue TBC)

Live at Leeds

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For further information and bookings, please contact will@nousvous.eu

2009-11-02T06:55:00.000-08:00

Now Owl is the solo recording project of William Edmonds (Vest For Tysso). Experiments with bedroom recording, borrowed instruments and reverb and delay.

8-track mini album 'Under, Open, Heaven, Outside' is to be released very soon, featuring recordings made over the last 6 months, packaged in hand screenprinted poster in a limited edition of 50.

Listen:
The Gravel, the Stone & the Marble

Hello!

2009-01-28T09:27:00.001-08:00

This is the online home of 'Hair-piece Champion', a collaborative group of musicians. In the coming months we will be releasing things on short CDR runs, temporary download and any other media we can get hold of.

Nous Vous Creative Studio will be responsible for all our packaging and promotion etc...

Please check back for updates

Thanks!

H.P.C.