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Fresh Deer Meat Best of 2008 list!

The fine fine folks at Fresh Deer Meat have included Gramercy Arms in their best of 2008 list!!!! http://www.freshdeermeat.com/eatmore.php?id=63 Hurrah!!!!!!

Let's hear it for Fresh Deer Meat and their fantastic blog which we think you should visit regularly as one of your New Year's resolutions for 2009.

http://www.freshdeermeat.com/index.php

Gramercy Arms - Mascott This Christmastime - "Blue Christmas for the iPod Generation" (BBC)

The fabulous folks at 7 Digital are making it available for free download!!!


Reveal/Cheap Lullaby artist Gramercy Arms and NYC-based folk-pop chanteuse Mascott will release the single This Christmastime on UK label Reveal Records. Written and recorded at Crib Notes, Gramercy Arms’ studio in NYC, the song is a lovely and bittersweet collaboration between the two critically acclaimed artists, and features Mascott’s Kendall Jane Meade on lead vocal. Described as “honey-voiced” by Rolling Stone, Meade’s vocals are an ideal match to the sublime power pop production of Gramercy Arms, recently described by the Guardian as "an East Coast band dreaming of LA freeways and Bel Air pool parties.” An instant classic, This Christmastime was featured on the US show Grey’s Anatomy, and is well overdue for a proper UK release.


Featuring members of Guided By Voices, Luna, Joan As Police Woman, the Dambuilders and featuring a panoply of guest performances from comedienne Sarah Silverman, Nada Surf front man Matthew Caws, Lloyd Cole and others, indie supergroup Gramercy Arms’ new self-titled album is out now on Reveal Records. The Word (UK) described the songs as "woozily beautiful, sun, kissed, subtly well constructed things that suggest Teenage Fanclub touched by the all-American pop suss of Cheap Trick.”

Mascott’s latest, Art Project, was recently released on Red Panda Records. A recent reviewer described the music as “ a twist of Aimee Mann-styled attitude between hopeful harmonies and walking bass lines, creating a rich and uplifting sound that’s sure to turn the heads of soul, pop, and indie fans alike.” Mascott’s songs have also been featured on The O.C., a Starbucks new music compilation and described by the New York Times as “stately pop, wrapping vulnerability and longing in quietly radiant arrangements.”


Aled Jones recently featured it on BBC2 as featured song of the day!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/goodmorningsun/ontheshow.shtml

new mascott blog

check out the new mascott blog over at


http://mascottmusic.blogspot.com/

Gramercy Arms Shining Bright EP Out Now in UK!!!!

Strictly Limited Edition 5 track EPCD

(INCLUDING SUNDAY LONDON TIMES - HOT TRACK OF THE WEEK DECEMBER 2008)

The lead track, “Shining Bright” on the new EP is a sweet slice of west coast power pop, but straight out of the east coast and taken from their new “Gramercy Arms” album. There’s also three brand new, non album Gramercy Arms songs here, that reveal a more pensive autumnal sound (in striking contrast to the summery feel of their album), plus a remix.

“Walking Around” with its mournful classic r&b flavour features gorgeous backing vocals from one of 2008’s most acclaimed stars , Joan As Police Woman, “Let’s not make this harder than it has to be,” croons Derby, in the song describing the pain of walking past his ex-lover’s apartment in New York City! The song was listed as hot track of the week at Sunday London Times December 14th 2008.

Mascott’s Kendall Meade and avant garde guitarist /songwriter Chris Brokaw lend vocals and guitar to the heartbreaking Raymond Carver-esque musical story of divorce and dissolution that is “Fell Apart.”


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To buy visit

http://www.reveal-records.com/

CD
Buy Limited Edition 5 Track CD Format, exclusive to UK Independent Retailers

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/home.jsp
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/103822
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/335733-01.htm

DOWNLOAD
Buy The Album Digitally
http://www.7digital.com/artists/gramercy-arms/gramercy-arms/

oh and ...

Because it's the holiday season you can download the songs from the Shining Bright EP right here at our myspace page FOR FREE!!!!!


http://www.myspace.com/gramercyarms

Gramercy Arms on Hottest Downloads at London Times

We are ecstatically honoured to announce that the bittersweet "Walking Around" from Gramercy Arms' Shining Bright EP just made the list of the London Times Hottest Downloads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5325205.ece

This Christmastime on BBC6

The uberfabulous BBC6 DJ Nemone played Gramercy Arms/Mascott's holiday single, "This Christmastime" on her show yesterday and added it to her lunchbox of music!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/nemone/lunchbox.shtml

We are huge fans of Nemone and her excellent taste in music and make listening to her show a regular activity. We think you should too!

metro mix

Nice piece on Gramercy Arms in Metro Mix here.
http://stlouis.metromix.com/music/article/under-the-radar-34/314830/content
It's been too long since any of us have been in St Louis and we can't wait to go back!

Gramercy Arms Show on Brooklyn Vegan

The fine folks at Brooklyn Vegan are running a very nice story (with quotes taken from Kendall Meade's guest blog about the show right here on OUR blog--how blogtastic is that?) about what was a very fun show this weekend at the Bowery Ballroom. Nada Surf and Delta Spirit were exquisitely, rockingly awesome. So great to play with wonderfully talented people who are also fantastic human beings. What a great night it was!



http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/12/nada_surf_delta.html

a word from our mascott

mascott here. ridin' high from last night's gramercy arms (known as "g-arms" for the rest of this blog) show at the bowery ballroom. let me just say up front that i've been accused of being a pollyanna, but seriously, after hanging hard with g-arms last night, what's not to love?

i was asked to participate as a guest singer, but i soon realized my true calling at this event was to also be an observer. a few highlights from 12/06/08:

1)rehearsal was as hot as the show! watching kevin march, sean eden, hilken mancini, dave derby and sandy smallens play "automatic" together for the first time was amazing. it was as if they had been on tour for two months when they launched into it. i was pretending to be furiously emailing on my blackberry but was secretly in shock and awe. i know all the g-arms press releases are like "blah blah...this is an nyc supergroup...yadda yadda" but in person, in that tiny room, i really felt like "HOLY SHIT THIS REALLY IS A SUPERGROUP."

2)elk city in the house. can we talk about renée lobue? dave asked her to sing on three songs and it was amazing. the girl's got mojo, and was dressed to the nines, as usual. her vintage necklace had a large circular pendant that ruled...but more on that later. ray ketchem from elk city was also there, and was nearly thrown out on the cold street by a rogue security dude for attempting to film us with his flip camera. being the smart man that he is, ray got off clean.

3)let it snow. dave graciously invited me to sing "this christmastime," the holiday tune we recently released in the UK on reveal. i was nervous it would be out of place in the melodious and rocking g-arms set, but when sandy announced from the stage that he saw snowflakes falling outside, i felt better about things. seconds from walking onstage, my necklace fell off & broke. without a pause, renee took off her vintage necklace and put it on me, like a first place winner is presented with the gold. it was like a scene in a movie.

4)delta f*$*ing spirit. not only did this band lend g-arms their gear, they were seriously inspirational. so talented and full of passion. i don't think the term "phoning it in" ever crosses their minds.

5)matthew caws is not your average rock star. not afraid to come up during the g-arms set to sing his awesome part on "nothing i can do," caws also rocked with delta spirit on tamborine. i mean, most headling bands are out to dinner or talking to friends backstage when the openers play, but not this guy. he then went on to kick ass and play his amazing songs in front of a sparkly backdrop.

as the night went on i truly felt like i was lucky to be involved, and without knowing how to express myself, handed dave my two drink tickets. i think he knew what it meant.

Quick Before it Melts!

Quick before it Melts have listed Gramercy Arms as one of the Best of 2008!

http://www.quickbeforeitmelts.com/?p=879

Mascott-Gramercy Arms This Christmastime on Fresh Deer Meat!

Check out the fabulous Fresh Deer Meat who are featuring a link to the single.

http://www.freshdeermeat.com/eatmore.php?id=55

Let's hear it for their sublime taste and brilliance in starting the Mascott Appreciation Society!

mascott at spin.com

Check it out!

Mascott is artist of the day at spin.com!

http://spin.com/articles/mascott

spinner free mp3 of the day

"Looking at the Sun" is the free mp3 of the day at Spinner.com

Check it out!

This Christmas Time

Mascott and Gramercy Arms are releasing the single This Christmastime on the mighty Reveal Records. You can get it as a free download here!

http://davederby.com/mascottgramercyarms/This%20Christmastime.mp3

Gramercy Arms record out in North America!

Our debut, self-titled album is now officially available--in digital form--in North America via the fabulous Cheap Lullaby records!!!

Download it now at iTunes!.

Or ...

if you prefer waiting for the "physical form" (i.e. CD) we will be releasing that via Cheap Lullaby in February!!!!

Woo hooo!!!!

message brought to you by reveal records

After innocently uploading a Spurs badge to celebrate the team's victory over Liverpool yesterday our UK label, Reveal Records (who evidently support the Hammers) wrote us an expletive-laden email threatening to drop us from the label if we didn't immediately post a considerably larger West Ham badge on the site. Regretfully, but in the interest of keeping our label happy at a time when our brand new single, "Shining Bright" has gone to radio, we have complied with their request. Maybe this will make our recent President-elect happy as well.

new mascott record out today!

Gramercy Arms fellow-travelers and collaborators, Mascott have released their brand-spanking new record, Art Project, today!

Featuring Gramercy Arms' own, Dave Derby, Rainy Orteca and co-writer, co-conspirator, Kendall Meade as well as a host of other fine people!

Check it out at

http://www.myspace.com/mascott

Shining Bright on BBC 2

Shining Bright was played on Johnnie Walker's BBC 2 show on Tuesday.

Here's the playlist:


Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Title: The Chain
Album: The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac
Label: Warners

Artist: The Clash
Title: Hitsville U.K
Album: Sandinista!
Label: Epic

Artist: The Beatles
Title: When I'm Sixty-Four
Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Label: Capitol

Artist: Gramercy Arms
Title: Shining Bright
Album: Shining Bright
Label: Reveal Records

Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Title: Dani California
Album: Dani California
Label: Warner Bros.

Artist: Rod Stewart
Title: Stay With Me
Album: Absolutely Live
Label: Warner Bros.

Artist: The Killers
Title: Human
Album: (cd single)
Label: Mercury

Artist: Coldplay
Title: Lost!
Album: (cd single)
Label: Parlophone

Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Title: If I Should Fall Behind
Album: Lucky Town
Label: Columbia

Artist: Runrig
Title: Year Of The Flood
Album: Everything You See
Label: Ridge

Artist: Grace Jones
Title: Williams Blood
Album: (cd single)
Label: Wall Of Sound

Artist: Carbon/Silicon
Title:The News
Album: The News
Label: Carbon/Silicon

Artist: Carbon/Silicon
Title: National Anthem
Album: Last Post
Label: C499

Artist: The Clash
Title: London Calling (live)
Album: Live At Shea Stadium
Label: Epic/Legacy

Artist: Carbon/Silicon
Title: Tell It Like It Is
Album: Last Post
Label: C499

Artist: Status Quo
Title: Rockin' All Over The World
Album: Whatever You Want
Label: Polygram Tv

Artist: Alessi's Ark
Title: The Horse
Album: The Horse EP
Label: Virgin

Artist: Bob Seger
Title: Like A Rock
Album: Like A Rock
Label: Capitol

Artist: Ryan Adams
Title: Fix It
Album: Fix It
Label: Universal

Artist: The Doors
Title: Riders On The Storm
Album: L.A Woman
Label: Elektra

spuds

Feel the love!

Shining Bright - Dead Air Remix Video

Dead Air vs Gramercy Arms Remix

We are currently hard at work on a video for the fabulous Dead Air remix of Shining Bright which is available at our myspace page. Go henceforth and check it out

new remixes posted

Hello all

In celebration of the release of "Shining Bright" in the UK (which hits radio people in the next few weeks) we've posted two new fantastic remixes of the song up on our myspace.

http://myspace.com/gramercyarms. One by fabulous UK electro remix team, The Release, and the other by the inimitable Dead Air featuring the work of Gramercy Arm bassist Rainy Orteca.

Also coming soon is an EP featuring a Noah Amin remix of "Shining Bright" along with 3 new songs as part of a "Shining Bright" EP. More info to come!

fresh deer meet interview

Check out an interview with Dave from Gramercy Arms on Fresh Deer Meat

http://freshdeermeat.com/eatmore.php?id=38

cheap lullaby

Gramercy Arms is delighted to announce that our debut record will be released in the US on Cheap Lullaby Records. The record is coming out digitally on November 18th and will be available in physical form in early 09. Exact street date TBD.

12/6 with Nada Surf and Jealous Girlfriends

Gramercy Arms will be opening for Nada Surf and Jealous Girlfriends at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on 12/6!!!!

record out!!!!!!

Our debut record is officially available!!! It has been released in physical form on Reveal Records in the UK and will be coming out on the mighty Cheap Lullaby Records in North America. Digital release any day now and physical release coming up in February.

Picadilly Records

support your local record store and Buy the Gramercy Arms debut record at Picadilly Records

Gramercy Arms on Nemone's BBC 6 Lunchbox

BBC 6 DJ Nemone has selected "Looking at the Sun" for her lunchbox of favorite songs!!!!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/nemone/tracklisting.shtml?y=2008&d=20080714

#9, #9, #9

Gramercy Arms is 9 on Uncut's playlist for this week!

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Here's the list:

1 Babe, Terror - Nasa Goodbye (http://www.myspace.com/babeterror)

2 Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)

3 Stereolab – Chemical Chords (4AD)

4 Joanna Newsom – Ys (Drag City)

5 Love As Laughter – Trademark Of Quality (Self-Released)

6 John Terrill – Frowny Frown (Family Vineyard)

7 The Heads – Dead In The Water(Rooster)

8 The Necks – Aether (Fish Of Milk)

9 Gramercy Arms – Gramercy Arms (Reveal)

10 Yahowa Presents Children Of The Sixth Root Race – Songs From The Source (Drag City)

11 Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)

12 Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant EP (Bella Union)

13 Pete Greenwood – Pete Greenwood (Heavenly)

14 Black Taj – Beyonder (Amish)

15 Bowerbirds – Hymns For A Dark Horse (Dead Oceans)

16 Brian Wilson – That Lucky Old Sun (EMI)

17 Jim O'Rourke – Tamper (Drag City)

18 Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling (Wall Of Sound)
John Mulvey

automatic remix video

record info

just wanted to let you know that our self-titled debut record will be released in the UK and europe this summer by reveal records.

american distribution tbd.

here's catalog and basic info regarding the release:

Reveal41 - cd album
Reveal41DD - digital
Distro piasuk/sony dac
Press by Triad
Radio +tv by Cool Badge

"Automatic," the first single will be released in June. We are currently working on remixes as well as a video, coming shortly!

lyrics

AUTOMATIC

Soon enough tough stuff
You just want what you can’t touch
The question isn’t how much
Erase everything you know

Automatic
It’s automatic

Soft panned for sulky solo
rock gift for the po-mo
Subjecting what you know

Automatic
It’s automatic
Automatic
It’s automatic

Automatic
It’s automatic
Automatic
It’s automatic

Oh love of mine
Should I ever fall or lag behind
Call me sometime
Let me know
Cause I can’t control it

Automatic
It’s automatic
Automatic
It’s automatic

Now wherever we go
We got it under control
Know we’re running the zone
Yeah wherever we go
We got it under control
now we freak with the flow

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LOOKING AT THE SUN

Oh yeah I’m looking at the sun
Me and everyone
Looking at you

What’s new?
I guess I’ve never seen
A world so green
Here beside you

Ba ba ba ba

This day is the perfect day
There’s nothing in our way
This is our time

I know what I’m holding in my arms
Keep it safe and warm
Just you and me now

Oh yeah
I’m looking at the sun
My darling young one
Here beside you

Right now
Before our world so green
Grows cold and changes scene
And the nights get darker

For now
I’m looking at the sun
Someday the rain might come
But I love the sunshine


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NOTHING I CAN DO

Sometimes I don’t know
Whether I should trust
The way I’m s’posed to feel
Or what happens when we touch

So many times I’ve tried
To let these worries go
Or loose it from inside
Before they burn out of control

And how could I have known
That you would be the one
But somewhere I just got thrown
And I now I don’t know what I’ve done
But I can’t make it on my own

Oh no, I can’t change the way I feel
But how do I know if this feeling is for real?
This is gonna be hard
Maybe the whole thing’s gone too far
There’s no other choice now
There’s nothing I can do

Something changed my way
When you came around
Gray skies you erased
And turned them upside down

And how could I have known
That you would be the one
But somewhere I just got thrown
And I now I don’t know what I’ve done
But I can’t make it on my own

Oh no, I can’t change the way I feel
But how do I know if this feeling is for real?
This is gonna be hard
Maybe the whole thing’s gone too far
There’s no looking back now
There’s nothing I can do


There’s nothing I can do
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SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER

FROM THE TIME WE FELL APART TO THE TIME WHEN WE FIRST MET
I’VE BEEN LIVING IN REVERSE
SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER YOU’VE BEEN ON MY MIND

AND IT’S HARD WAY TO GO FORTH
BUT IT’S A HARD ROAD TO GO BACK
BETTER FINISH WHAT WE START
SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER YOU’VE BEEN ON MY MIND
SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER LOVE’S BEEN SO HARD TO FIND

(YEAH IT HAS)

SOLO

SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER LOVE’S BEEN SO HARD TO FIND
SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER YOU’VE BEEN STILL ON MY MIND

BETTER FIND OUT WHAT WE’VE DONE
I FIND IT MAKES NO SENSE
SEE HOW BADLY WE’VE BEEN BURNED

SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER YOU’VE BEEN ON MY MIND

WALKIN TO THE 4-5-6
THE MARQUEE MOON WAS IN ECLIPSE
SOMEHOW WE LET THE MOMENT SLIP


SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER LOVE’S BEEN SO HARD TO FIND
BUT SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER YOU’VE BEEN STILL ON MY MIND

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FAKIN

Does it get you off when he leaves his bootstraps on?
Is he really yours from the twilight into dawn?
Is it sad that you could never call this love?
But is it really close enough?

When he’s done ask him what he takes you for
It helps him sleep are you afraid he’s really bored?
And it’s sad because you realize that’s all
Does he hang your photo on his wall?

Were you just fakin?
If so then how much?
And how soft is your touch?

Does it blow your mind that you could make yourself believe
This is what you want and that you hope he’ll never leave?
And you’re happy now the tv set goes dim
To hear a voice that isn’t him

Were you just fakin?
If so then how much?
And how soft
And how soft is your touch?
And how soft is your touch?
And how soft is your touch?
And how soft is your touch?


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WANDER ON

First there was darkness and then came the collapse
When I first saw you west highway underpass
Walking through diamonds or just broken glass
I wander on

Watching you cross over 6th ave and 18
Up from the E train as though torn from a dream
Thinking bout what you said
What did it mean?
Still I wander on

Chelsea insouciant
Wednesday afternoon
Light in the distance blacked out up in your room
Wondering if I might have left there too soon
I wander on


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SHINING BRIGHT
Spend your whole life trying
To make this turn out right
Maybe no one’s buying
But that could all change overnight

My head’s been spinning so fast
There’s no time to slow down
Don’t let your moment slip past
In this town

CHORUS
Is it too late to call you on the telephone?
Does it help to remember that nothing’s written in stone?
That you could leave anytime you like?
You could make the scene turn out right
May the road that guides you through night
Keep shining bright

While deeper I was wading
The dream was fading out of view
All the years I waited
Medicated to make it through
My head’s been spinning so fast
There’s no time to slow down
Don’t let your moment slip past
In this town

Is it too late to call you on the telephone?
Does it help to remember that nothing’s written in stone?
That you could leave anytime you like?
You could make the scene turn out right
May the road that guides you through night
Keep shining bright


Shining bright
Shining bright
Shining bright
Shining bright

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AUTOMATON

AUTOMATON
Still don’t know what makes you happy
But I’ll figure out real soon (right)
Leave me hangin in denial
Leave me hangin’ round your room
Yeah uh protect it
Only the world you know

I’m your slave baby lead me on
Autodetect the automaton
You could take out the king but you leave the pawn
Turn me on

Either with you or against you
Baby please don’t make me choose (eh)
You said be careful what you say now
Be careful what you do
Feel defective
But what have I got to lose?

I’m your slave baby lead me on
Autodetect the automaton
You could take out the king but you leave the pawn
Turn me on

SOLO

Gimme something to believe in
Gimme something to attack
Deep
Inside it, conquer and divide it
Be careful to watch your back

I’m your slave baby lead me on
Autodetect the automaton
You could take out the king but you leave the pawn
Turn me on

I’m your slave baby lead me on
Autodetect the automaton
You could take out the king but you leave the pawn
Turn me on and turn me off
Right


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I BELIEVE

Ba ba ba ba ba

I wonder if you’ll understand
This secret of a broken man
I held you in the underground
Babe I wouldn’t hold you down

I believe in you and me
It don’t matter what you see
We can’t be scared what others say
I don’t want to live that way

Still we got to leave this town behind
We’ve got to get out while we know there’s time

Ba ba ba ba

I wonder if you’ll understand
The promise of a broken man

I believe in you and me
It don’t matter what you see
We can’t be scared what others say
I don’t want to live that way
(repeat 2x)

Still we’ve got to leave this town behind
We’ve got to get out while we know there’s time

I wonder if you’ll understand
The promise of a broken man
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MOVING SLOW
Time is running out
I used to tell myself
I guess I always thought
I’d be somewhere else

Now I’m just resigned
There’s nowhere I would go
Happily detached and
Moving slow

Just rest your pretty head
From what you’ll never know
Let’s go back to bed
Turn the lights down low

Empire’s shallow grave
Vermillion glow
Twilit aftermath
Fading slow


Mad props to Lazy Jane
The queen is overthrown
But still she looks the same
Now that the kiss is blown

She says she knows me well
Enough to know
That I don’t mind
Moving slow

sean eden muses ...

it behooved me to contribute my fortitude to sire derby's newest endeavour. whilst moored in gibraltar, my boatswain delivered me the secret files of the audio recording, and, after close inspection, i made sail for portsmouth post-haste in order to ensconce myself in my own studio at shaftesbury-on-avon. i trust the result is sure to please the admiralty.