On Wednesday Bethany was back on BBC Radio Oxford, this time chatting to Jo Thoenes during the music hour on her show ‘Jo in the Afternoon’. You can hear Bethany from about 40 minutes in. And Silver Moon was played too! LISTEN HERE (available until 23/05/12).
MORE BBC OXFORD – JO IN THE AFTERNOON 16/05/12
May 19th, 2012BBC RADIO OXFORD – JAMES CANNON SHOW 10/05/12
May 10th, 2012This afternoon Bethany popped into BBC Radio Oxford for a brief chat with Howard Bentham (sitting in for James). Hear about Harpsichord Row, homemade vocal booths and all sorts of other things from about 23 minutes in. The show is available on iplayer for the next 7 days and you can LISTEN HERE.
FEMALE FIRST REVIEW + PURE FM PLAYLIST!!
May 9th, 2012Good things have been happening. Firstly another very nice review, this time from Female First. Harpsichord Row was given 4/5 which I am pretty damn happy with. The reviewer, Helen, said “This is a haunting and mesmerising album from start to finish” and very kindly said that I am “an artist that we should all be getting excited about”. How kind!
READ THE WHOLE REVIEW HERE
Also, and this resulted in a “YES!!!” + a ‘get in there’ style hand/arm gesture (there must be a name for this – anyone??), Silver Moon has made it onto the PURE FM playlist in Portsmouth. Very very very very pleased. Well done Silver Moon.
Bethany xx
***HARPSICHORD ROW OUT TODAY***
May 7th, 2012We’re really excited to finally share Harpsichord Row with you. The CD is currently available to buy online and from local record stores, as and when it goes on sale elsewhere we shall let you know.
Bandcamp
Truck Store, Oxford
Rapture, Witney
Digital download is available from most of the usual suspects including:
GIG TONIGHT (03/05/12) @ THE ENTERPRISE, CAMDEN
May 3rd, 2012Opening for the lovely Dan Hutchins at The Enterprise in Camden.
Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £5 in advance (possibly more on door??)
Dan Hutchins + Frankie Davies + Bethany Weimers
Bethany will be on at about 8.15 pm. And Harpsichord Row CDs will be on sale… a few days early!! See you there?
REVIEW NUMBER TWO // A MUSICAL PRIORITY
May 1st, 2012Just lovely. Huge thanks to Steve who took the time to listen and review the album so eloquently.
Please visit A Musical Priority to read it in full.
“‘Lucky Day’ is a song that you simply can’t live without. The soft piano melody and the soothing vocal delivery combine perfectly to create a song that deserves to be heard by the entire world.”
“…song after song of such high quality”
“A new national treasure in waiting?”
Moments like this make all the hard work worthwhile.
Bethany xx
ONE WEEK TO ALBUM LAUNCH!!
April 30th, 2012Yes it is nearly time. Bethany’s debut album Harpsichord Row will be out a week today on May 7th. It just happens to be a bank holiday here in the UK so not only will we be enjoying an extra long weekend, but we will be at The Plough in Witney celebrating the launch of Harpsichord Row as part of Witney Music Festival. There is music all day and Bethany will probably perform late afternoon, we’ll confirm the time as soon as we know. Please do come along, it will be wonderful.
Also massive thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered the album. If you would like to but haven’t done so yet it is available from Bandcamp and it will also be in Truck Store from Monday for all you Oxford folk. We’ll let you know all the other places you can buy it as and when the album becomes available.
And one last thing! Buy The Bucks Herald on Wednesday…
Thanks,
T.B.
RECORD STORE DAY @ TRUCK STORE, OXFORD
April 18th, 2012
Bethany will be performing this Saturday (21st April) for Record Store Day at the wonderful Truck Store in Oxford. It’s our local independent record store and we love it! Live music will be from about 12.30-5.30 and Bethany will be doing a solo acoustic set of songs from Harpsichord Row at about 2pm. Other acts include: The Epstein, Borderville, The Old Grinding Young and The Graceful Slicks. See you there!
BETHANY WEIMERS // LIVE AT TRUCK STORE // SATURDAY 21ST APRIL @ 2PM
FIRST REVIEW OF ALBUM + 6 MUSIC
April 16th, 2012I love today. This morning I woke up to find that Silver Moon had been included on Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing Mix Tape for this week and was broadcast on 6 Music during the night. The show is one hour of non-stop eclectic new sounds. Definitely worth a listen. Then this afternoon Harpischord Row received its first review. I honestly couldn’t have hoped for a better one. I’m still smiling.
You can read the whole review on Colcifer’s Blog but very quickly here are my two favourite sentences: “I was born to like this album” and “One of very, very few albums recorded in a bedroom that you couldn’t have guessed was recorded in a bedroom”. The comment about the recording quality in particular has made me very very happy. Thank you Colcifer.
B x
HARPSICHORD ROW NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER ON BANDCAMP
April 10th, 2012
We’re really pleased to announce that you can now pre-order Harpsichord Row CDs and digital albums on Bethany’s Bandcamp page.
If you order now you’ll receive an immediate download of 3 tracks (Silver Moon, Lucky Day and Desire) and a full download link the moment the album is released, regardless of whether you buy the CD or digital only. Lovely.
The CDs are packaged in a brand new environmentally friendly design called Mintpack, as used recently by Gotye, Paul Weller and Paul McCartney. Not only will it be printed on FSC certified card, but by avoiding the use of plastic entirely, there’s a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associated the product, which in our eyes can only be a very good thing. Mintpack packaging also looks pretty damn good. CDs will ship on or around 7th May.
So go on, get ordering!
Team Bethany
