Gypsyfire

Tour being confirmed

2011-05-19T12:23:00.000-07:00

its been so crazy over the last few months. We are mid way through confirming out theatre tour for the winter. we have some amazing venues, its all so exciting. The new show is coming together and we cant wait to unleash it at the festivals this summer. :-)

Shows this week

2010-12-11T01:24:00.000-08:00

Hey All
Just checking in, this week we have a photo shoot planned in Oxford then we head up North to play Bakewell Town hall and then Shrffield.
Had the firms Christmas do that went swimmingly.
Hope to catch you soon
Should I say happy Christmas? ;-)

2010-08-18T09:30:00.000-07:00

Bakewell festival

2010-08-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

Hey, what a blast we had at the Bakewell acoustic festival. Fantastic crowd and nice to hang with Paul Young for a bit afterwards. Pictures to follow. The new "dream team was unreal to be a part of" Ben Holder (violin) Paul Jefferies (double Bass) and us. The place was rocking. We even took on a double "man on man" action. What a laugh!

IGGF festival and the cd release!!!

2010-08-09T00:53:00.000-07:00

Hey All, what a blast we have had. firstly we got pushed into a corner and had to finish the Cd in time for the IGGF festival. that’s exactly what we needed because we have now finished and the first run was done. our set at the festival went down well with our new lineup (bass, 2x guitars and Ben Holder (other wise known to us as Bolder!!)). we totally sold out of all our cds and had to get a rush job done for last weekends festival "Gig in the Park". if you would like to get a copy (which we called "the collective, chapter I") go to the site www.gypsyfire.co.uk.
next gig this coming weekend is the Bakewell Acoustic Music Festival www.bamf.co.uk. sounds fun. we are supporting Paul Young on the Saturday night (Random!!!). ill get some pics for you all.

General update.

2010-05-04T02:45:00.000-07:00

Hey all, the Oxford Jazz festival has put up some YouTube vids of our performance. Go check em out.
The Cd/DVD is now 75% finished. We are dying to get it out now. We have Ben Holden(Violin) on a few of the tracks which we recorded last week. We had a great laugh in the studio spending most of the time trying to put him off (what's that all about?). He managed to okay brilliantly regardless of our usual antics. A good day in the bag.
We now just need some ideas for the cover so any requests please shoot.
Gotta run. Laterz

Oxford Jazz Festival

2010-04-07T07:47:00.000-07:00

Well that was a fantastic festival. A really cool crowd and our performance sold out which was great news for the organizers (was nice to be headlining too). Onwards and upwards for us from here. lots more festivals later in the year and that illusive Cd/DVD is nearly in the can.

New Member

2010-03-05T07:01:00.000-08:00

we have just recruted a new member to our ensemble. A young super talanted Violinist called Ben Holder. We love to push Gypsy Fire to be fresh and new for everyone who supports us and follows us from gig to gig. The time was right and we are really excited to see how this develops.

Drapers Fashion awards

2009-11-16T08:41:00.000-08:00

Hey All
On wednesday we are all set to play at the Drapers fashion awards in the Grovsner London. There is going to be 900 guests that are going to be subjected to us before the Awards begin. How exciting.

Long day in front of the camera.

2009-09-24T09:41:00.000-07:00

today we have been in the studio getting lots of new shots for our promo and for our Cd cover. it was good fun playing dress up with other peoples clothes. we have never been i so many different outfits in such a short spave of time. as soon as they come beck ill post a few to give you an idea. Laterz All.

Back in the Studio

2009-08-27T15:52:00.000-07:00

The diary is filling up for 2010 and the Cd will be finished by the end of September all being well. We are looking for a classic anthem to cover so any sujestions please shoot.

GiG in the Park 09

2009-08-16T02:51:00.001-07:00

Sponsored Links Bang & Olufsen Hey All That was a blast for sure. The gig in the park festival was fantastic. The drive was a little hardcore (4h 30 each way) but well worth it. The crowd where very cool and seemed to dig our music a lot. Ive put a few vids on youtube for y'all! Our newe management are doing a great job....Phew! onwards and upwards. Check out the Pimped out back stage bar. It felt like a 70s porn movie... living the dream huh?

A road trip across the UK

2009-08-04T23:33:00.000-07:00

This week we are hitting the road, we have gigs in Taunton, Leicester and Great Yarmouth. That is a lot of driving but we always end up getting into some weird kinda adventure. Hopefully stories to follow.

2009-07-15T01:53:00.000-07:00

We are now getting set to play at the International Gypsy Guitar Festival on the 25th July. We're on at 6pm so we hope to see you all there.

2009-07-06T05:17:00.000-07:00

All good news with us. We have just signed to a management company called apero. We are all very excited about the next part of our journey.
Ben did brilliantly in the Iron Man and is still alive.
The new Cd is reaching completion.

Crazy Week

2009-03-09T14:01:00.000-07:00

What a mad week. We are doing a crazy run of 8 gigs in 7 days this week. i think this time next week we are going to be pooped! Still working on the new CD with a hope to it being on itunes by the end of May.

Good session

2009-02-04T09:53:00.000-08:00

So basically we recorded all the tunes we want on the Cd and now we have made us all Cd's to listen to see if the choice of tracks fit together. We really want a good mix of technical, fast, slow moody etc numbers on the disc so its nicely paced for a commercial Cd. Our record label has taken a couple Ben and I have one each and we are all going to sleep with them for a week and have some kinda postmortem next week. Then its back in to start work on the tracks. We have a lot to do on these numbers because we are looking at some celebrity guest musicians. most live in the US so our label will be flying them in for the recordings so we all need to synchronize schedules (which is a nightmare all round). Fingers crossed we can get things going ASAP.

Snow in the UK

2009-02-02T03:37:00.000-08:00

Well for those of you that are not in the UK its snowing today. its pretty much brought the country to a standstill. Schools are closing Motorways are blocked and there is general chaos all around. As for us, we are back into the studio tomorrow for our next installment of the forthcoming Cd. Its funny because its like being in a nuclear fall out shelter. once you go through the external 3 sets of doors you end up in a completely self sufficient controlled environment. People book this studio for a month at a time and just go in and come out when its all done. that is hardcore recording! we are lucky to just use the time when we feel ready to go. We are still busy doing shows up to 5 times a week so at least the credit crunch has kept away from us for the time being. must go but will do an update on wednesday to let you all know how the studio went. laterz

Back to earth with a bump!

2009-01-25T01:16:00.000-08:00

Jet Lag! AAAAAAAAAAAAAaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Just back in the UK after a whirlwind US tour and the jet lag is kicking in. Either that or our last nights party at the House of Blues followed by Ivan Kane's Forty Deuces and a litre of vodka!! Hmmmm!

The tour was a blast shared with some very special friends and a heap of good music.

We started at the LA Namm show where we meet some really cool people including George Benson, Gene Simmons, Jonny 5 to name a few. We also hung with our buddies Mundo (Washburn, Disney) and Andreas Oberg (the big Swede).

Our gigs concluded with an action packed set at the House of Blues (Mandalay Bay Casino/Hotel) Las Vegas. What a great reception it was just like being at home.

The Cd has Landed! just in time!!

2009-01-06T16:43:00.001-08:00

Today we finally got our Cd (check out the tracks on our Myspace). Well without sounding to conceited, its brilliant! The first of our 6 original compositions is in the can and we have already had some interest in the first 12 hours!! We just cant wait to hand it around all the famous musicians at the LA Namm show. We are now feeling much more confident about our management possibilities in LA. We are all set to get to Hollywood and turn some heads (and ears) with our music! World domination is now one step closer!! ;-)

Something interesting to say!

2008-12-20T15:13:00.000-08:00

Right all, just thinking of something interesting to write. To be honest we are in a kinda limbo period at the moment. We are off to LA in a couple of weeks to meet with AEG management (one of the biggest management companies in the world!!) and another independent manager (represents one of the hottest bands in the world at the moment) to discuss them representing us (and world domination!). Because of this we have put our next years schedule on hold until further notice. We need to offer these companies a clear year so they can schedule us where they want. We are expecting to be spending very little time in this country so we needed to not take many private bookings here in case.
January is looking very pivotal in our musical journey so all fingers crossed.
If things go to plan we will be recreated for 2009. it is going to be very interesting to see the direction they take us.
Well i guess this is it for this Christmas so we wish you all a very merry one and there will be more idle ramblings to come in the new year wherever we are!!

2008-12-10T10:45:00.000-08:00

Today we did our last day in the studio (hopefully). We also had the first listen to our previous sessions in their entirety. Big sighs of relief all round because they sound great (even if I do say so myself). thanks to Ben and Zach the producers. we were striving to recreate the energy and creativeness that we produce in our live performances (this is where we are most comfortable). its always hard to do this in this environment because there always is a case of watching your P's and Q's musically (hopefully this saying is understood outside our country). Anyways, we have put a few of the pics from the sessions up here so you all can have a vision of us doing the recordings.

Some things we do!

2008-12-07T08:58:00.000-08:00

Hey All, Over the last week we have been doing some gigs and generally feeling cold! We are still pining to get back to California (not long to go now). i for one have to say that i am a warm climate person that needs that yellow thing in the sky that is often spotted in this country some days in June. We have so many commitments here with private gigs and obviously our pending CD that we cant just hop back on a plane. We are always reminded of the things that we are missing out on by our close friends in California. Last night our friend/Agent hung out with Oasis and Russel Brand and we were getting constant updates on how much we should of been there. At the time we were performing at a private event in the Cotswold's (which was a really nice gig in fairness pic on the right) so i suppose we didn't really have a chance to be there.

We still haven't had time to get back to the studio but we have scheduled some time on Wednesday so i will let you all know then.

Ben is now into his last 6 months of training so he is living off nuts and berries and has upped the workouts to 4 hours a day!!!! Ive officially gone into hibernation in a large cardboard box filled with newspaper and a small tortoise called Jeffrey.

Flight of the Bumble Bee. Ben in the chair!

2008-12-03T05:39:00.000-08:00

2 Days in the studio

2008-12-02T10:53:00.000-08:00

We just had two good days in the studio recording our latest Cd. For those who haven't been in a studio before, it really is an intense atmosphere but its most enjoyable. However, because the recordings go straight off to post production this means that you work for 2 days then have a waiting game before you get a chance to hear how things went (kinda like doing an exam and waiting to find out if you passed!).
Everything seemed good on the days but fingers crossed from here.
We are hoping to get some pics up sometime this week so watch this space.
Special thanks to our record label for looking after us so well and thanks to our producer Ben (and assistant Zach) on the day. These guys had to put up with our constant need to put each other off throughout the sessions. I certainly had a nasty fit of corpsing going at one stage which was hilarious for Ben and I but surly quite frustrating for all the team in the control room patiently saying "Yes, Very good....Again". I'm hoping that you can hear our smiles on the recording. :-)

2008-11-28T01:55:00.000-08:00

So today we have a bit of a rehearsal planned. its funny because in the 2 years that Ben and I have been playing together we have never had one. we kinda work individually then hum or sing through the arrangement on the way to the gig then dare each other to play it on the night. This does add to the excitement for us and the audience. Anyways, we are performing at the Bell Street Cafe in Shaftesbury this evening then 2 gigs tomorrow then we are in the studio for Sunday and Monday. I guess our rehersal will go something like Latte, Muffin, "tune up", Latte, Muffin, sleep, "tune up" all done! im looking forward to it! Really, we have to just decide on some arrangement issues for the Cd and chat about our use of guests. The record lable have asked us if we would like some guests featured on some of the tracks and we like this idea. Also we are looking at having an orchestra featued on a number or two.
Well thats it for now, laterz.

2008-11-23T11:32:00.000-08:00

Right, here goes blog number 2. Our record label (Modern World records) has scheduled a 2 day studio slot for us to record a 4 track demo/press pack to promote the forthcoming Cd. The session will also be recorded by a camera crew so we can have a DVD option on the disc. This will be in the live lounge with a small select audience. All sounds a bit showbiz for us but hey "when in Rome".
We are now confirmed to play at the LA Namm show in January and then on to perform at the House of Blues(Las Vegas) and a few other private gigs in the LA area. We are planning to be back in the UK by the end of January.
Thats the band stuff out of the way. Ben is still training away (you dont want to know his daily routine,its savage!) each day in order to compete in the Lanzerote Iron Man in May 2009. Im (Stuart) still working on the golf swing with a Pro friend of mine from Denmark Gary Hindshaw. Scratch golf is my target for next year (2 at the moment) so i hope we spend a bit more time in the UK to help this.
Thanks for dropping by!

First Blog

2008-11-22T15:47:00.000-08:00

Well, this is our first blog. Over the last couple of years we have been often asked whats new with Gypsyfire. We have lots of exciting developments just around the corner that could leap us to the next level in the music business.