We’ve gone all Pink over at our Facebook Page in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Please take a minute to read up and support this worthy cause

“Do Graffiti6 ever sleep”

This is the question posed by those nice people over at ‘I Think I Love It’ Blog. How right they are to question our nocturnal habits because hot on the heels of the ‘Annie you Save Me’ EP comes the brand spanking new ‘Free’ EP with 7, yes S.E.V.E.N tracks on it!!!

The complete track listing is as follows:

1. Free (new single version)

2. Stone In My Heart (Stripped)

3. Annie You Save Me (Stripped)

4. Free (Stripped)

5. Foxes

6. Blue Ridge Mountains (Fleet Foxes cover)

7. Lay Me Down (Stripped)

The stripped versions are our popular ‘Acoustic’ versions of the songs. They were recorded entirely live and feature the fabulous Wired Strings to give it that little extra class. We don’t muck around.

Blue Ridge Mountains is a cover of the Fleet Foxes song. It’s featured in ‘Blue’ month, our colour themed monthly countdown to the release of our album Colours, over on our Facebook page.

You can buy the EP online here.

The Stone Roses have reformed. I was never a big fan but you can’t deny their influence on future generations. Their singer, Ian Brown, supported Catatonia, a band I produced. I was backstage and could not believe how out of tune he was. Nasty noise.

Guitars, melody and Beats is the cornerstone of what I love in all things music. Sure the gigs will be a car crash but this toon is amazing

Saw an amazing program on John martyn the other night and wanted to share this mans pure soul and genius. A folk singer at heart, he pushed the boundaries with his vocal delivery, slurring his words so they become a constant stream, sometimes one never ending note.  He was one of the earliest pioneers of echo dub effects on acoustic guitar, always pushing the boundaries and never standing still. A true artist, crazy and defiant.
Buy his albums ‘Solid Air’ and ‘One World’ as starters and you’ll Never Look Back.

Check out ‘May You Never’, probably his most famous work

Theres a shark behind you…..

Check this picture out.

It’s like your worst holiday nightmare isn’t it? We’ll have a happy smiley pic taken on our dive in the Maldives or where ever it is and who should come a muscling in on the proceedings? None other then Bruce, the shark trying to Find Nemo.
He looks so innocent doesn’t he, Puckering up a smile for the camera. He might even put a chummy flipper over one of their shoulders. All mates together on holiday. Bruce is a vegetarian shark, so don’t worry cos he’s really no threat at all unless your a cabbage. He’s a friend….

But of course he’s not is he. He’s a shark and he’s gonna rip their head off and swallow you in two seconds flat along with that bike and spare tire he gobbled half a mile away.

Actually its a myth that Sharks will eat anything. Some do, the great White for instance but most of them eat the same thing day in day out and never vary, bit like my nan who only ever seemed to eat cake. “Would you like a nice slice dear?” she’d say every time we went round and it was always that horrible Mr Kippling rubbish. Its a total fallacy that old people know how to cook and that things were always better in the ol’ days. Most old people i know survive on a diet that would keep the average teenager happy. Toast, crisps, sweets and plastic cake. Bloody luverleee! And tea of course, gallons of the stuff. Its that Blitz spirit of washing away the horrors of the day with a nice warm cuppa.

Funny how liquids are always the answer. Tea, Beer, Wine, Spirits, i love then all but my favourite is water. Water is a greatly underestimated substance. I remember being horrified by a ad campaign for Robinson’s, a fruit flavoured concentrate you add too water. Some evil ad devil wanted to sell us this nasty chemical sugary rubbish with the tag line “Makes water taste better” Taste better??? Better then what Mother Nature herself conjured up over a 100 millions of years???

You have to take yer hat off to those Advertisers though. Convincing the public to spend £2 on a little bottle of water, something we can all can get, in abundance for free out of a tap. Unless of course your in those parts of the world where clean water is scarce but I don’t exactly see that being a problem here in London. Are they evil for selling us that or are we stupid enough to buy it?

Sharks evoke the same unjustified sheer terror in people as Spiders, Mice or the UK Conservative (Tory) party. I think they should all be more worried of us then we of them. Out of more than 360 species of shark, only four have been involved in fatal, unprovoked attacks on humans, an average of 4 per year since 2001. Counter that with the estimated 100 million sharks that are killed by people every year then go figure. And how about the practice of cutting their fins off for Shark fin soup and then throwing the poor finless fish back in the water, where it either drowns or gets eaten. Not very nice and whats wrong with good ol’ Heinz Tomato soup?

So whose the shark….?

So we’ve got our trekking boots, packed some sarnies and a thermos of tea and we’re heading out on the road to bring a bit of G6 luv parts of the US we can’t even spell. We’re supporting the lovely and amazing Xmena Sarinana. Here are the dates, ticket info to follow:

Mon/Dec 5 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay
Wed/Dec 7 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
Thu/Dec 8 – Richmond, VA – The Camel Club
Fri/Dec 9 – Balitmore, MD – Soundstage
Sat/Dec 10 – Annapolis, MD – Rams Head
Sun/Dec 11 – Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live
Tue/Dec 13 – NYC – Rockwood
Wed/Dec 14 – Boston, MA – T.T. The Bears
Thu/Dec 15 – Portland, ME – Empire Dance & Dine
Sat/Dec 17 – Buffalo, NY – Ninth Ward
Sun/Dec 18 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
Tue/Dec -20 – Columbus, OH – The Basement
Wed/Dec-21 – Lexington, KY – Cosmic Charlie’s
Thu/Dec-22 – Chicago, IL – Schubas

Its Yellow month over on our Facebook page. Each month up to the release of our album, ‘Colours’ we’ve been bringing you a colour themed month. We’ve had Pink (July), Blue (Aug), Orange (Sept) and October see’s us going all bright and Yellow. They’ll be the customary Yellow based cover version just as soon as we can work out which track to do. Any suggestions post em up! Check out the previous covers, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Blue Ridge Mountains and Agent Orange. Don’t forget to rate and comment on You Tube.

Get your yellow pix ready…

Graffiti6 just returned home after an amazing tour of the US, that saw shows in NYC, Boston, Philly, LA, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, San Fran, Albany, Vegas and main stage at Escape to NY and Austin City Limits. BiGLuV to all that came and made it so special. Next up are two sell out shows at the Paradiso 26/27th October. Keep checking the site for future dates and keep spreading the word. We’ll be in your town soon XX