The last time we played a full band show in Italy was at Ohibo when we released the Devil Inside video. So it’s a welcome return for us this weekend. First up we play this Friday night, 3 May at Ligera, MILANO with our good friends, The Three Blind Mice. Then on Saturday 4 May we head north to Cantu for a show at one Lombardia’s most famous clubs, All’Unatrentacinquecirca (or All’Una35circa for short ).
The troops are pretty tired on day twelve of our tour. We relented and went to McDonalds for lunch, and now we’re waiting to unload the car and set up for the last show at Brin de Zinc in Chambery.
Tired Face #1
Tired Face #2
And Tired Face #3
I’m sure we’ve got just enough juice left in the tank to deliver one more show tonight, perhaps with the help of a mouthful of whisky. Back to Milan tomorrow and this week we’ll announce the dates of our 10-show German/Europe tour which begins on Thursday 11 April in Switzerland.
This week we are playing house-band for our good friend Ivan Rossi, who teaches at the School of Audio Engineering here in Milan. We’ve got a couple of songs to record, and I think we’re going to save them up for our next album. Here’s some shots from our first day.
Ivan, Mr Boss Man.
Here’s a clip from 07/02/12 at Kuppel for the Radicalis Music Race, where we played with Swiss band Carrousel.
Corn Silk Hair is taken from our new album, Rollin’ on down the lane.
Ok people of France, we’re just about ready to roll your way. Here are our dates for March:
Great work by Romain from Beast Records.
Feeling festive yet?
Just to help you get in the spirit of the season here’s your chance to win:
TO ENTER: All you need to do is send your name and city by email to rollin4xmas@yahoo.com
The lucky winner will be drawn by Santa’s little independent adjudicator on December 25th, at 5pm.
Good luck and Merry Christmas from SusySapphire
For all the rest of the merchandise we have available check out our bandcamp page here: Pete Ross & The Sapphire
At last, the album is officially released.
Get in quick! The first 25 people to buy a copy of ‘Rollin’ will get a personalized Devil Inside CD single featuring exclusive and unreleased material, sealed with a special Susy kiss.
Devil Inside Single – Track Listing
1. Devil inside
2. The Great Mistake (alternate band version)
3. These Boots Are Made For Walking (Orville’s Kitchen Sessions – duet with Susy Sapphire)
4. Dream On (Midnight Show Sessions – featuring Marco “Python” Fecchio)
http://peterossandthesapphire.bandcamp.com/
Last night we put the vinyl on the spinner and opened a good bottle of wine to celebrate.
I can’t wait to see the vinyl, but in the meantime this big box of CD’s turned up in the post today…
The album is out on 30 November, but you can pre-order it through bandcamp; click here.
There’s a ‘rollin’ pack with t-shirt, bag, the album of course, and a special edition single too.
We are really looking forward to getting on the road with this one … see you soon!
Have you got your costumes ready? And your treats and tricks? Halloween marks the end of the warmth and light of the summer and autumn months and the descent into the darkness of winter, with the clocks going back and the heating going on right about now. With that in mind, here is a little round up of the last month since we got back to Milan after the summer.
We played at Ohibò, remember? Way back at the end of September; it feels like a long time ago now. That evening marked the release of the Devil Inside music video, and really was the start of the presentation of the new album. Here is a photo from the event, taken by Antonella Ciliberto.
We played a Sunday night show at Twiggy in Varese, but unfortunately we don’t have any photos to prove it. Alessio joined us with his cajón, which is a great instrument, and makes a nice acoustic show for us as a trio.
On Wednesday 24th September we played at Piazza Risorgimento in Milan, at a little bar named Trifola. It’s very cute and intimate, and had a beautiful atmosphere. It is outside with heaters, so thankfully for us it was before the cold struck. Here we are, photo courtesy of Susan CS.
We’ve got a quiet start to November, leading in to a very busy run up to Christmas. Dates to be announced shortly, along with the very special pre-order for the album – ‘The Rollin’ Pack’. Till then …
Pete Ross & The Sapphire 