This is the official patch for The Writers Crew. Only the true Writers, holly collaborators and all of the Write-Tour coworkers will own one of these... Ain't it cool?
D'you want one? Will you kill for one of these? Will you sell your sister just to have this beautiful patch in your coat?... We'll figure out some kind of draw.
We also have new guy and chick T-shirts and fine fabric bags with the Arthur & the Writers logo.
Soon avaliable at our next show.
Patchs are back to stay!
This is our first home-and-self-made music video, from our song "Catch The Sun".
(UPDATED: Now you can watch it in HD through Youtube!)
In the video (in order of appearance): Herbert "Bullet" Bean, Lucio Van Gelden, Ignatius "Ignition" Ray Curtis, Peter J Manuel, the sweet-cheeks choir (Elena, Patricia, Pi, Monica, Ana, Sabrina), Martin C Mellon, the tough guys (David Sierra, Xabilín). Camera girl: Tamara De La Fuente. Also helping us out: Guille (Men Called Him Mister). Shot at Patricia's grandpa&ma's garage.
Catch The Sun
1969,
John Fogerty wrote that bayou song,
it was late at night.
Forty one years later
I'm driving this car,
I think I'm giving up.
I think I'll catch the sun.
I'm never coming back home.
Highway lines go by
I barely hear Graveyard Train in this old car.
I'll turn the volume up
you hated this song
I am leaving this town.
I think I'll catch the sun.
I'm never coming back home.
Like a Penthouse Pauper I will choogle tonight,
I think Proud Mary may just make me cry.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooooooooo! You got it!
You can purchase our CD right now at your favourite store or by clicking here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/as-arthur-the-writers/id351182473
(Soon avaliable on vinyl...)
The Writers is a band formed in the early 2000s in Iowa. Three of its members, Peter J. Manuel, Herbert Bean and Lucio Van Gelder, met when they were in high school and played in several bands whose names nobody remembers. In their first gigs as The Writers, they play covers of The Beatles, The Jayhawks, Neil Young and ABBA, and soon Martin C. Mellon joins the band.
Little by little they add their own songs to their playlist. Despite the interest of a few record labels, The Writers are in no rush to record and prefer to keep honing their songs by playing them live.
Ignatius R. Curtis replaces Martin C. Mellon in 2004 when he moves to Canada. The death of their friend the poet Arthur Etres leads them to make the decision to go into the studio and record a tribute album based on his notebooks of poems. Far from settling for recording in the USA, they travel to Spain, where Arthur wrote most of his poetry. It is then when they change their name to Arthur & The Writers and release their fist album on the Spanish label Ernie Records.
We would like to tell you about our first tour dates here in Spain:
February 11th - Santiago dC, Nasa - Demoscópicas MondoSonoro
February 26th - Baiona, Marrucho
March 3rd - Madrid, Sol
March 4th - Madrid, Forum FNAC Callao
March 5th - RTVE, Recording Conciertos de Radio 3
March 14th - Madrid, La Radio Encendida
March 18th - Barcelona, Sidecar
March 19th - Zaragoza, La Lata de Bombillas
March 20th - Valladolid
March 26th - Vigo, Iguana
April 23rd - A Coruña, Le Club
April 24th - Pontevedra, Karma
(Some more dates are being managed right now, but we'll keep them until they are officially confirmed by our Manager at Ernie Productions Ltd.)
Let's also remind you about our Edition Dates:
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February 9th - Digital Edition
- February 16th - CD Edition
(We are also planning a Vinyl Edition for the Springtime, but let's not get ahead of ourselves)
You can hear now another song from our forthcoming album!
Click on the image above to play.
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SANTA BARBARA
He was looking out the window
at all the roofs across the town,
in the sill the plants were shaking
underneath that deep white sky.
Dry and neglected
worn out by the wind
trembling with fear
alone waiting for the sun.
It was night time,
he'd spent three hours on that chair,
he was starving
but he wasn't strong enough to stand
not that day.
Noise and confusion
were filling his head
broken illusions
and dreams that had blown away.
Dry plants were shaking on the windowsill
and dreams were just fading away...
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Of course, you can also hear this song at our myspace....
You can hear now a song from our forthcoming album!
Click on the image above to play.
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SHE WAS SO
He used to be a lonely boy,
all he really thought about
were songs and toys,
but the she came in
and she said hello.
Never know...
She was so sweet she was so good
that every song talked 'bout her.
He fell for it so easily,
he forgot 'bout last time quick
just with her very first kiss.
So let's start again
let's start all over.
Here we go...
She was so sweet she was so good
that every song talked 'bout her
no matter where no matter when.
She was so sweet she was so...
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Keyboards by Charlie Bautista.
You can also hear this song at our myspace....
We already have release dates for our forthcoming album:
February 9th - Digital Edition
February 16th - CD Edition
(We are also planning a Vinyl Edition for the Springtime, but let's not get ahead of ourselves)
The beautiful-CD-edition will be a limited edition of a thousand numbered copies that we have made ourselves with a little help from our friends, The Valley Folks, in a home production line. So if you get our CD and find a sticker not as well sticked as it should be, that would be my fault... So sorry.
We will upload some of our new tracks just before the digital edition, so stay tuned for more news and more happy days!
I guess you know how this works, but I'll explain it anyway for those who aren´t familiar with the internet:
- Write your comment in the little box above the SEND! button
- Click on the SEND! button
- You can sign your comment if you want to. Just press Enter and type your name or nick
- Voilá! your comment gets published on the screen, on the internet
Javier Fernández Pérez de Lis (aka Xabilín) is a great analogic photographer form Vigo and also a good friend of the band's.
Here you can see some of the H-picks (horizontal photos) he took for us.
(Click on the photograph to see the next)
Here we go! This is the band, Arthur & the Writers:
Peter J. Manuel - Lead Singer, electric guitar and banjo
Herbert 'The Bullet' Bean - Drums, percussion and vocals
Lucio Van Gelder - Bass guitar and vocals
Ignatius 'Ignition' Ray Curtis - Acoustic guitar, high string guitar and vocals
Martin C. Mellon - Extra guitar arrangements
Holly guest musicians:
Charlie Bautista - Keyboards and piano
Mike Delacierva - Pedal steel
The Valley Folks - Additional vocals
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Casa de Tolos (Minyor Valley, GA) in Fall 2009.
Produced by Mr. S. Grandío and Arthur & the Writers.
Also helping us with this record:
Lyrics supervision by Arturo Enríquez.
Still and motion photographs in the studio by Santiago A. Moral.
Promo photographs by Xabilín.
Art by Horace Etres, assisted by Celia Arcos.
Manager and chief in command at Ernie Producciones, Joss 'Ernie' Carballo.
