Hella Better Dancer

Wesley Freeman-Smith: It's Hella Better Dancer!

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:35:50 -0400

Wesley Freeman-Smith: It's Hella Better Dancer!:

This great little band came down to play for us at our SHINDIG night t’other week, and after a little bit of faffing with bandcamp, you can now listen and download their set from £0+. Check it out below:

<a href=”http://shallowrecords.co.uk/album/shindig-140712-2”…

Amersham Arms

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:25:57 -0400

Some pictures from Soundcheck before we played our set at Amersham Arms on Friday.

We played with Lost Left who were great, check them out here:

SHEEN

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:17:00 -0400

Saw Sheen play last week at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes

I think they’re gunna release some more songs soon, can’t wait. They’re also playing with Swim Deep this Friday at The Old Blue Last which will be rad

Antimatter People

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Today we went to the colonel fawcett and saw our friend Yehan Jehan & Antimatter People play.

I’ve always know that Yehan was a pedal freak, but this was a new level.

They’ve got a really special show coming up at St Leonard’s Shoreditch Church. I’ll be singing with them for the show as part of a choir. Get tickets here!

http://yjap.eventbrite.com/

Occasional Love

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Our next show is on Friday 11th at The Amersham Arms in New Cross. A first gig south of the river!

According to Bandcamp, someone recently came across ‘Living Room’ by Googling...

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:57:00 -0400

According to Bandcamp, someone recently came across ‘Living Room’ by Googling “determine the ph of a .0034m hno3 solution”. For everyone who hasn’t Googled that, you can buy it for next to nothing (or download it for free)

HERE http://hellabetterdancer.bandcamp.com/

<a href=”http://hellabetterdancer.bandcamp.com/album/living-room” data-mce-href=”http://hellabetterdancer.bandcamp.com/album/living-room”>Living Room by Hella Better Dancer</a>

Model Staggs/All We Are/Stealing Sheep

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:28:00 -0400

Yesterday we went down to the Lock Tavern to play a couple of songs at the dj booth for SHELTEREDs night. There were 3 awesome bands playing.

First on was Model Staggs from Cambridge

Next was All We Are from Liverpool

Last on was Stealing Sheep. They were great headliners

Other photos from the night:

Hoxton Square

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:42:00 -0400

Some pictures from our set

Slaves played put on a mega good show

Then we ran over to Old Blue Last and caught our friends Big Deal play a really rad set

Brighton

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Yesterday me and Soph went to Brighton. That sea looks gooooood

Amongst other things, we spent a good part of the day at a guitar shop in the Lanes. I tired out this Fender Mustang Kurt Cobain model. It is so nice, oh yeah!

White On White

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Yesterday we had our first show with new HBD member Chris O’Driscoll at the Lock Tavern for Lottarox. We had loads of fun

Our next show is this Thursday at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen for White on White. We’ll be playing with Slaves, supporting Sulk. Email us for £4 cheap list!

LeeFest 2012

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:10:07 -0400

We’re really happy to announce that we’ll be playing at this year’s LeeFest on June 30th. There’s a really great line up, and tickets are cheap, you can get them here:

http://www.leefest.org.uk/

practice hardcore

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:06:53 -0400

We’ve been in the practice room a lot this week, writing and re-writing our new set. Here are some photos of us getting ready for our gig on the 22nd April at Lock Tavern!

next gig!

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:32:03 -0400

our next gig is on Sunday the 22nd of april. we’ll be playing a new set, with new arrangements and new songs with a new hbd member. we’re real excited

it’s FREE and at the lock tavern. here’s the event link

https://www.facebook.com/events/428645640485888/

finishing touches

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Yesterday we went to do the finishing touches for our 3 new demos at Jack Allett’s house. Jack mastered all of the Living Room songs so we knew it would be a good day.

In between each going in and recording our last parts, we managed to fit in two whole dvds - Slow Century about Pavement and We Jam Econo about Minutemen.

I forgot to take photos of actually doing any work. I guess I was distracted by all the dvd watching. But to make up for it, here are some blurry photos.

The 3 songs are now being mixed and mastered and they’re well on the way to being finished by the end of April. YEAAAH

These are our upcoming shows which we’re real excited about:
Sunday 22nd April @ The Lock Tavern, Camden
Saturday 19th May @ Power Bar, Kilburn
Saturday 26th May @ The Spice Of Life, Soho
Sunday 10th June @ The Sebright Arms, Archway
Saturday 16th June @ 93 Feet East, Brick Lane

reviews

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:39:00 -0400

Here are more recent things we’ve had written about Living Room

http://www.forfolkssake.com/other/15023/new-bands-panel-hella-better-dancer-%E2%80%93-living-room-ep

and

http://brapscallions.com/2012/03/19/hella-better-dancer/

and

http://wearesme.co.uk/?p=22942&preview=true

Idle Fret

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:39:00 -0400

Yesterday we played a really fun gig with Idle Fret at The Lock Tavern

Here are some photos from the show

Thanks to everyone who caught our set, we had an awesome time.

Mix Tape/ download

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:47:00 -0400

We’re playing at the Lock Tavern tomorrow. We’ll be supporting Ratty Little Fingers and Mary Epworth

You can download this mixtape for the show now!

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://idlefret.bandcamp.com/album/idle-fret-free-download-ep-march-2012” data-mce-href=”http://idlefret.bandcamp.com/album/idle-fret-free-download-ep-march-2012”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Idle Fret Free Download EP March 2012 by Idle Fret - Record Label and Club Night&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Also, tomorrow is Josh’s 19th birthday. So if you come to the gig you can buy him another drink

Map Recordings

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:43:00 -0500

We had a rad time playing at The Silver Bullet yesterday for a night put on by Map Recordings.

We were supporting Loose Talk Costs Lives who played a really great set. Check out their songs here

&lt;a href=”http://loosetalkcostslives.bandcamp.com/album/wax-gold” data-mce-href=”http://loosetalkcostslives.bandcamp.com/album/wax-gold”&gt;Wax &amp;amp; Gold by Loose Talk Costs Lives&lt;/a&gt;

living room

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:08:00 -0500

Thanks so much to everyone who has listened, downloaded and bought Living Room so far. We couldn’t be more happy with the response.

&amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://hellabetterdancer.bandcamp.com/album/living-room” data-mce-href=”http://hellabetterdancer.bandcamp.com/album/living-room”&amp;amp;gt;Living Room by Hella Better Dancer&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

This is the batch of CDs that I’m sending out today. I hope they arrive safe!

We got a lovely review the other day which you can read here:

http://flyingwithanna.com/2012/02/14/new-treat-83-hella-better-dancer/

Recording Demos

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:08:00 -0500

Yesterday we were in the studio again finishing our 3 new demos. Here are some photos

we’ll hopefully be releasing them at the end of April so watch out