Hot on the heels of his star turn in How To Be, The Rollercoaster Project will be performing his music on May 27 in Hay-on-Wye at How The Light Gets In — the UK’s first ever philosophy and music festival. The festival is running from May 22-31 at the same time as the Hay Literary Festival and has a great line up of bands, comedy and speakers, including music from Michael Nyman, Stephen Fretwell and Jeremy Warmsley, debates and speeches with Zygmunt Bauman, AC Grayling, Simon Blackburn, Will Hutton, Phillip Blond and more, and comedy sketches from Ed Aczel and Robin Ince, among others. Visit howthelightgetsin.org to find out more, download the full programme and book tickets.

How To Be is the new comedy feature directed by Oliver Irving. It stars Robert Pattinson and Dreamboat Records’ own Johnny White (The Rollercoaster Project).

The How To Be soundtrack will be released by Dreamboat Records on April 28. It features three songs performed by Robert Pattinson, the original score by Joe Hastings, and tracks by The Rollercoaster Project, Love, Captain Beefheart and The Roches. Full details and track listing are available on the How To Be website.

The digital download will be available from iTunes and other retailers on April 28. The CD is available for pre-order now.

Dreamboat Records is pleased to announce we will releasing the CD soundtrack for the upcoming feature film How To Be, starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Harry Potter). The soundtrack will be available to pre-order from Dreamboat Records soon. We will have some exclusive surprises for fans of the film and Pattinson, so keep your eyes peeled over the the coming weeks for details of how to get hold of them.

How To Be also stars Johnny White, who fans of Dreamboat Records will know as The Rollercoaster Project. His music will, of course, feature on the soundtrack alongside music performed by Robert Pattinson and an original score composed by Joe Hastings and produced by Gary Moore.

How To Be is the debut feature from writer-director Oliver Irving. At first fancying himself an “enigmatic poet,” twentysomething Art (Pattinson) gradually realizes that he must take action if he’s going to escape his depressed life as a struggling musician in London. A solution comes in the shape of a book titled “It’s Not Your Fault.” Not content to just draw inspiration from its pages, however, Art invites the elderly author of the book to come live with him and his parents, which quickly becomes a painfully funny journey about dysfunction and growing up.

March 2 Update: We are pleased to announce that the How To Be soundtrack is getting a wider worldwide release than we had originally planned. Unfortunately this means that we’ve had to move the release back a little, but the good news is that you wont have to wait very long. The record will be available to pre-order from our store very soon; we’ll be announcing the exact date in the next few days. Sign up the the mailing list and Facebook group for updates.

Following on from the success of the In the Grip of Light EP, The Allender Band release their debut album Outer Dark on 16 March, 2009.

Outer Dark continues in a similar vein to In the Grip of Light. The album perfects The Allender Band’s trademark sound of intricate guitar work, spacious arrangements and country-tinged melodic rock.

The deceptively simple, classic sound of ‘Riverrun’ has already enjoyed airplay on Gideon Coe’s BBC 6 Music show, and we’ve made an MP3 of this track available for free download.

The album is available to pre-order from the Dreamboat Records website shop. Orders will ship before the end of February. It will also shortly be available to download from iTunes.

Robin Allender will be performing a solo show at the Electroacoustic Club, London on 10th February with The Gala Band and the Olympic Symphonium.

Robin Allender’s debut release with a full band, In the Grip of Light, will be released by Dreamboat Records on 26th May.

The Allender Band is made up of Alex Wilkins on guitar, Sam Tarbuck on bass and Dave Collingwood on drums.

The E.P. moves away from the acoustic-based folk of Allender’s solo album The Bird and the Word towards a more expansive sound. While still featuring Allender’s hushed vocal delivery and unusual, poetic lyrics, In the Grip of Light also contains elements of rock, gothic country and experimental indie. The EP’s lush, spacious melodicism recalls Red House Painters, while its subtle, dynamic arrangements show the influence of post-rock figureheads Talk Talk and The For Carnation.

The EP costs £4 and is available to buy from the Dreamboat Records website, and will shortly be available to download from iTunes and Bleep.

The band will be performing, and selling copies of the EP, at Bristol’s Folk House on Saturday 24th May.

Lots of gigs coming up, including a mini-tour from the Gala Band, before they head into the studio to begin work on their debut E.P.

Robin Allender

• Friday, 22 February — The John Sebastian (a boat), Bristol
• Sunday, 2 March — Under The Influence at The Thekla, Bristol
• Friday, 4 April — The Cooler, Bristol (with The Hinkley Veltones)

The Gala Band

• Wednesday, 12 March — Louisiana, Bristol
• Thursday, 13 March — Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
• Friday, 14 March — George the 2nd, Luton
• Saturday, 15 March — The Orange Tree, Nottingham
• Sunday, 16 March — The Yardbird, Birmingham (entrance free!)
• Monday, 17 March — Electro Acoustic Club, London

We have t-shirts and you should buy one!

Also, coming in March is the Gala Band UK tour. So far we have confirmed Thursday 13th (Buffalo Bar, Cardiff), Friday 14th (George the 2nd, Luton), Saturday 15th (The Social, Nottingham), Monday 17th (Electro Acoustic Club, London). Details and further dates to follow.

Happy new year!

After we had so much fun doing Dreamboat Christmas 2006 last year, we are pleased to announce the release of Dreamboat Christmas 2007, a free, download-only E.P. of Christmas songs from Dreamboat Records artists and friends.

1. Christmas Eve Part I — The Rollercoaster Project
2. A Christmas Song With No Cheer — Robin Allender
3. Farewell My Friend — Tom Wilson
4. Christmas Eve Part II — The Rollercoaster Project

• All tracks in one zip file.

But that’s not all from Dreamboat Records in 2007. We’ll be finishing up the year with a Christmas live show and party with Dreamboat acts and DJs and The Croft in Bristol. You should totally come!

Dreamboat Records will be hosting our very first Christmas Party at Bristol’s The Croft on Thursday December 20.

The back room is the noise/psych/kraut/math room. There will be a headlining set from Geisha, with support from Yellow6 and the triumphant return of Azalea City Penis Club for one night only — their first gig since 2004!

The front room and bar is the party room, with DJ sets from The Rollercoaster Project and Dreamboat DJs Maximum Fun and Maximum Energy playing tunes from Fleetwood Mac, Slayer, Jackson Browne, Jesu, Ike and Tina Turner, Creedence, En Vogue, and lots of Italo.

There will be a merch desk with copies of the entire Dreamboat catalogue (except Hatefield) and the first ever Dreamboat t-shirt, which will be available in a limited edition of 50.

Entry is £5. We’re still organizing tickets, but we figured you’d want to know the date so you can mark it in your filofax. This event will get raw like sushi, so haters to the left.

Dreamboat Records 2008 is the second annual sampler from Dreamboat Records, featuring new material from Dreamboat artists, collaborators and friends. This full-length album is available to buy on CD for £6 from our shop, or as DRM-free MP3s from Bleep.

From our own acts, we have the increasingly wonderful Rollercoaster Project, Robin Allender’s new full band sound, the lovely new Gala Band, and a solo track from Simon Grant (ex-Azalea City Penis Club). We’ve also included Dreamboat collaborations (Yellow6, Kiska) and new stuff we just think is rad (Tom Wilson).

The first three tracks are available as free MP3 downloads here, and you can stream the entire album at Bleep.

Watch out for news of the launch/Christmas party for this record, which will take place on Thursday 20th December and will blow your mind. Details to follow.