The problem with my personal blogs in Dutch and English is that they’ve never been well-defined. The best blogs have a clear subject matter and my blogs never had that. I rambled on about music, life, music, life, Turin Brakes, life, culture, life and while I got older it seemed as if sharing all my weird life ramblings became harder and I wrote less about life and (even) more about music. Which scared away some readers. But well, that’s how it goes. I can still write travel reports really well, but writing about going to work everyday, will end up being boring. So I don’t do it. Usually.

One of the simplest solution to do is to write about “your passion”. Well, my passion is Turin Brakes. Hence this fansite. And while I would say that on my personal blog, Turin Brakes are featured rather a lot – at least once a month, I don’t want to write about JUST Turin Brakes there. I’ve got Ether Site for that, after all. And there’s more to me than being a Turin Brakes, right? Right?

Anyway, I’ve decided that I’m going to write a blog here, every now and then, in an attempt to make Ether Site a bit more personal and intimate. Ether Site is a FANsite and after last year’s successful Optimist Gallery, I would once again like to open up the site to fan’s contributions. Perhaps YOU have a stories to tell that have a (vague) connection to a Turin Brakes song? Please send in these stories, a lot of people would like to hear about them. Things have gone a bit quiet in between albums, so this might be a good way to keep the activity going. I’m going to write a series of blogs myself – thinking about once a month or so, but maybe more often or less depending on the enthusiasm this piece receives – I’ve called it Etherish because of the name of this fansite and the “feverish” incoherence that my ramblings may sound like to you (hope not though!).

So, now I’ve already spent almost 400 words simply explaining the motivation of this blog post without having written anything in-depth about Turin Brakes. Sorry. As compensation do check this lovely blog about TB on Fur Will Fly.

Some gigs are planned during the next few months – which is nice. I’m gonna try to make one of those. I’ve realised that I’ve seen Turin Brakes at least once every year since 2005, so NOT seeing them this year would be… well… weird.  The gigs are always amongst the highlights of my year. I always try to make it into a little holiday, even if it’s just a weekend abroad. The people are nice, the music’s nice and the venues are usually pretty good as well. I’ve met some nice people along the way and I’m grateful for that. Would be a waste NOT to see the band play again, really…

Besides, these gigs may very well be the only Turin Brakes fix we’ll get this year. There’s no official word from the band that work on the follow-up to Outbursts (already 2 years old! Can you believe that?) has even begun yet. Although there was THIS photo on Twitter last month. That at least looks like they’re working on something that includes sound. Hopefully they’ve got one or two songs ready by the time the Summer gigs arrive… Would be nice to hear new material from the guys. Rescue Squad was a nice new original on the overall excellent Xerox EP, sounding pretty fresh and alive. Hopefully there’s more where that came from.

So thanks for reading! Let me know whether you think this is a nice idea or whether you’ve got certain topics I should write about, by leaving a comment below or on Facebook or Twitter. And get in touch if you want to share a story or more!

Turin Brakes will return to Square One in Crewe on 28 June 2012 for an intimate gig, having played there before in December 2010.

NOW do you see what I did there? Square one… hehehe.. Hilarious, no? Anyways, tickets on sale for 15 GBP here. Support to be announced.

Tickets are 16 GBP and will be available from here.

19 July, the band move a bit further north for a gig in Bedford’s Esquires. Tickets on sale from here, also 20 GBP.

Both gigs go on sale this Thursday! 

They lace their melodic acoustic musings with a healthy dose of indie. Their live shows, with ‘mind blowing vocals and awesome guitar’ are reckoned to be ‘even better than the records’. Find out more at turinbrakes.com and come along to decide for yourselves

Tickets aren’t on sale yet but you can sign up on the website to be notified when they do! Yes! Let’s hope they play Sea Change, eh? And let’s hope it doesn’t Rain, City?

(thanks Evelyn for spotting this!)

Four years after their last gig at the Soundhaus in 2008, Turin Brakes return to Northampton for a special show at The Picturedrome. The old cinema turned restaurant / live venue hosts our favourite acoustic awesome artists on 16 June 2012. Support is to be announced. Tickets cost you 16,50 incl. fees and are available from THIS WEBSITE. Sounds like a lovely evening in a lovely venue.

So check it out if you’re into something completely different today .

So, before I forget: once again THANKS to the guys for agreeing to do this. They’ve been wonderful and honest and nice. I tried to be those things as well, but with a Dutch accent. Sorry for that!

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