Thinking For Tuesday: The Blog

Spotify and a plug for Karen

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:26:00 +0000

Well hello, this is just to say that Spotify have made it easier to connect your own profile bio and photos to an artist section. So 7 years after parting ways our Spotify profile is now up!!

Took some time and all that but we got there in the end.

It also felt right to promote Karen in her (not so new) project QueenBeats. It took a long time to get the google password working to write up here again but there you go!

So thank you for happening to stumble across us. Please stream us on Spotify or buy the album on Amazon if you like what you hear.

UPDATE: New project for Tom, Chris and Barny

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:46:00 +0000

Well it has been a long time since Thinking for Tuesday did anything. We all loved our time in the band and as they say it's hard to keep a good man down.

With that in mind Tom, Chris and Barny left Thinking for Tuesday but kept playing, writing and jamming together with a mind to getting a new project together.

Well that has happened, with a familiar face on board and a brand new kick-arse lady telling 4 lads what to do (we love it really)

For those of you who came to a few TFT gigs and knew us, will remember that a lovely chap called Mark would help us out with gear, sound and coffee on regular occasions. Well it turns out he can play a bit on the guitar as well!

Naheed is the unlucky lady to decide working with the 4 of us is a good idea. Found on the darkest reaches of the internet she impressed the boys with her vocals and so a new band was born.

Please check out the new project here http://www.mixtapenation.co.uk and we have links to all the main social media stuff you would expect.

We are about to play a big gig that we would love to see you at all in a good cause, for the Royal British Legion on the 30th October in Covent Garden.

Final and Fond Farewell

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:25:00 +0000

Just over a year ago Karen left Thinking For Tuesday and after many auditions and some great jams with some really talented musicians we are putting a pin in Thinking For Tuesday.

Will has decided to leave Thinking For Tuesday for the foreseeable future, however it does not mean forever.

Tom, Chris and Barny decided that without Will TFT was too thin on the ground to build up again, so decided it best to put it on hold rather than try to continue.

We would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the years, from all our parents and families to the few fans we had. It has been a pleasure writing songs and playing music and we are glad you liked it too.

As a little thank you, we have made all our professionally record songs available to listen to online, but you can still use the website to buy a physical CD as well. (Final plug....)

We would like to thank Kirsten, who recently brought a great voice and some new ideas to the band, it was just at the wrong time! You can check out her own awesome stuff here. https://soundcloud.com/kirsten-hermes

If anyone from TFT has another project we will post it on these walls, but for now we are closing the page on this time as TFT.

Thanks again to everyone Tom, Will, Chris and Barny.

Farewell to Karen, we will miss you!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:40:00 +0000

It is after a fantastic five years of working as Thinking For Tuesday that we are saying a sad farewell to Karen Saunders, the sassy rock chick who has driven Thinking For Tuesday forward for quite some time.

Karen has worked so hard for the band, organising the rest of us and making contacts in many fields of the music industry. She has been a key player in what makes Thinking For Tuesday tick, and has always put her heart and soul into the band's live performances. We have played such a range of venues and gigs with Karen that were all enjoyable, but a few that stand out are supporting Sham 69 at the Railway Inn in Winchester, Senser and Them is Me at the Talking Heads in Southampton, The Coronas at the Boileroom in Guildford and City Stereo at the O2 in London. In the last few years we worked hard to get slots at festivals and have travelled all around the country playing to some lovely crowds.

Karen worked hard to create a great structure for the band and was infamous within Thinking for Tuesday for her lists and spreadsheets and organisation of folders!

Karen leaves Thinking for Tuesday on a high and we will keep in touch with her and let you know as some of her new projects develop. It is not our place to say what they are but we will be really pleased to see them come to fruition.

Thinking For Tuesday would like to thank Karen for all the work she put into the songs that we will try to keep playing, but would like to give her a special mention for two of the crowds favourites: Ordinary Song and Unsung Hero were songs Karen worked hard to write and we want to continue to do them justice.

These last 5 years together have been brilliant for all of us, which is why it is hard to say goodbye to one of the founding members of the band. We want to wish Karen all the best of luck for the future and all the success she deserves.

Good Luck,

Tom, Will, Barny and Chris.

New Photos!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:48:00 +0000

Click on the photos below to head to Flickr and check us out performing at Wilkestock Festival 2011...

Festival Season

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:09:00 +0000

So we've had a blast this summer playing great festivals and have some pretty awesome photos on the way. Most recently Watchet and Wilkestock which both rocked and we'd like to thank the brilliant crowds for their support and feedback at both. We hope to see some of you again at other gigs wearing your new t-shirts!

What's next...

Well three new songs and lots of ideas in the pipeline. Plus a support slot at The Cellars, Portsmouth in October with up and coming band, Munich. We've got tickets to sell so do give us a shout if you're up for it. Not forgetting the admin side of things and getting our tracks out and about in the industry - got to keep plugging away!

So we hope you've enjoyed your summer. Even though the sun goes down earlier, it's back to work and back to school, rest assured we're still working hard and bringing you all the up to date Thinking For Tuesday news!

Acoustically Speaking

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:09:00 +0000

Hey,

I noticed that we have been a little quiet of late what with Tom having just got back from France and Chris jetting around to all manor of locations. But, we have a couple of awesome festivals approaching at the end of August and into September. The Watchet Festival and Wilkestock Festival. We were very sad to hear the Winchester Rock Festival was cancelled as we were all really looking forward to that but hope they revive the idea in 2012.

So what have we been doing in the mean time? Well while Chris has been away the rest of us have been working on acoustic versions of our songs to prepare ourselves for future acoustic gigs. We love playing acoustically and have been experimenting with how we play our electric songs like Slide, Girl in the Red Dress Too and Stop The World. They are sounding good and with a little more practice we will have a great new acoustic set.

Chris is back soon, so in the next few weeks we can start to look at our melting pot of new songs that just need a final tweak. We are excited with all that we have coming up so although we may not be gigging much at the moment we promise we are working hard to make the autumn and winter gigs a mix of old and new.

Hope you are having a great summer!

Summer Plans

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:17:00 +0000

Just a quick blog to thank everyone who has supported us during our string of gigs over the past week or so. Despite the English summer weather living up to expectations of rain, performing at The Aylesbury Festival was brilliant and nice to see some old and new faces. We particularly appreciated the dude at the front rocking out to our songs at 11am on a Sunday morning - top stuff!

It's great hearing your feedback over Twitter and Facebook so please keep in touch and we will be sure to update you with our news and progress as and when.

Thanks to top photographer, Andy Squire, photos from our gig at the O2 Islington Academy are ready to view on Flickr and Facebook...

So until we hit some more festivals at the end of August / beginning of September we plan to be working on new tracks and new promotional material.

See you soon!

Something To Shout About!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:54:00 +0000

We played the Islington O2 Academy on Monday and it rocked! Yes as you can imagine it sucked quite a lot returning to normal life yesterday after playing an awesome gig in London the night before. It was a great night of music with every band giving a brilliant professional performance to a top crowd of fans. We particularly wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone that made the effort to come see us, we really appreciated it and felt very honoured by the amount of people who put the effort in to support us. Our favourite photographer, Andy Squire, made a special trip to come take some pictures of us performing on the night, no doubt they are going to rock and we will be adding them to our sites as soon as we have them. Not forgetting the fantastic headliners, City Stereo, who have recently finished supporting Mcfly on tour - thank you for having us on the bill!

Now, back a bit further in the week to Saturday. The Beggars Fair in Romsey which we must admit was right up there with the O2 gig. What a awesome festival, brilliantly attended and yet again a top crowd of people listening to the live music. We were chuffed to bits with the reception and feedback we got from the gig so hope to see some of you at future events.

Onwards and upwards to this Sunday and our show at The Aylesbury Festival. We start the day at 11am so shake off those hangovers and come on down to blow the cobwebs away with a day full of great music. We look forward to seeing you there and chatting to you after so make sure you come say hello. www.aylesburyfestival.com

Until then - have a great week!

PS. Special thanks from Karen to the girl who said she liked her hair at The O2 Academy on Monday! :-)

Weekend at "Glastonbury"

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:44:00 +0000

Good morning!

What a lovely day it was on Saturday and Sunday. After the weeks showers it dried out nicely. Well it was the Glastonbury festival this weekend, and while we were not at the official Glastonbury we played a mini festival in Aldershot. It was a homage to Glastonbury for the Sergeant's Mess and what a great evening it was. There were two stages and we alternated playing. We opened the night at about 6:15 for 45 minutes then the other band played from 7 till about 7:45. We played our originals and the other band (http://www.21stcenturyriot.co.uk/) played covers. The guys from 21st Century Riot were top chaps and helped us with our sound check and played a great range of tracks to keep the crowd happy.

Our sets went down well, with some of the crowd telling us it was great to hear some original music as well. We really appreciated all the positive comments after both the sets and loved the festival atmosphere with people blowing whistles and drinking jelly shots!

The food we got provided with was amazing, a lovely spread of BBQ and side salads. So a huge thanks to the organisers for such an hospitable atmosphere and letting us share in such a great event.

A highlight for the whole band was the "bucking bronco" in the shape of a camel. Karen was first up and set the benchmark of about 42 seconds, which none of the lads could beat!
Kaz riding the camel..... http://yfrog.com/1qxawz

The evening was a great success and we hope to be able to play at future events they hold.

Hope you had a lovely weekend as well.

New Website

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:30:00 +0000

It has been in the making for a while what with us being fussy people but we now have a fantastic looking new website.

Huge thanks to @defydesign and @_alexfarr for all the hard work and great final product.

Please feel free to look around and say hi via our many places on the web. You can now also listen to our album "Holding for A Reason" on Spotify and Last FM.

Thanks again to Mike and Alex for all the hard work. We love the new site and logo!

Up & Coming Gigs - O2 Academy!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:14:00 +0000

Hey,

We are getting ready for some really good gigs in the next few weeks...
We are playing a private gig in Aldershot for the army, Beggars Fair in Romsey.

Not forgetting a great support slot with City Stereo at the O2 Academy Islington.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Last nights practice, and a cry for help!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:25:00 +0000

Hello,

Sorry we have not posted much this year, in fact this might be the first of the year.

Well there is a good reason for that. We have been working on band admin, all the stuff you might not get time for when you do start gigging.

So last night we had a good practice. We blasted through some of the normal set material and we also worked on a new song.

Tom and Will had jammed an idea about a few backs while in the comfort of a BBQ and a pint of shandy and took the idea to Barny and Chris last week. A few tweaks here and there and it was shaping up nicely.

During the week a few lyrics were put down and Karen got to have a listen last night. It will be a fun song to play as we hope it has a bit of everything we do in there.

We need your help though. We have the chance to support City Stereo in London and we need your vote.
Please visit - "Thinking For Tuesday to support City Stereo - vote now!"

Remember you can find us and follow us on Twitter@TFT_Band and on Facebook.

Thanks.

Performing on Teaserama - Online Music Show

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:11:00 +0000

Early Christmas Gift!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:42:00 +0000

Check out our performance of Fade Away aired on the Christmas episode of Teaserama Live; online show geared towards promoting new band and comedians.

Hope you enjoy it and the other acts featured...

TEASERAMA 10 from TEASERAMA on Vimeo.

Been a little quiet lately...

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:19:00 +0000

... as we plan another trip to the studio. Got some gigs in the pipeline which we will keep you posted on but all hands on deck to get our newest, and as some would say, our best material recorded for 2011!

Already booked for festival next year...

See you back here when more to report!

Awesome Live Review!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:40:00 +0000

Wilkestock

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:28:00 +0000

Another awesome festival for your diary.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
www.wilkestock.com

Gig Swap!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:25:00 +0000

Thinking For Tuesday support Spectrum 7 at The Boileroom in Guildford on Thursday 22nd July!

Spectrum 7 support Thinking For Tuesday at The Cellars in Portsmouth on Thursday 29th July!

Click the on the posters below to purchase tickets for each gig at £6...

A Week Off

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:50:00 +0000

Good Morning,

Tonight would normally be practice for us but we have a week off to get us ready for all that we have coming up.

17 July 2010, 11:30 - THE AYLESBURY FESTIVAL
22 July 2010, 20:00 - THE BOILEROOM, SUPPORTING SPECTRUM 7
24 July 2010, 12:00 - SOUTH DEVON FESTIVAL
29 July 2010, 20:00 - THE CELLARS
4 September 2010, 12:00 - WILKESTOCK FESTIVAL

It's going to be a fun and hectic July and we hope we can see you at a gig soon.

We have tickets for The Boileroom and The Cellars available now so please get in touch.
Email band@thinkingfortuesday.com for more information.

Have a great week and remember to keep an eye open for all the latest podcasts and video blogs.

TFT

A review to be proud of...

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:21:00 +0000

"Their music is jaw droppinly catchy, hook laden and quite heavy when they want to. Its not overplayed by any of the band, who seem to know exactly what they want and have achieved it without compromise."

"I can see TFT’s live set being a thing of beauty."

"The first time I played this in the car, I wasn’t blown away, but on repeated listens, the damn thing just gets better and better."

Click here to read the full review by Paul Chesworth at Room Thirteen.

Industry Showcase

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:56:00 +0000

Looking for your support as we have some industry contacts coming to see us perform live.

Important night so please let us know if you would like your name on the guest list for £7 entry.

Hope you can make it!
Thank you.

Thinking For Tuesday

Summer Begins!

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:11:00 +0000

THINKING FOR TUESDAY PLAYING THE MAIN STAGE THIS SATURDAY AT 12PM

If you're planning on coming along we are ready to rock your socks off!

FOR ALL YOU LONDONERS
Tuesday 22nd June is the night. Please come along, show your support and help us make a good impression. We promise to make it a top show!

22nd June 2010
The 229 Club, Great Portland Street
7.30pm
The Breadstealers
Faith of Merchants
Diving In Duck Ponds
Thinking For Tuesday

Us performing at The 229 Club in May - awesome night!

FINALLY...
We are very pleased to announce that we have been invited to play at The Hamble Regatta on Thursday 1st July.

For any of you planning on attending one of these events we look forward to seeing you.

One week old memories.

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:56:00 +0000

We're a week behind schedule but not to worry - had a lot going on.

Huge thanks to everyone who came and supported us last Tuesday at the 229 Club in London. It was a great night made even more so by you all. Next date; same time, same venue - Tuesday 22nd June. £7 entry on the door and worth every penny. All support and cheers welcome! Thanks.

Who to expect this Tuesday...

noreply@blogger.com (Thinking For Tuesday) — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:25:00 +0000

18th May 2010
The 229 Club, Great Portland Street
7.30pm

Vivid Nation
The Explorers Collective
So Far Gone
Bad Wolf
Thinking For Tuesday