A rainy Friday morning was very much brightened for SHOP by an illuminating email which we found to be waiting for us on opening up. It said this:
Hello Shop,
Apologies for the unsolicited email - my name is Matt and i run a small digital music PR company up in Redland. We work with a range of artists including Mumford & Sons, Johnny Flynn, Bombay Bicycle Club and a handful more. You can find out a few details on us here - www.stayloose.co.uk.
This is a strange request but I love your shop so much that i wanted to check and see if it's something you'd be interested in. Basically, tomorrow we are in Bristol with one of our artists - Daughter (Elena Tonra). She's one of the artists from the Communion folk movement in London (Mumford & Sons label) and we are filming a number of unique impromptu sessions with her in some of Bristol's loveliest places.
You can check her out her. She's pretty ace: www.myspace.com/daughterdaughter
I wanted to drop you an email to see if you'd potentially consider the idea of us filming a live track in your wonderful Shop at some time around lunch time? It is basically just Elena, myself (holding a mic) and Tom (our video guy) so it's not a huge set-up. We'd need about 10 - 15 minutes (max) and would be looking to film one of the songs from her new 'Demos EP'.
Like i say, it's a bit of a random request but i thought Shop would be utterly perfect for Elena and represents everything that i think is so ace about our city. I'm not too sure if you'd consider it - i appreciate it might be a wee bit of a distraction from your primary task of being a shop, but i just wanted to have an ask!
Here's an example of Tom's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EDDput0b8&feature=fvst
Thanks for reading this far down!
Best
Matt
Hello Shop,
Apologies for the unsolicited email - my name is Matt and i run a small digital music PR company up in Redland. We work with a range of artists including Mumford & Sons, Johnny Flynn, Bombay Bicycle Club and a handful more. You can find out a few details on us here - www.stayloose.co.uk.
This is a strange request but I love your shop so much that i wanted to check and see if it's something you'd be interested in. Basically, tomorrow we are in Bristol with one of our artists - Daughter (Elena Tonra). She's one of the artists from the Communion folk movement in London (Mumford & Sons label) and we are filming a number of unique impromptu sessions with her in some of Bristol's loveliest places.
You can check her out her. She's pretty ace: www.myspace.com/daughterdaughter
I wanted to drop you an email to see if you'd potentially consider the idea of us filming a live track in your wonderful Shop at some time around lunch time? It is basically just Elena, myself (holding a mic) and Tom (our video guy) so it's not a huge set-up. We'd need about 10 - 15 minutes (max) and would be looking to film one of the songs from her new 'Demos EP'.
Like i say, it's a bit of a random request but i thought Shop would be utterly perfect for Elena and represents everything that i think is so ace about our city. I'm not too sure if you'd consider it - i appreciate it might be a wee bit of a distraction from your primary task of being a shop, but i just wanted to have an ask!
Here's an example of Tom's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EDDput0b8&feature=fvst
Thanks for reading this far down!
Best
Matt
Well, we never said that flattery wasn't everything and so we quickly dropped Matt a mail back to say come on down and they did and here's some pictures
There aren't too many pics, as we had to be very quiet during filming to make sure Elena's beautiful voice was recorded correctly and SHOP's camera is about a zillion years old and makes a lot of noise, but rest assured we'll be updating the blog when the vid is released and the 'SHOP sessions' are born!
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