School Of Language - Official Site

28 March 2008 - live in London and elsewhere

Watch out. The School Of Language's blighty based power trio is getting ready to be unleashed, including performances in Paris, in Brighton at the Great Escape, at the Wychwood and Green Man Festivals plus a one off show with Field Music's other half The Week That Was at London's Luminaire on 16 May.

03 March 2008 - School of Language - US and Canadian Tour

To all you lucky little blighters in around the great continent of North American... ...School of Language is coming to you! Yes, we've given up on Easter and are going to get out into the wilds of the u.s. and canada and spread some serious rock music (along with a bunch of excellent bands, including - pinch me! - Medications in Washington, D.C.!) Not only that, but the School of Language band will feature the inestimable talents of two of Chicago's finest - Doug McCombs (of Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day and Brokeback) on bass and Ryan Rapsys (of Euphone, Ambulette) on drums. We very much hope to see you out there! Dates to the right.

18 Feb 2008 - Rockist Video unleashed

A few weeks ago auditions were held in Sunderland for the School of Language power pop trio. Here are the results:

05 Feb 2008 - Sea From Shore out today

Sea From Shore is out today in the USA on Thrill Jockey and yesterday on Memphis Industries in the UK and Ireland.

The UK iTunes version includes three bonus tracks: Tear Me A Part, No Control and a cover of Roxy Music's If There is Something.

The Bleep version includes two acoustic versions of This is No Fun and Extended Holliday.

There's also a limited edition CD version of album with three extra tracks, No Control, Across the Water and Aposiopesis Remix.

07 Jan 2008 - thrill jockey 15 year celebration

On December of 2007 I played a show in Chicago with some people I'd never met before. There's a travelogue blog i wrote for Mojo here

02 Oct 2007- live on tv and now the net

Just in case (like me and all those billions of people who don't have sky or live in manchester) you didn't catch my brief spot on Channel M's City Centre Social show last night, somehow or other it's already up on youtube - even more strangely, I don't look anywhere near as old and as tired as I felt - that's the magic of moving pictures

Sea From Shore

Debut Album Sea From Shore - Out 4th February 2008 Get from:
Norman Records
Rough Trade
Memphis Industries Shop
Thrill Jockey Shop
iTunes UK
iTunes USA

30 Apr, Arci Kroen, Verona, Italy

01 May, Controsenso-Prato, Italy

03 May, Hafen2, Offenbach, Germany

04 May, Astra Stube, Hamburg, Germany

05 May, Twisted Robot @ West Germany w/Magik Markers, Berlin

10 May, Naked @ The White Room, Sunderland

14 May, BBC 6 Music Riley Session (Full Band)

15 May, Great Escape Festival, Concorde 2 Brighton

16 May, Field Music presents...School of Language and The Week That Was at The Luminaire, Kilburn, London get tickets here

17 May, Great Escape Festival, The Old Market, Mojo night, Brighton

31 May, Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse

20 Jun, Edinburgh Indie Society @ The Ark, Edinburgh

21 Jun, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds with The Week That Was

22 Jun, The Cluny, Newcastle with The Week That Was

15 Aug, Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park

16 Aug, Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park

17 Aug, Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park

30 Aug, Electric Picnic Festival, Ireland

31 Aug, Electric Picnic Festival, Ireland