'Love Part II' pre-order, Friends Electric Remix

Bright Light Bright Light's 'Love Part II' CD single can now be pre-ordered at Amazon!

Yesterday it was the no. 1 preorder, which is VERY exciting for us here!!

Follow this link and order a copy if you like!

Also, while he's off on tour with Ellie Goulding in November, Friends Electric have landed an official remix on the release of Ellie's 'The Writer', which you can find on iTunes. Fantastic!

xx

Bright Light Bright Light signs with Popjustice HiFi!

We are very, very excited to announce (slightly later than they did - apologies) that Bright Light Bright Light has just signed with new pop label Popjustice HiFi!

On 13th September, they will release his debut single proper 'Love Part II' as a download and deluxe CD.

Both formats feature:
1. Love Part II
2. Cry At Films (feat Del Marquis)
2. Love Part II (Pepptalk Remix)

and will look a bit like this:

And if you go HERE now, you can get the bside absolutely free.

AMAZING

xxx

Martipants Mix Tape

Martipants' brother has turned 30. This will be of absolutely no consequence to any of you other than that it has prompted him to make a mixtape!

Some absolute gems on this mix. Have a listen here!

Martipants & OLO Worms

Our very own Martipants has been schmoozing with OLO Worms again, and has remixed their track 'Back From England'.

It's available on a FREE EP they've put out here

And you can see it here:

Go get it x

Friends Electric video

On June 14th Friends Electric release their first single 'Wall Of Arms'

In the meantime, here's the video!

NME / The Great Escape

Bright Light Bright Light is in the NME this week! The Radar has picked him up, finally, and on p.21 you can read all about him and his hits in the making.

AND ... if you're off to The Great Escape, you can watch the live show for free!

3.15 pm at The Latest Music Bar x

Kelis Remixes : Friends Electric / BLBL

So two of our artists now have Kelis remixes floating around the internet.
Get them here now, put them on quick!

Friends Electric Remix
Bright Light Bright Light Symphonic Remix

In other news, the Dave Aude remix is great. Not wildly different, but huge.

xx

Releases Round Up : April / May 2010

Lots going on! So we're trying to compress it into a little e-bulletin.
Which goes something like this...! :

UPCOMING RELEASE:

Friends Electric - Wall Of Arms
[SRR10D]

Neath's newest dance/electro band Friends Electric are releasing their debut single following live dates with Frankmusik, remixing Ellie Goulding and Noisettes, and playing at SXSW last year.
OUT : 24th May 2010
WHAT: Digital Download
AND...? : 1. Wall Of Arms  2. Beta Blocks  3. Wall Of Arms [Friends Electric Remix]

OUT NOW:

Rob Cowen & The Dissidents - City Lights
WHERE : iTunes
WHY? : Q Magazine and Kissy Sellout love them.

The Venus Stare - Close To You
WHERE : iTunes // Ltd Edtion Cassette
WHY? : "by far the most exciting and cool band we’ve ever come across!" - Bad Fotography

Bright Light Bright Light - A New Word To Say
WHERE : FREE from www.brightlightx2.com
WHY? : "One of the 100 best things about pop music" - Popjustice

Rob Cowen & The Dissidents single out today

The fantastic 'City Lights' is now available!

1. Radio Edit
2. James Yuill Remix

Get now from iTunes. We love it.

x

City Lights single - free remix

Rob Cowen & The Dissidents have their second single out this month. On the 19th, the rather epic 'City Lights' will be available as a digital single featuring the radio edit and a great James Yuill remix.

For now, you can get a free Bright Light Bright Light remix:

'City Lights' [Bright Light Bright Light Remix] mp3

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The Lexington special show 12th April

Monday 12th April is the first headline Bright Light Bright Light show of 2010, and the first ever with the addition of Chris on drums.

The show at The Lexington, London, is going to be a bit of a special one. We've got Alun Davies [La Roux, Vogue, Lady Gaga] designing a set for the night, Sink The Pink DJing between each act, and supporting are SRR's own Friends Electric and the wonderful Velo.

Tickets are £6 advance from ticketweb to guarantee cheapest entry.
Doors at 8.

And if you didn't already know, you can get the free 'A New Word To Say' single from www.brightlightx2.com.

Here's the James Yuill Remix as a taster : [mp3]

Introducing ... Friends Electric

Friends Electric, who hail from Neath, the same hometown as Bright Light Bright Light, are the newest addition to the Self Raising Roster.

We'll be releasing their track 'Wall Of Arms' on 10th May, but in the meantime you can do these things:

a) Check out their tunes on myspace

b) download their great remixes for
- Ellie Goulding
- Penguin Prison [our favourite]
- Noisettes
- Bright Light Bright Light

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The Venus Stare OUT NOW!

"YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I'M SEVENTEEN, SEVENTEEN!"

The Venus Stare's 'Close To You' is finally out! We're all very excited.

To entice you, here's a FREE REMIX by Clean Shaven Grins.

If you would the single direct from iTunes CLICK HERE!
If you're super cool and would like a limited edition signed cassette CLICK HERE!

Hope you have as much fun dancing round to it as we are.
And the numerous blogs who have written about them, including Bad Fotography, who call them "by far the most exciting and cool band we've ever come across"

WOW!

x

FREE 'A NEW WORD TO SAY' SINGLE

OMFG.


Bright Light Bright Light has a new website, from which you can download a free single, namely 'A New Word To Say' as produced by Boom Bip.http://www.brightlightx2.com


Go to www.brightlightx2.com for the single and lots of info.


Oh, it's also POPJUSTICE's song of the day. Apparently Rod is "one of the 100 best things about pop music". NICE. [Thanks Peter x]

Close To You

The Venus Stare delivered us their fantastic, OUTRAGEOUS video for 'Close To You'. Here it is in all its glory! The single is out March 22nd. Pre-order the limited edition signed cassette from their shop!




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The Venus Stare : Close To You

On the 22nd March, we're releasing this wonderful single:

The Venus Stare's 'Close To You' is released as a download and a limited edition cassette single. On it, you'll find the great original and a fantastic remix by Fear Of Tigers, one of our favourite people around.

Check iTunes, 7digital etc on 22nd March for the download.

You can pre-order the ltd edition signed cassette single now HERE.

And you can go listen to both versions at

www.myspace.com/venusstare

FREE VALENTINE'S DAY EP

How wonderful! Valentine's Day is almost here again!

[spew]

Luckily our artists have clubbed together to make a free 4-track EP for you; a cover of a song of their choice, or in the case of Glorious Estefan, an original.
Silver lining to every cloud.

All you have to do is send an email to selfraisingrecords@googlemail.com
and later this week, the link to download it, for free, will be sent straight to your inbox.

It looks like this:

And on it you'll find:
Martipants - Love In This Club
Bright Light Bright Light - Landslide
Rob Cowen & The Dissidents - Sally Wheatley
Glorious Estefan - Second Date

xxx

Nerina Pallot & Bright Light Bright Light : When Doves Cry

Bright Light Bright Light was special guest on Nerina Pallot's internet broadcast gig on Monday night, and played one of his own songs, 'Love Part II', as well as this...

A stripped down and rather good cover version of Prince's 'When Doves Cry'

Watch, if you will, this video, see how you tremble inside.

Coming up in 2010 for Self Raising Records ...

2010 is getting off to a very busy start! We have lots of releases coming up. Namely...

The Venus Stare - Close To You
release date : March 2010
*listen now on myspace*

The video is very almost ready and it's about to go to radio. This 80s powerpop outfit bring back the drama and majesty of your favourite 80s films. Great songwriting and big choruses with an exciting remix or two on the way as well...

Rob Cowen & The Dissidents - City Lights
release date : late March 2010
*listen now on myspace*

The band follow their fantastic debut single 'Heartache' with this rather epic number. Their last effort was picked up by Kissy Sellout, 6music and Radio 1, and no doubt this will take their sound to even more new fans. Such an incredible band.

And also the debut single by Neath pop/electro outfit Friends Electric.

They have recently remixed Bright Light Bright Light, Ellie Goulding, and have toured with Frankmusik. Nice.


ALL. VERY. EXCITING.

Free Ellie Goulding Remix by Bright Light Bright Light

Everybody's talking about Ms Goulding.
Her much-adored tune 'Starry Eyed' is due out very soon, but while everyone's still humming her last, 'Under The Sheets', and it's still yo-yoing about the charts, Bright Light Bright Light has done his own remix of the tune which you can get for free here!

Ellie Goulding - Under The Sheets [Bright Light Bright Light Boys Remix]

xx

OLO WORMS mixtape

Getting a little attention of late, OLO WORMS have included our own Martipants on their mixtape, which you can get FREE from the following blog of theirs

http://www.oloworms.blogspot.com/

Head on over and grab a few free tunes!

x

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy new year to you all! Hope you have a great start to 2010.

Here are some free songs to kick start January:

Bright Light Bright Light - Blueprint
Martipants - Onyamonio
Glorious Estefan - Thrill Of The Chase
Rob Cowen & The Dissidents - Heartache