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As an added bonus for anyone who missed the interview, you can listen again / download the podcast at:

ALLfm Podcast

SILO will be interviewed live on ALLfm on Wednesday 5th March 1pm - 2pm GMT, in support of the 'Click Refresh' night at Bar Odder. ALLfm will also be previewing 2 tracks from 'Substance Over Style' from Sunday 2nd - Wednesday 5th March.

If you're in Manchester then tune your radios to 96.9fm, if not then they have a live streaming option on the web. Check  ALLfm's website for more.

Until Wednesday you will be able to download these tracks free on SILO's myspace page

Silo is live at Odder Bar (opposite the BBC building on Oxford Road) on Wednesday March 5th. Entry is free for everyone, hope to see you all there.

www.myspace.com/silomusiconline

Facebook / ilike users head to:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SILO/8227321722

or

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Silo

My debut album 'Substance Over Style' is now available for download from Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Substance-Over-Style/dp/B0010SX5OO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1197978293&sr=8-2

Follow the above link to buy the album

Just a quick reminder for anyone around Manchester on Saturday. Silo are playing at Manchester Academy - the one downstairs, doors 7.30, Silo onstage at 10pm. 3 other decent bands on as well. Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 on the door. Would be good to see some local Vox support there!

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Instrumental track from the end of the album 'Substance Over Style', this took 6 weeks of non stop sampling and twisting to get things to fit and is written completely on an MPC4000. There's about 250 different drum samples on this - wanted to make it sound as organic as possible. Several pitch and time signature shifts through the song - I wanted it to develop as a sound-scape. I'm thinking of having this pressed on 7" if anyone knows anyone who can get me a good price? Kick back before playing.

What a top weekend. Started Friday night watching Alice Russell, of legendary Tru Thoughts / Quantic Soul orchestra fame. Not strictly part of the ITC line up but watched her at the Big Chill in August and she was awesome so took the opportunity to watch her in a more intimate venue. She did not disappoint.

Then on to Dry Bar for some unsigned bands and to check out the room downstairs as that's where i was playing on the Saturday night. It's actually quite a decent venue which i was surprised by, it's not really where it's reputation is at.  Anyway, we stuck around there for a bit, checking on a couple of bands.

Saturday came so off round to me mates for some pre gig warm ups. Everything went smoothly so off to Dry Bar to load in. Then find out that due to bands overunning my slot has been put back to run through the rugby. I'm not a fan of rugby at all, but it seemed like the whole of Manchester had suddenly turned into Henley-on-Thames and magically been given public school boy accents. We finally get on stage at about 7.55, should have been 7.15, play a set that i was happy with until a spot of the old 'technical difficulties' left us having to cut a song out. I wouldn't mind but it was the one I'd dedicated to Tony Wilson, so it seemed a bit cheeky to fuck it up...

Had a really good reception considering so was chuffed with that - lots of 'nice-one's' and 'what's your myspace' etc...so again stayed on to check out some more bands. Now, I don't know if this is something particular to Manchester, but it seemed like every band sounded exactly the same. I can understand this going on for 2 - 3 bands, but we stayed for about 6 - 7 bands, and they all had the same ideas, which was boring as fuck... So we carried on boozing elsewhere. Got in about 5 in the morning then got up at about 12 to check more bands, but again everyone we saw sounded pretty much the same as the last one....pretty hedonistic weekend though...

Anyway - enough of my rant, if that's what I think then I guess A and R guys must get really hacked off with it, my point is that if it's meant to be a showcase then lets see a showcase, not 600 bands that sound the same.

I'll have some pictures and hopefully video to post soon so I'll put those up as soon as I can.

SILO