Robberie

Video from Sparkle-coustic Sunday

robin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:27:59 +0000

We had a brilliant day at Sparkle-coustic Sunday. It was great to play alongside so many other fantastic bands – thanks to Pete for organisng! And thank you for coming if you were there in time for our set.

Here’s a video of our opening song that day:

Sparkle-coustic Sunday tomorrow

robin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:35:27 +0000

Sparklecoustic flyer

Tonight we’ve got our final practice before tomorrow’s acoustic all-dayer at The Rutland Arms.

We’ll be on around 3pm so if you’re coming down to see us then make sure you get there for the start.

There’s a Sparkle-coustic Sunday! Facebook event and the Twitter hashtag to use is #sparklesunday.

See you there!

Sparkle-coustic Sunday flyer

robin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:11:43 +0000

Here is a flyer with rabbits on for the acoustic all-dayer we’re playing the weekend after this. Come along!

Sparklecoustic flyer

Acoustic all-dayer at the Rutland Arms

robin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:15:30 +0000

We’re very excited to have been asked to play at the Sparkle-coustic Sunday! event next month in Sheffield.

It is taking place on Sunday 19 February upstairs at one of Sheffield’s finest city centre pubs, The Rutland Arms. Eight bands are playing between 3pm to 9pm (ish), including Standard Fare and Pete Green. It is completely acoustic with no microphones or PA so it should be quite intimate.

We can’t wait. Thanks to Pete for organising it. It is a fiver on the door.

Sparkle-coustic Sunday! Facebook event

Thank you

robin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Thanks to those that came to see us at The Green Room last week. Hopefully the sound problems (and our bad playing) weren’t too much of a distraction!

We’re next playing live on February 19th and will have more details soon.

Robberie at The Green Room

Last-minute gig at The Green Room tomorrow (Thursday 12 January)

robin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:32:21 +0000

This is very late notice, but we’ve been asked to play at The Green Room in Sheffield tomorrow night (Thursday 12 January), along with a couple of other acoustic bands.

We’ll be playing a 20-30 minute set and should be on around 9:30pm. If you can come down then we’d love to see you there – it is free entry!

Open mic night at The Green Room

robin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:15:55 +0000

We’re hoping to finish off the year with a short performance at The Green Room open mic night in Sheffield on Monday 12 December.

The plan is to turn up, put our name down and play three songs using borrowed instruments. So it isn’t a full gig. There’ll be lots of other people playing. Who knows, if it is really busy, we may not even get on.

But if you fancy popping down – it is free entry – then we’ll see you there. We think the live music starts about 9pm.

We got played on the radio yesterday

robin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:40:34 +0000

We were very excited last night to get an email that said we’d just been played on the radio. We quickly tuned in to Radio Sheffield and I look back on this city and fall in love with her again was playing right at that moment!

It was on our local BBC Introducing show with Christian Carlisle. You can listen to it again for the next seven days on iPlayer (our song starts at 29 minutes 19 seconds).

And we were dead chuffed to hear it described as a ‘beautiful indie-folk’ and ‘an acoustic gem’. Thanks, Christian!

BBC Introducing 17 November 2011 on iPlayer

An exciting email

Download our songs for free!

robin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:43:00 +0000

We’ve been busy doing some recording at home. You can now listen to three of our songs and even download them if you want.

They are only in demo form so are pretty rough around the edges but you’ll get the idea!

The broad and narrow way

I look back on this city and fall in love with her again

A song about Sheffield.

Academical

No news is good news, right?

robin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:20:06 +0000

We know things are a bit quiet! After our Tramlines performance, summer holidays got in the way of band stuff. We took it in turns to go away and Val embarked on her annual world tour where she left Sheffield for all six weeks of her holiday. Before we knew it, it was autumn.

Anyway, we’ve got back together and are getting back up to speed with the old songs and a couple of new ones, too. Plus, we’ve decided to do one or two more covers so are experimenting with those to see what works with a guitar, bass and glock/mighty Rapman keyboard.

I’ve also been recording a couple of demos of our songs at home. If these turn out any good, we’ll put them online.

And as soon as there is news of a live performance, you’ll find out on here…