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Bravo Brave Bats - A Year in the Life

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Bravo Brave Bats - A Year in the Life of an Unsigned Band. This vlog is designed to document a year in the life of Bravo Brave Bats - an unsigned band in a crowded music industry.
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Episodes

Episode 34 - A Live BBC Session

An exciting evening as the the boys go to BBC Bristol to do a live session for the Introducing team. It sould be aired in the middle of February. Stay tuned.

Feb 11, 2012•7 min

Episode 33 - A Survey for the Fans

The boys can't decide what songs to play at their forthcoming BBC Live session so commission a survey to be completed by the fans.

Jan 25, 2012•4 min

Episode 32 - Chatting about iTunes

The boys chat about getting their music on iTunes and a couple of ways of doing that. A quick chat about a new song in practice too.

Jan 16, 2012•4 min

Episode 31 - A New Project

The 3 E.P.s project is done and dusted and the band plan a new venture for 2012! Not to be missed!

Jan 08, 2012•49 sec

Episode 30 - Merry Christmas

The band are joined by members of This Is The Kit and Rozi Plain for an impromptu and frankly rather scrappy rendition of a popular Christmas song.

Dec 27, 2011•5 min

Episode 28 - A Musical Trip to Bath

Ieu and Hec go to Bath to check out the markets and encounter a few interesting musical acts. Maybe they could inspire a new musical performance direction.

Dec 12, 2011•4 min

Episode 27 - An Interview with Dave from Artscare Records

Dave, founder, leader and comrade of Arstscare Records talks about the label and how he plans to turn it into more of a management/PR vehicle to fit a rapidly changing music industry. He discusses his thoughts on the DIY ethic and how far it can and can't take a band.

Nov 28, 2011•4 min

Episode 26 - Half Way Through

Ieuan chats about the blog being 26 episodes old with a little sneak peek at some of the launch footage.

Nov 21, 2011•2 min

Episode 23 - Red Giant Video

A brand new video and a brand new song from the forthcoming Purple E.P. Shot in Croatia on the Island of Krk...

Oct 18, 2011•3 min

Episode 22 - A Live Performance and a look round Hec's Studio

The band are hard at work mixing the Purple E.P. Featuring a live performance in the Louisiana basement of Highwire/Tightrope, we have a look around the things in Hector's house. See previous blog episodes for how HW/TR was written.

Oct 09, 2011•5 min

Episode 21 - Recording Vocals at Hector's Home

The band begin recording vocals for a track on the Purple E.P.at Hector's house. They use an MXL 2003 although the next day decide that the sound is too bright and switch to an MXL 990

Sep 25, 2011•3 min

Episode 20 - Home Recording in an Office

The boys start home recording their new E.P. (at Hector's office). They record it themselves with Hector's gear and the band talk through how they have set up.

Sep 18, 2011•6 min

Episode 19 - Hector's Pedal Board

Hector talks us through some of his most interesting pedals - SERIOUS PEDAL FANATICS ONLY (any other interested parties are welcome to watch, but naturally at your own risk!)

Sep 11, 2011•4 min

Episode 18 - Storyboarding a Video for Robots

Ieuan creates his first ever storyboard using some atrocious drawings. The video will show the story of what happens when infants create robots. The song playing underneath is an instrumental loud version of an acoustic song previously deputed on the blog.

Sep 04, 2011•2 min

Episode 15 - Blogs, Snares and a New Song

Ieuan renovates his snare drum plus talks about success with a blog. The band have a practice in Ieuan's garden and run through a new song which may be on the new E.P.

Aug 03, 2011•3 min

Episode 14 - Big Jeff

The band bump into Bristol music institution Big Jeff after completing an interview for Drunken Werewolf Magazine. Jeff reveals the naked rock fantasies of Dave, the manager of Artscare Records. They go to The Old Duke for an open mic night where they see AILO KOBAYASI (twitter.com/ailomusiq)sing in Japanese and Big Jeff do some beat poetry. A fun way to spend a tuesday evening.

Jul 24, 2011•6 min

Episode 13 - Rebuilding the Website

In which the band do a much-needed rehaul of the website to get this very blog on it. Go check it out - www.bravobravebats.com

Jul 17, 2011•2 min

Episode 12 - Finances

Ieuan takes a look at the finances - or rather lack of - of the band. The song Wagons playing underneath is from the Green EP and has a fitting theme to the financial aspect of being in a band.

Jul 11, 2011•5 min

Episode 11 - Boats and Watering Cans

The band chat about playing gigs on boats and where to record and launch the next ep. Ieuan sees Rob Da Bank has a competition on Twitter to write a song entitled "Living in a Watering Can" and composes an entry. #asonginsevenhours

Jul 03, 2011•3 min

Episode 10 - Tough Gig, Still Fun

The band go up to london midweek to play at Proud, Camden. Traffic trouble and a half empty room don't help but it's still fun gigging.

Jun 26, 2011•5 min

Episode 9 - The Finished Video

As introduced in Episode 4, here's the finished video. Please go to http://apps.facebook.com/greenpoll/index/band/id/477 to vote for this video in The Green Man Festival competition. Cheers, BBB

Jun 19, 2011•5 min

Episode 7 - The Practice Room

Hector shows off our home from home - the practice space. Featuring open sewers and collapsing ceilings. That's actually not too much of an exaggeration.

Jun 05, 2011•3 min

Episode 6 - Dot to Dot

The band prepare for playing Dot to Dot festival. A bit of waiting around and sound checking.

May 30, 2011•5 min
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