Happy New Year!
Wow! It’s
safe to say that 2019 has been a fabulously FUNK-TASTIC year for us.
Throughout
the year, we were kept hugely busy with recording, writing, filming, planning, jamming, gigging,
grooving and having absolutely loads of fun. Now we’ve had time to enjoy our festive break, indulge in FAR too many mince pies and recover from our hangovers, we’re ready to jump right back in and start planning our year ahead.
As there is
so much worth mentioning, we wanted to write this post to give you a round-up
of some of our 2019 highlights before letting you in on what our plans are for
2020.
2019 Highlights
First of
all, we were absolutely delighted to release our very first debut single, ‘(Your Love Makes Me) Happy’ with a bonus
track ‘I Was Wrong’ back in May. We
recorded and mixed these two tracks ourselves and we were pleased to receive
some wonderful feedback including features on radio stations and music podcasts
such as Nick Keir’s ‘Funk Soul Archive’ on Wycombe Sound and Ross Sutherland’s ‘Souled
Down South’ for Channel Radio.
2019 was a
great year for gigs. We were invited by the incredible Supa & Da Kryptonites to guest on their residency night at Stramash in Edinburgh - this was our
first gig in the capital and we were pleased that the audience didn’t hesitate
to get on the floor for a dance. We were
honoured to be included on the Outwith
Festival bill which included major acts such as Idlewild, Honeyblood, William McCarthy and some of Fife’s very best
local talent including the fantastic Dancing
on Tables and Oskar Braves. We also had the privilege to headline a number
of gigs including PJ Molloy’s, Aberdour
Festival, a packed-out gig in Anstruther and The Greenside in Leslie.
We launched this blog which has been read a whopping 470 times. We shared some live videos
with you all through our YouTube channels and social media and we’re truly humbled
that our live videos have had a total of 8.2k
views!
Due to our huge
backlog of ideas, we agreed to knuckle down and focus on developing some fresh tunes
over the winter months, so you can certainly expect some new additions to our
set this year. Finally, we decided
to start recording some of our more popular songs at Gracenote Studios and we are absolutely thrilled with how they are
sounding!
2020 Plans
Looking
forward, we can’t wait to share our new tracks with you and we already have a
few gigs in the pipeline; we look forward to sharing the details with you
shortly.
Since
forming the band in September 2018, we have worked hard to get to where we are
now and we are pleased that we now have a full 2-hour set of completely
original material! We’re now feeling super motivated to ramp things up and
build on what we’ve achieved so far.
We feel that
we still have a lot of work to do but we will continue to work tirelessly to
make sure that we will deliver some of the BEST fabulously-funky new music of
not only Fife, but Scotland!! We can’t
wait to see what the future has in store for us.
Thank you
all so much for your continued support and words of encouragement. We wish each
and every one of you all of the best for the New Year and hope to see you soon.
The Passing
Sages x
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