Our new 7" vinyl and download single "Oooh!/Picture Negative" is officially out on 7th December and should then be available in all good shops. Pre-order it now already from Rough Trade over at http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=320625 as well as from iTunes. The 7" also comes with a download voucher that gets you an exclusive extra track!
“Probably what Alice would have as a soundtrack if she fell down the rabbit hole in 2009, and was confronted with scary bobbing sun-flowers…I want more!” – Artrocker.com
"Pretty damn progressive! In an arch sort of way." - Byron Coley, The Wire
Also still available from www.frenchforcartridge.com is our brilliant debut "Cases"...£6.99 including postage.
“This 9 tracker from pan-european group Cartridge is great fun. Mixing up a heap of styles (all played with remarkable assurance and chops), there's elements of jerky, spiky u.s. new wave, mars volta's complex chord blasts, bearsuit / melt banana frantic pop, lush harmonies, avant-rock stylings and hummable tunes. Schizophrenic yes, but rewarding, energetic stuff.” (Rough Trade, April 2006)
“One of the most intriguingly interesting of new London based bands out there right now … A fine sound that bends like Primus dancing with Bjork and gets all left-field art rock as it drags you in. Oh yes, tango away as you do your laundry lullaby. Sunny day Beach Boys all gone off-hinge … Ah yes, and such fine detail as well, a unique and recommended album. This is why we do this Organ thing.” (Organ 158, May 2006)
“Possibly the product of years spent studying the world's entire musical output Cartridge produce bizarre masterful music that positively defies categorisation.... Boldly different and cogent, Cartridge prove that originality doesn't have to come at the expense of a tune. Genius.” (DH/www.manchestermusic.co.uk, January 2006)
“They have as much range in one track as many bands manage in a lifetime. Pop hooks sit alongside the wildly surreal.” (Kabarett Spielraum, April 2006)
“Sounds swell and morph from the paranoid ivory pounding of Dresden Dolls, via the hushed insanity of Bjork, through to swirling psychedelia.” (Spill 25, July 2006)
French For Cartridge is a London-based band fronted by a male/female duo. Formed as an attempt to create atonal pop music whilst at Goldsmiths in New Cross, the band released their first album ‘Cases’ to rave reviews in 2006. The album made it to ‘album of the month’ in the renowned Organ fanzine and was picked up by BBC Radio 1, BBC Newcastle, Resonance FM and Pulserated among others. Their track ‘Fooling Around’ was chosen by Rob Da Bank for the Radio 1 Best of Unsigned Podcast and featured in the top half of the Dandelion Radio Peel Festive Fifty.
French For Cartridge has appeared at festivals in England and abroad and played venues such as Luminaire, Barfly, Spitz, 93 Feet East, Macbeth and Bush Hall. Recently the band recorded new tracks for a Dandelion Radio session and they are now working on the follow-up album to be released early 2010.
The first single 'Oooh!' will be officially released on Dinner With Daisy Records on 7'' and digital download with 'Picture Negative' as the AA side on 7th December 2009. The songs have been mixed and mastered by Husky Hoskulds and the video for Oooh! was made by artist Riccardo Arena. The new album "Liquorice" will follow on 25th January 2010.
Oh, and the name? The band takes its name from its side project (‘une cartouche’ - which is French for cartridge) which in turn took its name from what the band used to be called.
“Cartridge seem to have evolved, they’re now called French For Cartridge, they’re still as different as ever, still as unique, still as good.” – Organ
For press enquiries contact keir.pr@bloodyawfulpoetry.com
For booking and all other enquiries contact info@frenchforcartridge.com
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Hi cArtridge, 'appy new year! Our debut album 'Hope Is Not Enough' has been nominated for the XFM New Music Award 2009. If you like it please click on the banner to vote for us. Thanks! Sam & rtP p.s. Come and see us play tomorrow Friday 16th Jan at Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, W12 7LJ. On stage 9:30pm.
Goshes, we haven't trod the boards for some time and now we’re doing it for you for FREE. We'll be doing video presentations/showcases of the two recent vids from TCFTSIST as well... Goshes.
It all kicks off at 7pm at 93 Feet East on Dec 8th and we're taking over both the main hall and the Pink Bar so you'll be able to wander freely through the venue in waves of royal TCFTS joy...
AJ HOLMES will be DJing for us in the Pink Bar!
To Arms Etc will be in support! http://www. myspace. com/toarmsetc Relatively new but already signed to Bronzerat Records, home of Seasick Steve and the lovely Trost, To Arms Etc produce a wonderfully euphoric and scattered space age vista... ex The Projects and Mitzi Caspar Plus special Guests...
And, this is not music. ...so this is music.
It is not feelings either.
It is silence dedicated by the person who loves all stories.
Love for You to listen to the one that it is not likely to listen.
if you...:-]
Thought we’d let you know that we’re playing your track "Endings" and plugging your upcoming Tiny Radio gig on Bristol Uncovered this Sunday morning on BBC Radio Bristol between 1-3am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the on line "Listen Live/Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there's a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol
