JAPAN LABEL AVEX Contact:Dee Hattori Email:dee-h@av.avex.co.jp
GERMAN LABEL VOXYD Contact: Steffi Krisch Email: steffi@musikwirtschaft.de
BENELUX LABEL (Holland & Belgium) GO ENTERTAINMENT Contact: Sjaak Bruijn Email: sjaak.bruijn@planet.nl
Live Agents - Creatuve Arts Agency (CAA) Contact: Georgia Spencer Email: gspencerholmes@caa.com Tel: 020 8846 3000
Press Phil Savidge phill@savagepr.com Gaby Green gaby@greengabpr.co.uk
Online PR Kevin Marston kev@cannonballpr.com
Distribution James@absolutemarketing.co.uk
France Live Agents - NOUS PRODUCTIONS Email: florian@nousproductions.com
Regional Radio - HART MEDIA Email: jo@hartmedia.co.uk Tel: 0207 209 3760
National Radio & TV - JEFF CHEGWIN PR Email:jeffchegwin@hotmail.com Tel: 0208 579 7997
Street Team / Marketing - NEON STREET Email:phil@neonstreet.co.uk
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Mamas Press
"Already banking radio play with this delicious modern
take on sumery '70-tingled soul...(Mamas Gun) openly
filters the multi-layered spirit of Stevie and Marvin through
latter-day smooth sensualist such as D'Angelo or Maxwell...
Think Mark Ronson without the smarm"
Uncut Magazine 4 OUT OF FIVE stars (August 08)
"Mamas Gun are to be commdended: it's pretty hard to reinvent the sweet, warm, groove filled - r'n'b of the 1970's with credibilty . Their trick is to sound like they've cherry picked the finest deatils of an eclectic record collection...This, together with frontman Andy Platts's winsome vocals and the outfits experimental instruments, means they've nailed some seriously crowd pleasing tunes"
The Metro 'One to watch' (August '08)
"One of the best things you can do on radio is play a good record, today someone bought this little gem into our studio, I played it and I thought well, it really doesn't get any better than this...(plays Pots Of Gold)...Can you believe that we get songs like this delivered into us?. How good is that song?....unbelievable!...contemporary, its just smacks of quality"
Chris Evans Drive-Time Show on BBC Radio 2 07.05.08
"Mamas Gun - a great new artist"
DJ Trevor Nelson on Radio 2
"Mamas Gun, led by über cool vocalist Andy Platts sound fabulous on record and go down a hoot live too!"
Steve Lamaq BBC Radio 1
"Mamas Gun tracks belong in an art gallery rather than on a piece of laser embedded plastic. One listen and you'll feel like real soul music and music with real soul has finally found its way home."
We contributed a song to an album that’s entered the download charts at number 2 and the physical charts at number 4 in Germany. The album is a tribute to German Hip hop pioneers Die Fantastischen Vier. We were honored to be asked to do a version of their early hit “Die Da” from 1989. OLD SCHOOL! Anyway – thanks so much to all our German friends for helping propel the album to that height in the charts. We’ll be back in Germany to play alongside Die Fantastischen Vier in Hamburg in September…PS the album (unsurprisingly) is called “A Tribute To Die Fantastischen Vier”.
Ein riesengrosses Dankeschoen an all unsere deutschen Freunde die uns mit dem Kauf von “A Tribute To Die Fantastischen Vier” unterstuetzt haben. Wir fuehlen uns sehr geehrt dass unsere Version von „Die Da“ ins Album aufgenommen wurde. Uns wurde mitgeteilt dass das Album auf Platz 2 in den Download Charts und auf Platz 4 in den Aktuellen Album Charts eingestiegen ist. Wir freuen uns tierisch.
Wir kommen im September zurueck nach Deutschland um mit den Fantastischen Vier in Hamburg zu spielen. Wir hoffen Euch alle wiederzusehen ...Euch alle...
WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH THE BEVERLEY KNIGHT TOUR and things have been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. We've had some rocking gigs, some trying gigs, gigs plagued with illness but overall we've had a real blast. We also want to continue to thank our gracious host Ms Beverley Knight for not only having us on tour but for her personal support. I damn near lost my voice yesterday thanks to a man-cold and she came to the rescue with a host of miracle cures and suggestions. I've never been on tour with another artist who is so gracious and open and helpful, she really is a star.
So we got a day off today and then it's back on the road for the next 8 dates. Lots of vids and pics being taken - they're being updated in real time on our Mamas Gun Facebook page so go check it out! THANKYOU TO EVERYONE who's bought the record on the road and shown their support, we can't thankyou enough!!!!!AP
PS....READ our tour blog / ruminations at: http://MGHEADJUNK.BLOGSPOT.COM
07.11.09
HELLLOOO! We are currently on a day off from touring with Beverley Knight. The last 4 dates in Ipswich, Cardiff, Bristol and Wolves have been fantastic - we've been getting a great response from the crowds and shifting a lot of albums!
We fly up to Glasgow tomorrow and NW England alas without The Professor - we've got Ben Epstein standing in for 3 gigs (you may have seen him playing with Duffy over the last 2 years). But don't worry The Prof will be back in no time!
Other news: We are Number 1 in the Japanese airplay chart and Number 3 in the Japanese Billboard Hot 100 chart!!!
I'll try and get some pics and footage of the tour up here ASAP.....over & out!. AP
27.10.09
NEWS OF THE DAY: MAMAS GUN ARE NUMBER 5 IN THE JAPANESE CHARTS and the most played international act on Japanese radio in 2009 so far!
We are pleased to announce we will be touring BILLBOARD LIVE next year 29th, 30th January in Tokyo and 1st Feb in Osaka.
20.10.09
HEY HEY well thankyou to everyone that's bought or is buying ROUTES TO RICHES (don't forget it'd make a great stocking filler ho ho ho - sorry)...apparently sales are very healthy, remember you can get online as well as in HMV's across the land.
It's also started going on sale in Japan and apparently we're the most played overseas act on national radio over there this year! SO hopefully it bodes well for sales and our upcoming Japanese tour. We're also releasing in Germany, Holland, Luxembourg and hopefully France with live dates to support. But for the moment it's all about getting ready to hit the road with the wonderfully talented Beverley Knight supporting on her UK tour throughout November.
Other stuff: Check out Faith and The Fury from our top friends below. I produced and co-wrote her soon-to-be-single Lotus Eater, I think it's a great meeting of ideas and Fiona's lyrics and voice are just fantastic :)
Anyway, over and out, more later! AP x
P.S Thanks everyone for so much love at The Borderline
30.09.09
Well the record's been out 2 days now and reports are coming in that it's selling very well and that reviews are generally favourable! If you're in London remember we have our headline show next week Tues 6th October at The Borderline. Supporting us will be the lovely Niamh Mc Nally who is a very talented friend of ours, be sure to catch her set! Listen to her stuff here: myspace.com/niamhmcnally
20.09.09
The record's out in 8 days homeys...if you're a myspace friend I'm going to come beating your digital door down to go and buy it! And if you're not and you're reading this then WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU??? Hahaha, no pressure! :)
We've been playing in Europe again to good receptions. The Japanese label putting our record out are winding things up too so everything is on the boil cooking nicely!
02.09.09
Hello people well I'm please to report that the Mamas Gun debut album Routes to Riches and new single You Are The Music will be released on the 28th September! It's been a long time coming due to false starts, delays and hiccups but we're finally here and ready to do this! We'll be putting on our own show in October at The Borderline as well as a national UK tour in November supporting Beverley Knight.
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THE STORY SO FAR
ROUTES TO RICHES LP PROMO
'YOU ARE THE MUSIC' SINGLE MUSIC VIDEO
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DEBUT LP "ROUTES TO RICHES" AVAILABLE IN STORE AND ONLINE AT:
Con vuestro permiso!! Ya puedes escuchar en http://www.myspace.com/scroso 4 temas de Exxxtra balls!!! de SCR & the Old School Orquesta YA EN LA CALLE!!!
E’ imminente la pubblicazione della prima compilation esaustiva sul funk italiano. Curata da Ernesto De Pascale e da Bobby Soul (Funkinitalia) per la Cramps Music la doppia raccolta uscirà il 27 Novembre. Comprenderà una parte antologica e una parte manifesto della scena contemporanea. Grandissimi nomi inclusi da Pino Daniele a Loredana Bertè ad Elio e le Storie Tese fra tantissimi altri. Verrà presentata al prossimo MEI Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti di Faenza Sabato 28 alle ore 21. E dal Lunedì’ successivo sarà distribuita nei negozi e on-line. Nella track list anche un nuovo brano inedito di Bobby Soul & Les Gastones in anteprima per gli amici di myspace qui e anche ascoltabile a questo link: http://www.youtube.com/bobbysouls#p/a/u/0/m8lM-xql_Nk. ogni vostro commento è ben gradito!
Hey guys, Loveyouluceconway from twitter here saying hey. Thought there would be new tour dates on here to get excited about ;) Impatient, yes, wanting to see mamas gun again, HELL YES!!!! Along with katielove!!! Hope you have a blast at the remainder of the BK dates, sock it to them and if i know mamas gun i have a feeling you will sell MANY MORE albums and gain many more fans, you guys deserve so much success!!!!!! PS FYI just to let you know i did a small review of your album on itunes, on there i am musicmystro, maybe i should stick to the one name on this ere cyber space!!!! Love and support to you always guys Linda xxxx
There aren't any vocals to the music yet, but I do hope to record some material in the future. My blogs contain lyrics to some of the songs I've written. I'm writing at least 5 new songs all at once lol.
I mostly go on Twitter on my iPhone lol. I'm obsessed with that site!
Hi, Just to let you know I will be playing your music Tuesday on my show on www.HGRNJ.org between 12 noon and 3 pm Eastern Time ( 5-8 pm England or 6-9 pm Central Europe Time). I hope you can tune in, if you miss the show you can Check out my Playlist's Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think! cheers sher "Sher Delight"
Hey there Andy,
honey is great for your immune system and your throat, get a litre of cranberry and blackcurrant or oj in that 5pint glass too!!!
I'm returning to normal slowly and out of quarantine finally... Hope you beat that cold real soon...
Am delighted mini me was a help too, but it shoulda been me, giggles!
Take good care fella
ttfn me x
You are the music in me today!!!! Finger on It Rocks!!! As do the two sneaky tracks on itunes that i did not know anything about ;) Thanks andy and co!!! Hope to see you again very soon :) Love n hugs Linda xxxx
Hey guys!
You're getting rave reviews for bk tour, fantastic! I'm laid up with swine flu and gonna miss ya tomorrow in Preston, gutted of guttedsville.
Got mini me doing your teaming. Have a great gig n come back as soon as you can!
Peace and love janey xx
if you remember, a while back you said you could maybe get me on the guestlist to one of your shows? i'm going to the preston show on the 9th :) can i still get on the list or should i buy a normal ticket? :P ahh what to doo? xxx
I wait for your album in France, cause i cannot find in Virgin megastore! So when does it come to Paris? I fall in love to your song : " Sketches" amazon bonus track
Andy honey I got the album today. I wanted to give it my full attention so I turned off the phone, shut the blinds and climbed into a hot bath with lavendar, essence of jasmine and my portugese neighbour Rico. (We couldnt believe that you wrote a song for him). Its simply divine honey, you gorgeous bastard you. Speak soon,xxx
