So part 2 of our tour saw us getting back up to Scotland for the first time since T in the Park

Wednesday 1st June: Destination Glasgow

So 9am set off from Wrexham, to give us a casual, non-diesel guzzling journey up to Glasgow. 9 miles down the road in Chester and we’ve forgotten something.

Nick was most pleased about having to wait for the van to go back to Wrexham to pick up set lists and mailing lists.


The van arrives and we can set back off on our journey.



A quick stop at the service station sees Danny trying to find a sleeping partner....can he do it....



Tension building second picture.....



Think this one says it all.



Arriving at Scotland, we find time to chill for a ‘wee’ while.






We then played in Bloc, Glasgow, which was a lovely little venue.

The set:
Set:
Subtle Changes
Untitled new track
Castles
Heal
Electric Hearts
Before I wash away
Song for the Dead
Gold Vice


Thursday 2nd June: Edinburgh

The morning started off the way it normally does, The Times Crowssword, obvs.



And ended with a casino.



Somewhere in between those 2 pictures, soundcheck and gig happened.

Whistlebinkes, Edinburgh

Set:
Subtle Changes
Untitled new track
Castles
Heal
Electric Hearts
Before I wash away
Oath of an Old Romantic
Song for the Dead
Gold Vice
Son of a King

It’s part 1 of our 2nd ‘the Race’ tour, and the first couple of dates were local festivals,

Saturday night we headlined the ‘Focus Wales’ festival that had taken place at Central.

Here’s two pictures to show how excited 2 men are to soundcheck, which considering it’s our first of the tour, is a little worrying.



Was a good gig, and hopefully Focus Wales will return next year, North Wales needs something like it.

Although the tour is meant to be promoting ‘The Race’ a few new ones snuck into the set, as Wrexham have been hearing XYZ, since 2008, and well, we didn’t feel like playing Thistles.
Set:
Subtle Changes
Untitled new track
Castles
Heal
Electric Hearts
Before I wash away
Song for the Dead
Gold Vice


Sunday

Today we graced a nice afternoon slot on the second stage of Osfest.

No soundcheck so the next best thing to do to prepare for a gig:


I won’t say any more about this as, a band member will get in trouble.

The band has a bit of a pecking order, and unfortunately, certain members now walk to gigs.


And do all of the setting up


Setlist:
Subtle Changes
Untitled new song
Heal
Electric Hearts
Song for the dead
Oath of an Old Romantic
Gold Vice

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Check out a 2 track preview of The Race now

The Race PREVIEW! by JKLMNO

and pre-order on our store page!

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Roomthirteen.com give us 11/13 for The Race: http://www.roomthirteen.com/cd_reviews/11614/JKLMNO__The_Race.html

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Our new EP will be titled ‘The Race’ and will be released in February 2011

We have secured physical and digital distribution for the EP which means it will be available physically and digitally in a lot more stores.

Track listing and artwork is all over on the releases page,

We are also booking a tour to coincide with the release, dates to be announced soon.

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We have been quiet because we have been finishing recording our follow up to Transitions....we’re just waiting on it to be finished mixing.

We don’t have a title for the EP yet, or artwork...but if you’re following us on twitter or facebook you should be getting an A-Z of EP news as it comes in.

We’re looking at an early 2011 release date, with a tour to coincide.

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If you have been here before then you may have noticed we’ve got a new website!

Thanks a lot to Hugo / Wony.biz for making it for us

We can now offer streaming music, videos and pictures from this site, so go and have a look!

The gigs we have got coming up are all great...

On the 14th August we play the Redi Daze, which is free, all day in Bellevue Park and some great bands are playing, Gallops, Roseville Band, Heal the Last Stand, No Room for Heroes and a lot more so make sure you show your faces.

On the 22nd August, we play our ‘first stadium gig’. We are playing before kick off in Wrexham Racecourse Ground before the Crusdaders vs St Helens game...if you’re going make sure you’re about for 2:15pm to catch us from the beginning of our set!

On the 17th Septemeber we return to the Frenzi Night Club to play for Faction Night, good times....

Jim Gellaty from Amazing Radio interviewed us at T in The Park

check it out here

On the 7th July, weirdly we were featured on another couple of podcasts....

if we kept our ratio of 2 a day, we'd be doing not bad...but sadly thats not the case, it's just a bit of a coincidence....

Justin Wayne featured us on episode 98 here (Oath of an old romantic)

and Sentric Music featured us on episode 7 here (song for the dead)

Son of a King was featured on Justin Wayne Show

check out the podcast here

BBC North East Wales and BBC Shropshire (thanks to bbc introducing shropshire being our adopted audio-home) have posted articles about our appearence at T in the Park,

here and here

We have been confirmed for the BBC Introducing stage for T in The Park!

We will be playing on Saturday at 1:15pm

For more information on T in the Park see here

for more information on BBC Introducing see here,

thanks a lot to BBC Shropshire and BBC Wales for recommending us.

We've extended our range of Digital Suppliers and now you can get Transitions for a bit cheaper by buying it as a whole EP instead of individual tracks:

£1.59 from 7Digital and HMV

You also get The War Song as a bonus track for buying it as a whole digital EP

Aren't we kind?

nice little comment on Subba-cultcha.com found about Transitions....

'Belied by some very “metal” looking cover art, this is joyful and triumphant indie-rock anthemism just begging to have a lighter waved at it'

We're going to be releasing a new series of podcasts, featuring demos for Transitions,

the first one is up now and is a Demo of Son of a King!

Check out the podcast page for info on how to get it!

Transitions is now available to listen to on Spotify in full!

+ We've sneakily added the War Song onto it for you!

Enjoy!

3/5 Review from God is in the TV

Read it here

An awesome first review on transitions -

"Few bands come up with such a diverse EP, let alone one as confident, but it seems as simple as ABC for JKLMNO" 11/13 - READ THE REST HERE

Transitions is now available from our store and digitally

You can find transitions on
iTunes
Amazon MP3
Napster


And at the moment you can actually get our EP for free by signing up to eMusic on a free trial - gaining 25 free downloads!

Just click here

'Song for the dead' has begun spinning on local stations, thanks to Adam Walton and Friday Night Gerbil for playing this track over the weekend.

FNG also made it their introducing track which means it should be on Radio 1 sometime in the next couple of weeks..

We have released our first physical EP - 'Transitions'

It contains four brand new songs, and is available from our online store, and our gigs for £4.

More info on the releases page, I'll try keeping this a little bit more up to date!

It's not often we'll be in this newspaper, but was mentioned before Beni last year....

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto071320081019199670&page=2

We should have 2 more remixes popping up pretty soon.

We're working with Innovation with Sound who is going to remix one of our tracks, and we will be featuring on one of his.

And another remix from a producer called Jason Thomas who's worked with some great artists and producers.

It's safe to say Jklmno are the first band I have ever come across whose moniker is unpronounceable. Tricky name aside, for anyone who was a Snow Patrol fan from the days when you could turn up at Barfly on the night they were playing and still get a ticket, this could be your lucky day. 'Locking Doors' will sound vaguely familiar, as it strongly holds in a wide range of influences from the band, coming together to make one hell of a summer festival song. '7 Days In The Sky' is more of a single than the lead-off track, full of melodic spine tingling hooks that would have made it a worthy contender for an episode of the OC, with Carl Harrison's softly sung vocals pulling at your heart strings from the word go. As the EP comes to a close, the mellow swansong of 'Come Forth You Kings' leaves you wanting more - as well driving yourself crazy trying to say their name so you can run out and tell everyone you know about them.

Sarah Moyes - www.rockmidgets.com

....JKLMNO's phenomenal live set just set them apart from the 4 other outstanding bands on the night to take the 1st prize....' Music-news.com review of London live final
' ...JKLMNO, the third band to play on the night, are clearly heading places and so thought the judges who awarded them with top performance for the night and flights to Benicassim.....' Backstage pass review of London Live Final (full article no longer online)

JKLMNO. No, I’m not reciting the alphabet, that’s the name of the winning band in Supajam’s Fast Track to Benicassim competition. The Wrexham based outfit triumphed against 1’000 bands and from their early doors set it’s easy to see why. An accidental collision of band member and equipment threatens their start but it’s unusual to find an unsigned one showing this much confidence.

Choruses build and pulsate, readily embracing the hope and candor that the likes of Snow Patrol and Sigur Ros possess with their endearing hits. The song they entered the competition with, The War Song, even pails in comparison to the rest of their set. In fact with a production gloss-over Nothing To Lose could easily become their singalong, arms aloft anthem. At one point it’s just lead singer Carl Harrison and the drummer Nick Roberts, stripping the sound down to its emotive bare bones. Harrison almost has the look of a budding Chris Martin at this point, concentrating on his keyboard before delivering sincerely soft lyrics.

It soon becomes a well rounded set. Gradually lulling the sound down with ornate feather-light guitar melodies leaving the lyrics to shine through whilst they aren’t afraid of ballsy, proud chords either. All this assured playing renders their complex name a paradox amongst such seemingly effortless songs. They end on a song entitled Future Potential, as if they needed to tell us.
10/13
Omar Soliman, RoomThirteen.com  Link to Article

Huw Stephen's kindly mentioned us after playing the XYZ (Sine Weaver Remix)

'If you're a fan of letters, or glitchy beats with really nice vocals you'll love this.' 

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