A Cardiff band who inspired two grown men to start a fan blog.
Islet are a great band from Cardiff. Andrew Dubber and I (Ben Walker) saw them play at Un-Convention Swansea (a gathering of DIY and web-friendly music types) and loved the show. Naturally, we googled 'Islet', 'Islet the band', 'Islet Cardiff' and even 'Islet Myspace', and were distraught to find out that they didn't exist on the web.
As they had no CDs to buy, and we wanted to support them somehow, Andrew bought them a domain and we set up this blog for them. And to finish it off we took a quick video interview to upload to the site.
For more on how and why we did this - and how you could do something like that too - read the New Music Strategies post that explains everything.
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This is Islet t-shirt
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Early archival Islet video footage
A short snippet of Islet playing live, recorded at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff last month.
Featuring Mark and JT (attack+defend/Them Squirrels) and Emma (ex-Victorian English Gentlemens Club) Found at: http://www.casttv.com/video/y98vn9/islet-clwb-ifor-bach-video
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Ben & Dubber discuss Islet over a sandwich
Dubber And Ben Discuss Islet by Dubber
The day after having seen Islet play at UnConvention in Swansea, Dubber & Ben pop out for a sandwich and discuss the music of Islet.
Incidentally, we can highly recommend a shop called Baguette du Jour, where this was recorded. Very friendly, bright and clean. You can relax in their comfy downstairs lounge: sofas, wifi, milkshakes, and yummy tuna melt panini. No sponsorship here, we just thought they really got it right.
Can't recommend the coffee though. Didn't try it.
Posted by Andrew Dubber
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Free recording time for Islet!
We've just had an offer for free studio time for the band here:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/15/888781/crypt1.mov How cool is that?
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Live video Monkey, Swansea: 4 Sept 2009
We don't know what any of these songs are called. Fortunately, that doesn't detract from the awesome.
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