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The 405 do Guilty Pleasures!

The 405 have done a little piece asking some of the coolest bands on the block for their musical guilty pleasures.

Our very own Lonely Joe Parker, Haunted Stereo, Juniper Leaf and Ben from Cats and Cats and Cats have all contributed to the article, with the likes of Beyonce, The Lighthouse Family and The Best of Bee Gees getting a mention!



You can read the full Guilty Pleasures article HERE.

Be sure to check out The 405 website for what will be a series of guilty pleasure articles from a number of the music industries movers and shakers!

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Lonely Joe Parker Interview on The 405!

Those lovely boys over at The 405 recently interviewed off-kilter folk hero Lonely Joe Parker. Joe chats to the guys about his greatest bands of the sixties, travelling around the country busking and why post-apocalyptic film, The Road, made him "cry like a baby".

You can read the full interview HERE.

Joe recently released the single Shanty on Sotones Records. You can grab a copy HERE.

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Lonely Joe Parker on Panic Dots!

Sotones' Lonely Joe Parker releases single "Shanty" on Monday 8th March 2010. The single is taken from the fantastic What's Wrong With Broken Glass EP, the split EP with label mate Jackie Paper.

Panic Dots caught-up with Joe for a wee chat ahead of the single release to talk about his music, aliens and his three wishes!



You can read the full interview HERE.

You can purchase the aforementioned split EP on vinyl or digital from the Sotones Records website. All proceeds from vinyl sales go to Oxfam!

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Lonely Joe Parker on Resonance FM

Sotones recently featured on Dexter Bentley's Hello Goodbye show for Resonance FM. Sotones' Joe Parker played his forthcoming single Shanty live on-air and by the wonderful powers of the intra-web we're very happy to be able to show you some footage of his live performance!



Joe Parker releases Shanty via Sotones on March 8th 2010. You can listen to a stream of the single HERE and grab a copy for yourself HERE.

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Introducing… Sotones (Record Label)

We are very happy to announce that we are officially working on Sotones Records' roster. In the coming months, Sotones will be treating us all to a plethora of music from bands and musicians like Haunted Stereo, Fresh Legs, Moneytree, Nato, Lonely Joe Parker, The Moulettes and many more.

Members of Sotones will guest on Resonance FM's Hello Goodbye show on 13th February 2010. To get an idea of what the label are about (that's a passion for music and a love of fun by the way...), you can listen to this Sound Cloud Sotones documentary they recently recorded.

Sotones was founded as a co-operative. This means that the artists are also members, who own the label entirely together.

The first label sampler was reviewed in Kruger Magazine and received airplay on several local BBC Introducing shows. It featured artists who are still with Sotones today as well as Blakfish and Band Of Skulls (then known as Fleeingnewyork) who have since gone on to do great on their own.

Since its inception, Sotones has come leaps and bounds with the first new signings since 2007, a distribution deal with Believe and their first 12" and 7" releases as well as founding a publishing arm. A highlight of summer 2009 (alongside festival spots for various Sotones artists at Glastonbury, SGP, Bestival and Burningman among others) was the Bike Tour, where Sotones Lonely Joe Parker played twelve dates in fourteen days, traveling between shows by bicycle and co-headlining with other Sotones artists along the way.

Sotones acts have played across the UK as well as Ireland, France, Belguim, Italy, Spain, Estonia, Germany and the US. These include support tours for The Ting Tings, The Holloways and Mystery Jets, as well as requested support slots for Noisettes, Thomas Tantrum, Delays, SixNationState and me:one.

The label has released over 25 records and the label's output has received local and national radio play on BBC stations including BBC Radio 1, 6Music and Radio 2 as well as Xfm and Resonance FM. Sotones artists have caught the attention of national and international traditional and online media, including Kerrang!, NME, Rock Sound, Drowned In Sound, Artrocker, Clash Magazine and Kruger Magazine.

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