Decade Null: 2005 - Forward Russia

Halfway through the decade, and I think by now everyone was already looking forward to the end of it. Still, at least we had Forward Russia to help us through. This is Twelve, included on Give Me A Wall:



[Part of Decade Null 2005]

iForward Russia! go into reverse

Forward Russia have - by way of announcing a date on the 17th October - confirmed that that's more or less it:

Hello there, how are you? Hope you are doing well.

Sorry for not writing for so long, I think we've mostly been getting on with non-¡Forward, Russia! 'stuff.' We played the Moor Music Festival this weekend, and that was loads of fun and we had a great time apart from the mood, it was pretty rainy there. Now that's done, we can tell you about another gig we've been asked to play later in the year:

FRIDAY 17th OCTOBER
Brainwash Fesitval @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Now Some More News:

Unfortunately this will be our only gig for the rest of the year, and in fact for the foreseeable future.

Firstly, you may have seen tickets available for other ¡Forward, Russia! gigs around mid-October - unfortunately there has been constant miscommunication over these dates, and we are not playing them I'm afraid.

We have decided to take a break from doing ¡Forward, Russia! - for a lot of different reasons. The idea of doing another tour with nothing new to offer was something that enthused none of us, and the idea of re-booting on a productive strand is something we're not quite ready to face just yet.

Added to which, the last few months of inactivity has led us all on paths away from the band. I know that sounds odd, having released an album only a few months ago, but I don't think any of us were connected to the mechanics of its release. I don't know how it happened, but I want to thank all our management, the guys and gals at Cooking Vinyl and all the other people who worked on the record for putting all their efforts into the release of Life Processes and apologise for our complete failure to engage in the release of it.

So to reach the present. Katie is moving to Nottingham in a few weeks, having taken the opportunity to do an art course there (she's in need of a new 'posse' apparently, so get in touch if you can help) - so it's unlikely we'll do anything serious again till we're a bit more geographically centralised.

Tom will be keeping busy producing some of the hottest young talent in the country, he's been doing a lot of work with a band called Minaars - you can check it out here.

From now until October? We did talk about releasing a Gravity & Heat EP, which may or may not now go ahead - certainly not in a physical format unfortunately. As mentioned it wouldn't have anything new from us, but we did ask a few people to do some remixes.

Apart from that, we have been trying to get together as many live bootlegs, session tracks and 'rarities' as we can, with the thought of putting as many as possible on our website for people to enjoy. This depends on £ and webspace, but we'll work on it and let you know how we do - hopefully we can do something by the time of the gig in October.

Ticket details for Brainwash Festival will be available soon, keep checking the websites above, as well as our own website, forum and MySpace - we'll be lurking on the forum for a while yet I suspect.

Till later then, take care.

Bugger. We really liked Forward Russia.

We have sympathy for him

We're sat here feeling rotten, so our sympathies for Tom Woodhead are more-than-usually heartfelt: his bad throat led to Forward Russia canceling their Newcastle gig last night. They're hoping to pick up in Liverpool tonight.

Forward Russia weekend: Nine

Back to October 2006, as Forward Russia take the stage in LA to deliver Nine:



[Part of Forward Russia weekend]

Forward Russia weekend: New album as work in progress

As we ready ourselves for the release of Life Processes, here's a YouTube video from about six months ago, showing the album as a work-in-progress:



[Part of Forward Russia weekend]

Forward Russia weekend: Thirteen

More from Forward Russia: Thirteen live in Liverpool, from February 2007:



[Part of Forward Russia weekend]

Embed and breakfast man: iForward Russia!

Yesterday, we celebrated the release of the new album by Blood Red Shoes with a slew of videos. But Monday also sees the release of Life Processes by Forward Russia, and it only seems fitting to celebrate them, too.

Kicking off, Seventeen, live in NYC in 2006:



More videos across the day
Thirteen - live in Liverpool
New album as work-in-progress

Upside down ! at the ready: Forward Russia prep

There's a release date for ¡Forward Russia!'s next album, and a tracklisting, too. Life Processes is out April 14th; NME has the tracklist:

'Welcome To The Moment (The Rest Of Your Life)'
'We Are Grey Matter'
'A Prospector Can Dream'
'Spring Is A Condition'
'Don't Reinvent What You Don’t Understand'
'Some Buildings'
'Breaking Standing'
'Gravuty & Heat'
'Fosbury In Discontent'
'A Shadow Is A Shadow Is A Shadow'
'Spanish Triangles'

iForward, iForward Russia!

Coming next month: a Forward Russia tour designed to get you feeling all over-exicited down there at the prospect of the new album early next year.

Dates:
Hull, The Lamp – October 23
Leicester, Charlotte – 24
Cardiff, Barfly – 25
Exeter, Cavern – 26
Brighton, Barfly – 27
Sheffield, Leadmill – 29
Sunderland, Independent – 30
Dundee, Reading Rooms – 31
York, Fibbers – November 1
Bradford, St Georges Hall - 2