Posted by jenny on 03/31 at 03:34 AM

MONDAY 16TH MARCH 2009 (early Feb contd)
yes indeedee there were many miles and roads separating us from show to show but harry h bomb verth got us from town to town at godspeed including the first killer drive from Barcelona to Lisbon, but this was our first chance to go to our first aftershow in Barcelona. My old pal and boss the modfuhrer Sir Paul Weller was in attendance that eve and was in fine fettle and was most complementary towards the lads’ playing especially young Nick with whom he spent every available moment encouraging him to grow his hair in a big afro. Had an interesting conversation with Noel about the latest installments in the curious tales of Lee Mavers and of other more fast moving recent musical phenomena such as the JIm Jones Revue and the recent psych compilation by the androgenous amorphic whatchamacallits.
It as a nice calm atmosphere in the room we were in, mostly discussing musical this and thats with the guys from Oasis, whom in real life are not so much a big band as a small gentleman’s society. Good guys with good taste that is. There was occasional hollering coming from a room adjacent of which I’m not completely sure as I’m no expert on this but I think it may have been a Woking accent. Didn’t stay too late as we had a little bit of driving to do next day. 16 hours to be exact.
Waking up in Lisbon next morning was a tonic. It was well Gulliver’s travels and a glorious day to boot. Got the soul ready to play again. gig went well again. Unfortunately it was early night again as next day was an 18 hour drive.
All became a bit more of the same from this point. There were good things to note, like the sound in purpose-built arenas in France and food in Italy but because of the extreme distances and tight schedule involved it became mostly about getting the job done - which we did - and its worth noting that our kind benefactors were sidestage every night to watch the show, which was decent and very encouraging of them.
Arriving in Vienna for our final show (26th Feb) where was a bit of a kerfuddle as someone had graffitied “FREE PEACE! NICE ONE! MCFC!“ on the wall. Wonder who it could have been. Might have been that geezer who I gained a lot of respect for on the tour as he drove his tonsils to breaking point singing every single night. A man after my own heart in this respect. NICE ONE!!!
Since we got back we’ve had a week of overdubbing the l.p. followed by a week of rehearsal to ready us for our first London show at Blow Up. Much thanko to mr Paul Tunkin for believing in us at this early stage - and for those who missed it, it was mr kipling quality, ha, ha, ha. thanks to those who attendend. Bit knackered still from weekend so will leave you there for now. See you in a week or so with news and maybe some announcement or other….........

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Posted by jenny on 03/17 at 07:17 AM

Visit Liverpool.com online magazine to see more of Edgar from Free Peace’s Oasis tour diary;
http://www.liverpool.com/features/on-tour-with-oasis.html

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Posted by jenny on 03/16 at 03:05 PM

Here as promised is blog no. 1 from Mr E Jones of Free Peace;
Thurs 12th March 2009 (jan/early feb) howdydo sweet people sorry there’s been no word from me til now but those familiar with the joneses myspace will know i’m a complete luddite and rarely sit in front of a computer unless there’s a copy of dave bartholomew’s ‘the monkey’ (got) or even better ‘shrimp and gumbo’ (haven’t) going ridiculously cheap on Ebay, but being ridiculously poor of late i daren’t even cast my eyes towards EvilBAY. i wonder if our lord knows how much we were all spending in Ebay and has sent us this CRcrunch as a form of contrition. twas deffo the first on my cutback list. ludditism aside everything’s been so double busy of late that there’s been no time. i’ve been constantly running out of time and have needed a time transplant just to be here with you now. suppose i should quit the waffling and bring you all up to date with the year so far.
January started slowly with a lot of yawning which rather got in the way of the early dubbing sessions for the l.p. we hadn’t played together as a band without the headphone playback only sitch we’d got used to in the studio (we were concentrating on drum takes as we only have 1 firewall) since november so we knew with oasis support coming up in feb we should really get rehearsin. then in the third week of january something magical happened. we got a regular rehearsal space. something we had yet to enjoy the luxury of. we could rehearse 4 days a week at least. not being used to being able to have a room with all the band present with such regularity of course i started being a knobhead and started rehearsing all my unfinished material for the next 2 long players just in case i didn’t get the chance ( a bit like one of thoe poor old geffers who has a room full of tin cans cos they haven’t quite got their heads round the fact that world war 2 rationing is over) again. played the zanzi at the end of the first week at which nick and stu played blinders and come to think of it didn’t do too bad myself. anyways we got to spend the next weeks just playin and playin which is what bands should do. fuck havin people there to listen, rehearsals are where its at. gettin lost in a riff for 2 hous whilst you try stuff out (well that’s my excuse) and the poor young lady who works there at weekends is waiting to lock up. thi is what being in a band is all about. making people wait til you can be bothered to shut up. ACTUALLY NO! its more about taste and respect and entertaining people (more about that later). but a little of the above won’t do you no harm once in a while. anyway before we knew it feb and the europeant tour was upon us.
having been decided for us that we’d probably play a better show if we didn’t arrive with the van to madrid (we didn’t care about the miles as long as it got warmer along the way) we flew there in true package style. even the people who’d won the competition were looking at us like we’d won the competition. we arrived later via tube to the city centre and thanks to the world’s worst street map ever we found our hotel and watched liverpool on the telly or was it england i’m not very good with these things you see. oh hello to laura from mcdons by the way.
next morning we awoke to the day of our 7th gig. some sports place or other in madrid. somehow we managed to get ourselves in as our TM had yet to arrive and then we started to witness the friendliness and respectfulness that is being looked after by the oasis band and crew. serious for a moment i’d like to thank every one of them from the girls in catterick to mr spoon’s backstage amp repair shop and doe my dear and well everyone. maybe more name checking later. we got out on stage later that night and something was different to our usual gig right away. i think it may have had something to do with the ten thousand spaniards. much more encouraging than the rabble we had expected. was so incredibly proud of the lads and the blinder they played that night. couldn’t have gone smoother our first stadium show and maybe we were ready for what might be looked upon as A LITTLE BIT OF DRIVING….............................................to be continued

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Posted by jenny on 03/14 at 06:01 AM

Hello all! We’re all back home safe and sound from Free Peace’s European adventure supporting Oasis. First of all would like to say a massive thanks to Noel Gallagher for inviting Free Peace to support Oasis in the first place. Thanks also to everyone else - Liam, Gem, Andy and all the technical crew, who were so helpful and nice when FP; mislaid their drumsticks/ had sore throats/couldn’t get their effects pedals to work,etc etc. The whole tour was a fantastic success and we’ve all made new friends all over Europe. Thanks for watching Free Peace and thanks for all the nice comments all over the internet! So that’s probably enough thank you’s for the time being.
We s’pose the main big news at the moment is the fact that Oasis have asked Free Peace to support them again at their ‘monster’ UK shows in Heaton Park, Manchester in June (6th and 7th) - which should be brill. Get there early if you wanna see them though, as there are quite a few other support acts also on the bill.
Regarding Loud Soul releases - the Free Peace debut e.p. is still available for mail order and download. We’re made up with how well it’s been received. In case you’re wondering about the 2nd e.p. - we’ve decided to put the release back for a while - more news about this soon.
Free Peace are back in the studio recording now. Edgar is going to start a weekly blog - just to keep people up to date on how tings are goin’/how the tour went etc etc. This will be posted in the next few days - together with photos.
Don’t forget TONIGHT - SAT 14TH MARCH 09 - ***BLOW UP GIG @ BAR RUMBA, 36 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, WC1** Free Peace are playing at the all new Blow Up Club. Doors 10 pm. Tickets about 6 quid. See you there and catch you soon

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