The Virgil Sturgeon’s Daniel Jackson has just performed at a beach concert at St Barthélemy, in the Caribbean, a perfect venue for a group named after a Sturgeon fish…The event organiser’s budget couldn’t stretch to fly the other band members Simon and Gabriel over from Europe, so Dan sang with a DJ playing instrumentals from the Catch and Release EP. We might have some video footage from the gig coming soon - To buy the catch and release EP on CD or download on mp3, just visit our shop page.

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Jennifer Ward has painted the Treehouse CD sleeve! The music has been recorded in a studio out in the countryside and her illustration reflects this. The CD will be available in the Woodshed shop in the not too distant future.

Take a look at the full artwork
See more of Jennifer’s work
Hear some of the music by Treehouse

Fresh from the gorgeous shores of Iceland comes Skurken, a musician who has revisited and reworked P for Panther’s track Hammock. Click on the music player below for an 18 minute blend of his music. Tracklisting:

1. Remix of Hammock by P for Panther
2. Isolette
3. Gabrielo
4. Tansey & Kleiner
5. Kern

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“Melody is everything to me. My influences include corny Icelandic 80’s ballads, jazz, funk and soul, old computer game themes, drum&bass, breakbeat, elves and nature too, I’m Icelandic after all. Someone said my music is ‘emo’. I hope they’re right - assuming the term ‘emo’ means what I think it does.” Skurken

To check out Skurken’s debut release click here or visit his myspace

The Virgil Sturgeon “Hook Line & Stinker” podcast for delarge.co.uk features 7 new tracks from the Virgil Sturgeon’s ‘Catch and Release EP’ and some other material they’re working on.

From the streets of the Lower East Side New York, the City of Light and London Town come Daniel Jackson, Gabriel Mimouni and Simon Waller, who unite to form the Virgil Sturgeon…the podcast playlist is below:

Dan Magee (0:00), Woodshed Greeting (1.47), Sandbox3000 (2.28), Come Around (4.50), Sea Song (6.17), After the Storm (7.34), I Like You (9.54), To Break Her (11.19), I’m Alive (12.44), Octopus (14.44), Woodshed Sign off (16.30)

Click the media player below to listen to the 17 minute podcast:

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