Hotel Shampoo (and 'Separado!')

Always the way, when I can't get to a computer there is bucket-loads of news. All Gruff related at the moment...

New album/single/video/mini tour/art installation



Phew! Gruff's new album, Hotel Shampoo, is out February 14, 2011 on Turnstile. He did a sneaky little art installation in Chapter (check out the video above) to promote it.

Track listing
Shark Ridden Waters
Honey All Over
Sensations In The Dark
Vitamin K
Take A Sentence
Conservation Conversation
Sophie Softly
Christopher Columbus
Space Dust #2
At The Heart Of Love
Patterns Of Power
If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)
Rubble Rubble

Check out his website, Gruffington Post for artwork and news as it happens. Also recommend following Gruff and his label Turnstile on Twitter.

The first single from the album is 'Shark Ridden Waters' which you can order on vinyl here and which has a swanky video. Where Gruff looks like Mr E stealing my fantasy car (sounds like a dream I once had).



There'll be a mini-tour to preview the album (list below from http://www.turnstilemusic.net/) but I'm hoping that he'll tour fully next year as I can't make any of these. Mostly because they're not in this country... Some/most are probably sold out by now. Whatever, I don't care. I'm not bitter.

Wed, 10th Nov Teater Grob , Copenhagen
Sat, 13th Nov Town Hall Theatre, Galway 0035 3915 86540
Sun, 14th Nov The Empire, Belfast 02890 323 744
Mon, 15th Nov Sugar Club, Dublin 08187 193 00
Mon, 22nd Nov Whitworth Gallery, Manchester 01618 321 111
Tue, 23rd Nov Vic Bar, Art School, Glasgow 08448 472 487
Fri, 26th Nov Toynbee Studios, London 08444 771 000
Mon, 29th Nov Point Ephemere, Paris free
Tue, 30th Nov Bitterzoet, Amsterdam 0031 2042 12318
Wed, 1 Dec September Gallery, Berlin 0049 3061 101313

I'm wondering, though, if this is the soundtrack to 'Separado!' that he was talking about...?

Seperado!
Talking of Seperado, the DVD is released, er, yesterday! Order now!