Good people,
Cornershop have now been confirmed to play the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park on 5th July. This will be preceded by a warm-up show at a London venue - details to be confirmed very shortly.
A new Cornershop single called "The Roll Off Characteristics Of History In The Making" is on its way soon.
We are now on Facebook, please have a look by clicking here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cornershop-Tjinder-Singh/25903025047 or do a search for 'Cornershop Tjinder'
thanks, Tjinder
Good people, Feb '08
The Cornershop album has just been mastered. It is a corker.
There is an instrumental version of a new track on our Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/cornershop
In the near future we are changing our website. We have taken the board down for the time being, so would you please leave any messages via the 'info' address at cornershop.com or on Myspace.
Warm regards
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Cornershop have been invited to play the Meltdown Festival again, this time curated by Jarvis Cocker, on 21 June 2007. They first played as guests of the late great John Peel in 1998. Support comes from New York City's Jeffrey Lewis.
Line-up & instrument details:
Tjinder Singh – Vocals & Gretsch Country Gent Guitar
Ben Ayres – Sondico Tamboura & Gibson 335 Guitar
Pete Downing – Gibson Black Beauty Guitar
James Milne – Fender Precision Bass Guitar
Adam Blake - Duncan Fearnly Sitar
Peter Bengry – ATCO Percussion
Nick Simms – Blue/Olive Badge Ludwig Drums
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown/
Meltdown number: 0871 663 2520
Advance Tickets will go on sale to Southbank Centre members at 9am on Wed 2 May
Tickets will go on general sale at 9am on Thursday 3 May.
Cornershop will be taking time off from studios in Paris, London and Preston Lancs, where they are recording two longplayer albums. The first Cornershop album will feature Bubbley Kaur ("the walking jewellery store"), the long-awaited follow-up to the "Topknot/Natch" double A single, "so good it sounds like Singh has found a fitting heir to Asha Bhosle" 4/5 The Mirror.
The second album is Cornershop back in the studio with 10 new slabs of songs, as varied as united planets can be.
For press enquiries, please email info@cornershop.com
Cornershop have just started working on demos
for the next Cornershop longplayer. Tjinder
has been in Paris for the last 2 months writng, and looking after
his recently new born son, Ananda. When the album
is born it will be their first porper release since their 2002
classic album 'Handcream For A Generation';
Album of the Month – Mojo
Album of the Month – Uncut
"A dazzling return, an album audibly in love with music
and its boundless possibilities" - The Guardian
"Cornershop's fifth album confirms them as the most vital
and inventive force at work in British pop today" - The
Telegraph
"…Returning in triumph with the most vibrant and
enjoyable album released so far this year." - The
Times - Pop album choice 5/5
"Lyrically, Singh’s deadpan stream of surreal-political
imagery could be the missing link between Dylan and Hip Hop" - The
Independent
In 2003 Cornershop embarked upon making their
first film; about London’s independent music industry,
looking at aspects and views of normal bands that make music
and those that contribute to the music industry – it includes
interviews with John Peel, guitar shop legend Andy
Hackett, footage of the vinyl making process, and a
10 minute drum solo.
Singh & Ayres (photo by Alison Wonderland)
In February 2006, Cornershop released Wop
The Groove (Rough Trade Records), the title track
for this film. There's
no beating around the bush with this one, a quality track with
a heavy duty riff, featuring Rowetta (ex Happy
Mondays) on top form – written & produced
by Tjinder Singh, also known as the national
debt - recorded at Sassi P. Studio, Vatican
City. The Factory Records stable have
always given solid support to the Cornershop firmament,
and it was this connection that led to this collaboration.
Cornershop were personally invited onto the Rough
Trade label by Geoff Travis, on which
they have released Topknot featuring Bubbley
Kaur ("So good it sounds like Singh has found a fitting
heir to Asha Bhosle" 4/5 The
Mirror) & the much sought after promo mix featuring M.I.A. In
between time they have been turning down TV & Film acting
requests including some from Bollywood, and
refusing international live gig appearances. They did
do a remix for Quincy Jones called Valeurs
Personnelles, a political track about
value judgements, in the French language.
After immersing themselves in the deep gospel of Savoy
Records and the sitar strength of Rai Gupta the
band have spent six months airing a Sunday morning,
cross denominational, religious radio programme, over the WorldWideWeb. A
new Cornershop album is shaping up as another
corker. In addition work has begun on a full album featuring Bubbley
Kaur.
