Cookham Festival ticket winners announced

The three winners of a pair of adult tickets to Monday's Cookham Festival 2009 have been chosen. The winners are:

1. Hassan Harb

2. Alex Doherty

3. Michael Infinity

Congratulations! We have emailed all 3 of you with details of the event and how we will get your tickets to you.

Thanks to everyone who came to Temposhark's gig in London last night, it was amazing fun to play the new tracks. See you all the next gigs.

Rob.x

Live in London Tuesday 28th April 2009

Hi gang,

Temposhark perform live in London next Tuesday 28th April 2009 at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. 2-4 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London, N1 6NU.

Please note: We're on stage at 8pm sharp and will be performing a 30 minute set including 6 songs from my second album (to be released later this year).

To get your name on the cheaper entry guestlist please email: temposhark@gmail.com

If you can't make next Tuesday's gig, we're also performing a few more London gigs during May and June, to see dates visit: http://www.myspace.com/temposhark

In other news, my brand new website will be coming in June. In the meantime there's a new webshop which is now live: http://temposhark.bigcartel.com

This store accepts Paypal and although priced in UK Pounds, your Paypal will automatically convert into your own currency once you pay. So anyone from anywhere in the world can buy Temposhark CDs and Merch! :)

Finally, if you are using Twitter, you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/temposhark

Thanks for your support and I look forward to seeing you at the gigs!

Rob.x

Win tickets to the Cookham Festival - 4th May 2009.

Temposhark.com have 3 pairs of adult tickets for the Cookham Festival 2009 concert (each ticket is worth £15 each) to give away in a competition!

To be in with a chance of winning one of the 3 pairs, send an email to temposhark@gmail.com
with Cookham Competition in the subject line and the answer to the following (easy peasy) question in the body of the email message:

What was the name of Temposhark's debut 2008 album?

Good luck! COMPETITION CLOSES ON MONDAY 27th APRIL. The 3 winners will be announced that day (Winners must pay for your own travel/accomodation to the festival, we only offer free tickets, no expenses). For more info on Cookham Festival visit: http://rockthemoor.blogspot.com/

In other news, I am re-launching Temposhark.com next week, starting off with a little holding page which will eventually grown into a brand new website! This will include a new forum for all our supporters to hang out and chat! :)

Plus, our next live London gig (with new keyboard player Leila MacFie) is on Tues 28th April in Hoxton Bar and Kitchen venue at 8pm, it's the first slot so be there EARLY! We will be performing 6 brand new songs from my forthcoming second album.

Love to you all.
Rob.xx

"He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)"

Hi gang,

Hope you're all fighting fit! I certainly am... considering that I'm now boxing every week!

Yes you heard right, I'M A BOXER and I'm loving it!! It's so much more fun than other exercise as it's more intellectually stimulating in a way - I love how focused it makes me... so wish me luck. :)

Monday and Tuesday this week I was in a London rehearsal room with Mark, Mathis and new Temposhark keyboard player Leila MacFie.

Leila is SO cool - you're going to love her. She's a mean keyboard-player and has wicked style to boot! She's already brought a big ray of sunshine to the rehearsals.

Sean joined us to guide us musically and help set up the computer side of it. We're going to perform 6 brand new songs at the forthcoming London gigs, along with 'Blame' from the last album. So it's an exciting time, and really refreshing to perform the new songs for the first time.

I've also been preparing clothes and ideas for the Album 2 photoshoot. Tom Lardner and I are heading into a studio early next week to do all the new shots with Morten Laursen (the photographer who did 'The Invisible Line' b&w photos). Plus keep an eye on www.temposhark.com as a new holding page will be going live in the coming week. I've decided to re-launch the whole website with help from my friends at Eskimopush. Hopefully it won't take too long to build... I reckon it'll be done by mid-May at the latest.

I've already built a new online shop. I'm very proud of it right now as I made it all by myself! That's right, I'm a shop-keeper now too. ;) Check it now, this is a little exclusive for y'all! http://temposhark.bigcartel.com

I bought loads of new music this week - the new albums by Bat For Lashes, PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Antony & The Johnsons, Majiker and even Ciara's new single to name a few things... there is a lot of great music out there... so don't let anyone tell you otherwise! :)

So that's pretty much my week so far. I'll write very soon. If you use Twitter then you can follow me there... I've started regularly updating it, so it's the best way to find out what's new.

Kisses to you all from the boxing shop-keeper... night night... :)
R.xx

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Unbelievable!

Another me in a Sicibom painting! 

I'll update you properly tomorrow with everything I've been up to over the past month! I'm also hoping to upload another video from the final mixing sessions we did last month with Andy Bradfield... ;)

For now, here's a new painting I was sent by Sicibom from China, who last year sent me a painting of my face (see http://temposhark.blogspot.com/2008/11/nobody-knows-me-like-you-know-me.html) - this time Sicibom has created a whole world for the painted-me to be... I love it, hope you do too! Here's to creativity!

R.xx