Share stuff and win signed CDs

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Amy

WOW! Over 2000 hits on YouTube in only a few days for our new single and music video ‘Stop Hurting’… thank you SO much to everyone who spread the love!

We’re still spreading the word and would LYAFL (Love You All For Life - think it'll catch on?) if you could help us get 'Stop Hurting' out to as many people as possible. As a little incentive, we’re going to place everyone who shares the track into a raffle to win 1 of 10 NEW SIGNED EPs to be released mid Feb.

Here's a few ideas to get you thinking...

Idea 1

Like our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/novasbasement

 

Idea 2

Invite your Facebook friends to watch our new Stop Hurting music video by sharing this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZ5QvFEG5s

 

Idea 3

Invite your Facebook friends to buy or review the single on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/stop-hurting-single/id493172520

 

Idea 4

Tweet your favourite N.B. link to your followers.

 

Idea 5

Comment on the track on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/novasbasement/novas-basement-stop-hurting

 

Idea 6

Got a blog or a tumblr or a website? You know what to do.

 

Like we said, 10 signed CDs up for grabs. Easy. Presents from us to you. Ready... set... GO!

Oh, and don't forget to come back and tell us what you shared. We'll do our own sharing by filming the draw and posting your lucky lucky names in a future post. Lucky.

Ciao for now and good luck!

NB x

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New single: Stop Hurting – out now!

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Amy

Our new single Stop Hurting is out now!





"One of the best sounds to grace my ears this last year were the ladies of Novas Basement, a three piece based in London, who delightfully mix harmonies, strings, warm banter and witty lyrics."
Jon Barker, thankfolkforthat.com

Buy Stop Hurting
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We are also super excited to reveal our brand new Music Video by the very talented Gareth Axford:

A little bit about the song and the collaboration

Stop Hurting was written about 7 years ago after a trip to a beautiful Australian seaside town with a lighthouse. We've tried different things with the tune during the many times we've performed it... We've gigged it with piano, violin, cello and percussion, but late last year we finally settled on a stripped back arrangement that features simple acoustic guitar and 3-part vocals almost all the way through.

Late one evening after a rehearsal, we had an idea to create an animation to accompany this single for our new EP. We wanted a character who was innocent and sweet to take the journey with this tune, so we immediately thought about a collaboration with the talented illustrator & animator Gareth Axford. Gareth has a quirky and innocent style and spends his time tucked away with his art in country Wales after he made his own escape from London in recent years (much like the character in the music video).

We absolutely loved working with Gareth and he *really* delivered on our vague brief to 'not be too literal, make it your own'... and sniff, the end result made us shed a tear a two (see the twitter evidence).

Thank you Gareth, and thank you to everyone for the kind messages and tweets of support these past few days.

Watch this space for the full EP release on the 6th of February!

NB x

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Lucky N.B.

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Rach

Us N.B. ladies are feeling rather fortunate of late.

Not only do we consider talented artists Kal Lavelle & Antonio Lulic as good friends, but they also let us gig with them sometimes too! ;)

That’s exactly what we did last Friday at the wonderful, and final Acoustic Domestic gig of the year. Performing just how we like it, in an acoustic and intimate setting, we were given the opportunity to play alongside some seriously special artists/musicians in the Acoustic Domestic, Christmas special and boy did we LOVE IT!

The evening ended with a massive session where everyone got their instruments out and jammed along to songs like Michael Jacksons ‘Billie Jean’ & ‘Zombie’ by the Cranberries (N.B. even got the chance to play their very own rendition of ‘Disarm’ by Smashing Pumpkins!) Check out Sir Jon Barker's memoirs of the night here.

A massive shout out to Antonio and the rest of the crew for letting us join in the fun.

Here’s to many more Acoustic Domestic's to come in 2012!

NB

xx

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