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The Lost Cavalry Debut EP

It'l come out through the band's own label.

Posted 4th June 2010, 8:56pm in News, by DIY News Desk
The Lost Cavalry We nearly didn't post this, due to the oh-so-twee story about how they formed, but it's been a slow afternoon so here you go.

Former Fanfarlo vocalist Mark West will release an EP on 2nd August, with his new band The Lost Cavalry. Entitled 'Waves Freeze to Rolling Hills', it'll come out through Two Six Heave.

And here's the naff bit:

"They formed quite by accident, as the circus was packing up. The sun was setting, a few children were kicking a ball about, there was a great hubbub in the air.

Five people found themselves standing by a wooden shack surrounded by boxes. From these, Mark took a ukulele and concertina and sang. Nick took a guitar, Toby took a glock and a melodica, Oliver took a bass and Dave improvised drums from the crates in which they'd found the instruments.

Pleased with this discovery, they left the shack and invited all those in the woods to hear them play. Someone built a treehouse, it doesn't matter who. They played up in that treehouse for some two, three hours, to rapt silence and tremendous applause.

The songs were all stories. If you place the songs end to end they form a novel, which you can read in any order. Tales of elephants returning to life, of ghostly soldiers marching down midnight streets, of boats setting sail to lost islands..."

They've a few live dates planned too, if it sounds like your sort of thing, here:

JUNE
7 Balcony TV Show, Camden – London
10 Organ Art, Harvest Café and Gallery, Kensal Rise – London

JULY
3 Blythe Hill Fields Festival, Lewisham – London
9 Club No Fiction, Powers Bar w/ Don’t Wait Animate, Kilburn - London

AUGUST
2 EP launch to be announced
6 The Lexington, Kings Cross – London
12 The Lock Tavern w/ Ezra Furman of The Harpoons, Camden – London
14 LeeFest (acoustic Show for Wonderland) Bromley – London
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