mcalmont & butler news

31st March 2007

McAlmont And Butler played last night (30th march) at the Manchester Vs Cancer gig at the MEN arena and Andy Rourke joined them playing bass on 'Yes' and on two The Smiths' songs: "Still Ill" and "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me".
february 9th, 2007

According to his MySpace site, Bernard & David will be playing at the Manchester Versus Cancer gig at the MEN Arena on 30th March 2007.
Versus Cancer is Manchester's biggest fundraising event, raising money for cancer research and awareness.

26th August 2006

The acoustic session Bernard and David did for XFM on august 22 is available at the XFM web site. The session features 'Speed', 'Goodbye' and 'Midnight'.

22nd August 2006

Last night (august 21) Bernard appeared on a David McAlmont gig at the Jazz Cafe in London. Thay played together 'Speed', 'Falling', 'Tonight', 'Goodbye' and 'Yes'.
A video of 'Speed' live at the Jazz Cafe can be seen at McAlmont & Butler's MySpace site.
1st August 2006

Last night (july 31) Bernard & David did another interview and an acoustic session at Tom Robinson's show on BBC 6 Music.
They played "Speed", "Falling" and premiered a new song called "Midnight".
You can hear the session on the BBC 6 Music site until next monday.

26th July 2006

Last night (july 25th) Bernard & David did an interview and an acoustic session at Tom Robinson's (replacing Mark Radcliffe) show on BBC Radio 2.
They played some new beautiful songs called "Oh What A Year", "Goodbye" and the current single "Speed".
You can hear the session on the BBC Radio 2 site until next tuesday.

Bernard and David will be doing another radio session on monday (july 31) on BBC 6 Music and another one on XFM on August 21st.

13th July 2006

Last tuesday 'Speed' was premiered on the Tom Robinson's Evening Session (BBC).
You can hear it on the BBC site until next tuesday.
There's also a clip of the song at the McAlmont & Butler myspace site.

12th July 2006

Bernard on his myspace site about the mcalmont & butler single:

"just to clarify...we havent made an album and this is not the start of yet another boring big sell campaign.....when me & david recorded this track it was , along with one other song the only thing EMI would pay for us to do...we decided not to try and impress but to do what the fuck we wanted and ignore all their advice....they dropped us without hearing it...
i was always very proud of this song and when the tears intervened it was a welcome relief from the trauma me & david had faced demoing for an a&r guy who had already told us he wasnt interested....but i always promised we would put this out some day somehow....so i finished it off alone and pledged to press up a few copies on my own, without a sleeve, a b side, a tour, a plugger, a poster campaign, any marketing , any bullshit...thats was my dream, and rough trade kindly interevened and offered to take the burden off my hands....but the dream remains as deliberately purist as the song...i have no interest in pursuing the jools holland show or the 4th on the bill slot at reading...i want to take it to any radio station that wants to play it and give it to them personally....the press need play no part for me.....we are outside that world and every other with our intention for this song..there is no b-side because we didnt record one...there is no cd because we will lose money to try and distribute one....there is no sleeve because we have nothing to say that isnt in the song....there are no credits because we dont owe anybody anything....there is no video because lets face it they are always rubbish....and there is no live version because i dont have 3 drummers...i like there being a black piece of vinyl with the music noticeably etched into it....ive always had little affection for cd singles, and to go against the purists opinion there can be no purer way of presenting a piece of music than on a format that you physically cant touch....and lets face it they sound alright and if you say otherwise you're boring
so there you go.....its my baby , take her or leave her , i dont care but she's a lady all the same"
29th June 2006

According to Bernard and David... 'Speed' by McAlmont & Butler is to be released on August 7th 2006 on Rough Trade. Available as a limited 7" b/w Speed (Instrumental) and download.......

13th June 2006

Bernard has posted this at his official forum:
"There will be a one-off poke in the eye fuck you 7" from the monumental McAlmont & Butler at the end of july / early august, hopefully, on Rough Trade".

The a-side of this 7 could possibly be 'Speed', a song Bernard have finished recently.

24th April 2006

Bernard has posted this at his official forum:
"I am trying to finish 2 M&B tracks for throwaway, flexi or something like that which i will no more about and hopefully have done by next week."

April 2006

Bernard is currently working with David McAlmont on their third album.
In 2003 Bernard and David were doing demos for the album (with titles like 'Speed' and 'Freaks'), bu the recording and releasing of this album was postponed. Now it seems the band and the record company are on it again.