Website II: The Empire Strikes Back

Hello everyone! Well, I’m back online finally and looking a little different but hopefully functioning better. Apologies for the blackout for the last week, during which the previous website basically decided it had irreconcilable differences with me, and left the operation. (I’m not naming names, Tumblr, but I always suspected you were a Tory.) I’m pretty sure that nothing worthy of note or comment happened between then and now though… right?

Image by Theo Micheal 

Album III: A New Hope

So here you behold the new-look Grace Petrie website, which we (someone who is better than me at computers) will be updating and transforming over the next few weeks. There will be lots of things to add and change over the coming months as I make preparations for *drum roll* THE NEW GRACE PETRIE ALBUM. Thanks to those of you who snapped up those 100 copies of the double A-side You Were Always Gonna Break My Heart, Honey – and if you didn’t get your hands on a CD then please feel free to download the tracks here to get a taste of what to expect from the new record, which I’m starting to get really excited about. Along with those two tracks, the new CD will also feature We’re All In It Together, as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show a couple of weeks ago. If you missed the programme, have a little listen to the song here and let me know what you think.

The new record, which is yet to be named, will be quite different from anything I’ve done before, but I hope you will all like it nonetheless. The two years since I last recorded have been full of change personally and politically, and I think the songs I’m writing right now reflect that. I want to say a sincere thank you to those of you who’ve been with me all the way since this website first appeared in 2010 with Tell Me A Story. Thanks to you I’ve been able to do more, play more and most importantly keep hope alive. And those of you who’ve just joined – why not check out the back catalogue? ;)

More announcements about the new record will follow in the next few days but for now all I can say is it will be released from here in June, so keep your eyes peeled for updates.

News: Handmade Festival

I’m thoroughly chuffed to announce my appearance at the newly-created Handmade Festival, which is coming to my beloved Leicester on May 24th-27th. The festival, produced almost entirely by the man who produced my newest release, John Helps of Maybeshewill fame, will take place over the bank holiday weekend in a variety of cool venues around the city. The line-up of music and comedy is awesome and tickets are available to buy from here, but I would recommend you grab them soon.

April… Oxford & Leek Anti-Capitalist Roadshows

This month I’ll be joining in with two Anti-Capitalist Roadshow gigs, one at the the Holywell Music Room, Oxford on Friday 12th, for which tickets are available from here and one at Foxlowe Arts Centre on 16th, tickets still to buy here. If you like my music but haven’t been to one of these unique events yet then I really do recommend it. The Roadshows bring together a collective of some of the best anti-establishment folk singers (and a magician!) in the country to share a stage and stories of subversion together. These particular shows will feature some combination of Leon Rosselson, Peggy Seeger, Janet Russell, Jim Woodland, Robb Johnson, Frankie Armstrong and Ian Saville. With a line-up like that, you’d be mad to miss them.

As always, thanks for your continued support and sorry for any confusion caused by the tech issues.

Peace and love,

GP

The Now Show - Podcast available

Hello folks!

Well I’m still entirely overwhelmed by the reaction to my appearance on The Now Show last Friday on BBC Radio 4. Many of you have gotten in touch to say you enjoyed the song and I really appreciate you doing so, it was a big step into the unknown for me doing a live comedy thing and I was sick with nerves by the time the show aired so thanks again for your support and lovely comments.

Quite a few people have asked where they can get hold of the song - right now the only recording that exists of it is the one I did at the BBC last week, but that is fortunately available as the Friday Night Comedy Podcast which the BBC let you download absolutely free from here. Be quick though, they’re updated weekly so will be replaced with the new one in 4 days’ time.

For anyone especially keen, there is extra bonus footage of me performing Farewell to Welfare for the Now Show audience to be viewedhere.

The new song, which I’m calling We’re All In It Together, Us and Dave, will eventually make its way onto the forthcoming album, which will be, er, coming forth at some indistinct point in the future, all I can say at this point is it’s looking likely it will emerge in the summer. 

In the mean time please do check out other songs of varying degrees of political and non-political despair from the Music page, and if you are significantly moved to support a struggling artist, you can even buy them from there too.

Finally, as I announced on Twitter last week, if you bought one of the 100 wax-sealed copies of You Were Always Gonna Break My Heart, Honey, but don’t want to break the seal then do please email: grace@gracepetrie.com for a free download code to get the MP3s. I will be sending those out tonight. 

As always, thanks for the support and hope to catch some of you at my gigs in April in Newbury, Oxford, Leek and Leicester. Here’s hoping for the sun.

Cheers,

GP x

BBC Radio 4's The Now Show, NOW!

Hi folks!

Tune into BBC Radio 4’s Now Show to hear me doing a specially written song for the programme. It will also be on BBC iPlayer after that if you don’t catch it.

If you are experiencing problems with this website - that makes two of us! While keyboards are frantically tapped upon and sworn at, if you liked what you heard on the Now Show you can try to click HERE to hear/buy some music from me, but we’ve been having some spectacularly badly timed website issues so if that doesn’t work please try again tomorrow when we will hopefully have it fixed.

FML,

GP x