We’ve had quite a busy time over the last month or two since the release of our EP, from being studio guests on a radio show to playing several gigs, including a wedding in a barn amongst bales of hay and fairy lights!
First of all we were the studio guests on The New Music Generator show on Cambridge 105, which was broadcast late June/beginning of July. Tim Willett interviewed us and we talked about our EP ‘Falling To Pieces’ (find out how to get hold of a copy here ! 🙂 ) as well as plenty of other stuff including how we came up with the name Luna Falls. It was a lot of fun, and we talked over each other way too much (as usual!) You can listen to the podcast below; we are on at about 30 minutes in.
http://cambridge105.co.uk/new-music-generator-21-06-2017/
We played a set for the Northampton Music Festival at the Vintage Retreat, a cool cafe/vintage/collectables store, alongside artists such as Billy Nomad, Dale May and Kenneth J Nash. It’s a lovely venue and it was a great day, albeit boiling hot! Oh, and Vintage Retreat do lovely cake!
In July we played at the Devonshire Arms, Cambridge, which we have played a few times now. We had a nice crowd on this chilled-out Sunday afternoon, and we took the opportunity to play a few new songs that we hadn’t played live before, and they went down well.
We also played The Flying Pig, Cambridge, at the July ‘Sunday Night Lives’ event, organised by Mark McGivern (thanks for the photo Mark!). It was a fun evening of music and spoken word, including artists such as Africa Simpson, Raggedy Rawney and Flaming June. The Flying Pig is a lovely, quirky, traditional pub, and it’s still under threat of demolition from developers even though they’ve been fighting it for a good few years now, so support the pub as much as you can, and sign the petition to save it!
Gemma and Richard’s wedding, Northants
A couple of weeks ago we played a gig at a wedding in Northamptonshire – congratulations to the happy couple, Gemma and Richard! The reception was in a barn on Gemma’s family farm, and there were hay bale seats and fairy lights everywhere, very pretty. We played mostly cover versions – anything that had a love theme to it really! – and tunes that people could sing along to if they wanted (which they certainly did!) It was a great evening. We are playing another wedding at the end of September, this time as the happy couple walk down the aisle, so we are looking forward to that, weddings are always a lot of fun. So if anyone is getting married soon and needs a band… 😉
September is also the month of the NMG Awards 2017, and this time the event takes place in the Cambridge Corn Exchange. We won the Best Acoustic Award last year, and we have been nominated for the Acoustic, Country and Folk Award this year – some of the categories have been combined – so we are excited about that (nominations for our category are on the video below). We know we will be coming away with an award for reaching the ’20 Week Hall of Fame’ earlier this year in Cambridge 105’s New Music Generator show with our track ‘Thought It Was Love’, so it will be a good night even if we don’t win our category! There will also be an Audience Choice Award up for grabs, where the audience can vote for their favourite band, so we may be asking you for a favour when the online vote opens in a few weeks!
Luna Falls 