#wilful missing

[folkingitup]

Wilful Missing - I Am Clay

[musictipping]

'Constitution Failed' was used in the BBC TV school drama Waterloo Road in September 2011. The song features at the end of episode 12 of series 7. This is one of 4 Wilful Missing songs to have featured in Waterloo Road. The others are 'Cry For The CIty', 'DIY' and 'Blue Poetry'.

[bradfordunimusicsociety]

As you might already know we are having a Christmas showcase THIS Thursday ! Here is a reminder of the details:  Date: Thursday 12th December Time: Doors open at 7pm Location: Delius Arts and Cultural Centre, Great Horton Road (opposite Lahore, Bradford) Price: £2 BUMS members, £3 everybody else

  Bar and refreshments available Food from Lahore's Please click "Join" if you are coming, we need to know how many people are attending so we know how much food to get!  

There will be live music from members of the music society, including performances from BUMS groups, such as handdrumming with Ben Tongue and Bradford Open Orchestra with Richard Ormrod  

Headline Act: Wilful Missing Check them out here! https://www.facebook.com/wilfulmissing?fref=ts

Everyone is welcome so please share this message :) Oh and bring along your Christmas hats!

[drifl0on]

Baby, say something, say something I’ll remember the next day, Like the shadows conceal us from hoping. Baby, say something, say something I’ll remember the next day, But it’s old news that we can’t see for looking. It feels like it’s gonna fall down Around us one brick at time. But with wine and with love, With wine and love, We’ll clean the past away.

[babelgrim]

Wilful Missing

First in Gigseen's series of 'New Band' profiles (which should be out regularly every Thursday) is an up and coming bunch of chaps from Bradford: Wilful Missing.

Style? Genre? ... Hmm .. I always hate having to put my finger on definitions like that, but if someone held a gun to my head and demanded an answer: 'nu-folk'? - does that exist?. Of course anyone who has listened to more a couple of records in their lifetime will hear influences in anyone's music - this is after all the 21st century. Nothing wrong really with just saying that in the case of Wilful Missing that they write pretty damn decent songs that will more than likely make you smile. For example, the latest single Constitution Failed.

Composed of Sam Kipling, Sam Lawrence, Albert Freeman, Ruth Viqeuira and Rhys Kelly, the 5-piece have started to be picked up on muso radar - primarily from having a number of their tracks featured on BBC show Waterloo Road (also hailing from Bradford - nice local touch). I heard the song DIY this way, from another room of course, I'm not a habitual soap/drama person ... Then spent a while googling the chorus lyrics till I found out the whos and whats. Promptly bought all available recordings too of course.

So far, all Wilful Missing's material has been made available for download via Bandcamp as either 'pay as much as you like' or 'pay at least XXX'. A great scheme, and one that I wonder why more bands don't take advantage of. Aside from the single Constitution Failed there are also two EPs, DIY appearing on the latest offering Vast Atlantic.

<a href="http://music.wilfulmissing.co.uk/album/vast-atlantic-ep" data-mce-href="http://music.wilfulmissing.co.uk/album/vast-atlantic-ep">Vast Atlantic EP by Wilful Missing</a>

Me personally, I can see the band doing rather well in the near future especially when considering the way other artists of a similar sound (Stornoway spring to mind) have taken off in the last twelve months or so ... Perhaps a campaign could be started to get W.M. onto a Jools Holland show. C'mon BBC - get those connections networking.

wilful missing links

Website | Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter

[grrrlmusic]

[albfreeman]

The new Wilful Missing video - Cry For The City. Shot and edited by the band in Bradford.

[albfreeman]

The latest Wilful Missing video, made in The Hollies in Meanwood Woods.