Smile Down gig, Tokyo, 2nd November

moomLooo and the members of Smile Down Upon Us ( East ) will be performing live at Ringoya in Ikebukuro, Tokyo on 2nd November.
Other acts appearing are the very wonderful Ruibyat and Andersens.
Doors 18.00. Start 19.00.

Those of you in Tokyo, go, go, go !
For the rest, see what comes up on youtube :)

More Smile Down gigs in Tokyo are planned for December.

http://www.ringoya.org/html/top.html

Hello

All at Smile Down would like to thank Geoff Dolman at Static Caravan and Masami Shimomura of Yacca for releasing our debut album in the UK and Japan respectively, and, from there, to many other lovely parts of the world.

We’d also like to express appreciation of the many reviewers who’ve seen fit to bestow their considerable critical blessings upon the album. So far we’ve only included the UK press on this site.

Following the Japanese release, moomLooo performed a couple of sumptuous little shows in Shibuya, Tokyo, which the U.K. contingent of the band watched by video link and heartily wished to have been there.

Keiron and David would like to thank Eri, Umino and Seki for providing moomLooo with beautiful musical accompaniment on these occasions and, in the case of Eri, for wearing some fabulous hats.

Smile Down now has the intriguing potential, for live purposes, of two separate incarnations which we have dubbed "Smile Down (East)" and "Smile Down (West)". This unusual configuration is something that can only become ever more pleasingly confusing as time goes by.

On the recording front we have serendipitously stumbled into an ongoing collaboration with folktronica masters Tunng. Initially by supplying a spirited remix of Tunng’s superb song ‘Shove It!’ as part of Static Caravan’s Teaism album/download project. Tunng returned the favour with their sublime remix of our own ‘The Qookino Farm And Tractor Factory Band.’
Other recent activities include David doing a variety of book readings and interviews for On Some Faraway Beach, his recently published biography of Brian Eno. In the meantime Keiron and moomLooo have both contributed to the new Orla Wren album due to be released on the Flau label early next year.