Sky Larkin Competition - Win Signed Artwork
Things are going well in the Sky Larkin universe - lots of live gigs and exciting support slots as well as some well deserved main-stream mu-sic media suport (msmsms). Now here’s your chance to get your grubby mitts on some signed Sky Larkin artwork by Mr Jay Cover from the noUS voUS Collective.
The winner will recieve the #1/50 print of the picture above (click it to view full size) signed by the artist and by the band. To be in with a chance of winning simply describe Sky Larkin song “Somersault (Notes!)” (listen/download at their myspace) in the most cliched way possble. Be outrageous, mix your metaphor and be over the top - but keep it faithful to the sound and any feeling it evokes in you. NME say it’s “like Black Sabbath and Broken Social Scene colliding, but with vocals akin to the guy from Grandaddy gargling wasps”. I think you can do better - and create something special in the process.
Leave your answer in the comments. The competition will run until Halloween 23:59 (31-10-06) and the best answer will be chosen by me and possibly Sky Larkin.
The Artist is Jay Cover, 23 and he’s Leeds Based Artist/ Music Video Director. He works as part of “the noUS voUs collective” providing engaging and innovative art/design work for a multitude of Leeds based bands as well a few London based bands. www.jaycover.co.uk. His art is showcased above and below.
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Sky Larkin play:
Nov 1st 2006 | Club NME @ The Faversham w/ THE GOSSIP Leeds
Nov 18th 2006 | NASTY FEST VI @ The Faversham w/hot club de paris, more TBA Leeds
Nov 22th 2006 | Water Rats w/ The Isles London
What a way to usher your return and at that - welcome back!
So let’s see..Sky Larkin’s “Somersault (Notes!)” is a song with such a dizzying tympanic beat it literally keeps you spinning in it’s frenzied, yet inexplicably calming state.
Like a steamroller of feathers, “Somersault (Notes)” rotates your fish and tickles your fancy like an enjoyably blokey uncle, propelled as it is by a fricassé of spiralling keyboards. Katie’s vocals sound like that woman off of Rainer Maria and if the bass was more audible, it would doubtlessly ‘rumble’, because that’s the only emotive verb anyone uses to describe bass. In conclusion, like the best song ever, only different, 7/10
the bastard child of giant drag and the research.
Like being hit by Rocky Balboa nicely
Like Polly Harvey with a defibrilator stuck up her arse, ‘pull back and go’ guitars and childlike table top finger drumming. But, y’know, like, a pop song what your Mum might like if it were on the telly.
A sequencing of sounds with the feeling akin to walking in on a da-vinci-code-esque orgy in the basement of your 16th century mansion in a northern province of France. And like that mansion, it’s spacious, luxurious, creepy; with hints of Scooby Doo running around that haunted fairground to the tinny sound of the merry-go-round (or somewhere in Brighton) or a rejected sound from a Fisher Price product. What is thrown into the pot is a mix of restricted lyrics, rolling guitars and revolving keyboards. What emerges is the fledging bird of success. What larks!
Why don’t you just change the name of your blog to ‘I love Sky Larkin’?
Ah - I see what did there Chris - ho ho - you want me to change the name of my blog because Sky Larkin have come to be mentioned so much (twice in the last month?) that they have come to be the primary content of a blog, and perhaps changing the name to signify this would be useful.
I do love Sky Larkin. But I’m not going to change the name of blog. Unless you pay me. More than Sky Larkin are paying.
Sky Larkin’s ‘Somersault Notes’ is like the bastard child of a C86 scenester’s secret doo wop stash making squelchy love to a riot grrl’s melancholy life partner with Stereolab playing in the background of a windmill in open fields near Amsterdam.
Sorry. I really shouldn’t moan, the site’s great and you’ve introudced me to some great bands.
please let me win the comp
Hi!
Nice info, big thx.