Roberto Cacciapaglia 'The Ann Steel Album' Re-Press

It's been a while since our last post here, sorry about that, been busy (that's a lie, I've just had nothing to say).

Anyway, the initial run of Roberto Cacciapaglia's Ann Steel Album went better than expected, selling out pretty quickly, so I've ordered up a re-press of a couple of hundred. This is a smaller pressing than the first and when it's gone, they're gone for good.

So, if you missed out, you can order yours here:
HALF MACHINE SHOP

Half Machine Records - Solid Gold Hits

A playlist of our greatest hits on Soundcloud. Includes hits by Real Estate, Banjo or Freakout, Ancient Crux, MIT, Holiday Shores and so on. Listen without prejudice.

Half Machine Sale

We're having a January clearout of stock, so go to our shop and you'll be able to pick up 7"s for £1, 12"s for £3 and CD albums for £4.

I found the last few copies of Banjo or Freakout's 'Upside Down' 12", which has been sold out for sometime too.

Go here to order >> Half Machine Shop

LISTEN: Roberto Cacciapaglia 'The Ann Steel Album''

Half Machine Podcast 002

Podcast number 2 featuring music from Kevin Ayers, The Wild Swans, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Tom Waits amongst others.

Half Machine Podcast 002 by Half Machine on Mixcloud

Holiday Shores live at Shea Stadium, New York

Holiday Shores - Live @ Shea Staidum by LiveatSheaStadium

Roberto Cacciapaglia 'The Ann Steel Album' Delay

As you may have noticed the reissue of 'The Ann Steel Album' hasn't appeared in shops (or your postbox, if you'd pre-ordered). The album pressing has been delayed longer than expected due to some artwork issues. The record is in production and I'm waiting on Roberto Cacciapaglia to approve the test pressing I've sent to Milan. Hopefully this should be done soon, with that done we can get to finishing it! Sorry for the delays, these were unexpected when we set the release date.

Hopefully it shouldn't be too longer than a week or two, but if you do have any questions or concerns you can contact me at richard (at) halfmachinerecords (dot) com

In the meantime you can read some lovely reviews of the record here:
Pitchfork
The Liminal

And if you haven't already, you can pick up a copy here - Half Machine Shop - there's only about 30 copies left for pre-order from me. It will be available in these places too though:
ROUGH TRADE
KRISTINA RECORDS
PHONICA
THE STONE RECORDS (JAPAN)
CLINTON STREET RECORD & STEREO (US)
OTHER MUSIC (US)

Holiday Shores 'New Masses For Squaw Peak' album stream

ORDER HERE

They're also in the UK and Europe playing some headline shows and supporting Twin Sister:

Wed 26th Oct Holland Rotterdam - Rotown*
Thurs 27th Oct Holland Utrecht - Ekko*
Fri 28th Oct Denmark Copenhagen - Vega
Sat 29th Oct Germany Berlin - Berghain Kantine*
Sun 30th Oct TBC
Mon 31st Oct Holland Amsterdam - Upstairs at Paradiso*
Wed 2nd Nov UK Brighton - Jam*
Thurs 3rd Nov UK London - Lexington(%)
Fri 4th Nov UK Oxford - Jericho*
Sat 5th Nov UK Bristol - Start The Bus*
Mon 7th Nov UK Manchester- Deaf Institute*
Tue 8th Nov UK Leeds - tbc
Wed 9th Nov UK Glasgow - Captain's Rest*
Thurs 10th Nov UK Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete's*
Fri 11th Nov Ireland Belfast - Limelight*
Sat 12th Nov Ireland Dublin - The Grand Social*
Tue 15th Nov UK London tbc
Wed 16th UK London - The Windmill(^)
Thurs 17th UK London - Old Blue Last
Fri 18th UK London tbc

* - with Twin Sister
(%) - with Gardens & Villa
(^) - with The Babies

Holiday Shores - UK & European tour

Holiday Shores will be heading to the UK and Europe for their first non-North American tour dates in a couple of weeks.

They'll be playing around mainland Europe, UK and Ireland with Brooklyn's Domino-signed Twin Sister. They will also be playing some headline shows, see below. As you can see there's more to be announced.

If you live in any of the tour towns and want to be super kind and put the band up for the night they'll let you in to the show for free and shower you in beer (or your liquid of choice). Get in touch us (at) halfmachinerecords (dot) com


Wed 26th Oct Holland Rotterdam - Rotown*
Thurs 27th Oct Holland Utrecht - Ekko*
Fri 28th Oct Denmark Copenhagen - Vega
Sat 29th Oct Germany Berlin - Berghain Kantine*
Sun 30th Oct TBC
Mon 31st Oct Holland Amsterdam - Upstairs at Paradiso*
Wed 2nd Nov UK Brighton - Jam*
Thurs 3rd Nov UK London - Lexington(%)
Fri 4th Nov UK Oxford - Jericho*
Sat 5th Nov UK Bristol - Start The Bus*
Mon 7th Nov UK Manchester- Deaf Institute*
Tue 8th Nov UK Leeds - tbc
Wed 9th Nov UK Glasgow - Captain's Rest*
Thurs 10th Nov UK Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete's*
Sat 12th Nov Ireland Dublin - The Grand Social*
Tue 15th Nov Belgium Brussels - Witlo Off Bar*
Wed 16th UK London tbc
Thurs 17th UK London tbc
Fri 18th UK London tbc

* - with Twin Sister
(%) - with Gardens & Villa

Half Machine Soundcloud

If you're at all interested, you could head over to the Half Machine Souncloud page where I've been uploading the back catalogue to stream and download. It's (nearly) all HERE.

And if you 'like' the Half Machine Facebook page I'll post the tracks on there, with a little uninformative information about the release so you don't have to keep checking Soundcloud to hear that Neils Children b-side.

I'll also be putting mixtapes up on the Facebook with stuff I've been listening to. Here's the first one, which includes new tracks from the upcoming Holiday Shores record, alongside Ganglians, Adrian Belew, Walls, Alan Vega, Alex Chilton and & Ben Vaughn, etc.

CLICK>>HALF MACHINE PODCAST 001