LARKIN IN DA PARKIN

We're (a)live!! After a year away from the London live scene, recording/sending our demo, doing some bitz for Sky Sports and a 10 day tour in Indonesia, we're back!

WE are playing the 'Lark In The Park' near Angel tube station, Thursday 14th July.

We'll be on at 8.30pm sharp. BUT, Blink, or turn up late and you'll miss it.

We will be playing some new tracks for the first time live, so pop down and have a few scoops with us!

See you there! From Eva, Oliver and Rico.

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chris (alright love), collin, craig (scots twats), harry (you bag of chaos...she turned you down!), fart mart (too nice), sadge (brown hobbit boy 1), steve, steve (common), seamus (winge-ing plastic paddy), wadger (brown hobbit boy 2) and my goodness self. here's to another sesh in july.....

see you in richmond...
ollie.




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dear all (from rico)

Been so long...we should drop you a line more often...it's just that there's many o tunes falling from the sky...we use both hands to catch 'm

WITH MY BACK AGAINST THE WAVES
I'M HOLDING A SIGN UP
SAYS I'M CAGED AND COMPLAINING
OF HIGH SEASONS ROLLING IN

rico

Indonesia

Tsunami...Message To All Our Indonesian Friends...

Whole swathes of Asia, Africa and India were recently hit by the waves of a Tsunami. This is already (and will become, even greater so) a massive international disaster. We recently toured Indonesia where we were greeted and treated with lavish attention. Hospitality was unsurpassed, people were humble, thoughtful, professional and proud. Then this has happened to them. Our love and thoughts are with those who have suffered loss of life and livelihood. We wish you all the strength in the world to cope with the coming weeks and months.

Love and respect, amigdela...Chris, Eva, Gary, Rico and Oliver.


HELP
Disasters Emergency Committee - 'DEC', all the major UK charities have gathered to centralise incoming and outgoing aid - see text on BBC, ITV etc.

...if you can give money...
- donate on: DEC 0870 60 60 900
- cheques and postal orders: DEC, PO BOX 999, London EC3A 3AA
- from 4th January 2005 you can donate for DEC at any bank...
- Muslim aid: 0207 377 4200
- Islamic relief: 0121 622 0622
- World Jewish Aid: 0207 691 1774
- Hindu Aid: Contact - Tsunami 2004, c/o Neasdon Temple, N'th London
- Buddist Aid: asia-quakerelief@europe.com (see Sri Lanka/Thailand)

...if you need help...
Disasters Emergency Committee: www.dec.org.uk
Foreign Office Hotline For Relatives: 0207 008 0000
International Red Cross: www.familylinks.icrc.org


all information supplied by BBC and ITV.

Tour Of Indonesia...

On Saturday 20th November 2004 we had a party* which wrapped up in the wee hours. Chris, Rico and Oliver then headed off to Heathrow for morning flight to Singapore.

We arrived, Monday 22nd early and were met by Colette and were hosted by Julian, Producer at ESPN Sports, Singapore. We played the 'China Jump' club and were filmed live for ESPN by Julian and team. We played...

Street Spirit
Waltz
One I Love
Earthquake
As It Is

We then took the 6am flight, Singapore to Jakarta and were met by Mirza and team (Santo, Vicky, Dino, Ewan & Edwin plus extras) for the Sampoerna 'A Mild' brand who sponsored our tour. Our gigs were...

Itinerary:

23rd - Jakarta...press conference...Hard Rock cafe (Rico with Indo Pop Idol!)
24th - Lampung...gig...jamming session with house band, floating club.
25th - flew back to Jakarta and on to...
Surebaya...gig recorded on local TV...

26th - flew to Semarang...gig live on local radio...
27th - flew back to Jakarta...gig LIVE on Metro TV (national), 4.9 million confirmed viewers.

28th - train to Bandung...last gig...travel thru' night by road to Jakarta...
29th - 6.30am to Singapore, 1.30pm flight to London, Heathrow.

Thanks to Julian, Colette and Dave and all at ESPN Sports for Singapore. For Indonesia - thanks to Ria and all at Sampoerna 'A Mild' brand (for support and generous purse strings!), the President of the Indonesian Billiards Federation, Mirza and team and the staff at all the venues we played.

See you next time, amigdela.


*...C&O hosted the party...the theme this year...trannies and slags. The less said,...etc etc. Guilty parties in no order...Eva, Rico, Chris, Cass, Kris, Caroline, Vicky C, Randi, Sylvie, Sadge & girldfriend, Chris T, Lula, Barry, Chris J, Zoe, Steve, Claudia, Oliver & Kalinda...sorry those that couldn't make it. See you next time!

Amigdela @ Club8, Amsterdam.

On Monday the 30th of August we played the wonderful "club8" in Amsterdam for a second time thanks to the owners and promoters. With a great crowd and even larger in numbers then on our first visit, we ripped through our scheduled set and found time in between to throw in some improvised funk and rap jams. We were also able to beam our 1 hour "movie" on to a screen next to the stage, consisting of photo's, images and art collected during amigdela's career so far, which was truly an addition to the night's show. Plus we presented our demo (recorded at La Rocka Studios, North London) called "Asking Too Much" and sold out all 70 copies we brought along. We will be making many more copies readily available by early September...

We played;

-Waltz
-December Man
-Labyrinth
-Girl I Used (To Know)
-O' Brother
-Anna's Song
-All Along The Watchtower
-Lactosis
-Your Flow

-Doesn't Matter
-Holding On To Matches
-Facts
-Street Spirit
-Pasta Di Parma/Minor Major
-Protect
-The One I Love

Encore;

-Earthquake
-As it Is

See you soon at the Infinity, Soho, mid October.....Date to be confirmed.

All at amigdela

AMIGDELA PLAY AMSTERDAM PART II

Oh no! We're going back!
On August the 30th, we are going back to Holland to play the fabulous "CLUB 8" in Amsterdam for the second time in 2004. The show will be a part of the "Amsterdam Open 9-ball", an international pool billiard extravaganza, featuring international stars such as; Efren Reyes, Francisco Bustamante and the entertaining Earl "The Pearl" Strickland!

That's all on top of what Amigdela promise to bring you on this evening. A new and improved setlist still including old favourites that can be heard on this site but also the song that had Amsterdam shaking the last time... 'Earthquake' (to be one of our new demo tracks). Plus we've been coming up with some new tunes recently that we're very eager to unleash on you in Amsterdam.

ENTRY IS FREE!! As this is part of the annual 9-ball event. Are these enough reasons? We would think so. Wether you live in Holland or abroad, come and join Amigdela the Dam for an evening you won't forget!

See you soon,...amigdela.

AMIGDELA plays Infinity, Soho - Sat. 3rd July

Dear all,

We will be playing the Infinity Club, Soho (Old Burlington Street) on Saturday 3rd July.

We'll be on stage at around 8pm and we will be playing an hour and a half set. Yes!

We'll do some of the new stuff we played in Norway and Holland plus most of our original tracks (ours and other people's).

Infinity, Old Burlington Steet, Soho (doors open at 7pm) - on stage @ 8pm admission is £4...two other bands are playing before us and we'll all be partying after. SEE YOU THERE!

Eva Linn & Rico unplugged at Grey Horse Kingston

Last night (12th May) me and Eva played a nice little gig at the Grey Horse in Kingston. It's a lovely, lively venue where there is live music 7 nights a week. It had been about 3 years since we'd played a show, just the 2 of us and that's why I set it up. Oliver and Chris also came down which was really nice. We were up first and had 20 minutes to rock the house. It felt really good and relaxed and we were actually ready to play all night, but hey...

We're definitely going to do some more of these little shows with different line-ups and we'll post the dates here when they're arranged. So next time it might be a show with Oliver, Eva and Gary who knows!

We played;

-Minor major
-Holding on to matches
-Lactosis
-Facts (brand new)

We're also planning a big party night at Infinty, Soho in June where we'll be playing a 90-minute set! Date to be posted soon.

If you would like personal invitations to all our gigs + all the info from the world of amigdela, please add your e-mail to our mailing list.

Untill next time,

Rico

gig in Amsterdam - Club 8

Dear Everybody,
One million and one thanks to all those in Holland who set up, helped, attended (& played) and those that couldn't make it to this stupendous gig, but wished us the best (and who were missed) - thanks to those fans from Norway and the UK in particular. We did:-

first set...
- Waltz
- O' Brother
- December Man
- Anna's Song
- Labyrinth
- All Along The Watchtower
- Girl I Used To Know
- Lactosis
- Protect MFTR


second set...
- Help Me
- Doesn't Matter
- Pasta Di Parma/Minor Major
- Holding On To Matches
- Your Flow
- King Of Pain
- Earthquake
- The 1 I Love
- Backwishing
- Darling Nikki
- As It Is
- Menime Jam


Attendance was sublime and much praise is bestowed on all, after-party got silly and very messy, with tai chi and five a side football...etc.etc.

Venue - Thanks to Etienne
Promotion - Thanks to Dave & team

SEE YOU ALL VERY SOON!
amigdela - Chris, Eva, Gary, Oliver and Rico

nuse

Fortunately whispered, could this be distance,
that I am throwing a stone.
And where you are I know you, you can feel it in the life,
that is running through you,
that you are throwing a stone.

And from where I am, I write, is-,
alone and at my brightest,
where both our might is,
he who realizes,
to both of us I write this.

I don't wanna go to sleep.
I don't wanna go to sleep.
Want to be the first to reap.
...sowing the seeds...
Pick 'm up when you please.

rico

AMIGDELA IN AMSTERDAM 13/2

Yes it's been confirmed. Amigdela are gonna rock "the city of uppertunities"; Amsterdam!!

We will be playing at the fantastic "club 8" (Admiraal de Ruijterweg 56B)
on freaky FRIDAY THE 13TH OF FERUARY. The show will start at 20.30 and since this is our first concert in Amsterdam, we're going to make it a very, very special one.

Check out www.club-8.nl for a 360 degree photo of the venue and stage.

To anybody in Holland or abroad...you do not want to miss this.

Have a great week,
all at amigdela

somethings are just...

"And so I told myself, just start with the little things.
Something my eyes are familiar with.
Don't grow out and don't wander off.
Stand still in front of things that are at my feet for once.

I'm going outside and let myself bump into.
The tree, the lake, the stone and the mountain.
Wish you were here now, but that's just not to be.
We'll take it all with us in the next melody."


"To find yourself amazed.
To find yourself.
To be on top of things.
Claiming prizes only when neccesary.
Hey turn that light off, it's bright enough in here.

Can't step up and then walk down,
leave it to another one.
Sharing stuff is nice and all.
Can't step up and then walk down."


"Oh how we wish it was all of us.
Thought we thought everything.
Blind to the missing link.
Deprived...of female philosophers.

And even the thoughts and thinking of the "first" half.
Through yelling and screaming.
Pulling at the pages they wrote in.
Lost and never to be found again."

"Turn left 4 times and I'll come back to me."

Rico

A MINI CD!

We are currently in amigdela's private studio working on a brand new demo. It will most likely consist of 3 or 4 tracks and will be a document of what we've come to sound like since the "Holding on to matches"-demo. We've picked 10 of our best songs and we'll be recording them all. A basic "ground-track" for all songs was recorded last week and tomorrow (4th nov.) Chris will be laying down his drum parts. We will be recording;

-Protect me from the reign
-Waltz
-O brother
-Doesn't matter
-Holding on to matches
-As it is
-Help me
-December man
-Your flow
-Lactosis

Check here for a regular update on the recording process.

Goodbye for now, all at amigdela

Infinity Gig

We played the Infinity (Old Burlington Street, Soho) 6th October...good to be playing in London again just after returning from the Norwegian festival...we played:

1 - Waltz
2 - Protect M.F.T.R.
3 - Lactosis
4 - Help Me
5 - Doesn't Matter
6 - As It Is

Great bands, great evening...Gary Shanley's last night promoting Infinity (a great loss to the club), we wish him the best with his other promotional endeavours/engineering/bass playing.

Amigdela's Rock & Blues in Norway...

We just got back from Norway where we played 2 nights of the 3 day Fjord Blues Festival, Sandane, Norway.


We played...

....FIRST NIGHT (26th Sept.)..................SECOND NIGHT (27th Sept.)
....first set............................................first set...

1 - Waltz.........................................1 - Waltz
2 - O Brother...................................2 - O Brother
3 - Labyrinth....................................3 - Labyrinth
4 - Holding On To Matches.................4 - Holding On To Matches
5 - Help Me......................................5 - Help Me
6 - Violins........................................6 - Violins
7 - Your Flow................................... 7 - Your Flow
8 - Girl I Used...................................8 - Girl I Used
9 - Lactosis.......................................9 - December Man


....second set......................................second set...
1 - Minor Major.............................. 1 - Minor Major
2 - Protect M.F.T.R..........................2 - Lactosis
3 - Nikki ............................ .3 - Protect M.F.T.R.
4 - Rap Blues..................................4 - Nikki
5 - Doesn't Matter............................5 - Rap Blues
6 - As It Is......................................6 - Blues Jam
......................................................7 - Doesn't Matter
..................................................... 8 - To The One
......................................................9 - As It Is

(Photos of the festival to be posted shortly)


Thanks to Richard et al for booking us, flying us out, accomadating and feeding us...I hope we returned the investment! See you next time.

One million and one thanks to all the family Fossheims, (old and new!) for their participation and support...three generations of family rockers...


SEE YOU ALL AT 'INFINITY', SOHO, LONDON - MONDAY 6TH OCTOBER - watch this space and look our for mailings for confirmation of this gig...see 'Future Gigs' page on this site.

amigdela xxx

We are playing the...WORLD FAMOUS - NORWAY'S ANSWER TO GLASTONBURY!!!

Friday 26th AND Saturday 27th September...


'Fjordane Blues Festival' 2003
Gloppen Hotel
Sandane
Norway...


FRIDAY set runs... 22:00h to 23:15h

SATURDAY set runs... 21:30h to 23:15h

...see you all there...

amigdela

OLYMPIA and VERGE in one night...

Thanks to those who came to both The Olympia and Verge gigs (Jaime..where were you!) on 26th July. We played to just over 3000 people at Olympia and we did:

Waltz
O Brother
Protect
Doesnt Matter
Help Me
December Man
Lactosis
Your Flow
As It Is

We were the last band to go on, our set lasted 40 minutes...we played from 6.30pm until past 7...and then got thoroughly hammered on good wine and tapas...

...we then went on to the Verge, Kentish Town and did the same set minus O Brother, playing after our good funksters Phineas...everyone danced and made merry. 18 songs over 2 gigs to 3000 plus people in one evening. This is getting ridiculous.

Thanks to The Talent Scout, The Way Ahead (box office), Clarion Events Limited and all the engineers who did a great job for both gigs.

don't worry

ONCE WERE WORRIERS THAT WORRIED ABOUT BEING ON TIME...

They for whom worrying starts all but in the last 15 minutes of making it.

You may find that once you didn't make it on time, this time, even though it was a close call. Where are the worries? This happens all the time........ Habits made to fit and glide in the sidelines.

They for whom worrying sometimes commences 2 or 3 hours before a meeting of whatever kind. You repeatedly feel your worried minutes of making it mutiply.. numerous times.

There you are, clocking in way ahead of a time, that nobody else keeps or recognises, but only when repeated for a lifetime........ Habits made to fit and glide in the sidelines.

WHO IS THE WORST WORRIER WHERE NOT WAITING DOES NOT WIN TIME?

Rico.

SEE US IN SOHO...

EXTRA to our normal Monday night residency we will be playing at the Infinity for ClubFabulous...the promoters that gave us our first ever gigs in London. The venue has had a new PA fitted and ClubFabulous always has at least 4 different bands playing of an evening so...

SEE US ON...Tuesday 29th July...30 mins set, Infinity, Old Burlington Street, Soho (2 minutes walk from Picadilly Circus) at 8.30pm.

For further details see...www.clubfabulous.com.

see you there.

OLYMPIA! (Hammersmith Rd., W14 8UX)

ON Saturday 26th July we will be playing the Olympia - London Wine Festival. We're on stage at 6.00pm and we'll play for about 40 minutes.

The festival opens at 12 noon and runs 'til 11.00pm. To find out more visit www.londonwinefestival.com.

Entry is £7 but contact the box office 0n 0870 444 1061 for their two for one ticket offer.

(We'll then move on to the Verge in Camden afterwards to play a late set at around 10.45pm - click on 'Future Gigs' page for details.)

Look forward to seeing you there.

Halfmoon Gig

Not up to much tonight. Then pop down to the famous Halfmoon in Putney to watch our 3rd gig in 4 days.

If you haven't got your flyer already then simply CLICK HERE

For directions to the Halfmoon visit their location map HERE

first residency gig at infinity...

Thanks to all who came down...the gig went well despite the absence of Gary our bass player...and the mesa-boogie going pop.

we played:

Your Flow
Protect
Lactosis
Doesn't Matter
As It Is

Thanks to John, the promoter and Grant, the engineer. See y'all next time, y'all.

ps...cheers for the wine Henry, let's make it regular!

forthcoming gigs...

Listen Up! Those of you who have not had chance to see us yet, we are going to be playing some absolutely belting venues...6 gigs over the next 8 weeks...look left...see Future Gigs...click on it...pick a gig and come down! Easy as pie.

gig at The West One Four...29th May

Gig went well...excellent audience...the most poeple we've played in front of!

We played...

Lactosis
Your Flow
Waltz
Protect
Doesn't Matter
As IT Is

Thanks to Steve (engineer) and Alan for the lights and vision (video) mix. Thanks also to all at FeedMEMusic, and all who enjoyed our music and signed up for our e-mailing list. See you next month!

The Sound gig, 27th May

Thanks to all who came down on this beautiful warm spring summer night to Leicester Square...it was a full house (almost). We played:

1 - Waltz
2 - Protect
3 - Lactosis
4 - Holding On To Matches
5 - Help Me (I'm Falling In Love)
6 - As It Is

Track 3 is a new one, written by us in Norway two weeks ago. Track 5 was conceived by Eva Linn in Norway some years back, but was first played live tonight.

Look forward to seeing you all again, day after tomorrow (29th May) at The West One Four, West Kensington...see left - Future Gigs.

The other fine bands we got to see were Marlow and Kubrick. Both excellent. Thanks to The Talent Scout promotors as usual...great job ladies.

cheers, amigdela.

(updated 27th May, 2003)

NEXT GIGS!

We are playing:


The Sound, Leicester Square, London on Tues. 27th May @ 8pm.

and,

The West One Four, 3 North End Crescent, West Kensington, W14 on Thurs. 29th May @ 9pm...


SEE 'Future Gigs' (left) for more details...

Back from Norway...

We had a great time with the Fossheims...and wrote quite a bit. We'll post some snippets soon, and definitely start throwing in new songs starting from the next gig - 27th May, at the 'Sound', Leicester Square - on stage at 8pm, see (left) 'Future Gigs'.

SCHMERGEN, WITH JURGEN!

Amigdela will be disappearing off to Norway early May to write more tunes for your delight...we'll keep you posted as to what comes out of this trip. Previous excursions have been fruitful...

GIG! BACK ON!

The Verge gig - 29th APRIL is now back on!!!!! See you there...we are on at 9:30pm sharp.

...we've now played this gig as support for a certain up-and-coming band from Norway! V. nice evening...we did Waltz/Protect/Your Flow/Doesn't Matter/As It Is - see you at the 'Sound', 27th May (again).

french boy from the hills...

special note for fx-mercorelli... welcome finally to the world of amigdela...NOT group mail junk!...and many thanks to all of you who subsrcibed from the Sound gig...

Gig Played at The Sound - night of 25/04/03

Phew. The gig went really smoothly - we played

Waltz
Doesn't Matter (demo of this in the 'Listen Now' section of this site)
Your Flow
Holding On To Matches
Protect
As It Is (even more derranged than the 'Infinity' gig version on 08/04)

The venue was fabulous as were the staff - floor manager, two(!) sound engineers, other personnel...loads of decent gear (steady). Perfic.

Our erstwhile web-designer shot some film of it, which we will endeavour to load onto the site asap, along with a track or two.

Last and not least, the audience to this gig was easily the biggest we've had. A million thanks. We hope you enjoyed the night and we hope to see you again soon.

Flyers! (finally)

Click on the flyer below to get details/cheaper entry to the Gig on Friday...

See you there.

GET IT HERE any further problems please mail us

Gig @ Sound 25th April

With only 1 WEEK to go until showtime at "The Sound" in Leicester Square, preparations are being made to make this the best gig in amigdela history! We would once again like to invite everyone to come and enjoy the music, have a drink and maybe a little dance?!!

Friday the 25th of April
onstage @ 8.40 pm

See you there!

SCHMERGEN, WITH JURGEN!

Amigdela will be disappearing off to Norway early May to write more tunes for your delight (or derision)...we'll keep you posted as to what comes out of this trip. Previous excursions have been fruitful...

Gig @ Infinity

On tuesday the 8th of April we played a short and very explosive gig at the Infinity Bar in Soho - Oliver was stuck in Switzerland so we played without him...hmm rather nice actually! (B**tards - Oliver). The five-song set featured songs that are all going to be played at "Sound" gig on the 25th of April, (20:40h bring your flyers etc...plug, plug (well whose website is it anyway!?)).
Songs played;

-Waltz
-Your Flow
-Holding On To Matches
-Doesn't Matter
-As It Is

see you 25th April 08:40pm @ The Sound, 10 Wardour St. (Leicest. Sq.)