Sheep, Dog & Wolf Album 'Egospect' Released Today!

Lil' Chief is pleased to announce the release of 'Egospect' by Sheep, Dog & Wolf.
Sheep, Dog & Wolf is the most recent addition to our roster - and is the project of 19 year old multi-instrumentalist and producer Daniel McBride.

McBride self-released his 2011 ep 'Ablutophobia’  at age 17 and thousands of downloads later The Guardian named him a young 'Surfjan Stevens'.  We here at Lil' Chief had to agree and are pleased to present the first full length album 'Egospect' in digital, cd and vinyl format. Egospect is free to download on Bandcamp however unfortunately due the lack of a money tree at Lil' Chief HQ and the general necessity for us to eat / continue to release music we have to charge for vinyl and cd :)

Sheep, Dog & Wolf will be playing an Auckland album release show tomorrow night (Saturday) at The Golden Dawn in Ponsonby - and will be on stage at 10pm!

Having already attracted the attention of a number of booking agents and promoters in Europe due to the online stir created by his first e.p  Sheep, Dog & Wolf will then be embarking on a European tour.

05.09.13 Haldern / Haldern Pop Bar w/Hundreds 06.09.13 Vlieland / Into the Great Wide Open Festival (NL) 07.09.13 Groningen / Vera (NL) 08.09.13 Deventer / De Hip (NL) 09.09.13 Duisburg / Grammatikoff --> tickets 10.09.13 Mainz / Schon Schön 11.09.13 Chemnitz / Aaltra 12.09.13 Dresden / Ostpol --> tickets 13.09.13 Prag / The Pilot (CZ) 15.09.13 Munich / Orangehouse/Feierwerk --> tickets

16.09.13 Vienna / Arena (A) w/Crocodiles 17.09.13 Linz / Posthof (A) w/ Andrew Colberg & Crocodiles --> tickets 19.09.13 Tilburg / Incubate Festival (NL) w/ MÙM --> tickets 20.09.13 Basel / 1.Stock (CH) --> tickets 21.09.13 Paris / Espace B (FR) --> tickets 22.09.13 Schorndorf / Manufaktur --> tickets 23.09.13 Nancy / L'Autre Canal (FR) w/Coco Rosie 25.09.13 Leipzig / Ilses Erika 26.09.13 Berlin / Schokoladen w/Andrew Colberg 27.09.13 Hamburg / Reeperbahnfestival @ Hasenschaukel

Tickets for European shows can be found here 

The Eversons release Creepy single in English & Japanese!

Today the Eversons release their song 'Creepy' as a pay what you like single. The single has a really cool new song on it called 'Stick Around' and a version of 'Creepy' sung in Japanese.

There's a music video for the Japanese version as well directed and animated by Hadley Donaldson.

New single from a new artist - Sheep, Dog & Wolf!

Lil' Chief Records is pleased to announce a new addition to our roster - Sheep, Dog & Wolf.

Sheep, Dog & Wolf is the solo project of nineteen year old multi-instrumentalist, Daniel McBride and his first album Egospect - is out on Lil' Chief Records on August 23!

The first single from Egospect - 'Egospect' is out today with a video directed by Ali Burns and Daniel McBride.

You can pre-order Egospect on cd & vinyl and digitally !

Sheep, Dog & Wolf will be playing album release shows on: 

Thursday 22 August - Puppies, Wellington  

Saturday 24 August - Golden Dawn, Auckland  

aswell a debut performance this Friday 9 August at the Kings Arms with Princess Chelsea, The Eversons & Disciples of Macca!

The Eversons release new music video for 'Creepy'

The Eversons have released a new music video for 'Creepy' directed and animated by Hadley Donaldson.  A new single version of Creepy will be out on 13th August on Lil' Chief and will feature a Japanese language version of the song and a previously unrelease b-side.

Princess Chelsea Tour Diary #3

Dear Diary,

Last time I wrote a diary entry we had just finished touring with Alt-J and I was quite tired after a grueling month on the road.  

It has now been two months, I am very tired, and the European tour is officially over.   

I write this diary entry on board a Thomas Cook flight to Egypt, there were some cheap package deals going on holidays here for some reason - so I have decided to take this opportunity to finally see the great pyramids.  The man sitting directly behind me feels the need to sensually flex his calves outwards into the aisle and while I am trying to ignore his wriggling stray limb in my peripheral, I cant help but feel straddled.

The Princess Chelsea headline shows started horrifically with a show in Manchester at a 150 capacity venue attended by 10 people.  A somewhat shocking welcome back to reality after having played to 5000 at the Brixton Academy only a few nights before with Alt-J - I tried not to let the poor attendance make me doubt my sense of self-worth and general entire life. Thankfully the next night in Glasgow - attendance peaked to around 13 including the sound-person.

Normally a few shows like this could be enough to break someone with an ego anywhere near the normal* size, however nearly each and everyone of the attendees at these two shows personally thanked me afterwards while giving me heartwarming words of encouragement. Perhaps it was the Boots cold and flu (naturally by this stage we were all pretty sick) but at arguably the lowest point of the tour so far - these meaningful exchanges with people left me feeling strangely calm and sort of pleased with a fast heartbeat and dry mouth. 

Thankfully the rest of the shows were more traditionally encouraging.

The show in Brighton was fun and good. The sound-person was a hipster douche who didn’t seem to like his job, possibly because he wasn’t very good at it. He had a really nice haircut though, very Beatles 64 jazzed up to be more post chill wave 2013.  Did you know the Beatles onto it manager Brian Epstein was a gay man (back when it was illegal) who originally had dreams of becoming a fashion designer?  Early on in their career he also acted as their stylist and made them ditch the leathers (they originally went for a macho bad boy biker look lol) forcing them into bunch of sick suits accidentally creating the whole british invasion look - fancy haircuts, chelsea boots with a cuban heel and well tailored clothing with a 60s mod edge.  In my opinion, there is no better example of Epsteins flawless sense of style than the grey collarless suits worn circa 63 and used on the cover of the American single version of I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

Our mainland-European shows took in Switzerland, Vienna, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia and some last minute shows added in Hungary.

Band On The Run, Padova, Italy

All of these shows were fully sick, some of the highlights were accidentally leaving a huge and hard to miss kick drum in the country of Belgium, Miles elbow exploding mid-song, me crying on stage in Prague,   freak,unprecedented flooding in Szeged Hungary on the day of our show leaving the venue partly underwater and Jamie Lee walking in on a man urinating in a toilet in Portugal, and in a state of shock and embarrassment saying the first Portuguese word that came into her head ‘obrigado’ which means ‘Thank You’.

Touring has provided us with many great opportunities for photos, especially for Jonathan Bree who has an exceptional ability to create amazing poses and who for the last five years has been secretly working on his own personalised calendar. Below are a few shots from this tour, which may not even make the final cull, such is the quality of material that has been collated on previous tours.

Zurich, Switzerland

Dungeon, Czech Republic

Valencia, Spain

Sales of his new album The Primrose Path have been ok, however I think the label is considering releasing the calendar eventually and launching a BUY CALENDAR GET FREE LP deal.  

*middle class, white, has a job, no weird dietary requirements, wears cargo shorts in the summer

Jonathan Bree releases solo album today!

The Primrose Path is Jonathan Breeʼs first solo album since a career with The Brunettes that saw the band release 4 albums and 4 EPs.

It is a dark and personal album that seems to examine the insecurities associated with feeling crap, irrelevant (Boxes) and over 30, often centered around the waning magic of a long term relationship (Bored At A Mall, Seven, Crippled Darling, The Primrose Path).

Like the Brunettes albums preceding it this one is written recorded and produced by Bree and is an orchestral pop album at its core.

Whereas The Brunettes would often hide adult themes behind pop culture references and double entendres, The Primrose Path is very lyrically direct and at times uncomfortably honest.

The Primrose Path is available now on vinyl, CD and name your price digital!

The Primrose Path:

01 Booty Call
02 Beat Your Head
03 Bored At A Mall
04 Seven
05 Fixed Or Floating
06 Duckie's Lament
07 The Primrose Path0
08 Crippled Darling
09 Laptop
10 Boxes

Jonathan Bree Casually Drops First Single

Jonathan Bree has dropped his first single 'The Primrose Path'. 
The song is set on K Rd in Auckland, NZ and is about some violent sociopath trying to act like an ok guy. 

The single 'Primrose Path' is from an upcoming album also titled "The Primrose Path".  

The album will be released digitally, on cd and on vinyl in New Zealand on June 21st and in France on June 17th and should look something like this:

The Primrose Path will be Jonathan Bree’s first solo album since a career with The Brunettes that has spanned over 10 years and seen the band release 4 albums and 4 eps. 

An orchestral pop album at its core, complex and layered arrangements sit over sick beats which envelop lyrics about getting old and feeling crap and over 30. 

The Primrose Path single is available for free or pay what you like here and includes another album track 'Booty Call'.

If you'd like to pre-order a copy of the album you can do that here.

Recommended for fans of The Beatles, Serge Gainsbourg & A-ha.