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About Me

Our second album ’Love/Hate’ was released in the UK on October 29th, 2008 and on November 21st in Japan! If you’d like to buy the album on CD, go to HMV.co.uk , or your nearest record store. If you’d like to download the album, go to 7digital .

Having toured ’Love/Hate throughout 2007, and with a fantastic final tour in February 2008, we’re now in hibernation working on Number 3. Have a look at our end of tour blog here , and we’ll see you soon.

Meanwhile, have a look at the video for ’Bitter End’, the opening track on ’Love/Hate’, available on CD or 7" vinyl from one of these sites! HMV or NineBlackAlps.com

And why not join our mailing list to receive news updates, tour information and more! Go here to sign up!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/14/2005
Band Website: nineblackalps.com
Band Members:
Sam Forrest - guitar playing and singing.

James Galley - drumming and singing.

Martin Cohen - bass

David Jones - guitaring and bassing.
Influences: Everyone including the beatles, the kinks, spiritualized, led zep, sabbath, pixies, the thermals, sleater kinney, queens of stone age, caustic resin, the bags, sonar yen, charles bukowski, heatmiser, be your own pet, motorhead, flaming lips, cat power, the muffs, jim o'rourke, backyard babies, ryan adams, sonic youth, graham coxon, radiohead, elliott smith, quasi, nirvana, dinosaur jr, pedro the lion, hot snakes, neil young, ramones, little richard, dead boys, bob dylan, yeah yeah yeahs, wilco, judee sill, motley crue, everly brothers, autolux, elastica, pavement, mozart, deus, tom waits, bonnie prince billy, dead meadow, velvet underground, sparklehorse, damien jurado, pj harvey, the cribs, the distillers, beach boys, guns n roses, beck, jimi hendrix, nick drake.
Record Label: Open to offers...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Sorry...

Sam of Nine Black Alps' other band The Sorry Kisses are pleased to announce that they will be releasing their debut album 'Hard Drive' CD on Monday April 28th. It will be released through their own De...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:36:00 PST

In Gratis

Hello people,Hope you can hear/read this ok. My hearing is just about gone. Would like to thank you if you played any part in our past two weeks of making noises on tour across the UK. It was exhilara...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:03:00 PST

On the eve of the tour...

Well, we've spent a pleasant couple of weeks in our rehearsal studio, practicing and working on songs for the tour. We're planning the longest set that we've ever played, we figured we might as well p...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:52:00 PST

Support acts announced for UK tour

We are proud to announce that Kong will be the main support on our January/February tour of the UK, up to the 3rd of February - Go to their Myspace Page and listen to their warped amazing rock.Grand v...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:45:00 PST

Merry Christmas from Nine Black Alps!

Seasons greetings, we wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year!See you on tour in January and/or February!January 200824th Sheffield Fuzz Club25th Leeds Cockpit26th Newcastle Academy2...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:12:00 PST

London show added to 2008 Headline tour!

Good morning,We've just confirmed a London show as part of our January/February 2008 Headline tour - It's an NME Awards show at Camden's Koko on Friday, February 8th!More information at NME.com and ti...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:58:00 PST

Win Tickets for Channel M show in Manchester!

Hello!We've got 20 pairs of tickets to give away for The Saturday Social (Channel M) live performance on Saturday 1st December at 8pm!All you need to do is email [email protected] with yo...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:22:00 PST

'Love/Hate' Album released in Japan!

Posted by Nine Black Alps on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:13:00 PST

NBA in Ireland and in the Channel M bar!

Good evening all!Just finished packing our gear for the Ireland show in Cork tomorrow (details at the Cyprus Avenue website), and remembered to tell you about our next calendar item - a live performan...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:39:00 PST

2008 Headline Tour announced!

Good evening from backstage at the BRMC show in Newcastle. Time to announce our newly-confirmed Headline Tour for January and February 2008!Here goes... Click on the veues to buy tickets - Online!Janu...
Posted by Nine Black Alps on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:18:00 PST