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Sleeping States

oh happier times!

About Me

*******NEW ALBUM*******
'THERE THE OPEN SPACES'
out on the following dates:
OUT NOW - UK + Europe (TOME)
18th September - North America (Misra)
20th October - Australia + New Zealand (Etch n Sketch)
To pre-order a copy click on the appropriate links below:
UK + Europe , North America , Australia + New Zealand
BUY the new album on ITUNES with a bonus track 'the hundred bird' that isn't on the cd:
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er... if you've been trying to access the sleeping states website recently without much luck i do apologise - it's exceeded its bandwidth twice in the past five days despite me topping it up coz too many people are trying to look at it or something. It should be working ok now, but it means I've had to take down the free mp3s temporarily as I can't afford to pay for the top-up each time! Sorry... I'll try and figure out a cheaper way of hosting the mp3s soon, in the meantime you can still download a couple of songs from the myspace player above. Thanks - markland.

UNDER A CAPRICORN SKY / I WONDER 7" vinyl
out NOW on The Caspian Label. TO BUY COPIES SEE BELOW... To have a listen click here ....
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here and there are songs, with more guitars than i can handle and an old vocal sampler keyboard for when i dont feel like strumming. i like singing it makes me feel better, and when i forget the words humming will do.
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this is something somebody else once said about sleepingstates:
"Enter Sleeping States. Dr Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesiser, may have recently left the planet, but Sleeping State's lead-singer, Markland Starkie, is reinventing the concept. Starkie looks like a mad scientist on stage, hovering over his audio experiments and twisting dials.First he takes a Fisher Price radio to his guitar, and then what looks like a hairdryer, pressing them against the pickups he works up an electromagnetic drone. Once the drone meets his required standards, he stands up at the microphone and begins to sing. He sounds like Jeff Buckley malfunctioning over a railway station PA. This is a band designed from its atoms up never to break into the mainstream. Starkie's sprawling lyrics fall like a balm over the white noise and whale song of his guitar, but it all swings quickly from the gorgeous to the totally inaccessible. The band is often drowned out by the babble of the crowd, but Sleeping States don't care one bit. Starkie just presses a short-circuiting Dictaphone to his guitar pick-ups and smiles out into the dark." - Chris Stevens, www.new-noise.net
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FOR SALE:
- I Wonder / Under A Capricorn Sky 7" Single
Copies for sale at Puregroove (click the banner above) and here .
- T-Shirts! oh, all the tshirts have now sold out. sorry... but new shirts with a brand new design will be on sale soon!
- the Rivers / London Fields 7" single is available from various indie record shops around the UK. you can also buy it online from the TOME shop for £2.50


- to buy the Distances Are Great cd-r album click the one of the two Buy Now buttons below:
* £4 incl p+p for postage
within the UK
* £5 incl p+p for postage
outside the UK. (paypal) (Postage within UK)
(Postage outside UK) ***NOTE - I'm in the states from 9th Sept to the end of Oct, so please be aware that if you buy a copy of Distances Are Great I won't be able to ship it until 1st November***
Tracks:
01. Trumpet Calls
02. Distances Are Games To Me
03. That One Pipe Dream
04. You Can't Lie To Me
05. London Fields
06. Don't Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick cover)
07. You & Your Strange Ways
08. Sing My Love Sing
09. Farthest From The Sea
10. Next Time
11. The Devil Is In The Detail
12. Trio For Strings
13. A Surprise
14. Petite Soeur
a full discography with some free mp3s is available at sleepingstates.co.uk
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bookings:
for shows please contact
jodie at mammoth (uk & europe)
ryan at kork</a (north america)
messages are good.. send me some!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/16/2005
Band Website: sleepingstates.co.uk
Band Members: markland, often with some live helping hands from craig beacons and caz mechanic... other people who have helped out on the old live show include francois, victor ladybird, rozi plain, stuart with pictures, laughing boy jack, mama leaf, nik void, andrew panty sell... maybe some others too i think.
Influences: tape hiss. optic nerve comics. knitting. los angles. alfred bester novels. sturgeon white moss. our band could be your life. michael borremans paintings. friendships n familyships. you made me realise. d boon and mike watt. ono + eno. sam prekop and archer prewitt (sound and vision respectively). booji boy (not booji boy high). jeannie gateaux. the pretenders. roger mcgough's strange ways. marcel dzama's scribblings. nostalgia for the unrembered 80s. david grubbs. robert heinlein. robbie basho. fireworks. s..s..sitting in a room. delia derbyshire. panty lions. head over heels and blue bell knoll. unwound. seasons of the year. homocrime. the corporation. calvin + k. school. kate and cindy. jim o'rourke. cool trannys you don't know about. holidays. pop gun war comics. pkd. stina nordenstam. stratford on avon. douglas coupland novels. homeground fanzines. maggie and hopey. chris watson. burt bacharach. gary wilson. london. kims we love.
Sounds Like: video for rivers (out on tome records), directed by alexosmith.....

video for trumpet calls.... (edited together by a smith)

the next step...

Record Label: tome; misra; etch n sketch
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new tshirts. hell. yeh.

hey. i got some new shirts for sale... here's what they look like after a heavy night of partying:divine.thanks to alesa and ashod for bringing it. beer and cigarettes: models' own.oh, north america, ...
Posted by Sleeping States on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:53:00 PST

hey usa... uh-oh poor toor

so, due to some unfortunate scheduling screw ups, i wont be playing the shows currently advertised on my myspace page.... a bit of a blow to be sure but we're working on pulling together some new show...
Posted by Sleeping States on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:49:00 PST

new single out monday... and gigs

¡hola!I Wonder / Under A Capricorn Sky is released on Monday through The Caspian Label on limited edition 7" vinyl. Here's a review:"New labels are always tough to market... I mean how are you suppose...
Posted by Sleeping States on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:45:00 PST

l'interview, les upcoming releases, le tour (d'usa)

salut!there's a sleeping states interview on drowned in sound if you want something to read (here) where i gibber on about being intellectual n stuff. rad. also! the next sleeping states single - I Wo...
Posted by Sleeping States on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:14:00 PST

listen to the new ss single...

hey.so the caspian label have both sides of the forthcoming sleeping states single (due in july) now up on their myspace. It's the full, single mix of I Wonder (no lame-ass demo version that fades out...
Posted by Sleeping States on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:18:00 PST

thanks and hiatus (oh my gosh! no way!)

hey thanks a lot to everyone who came to the show last night it was a real blatz.so im taking a break from shows now whilst i finish my degree (wooh yeh roll on may 18th), but im hoping to put togethe...
Posted by Sleeping States on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:54:00 PST

oh!

Dearest you,Hi there, hows things? been a while hasnt it. yeh, i know. well, before this starts sounding like one of those weirdly personalised yet utterly vague spam messages, here's lots of things t...
Posted by Sleeping States on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:59:00 PST

goodbye germany hello art gallery!

hello friendso this friday (2nd march) the whitechapel art gallery are having a party to launch their 'late nights' compilation and I'm gonna be playing with craig on 6 string and caz on skins, and Ag...
Posted by Sleeping States on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:02:00 PST

i love postminimalist composition but i've chosen darkness

dear you.i recently did a podcast for the kids at oloradio.. it looks like this and you can listen/download it hereThe tracklisting is:Mikel Rouse - Persons UnknownRhys Chatham - AllegroDNA - Egoma...
Posted by Sleeping States on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:23:00 PST

uh political feeling, i hope

for the next couple of weeks as im drumming in noise/fight/tag team soundclash outfit scrotal volcano with members of shimmy rivers & & canal and yeborobo, at this:which is going to be so rad, oh my ...
Posted by Sleeping States on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:38:00 PST