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Life at the Pines

We've got music to play and we're playing it

About Me

We come from the cute town of Tenby in South West Wales and are currently scattered around different parts of the UK. Last year our ambitions were to 1. Play as many festivals possible. 2 Make a music video 3. Record and release an album. The result? We played 6 festivals the biggest being The Secret Garden Party and we made a mildly amusing video which can be seen to the left. We’re still working on the recording of our album and will release this soon. Our ambitions for 2008 are to 1. Become an engaging band to watch live 2. To hold the best album launch ever 3. Do a mini tour. Our take on music is that it should be fun. This isn’t to say we don’t like practicing or writing the odd sombre song now and then but we believe there’s too many bands who take themselves and their music too seriously. The world doesn't need any more!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/24/2005
Band Website: Who needs a website when we have MySpace?
Band Members: Chris Brown, Tristan Craig, Pete Morgan
Influences: The Shins, The Lemonheads, Gram Parsons, Belle & Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Wilco, Blur, Pulp, Weezer, Neutral Milk Hotel, Broken Family Band, Pavement, U.N.P.O.C, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Buddy Holly, Violent Femmes, Burt Bacharach.
Sounds Like: 'Songy and Skiffleicious' - MJ Hibbett and The Validators'Delicate and friendly' - BBC Radio Berkshire'Good fun chaps' - Radio Pembrokeshire.Looks like this:
Record Label: Major label interest has been muted
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ambitions

Pines fans will be aware just how high we set the bar. Our 2006 ambitions were: 1. To get half decent at playing live2. To record some music3. To get played on the radio4. To finish the year with more...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:47:00 PST

BBC Radio Berkshire

Life at the Pines have fulfilled yet another ambition by playing on BBC Radio Berkshire's 'The Session'. It's a fine local radio show promoting the very best bands from around the county - and us. We ...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:26:00 PST

Pines at the Tenby Blues Festival

You find us Pines in a very satisfied mood having recently played The Tenby Blues Festival. We played two venues: The first was at The Sun inn in Tenby on Friday 10th Nov. This warm up gig involved my...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:37:00 PST

The Konk Sessions

Pines fans hi!   All our dreams came true on Monday when we headed to Konk studios in London for a day of recording. It's fair to say we were very excited at the prospect and even two hours of dr...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:54:00 PST

Studio Time

You find The Pines in a very excitable state! Tris Pine won a competition at work recently and part of the prize is the chance to record at Konk Studios in the big smoke. Konk Studios is owned by Ray...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:35:00 PST

Tour is over

The Pines summer tour 2006 (or Pinesapolooza as they came to call it) has come to an end. Here you'll find a blow-by-blow account of the hedonistic and exhaustive tour.   ****** Disclaimer*******...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:25:00 PST

Secret Shows

Since playing my sister's wedding in January our profile has skyrocketed and we now only play Cathedral sized venues such as the Coach & Horses. We welcome this success but it has led to accusatio...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Wed, 31 May 2006 02:52:00 PST

Q&A with The Pines

Following our meteoric rise to superstardom a lot of you have been emailing in some pretty searching questions to find out more about the enigma that is The Pines. To keep our fact hungry fans ha...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Thu, 11 May 2006 04:12:00 PST

Jogging is bad for you

I got up on the morning of Sunday 26th March and went for a jog. I didn't eat or do anything else first because I see jogging as a chore and wanted to get it out of the way. I had had a date the nigh...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:33:00 PST

Stage Presents

It's been an eventful period for Pembrokeshire's foremost soft rockers. Most importantly, Chris Brown was run over by a dog and broke his elbow whilst jogging a couple of weeks ago - you couldn't...
Posted by Life at the Pines on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:09:00 PST