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School of Language

Commercially hostile since 1999

About Me

School of Language is currently the most pressing musical concern of Field Music’s David Brewis

The first School of Language album, Sea From Shore, is released on 4th/5th February 2008 via Memphis Industries in the UK and Ireland and Thrill Jockey in North America and the rest of Europe.

You can watch the video for the Rockist Single here...

Vote for the Rockist at MTV 2’s Myspace Chart here:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2006
Band Website: schooloflanguage.co.uk
Band Members: The band side of things is taken care of elsewhere
Influences: Oblique strategies in essence. The usual in existence.
Sounds Like: Cross between Field Music and the New Tellers?
Record Label: Memphis Industries / Thrill Jockey
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Italy, Germany, Brighton, London and Sunderland

Greeting Ladies and Gents,Just a quick note to let you know about some of the exciting School of Language gig action on the cards over the next few weeks. And after crisscrossing north America with th...
Posted by School of Language on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:31:00 PST

SoL hits the road tout suite

To all you lucky little blighters in around the following towns and cities of the great continent of North American......School of Language is coming to you! Yes, we've given up on Easter and are goin...
Posted by School of Language on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:38:00 PST

Album/single release, instores, website and mailing list

The time is nearly upon us! The School of Language album, Sea From Shore, will be released on 4th Feb in the UK and Ireland, via Memphis Industries, and 5th Feb in the US, Canada and parts of Europe v...
Posted by School of Language on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:39:00 PST

Rockist Single on the radio

Well, who would have thought it? The single version of Rockist is making (radio) waves left, right and centre - Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie let it loose on Radio 2 last night (accompanied by a n...
Posted by School of Language on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:56:00 PST

On the TV, and now on youtube

Just in case (like me and all those billions of people who don't have sky or live in manchester) you didn't catch my brief spot on Channel M's City Centre Social show last night, somehow or other it's...
Posted by School of Language on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:33:00 PST

A brief TV appearance

Flippin' heck - blogging twice in one day? Who do I think I am, Lily Allen? Or that elderly gent who became a star on youtube?Anyway, this is just an appendage to tell all you folks in western europe ...
Posted by School of Language on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:14:00 PST

Album finished, knife joy, not lazy

I'm rather pleased to be able to announce that the School of Language record is finally finished - 11 tracks and 39 minutes of fun which will hopefully be winging it's way into shops sometime early ne...
Posted by School of Language on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:51:00 PST

The Royalty

Hey ho,Thanks to everyone who came to the gig at the weekend - it went about as well as it could have I think - certainly nobody came up to me afterwards and said what a terrible time they'd had so I'...
Posted by School of Language on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:22:00 PST

Sell out a tiny gig by giving away free tickets

Bon soir,Cheers to everyone who's asked for tickets - you should get them within a day or two depending on the vagaries of second class post. All the tickets are pretty much allocated now so failing a...
Posted by School of Language on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:16:00 PST

School of Language Live

When Field Music reached the end of our second US tour in March of this year, we felt very strongly that we were also coming to the end of our reluctant struggle to fit in with the treadmill of indie ...
Posted by School of Language on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:09:00 PST