Embed and breakfast man: Midlake

A quick step aside from our Madder Rose weekend to bring you this:



That's Midlake appearing on Arte's One Shot Not, for the delight of high-ended French and German viewers.

Tour dates: Midlake

It's a little in the future (actually, one of them is a long in the future) but worth planning early: Midlake are coming to the UK:

Monday 28 June – LIVERPOOL – Academy (£16)
Tuesday 29 June – SHEFFIELD – Leadmill (£16)
Wednesday 30 June – PORTSMOUTH – Pyramids (£16)
Sunday 10 July – SOUTHWOLD – Latitude Festival
Tuesday 2 November – LONDON – Roundhouse (£19.50)

Downloadable: Midlake

Yesterday's Guardian offered a free Midlake album "for every reader". The bar set to prove readership seems to have been that you could find the URL on the site. This would be that URL.

Midlake weekend: Children On The Ground

Pace David Hepworth, but Midlake have more than one song. A distinctive sound, agreed. But more than one song.

This is not the most visually appealing video I've ever shared, but worth it to hear Children On The Ground live. From a gig in Lyon in 2007:

MIDLAKE - "CHILDREN ON THE GROUND" - LIVE
by MissPrecious69

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Midlake weekend: Young Bride

Continuing the Midlake weekend: Young Bride, off of The Trials Of Van Occupanther:



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Midlake weekend: Bandits

Live in 2007, at Cornbury, Midlake doing Bandits:



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Embed and breakfast man: Midlake

In a little over a week, there's going to be a new album from Midlake. Look, here's a trailer for it:



This seems like a fitting excuse to lob a load of Midlake videos onto the blog and call it a feature, right?

Forming just about the end of the last century in Texas, by students apparently on some sort of jazz course. Hence, the first version of the band did jazz-funk workouts under the title The Cornbread All-Stars.

Thank god they came to their senses, and started doing stuff like this instead. This is Roscoe:



Buy Midlake
The Courage Of Others - Download Courage
Trials Of Van Occupanther - Download Van Occupanther
Bamnan and Silvercork - Download Silvercork

More Midlake around the web
The Line Of Best Fit - Alice Wagstaff meets the band
Official site
Midlake on MySpace
Wikipedia on Midlake
Midlake on Last FM
Midlake on Spotify

More Midlake to come
Bandits live
Young Bride

Wake up and smell Eric Pulido

For reasons we're having trouble understanding, Midlake's Eric Pulido has turned himself into a coffee brand:

The guitarist commented: "Coffee has become a huge commodity in our culture today, and supplying it in a fair and quality manner was something I wanted to take part in. With Cappulido I am able to offer a coffee that I personally know supports the farmers that grow it, and provides the consumer with a freshly roasted, excellent bean."

Well, yes, that makes sense. I mean, you could look for a Fair Trade symbol, or a Rainforest Alliance logo, but it makes it far simpler to seek the endorsement of a member of Midlake when seeking ethical beverages.

Now, if you'll excuse me, the drummer from Sparklehorse has just turned up with our vegetable box.