Album Availability

Today (Monday June 23rd) sees the release of The Thrill Of The Fall by Ten Storeys High on iTunes all around the globe. The UK release on iTunes will be later this week.

Our album can also be found on Amazon.com, Napster, eMuisc, Rhapsody, Lala & GroupieTunes.

Borders In-Store Event

We are happy to announce that we will be performing an In-Store at Borders Books at Fort Kinnaird on Sunday July 6th at 2pm.

All welcome...

Special thanks to Callum MacKay for organising this for us.

http://www.borderslocal.co.uk/fort-kinnaird/

Stay Focused people... album out very VERY soon....

We have designed an advert car livery for Colin's Ford Focus fo promote the release of Ten Storeys High's debut album.

Ford Focus I hear you holler!

Well, the Skinny Mag did call us 'Dad Rock'!

If you spot it around Scotland, please don't scratch it... just take a pic and send it in to us... you could win a free copy of the album.

The Ten

The Thrill of TV

June Tour & August Gigs Announced

8 Jun 2008 13:00	Meadows Festival - Edinburgh	Edinburgh
14 Jun 2008 16:00	Treefest - Inverleith Park, Edinburgh	Edinburgh
21 Jun 2008 20:00	Eastgate Theatre in Peebles	Peebles
22 Jun 2008 18:00	Kerbside Prophets - Hamilton’s Bar, Edinburgh	Edinburgh
27 Jun 2008 20:00	ALBUM LAUNCH - The Voodoo Rooms with HOOCHIE FIG	Edinburgh, Scotland
28 Jun 2008 19:00	Railway Hotel, Haddington	Haddington
29 Jun 2008 20:00	The Greenside, Leslie, Fife	Leslie, Scotland
15 Aug 2008 20:00	Barrels Alehouse, Berwick-upon-Tweed	Berwick-upon-Tweed
16 Aug 2008 20:00	The Three Monkeys, Portobello	Puerto Bello

Band Official Biography

TEN STOREYS HIGH
a 4 piece semi-acoustic live and recording band from the Edinburgh area.

ID PARADE:
• Ewan Beck – Found guilty of noodling, plays bass and muff aka “Sergeant Fury”

• Callum Maguire – Found guilty of logorrhoea, discovered an outlet in vocals & lyrics aka “Midnight Moses”

• Steve Scott – Found guilty of crimes against guitar and mandolin aka “Isobel Goudie”

• Colin Usher – Found, lost, then found again plays drums and glockenspiel aka “Last of the Teenage Idols”

PREVIOUS FORM:
In early 2005, after a brief spell in self-denial, Callum and Steve realised they missed singing and strumming and decided to write half a dozen short, direct, acoustic songs suitable for playing in the corners of darkened bars.
A series of small gigs went down a storm and the need for more ego-inflation quickly followed along with the desire to write more songs and play in an acoustic-fuelled band. In July 2006 Colin was persuaded to pick up his sticks and electricity was rediscovered in Jan 2007 through Ewan on bass to complete the line-up of TEN STOREYS HIGH.

2006-8 has seen the band playing to a very varied audience at Medina (Acoustic Edinburgh), Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh University Freshers Ball, Hairth of Knockrach Festival, Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and Galashiels, the main stage at Edinburgh’s Spectrum Festival at the Queens Hall and Capitol in Glasgow. The band has hosted a monthly residency at Edinburgh’s ‘The Village’ in Leith and most recently The Voodoo Rooms promoting other local bands with an acoustic drive through the TEN STOREYS HIGH & FRIENDS initiative.

TEN STOREYS HIGH were pleased to announce the release of their debut single, ‘GOOD THINGS’, on 11th June 2007 on Sweet Day Records launching the single by supporting THE PROCLAIMERS in JUNE 2007 in a series of gigs around Scotland. The single received airplay and resulted in a handful of great reviews.

CURRENTLY SERVING:
With the grateful support of the Ten Storeys High Music Moguls and special recording guests, the band has completed their first album - THE THRILL OF THE FALL. Produced by DJ/ producer HOOVERFISH (aka FLASH CALLAHAN) and featuring eleven original tracks the album is scheduled for release in June 2008.

OUTSTANDING WARRANTS:
To launch the album and break-in some new material the band will embark on a small tour of intimate venues around Scotland in June / July 2008.

CHANCES OF PAROLE:
A batch of new songs are well underway and the Summer will see a focus on new material with the band aiming to record a SECOND ALBUM (provisionally titled “Silent Sighs & Trembles”) around September 2008.

BAD INFLUENCES:
Midway through a radio interview / live set at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe the band discovered they shared absolutely no common musical influences and sound nothing like the ones they did cite. Other folk have mentioned Frank Sinatra covering Mark Lanegan backed by Primus and Killing Joke.

Exclusive Album Preview

So, the album is being pressed as I type this and the band are warming up for their June mini tour to support the release of 'The Thrill Of The Fall'.

We have launched a preview mini site at Reverb Nation so that you can have a listen to the tracks before falling in love with it and buying it at iTunes etc etc

www.reverbnation.com/tenstoreyshigh

Hope you like it...

Flash Callahan release!

Our pal and Ten Storeys High producer, Wullie aka Hooverfish aka Flash Callahan has a fantastic new E.P. released on Jalapeno Records called 'Do You Know The Truth'

F**king right we do mate...!

Nice one Wilbur

Click here to listen to it on iTunes

iTunes Essentials : Acoustic Love

TEN STOREYS HIGH were astonished to see that we have appeared in an iTunes compilation this week. We have been featured in the Acoustic Love Songs section of iTunes Essentials.

Happy to see that we are sitting comfortably next to Paul McCartney, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Crosby, Still & Nash, Travis and Eric Clapton.

They have featured our track 'Home Is Where The Heart Lies' which we recorded last summer at the Sound Cafe with Dave Gray.

Click here to visit iTunes and see for yourself

The timing is great as we will be releasing our debut album entitled 'The Thrill of the Fall' in mid June on iTunes, Napster, Amazon etc etc.

Treefest 2008 in Edinburgh

Ten Storeys High have been announced as headliners on Sat 14th June at Edinburgh's TREEFEST 2008.

See ya'll there...

From the site:
The event is organised by Four Winds Inspiration Centre
and we are only able to do this with the support of our Festival Funding Partners
The City of Edinburgh Council, Forestry Commission Scotland,
Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Enterprise, Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership and Treefest Partners
We are delighted to also have the promotional support this year of
IKEA and EAE Distribution

Ten Storey's Colin

The Band

Here's a wee shot taken by John Need on the Cruz boat in sunny Leith.

You'll see that the band are in a rather subdued mood...

More crazy moments coming to this blog soon (ahem...)

Our Bass Player

Ewan Beck, our bass maestro, is featured on the Shuker Bass web site.

http://www.shukerguitars.co.uk/ewanbeck.htm

'Slap & Finger Funk' are not words that you will hear around the Ten Storeys High camp but you can find reference to this phrase and many more on the Shuker Bass web site...

Nice one Eude

Colin, TSH Drummer

Live In Haddington

To celebrate the launch of our debut album, we are playing a series of intimate gigs around Scotland in June.

Saturday June 28th sees us at The Railway Hotel in Haddington with THE SIMPLE TOUCH.

Look forward to seeing any of you East Lothianers there.

Mini Tour with The Proclaimers

Last summer, Ten Storeys High performed 4 gigs with Edinburgh's finest, The Proclaimers.

We played Arran, Stranraer, Selkirk & Airdrie.

Top laugh was had and I think their fans liked us too....

Here's a cheesy shot in a dressing room of us trying to be cool.

Very special thanks to the band, the crew, especially Aldo and Kenny MacDonald for all the support.

TSH Album Launch - At Last

We have the album at the pressing plant, the cover is designed, the music is mastered, the mini Scottish Tour is booked and a launch event will take place at Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms on Friday 27th June 2008.

The event will be free so do come along early (from 7pm)

We'll be playing a live set and we'll be announcing very special guests soon too...

Party hats & kazoos may also be available at the door.

Our New Web Site

Our new website has been launched... www.tenstoreyshigh.com

The Sequel has Landed

Good evening, and welcome to the second installment of the blog.

We've been busy rehearsing and getting things in place for the single release. We're putting out Good Things on the 1st June, along with Sleepwalking, as our debut release. Colin has been doing the do and putting together everything and today it appeared on ITunes and Napster - we're also pressing up 1,000 copies (eek!) and plan to punt these via shops, gigs, radio etc. We might end up selling loads, we might not. Who knows - but it feels good to have a proper single out, so the ego's pretty chuffed.

Had a top practice last week at Banana Row. Steve had come up with a couple of tune ideas that I mentioned in the last spiel, and we had a go at them. It was one of those nights when we were all a bit beat going in, but when we came out we were buzzing. For me, that's the greatest thing about being in a band/playing music - the buzz you get after having a cracking session with your mates. Gigs can be good, of course, but a good rehearsal is something far better for my soul.

The initial jamm around the idea tends to dictate whether or not the idea is something that we'll take on and develop into a tune. If the collective vibe is good early on then you know you've caught something and last week we hope we've caught a couple of beauties. One of the tracks is a wee bit more typical for us in that it's a minor key based tune - i.e. pretty melancholic/miserable - you decide! I'm really into it though - what with being melanc...etc. - and hope that by the next time we hook up I can have something penned for it. I've got a verse and chorus idea and so far so good. Steve's melody has got a bit of a John Barryesque feel to it initially but then he twists it into something a wee bit darker. Colin was coming up with some lovely beats and Ewan, like me is feeling around a wee bit more and suggested another 'bit' as I like to call 'middle eights'. Bit of work to do but I reckon we've got a contender.

The other idea rolled out of the boys like the river, stopped by a dam for 100 years and being let loose by a kindly flock of dam-demolition-expert-angels - free at last, the glam stone-age-rockers in them, were free at last!

Ewan belted out a fecking cracking bolanesque bass line, after Steve suggested that his riff should be supported by a pounding glam rock/queens of the stone age type groove. Colin immediately took up the mantle and melted majestically pounding beats over the guitars - it was a beautiful moment as Steve's riff hooked in and the three of them combined to create what I reckon has already become - the favourite one to play! Really looking forward to nailing this one and getting it into the set in time for The Proclaimers gigs.

Looking forward to the next practice - Wednesday coming. We'll work the new ones up more, and Steve is plugging in the old boy again and is going to try out the electric (Judas!) on a few of the tunes. We reckon that in bigger venues - what bigger than your usual 50 capacity haunts I hear you sneer - the guitar ain't cutting through the way it ought to do - now there's a lyric. Really excited about hearing the ahem, axe, on a few of the tracks. Steve knows how to handle an axe, no I'm sorry I can't go on with this dodgy rawk-talk. Let's just say, I reckon it'll work a treat and should compliment Ewan's big muff vibe - oh, there I go again. Right, I'm off.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Like a Virgin - blog for the very first time

Wednesday 18th April 2007

Welcome to the first ever news-blog-rant from Ten Storeys High. On this first occasion it comes from the delicate fingers of Mr Maguire. Future news-blog-rants will inevitably come from these same fingers, however, alternative, maybe even more delicate, fingers from the ‘other three’ will no doubt also regularly contribute to this weekly (?) feature.

The idea of the news-blog-rant – how many times will I use that phrase I hear you weep – is to fill a few minutes of your life with news and views from the increasingly self-indulgent Ten Storeys High. Why anyone out there in ciderspace would be in the least bit interested in this guff is beyond me to be honest, but then again, I’m not a big cider drinker.

So, cynicism (mixed with the fear of being disliked, hence the self derogation above) aside, we’re about to enter a really busy, exciting and hopefully fun-fun filled few months for the band. What follows is the story of the not so distant past and the not so distant future (ours, not yours you understand?)…

March 07
Ewan joins band on bass geetar and plays debut gig at The Village bar in Edinburgh – Ewan’s great.

Same gig sees the band debut two newly penned tunes – The Last Leaf Hanging on Winters Eve and The Cotton Wool Ball Song – the first named is my current favourite TSH tune. It’s a melancholic grinder of a tune based around a beautifully simple but unsettling riff that Mr Scott dropped on us a few weeks earlier. I had penned the lyrics used on it around about the same time – they’re about a few folks I know who have fought the biggest fight recently, some of who are winning and one who sadly lost - and they just seemed to click straight away. Always a good sign. Colin and Ewan play understated blinders on it (Ewan uses his big muff!) and we’re all dead chuffed with how it’s progressing. Should end up recording it in May hopefully. The second of the two new tunes, I will leave to Mr Scott to tell you about one day.

Colin blags a free photo shoot from Reuben Paris – cheers Reeeeeeeuben – and we make our modelling debuts in a boxing gym in Leith. Not just a boxing gym - a boxing gym in Leith. Aye, that’s how hard we are, etc. etc.

Filmed a video (yikes!) for debut single Good Things. A non-nonchalant line that. Again, a debut for the band, and again I imagined an achingly embarrassing experience, but again-again, it was remarkably good craic. I really enjoyed lip-synching at double speed whilst simultaneously sounding like one of The Chipmonks. I reckon I should just do that on stage – charge a fiver and make it kids only. Guaranteed hit.

Right at the end of the month, we got some great news that we’d been waiting a wee while for. Colin brilliantly landed us a great tour supporting, the current No. 1 artistes on the hit parade, The Proclaimers. Amazing. We’re all really excited and cannae wait for the gigs, which are over four nights in June.

I’ve always been a fan of The Proclaimers. The first time I heard them was when I saw them supporting my boyhood heroes The Housemartins - must have been about 17 - at The Assembly Rooms in George Street. I was blown away by both bands and it was one of those gigs that started me thinking, I want to do that. Colin, you’re a diamond.

April (so far)

Played at the Queen’s Hall (disappointingly, her Majesty couldn’t make it – yeah, she was just too busy, wait for it...getting her fanny waxed!) in Edinburgh as part of the fantastic mini-festival that is Spectrum. It was great to play in my favourite venue in Edinburgh for the first time and, I think, we went down well with what was a great crowd. A few folks got in touch afterwards and we’re hoping we may get our first review out of it.

Played the first of our resident monthly affair at The Village pub. It’s a champion wee place – cracking mix of a really good boozer and really cool lounge/gallery space. Dean, the manager (Colin, calls him Dean Village), kindly offered us a wee monthly slot at the weekends and he’s lets us take over the lounge area for the night. We’ve, rather pompously, but genuinely, called it
Ten Storeys High and Friends and have invited a few mates/bands to play with us each month and have booked up to, and including, the Festival in August.

The guys we played with (still can’t remember the band name!) were great mates of Ewan and the singer/guitarist Steve was a top player and great singer who settled everyone their into the night perfectly. The honesty box (we don’t charge at the door but welcome modest donations via the tin on the bar) idea seemed to work out well and we got enough for a pint and a supper each. We played a wee set and really enjoyed it – Steve (and Ann?) very kindly bought us a brilliant PA and it made its debut and worked a treat. Nice one Mr Scott.

Next month we play with The Graeme Mearns Band who, I believe, are fantastic. I haven’t seen them play as such, but caught their soundcheck at the Queen’s Hall last month and I like them straight away. They seemed to me to be a brilliant mix of punked-up blues with really nice beats and a cool as flint singer, who I assume is Graeme. Should be a fine night. Hopefully see you on the 19th.

Bonjour for noo

Like a Virgin - blog for the very first time

Welcome to the first ever news-blog-rant from Ten Storeys High. On this first occasion it comes from the delicate fingers of Mr Maguire. Future news-blog-rants will inevitably come from these same fingers, however, alternative, maybe even more delicate, fingers from the ‘other three’ will no doubt also regularly contribute to this weekly (?) feature.

The idea of the news-blog-rant – how many times will I use that phrase I hear you weep – is to fill a few minutes of your life with news and views from the increasingly self-indulgent Ten Storeys High. Why anyone out there in ciderspace would be in the least bit interested in this guff is beyond me to be honest, but then again, I’m not a big cider drinker.

So, cynicism (mixed with the fear of being disliked, hence the self derogation above) aside, we’re about to enter a really busy, exciting and hopefully fun-fun filled few months for the band. What follows is the story of the not so distant past and the not so distant future (ours, not yours you understand?)…

March 07
Ewan joins band on bass geetar and plays debut gig at The Village bar in Edinburgh – Ewan’s great.

Same gig sees the band debut two newly penned tunes – The Last Leaf Hanging on Winters Eve and The Cotton Wool Ball Song – the first named is my current favourite TSH tune. It’s a melancholic grinder of a tune based around a beautifully simple but unsettling riff that Mr Scott dropped on us a few weeks earlier. I had penned the lyrics used on it around about the same time – they’re about a few folks I know who have fought the biggest fight recently, some of who are winning and one who sadly lost - and they just seemed to click straight away. Always a good sign. Colin and Ewan play understated blinders on it (Ewan uses his big muff!) and we’re all dead chuffed with how it’s progressing. Should end up recording it in May hopefully. The second of the two new tunes, I will leave to Mr Scott to tell you about one day.

Colin blags a free photo shoot from Reuben Paris – cheers Reeeeeeeuben – and we make our modelling debuts in a boxing gym in Leith. Not just a boxing gym - a boxing gym in Leith. Aye, that’s how hard we are, etc. etc.

Filmed a video (yikes!) for debut single Good Things. A non-nonchalant line that. Again, a debut for the band, and again I imagined an achingly embarrassing experience, but again-again, it was remarkably good craic. I really enjoyed lip-synching at double speed whilst simultaneously sounding like one of The Chipmonks. I reckon I should just do that on stage – charge a fiver and make it kids only. Guaranteed hit.

Right at the end of the month, we got some great news that we’d been waiting a wee while for. Colin brilliantly landed us a great tour supporting, the current No. 1 artistes on the hit parade, The Proclaimers. Amazing. We’re all really excited and cannae wait for the gigs, which are over four nights in June.

I’ve always been a fan of The Proclaimers. The first time I heard them was when I saw them supporting my boyhood heroes The Housemartins - must have been about 17 - at The Assembly Rooms in George Street. I was blown away by both bands and it was one of those gigs that started me thinking, I want to do that. Colin, you’re a diamond.

April (so far)

Played at the Queen’s Hall (disappointingly, her Majesty couldn’t make it – yeah, she was just too busy, wait for it...getting her fanny waxed!) in Edinburgh as part of the fantastic mini-festival that is Spectrum. It was great to play in my favourite venue in Edinburgh for the first time and, I think, we went down well with what was a great crowd. A few folks got in touch afterwards and we’re hoping we may get our first review out of it.

Played the first of our resident monthly affair at The Village pub. It’s a champion wee place – cracking mix of a really good boozer and really cool lounge/gallery space. Dean, the manager (Colin, calls him Dean Village), kindly offered us a wee monthly slot at the weekends and he’s lets us take over the lounge area for the night. We’ve, rather pompously, but genuinely, called it
Ten Storeys High and Friends and have invited a few mates/bands to play with us each month and have booked up to, and including, the Festival in August.

The guys we played with (still can’t remember the band name!) were great mates of Ewan and the singer/guitarist Steve was a top player and great singer who settled everyone their into the night perfectly. The honesty box (we don’t charge at the door but welcome modest donations via the tin on the bar) idea seemed to work out well and we got enough for a pint and a supper each. We played a wee set and really enjoyed it – Steve (and Ann?) very kindly bought us a brilliant PA and it made its debut and worked a treat. Nice one Mr Scott.

Next month we play with The Graeme Mearns Band who, I believe, are fantastic. I haven’t seen them play as such, but caught their soundcheck at the Queen’s Hall last month and I like them straight away. They seemed to me to be a brilliant mix of punked-up blues with really nice beats and a cool as flint singer, who I assume is Graeme. Should be a fine night. Hopefully see you on the 19th.

Bonjour for noo