Witches = ended

After spending several months apart for family/health reasons, we have decided to bring Witches to an end.

It is sad not to be able to finish our second album – we’ve done a lot of work on it, and it was shaping up to be something really special – but we feel that the moment has passed and we want to move on to new things. It’s been a very amicable split – not even fisticuffs!

Many people have helped and supported us over the years – far too many to name individually – and we would like to thank you all for helping us have so much fun and leaving us with so many happy memories to take away. We will no doubt see you all again at some point, in some other crazy musical adventure.

Farewell

Witches

Little break

After a very busy year, Witches are having a little break. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped and supported us this year. We hope you had as much fun as we did.

Have a very happy Xmas and New Year. Bye for now.

Witches

BBC Introducing session

Check out our live session for BBC Oxford Introducing, recorded on the day of our Expansion launch. You can view the video here and listen back to the show (including two live songs and an interview) here. Oh, and we recommend signing up to the BBC Oxford Introducing podcast to get your weekly local music fix. We're really pleased with the outcome and had a lot of fun, so many thanks to Tim and Dave.

Single launch and BBC session this Saturday!

This Saturday we're launching our brand new single Expansion at The Cellar in Oxford at our Halloween party presented by Big Hair.

Joining us will be Desert Storm and Les Clochards, and we'll be onstage around 10pm. Doors are at 8.30pm and it'll cost about a fiver to get in (no advance tickets).

There'll be prizes of HMV vouchers and Witches goody bags for the two best Halloween outfits and there'll be limited edition CD singles given away to the first fifty people to make it to the merch desk so get your skates on!

All this plus cheap drinks deals and DJing 'till the early hours. What more could you want?

ALSO, you can hear us before you head out on Saturday evening from 6-7pm when we'll be performing a live session featuring brand new songs for BBC Oxford Introducing. If you miss the show don't worry - you can listen back using iPlayer during the week.

We'll be playing more new songs at the launch - we're really proud of them so be sure to let us know what you think!

See you Saturday.

Witches x

More radio play for Expansion

Tune into BBC Oxford Introducing this Saturday (17th October) where they'll be playing our brand new single 'Expansion', out at the end of the month (thanks Tim and Dave!)

Don't forget to come and join us at the Cellar on Saturday 31st for our Halloween party. There'll be limited edition CD singles for the first 50 people through the door, and prizes for the best dressed. See you there!

Expansion - first airplay

Congrats to Oxford FM107.9, the first station to schedule our new single 'Expansion' for their breakfast show later this week (w/b 12th October). Not bad considering we haven't even made the CDs yet! So tune in and be one of the first people to hear it.

The Halloween launch is getting closer.. There'll be fancy dress prizes and limited edition CDs for the first fifty people through the door. Not to mention a superb lineup courtesy of Jimmy and Big Hair. Oh, and we'll be playing some brand new songs as well, so come down and tell us what you think!

See you soon

Dave G x

Expansion launch and Halloween party

We're proud to announce that we'll be launching our brand new single 'Expansion' at our Halloween party hosted by Big Hair at The Cellar on Saturday 31st October.

The single will be released on Big Red Sky, and label mates Les Clochards will be joining us on the bill, along with very special guests.

A limited number of CD singles will be given away at the launch, and the track will subsequently be available for streaming from Last.fm and download from iTunes.

Produced by Jamie Masters and mixed by Jimmy Evil, 'Expansion' is taken from our forthcoming second album, due out next year, and is our first official release since Heart of Stone in 2007.

The recording was partly tracked at the SAE Institute as part of our Jack.fm 'Next Big Thing' prize from earlier this year.

We're really excited about the launch, and hope to see as many of you as possible in fancy dress on Halloween. There'll be prizes for the best dressed, so don't hold back!

Our launch will be followed by a mini-tour in November, including a performance at the Carter USM aftershow party at Jamm in Brixton. See the Witches website for more info - more dates will be announced nearer the time.

Eleven songs have been recorded so far for the second album, but we're currently working on a second batch, many of which will be aired at the Halloween gig for the very first time. We're very proud of our new tracks, so come down and see what you think.

See you soon

-Dave G