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!

Witches on Kooba Radio at FoxFest 2009

We're interviewed on the latest Kooba Radio show following our performance at FoxFest 2009. Kooba documented the entire festival with a radio and tv show.

FoxFest is a yearly event based at the Fox and Firkin in Lewisham, and we played alongside a host of great bands including Bleech, 23frames (both of whom we supported in January 2009) and the amazing UpCDownC.

Witches are big fans of Kooba Radio, and would like to encourage as many people as possible to go and check them out.

-Dave G

Second play on Tom Robinson Introducing

It's been an exciting weekend since we recently had our second play on Tom Robinson's Introducing show on 6 Music.

A year ago, Tom played Josef's Lament from the Heart of Stone LP, and last night (13th April) he played B O K, a track planned for our forthcoming second album.

Tom said it sounded Like Hawkwind meets Spacemen 3 in an underground cavern once inhabited by The Velvet Underground. That works for us! Go check out the track on our Myspace site and tell us what you think.

Many thanks Tom for helping to spread the word.

Our friends From Light To Sound were also featured, so an excellent show all round!

Witches and Jack.fm

We're one of 20 bands chosen by Jack.fm for a free live recording session at SAE Oxford. Nice! Jack.fm will then choose their favourite five bands for a gig at the 02 Academy in Oxford. Their overall favourite gets a £2,000 recording session and a slot at Wychwood Festival. Whatever happens, it's good to be one of the top 20 - we're big fans of Jack.fm, which can often be heard blaring out of the windows of the Witches-mobile. More Queen? Yes please :)

6 Music and The Fly

We got our first national radio play this week on BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson Introducing show, broadcast on Sunday 9th March. Tom spoke about the album and video release, as well as some of our previous gigs, before playing forthcoming single Josef's Lament. We'd encourage everyone to check out his show which features some of the best new up-and-coming bands and solo artists.

Just prior to this we received our first national press, courtesy of The Fly magazine. Our picture was used on the Oxford music page, and Joby Mullens wrote about Oxford music in general, focusing on Witches, Stornoway and Truck Festival. Thanks to Joby for helping spread the word!

Witches on the BBC

Saturday was fun - we were on The Download - BBC Radio Oxford's local music program - playing tracks off of the album live and acoustic.

And that's real live, none of this pre-recorded live business! Having said that, you can listen to a recording of the live show on BBC internet radio. It's only available for a week though, so if you haven't heard it - be quick!

It was good fun to do, and I particularly enjoyed the banter between the hosts Tim and David this week :-)