Update & "The Boy Jones"

Hello, it's been a quiet year for “The Smile”, so an update is long overdue. Well first up, we've got a new/old track called “The Boy Jones” for your listening pleasure, you can download it for free at. http://snd.sc/cI72W0 It dates from 2007 (pre- elephant gun) & we only ever played it the once. It was originally a one-off 40 minute jam, but we've trimmed some of the fat away & left everything else exactly as we played & recorded it....mistakes n'all. It's only guitar, bass & drums and at 19:44 it's gonna bore some people to death, but its strictly background music & not intended as anything else. Suggested listening environments are the solo 1:00am dual carriageway drive or maybe the late night walk home.

As well as raiding the archives, we've been busy writing & recording new tracks for a new EP which'll see the light of day sometime in 2011. It's exciting stuff, so expect some grown-up sh*t!

Some Pre-Gig Press

Some Video

Here's some video of our track "Slow Fuse" from the Wombat Wombat gig with The Joy Formidable & Faster Than Robots on Friday. It was kindly videoed & posted by Babz. Ok so maybe I forgot/mixed up the lyrics at the end of the second verse, but I think I did a pretty good job of covering up, you know it wasn't my fault I'd had no dinner & was drinking!



There should be a radio broadcast of the whole set in the near future on Breakthru Radio courtesy of Mr Jason (who did an excellent job of the sound on the night!) & more video to come courtesy of Wombat Wombat!

WOMBAT WOMBAT CHRISTMAS & 9TH BIRTHDAY PARTY 11TH DECEMBER 2009

Ahead of Wombat Wombat's 9th Birthday & Christmas Party @ Norwich Arts Centre on Friday 11 th Decmber 2009 featuring The Joy Formidable, our good selves & Faster Than Robots (+Howlback Hum in the bar). You can check out brief interviews with all the bands playing by checking out http://www.wombatwombat.co.uk/ & click on "Burrowing Zine", alternatively if you live in the neighbourhood, you can pick upa free paper copy of the zine at Norwich Arts Centre, Soundclash, The Playhouse, Access To Music, The Waterfront + Plugs Earth & Purple Studios.

Tickets for the gig have nearly sold out, but there are still some available from Norwich Arts Centre (01603) 660352, Soundclash Records (01603) 761004 & UEA (01603) 508050. It's £7 in advance & if there's any left on the night it'll be £8 on the door.

We've spent the last week rehearsing with live drums & I gotta admit it's sounding f#%king amazing, everything's stepped up to a new level, there's so much more energy & we can't wait to debut it all on the 11th!

"Chop Ten" (Free MP3)

Although there's been a bit of downtime for the band over the last couple of months, we've managed to raid the tape archive & dig up this old gem "Chop Ten" which was recorded around the same time as "Lash Larue" back in 2007 (back when we only had 2mb of sampler memory to use on our tracks). You can download it for free along with "Lash Larue", "Korkscrew" & "Stuck On Repeat" at Last FM.

http://www.last.fm/music/Hasikara+Smile

So after months of packing & unpacking boxes, we're finally ready to start work on some new material (as well as re-jig our live set to incorporate live drums). We're both dying to get stuck in! Along with "Chop Ten" we also discovered a bunch of old unreleased tracks from 2007 that we plan to pull together in to some sort of stripped down, rough & ready free EP over the next few months, so watch this space for more info!

On the gig horizon we're playing Wombat Wombat's Christmas & 9th Birthday party on Friday December 11th 2009 @ Norwich Arts Centre with The Joy Formidable & Howlback Hum in the bar.

Tickets are on sale now from NAC box office (01603) 660352, Soundclash in person (ring 01603 761004 for availability) or online at UEA www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/the-joy-formidable-presented-wombatwombat.aspx or on 01603 508050. Price is £7 + booking fee where applicable, or £8 on the door.

Audiotier Interview

Hasikara Smile Interview @ Audiotier.com!
Go to http://audiotier.com/interviews/2009/9/28/hasikara-smile.html to check it out!!!

Let's Do Lunch @ The Marquee (Sept 12th not Oct 12th)