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  <a href="/news/blog/7464556/our-broadcast-debut">Our broadcast debut!</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>A track from our new album, Unfinished Business, is to be included in Radio 3's ’Round Midnight show on Thursday 26 September, between 11:00pm and 1:00am. Fame at last?</p></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2024-09-19T17:17:17+01:00" title="September 19, 2024 17:17">09/19/2024</span></p>

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  <a href="/news/blog/7464550/those-gigs-again">Those gigs again...</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>For details of pricing and ticket links, see the <a href="/gigs">Gigs page</a>.</p></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2024-09-19T17:11:28+01:00" title="September 19, 2024 17:11">09/19/2024</span></p>

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  <a href="/news/blog/7457180/videos-of-the-recording-here-at-last">Videos of the recording here at last!</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>On our second day at AIR Studios we were joined by a team from Drift Studio, who shot video of us all day as we recorded our major 4-movement work <i>Life &amp; Times</i>. It's been a very long and difficult job for the Drift guys to get this all edited and tied up, but now they've finally done it and you can get a taste of the <a href="/video">result on our Video page</a>.</p></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2024-09-03T14:53:34+01:00" title="September 03, 2024 14:53">09/03/2024</span></p>

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  <a href="/news/blog/7452687/unfinished-business-finished">Unfinished Business Finished!</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>Yes, we're happy to say that our debut album ‘Unfinished Business’ is all complete and ready to go! The official release date is 18 October, but bits of it will leak out in various places between now and then, starting with <a href="https://sparklabel.bandcamp.com/album/unfinished-business" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, where you can read a bit about it, pre-order the album and listen to — and even buy — a sample track. It'll be leaking out here too very soon!</p><p>And to go along with that, our four-date launch mini-tour is all set up, and you can even buy tickets for three of them — see the <a href="/gigs">Gigs</a>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/7452687/unfinished-business-finished">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>We're hoping to launch our new album, Unfinished Business, to be released on the Spark! label in the autumn of 2024, with a tour of launch gigs to help it on its way. So far we only have two confirmed, one at <a href="/gigs">Jazz in Reading</a> on 25 October and one at <a href="/gigs">Jazz 825 in Southend</a> on 6 November. There are a few other irons in the fire, but if anyone has any ideas for venues in south east England, we'd be grateful for contact details.</p></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Shanti Jayasinha, our previous trumpet player (he's on the album) has been appointed to the prestigious post of Senior Lecturer in Jazz at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, no less. So many congrats to Shanti! Naturally this makes playing in a London based band like Perfect Stranger, er, a bit less convenient. We managed to persuade the excellent George Jefford, who has depped for us a couple of times, to take Shanti's chair — and Shanti graciously agreed. So we have a new trumpeter, and a very fine one…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/7403618/a-new-recruit">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Yes, the new album - for release on Spark! in Autumn 2024 - is now all recorded, edited, mixed and mastered. Which just leaves… a lot of <i>stuff</i> still to do!</p></div>
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  <a href="/news/blog/7383875/facebook-event-and-mastering">Facebook event... and mastering</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>There's now a Facebook event for our gig at Karamel on 23 May: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/412048861462512/">https://www.facebook.com/events/412048861462512/</a><br><br>And we have an appointment for next week - 24 April - to master the album!</p></div>
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  <a href="/news/blog/7380470/latest-on-the-album">Latest on the album...</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>Mixing is now complete on our debut album, Unfinished Business, for release on Spark! Mastering still to come, and we anticipate release later this year. It's exactly 50 years since the first - failed - attempt at getting this music together!</p></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2024-04-10T15:19:49+01:00" title="April 10, 2024 15:19">04/10/2024</span></p>

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  <div class="message"><p>Yes, just as that title says, so go get your tickets - <a href="/gigs">see the Gigs page for details</a>.</p></div>
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