NEWS . . .

We sang live on the Late Show on BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Manchester on Monday 7th March 2011. The show is hosted by John Barnes.

There was a nice article in the Worcester Standard newspaper on March 4th. Slightly inaccurate, but nice!

The “Barba y Bigote” Tour of mainland Europe in October, November and December 2010 was a great success. The tour kicked off with a week in England that included a collaborative performance of Gwyneth Herbert ’s 'Sea Songs' at Snape Maltings in Suffolk (Friday 1st October 2010). There's a mention of us in the Gwyneth Herbert review of our performance at Snape. Then Sam’s trusty van “Dordonate” accompanied us around France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Holland, no less!

There was a great article in the Sheffield Star newspaper on August 20th. We do love the Sheff, Christophe's home town!

We have been kindly featured on the London Music Blog along with our good friend Riona Hartman from Dublin.

Hooray! We were the Band of the Month for August on Irish arts and culture blog Mutation. They organise the amazing Trash Culture Review and are well worth looking into. Thanks lads!

Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies made their debut on UK National radio when a track from Long Way to be Free was played on the Mike Harding Show in June on Radio 2. Mike said very nice things about the album and hopes to play more tracks in the coming weeks...

May 2010 brought a collaboration with Indiecater Records on their alternative footballing album Fast Forward: The World Cup Goes Indie. Harry contributed a solo track “Pesadilla No.7” and Christophe played piano on Pearse McGloughlin’s 'Jongmyo Shrine'. You can find out more about this wee venture in the Asides section and also buy the tracks (individually or as an album) in the Shop.

We have been featured on the KadmusArts website that promotes festivals around the world.

The Cork Evening Echo have written a nice article about us.