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• News - August 2012 • Our September tour in Sweden is all coming together now - gigs and workshops in Stockholm, Järna and Enköping. We're hoping to have time whilst we're in Sweden to do some planning for an exciting collaborative project for 2013-14 - watch this space! The first dates for our Spring 2013 UK tour are also being confirmed and are available on the gigs page. Join our mailing list to keep up to date.
Our live album, "Methera In Concert" is available from our shop. The second pressing of our debut album is also available. Both are priced at £13 including P&P. You can listen to tracks from the album on our bandcamp page and can even download a track for free. • News - February 2012 • Plans are underway for Methera to tour in Sweden this Summer, followed by a UK tour early in 2013. Join our mailing list to keep up to date. • News - September 2011 • Dates are now available on the gigs page for our November tour, including concerts in Gloucestershire, Northumberland and Cheshire. We've a couple of dates still to confirm so check back in the next few weeks or join our mailing list to keep up to date.
Our live album, "Methera In Concert" is available from our shop. The second pressing of our debut album is also available. Both are priced at £13 including P&P. You can listen to tracks from the album on our bandcamp page and can even download a track for free. Hope to see you at one of our November gigs. Happy Autumn xxx • News - March 2011 • Our live album, "Methera In Concert", was released on 01.11.10 and is now available from our shop. The second pressing of our debut album is also available. Both are priced at £13 including P&P. The next Methera concerts are planned for Autumn 2011 - join our mailing list to be kept informed - just e-mail music @ methera.co.uk with 'join' as the subject.
• News - November 2010 •
We really enjoyed our autumn tour, playing to sell-out audiences in several venues and meeting lots of new folk along the way. Thanks to all of you who wrote in our gig book and came along to talk to us post-concert. It's always lovely to hear from you. If you visit our reviews page you'll see that we've put up some excerpts from reviews of the new album which have appeared in 'The Strad' and 'fRoots'. Keep an eye out for us in the upcoming issues of R2 and EDS magazines, and keep an ear out for tracks which have been enjoying airplay on Radio 3's 'World Routes' programme. The next Methera concerts are planned for Summer 2011 - join our mailing list to be kept informed - just e-mail music @ methera.co.uk with 'join' as the subject. • News - October 2010 • Our new album "Methera In Concert" has now been released and is available from our shop, where you can also buy the second pressing of our eponymous debut album. "Methera In Concert" has received great reviews in fRoots, The Strad, brightyoungfolk.com and the Musicians Union magazine, amongst others. Hopefully we'll have them up here for you to read when there's a gap in rehearsals! • News - September 2010 • Our new album "Methera In Concert" is now available for pre-order from our shop - all orders will be sent out on 01.11.10 - the official release date. If you can't wait that long then you'll be pleased to know that the second pressing of our debut album is available immediately! The Methera Autumn tour dates are almost all in place now - see the gigs page for complete listings. If there's somewhere you think we should be playing but aren't visiting this time round then let us know! We're always open to suggestions. Finally, keep an eye out for the review of the new album in October issue of fRoots magazine, and keep an ear out for tracks which have been enjoying airplay on Radio 3's 'World Routes' programme. Hope to see you in the autumn! • News - August 2010 • It's been an exciting Spring for us with the work we've been doing for our new live album - "Methera In Concert". Dates for our album launch tour are being added to our gigs page as they're being confirmed so keep a watch on it. If you didn't manage to get hold of a copy of our debut album before we sold out then you'll be glad to know we've had a few more pressed and they should be available from our shop in the next couple of weeks - if you can't wait that long then send an e-mail to music @ methera.co.uk and I'll get one in the post for you. For our new album, though, you'll have to hang on till 1st November for the official release... • News - November 2009 • We're back from our Autumn tour having played to lovely audiences throughout the country - read some of the things you said about us in our gig book. Having sold out of our debut album we're all set to spend the winter working on our next! We recorded live at several venues this October and we're all excited about getting the sequel ready in time for the tour we're planning for Autumn 2010. In the meantime if you didn't manage to get hold of a copy of the first album you will hopefully be able to download it through itunes in the near future. • News - September 2009 • Hopefully you've been enjoying a scrumptious summer full of music and festivals and are ready to cosy into the Autumn evenings with a Methera concert. We've dates planned from the 2nd to the 17th of October throughout England - your last chance to catch us this year. We're particularly excited about our two gigs with fantastic trio Kerr Fagan Harbron in Somerset (8th October) and London (17th October) - the latter is part of a day of music and events planned by the EFDSS and 'Late Junction' presenter Verity Sharp to celebrate Apple Day 2009. Details of all our upcoming gigs can be found on the gigs page. • News - July 2009 • We've had a great 2009 so far with appearances at Bath International Festival and the Fiddles on Fire festival in both London and Newcastle, amongst others. Dates are being confirmed for our October tour, including some double-bill concerts with the fantastic Kerr Fagan Harbron. See our gigs page for dates confirmed in Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire and London.... we're hoping to confirm some Northern dates in the next few weeks - join our mailing list to keep up-to-date! Details of all our upcoming gigs can be found on the gigs page. • News - April 2009 • With spring now upon us we thought it was time to let you know what Methera are up to over the coming months. We've had a great time so far this April playing with the Fiddles on Fire festival at The Sage Gateshead and Kings Place in London. At the start of May you can catch us in Gloucestershire and Dorset, and we're really looking forward to appearing at Bath International Music Festival on the 4th and 5th of June. Details for all our upcoming gigs can be found on the gigs page. • News - October 2008 With Autumn well underway we're back from our exhilarating tour with Kerr Fagan Harbron and are making plans for our 2009 Methera outings. After a day of rehearsal to explore new collaborative music we set out this October with Kerr Fagan Harbron to play to full houses around the country, culminating in a fantastic night at The Sage Gateshead. It was great for us to have an opportunity to use Methera's sound within the 7-piece ensemble and many thanks to all of you who came to hear this brand new music. You can read a great review of our gig at the National Centre for Early Music here. We've still got lots of dates to confirm for 2009 but will hopefully be playing in London in April, Bradford-upon-Avon in May and Bath in June. Join our mailing list if you'd like to make sure you hear about our upcoming gigs. • News - September 2008 • The debut Methera album has been reveiwed in the current issues of both Songlines and the English Dance & Song magazine - go to the reviews page to read the full text. With October fast approaching make sure you've got our tour dates in your diary! We're really looking forward to some magical collaboration with Kerr Fagan Harbron so have a look through our dates on the gigs page and see if you'll be able to join us. •News - July 2008 • The debut Methera album received a rave review in the latest issue of FiddleOn magazine:
Tracks from the album will be played on BBC Radio on several occasions in the next few weeks. If you've not yet got hold of a copy of the album then have a listen! We're on Radio 3's Late Junction on Thursday 17th July and again on Thursday 7th August. For those of you who haven't heard it, Late Junction is an amazing mix of music brilliantly presented by Verity Sharp and starts at 11.15pm. You can also hear us if you �listen again� to last nights programme using the BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cdcp9 The album is due to be reviewed on Radio 3�s World Routes on Saturday 19th July, starting at 3.00pm. Hope you can listen out, or listen again!
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Our new album "Methera In Concert" was released on 01.11.10 and is now available from our