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  • An update

    The blog posts have been relatively quiet (although the twitter posts haven’t) but that’s because there’s been a lot of stuff happening in the background so here’s a bit of a summary.

    New Music:
    We are working on a new 11 track album called ‘Aim For The Head’. The backing tracks are almost completed and we’ll be doing the vocals over the next couple of weeks. There’s also the possibility of putting out a little ep type thing with some semi acoustic stuff and a new song (which Dan came up with the music for) which doesn’t quite fit on the album. We’re hoping to complete it all in time for some gigs we’ve lined up which leads me nicely on to…

    Gigs:
    We’re very excited to say we’ve got the following gigs lined up:
    10th December – The Jericho, Oxford
    17th December – The Wheatsheaf, Oxford

    This will be the first time that all 4 of us have played live together in front of people (and may well be the last time we get to play together for a while) so we’re really looking forward to it. Full lineups and ticket prices for both nights are still tbc but we’ll let you know more as soon as we do. We’re still keeping an eye out for other gigs though so get in contact if you would like us to come to a venue near you.

    Site updates:
    I’ve been tweaking and rearranging stuff on the site for a little while so hopefully things should be a bit easier to find and bit to manage from this end. In particular, have a look at the new look gigs and music pages and the brand new about and video pages and let me know what you think via comment, contact or twitter.

    Other:
    The brilliant Lee from Prohibition Smokers’ Club has let me loose on a remix of one of their new tracks which should be out fairly soon. There may well be a couple of other things coming up as well but their not quite ready to tell you about yet. Should be able to soon though.

    So as you can see quite a a lot has been happening which has been keeping us busy but definitely in a good way. We’re really looking forward to putting the new stuff out for people to listen to and to playing live so exciting times ahead. In the mean time, have a listen to this.

  • Oxjam @ The Oxford Castle: THANK YOU!!! [Update]

    Oxjam banner

    It’s safe to say that the gig was a genuine success which to be honest I’m still a bit amazed about. All of the feedback so far has been incredibly positive and there was really a great atmosphere. In total the gig raised £416.57 for Oxfam which is just brilliant and Dan and I are just amazed with everyone’s generosity. I’ve been told that I’ve been saying thank you a little bit too much but we wanted to put together one last post to say Thank You to everyone that helped us out:

    The Bands:
    The Half Rabbits, Phantom Theory, The Prohibition Smokers Club, Helena, Swindlestock and Kt and Ky,

    Sarah Mayhew (from The Oxford Castle for letting us do the gig at the castle in the first place) and Helen Statham (for letting us move the gig to The O3 Gallery with one day to go), and The Real China.

    Mel Skinner, Sarah Kenway, Ashleigh Toll, Mez Flint for minding the bar and helping us tidy up afterwards (+ the rest of the Oxjam crew!)

    Stu Smith, Mark Wilden, Neil Smith, for loaning us the audio equipment

    And everyone that braved the rain to come along, listen to some great music and donate!

    There are some pictures up on the pictures page and Dan Paxton has some up on his Flickr profile. There may even be some video soon too. Dan and I have already started talking about whether or not we’ll do it again. We shall see….

    Please keep supporting Oxfam and Oxjam and good luck to anyone else that’s organising an Oxjam gig this year!

    Ian and Dan

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    [Updated 02/09/10] Now with Video!

  • Never Be The Same (Applejack Mix) – Download

    For anyone that’s arrived here after listening to or reading about ‘Never Be The Same’ on the UkeHunt.com podcast, here you go:
    Never Be The Same (Applejack mix) by Tiger Mendoza

  • Oxjam @ Oxford Castle [Update]

    This is very exciting. Dan and I have been thinking about putting on an Oxjam gig somewhere in Oxford and the lovely people at The Oxford Castle have said that we can put on there as part of their summer acoustic nights on Wednesday 25th August from 7pm to 10pm. Win!

    Lined up to play are:

    ‘How much will this wondrous event cost?’ you ask. Well, nothing. That’s right entry will be FREE. But we will collecting money for Oxfam and our fund raising target is £100 so any and all donations will be very much appreciated. We’re also hoping to arrange some food and drink promos but that’s still tbc. We’ve just had confirmation that The Real China will be offering discounts on cocktails and food for everyone that donates. Isn’t that nice of them?

    Here’s the Oxjam event page. See you there.

    Oxjam logo The Oxford Castle
    Oxjam @ Oxford Castle

  • Mmmmmm…Mellotron…

    We’re putting together stuff for out next little ep / mini album and while I was going through some of my unfinished bits and pieces I found this little thing based around a loop I created using a Mellotron emulator:

    20100421 Mellotron by Tiger Mendoza

    The thing is I don’t really know what to do with it so I’ve put the stems up on the net for people to do with as they wish.

    So here you go. Stems are all 44kHz wavs with ableton info files and all files are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

    If you do create anything, send it to me via my Soundcloud drop box:

    Send me your track

  • An update

    Hello! It’s been a bit quiet on the Tiger Mendoza front for a while so I thought I’d put out a quick update.

    Remixes:
    The Missing on the Motorway mix I put together for the DJ Shadow remix comp has been selected to be a bonus track on the download version of the compilation that’s coming out to accompany the competition. Shame it didn’t get on the actual CD but still cool to be associated.

    Oscar TG asked me if I wanted to do a remix of his track ‘Run with the flame’ which will be coming out on Red Robot records soon. A big thank you to Oscar, Will Scarlett and Flipt for letting me mess with their song!

    There are a couple of other things that I’m working on as well but their not 100% confirmed yet but hopefully more news soon….

    New tunes:
    We are writing new stuff at the moment and hope to have some sort of release out probably in September. Dan O’Driscoll will be joining on guitar (along with Helena on vocals and Sally on bass) so that’s nice. Will definitely help when we do live gigs as well (which we’re also going to try and do later this year).

    Anyway, that’s it for now. Cheers to anyone that’s shown an interest in this little project in any way. There will be some new tunes for you to listen to soon hopefully but due to some ‘personal commitments’, the tunes have had to be put on hold for a bit. Here’s small bootleg to tide you over in the mean time.

    Cheers,
    Ian