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SOTT ambient performances at UK Latitude Festival, July Simon and Mark are - for the third year running - playing at the Latitude festival 17-20 July. The boys will be generating some ambient guitar soundscapes over at the theatre arts stage - look for performances by Ben Moor and you will find SOTT on stage too. We will post the music here and on the band web site once it has been recorded (for the Edinburgh Festival where Ben is performing a three-week run using new pre-recorded music by SOTT)

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SOTT will be performing at the Water Rats (London Kings Cross) on Sunday 22 April. Email us if you need further details, or keep an eye on our MySpace site

SOTT have begun the recording sessions for “South”, this year’s new live show. The band returned from writing sessions at a 15th Century Cistercian Abbey in a remote corner of rural England back in early November and are said to be delighted with the results...

Occasional SOTT member Al Murray is doing fantastically well with his Saturday night ITV show. Each week he is making some hapless musicians cover a Queen song – well worth checking out. For those who don’t know, Al played percussion on both SOTT albums and was full-time drummer with the band in a previous incarnation between 1995 and 1996 (Al’s live show theme tune is the Simon Oakes composition “Babytalk” from the same era).

Thanks to everyone who wrote in saying they enjoyed the performance of Coelacanth on Radio 4 on 13 October. The acclaimed play by Ben Moor featured music by SOTT.  Find out more about Moor at http://www.spesh.com/ben/coelacanth.html.  The final track on Tunguska is called Coelecanth Heart and features extracts of Ben’s spoken word performance.

SOTT are a busy crew – and there are some great things happening at the moment in our off-duty hours. Andy Marlow’s new band Slovo is taking off in a big way – follow their progress at www.slovo.co.uk. Andy Prestidge side-project Winters have their debut album released on Rise Above shortly. Find out more at  http://www.riseaboverecords.com. Finally, well done to Rob Havis’s latest side-project Betsy. Born on New Year’s Day.

SOTT T-Shirts are now available featuring the band name on the front and a 3 colour plates print of the wonderful Tunguska artwork by Julia Santon on the back.
Get them now while they last, click here for details of how to buy.

Catch the video for Monkey Dance on ORGAN TV (from the makers of ORGAN MAGAZINE and ORG RECORDS). The new series of ORGAN TV has been on air to great reactions for a month now. You’ll find it on your TV screens in the UK every Wednesday evening at 10.30pm, on Open Access 2 Channel via Sky 173.

SOTT singer-guitarist Simon Oakes and percussionist Al Murray shamelessly performed a set of Zep and Stones covers at the Virgin Festival in Chelmsford back on 19 August. Suggs from Madness was a guest vocalist.  Who would have thought it: a Tundra-Madness team-up. Simon played bass on the day, providing some epic bass lines on a Stingray through Justin’s old GK amp... for the track “it must be love”... you REALLY should have been there...

Simon provided the music and sound effects for ‘Talk Radio’ at the 2006 Edinburgh festival.  Working alongside long-time friend & director Stewart Lee and actor-comedians Mike McShane & Phil Nichol was great fun for Simon. Stewart Lee features on the original Peach recording of You Lied (1993).

Read what Stewart says about You Lied here.  

Read about Talk Radio here.

Great album reviews for Tunguska keep rolling in...

Thanks to everyone who caught the SOTT acoustic set at the Latitude Festival back in July 2006. Both on the Friday and Saturday, Ben Moor performed Coelacanth (spoken word) while the band played on. The sun was high, the tent was full, it was an all-time-great festival moment.

Tundra at Download

Many thanks to everyone who made it down to see us kick off the festival. Watch excerpts from the show in the Sound-Vision area of this site.

Fifteenth Anniversary

Amazingly, 2007 sees the fifteenth anniversary of the first year of Peach/Tundra. Simon, Ben, Justin and Rob first started playing together as very, very young men around September 1991. Check out the 1992 live video recently posted at the Peach GB MySpace.