LATEST NEWS: We've just finished recording a new album in Paris which has been produced and mixed by Robin Guthrie. So far this year we've played concerts in Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Belgium with more concerts and tours to come.
Heligoland will be playing a radio session tonight on the show ‘Planet Claire’ broadcast on Aligre 93.1 FM in Paris.
The show begins at 7:30pm and we’ll be playing at around 8:15pm.
‘Planet Claire’
Aligre 93.1 FM
19h30-21h00
Planet Claire website
Aligre FM website
Aside from the months following the release of Heligoland’s second album “A street between us”, when we were joined by Ash Brideson on keyboards, for the most part Heligoland has always been a four-piece lineup: vocals/acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass and drums. When Heligoland relocated overseas the band reverted back to being a quartet which is how things have remained up until now.
But that’s about to change! We’re very happy to announce that we have a new member - Stéphane Pigneul has joined Heligoland on electric guitar. We first met Stéphane about a year ago in Paris and since then Stef has mixed a concert for us at 1bis, we’ve shared a stage when Heligoland played with Object at Le Mécanique Ondulatoire and we’ve spent many late nights together in various bars around Paris!
This is the first time in the band’s history we’ve had three guitars in the lineup and we’ve been busily rehearsing for the last few weeks working on arranging parts and songs with an additional electric guitar. It’s all coming along beautifully and we can’t wait to play our first shows with the new five-piece lineup.
Our first shows with Stéphane will be Heligoland’s upcoming concerts in Belgium in mid-June. We’ll be playing both shows in Liège and Namur with our friends Elephant Leaf who recently made their debut in Paris with a beautiful concert at Le Cleub. This will be Heligoland’s first visit to Belgium and we’re really looking forward to the shows!
After a final mixing session at Robin’s studio near Rennes the week before last we’re very happy to report that our new record is now finished and we couldn’t be happier with how it all sounds!
In what is a first for us we’ve finished the recording process and have a few songs too many for an album so some hard decisions will have to be made about what to include. There’s enough material for an album plus a subsequent release.
We’re currently working on finalising the tracklisting, the song order and the titles for a few of the songs, not to mention a title for the album which is proving a little tricky.
Having finished the record we have to say a huge, huge thankyou to Robin for all his work on this album, the production and the mixes.
It’s hard to describe the feeling when listening back to the record, it feels like the last year of our lives and our time and experiences overseas is all there in these tracks.
This album has been an absolute joy to make and we can’t wait for everyone to hear it!