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Nine Black Alps timeline (EN)

2013
signed to Hatch Records

After Brew announced that they were going to close in 2013, Nine Black Alps were announced as the first signing to new label Hatch Records, with a new single “Novokaine” released on 2 December 2013. The band’s fifth album Candy for the Clowns was released in May 2014. Following a…
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2012
signed with Brew Records

In June 2012, it was announced that Nine Black Alps had signed with Brew Records to release their fourth studio album, Sirens .

2010
demoing new material

In 2010, it was revealed that the band had started demoing new material for their fourth album as a 3-piece in early May in the West Yorkshire village of Linthwaite . Bass player Martin Cohen left the band in early 2011 to pursue his solo project Milk Maid, with whom…
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2009
released a free download song

In April 2009, Nine Black Alps released a free download song on NME.com and their own website. The track, called ‘Buy Nothing’, was the first release from their forthcoming third album, Locked Out from the Inside . The band’s third studio album, Locked Out from the Inside was released on…
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recording third full-length album

Having spent much of 2008 writing new material, Nine Black Alps finished recording their third full-length album in February 2009 with producer Dave Eringa in North Wales’ Bryn Derwen Studio.

2007
supporting Biffy Clyro

In November 2007 Nine Black Alps supported Biffy Clyro on the Scottish leg of their UK tour and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club . On the back of this, Nine Black Alps brought the ‘Love/Hate’ era and their partnership with Island Records to a close with a successful UK headline tour…
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release of Love/Hate

The band’s second album, Love/Hate , was released on 29 October 2007.

NME Stage at Reading and Leeds

Nine Black Alps played on the NME Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival and Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival , Inverness-shire , in August 2007. The band’s first release of 2007 came in the form of “Pocket Full of Stars”, a song written by the band and Hayley Hutchinson for inclusion…
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2006
working on the follow-up

On 18 October 2006, NME.com reported that they were working on the follow-up to Everything Is , recording with Oasis and Jet producer Dave Sardy in Los Angeles, California : “According to a posting on Nineblackalps.com the band and Dave Sardy will ‘furrow their brows, vent their spleens and bleed…
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first U.S. single

Their first U.S. single was “Cosmopolitan”; their album Everything Is was released in the US on 28 February 2006, and to support the album release Nine Black Alps toured the US extensively during 2006, including several performances at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas and a performance at…
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