Tuesday 20 September 2016

Inside Digital Single Release



The wait is over... 

 

Lilygun are releasing the first single from the new album on 8th October 2016!


Download link coming soon...

Monday 8 August 2016

The Haugan Effect

Lilygun's brilliant photographer Harald Haugan has recently taken a series of stunning new photos. Here are some of the photographs from the shoot.

©Haugan Photography
Photography by Harald Haugan
Makeup by Natalya Malyghina
Unit 2 Studios

Anna-Christina from Lilygun

Anna-Christina from Lilygun

Anna-Christina from Lilygun

Anna-Christina from Lilygun

Thursday 23 June 2016

Witchy Gigs

Catch Anna-Christina and Belle Star performing together in other bands over the next few weeks. Here are the details:

Thursday 30th June 2016 

David Ryder Prangley & The Witches 


The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Rd
London
N1 9JB 
Tube: Angel (Northern Line) 
Price: £6 advanced
www.wegottickets.com
Doors 8pm (on stage 8.30pm)
For more info and the full band line up visit the Facebook Event Page.


Wednesday 20th July 2016 

Sister Witch


The Water Rats 
328 Gray's Inn Rd
London
WC1X 8BZ
Tube: King’s Cross St Pancras

(Circle, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & City, Northern, Metropolitan and Victoria Lines)
Price: £6 / £5 with flyer
Doors 7.30pm (on stage 10.15pm)  
For more info and the full band line up visit the Facebook Event Page


Saturday 30th July 2016 

Sister Witch 


The Unicorn
227 Camden Road
London
NW1 9AA
Tube: Camden Town 
Price: Free Entry 
Doors 7pm (on stage 9.30pm)
For more info and the full band line up visit the Facebook Event Page

Wednesday 6 April 2016

THE MAKING OF LILYGUN'S SECOND ALBUM

During the month of March, we have been recording guitars on our second album. Its been said of our band in the past that we incorporate the three G's - Goth, Glam and Grunge! This has been a pretty good description of us in the past. But this new album seems to have taken on another aspect of sound that we have not had in the past. Although guitars are still a heavy feature in the new songs, we've branched out into a more experimental field in terms of our sound. That's all we're gonna say for now!

Here are some photographs of the players recording lead guitar parts in the new songs.

Anna-Christina from Lilygun recording guitar parts photo
 Anna-Christina

Aaron John recording guitar parts on Lilygun's second album photo
 Aaron John

David Ryder Prangley recording guitar parts on Lilygun's second album photo
 David Ryder Prangley

Friday 26 February 2016

Sister Witch Photographs

Here are some photos taken from the Sister Witch gig at The Lexington on 15/2/16.

Anna-Christina from Lilygun playing bass in Sister Witch at The Lexington image
Photo by Natalya Malyghina


Anna-Christina from Lilygun playing bass in Sister Witch at The Lexington image
 Photography by Philip Grey 


Photography by Philip Grey 


Anna-Christina from Lilygun playing bass in Sister Witch at The Lexington image
 Photography by Neil Anderson


Anna-Christina from Lilygun playing bass in Sister Witch at The Lexington image
 Photography by Neil Anderson


Anna-Christina from Lilygun playing bass in Sister Witch at The Lexington image
Photography by Neil Anderson

Monday 22 February 2016

THE MAKING OF LILYGUN'S SECOND ALBUM

This month we've been recording guitars on our new album. A couple of the songs have acoustic guitar in them so we started with that. So far, it has to be said, the whole recording experience has been super fun and easy. All the songs are coming together very quickly and they're just working! We'll be posting more photos soon... :-)

Anna-Christina from Lilygun recording acoustic guitar

Anna-Christina from Lilygun recording acoustic guitar

Anna-Christina from Lilygun recording acoustic guitar

Monday 8 February 2016

Sister Witch Gig

Catch Anna-Christina and Belle Star performing with Sister Witch next week Monday at The Lexington.  Here are the details:

Monday 15th Feb 2016
at The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road
London 
N1 9JB
Tube: Kings Cross
Price: £7 
Ticket link: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/349247
Doors 7.30pm

For more info visit the Facebook Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/743422865759158/

Wednesday 3 February 2016

Lilygun On Radio This Week

Lilygun are featured on two radio shows this week!

Thursday
Wicked Spins Radio
7pm (UK time).
http://wickedspinsradio.org/wsr2012/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1557165991266775/

And

Friday
Rock'n'roll Circus Radio
8pm (UK Time)
Tune into Ceri's Rock'n'Metal Show playing all female fronted band's from around the globe.
http://chris7524.wix.com/rocknrollcircusshow
https://www.facebook.com/events/517046385123884/519811954847327/

Monday 18 January 2016

THE MAKING OF LILYGUN'S SECOND ALBUM

Two songs on the new Lilygun album feature piano. Piano is the first instrument I learned to play and one that I love. I began playing the piano at boarding school to hide from the horrible girls in my class. I'm a self-taught pianist but I spent so much time alone in a tiny music cell at my school, that I became quite an accomplished pianist!

One of my first classical piano compositions met with the approval of Richard Blackford (the british tv, film, opera and Emmy Award nominated composer) and was chosen for a music competition to represent my school. I have never played in public again. 

As some of you already know, I am also a classical composer. Many of my classical pieces feature the piano so it's an instrument that's natural for me to play. I recorded acoustic guitar on a couple of songs too so we'll be posting photos of that recording session for you soon.

I can't wait for you to hear these songs! ~ACx

Thursday 7 January 2016

A Step Back In Time

Anna-Christina and Piranha from Lilygun. Photo by Joe Bangay

Recording, can at times be quite a sentimental thing. It can bring up all sorts of emotions in musicians. Whilst I've been recording bass on Lilygun's new album, it made me think of where many of Lilygun's bass lines have originated from.

As some of you will know, I once had a bass player called Piranha. He was very special to me and the two of us became Lilygun together in the beginning. He couldn't stay in England and ended up going back to Japan but it was actually Piranha who helped me shape what Lilygun has become today.

Don't get me wrong, I love working with my friends in Lilygun now and they are a constant source of inspiration to me but Piranha never got the credit he deserved. By the time our first album came out he was already gone and wasn't able to play on it which was very sad. However, his spirit is in every single song on that album. The funny thing is, his spirit will also be on this second album too! We had already made demos together of some of these new songs and I'm referring back to his bass lines once again.

We have a sad story to tell but I will forever be grateful to this remarkable musician who taught me so much, believed in me when others didn't in our early days and helped me create a band I love. Piranha will forever be in my heart.

~ACx