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vote for your favourite songs Empty At The End - Biting The Soles - Cold World - So Much Love I've uploaded the b-sides to new hosting, hopefully you can download them now. B-SIDES FROM OLDER SINGLES If you like them please track down a copy on CD. Most songs are from 2002 unless stated. Most re-uploaded from ESP Online Visit Aerial Roots for a complete Discography ESP & BRAKES LIVE AUDIO I've re-uploaded everything. Click on the folder you want to see the songs in it then click on the song name to download. On the next page scroll to the bottom for the download button. Each file can only be downloaded by one person at at a time (it should tell you if this happens - wait a minute or download something else) There's live songs from: The Barfly 22.2.02, France 20.4.02, Sheffield 11.5.02, Paris 15.12.03 (recorded for Radio France - "The Black Sessions") Later with Jools, Top Of The Pops, Glastonbury 2002 and some early ESP (The Feltro Media) I've also uploaded their AOL Session from September 2003. If That's The Case, Then I Don't Know New ESP song live at SXSW. Thanks to Lemming. Click on the song to download (the play/download buttons are at the end of the page) E.S.P. & BRAKES Metway Session tracks: Go to the Totally Wired archive and click on the 22 May show. Scroll to just before 1 hour 7 mins for E.S.P.'s Cold World and just before 1 hour 52 for Brakes Do The Spring Chicken (right at the end of the show) You should play both whichever band you prefer because both tracks are brilliant. Here's the Playlist  photo by Kirstie Press Play and enjoy (you might have to click it a few times) (updated link) ESP videos @ Les Inrocks You can watch Silent To The Dark video, an interview and live footage from August 2003 - clips of Lose Yr Frown, Things I've Done Before and inside Metway Studios (Haut debit = high quality, Bas debit = low quality) The high quality Silent To The Dark's in mono, low quality's in stereo. I think this is the only place you can still see the video online... (updated link) Lonely Times/Whale Mix par Skye feat Soft Parade (click on ecouter to play) A song with a female vocalist: Godfather Fish (feat. Electric Soft Parade) remixed this title. It's beautiful. You can also listen to the original: Josephine Eleini - Lonely Times I'm not sure what the background noises are on the ESP version (whales?) The article's dated 8th Sept 2004. Brit pop influenced Brighton band ESP make a triumphant return to Xfm. With two first-rate singers and dominant guitars they can do no wrong. Rapidly becoming the Gallaghers it’s okay to look directly in the eye, Tom and Alex White’s metamorphosis into fully-fledged stars is well underway. Strumming their way through a rare stripped down session for Zoë Ball, the brothers effortlessly twisted album tracks ‘Biting The Soles Of My Feet’ and ‘Red Balloons For Me’ into compelling acoustic classics (the video link doesn't work) There's an interview with Tom who says of the Empty At the End video: "It’s completely shit. I hate that video. Sorry. I haven’t got anything good to say about it" Tom: "I think videos serve a purpose but they’re not in anyway as important as records or playing live. I’d rather spend money on playing live than I would on videos" Me: Silent To The Dark will always be one of my favourite videos because it's what got me into them in the first place so it will always have a place in my heart... Scroll down to find the songs. Tracks are: Existing, Lose Yr Frown and Silent To the Dark. There's also an Isle Of Wight 2004 gallery you can look at while you listen. At the end of each song Virgin Radio starts playing, just click on another track on ESP's page to listen to it. Video & Audio Streams (works best in Internet Explorer) Click the top link for a video of Stay Where You Are live. Click the link underneath for live audio (20 mins 46) Alex sings Stay Where You Are and Tom sings: Silent To The Dark, Something's Got To Give, Red Balloons For Me and Can't Get You Out Of My Head. The best thing is the video of Tom playing drums. If you're a fan of his I can safely say you'll enjoy it. I knew they were good back then but this reminds you just how much... With their debut album Holes In The Wall up for the Mercury Music Prize, brothers Tom and Alex White came into the Live Lounge to play a couple of songs and to tell Jo what they would do with the prize money if they won it. They talk about playing at Reading and Leeds, meeting their heroes, recording their new album, what it felt like to get the Mercury nomination, what they would do with the prize money: "I'd like to give the money away to a charity like the Teenage Cancer Trust. I don't believe in getting money for stuff like that. It sounds really Bono, really Chris Martin. It's cheesy but I don't care". Radio 1 cut off the songs. They say mobile phones are bad for you (they're right)  Impossibly young, and jaw-grindingly talented, brothers Tom and Alex are ESP, Brighton-based rock act. Their home-recorded album got them a Q Best Newcomer gong, and a Mercury Prize nomination. Good tunes, unexpected twists and turns, damn fine LP. There's also a short text interview with Alex (the video link doesn't work) |