Ragusa squat Hotel La Fabbrica has just been raided by the police

We are deeply sorry the Hotel La Fabbrica, a brand new awesome squat in Ragusa Sicily, where Blake/E/E/E have successful played a few nights ago, has been raided by the police.

Our friend Sergio who was there while this happened has been taken by the cops.
We hope Ragusa citizens will do something about this asap. The Hotel was going to be a great social and cultural center, with a positive influence all over the area. Spread the word!

Following is the original message we just received from our Ragusa friends.

Stamattina(15 dicembre), quasi dopo due mesi di occupazione, è stato sgomberato dalle forze del disordine lo Spazio Autogestito La Fabbrica di ragusa, dentro è stato trovato Sergio che è stato subito portato in questura. Ancora una volta le istituzioni dimostrano di non capire le esigenze della popolazione in un posto vuoto e grigio come la città di ragusa dove dietro la maschera del “famoso” barocco si trova una popolazione sempre chiusa in casa e dalla vita assolutamente monotona con figli che stanno sempre e solo fissi davanti allo schermo. Il collettivo stava cercando di ravvivare la situazione di degrato e monotonia del centro storico con iniziative costanti e continue di tipo ricreativo e culturale come concerti, presentazione di libri e giornali studenteschi, accoglienza alle associazioni prive di sete, assemblea sul diritto alla casa, corsi gratuiti e la settimana prossima sarebbe partita una mostra d’arte.

Esprimiamo solidarietà a Sergio che è stato trovato dentro lo spazio.

Fate girare la mail il più possibile, mettetela nei blog inoltratela fate sapere a tutti

Updates sulle prossime date.

Ciao a tutti,
breve aggiornamento:
il concerto all’Unpop di Reggio Calabria (10 dicembre) è stato rinviato per motivi non dipendenti dalla band. La stessa sera suoneremo invece a Ragusa, all’Hotel La Fabbrica.

Blake/E/E/E Winter Tour is about to start.

Howdy!
Our Winter Tour is about to start.
Check out dates below and spread the word with your friends in town! More updates soon.

—UPCOMING SHOWS:

NOVEMBER

28 – Italy, Potenza Picena (MC) – Groove

DECEMBER

01 – Italy, Rome – Mads
02 – Italy, Salerno – Happy Rock
03 – Italy, Napoli – Doria 83
04 – Italy, Eboli (SA) – Rifrullo
05 – Italy, Piano di Sorrento (NA) – Marianiello Jazz Cafe
07 – Italy, Benevento – Morgana
08 – Italy, Frosinone – TBA
09 – Italy, Rende (CS) – B-Side
10 – Italy, Reggio Calabria – Unpop
11 – Italy, Palermo – Mikalsa
12 – Italy, Catania – Lomax
18 – Italy, Fidenza – Arci Taun
19 – Italy, Pisa – Circolo Caracol
29 – Italy, San Benedetto Del Tronto (AP) – Pao Long Beach

JANUARY

15 – Italy, Arezzo – Karemaski
16 – Italy, Montelupo F.no (FI) – Ponterotto
20 – Italy, Torino – Velvet – TBC – w/ Buzz Aldrin, Nervous Kid
21 – France, Montpellier – Secret Place – w/ Buzz Aldrin, Nervous Kid
22 – France, Bordeaux – Heretic – w/ Buzz Aldrin, Nervous Kid
23 – France, Marseille – L’Embobineuse – w/ Buzz Aldrin, Nervous Kid
24 – Italy, Genova – TBA – w/ Buzz Aldrin, Nervous Kid

Fall 2009

Howdy!

We’ve been hiding for a while, so we’ve got lots of news.

1. Our line-up has changed again. We are now a trio. Marcello, our former fourth, is embarking in a promising solo carrier as 33 ORE. Please check him out on his website/myspace/etc. – he is a genious songwriter. And he has been an incredibly important member of Blake/E/E/E. We wish him the SuperBest.
2. In this new outfit we are approaching our Bologna show this coming Saturday, October 24th, sharing stage with our New York friends Stars Like Fleas. Check’em out HERE, they’re awesome. Can’t miss that!
3. We just entered the GRINDING HALT CONCERTI roster. Anyone interested in having us “chez lui” can contact Fabio or Vincenzo HERE.
4. Thus, following is a list of so far confirmed Blake/E/E/E shows. More dates are coming in.

OCTOBER
24 – Italy, Bologna – Locomotiv Club – w/ Stars Like Fleas

NOVEMBER
26 – Italy, Caserta – Jarmusch
28 – Italy, Potenza Picena (MC) – Groove

DECEMBER
01 – Italy, Roma – Mads (TBC)
03 – Italy, Napoli – Doria 83
04 – Italy, Eboli (SA) – Rifrullo
05 – Italy, Piano di Sorrento (NA) – Marianiello Jazz Cafe
07 – Italy, Benevento – Morgana
09 – Italy, Rende (CS) – B-Side
10 – Italy, Reggio Calabria – Unpop
12 – Italy, Catania – Lomax
18 – Italy, Fidenza – Arci Taun
19 – Italy, Pisa – Circolo Caracol
29 – Italy, San Benedetto Del Tronto (AP) – Pao Long Beach

5. “This Is Not Us Ep”: we’re still putting things together. Hopefully we’ll be posting something very soon. Also, we’re working on our new album, tentatively called “Music For Tigers” and due in 2010 some time.

Upcoming weekend of shows…

Hi friends,

next weekend is a busy one:

August 27, Blake/E/E/E @ Savoir Fest, Borsea (RO)

August 28, Blake/E/E/E @ Hana-Bi, Marina di Ravenna (RA)

August 29, Blake/E/E/E @ Six Days Sonic Madness, Guardia Sanframondi (BN)

Come see us at your nearest location, and/or spread the word among your pals in the area.

Be well, happy end of Summer.

Blake/e/e/e upcoming Ep tracklist so far

Blake/e/e/e upcoming Ep “This Is Not Us” tracklist candidates:

1. This Is Not Us

2. This Is Not Us (remix by Marco Licurgo)

3. New Millennium’s Lack Of Self Explanation (remix by Populous)

4. Border Radio (remix by M16)

5. Time Machine (remix by El Muniria)

We’re still working things out, please stay tuned for more. The Ep will be released end of September. Ciao.

Update on new song/Ep

Hey hey,

we’re just out of the recording studio where we had a two full days long session.
A new song was born. We love it.
We called it “This Is Not Us”.

Our upcoming Ep should be out end of September.

More soon. Stay in touch! And enjoy the sun.

Check out this video!

Hey,
our friend and fan Davide Pasturi made this video for our “New Millennium’s Lack Of Self Explanation”.
We think this is really awesome! Let us know your thoughts. We are amazed and almost speechless.
Thanks Davide, see you soon.

Blake/e/e/e “NEW MILLENNIUM’S LACK OF SELF EXPLANATION”

Have we disappeared?

The answer is NO!
What happen is I had some major problems with my laptop and I’m on my way to fix things.
There’s a lot of catching up to do here, so stay tuned cause in the next few days I’ll be posting like crazy.
BTW: the Bologna show was great fun!
Talk to you soon.

Why Blake/e/e/e didn’t play the Tagofest 5 in the end.

We were supposed to play Tagofest 5 on Sunday, 5th of July.

So what happened?

We received a text message late at night on Saturday.
It was one of Tagofest people and dear old friend of ours, Onga. He wrote cops came and gave them a hard time. He recommended not to come, cause chances we wouldn’t play were pretty high (99%).
So that’s what we did. We stayed home, and Mattia drove back to Chioggia.
Shit happens, we thought.

I heard the Sunday bands played in the end, and I’m personally superglad that the awesome 3 days superd.i.y. marathon (5th year now!) had a happy ending.
But at the same time, it’s sad we weren’t there to say hi to all of our friends and enjoy the music & company.
Hope we’ll be able to play next year.
Peace & Good Luck.