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June 29th 2009
MARK DAY releases 'Unknown Exception' on Usurp. Double AA featuring 'It's a sound vibration'. Available on iTunes, eMusic and 7Digital. Click iTunes tab to buy...



June 17th 2009
DAYWARD's next gig below... 3rd July@ The Folkhouse, Bristol. Supporting Furlined & SantaDog

June 15th 2009
Stop! Amber Go! on entertainment Blog site Interestment.co.uk 

June 8th 2009
Click panel to buy direct from AMAZON.co.uk


April 30th 2009
DAYWARD's new video for next release 'Stop! Amber! Go'  

Release Date JUNE 8th 2009. Could have jumped in a car and did something but thought this would be more interesting. Mark Day is moving loads doing some sterling juggling with red, amber and green fruit. Didn't know how this was gonna turn out as we shot it at 4 times the speed. Worked out alright in the end I think! enjoy :)

April 22nd 2009
DAYWARD's first proper interview for MAPS Magazine. Click 'DAYWARD - MAPS Interview on left navigation menu or follow the link below...

April 1st 2009
Blog Alert!!!! Click both link below to see DAYWARD links on 4 blogs...
TEAM SUGAR - BLOG
OLD AGE HIPSTER - BLOG
INTERESTMENT.co.uk 'I Think I Saw You Today For A Reason'
INTERESTMENT.co.uk 'Ice Cream'

March 16th 2009
DAYWARD's new single 'I think I saw you today for a reason' - click to buy from 7Digital.com

March 13th 2009
DAYWARD's new video for new single 'I think I saw you today for a reason' below... 

DAYWARD - I think I saw you today for a reason from Matt Ward on Vimeo.

March 1st 2009
Usurp's second FRIDAY NIGHT RELEASE is this Friday 6th March @ The Miner's Arms pub (again), St Werburghs, Bristol. It's Free and will be great fun. We have the upstairs room all night. DAYWARD will be performing and featuring Patrick Coughlan on Laptop DJ duties. Here is the flyer..

Also... Here is our new Bebo page... Click below

February 26th 2009
Dayward's new twitter site! will social networking ever end! arrrgg. click below...

February 23rd 2009
Dayward flyer for Hatchet this Friday 27th February

February 22nd 2009
New! New! New! Click facebook panel below to become a DAYWARD fan on facebook. Get the latest....

February 13th 2009
'Ice Cream' Review in Venue magazine (Bristol) below. 3 stars - not bad. Harsh markers! Nothing negative said. Perhaps it does seem a bit novelty out of context of the whole album. On the whole - pleased!

February 11th 2009
Gigs coming up...
Friday 27th February - Dayward @ The Hatchet (upstairs club - Gimme Shelter night), Bristol (centre)
Wednesday 4th March - Thumb Tack (Matt Ward on Bass) @ The Louisiana, Bristol (centre)
Friday 6th March - Dayward @ Friday Night Release 2, The Miners Arms, St Werburghs, Bristol

February 10th 2009
FRIDAY NIGHT RELEASE - A SUCCESS!
We would like to thank everyone who came.  The red balloons went down a storm. The lights and backdrops looked great. The people of St Werburghs danced. Here are a few pics...
click here to see more pics

Dayward - Mr Ward & Mr Day in action
Balloons in action

February 2nd 2009
It's snowing in Bristol town! Something that rarely happens. Talking of rare happenings - Usurp's official launch party is this Friday 6th February @ The Miner's Arms pub, St Werburghs, Bristol. It's Free and will be great fun. We have the upstairs room all night. DAYWARD will be performing and featuring Patrick Coughlan on Laptop DJ duties. Here is the flyer...

January 20th 2009
A great day for humankind! Barack Obama gets inaugurated as the first black president of the USA and also....
the Ice Cream Video!!!! by DAYWARD

January 16th 2009

I've just read a book called 'Like a Rolling stone' By Greil Marcus. I noticed it at my Parents house over Christmas, and remembered hearing a review of it on Radio 4 some time ago. I recall thinking at the time - "How the hell can an entire book be about just one song?" So I read it over the holidays.
   If you are a Dylan fan like me it's worth a look as it's packed with lots of detailed information about the recording of Like a Rolling Stone, the impact of it, the climate that birthed it, and lots of interesting stories surrounding it. For example, I was interested to read that during the recording sessions for the song, Dylan and the band just couldn't get it right with almost every take collapsing! Either the drummer messed up, or Michael Bloomfield the guitarist couldn't get into it, or Dylan himself flopped the vocals mid verse. Only one take, almost flukily, found its feet! If it hadn't have come together that day, history would never have been made according to Marcus. I liked Greil Marcus's passion for his subject, to the point where his seriousness amused me a little.
   "...A drum beat like a pistol shot...When drummer Bobby Gregg brought his stick down for the opening noise of the six minute single, the sound-a kind of announcement, then a void of silence, then a rising fanfare, then the song-fixed a moment when all those caught up in modern music found themselves engaged in a running battle for a prize no one bothered to name: the greatest record ever made, perhaps, or the greatest record that ever would be made...."
   Like a Rolling Stone isn't my favorite Bob Dylan song, though it seems to be the one that I get the most emotional response, and now I've read Like a Rolling Stone by Greil Marcus, I know a little bit more about why. Mark Day

January 12th 2009
OUT TODAY! 'Ice Cream' is available to download from 7Digital today (for definate - I've checked it's up... itunes, HMV and Tesco... not yet but will let you know. We were played by TOM ROBINSON on sunday morning at about 1:05am. You can listen to the stream on the DAYWARD myspace page right now. I will upload it on here once i get round to it. Also... We have a venue for the first night of the planned USURP PRESENTS...THE FRIDAY NIGHT RELEASE! It will be on Friday 6th February Upstairs @ The Miners Arms, St Werburghs, Bristol. It will be free. It will be about 4 hours long between 8.30pm-12.30am. It will feature a live set from DAYWARD and Patrick Coughlan - a live Ableton (Laptop) DJ wizardry of a squelch electro gwebby* nature. (*Gwebby = So uncool, it's cool!)

January 5th 2009
Its here at last! The first official release from USURP RECORDS and DAYWARD "Ice cream" . Out on Monday January 12th through Cadiz Digital it will be available to download through all the main download sites such as iTunes, Napster, Tesco, HMV digital, 7 Digital etc. Today we got our first recognition on national radio with a play of 'Ice Cream' due on the BBC Introducing show from Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music. The shows are every Sunday and Monday night between 1am-3am and available to listen again on iplayer and podcast.

 

 

January 1st 2009
Happy New Year! Usurp starts the new year with new ideas and new confidence however bad the credit crunch is. We have a new idea to start a unique dance night in Bristol, somewhere, where we can start our own little loop and get our tunes heard in this eclectic city. We are thinking it should be a unestablished pub with an old back room that doesn't get used much. We can hold it on a Friday night and call it 'The Friday Night Release' as it will be a release from the tensions of the week and also tie in with Usurp releases. Venue's don't seem to do resident bands anymore apart from the odd few. Maybe that should change.