EU tour 2012

The art of making good titles

We placed the whole album online ("Until Today Becomes Yesterday", out last year) in streaming for those lazy of you who don't have it yet.

You can find it on Lastfm, totally dying Myspace and SoundCloud. Please, spread out those as much as possible.
"Utby" in Cd format is now available also through distribution via Denovali Records (Germany), Escapartist Records (Germany), Consouling Sounds (Belgium) and Robotic Empire (USA).
Of course everything can be bought directly from us through our merch-store on BigCartel (new t-shirts coming soon!). And if you wanna buy the album on iTunes, here's the link. Thanks Escapartist Records for this.

Also, a tape-version of the album will be out sometimes in the future via Frohike Records. It's going to come with a nice handmade artwork in a super low amount of copies. Updates will follow soon.

Regarding everything else: we are slowing down the shows and focusing on the next release. Nothing will be out before Spring 2011, so it's too early to clearly figure out things. Anyways, new material is sounding more compact and structured to our ears, faster, rawer, and probably heavier I guess. Kind of different from what we have done so far.

Shows will restart on February 2011. Some are set already, some others will be confirmed soon, including a weekend trip in Central Europe, hopefully. For booking, write us at threestepstotheocean@gmail.com. We're in constant search of shows.

We come back soon, stay focused.
f./threestepstotheocean

Gratitude

Touring all around Europe with your band for 10 days and having concerts every night are sort of things happening only because some people put all their strenghts and their passion to make them happen.
That's why we feel the word "Thanks" assuming such a simple yet fundamental meaning.
We only want to say THANKS to anyone, at any level, who got involved in our just past European Tour.

We wanna thank Ingo (and Eva) for taking care of the whole plan, finding shows, wrote tons of emails, calling people and so on. No tour would have taken place without you. Thank you so much.

In order of appearance we also wanna thank Hannes, Tesa, Isabella and the other Gurkos @ Pmk, Chris and Our Ceasing Voice, Dresda from Zena, Tomas and Have.To.Be.Distanced for the great hospitality (and for that gallon of apricot liquor as well), everyone at the nice Emil Club in Zittau, Hans, Thomas and everyone in
Audiocæneat, Philipp-Dj Krieger, Jan and the many people who showed up in Dresden, Jul and Sarah from Autonomes Zentrum (and for the greatest breakfast ever), Marie in Lille for being so incredibly nice with us, Eldar and everyone in Kasan, Philipp-Bronze Tiger, the band Selma, Psychodelic People, all the crew at the labyrinthic Bunker in Kiel, all the other bands we shared the stage with and anyone we are forgetting to mention.

Last but not least, we want to thank all the people who came to the shows. Anyone who bought our music and gave us money, prepared us food, provided us beer, gave us a place to stay, took pictures (send'em all!), caught videos, headbanged, laughed and had fun with us. You made this 10 days unique. Thanks. See you all in 2011!

500.000.000 di centimetri

Riprendiamo in mano questo blog, stavolta con l'autopromessa di metterci mano con una certa continuità, dopo averlo aperto e presto abbandonato in tempi di studio di registrazione.
E' successo che quel disco è un po' girato, è stato recensito ed è stato più o meno apprezzato. Abbiamo suonato qua e là, fatto molti kilometri, comprato una (direi fondamentale) macchina per fare fumo, bevuto diversi amari, stampato magliette e composto qualcosa di nuovo.
Adesso sta per succedere che si parte per un nuovo tour in Europa, dopo quello in Germania del 2008. Questo sarà più lungo e più intenso. Ingo, un ventunenne tedesco, ci ha trovato gran parte delle date.

5000 km sono 500.000.000 di centimetri. Ma abbiamo le nostre scarpine Chicco ai piedi e siamo pronti a fare tanta strada per vedere com'è fatto il mondo. Si parte già domattina, prima destinazione la Plattform Mobile Kulturinitiativen di Innsbruck, ai più nota come PMK. Poi vasca infinita fino a Brno, in Repubblica Ceca. Alcuni chiamano Brno la Manchester ceca, qui abbiamo la Manchester italiana, ovvero Busto Arsizio. Chissà Manchester, quella vera, che soprannome ha.