News

JUNE 2009
SMHTP Is Proud To Announce An Exciting New Longterm Partnership With BBC
Showmehowtoplay.com will be working on a ground breaking joint software development with the BBC. “This is a fantastic opportunity for both parties and a real statement of Showmehowtoplay’s continued growth and driving force developing new interactive software for use both on line and the educational market.”

Garry Cobain To DJ At Parklive Festival
Garry Cobain (FSOL/AA) will be doing a DJ set at the Parklive Festival in Bulgaria on 20th June.

MAY
FSOL To Play Life Festival
FSOL will be bringing their ISDN live performance to the Life Festival in Ireland on 29th May.

“A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble..” Event At Green Man Festival
The Amorphous Androgynous are curating 7 hours of live performance and DJ sets at the the Green Man Festival 23rd August under the “A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind” banner.

APRIL
Show Me How To Play Sign Deal With Sony Music
In a deal similar to their existing agreement with Universal, Showmehowtoplay.com have now inked a contract with Sony Music giving them rights to use original Sony Recordings  in Multiplayer format as part of their innovative teaching system.

“Right Round” Passes 2 Million Downloads
Flo Rida’s “Right Round” has now passed 2 million download sales in the US. The album entered the US chart at number 8 and number 4 in the UK.

MARCH
“Right Round” No.1 In The UK
Flo Rida’s adaptation of Tim Lever & Mike Percy’s classic track “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” has entered the UK singles charts at No.1. It has also held the top spot in the US Hot 100 for a 3rd week. It is also now No.1 in Australia as well as Canada.

“Right Round” Passes 1 Million US Downloads
Flo Rida’s adaptation of Tim Lever & Mike Percy’s classic track “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” has held on to No.1 in the US Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs charts and has now passed 1 million US download sales in just 3 weeks. It also tops the Pop, Hot Digital Tracks and Canadian Hot 100.

FSOL To Play Bestival Festival
FSOL will be playing the Bestival Festival over the weekend of 11th-13th September.

FEBRUARY
“Right Round” No.1 on Hot 100
Flo Rida’s adaptation of Tim Lever & Mike Percy’s classic track “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” has moved 58-1 on the latest US Hot 100 chart. It also debuts at No.1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart with sales of 636,000.

SMHTP wins Arts Council tender
Show Me How To Play.com is proud to announce that it has won the tender to deliver an exciting new digital project in collaboration with Arts Council England’s Take It Away scheme.
Mary-Alice Stack, Development Manager for Take It Away at Arts Council England said “We chose SMHTP as they presented an unique package of services that have great potential to extend the reach of the Take It Away scheme to people of all ages and abilities, whether they are learning to play individually or as part of a group.”
We are all very excitied by this fantastic opportunity and collaboration.
Full details will be announced at the London International Music Show in June 2009.

Amorphous Androgynous Remix Oasis
FSOL, as their Amorphous Androgynous project, have remixed the next Oasis single “Falling Down”. It will be released on March 9th. Noel recently had this to say about it on the Oasis blog:
By the way, there’s gonna be a very special release coming your way soon. Remember that “Amorphous Androgynous” lot I was telling you about? Well, they’ve done a “Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble” mix of “Falling Down”. It’s 22 mins long. I’ll repeat that, TWENTY-TWO MINUTES LONG!! I fully expect 50% of you not to have the attention span to deal with something like that but the rest of you, I hope, will be blown away. It’s a staggering piece of music. Monumental even. All superlatives will apply.

JANUARY
“You Spin Me Round” Adapted By Flo Rida
Tim Lever & Mike Percy’s classic track “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” has been adapted by Flo Rida on his upcoming single “Right Round”. You can hear the track on his website here.

Jewels & Stone Remix “Mighty Real”
Jewels & Stone have remixed the classic Sylvester track “Mighty Real” for Universal. Currently going to clubs, it will released to radio soon.

DECEMBER 2008
Tom Nichols’ Juicy Musik Signs Dani Harmer To Decca
Tom Nichols has just completed the signing of Dani Harmer to Decca through his production company Juicy Musik. Dani is the star of her own CBBC series “Dani’s House” and also part of the cast in the BBC series “After You’ve Gone”.

Amorphous Androgynous - “A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind” mix album released

“It’s f*****g mind-blowing. That would be my album of the year or any other year. It’s a double CD of the most obscure psychedelic tracks I’ve ever heard in my entire life and I’ve got a lot of psychedelic music.” - Noel Gallagher in Rolling Stone
“Quite simply the best compilation ever” - Time Out
“The strongest argument to turn on/tune in etc since Lennon thought naming a song after a children’s home might be a good laugh” - NME 9/10
“Faultless” - Uncut 4/5 
“Chock-full of more sitar-laden pop than you can shake a joss stick at” - Clash 8/10 
“A cracking double CD of what used to be called head music… it’s a funky upbeat trip” - Q 4/5
“Compilation of the Year by a light year. It’s gonna blow your mind out so bad that you’ll be picking bits of your brains outta the carpet for the rest of your days” - The Electric Roulette
“It’s a trip… a really well put together mix album charting the progression of all things psychedelic, cosmic and tripped out over the last four decades” - DJ 4/5
“How the hell has someone got license to release such a diverse collection of songs on a single release. An incredible selection of music wildly diverse” - Subba-Cultcha 4/5
“A reinterpretation of psychedelic music tracing the dots from its birth in 1967 to the present - a dj trip through over 4 decades of genre busting, sonically diverse music a true sonic trip” - Rough Trade
“The band is fusing classic rock with epic freeform roll… merging the sounds in such a way that the result is always stunning an absolute trip to the psychedelic world” - Purebeats