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The Sleeping Years is the new project for ex-Catchers singer Dale Grundle.
The Sleeping Years released a trilogy of EPs in handmade covers in 2007, ‘You and Me Against The World’,, ‘Setting fire to sleepy towns’ and ‘Clocks and clones’. The debut album ‘We’re becoming islands one by one’ was released on Talitres Records in Europe and Rocketgirl in the UK and Ireland in 2008.

Dale was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland and started his first band Catchers while at school and signed to Setanta Records. Dale went on to tour with Pulp, Edwyn Collins, The Divine Comedy, Dr. John and Oasis. Catchers recorded their second album ‘Stooping to Fit’ with Nick Drake’s arranger Robert Kirby writing string and brass section parts for some of the songs.

The release of ‘We’re becoming Islands One by One’ took The Sleeping Years across France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the UK, with dates in Vienna and Ireland. This included shows supporting Bowerbirds, Damien Jurado, Gregor Samsa, Edwyn Collins and Okkervil River. Dale also collaborated on projects with the band Rothko and with songwriter Ted Barnes (Beth Orton, Clayhill). ‘This old world grown quiet’ by Dale and Ted was performed recently with an orchestra at London’s Union Chapel.

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sleepingyears wrote:
last month

Pre-order your copy of 'Into sunlight' limited edition vinyl with free download now from http://sleepingyears.com/shop . You can listen to 'Katherine cove' from the single streaming on our myspace page.

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iriebob wrote:
August 2009

i'm addicted, and i enjoy it so much

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duarduo wrote:
May 2009

TSY is the next big thing. ♥

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vacuouspop wrote:
April 2009

The Sleeping Years play with Papercuts, Tristan & The Troubadours and Motion in Colour @ The Cellar, Oxford 15th April... Tomorrow.... http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71660265725 / http://www.last.fm/event/984659

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humanblues wrote:
March 2009

You can now download the Elite Barbarian remix of 'Human blues' by The Sleeping Years for free at http://www.sleepingyears.com Elite Barbarian is the solo work of Ben Page, member of Rothko and Rocketnumbernine. His debut album 'It's only when you get to the end that it all makes sense' was released last year on the Front and Follow label.

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JPMoura wrote:
March 2009

this is Real Music

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exprof wrote:
January 2009

The Sleeping Years in Silly (Belgium) http://concerts-review.over-blog.com/article-26894802.html

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KatFlint wrote:
January 2009

Hi Dale! Happy new year :)

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theyshootmusic wrote:
December 2008

http://theyshootmusic.at/posts/The_Sleeping_Years - Acoustic offstage videos with THE SLEEPING YEARS performing "You And Me Against The World" in a hotel lobby and "Setting Fire To Sleepy Towns" in a café in snowy Vienna

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sleepingyears wrote:
December 2008

Breakthru Radio Sleeping Years special now online Jezz Harkin from Breakthru Radio interviewed Dale from New York yesterday on his show 'Get into the van'. The show is now streaming on the BTR website. Jezz also plays a lot of songs from 'We're becoming islands one by one'. You can listen by going here: http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=5526

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indy133 wrote:
November 2008

wonderful band

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Insuladulcamara wrote:
October 2008

Hi guy, I'm very glad we'll play together soon! see you soon Luca

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exprof wrote:
October 2008

The Sleeping Years in Brussels http://concerts-review.over-blog.com/article-23472502.html

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cassisaari wrote:
August 2008

http://tangledcord.blogspot.com/2008/08/dandy-mix.html

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elsimondark wrote:
August 2008

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sleepingyears wrote:
June 2008

The next TSY event will be a session due to be recorded in Belfast for Rory McConnell's show on BBC Radio 1 tomorrow (12th June). Our next show will be the Analog Festival in Dublin on the 18th July: http://www.analogconcerts.ie/ We return to London to play again as a four piece on the 22nd July, appearing with The Monroe Transfer at The Macbeth. Then it is back to France. We play our first ever French show as a four piece on the 26th July in Paris at Le Divan du Monde. The next night we travel to Sedieres to play at Festival de Sedieres with Woven Hand and Natacha Atlas. New reviews of 'We're becoming islands one by one' have been added to our main site at http://www.sleepingyears.com . Go to our Press section and then 'All reviews' for a new interview with Dale by +1 magazine.

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A-LIX wrote:
June 2008

Your Music is amazing and we wish you an ocean of joy for the official release. Cheers from Glasgow.

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disco_dancer wrote:
May 2008

" We're becoming islands one by one " is a soft, beautiful record, in other words: great! "Broken Homes" is my favourite track at the moment!

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sleepingyears wrote:
March 2008

The debut album by The Sleeping Years, 'We're becoming islands one by one', has just gone on sale on Talitres Records website. Talitres' online store is available in French: http://www.talitres.com/cataloguef.htm & English: http://www.talitres.com/cataloguee.htm

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banjar_masin wrote:
March 2008

hey dale, thank you for wearing boNhoM clothing. www.myspace.com/bnhm cheers! :-)

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