REPLICA MUSIC VIDEO AND LAUNCH SHOW

We are so excited to unveil our brand new music video for 'Replica' filmed by our awesome and talented filmmaker friend Scott Quinn. We really hope you enjoy and love it as much as we do!





The launch show for the single is on 20th October at The Louisiana, Bristol. We have the enchanting Swampmother and Circe's Diner as our special guests so we couldn't be more thrilled. You can grab your tickets right now from our Bandcamp page, the Bristol Ticket Shop and The Louisiana.

Cannot wait to see you all. xx

Single Launch and Anja's Farewell!

Wow! Last Friday was just amazing! Thank you so much to everyone who came along to the Single Launch - it really means so much to us. We were astounded at the amount of people who came through the door. 

The wonderful Della Lupa opened the night with her beautiful songs, and we would like to thank her so much for coming all the way from Brighton. She’ll be back in Bristol on the 27^th October at the Bristol Fringe and we highly recommend going! 

Next, I Am Horse graced the stage with their unique and captivating sound. They invited us up onto stage to accompany them on vocals on one of their tracks which was such an honour. We had such fun working with them, and we can’t wait to have the chance to do so again. And of course they were as brilliant as ever!

For us, what should have been a 45 minute set turned into an hour as no one could shut Natalie up - we hope no one got too bored of her ramblings! As well as playing our singles and album songs, we decided to play a few new songs which Anja had never heard. It was actually quite strange for her to leave the stage and watch instead of performing.  We also invited I Am Horse to play on a couple of tracks, and as you can see, things got quite crowded. They played such amazing parts on our tracks and we are so grateful that they agreed to work with us. Performing with such talented musicians made us feel like we were famous or something!

Anja's departure was very emotional for us, and we know we're all going to miss each other so much! It's one thing losing a band member, but losing a best friend is heartbreaking. We wish her so much luck and happiness in her life and we know she'll do well in whatever she puts her mind to. We're certain we'll keep in touch whatever happens.

On a different note, we would also like to take the time to thank everyone who bought merch from any of the bands and had a chat to us. You make us feel really special! Thank you!

See you soon, Bristol! 

(If you missed it, you can watch our set below videoed by a member of the audience! Many thanks to Yourmusic Productions for this.)

04-09-15 at the Louisiana The Honeyfire by YourmusicProductions

'Come Undone' Video

We're really pleased to be able to show you the video for 'Come Undone', filmed whilst recording in Toybox Studios.

It is the first track from our double 'A' side single, titled 'Come Undone/What Is Left', which is due for release on 4th September.

The single is now available for pre-order both in download form and as limited edition handmade copies. E-tickets for the launch night at The Louisiana, Bristol are also available from our bandcamp page.

Anja Leaving and Single Launch

You may be wondering from Wednesday's announcement - 'How are The Honeyfire going to continue?' But we assure you, your doubts will be resolved.

When Anja joined we had no idea how much she would bring to the band, both creatively and as a supportive force. We have grown very close during our time together, so much so that it breaks our hearts to see her leave. But we realise that it has been a very difficult decision for her and know that we will always be friends whatever happens and wherever we find ourselves in the future.

Initially when we started writing together Anja seemed so mature in her abilities so we felt like we needed to up our game and try to match her. In this regard we feel as though her presence in the group changed the way we thought and wrote. And we will continue to evolve when she's gone, ever changing and practicing our art so that we can improve with every song we write. We already have so much we're dying to show you all.

On that note, our new double 'A' side single is a step in a new direction for us, and we can't wait to show you what we've created. There will (of course) be two tracks plus a video. It will be released digitally, but there will also be a limited number of physical handmade copies. If you sign up to our mailing list then you will be the first to hear about it!

Tickets for the launch show on 4th September at the Louisiana, in Bristol are now available to purchase. We are very excited to be able to announce that our special guests that night will be Bristol's I Am Horse and Della Lupa from Brighton.

We're also currently putting together a small UK tour in the autumn, which will be a first for us, but also pretty much the first time we'll be playing as a two-piece The Honeyfire.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter! And if you have any questions or queries please don't be afraid to drop us a line. We really do love chatting to you all!

We appreciate all your support over the years.


Sally and Natalie xx

The Honeyfire’s Highlights of 2014

Wow, is it really 2015 already? What can we say? We’ve seriously had an amazing year and it couldn’t have happened without everyone that was there to support us along the way. One of the most momentous things to happen was our transformation from Wolfhound into The Honeyfire.

It sure has been a big year for us, and here are the highlights of our 2014.

We entered the year with a lovely gig at The Louisiana supporting I Am Horse on the 3^rd of January. This was the day we realised we wanted The Louisiana to be the venue where we would perform our upcoming album launch. The atmosphere and sound were exactly what we were looking for, and it was a great gig to kick-start our excitement for the upcoming year.

We released our first single in 2014. ‘Starlight’ was a song we wrote about the winter and the first song we recorded in a studio (Factory Studios). Along with Scott Quinn and our manager Craig Joiner we filmed the music video and released the song on the 8^th January. Judging by how different we look, it seems like more than one year ago!

We then locked ourselves away for a couple of months to prepare for the recording of our album! Before we knew it April was upon us and those two weeks in the recording studio still stand as one of the best experiences we’ve had.

The album was recorded at J&J Studios with Jim Barr, and Nathan Long as Jim’s assistant. Recording with Jim was a fantastic experience and we are so thankful for his time and effort spent on our album.

And so, through coffee fuelled laughing fits, delicious food, too many silly photos and of course a lot of hard work, we came out with the recording of our first album.

We were soon brought to our first festival of the year, The Acoustic Festival of Britain. This one gets a special mention because it was so different to any other one we played. Mostly this was because of the fact we stayed for the whole weekend, and those freezing nights on the hard ground won’t be easily forgotten! On a more positive note – what a wonderful vibe this festival had! We all had a fantastic time looking at all the various stalls, experimenting with new looks and enjoying the beautiful and brilliant music there was to offer. A truly great start to the festival season.

One of our favourite gigs of the year was yet again at The Louisiana supporting She Makes War along with DIONVOX. She Makes War has become one of our big inspirations and it was an honour to be given the opportunity to play with her. We had great fun both playing and watching, and the gig ended in a great way when we were invited up on stage with She Makes War for some musical collaboration. 

Having now recorded our album, we had to start thinking about all the visual and physical aspects of it. We spent some time brainstorming and experimenting, and after a couple of photo-shoots the new look of Wolfhound was born!

A lot of people ask us about the name change and why it happened, so here’s the story. It was at this point in our progress that we felt the change was necessary. Compared to only the beginning of the year we had changed massively, both as people and musicians. And to think of the original Wolfhound, Sally and Natalie in their younger teenage years writing more acoustic songs as sisters, seemed so different that we started to feel like the band we had progressed into should have a name of its own. We learned a useful piece of knowledge during this time – trying to think of a new original band name, which meanwhile won’t disappoint your followers and supporters, is VERY difficult! Oh how we racked our brains and thought of name after name that had already been used somewhere before. We still remember the Eureka moment; we were in Devon filming a video and we were sitting around the dining table after midnight, tired and hungry after a long shoot. In front of us were written a long list of words we all liked that would hopefully motivate inspiration by putting them randomly together. ‘Honeyfire’ was mentioned and we all realised how perfect it was. It suited our music and style perfectly, ‘Honey’ representing the times we laugh together, our love for pretty things, our friendship etc. and ‘fire’ representing the darker shade of music we write and the way we don’t think of ourselves as your typical ‘girl-band’. So there you have it, an in-depth explanation of how we became ‘The Honeyfire’!

During the time we were creating our new image, name and website, we released our second single of the year, ‘Road Signs’. It was the first song we were releasing from the album which was actually kind of scary, since we didn’t know what to expect as a reaction to the new sound that had developed since our last EP ‘Tales of Truth and Lies’. We spent a few weeks with a camera in the car, filming through and out of the window whenever we found ourselves driving in Bristol. We took a trip across Clifton suspension bridge especially for the video, which was really beautiful. Thankfully we had a great response, and thus we started planning video number two – Dreams.

The Dreams video was a long work in progress. We can’t complain though, because we are so pleased with the end result. It took a large amount of planning and preparation; we spent several weeks creating and perfecting story boards, making handmade costumes and planning the locations where we would film. After we had collected up all our weird and wonderful footage, it was cut down and edited into exactly the kind of visual match to the song we had imagined. For those of you who didn’t know, ‘Dreams’ is about the strange and disturbing dreams we have, and that is what we wanted to video to represent.

We started an interesting project this year, a collaboration with songwriter Richard Williams writing a song about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Richard has also co-written a song with musician Zoë Wren about the same theme for the project. We recorded our song 'Falling for Orpheus' in Toybox Studios, and it was really nice to be recording in a studio again, especially one as lovely as Toybox. Falling for Orpheus will be released 17th April 2015. Details to follow soon.

While creating the video and recording Falling for Orpheus, we started coming closer and closer to the last stages of finishing the album. Having designed the album cover, layout, CD and booklet we were ready to send the designs off to be made. Along with the albums we also had our own badges made, which was another first!

And so we get to the end of 2014. The albums arrived safe and sound, and we will never forget how it felt to hold them for the first time. The video for Dreams was released, and we want to say thank you again for all the wonderful and supportive comments we received about it.

This left us to get extremely excited and nervous for the last significant event of the year, our album launch on the 11^th of December at The Louisiana. All the hard work we spent working towards it, the large amount of planning and rehearsing really paid off in the end. 

It was one of the best nights of all of our lives and we still can’t quite believe that it’s over. It marked the end of a brilliant and eventful year beautifully, and we are so extremely thankful to our families, our managers Craig and Steve, Jelli Records, and everyone who has helped and supported us along the way. You are all so lovely and we wish you a wonderful 2015.

Sally, Natalie and Anja xx

The Honeyfire Album Launch

It’s safe to say that last night was one of the best nights of our lives. The night of our album launch had finally arrived after a year’s worth of hard work, ups, downs and many laughs along the way.

We can’t quite believe that it’s over! Thank you so much to everyone who came along to support us – we would be nowhere without you. We all hope you had a great time, and also hope you didn't suffer too much from the awful weather and traffic you had to battle through to come and see us! At least it was warm and cosy inside.

For those of you who couldn't come along, here’s a summary of the night.

Having sound checked and decorated the stage with fairy lights and paper snowflakes, we were ready to go!

We enjoyed standing on the door when they were first opened; it was a great chance to meet some of the people who were coming to support us.

The fantastic Dear Light opened up the night, and his set couldn't be described as anything else but truly stunning. Creating a beautifully dreamy sound that pulls you right in, we really were loving every moment.

For his last two songs, we were welcomed up on stage to perform alongside him as his backing band. We've had a few rehearsals together for our collaboration, which has been a great way for us to get to know each other more and it was really lovely playing together on the stage.

 After Dear Light's set was over it was time for us to play our set, and we started to fill with excitement and nerves. As soon as we started playing, the nerves went away and all we were left with was a strong feeling of exhilaration and adrenaline.

Phil (Dear Light) joined us on stage for our first song ‘Road Signs’ adding keys.

We went on to play all the songs from the album, as well as two new songs. One was called ‘Prisoner’ which featured Natalie playing electric guitar, and the other ‘Falling for Orpheus’. It was nerve-wracking, but also really enjoyable to show everyone what else we had been working on.

For our last four songs, Phil joined us back on stage for more collaboration. It was so much fun to play with a fellow musical friend and the extra texture added a lot to our sound.

For our song ‘Blind Eye’, Anja got up to the front of the stage for the first time, since she was singing lead and playing bass. It was nice to have all three of us at the front together, and with Phil adding drums it made the song a real pleasure to play.

At the end of our last song, ‘Noah’, we invited members of the audience up on the stage with us to play along with percussion instruments we had brought with us. It was the first time we’d done anything like it and we have to say we loved it! Everyone was having a dance and clapping along, and it was a wonderful way to end the night.

After our set we went back onto the door to wish farewell to those who had come. We really enjoyed all the conversations we had and it was lovely to meet everyone!

Thank you again to everyone who has supported us along the way; the night wouldn't have been anywhere near as special as it was without you.

Here's to next time!

Anja, Natalie and Sally xx

The Honeyfire Album Launch 11/12/14

As you may know, we are launching our debut album 'The Honeyfire' on the 11th December at The Louisiana in Bristol. To those of you who have heard us talking about it enough, we apologise, but we're just so excited it's coming up so soon!!

Having been working on this album for over a year now, we've had some time to plan a few special things to happen on the launch. We're determined to make this our best show so far, and to really celebrate the 'birth' of The Honeyfire.

We are so pleased to have the brilliant, talented and kind Dear Light support us for the evening. He creates a lovely, intimate sound and is definitely not one to miss. These last few weeks we have been working with Dear Light, planning some collaboration for the launch. We will be playing as his band on a few of his songs, and he will be adding piano, bass and drums on a few of ours. Our last rehearsal was great fun and the added instruments to our songs really helped re-create the full album sound. Not to mention we loved playing his songs - there's just something special about playing music with friends.

Another new and exciting thing we'll be doing is a projection show. We've been putting together embarrassing clips of us just being us, clips from our music videos and footage of us playing. So make sure you get your ticket if you want to catch us doing any embarrassing dancing that should never have been caught on camera!

As well as collaborating with Dear Light, we might be inviting other friends and some of you onto the stage to make the night extra special.

We won't give away any more for now, but it would mean the world to us to see as many of you there as possible. We truly can't wait to show you what we've been working so hard for.

We've just noticed we're one of the Bristol Ticket Shop's recommended shows too!

Tickets are £4 and can be pre-ordered from our Bandcamp page or Bristol Ticket Shop.

Sally, Anja and Natalie xx

Album Launch One Month Away!!

It is officially just ONE MONTH until The Honeyfire Album Launch!

We’re not quite sure where the time has gone either, but we’re practically jumping out of our seats at the thought. This album has been our main focus for over a year now, and we've put so much work into it. We can’t wait to both show the world our hard work, and have a great time by playing our music and seeing the fantastic Dear Light perform. We’re even going to be doing some never-seen-before collaboration! There might be some extra performers involved too…

If you would like to support us and come along to our most important event to date, please do buy a ticket and leave the rest to us! We've been planning how to make this event one of a kind, and as they say – the more the merrier!

A few details – Date: Thursday 11^th December 2014

Venue: The Louisiana, Bristol

Tickets: £4

Hope to see you there. Thank you again for everyone’s support so far xx

Album Launch Update

December the 11th may seem a long time away, but it’s getting closer and we’re getting more excited and prepared each day.

We are now ready to announce that the very talented ‘Dear Light’ will be starting off the night at The Louisiana in Bristol as our support act. We’re very excited about this, and have even organised some collaboration to happen during each of our sets. This will result in a performance that will only happen once, so to make sure you don’t miss out on the fun buy an e-ticket now.



We very much recommend listening to Dear Light’s wonderful material and are sure you’ll love it as much as we do.

In the meantime, we’re going to keep working hard on piecing the album together to create our biggest achievement to date. Hope to see you at the launch night!

Back to J&J, and Visiting the Underworld

We are back from an extra day of recording at J&J studios, though we wish it was longer – we’re not quite ready to say goodbye to that lovely studio yet.

We had an amazing day adding the missing pieces to our album and we could not be happier with the results. All of us are so excited to share the finished product with you all; our new material is unlike anything we have previously released.

It’s been fun for us to giggle at each other and our ‘misheard lyrics’: “The warthog has risen above the kite that holds this world to leather(?!)”, which has helped to release stress from some hard-working sessions.


Speaking of what we've been up to this week, we are almost ready to go into Toybox Studio next week to record our song about Eurydice and the Underworld. It has been (and will continue to be) a very interesting project, which has been different to any other projects we have worked on in the past. The founder of the project, Richard Williams, wrote the original chords, which he then gave us to complete the song.

We have enjoyed writing lyrics and melodies to fit such a fascinating myth, and creating a song from another musician’s original music has turned out to be a large responsibility, which we are honoured to have been trusted with.


The rest of this week we will be finalising the song, and we will update you all after the recording.

Quick reminder about our acoustic set in the basement of The Louisiana this Friday for THE FLUX. Tickets will be £5 on the door. Doors 7.30pm, music from 8.30pm. More details here.

Post-Summer Excitement

It looks like the summer is over, but things are not all bad! We are back from our holidays, fully motivated and re-charged.

We’re getting busy preparing for some exciting things to come these next few months. Regular blog posts are included – so keep your eyes peeled! 

We are adding the finishing touches to our debut album ‘The Honeyfire’, which is to be released on the 11th December. A launch event is being held at The Louisiana in Bristol on that night. We are struggling to contain our excitement! Tickets and pre-orders of the album are available on our Bandcamp page.

In other news, we’re currently working on a musical project involving Greek mythology. We’re having fun writing and getting ready to record next month. More details to come soon!

Don't forget our next show is an acoustic set in the basement of The Louisiana performing with Ellie Makes Music and Demi Louise Music on Friday 12th September. Entry is £5 on the door. More details here.

THE FLUX On The Radio

In our previous post we mentioned our next show is on the 12th September playing at THE FLUX Presents Acoustic Showcase at The Louisiana, Bristol. 

Well the good people at THE FLUX webzine who are putting on this show are going to be on the Jelli Records Bristol Music show on BCfm on Monday 18th August to talk about their webzine, their re-banding and the show on the 12th September at The Louisiana, Bristol.

The show starts at 8pm and you can listen in live on BCfm's website or using the listen again feature afterwards.

Plus anyone who comes to The Louisiana show also gets FREE entry to Bristol Live Magazine September Issue Party over at Start The Bus after our show featuring music from Liberto Wolf and BLM Djs till late - just show your stamps at the door once you arrive at Start The Bus. So two great shows for the price of one!

Album Update, Balloon Fiesta & Our Next Show

Firstly, we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered the album and
bought an e-ticket to our launch on 11th December. We have been a bit overwhelmed to be honest. Your support and generosity really means a lot to us!

Don't forget you can still pre-order our album and buy an e-ticket for the launch show at our Bandcamp page.

We also really appreciate all the lovely comments we've received about our name change. It's really great that you like 'The Honeyfire' as much as we do.

The Honeyfire and Bashema at the Balloon Fiesta

On Saturday we played at the wonderful Bristol International Balloon Fiesta which was Anja's first time at the Fiesta. It was also our last festival this year. It was nice seeing some of you there, although you
were rather shy so next time please do come over and have a chat. Thank you to Bashema from Meet Your Feet who joined us on piano for a few songs and for Jelli Records for running the stage. After playing we stayed and enjoyed sets from Darren Hodge, Brockley Forest and Meet Your Feet.


We're now all on holiday which is nice but a bit sad to be apart. We'll be back in two weeks fully recharged and ready to work on an exciting new collaboration project involving Greek mythology the underworld and a trip to a London recording studio! We'll post more on that soon.

Really excited for our next show which has just been announced in basement of The Louisiana in Bristol for THE FLUX Presents playing alongside Ellie Makes Music and Demi Louise Music on Friday 12th September. This will be a stripped back acoustic (ish!) set from us which will be fun. Checkout the Facebook event for more information. Entry is £5 on the door. Doors open 7.30pm.

Louisiana, Bristol 3rd January

Wolfhound

We're back from our Christmas break! Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year!

Scarlett Shocks

We began 2014 with a great gig on the 3rd at the Louisiana, in Bristol. We were given the opportunity by the venue to organise the whole night there. So we decided to put on an all female night with 3 of our favourite local acts and asked I Am Horse, Maxi Rai, and Scarlett Shocks to play with us. They all said yes!

Maxi Rai

The night began with a beautiful acoustic set from Scarlett. A stand out song from her was a one with a slightly different take on Red Riding Hood, but more on that later. She was then followed by Maxi who entertained everyone with her songs about friends, family and an ancestor (a young 18th Century female convict) who was spared a death sentence and deported to Australia.

It was then our turn to take to the stage. It was a lot of fun to play with such an appreciative crowd. It was especially nice to see the legend himself, Big Jeff, enjoying himself at the front. There were a few laughs, especially after one of Anja's cymbals fell over mid-song (she still kept playing it, amazingly!)

I Am Horse

Last to take the stage were the brilliant I Am Horse, who made their wonderfully unusual sound combining classical instruments such as the flute and violin, etc. with keyboards and synths. It was rather funny when they introduced a song as the second one of the night about Red Riding Hood, although with a slightly less positive ending!

It was a real pleasure to play alongside such lovely and talented musicians.


In other news, we have just released our first music of this year – Our single 'Starlight'. It is available to download from iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp.

Our next gig in Bristol is on Friday 24th January at Cafe Kino in Stokes Croft, Bristol. Also playing is folk artist Evie Woods. Entry £4. Doors 8pm.

Sally x