If you haven’t already come across this great online radio station I’m sure you’ll soon be a convert.
A fine selection of music, full on unexpected treasures.
One of the DJs Adrian, recently interviewed me for a show which has just been posted. Please go and give it a listen, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the whole show.
For one reason or another 2005’s Evermine never got a UK release so I’m very pleased to be able to now offer it for sale on CD AND Vinyl from the website shop.
Whereas Songs Without Words was a collection of old songs recorded by the newly put together Four Good Reasons, Evermine was written intentionally for the band. Alongside the original material there are covers of Tim Hardin’s Misty Roses, an interpretation of a Mauriac poem ‘L’Ombre’, originally recorded by Juliette Greco, and of course a Jacques Brel song translated by myself and Mrs A ‘The Tender Hearts’.
Written in a week (whilst recovering from an op), recorded in a week and self produced, this was a response to the constraints of money and time that we were facing after the first album.
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In response to Nick Griffin’s attempts to champion folk music as the BNP’s music of choice, the folk community have set up the organisation Folk Against Fascism whose website you can get to by clicking on their logo on the right. This July sees the release of the first of several compilations of artists championing the cause. Please get behind this and lend them your support. I have contributed a new song ‘Flagbearers’ for volume 2 out around November time.
I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been invited back to my favourite London venue The Slaughtered Lamb www.electroacousticclub.com. I shall be supporting the much lauded Cory Chisel on Wednesday 30th June.
CORY CHISEL
Cory Chisel recently caused a real stir when he appeared in the capital in October supporting ‘Raconteur’, Brendan Benson, who has also arranged and co-written for the young Wisconsin-born Baptist minister’s son. The New York Times have described him as a “young songwriter whose voice is deep and weathered beyond his years,” Billboard.com praised his “soulful tunes” and compared Cory to a young Steve Winwood and Rhapsody.com said Chisel’s voice was “immediately striking.” Back in the US he has shared stages with The Duke & The King and Rachel Yamagata, amongst others
“Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons burst to my attention earlier this fall with their first album, Death Won’t Send A Letter, a followup to their Cabin Ghosts EP released last year. This album absolutely blew me away with it’s Baptist, folk-rock and country influences, and starts of with their great song Born Again right off the bat. They balance infectous energy and fantastic lyrics to become a group that is well worth watching out for.” – THE HYPYE MACHINE Best New Artists of 2009
www.myspace.com/thewanderingsons
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+ PAUL ARMFIELD
Paul Armfield is the responsible for ‘Blood Fish & Bone’ our favourite album so far of 2010 and an absolute treat for fans of Bon Iver, Scott Walker, Tindersticks, Jim Morrison, Lambchop and Lou Reed (circa ‘Magic & Loss’).
Isle of Wight bookstore manager Paul Armfield has toured with Lambchop, Tindersticks and The Go-Betweens, co-written with Joan Baez’s guitarist Adam Kirk and performe with friends as Four Good Reasons who, along with producer Ian Caple (Tricky, Stina Nordenson, Jan Tiersenn) and arranger Dickon Hinchliffe (Tindersticks). He returns with ‘Blood, Fish & Bone’ a sparse gem of a new album shot through with genuinely intelligent lyrics about life, love and death with all the rough edges left in the mix.
After witnessing their performance at the Glastonbury festival James Delingpole raved in the Sunday Telegraph of his ’star find’. Since the release of the critically acclaimed second album Evermine in 2005 Paul has been busy, still selling books but also lending his upright-bass and saw playing skills to the wonderful Gramophone Party, doing a Vashti Bunyan with erstwhile cult ’70s folksters Shide And Acorn now resurrected as Stickman, and playing the occasional solo show.
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http://www.wegottickets.com/event/81296
7.30pm doors
£6 advance / door
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One of the nicest and most intimate festivals of the season, the Larmer Tree Festival in Wiltshire have asked me to be this year’s Lyrical Laureate. This means that from Thursday 15th until Sunday 18th July I shall be meeting members of the audience and writing songs about them which I shall then perform in the evening accompanied by the wonderful JC Grimshaw. Then on the Sunday evening I shall finish off by performing all the songs written over the weekend. I’ll post the best here on my return!
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I’m really pleased to be able to announce a couple more UK dates. 13th May in Bath and the 19th in Plymouth. Apologies to our friends in the North, if anyone fancies inviting me to perform at their local or even in their home, don’t be shy of contacting me directly.
I’m thrilled that support for the Launch Party at the Slaughtered Lamb on 10th May is from a friend of mine called Tom McKean who’s a great character with great songs and a great voice. Should be a great night but it’s a small venue so get your tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/75831
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Bored of the April 1st jokes, I’ve decided to celebrate foolishness another way, my version of an old Billy Holiday classic ‘I’m A Fool To Want You’.i’m a fool to want you
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As mentioned previously Blood, Fish and Bone finally gets a UK release on the 10th May (although you can buy it now from here or download in the usual places), and I’m very happy to say that I will be launching the album on the 10th at the Slaughtered Lamb in London. Other UK dates should be announced in the next few days including a launch party (well one’s not enough) on the Isle of Wight.
I have been asked very nicely to be one of several performers to contribute to an evening of music and art at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport on April 1st from 6pm onwards. The Baron Gilva is the artist and host and has billed me as Singer With Long Beard, other performers include Frog Morris, Gwyneth Herbert, Foster & Gilvan, Sam Walker from the Adventurists, Joe Bone -BANE II and we will be singing songs related to the paintings in the exhibition. Entrance is free!
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Filmed live at the Quay 2009
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