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
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.
Once again the very lovely and delightful Ten Minute Cloud have asked me to support them at their forthcoming London Show at the Cockpit Theatre in Gateforth Street, London. I should be onstage around 7.00-7.30ish and will be rushing off home straight after as the next day might be quite busy at work.
