http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/ The forum for all your interesting music needs - imp are independent promoters bringing quality underground and eclectic music to venues in and around Aberdeen. en-GB Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:54:50 GMT vBulletin 20 http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/images/webspeak/misc/rss.jpg http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/ http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/interesting-music-promotions/58802-findlay-napier-davy-cattanach-w-steve-crawford-gaorsach-rapper-step-%40-tunnels-new-post.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:05:41 GMT *interesting music promotions present FINDLAY NAPIER AND THE BAR ROOM MOUNTAINEERS + DAVY CATTANACH WITH STEVE CRAWFORD + GAORSACH RAPPER AND... interesting music promotions present

FINDLAY NAPIER AND THE BAR ROOM MOUNTAINEERS + DAVY CATTANACH WITH STEVE CRAWFORD + GAORSACH RAPPER AND STEP


Tuesday 1st December
The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121
Doors 8pm
Entry £6 on door

http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
http://www.thetunnels.co.uk




FINDLAY NAPIER AND THE BAR ROOM MOUNTAINEERS

A quick return to Aberdeen for Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers. Bringing together a fantastic writing team, a charismatic singer, stellar musicianship and ear-candy melodies, the result is a dynamic, colourful and vibrant collection of modern songs of everyday people and urban lives full of character, personality and effortless charm.

http://www.myspace.com/findlaynapier


DAVY CATTANACH WITH STEVE CRAWFORD

Local legend makes a welcome return. Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Drummer & Producer Davy Cattanach has been a local legend of the Aberdeen music scene for over 30 years.

Starting out in the late 1970's drumming with The Squibs through 1980’s with The 30 Footers and Mojo Pep and the Old Blind Dogs in the 90’s Davy continues in the noughties with The Pictones as well as writing and performing his own eclectic selection of song-writing material drawn from musical experiences at home and abroad. Davy has also written music for theatre productions and Played drums and percussion on many albums, including: Bachue, Annie Grace, Sharon Hassan, Jonny Hardie, Gavin Marwick & Findlay Napier.

http://www.myspace.com/thepictones


GAORSACH RAPPER AND STEP

The Northumbrian rapper sword dance is traditional to Northumberland and County Durham in England. The dance was originally performed by miners in the pit villages of Tyneside and has gradually spread with revival groups worldwide. It is performed at speed by a team of five people continuously linked by flexible swords called rappers, which are weaved in and out of figures for display. It is a fairly recent tradition which has evolved over less than two hundred years from a much older hilt-and-point sword dance tradition found all over Europe.

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Have a listen to our website or our myspace.

Thanks for your time,

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FRUIT BATS + PUZZLE MUTESON + STEVEN MILNE

Tuesday 15th December 2009?The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121?
Doors 8pm
Tickets £8+bf in adv / £10 on door
Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
http://www.thetunnels.co.uk




FRUIT BATS started in the mid 1990s as the four-track project of Eric D. Johnson. The name ‘Fruit Bats’ was actually one of many cryptic monikers scrawled on the cassettes. Somehow that one stuck. For a number of years there were many warbling, feedback laden tapes, but no shows and no band.

In early 2000, Johnson joined the cast of characters that made up Califone and the whole Perishable Records family. It was this kinship with a bunch of like minded folks that coaxed the Fruit Bats from out of the bedroom and turned the shy lo-fi project into a real band.

Tours and friendships with Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine and The Shins led Fruit Bats to sign with Sub Pop records in 2002. The first release on that label was Mouthfuls. The record went on to be a modest success, selling well and ending up on many of 2003’s best-of lists. In 2005 Spelled in Bones was released before Johnson continued his career as a sideman, most notably with Vetiver and The Shins. Fruit Bats reassembled in late 2008. The new album, The Ruminant Band, was recorded with Graeme Gibson at Clava in Chicago.

The two best obscure genres the Fruit Bats have been linked to by the press are “bootgazer” and “rustic pop.”

Fruit Bats are Eric D. Johnson, Christopher Sherman, Ron Lewis, Graeme Gibson and Sam Wagster.

Eric and Ron are both also full-time members of The Shins.

“It’s the sound of a band coming into its own: psychedelia-tinged stomps rubbing shoulders with profoundly romantic tales spun of the warmest yarn. All set against an evocative backdrop of Michigan skylines, woozy piano and twinkling slide guitar, this is one made like they used to make ‘em – and it’s utterly gorgeous to boot.” (Drowned in Sound)

http://www.fruitbatsmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/thefruitbats
http://www.subpop.com


PUZZLE MUTESON is from the Isle of Wight and plays acoustic folk that is “fragile, dreamlike and ethereal.” File under Yo La Tengo, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Sparklehorse and Jose Gonzalez.

http://www.myspace.com/puzzlemuteson


STEVEN MILNE is a singer / songwriter / busy man from Aberdeen. He also fronts local popsters The Little Kicks. He’ll be doing some solo acoustic numbers at this show. I’m amazed he has the time. He’s a busy man y’know.

http://www.myspace.com/stevenmilnemusic
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BO NINGEN + AMBER PILOT + SARAH J TINGLE

Wednesday 25th November 2009
The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121
Doors 8pm
Entry £6 on door

http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
http://www.thetunnels.co.uk




BO NINGEN (Stolen Recordings) (East Electric Psychedelic)

Bo Ningen's live shows are impossible to catergorise as their influences range from Amon Duul into Melt Banana via Stooges, Sabbath, Minutemen. Expect some rather lively onstage antics from this young band who are earning lots of plaudits for their live shows and starting to come to prominance outwith their London base. Certainly a band who will interest to those who came to our Boredoms show.

"...one of the storming triumphs of the festival - Japanese noise-rockers Bo Ningen. With curtains of hair swinging, they bit their guitars, climbed the tent mast and produced a sound somewhere between wolves and Nintendos.”

http://www.myspace.com/boningen


AMBER PILOT

Amber Pilot is a guitarist who creates whole soundscapes on just an electric guitar, backed up with some floor gizmos. Backed up with vocals from several talented local vocalists, highly original and hypnotic Amber Pilot is a sound of the future...

http://www.myspace.com/amberpilot


SARAH J TINGLE

Leaving her acoustic set behind, Sarah will be lining up some new tunes to add to her uptempo electronic set. Those that have seen and heard her electronic stuff know she is a worthy addition to this execellent line-up.

http://www.sarahjtingle.com
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FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS + THE BALKY MULE + ROZI PLAIN + JACKALOPE

Wednesday 18th November 2009
The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121
Doors 8pm
Entry £6 on door

http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
http://www.thetunnels.co.uk




FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS

Meet François Marry - a multi-talented songwriter, musician, animator and artist, hailing from Saintes, a small town on the west coast of France. François is the latest signing to Fence Records - a DIY micro-indie label run by King Creosote and The Pictish Trail from the sleepy ?shing village of Anstruther, in Fife.

At the age of 19, François travelled over to the UK, and quickly became involved in the Bristol scene, joining the line-ups of Movietone (Domino) and Crescent (FatCat). After a few months he started playing a number of his own shows, garnering notable support slots (including Juana Molina, Gravenhurst, Patrick Wolf, Panda Bear, Electrelane) and assembling an ever-changing band of players called ?The Atlas Mountains? - whose cast has included Rachael Dadd (Angel?s Egg), and fellow Fence Records artist Rozi Plain. Through Rozi, François was introduced to Fence Records, and has since performed at a number of Fence Collective events - including the label?s Homegame festival, in April.

Over the past few years, François has recorded a couple of albums and EPs, released through Too Pure and Bristol?s Stitch Stitch, and has performed around the globe with his own band, as well as being a touring member of Scottish indie-pop starlets Camera Obscura (4AD), on trumpet and percussion.

For his third full length album, François returned to the comforts of his hometown, and recruited members of local friends Unkle Jelly Fish and Bost Gehio (an all-female polyphonic vocal group from the Basques country) to be his ?Atlas Mountains?. Plaine Inondable, (which translates as 'Flood Plains') refers to the town?s winter landscape - where the Charente river often bursts its bank, completely covering the surrounding ?elds. François? previous releases often featured casio-beats, and lo-? electronics - but Plaine Inondable marks a departure from that style. Here, piano chords swell, electric guitars gently shimmer, and François? soft croon ?oats throughout - his bilingual songs melding the bittersweet yearning of Leonard Cohen with the melodic playfulness of Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy.

The album also takes inspiration from recent compilations of African music recorded in the 1970?s (Ethiopiques, Mali 70) released by various European labels. The atmospheric rhythms and percussive elements, as well as some guitar parts and scales, absorb this in?uence: “'Be Water' is built on a Ethiopian scale called Tezeta, the guitar on 'Remind' is inspired by the style of Ali Farka Toure and Group Doueh”. The result is a con?dent and unique blend of styles, that dreamily infuse with one another; a semi-conscious state, which is further re?ected in the ?uctuation between French and English lyrics.

http://www.kidfrancois.com
http://www.myspace.com/francoisinbristol
http://www.fencerecords.com


THE BALKY MULE

Currently resident in Melbourne, Australia, The Balky Mule is the alias of Sam Jones, a highly talented, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, who over the past decade or more has been a key member of the vibrant Bristol post-rock scene, playing in numerous bands, both live or on records, including Movietone and Crescent (alongside his bandleader brother, Matt), Flying Saucer Attack, Minotaur Shock, and Third Eye Foundation. During this time The Balky Mules’ home-recorded releases have been confined to a handful of compilation tracks, remixes and tapes swapped among friends.

http://www.myspace.com/thebalkymule
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk


ROZI PLAIN

Rozi Plain thinks that guitar tuner pedals are for losers. She works on a ferry in Bristol, she's pretty good at doing impressions of people's voices, and she produces incredibly lo-fi folk-dirges that stick in your head for days. Her debut album ‘Inside Over Here’ was released by FENCE last year and we can’t wait to welcome her back for her 4th IMP gig.

http://www.myspace.com/roziplain


JACKALOPE

Newly born, red eyed. Howling estate flashbacks from hedgerow emancipation. Muttered verse amid throats all doubling back on themselves in crackling striation. Cheapskate keys stagger, kid’s toys hide in radio static, constant rebirth in this tense era.

It sounds a bit like Cabaret Voltaire and Es trying to abduct DNTEL into a thrift store orchestra while Kraftwerk shout abuse from the side. Although Pete has hurt his hand, so it might not.

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