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interesting music promotions present:

ALELA DIANE + SIMONE WHITE + THE KITCHEN CYNICS

Wednesday 8th August
The Tunnels Room 2, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. (01224) 211121
Doors 8pm ¦ Entry £5
www.thetunnels.co.uk
www.myspace.com/interestingmusic


ALELA DIANE

Portland, Oregon singer songwriter Alela Diane hails from the deep woods and winding rivers of Northern California Gold Rush town Nevada City. Alela grew up singing songs with her parents (both musicians) and performing in the school choir and, during a stay in San Francisco in 2003, she began teaching herself guitar and writing her first songs, blending tense, trance-like arpeggios, with warm, thick vocals and meditative lyrics about family and nature. Her debut album ‘The Pirate’s Gospel’ is a powerful document of personal re-evaluation and renewal set against the backdrop of generations past and future, mothers and fathers, life, death, and birth.

“Alela Diane's dread-filled song ‘The Rifle’ finds a powerful metaphor for feminine sexuality in a story of home invasion, effectively rewriting Neil Young's ‘Powderfinger’ from the daughter's perspective. Over a precisely plucked guitar that sounds both solemn and skittish, her grave intonations and the ominous backing vocals imply violence occurring just beyond her words." [Pitchfork]

“Accompanied mostly by her acoustic guitar, Alela Diane sings stark, ghostly folk. She’s already flaunting a large, lived-in growl flavoured by antediluvian blues and jazz inflections." [Spin]

www.myspace.com/alelamusic
www.aleladiane.com
www.myspace.com/namesrecords


SIMONE WHITE

Born in Hawaii, grew up in California, played guitar in Seattle, photographed bands in London, learned to fingerpick in New York, followed her heart back out west. Straight outta Venice, LA…Simone White delicately lays her beautiful voice over rich layers of swirling rhythm and crafty guitar patterns.

Her debut album ‘I am the man’ (Honest Jon’s / EMI) is quietly drawing comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Isobel Campbell and Cat Power - deep with emotion, rich with integrity and bubbles with bittersweet excitement that will soothe the soul and relax the nerves.

"For those bewitched by the posthumous small-hours voice of Karen Dalton, here is a living echo of that still, small, intensely concentrated spirit - an intimate prettiness concealing within the rosebud the thorns of subtly articulated political protest and the warped, eerie gaze on human weakness that has been The Velvet Underground's legacy to the modern folk idiom." [Mojo]

www.myspace.com/simonewhite
www.simonewhite.com
www.honestjons.com


THE KITCHEN CYNICS

Local 'outsider folk' songwriter, the Kitchen Cynics fades gracelessly towards old age, but looks back happily on the few high points of his belated career...being played on the John Peel show, doing three radio sessions for New York's WFMU, and playing live with Tom Rapp of Pearl's Before Swine. See him soon, before his batteries go totally flat.

www.myspace.com/kitchencynics
http://www.singersong.homestead.com/...henCynics.html

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here's what The Guardian said recenty about Alela...

Alela Diane has made your album of the year, you just haven't heard it yet. But you will! Born to musician (trans: hippy) parents in a rural idyll in northern California, she sang in the school choir, taught herself guitar and writes songs about family and nature and sweet lavender. Inhabiting a bucolic corner of Joanna Newsom's new folk paradise, Diane has this yearn in her voice that reaches back through Tim Buckley's sensual world to the ruined soul of Hank Williams. And she plays banjo. Is there a sexier image in the world than a young woman playing a banjo? No. The end.

[Alan Cynic]

I think an old man playing a wee guitar is a sexy image, too

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Originally Posted by Alan Cynic

I think an old man playing a wee guitar is a sexy image, too

True dat.

I think the two lovely young ladies playing this gig won't know what's hit them...

Would it aid promotion of the event if I posted hot pictures of all artists?

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first up...hottie #1

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hottie #2

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hottie #3

[Alan Cynic]

Originally Posted by offramp

True dat.

I think the two lovely young ladies playing this gig won't know what's hit them...

Would it aid promotion of the event if I posted hot pictures of all artists?

I didn't know I was supposed to hit them!

That's an old photo....I'm even more decrepit now (but with a certain grizzled charm......it was given to me by an old traveller...kind of looks like a plug on a chain, but holds mystical powers, apparently)

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Originally Posted by Alan Cynic

I'm even more decrepit now

so you are...

[Alan Cynic]

Fortunately I just see a white square with a red cross in it. If it's the one of me in the bath with the goat and the baby ferret...I'd just like to say I regret the incident, in retrospect