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interesting music promotions are very pleased to announce

Jackie Leven with special guest Caroline Fowlie
Cafe Drummonds Belmont Street Aberdeen tel (01224)619930
Tuesday 5th October 2004
Doors 8pm
Tickets £6

Jackie Leven

Jackie Leven is a formidable singer, guitarist, songwriter and
storyteller, his work, like many of the musical greats, falls into a
category of its own. With some justification his outpourings have been
called "Celtic Soul" and Jackie lives in an ancestral line that includes
the likes of Van Morrison, Lightnin' Hopkins and unnamed singers of
worksongs from all corners of the earth who share a universal voice.

Jackie first made a serious impact upon the UK music scene in the late 70s
with rock band DOLL BY DOLL, a hard-hitting classic 2 guitars, bass and
drums outfit that beguiled audiences when they weren't scaring the pants
off them with a rare on- stage intensity. The band made five superb albums
of warped melodic rock music (one unreleased), but were perhaps fatally out
of step with the punk / new wave preoccupations of those times.

Following serious illness (see further information), Jackie's return to
record-making was marked by the release of the remarkable and widely
acclaimed Cooking Vinyl album "THE MYSTERY OF LOVE IS GREATER THAN THE
MYSTERY OF DEATH" which included poetry readings by the great American poet
Robert Bly, and ex-Waterboy Mike Scott. This album was the first in a
stream of albums for Cooking Vinyl, all critically acclaimed, namely
FORBIDDEN SONGS OF THE DYING WEST, THE ARGYLL CYCLE and
FAIRYTALES FOR HARDMEN.

Such consistent recording excellence plus a constant gruelling touring
schedule is giving Jackie a growing worldwide audience which receives the
candour, tenderness and raw power that characterizes his work on stage and
on record.

In the early 1980's, Jackie was nearly murdered by strangulation in an
unprovoked attack in a London street whilst walking home from recording.
Unable to speak or sing for over a year and in considerable pain, he sought
pain management with heroin, the classic drug of despair. Deciding after a
year of addiction that he 'wanted his life back', he released himself from
addiction via a method of his own making which utilised acupuncture,
psychic healing and reflexology.

This was so successful that it became formalized as a method, he co-founded
THE CORE TRUST, a registered addictions charity in central London, and CORE
continues to this day to offer the same treatment to people with all forms
of addiction.

CORE's success rate is among the highest in Europe, and in her lifetime,
Diana, Princess of Wales was a champion and supporter of the Trust, being
guest of honour at fundraising events and officially opening the centre's
premises.

robert bly / gender issues / the men's movement

In the early 90s, Jackie became close friends with ROBERT BLY, possibly
America's greatest living poet, foreshadower of the so-called MEN'S
MOVEMENT, and one of the most wise and articulate voices on gender issues
on the planet.

The two worked together and with RICHARD OLIVIER and pre-eminent American
psychologist JAMES HILLMAN in the UK and the USA, bringing together large
groups of men to consider issues of manhood for up to a week at a time in
remote locations.

Jackie has since become a prominent figure and spokesman, writing, talking
and broadcasting on such issues throughout the world.

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT JACKIE LEVEN:

Leven has a voice as big as his 'Sacred Heart' and his material, in the
rich vein of Celtic performers such as Van Morrison, John Martyn and Mike
Scott, confronts issues head on'

Independent on Sunday

'The man's brooding presence is magnetic'
Q