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Tickets for The Lemon Tree show cost 10/6.75. As well as ticketmaster they are also available from our Box Office: 01224 642230 or on-line at http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=LEMONTREE&organ_val=22345&schedule=list&event_val=2551

The Bees+support Monday 07 August Tickets 10 (6.75 concessions & regulars) Doors Open: 9 Show Starts: 9.30 Following the success of the Mercury prize nominated Sunshine Hit Me and Free the Bees, Isle of Wight's The Bees hit the road in the Highlands & Islands in support of their eagerly awaited 3rd album. www.thebees.info

Hi Michael, not an an Aberdeen band by any means but how about this... Huun Huur Tu Friday 12 May The Lemon Tree Tickets 10 (6.75 concessions & regulars) Doors Open: 8.30pm Show Starts: 9.30pm Box office: 01224 642230 Huun Huur Tus jawdropping trademark sound derives from the use of over-tone 'throat-singing' techniques which were invented by nomadic hunter-herders of the inconceivably remote steppes and mountains of Tuva in Siberia. Traditionally performed acappella, Huun Huur Tu were one of the first groups to combine them with ancient acoustic stringed instruments and percussion to thrilling and otherworldly effect. Since their first trip westwards in the mid 90s they have developed a large worldwide audience, particularly in America. In addition to releasing a controversial remix album featuring their work, Huun Huur Tus collaborators include Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder, the Chieftains, Kronos Quartet, Kodo drummers, a Bulgarian womens choir and on their recent Where Young Grass Grows album, a Scottish-Canadian fusion. If you like fellow Tuvans Yat Kha then youll love these guys especially as Yat Kha founder Albert Kuvezin learned his craft as a member of Huun Huur Tu.

He's going to The Cavern too?

Ha, ha! Oh dear - I've been trying to avoid that article, so I'm not sure which pic they used. There were loads taken that day and there were some right howlers in there. The photographer was trying to encourage us to smile - sounds like I took it too far. The other guy (David) had the right idea, just looking natural rather than a stupitd forced grin - ah well.

Philip Jeck's website http://www.philipjeck.com/news.html

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Bodysurf Scotland: No Kidding / Ongoing Friday 19 May The Lemon Tree Tickets 9 (6 concessions & Regulars) Doors Open: 7pm Show Starts: 7.30pm Box office: 01224 642230 on-line sales - http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=LEMONTREE&organ_val=22345&schedule=list&event_val=2525 Philip Jeck works with old records and record players, salvaged from junk shops, turning them to his own purposes and playing them as musical instruments, to create an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. He makes genuinely moving and transfixing music, and his methods often leave much to chance. Whilst utilising seemingly outmoded sources, Jeck shows that you don't need a 24 track digital console and an enormous hard disk to make music that is both innovative and involving. Celebrated for its first touring programme in 2003, Bodysurf Scotland once again brings together an intriguing mix of leading international artists, connected by a common interest in improvisation, to present a real treat for dance, theatre and music lovers alike. "...The art of improv can be gold-dust in the right hands." **** Sunday Herald 2003 "... lively, engaging double bill ...Brilliant" The Herald 2005 No Kidding Karl Jay-Lewin (Scotland) Music by Philip Jeck ( England) Bringing together the quirky talents of performer Ruby Worth, and the live turntable wizadry of Philip Jeck, this work uses the movement of children as a source of dance vocabulary - irregular walks and skips, odd ball head tilts, wilted leaps and made up martial arts moves. The dance is intently human, humorous and, at times, deliberately ambiguous. Philip Jeck uses old records and record players, playing them as musical instruments, to create an intensely personal language. Ongoing Rick Nodine (USA/England) & Jovair Longo ( Brazil/England) Revered for their performances with Yolande Snaith Theatredance, two of London's most celebrated dance improvisers converge in this breathtaking duet that embraces acrobatic and exhilarating flight patterns, quirky intimacies of touch, and spontaneous flourishes.

Bodysurf Scotland: An evening of Intriguing Dance & New Music Friday 19 May The Lemon Tree Tickets 9 (6 concessions & Regulars) Doors Open: 7pm Show Starts: 7.30pm Box office: 01224 642230 Philip Jeck works with old records and record players, salvaged from junk shops, turning them to his own purposes and playing them as musical instruments, to create an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. He makes genuinely moving and transfixing music, and his methods often leave much to chance. Whilst utilising seemingly outmoded sources, Jeck shows that you don't need a 24 track digital console and an enormous hard disk to make music that is both innovative and involving. Celebrated for its first touring programme in 2003, Bodysurf Scotland once again brings together an intriguing mix of leading international artists, connected by a common interest in improvisation, to present a real treat for dance, theatre and music lovers alike. "...The art of improv can be gold-dust in the right hands." **** Sunday Herald 2003 "... lively, engaging double bill ...Brilliant" The Herald 2005 No Kidding Karl Jay-Lewin (Scotland) Music by Philip Jeck ( England) Bringing together the quirky talents of performer Ruby Worth, and the live turntable wizadry of Philip Jeck, this work uses the movement of children as a source of dance vocabulary - irregular walks and skips, odd ball head tilts, wilted leaps and made up martial arts moves. The dance is intently human, humorous and, at times, deliberately ambiguous. Philip Jeck uses old records and record players, playing them as musical instruments, to create an intensely personal language. Ongoing Rick Nodine (USA/England) & Jovair Longo ( Brazil/England) Revered for their performances with Yolande Snaith Theatredance, two of London's most celebrated dance improvisers converge in this breathtaking duet that embraces acrobatic and exhilarating flight patterns, quirky intimacies of touch, and spontaneous flourishes.

Chilli - you are incorrigible. Never seen the Slits before, so looking forward to this.

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Thursday Live - 4th May Lorenzo Snow Collective @ The Lemon Tree Doors noon Onstage 1pm FREE Their myspace says they are "five men bursting with love" and that... "One day some bloke thought hmmm. Around the same time another bloke was thinking Eh? Why doesnt this friggin thing. A man fell over. A girl said nice shoes. A guy sat in the bath imagining winning a gold medal in the pole vault. A friend of these people got on the phone and said What a load of. The result was Lorenzo Snow Collective. Yeeee Ha." I dunno about that, but they were pretty damn fine when I saw them supporting The Little Kicks here last year. Check out their myspace for yourself - http://www.myspace.com/lorenzosnowcollective

The Gift: featuring Rick Buckler plus The Garcias Thursday 04 May The Lemon Tree Tickets 12 (8 concessions & regulars) Doors Open: 9pm Show Starts: 9.30pm Box Office: 01224 642230 After a musical hiatus of almost twelve years legendary Jam drummer Rick Buckler, inspired by fan loyalty has decided to acknowledge his gratitude to fans by playing Jam songs live for the first time in over twenty years. Enlisting the talents of singer guitarist Russell Hastings and bassist Dave Moore Rick has named his band The Gift, both a nod to the final Jam album and at the same time signifies his personal Gift back to his fan base.

The Gift: featuring Rick Buckler plus The Garcias Thursday 04 May Tickets 12 (8 concessions & regulars) Doors Open: 9pm Show Starts: 9.30pm After a musical hiatus of almost twelve years legendary Jam drummer Rick Buckler, inspired by fan loyalty has decided to acknowledge his gratitude to fans by playing Jam songs live for the first time in over twenty years. Enlisting the talents of singer guitarist Russell Hastings and bassist Dave Moore Rick has named his band The Gift, both a nod to the final Jam album and at the same time signifies his personal Gift back to his fan base. http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=LEMONTREE&organ_val=22345&schedule=list&event_val=2407

Glad you're looking forward to it. What's on in Glasgow and Exodus? We can't really take the credit for the Odetta gig though as that's Triptych's programming.

Looks a safe bet at the moment.

Aye - I've heard it's a wild one. One of the former staff here does a lot of the promo for the festy, and one of our techies is off up there for it.

Where was the review? and was it complimentary?

Will you still up in Shetland while this on Andy?

That just adds to the excitement.

I know! It's not sold out' date=' and you can book on-line via the Triptych site [url']www.triptychfestival.com Triptych 06: Arab Strap/Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) & Steve Reid: Bill Wells &Tape/My Latest Novel/Aidan John Moffat Sunday 30 April The Lemon Tree Tickets 14 + 1.50 b/fee Box Office: 01224 642230 Doors 7pm Cafe 7pm - 40pm: DJ Nudge 7.40pm - 8.20pm: MY LATEST NOVEL 9pm - 10pm: KEIREN HEBDEN & STEVE REID 11pm - 12am: ARAB STRAP Studio 8pm: doors 8.25pm - 8.55pm: AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT 10.10pm - 10.55pm: TAPE WITH BILL WELLS Arab Strap Falkirk's resplendent drone-poets and bedroom-bards Arab Strap are a beautiful, lyrical, woebegone duo whose barren psalms and candid narratives have rendered them one of Scotland's most critical bands. The deuce assure surprises at this year's Triptych: they'll curate a day of japes in Aberdeen which will include special performances from Four Tet, Steve Reid, Bill Wells, Tape - plus an exclusive, spoken-word recital from one "Aidan John Moffat". Also lauded solo artists, crushing versifier Aidan Moffat makes cenotaphs of beauty as L. Pierre, while devastating melodist Malcolm Middleton's Into the Woods was one of the finest albums of last year. Yet the Strap remain very much intact - as their current album, The Last Romance, certifies: it conveys the singular, innovative blueprint of a band who trouble hearts and tremble feet with their tender eulogies and tragi-disco beats. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid In electronic music's Olympian dominion, Kieran Hebden vaulted the highest bar; raised it above the stars; cleared it again. London's Hebden - aka contempo artisan Four Tet - runs rings around his stellar contemporaries with an unparalleled palette of hip-hop and techno; drum loops and birdsong; gentle funk and grizzly beats; obscure folk and neo-classical sweeps: as best evinced on 2003's Rounds album, and last year's follow up, Everything Ecstatic (Domino). It's his work with legendary drummer Steve Reid, however, which is currently rousing startled remark: their 2005 Spirit Jazz collaboration (Soul Jazz), and this year's Exchange Sessions Vol. 1 (Domino) testifies to a vital collaborative effort, and it's Reid with whom Hebden - a long-term Triptych comrade - is set to perform this year. Bill Wells A brilliant local jazz-agitator variously described as "Stirling's answer to Sun Ra" and "a Zen-like commander of vibrant psalms", groove alchemist Bill Wells' lavish, life-affirming art traverses dexterous avant-garde improvisation and soaring, cinematic awe. He's recorded for the Geographic imprint; performed with the likes of Will Oldham and Jens Lekman; collaborated with Isobel Campbell, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Future Pilot AKA - and is set to further confound sonic boundaries and enchant music fans when he joins technoid Swedish dreamboats Tape onstage, (at the fevered behest of Arab Strap), for a special one-off Triptych performance in Aberdeen. Tape Evoking divergent and fted names like Gastr del Sol, Talk Talk, John Fahey, Faust and Fennesz, dreamy Swedish trio Tape smudge the margins between bucolic and electric; between devised and improvised; between day and night. The triumvirate - Stockholm's Andreas Berthling, Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten - infuse technological and rural doctrines to striking effect. Armed with an amorous, nigh-infinite arsenal of field recordings, concrete sounds, banjos, vibraphones, synths, Chinese flutes - and countless other aural accoutrements - the three-piece mine a fertile seam indeed. Tape's second and most recent album, Milieu (Hapna), forages and forges this organic and electronic integration - it's an experimental, gentle treatise whose impressive, impressionistic, gauzy melodies are at once human and mechanical; measured and spontaneous; dark and light. My Latest Novel A soaring, melodious Greenock troupe, My Latest Novel's beat-infused, string-enthused erudite pop fayre is refined and arousing in equal measure. Signed to stellar collective Bella Union, (the label presided by the Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde, which charts the Dirty Three and Laura Veirs across its glittering sky), My Latest Novel are a glorious rabble whose literary designate underpins a bookish predilection for erudite lines and rascally wordplay. With a debut album, Wolves, fresh from the press, MLN's sing-a-long, string-drawn happy cantatas swirl like lullabies, sleigh-rides, indie-pop paradise. Live, they peddle giddy, sweet chorales: they're a boho assemblage with bountiful charms http://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2844&tempmonth=4

Triptych 06: Arab Strap/Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) & Steve Reid: Bill Wells &Tape/My Latest Novel/Aidan John Moffat Sunday 30 April The Lemon Tree Tickets 14 + 1.50 b/fee Box Office: 01224 642230 Doors 7pm Cafe 7pm - 40pm: DJ Nudge 7.40pm - 8.20pm: MY LATEST NOVEL 9pm - 10pm: KEIREN HEBDEN & STEVE REID 11pm - 12am: ARAB STRAP Studio 8pm: doors 8.25pm - 8.55pm: AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT 10.10pm - 10.55pm: TAPE WITH BILL WELLS Arab Strap Falkirk's resplendent drone-poets and bedroom-bards Arab Strap are a beautiful, lyrical, woebegone duo whose barren psalms and candid narratives have rendered them one of Scotland's most critical bands. The deuce assure surprises at this year's Triptych: they'll curate a day of japes in Aberdeen which will include special performances from Four Tet, Steve Reid, Bill Wells, Tape - plus an exclusive, spoken-word recital from one "Aidan John Moffat". Also lauded solo artists, crushing versifier Aidan Moffat makes cenotaphs of beauty as L. Pierre, while devastating melodist Malcolm Middleton's Into the Woods was one of the finest albums of last year. Yet the Strap remain very much intact - as their current album, The Last Romance, certifies: it conveys the singular, innovative blueprint of a band who trouble hearts and tremble feet with their tender eulogies and tragi-disco beats. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid In electronic music's Olympian dominion, Kieran Hebden vaulted the highest bar; raised it above the stars; cleared it again. London's Hebden - aka contempo artisan Four Tet - runs rings around his stellar contemporaries with an unparalleled palette of hip-hop and techno; drum loops and birdsong; gentle funk and grizzly beats; obscure folk and neo-classical sweeps: as best evinced on 2003's Rounds album, and last year's follow up, Everything Ecstatic (Domino). It's his work with legendary drummer Steve Reid, however, which is currently rousing startled remark: their 2005 Spirit Jazz collaboration (Soul Jazz), and this year's Exchange Sessions Vol. 1 (Domino) testifies to a vital collaborative effort, and it's Reid with whom Hebden - a long-term Triptych comrade - is set to perform this year. Bill Wells A brilliant local jazz-agitator variously described as "Stirling's answer to Sun Ra" and "a Zen-like commander of vibrant psalms", groove alchemist Bill Wells' lavish, life-affirming art traverses dexterous avant-garde improvisation and soaring, cinematic awe. He's recorded for the Geographic imprint; performed with the likes of Will Oldham and Jens Lekman; collaborated with Isobel Campbell, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Future Pilot AKA - and is set to further confound sonic boundaries and enchant music fans when he joins technoid Swedish dreamboats Tape onstage, (at the fevered behest of Arab Strap), for a special one-off Triptych performance in Aberdeen. Tape Evoking divergent and fted names like Gastr del Sol, Talk Talk, John Fahey, Faust and Fennesz, dreamy Swedish trio Tape smudge the margins between bucolic and electric; between devised and improvised; between day and night. The triumvirate - Stockholm's Andreas Berthling, Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten - infuse technological and rural doctrines to striking effect. Armed with an amorous, nigh-infinite arsenal of field recordings, concrete sounds, banjos, vibraphones, synths, Chinese flutes - and countless other aural accoutrements - the three-piece mine a fertile seam indeed. Tape's second and most recent album, Milieu (Hapna), forages and forges this organic and electronic integration - it's an experimental, gentle treatise whose impressive, impressionistic, gauzy melodies are at once human and mechanical; measured and spontaneous; dark and light. My Latest Novel A soaring, melodious Greenock troupe, My Latest Novel's beat-infused, string-enthused erudite pop fayre is refined and arousing in equal measure. Signed to stellar collective Bella Union, (the label presided by the Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde, which charts the Dirty Three and Laura Veirs across its glittering sky), My Latest Novel are a glorious rabble whose literary designate underpins a bookish predilection for erudite lines and rascally wordplay. With a debut album, Wolves, fresh from the press, MLN's sing-a-long, string-drawn happy cantatas swirl like lullabies, sleigh-rides, indie-pop paradise. Live, they peddle giddy, sweet chorales: they're a boho assemblage with bountiful charms http://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2844&tempmonth=4

Triptych 06: David Holmes/Andy Votel/Dom Thomas: Voice of the Seven woods Saturday 29 April The Lemon Tree Tickets 10 + 1.50 b/fee Box Office: 01224 642230 Doors Open: 10.30pm - all DJs Crufew 2am David Holmes This Film's Crap, Let's Slash The Seats, charged Belfast's sonic conqueror David Holmes on his brooding, groove-inflected debut (199. Let's Get Killed, he further blazed on his funk-lubed urban-jungle follow up (1999). Holmes enlivens cinemas and dance-floors alike: his pursuit as a reverenced sound-track composer has engendered comparisons to John Barry and Ennio Morricone - thanks to his gritty ambience, philharmonic sweeps, and clarion arch-jazz, (see the dusky ambience of Ocean's Eleven, or the retro funk-groove of Out of Sight). Holmes' diversion as a DJ is equally venerated, as his exotic, obscure and obsolete Triptych set will avidly testify - expect a B-Music burl of euro-trash, cosmic rock, whacked-out jazz, Turkish break-beats, vintage prog and acid folk. Ol! Andy Votel Like a zippy Tasmanian devil he whirls - over filmmaking, remixing, designing, recording, label presiding, hat collecting, composing, shoe amassing, (and probably a hundred other things) - in a giddy burl. Latter-day polymath Andy Votel - who co-founded Manchester's impish Twisted Nerve imprint with cohort and beanie-king Badly Drawn Boy - has loitered in hip-hop crews, owns over 200 shoes, and has worked with Kings Of Convenience, Can and Mouse on Mars. Also a dizzying B-Music activist, he spins records eclectic as one might a gyroscope: soul, disco, krautrock, exotica, Polish jazz and Eastern folk are among Votel's myriad passions: catch him if you dare - and if you can. Dom Thomas An ardent, assiduous B-Music crusader - whose love of obscure, obsolete, deleted and delectable experimental vintage pop music has sparked a vibrant record-stall, dance-floor and sub-cultural uprising - Manchester beat-freak Dominic Thomas, (alongside groove-daddy Andy Votel), spearheads an infectious, impetuous campaign that champions long-forgotten way-out sounds and oft-unrecalled glorious off-kilter counter-culture: taking as its starting points: psych, prog, space-rock, ye-ye, euro beat, psych-folk, junk-funk, exotic pop and wacked-out jazz. Naturally. Voice of the Seven Woods Straddling krautrock, acid-folk, jazz, prog and tropicalia, (loosely bound by a randy Manchester sitar), prodigal pop knave Voice of the Seven Woods, (alias euphonious scamp and exotic one-man-band Rick Tomlinson), has fraternised with the likes of the Fence Collective's Lone Pigeon, and Twisted Nerve label-mate Badly Drawn Boy - to sire an acid-folk, esoteric wonder. A funambulist in the B-Music / Finders Keepers cavalcade, Voice of the Seven Woods' peculiar acoustic spells render Tomlinson a preternatural gem. http://www.lemontree.org/Music/event.cfm?eventid=2843&tempmonth=4