Andy Mulhern

anyone for some trad?

Tim Edey is worth seeing on his own....

Great job Markle, excellent night.

So who's coming along to this rather special night tonight?

yat

Vocoustics Promotions & Aberdeen Folk Club present:

Breanndn Begley, Kevin Henderson & Tim Edey + Finfolk

The Blue Lamp

Thursday 26th November

7 from 8pm

Aberdeen traditional music fans are in for a very special treat as three of the most significant musicians in Celtic music visit The Blue Lamp as part of a one-off tour on their way to perform a couple of shows in Shetland.

Multi-instrumentalist Tim Edey will be joined by Shetland's Kevin Henderson on fiddle and on accordion/vocals by Breanndn Begley from County Kerry.

A virtuoso on no fewer than 10 instruments Tim Edey, guitarist in the Sharon Shannon and Michael McGoldrick bands, is regarded by many to be one of the finest traditional Celtic music players of his generation. In high demand for his technical ability, charisma and improvisational quality Tim truly is a must see musician performing with a dazzling proficiency and mind-boggling feel.

Born out of Shetland's rich and vibrant fiddle tradition Kevin Henderson is one of Shetlands most prominent players, and will be sacrificing a potential celebration at the Scots Tradtional Music Awards 2009 to play these shows. He has been nominated in two categories: 'Best Live Act' for performing with the Scottish 'supergroup' Session A9 and 'Album of the Year' for Shetland's Fiddlers' Bid who he co-founded in 1994.

Kevin also plays professionally across Europe and the USA with folk legends Boy of the Lough, in which he replaced the fiddle legend Aly Bain.

To complete this exceptional line-up Tim and Kevin will be joined by Breanndn Begley, a native of County Kerry, who has been playing button accordion in Boys of the Lough since 1980. Breanndn is famous nourishing and maddening accordion playing, singing in his native Irish and as TV presenter of traditional music on Irish language channel TG4, he is a firm favourite with audiences and musicians alike.

Support comes from Aberdeen's own Finfolk who mix the Celtic music influences of Ireland, the Scottish Borders and Hungary. Featuring Tom Roche (button-accordion), Kenn Clark (guitar/vocals) and Jani Lang (fiddle) the music they produce knows no boundaries with a strong emphasis on self-penned tunes and improvisation.

Malcolm Holcombe anyone?

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got the chance to book him for January....

Have you heard any of The Thomas Fraser CD's?

The Thomas Fraser Webpages

there is a really good DVD about him which i think has been on the BBC recently, im yet to see it but heard great things.

just discovered The Low Anthem

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great stuff

Noted in my calendar and then ignored. Band practice clash, argh.

Fail! (8 character)

awesome!

kiosque bloggery

so must be worth going to

I LIKE OUR LITTLE CHATS!

Good fun gig. Nice one Andy and Kevin.

I missed this chatting couple at the front.... usually annoying but seems like they were quality entertainment!

really really good gig, great people and they seemed to enjoy it. Was brilliant up-close for the encore.

Thanks to all who bothered to come.

basic bump... looking forward to it though

kiosque bloggery bump!

"Under-used venue The Malt Mill plays host to San Diego native and Portland, Oregon resident Raymond Raposa in his Castanets guise this Thursday. Signed to Asthmatic Kitty Records (Sufjan Stevens etc), his sparse, atmospheric, reverb-laden psychedelic lo-fi folk & blues is well worth checking out. World-class beard too. Support comes from Scottish indie/acoustic act Quickbeam and singer-songwriter Tommy Tungsten".

a different venue from the norm and a very special band.... (hopefully) it will be awesome

Thanks Phil....

Andy, put the bands on at 9.30 just to nibble at Graeme...

hehehe:devil:

Could just bar him instead

It just could have been an opportunity to avoid that big blank nothing happening for an hour or so which seems to happen for whatever reason...I thought. Didn't mean to get you tetchy though.

Maybe we should start a seperate discussion about gig timings?

I think having 30-45 mins to get people in, get seats, get drinks and just sit for a while is good.... keep them waiting and leave them wanting more...

anyway....... this gig will be a good thingy of live noise people show be present at it

And why not?

you have your own gigs to operate... you can start them at 8.15 if you want, whats the issue with my timings?

8.15 please

no (8 characters)

Tell me..the point of doors being 8.00 and nothing starts till 8.45 (or may later) is?

no point. When do you want it to start?

I should be at this.....any idea of stage times, as I'm relative visiting early evening.

not thought that far ahead yet....

something like 8.45, 9:30 and 10:15 (maybe a little later, certainly not any earlier)

Vocoustics Promotions Presents:

CASTANETS + QUICKBEAM + TOMMY TUNGSTEN

The Malt Mill (82 Holdburn Street)

Thursday 5th November

5 from 8pm

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CASTANETS

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Castanets is the musical project of Raymond Raposa, a San Diego native based in Portland, Oregon. Their releases on Asthmatic Kitty Records is a musical clash between the traditional stylings of blues, country and folk and modern intuition (avant-garde psychedelic freak-folk).

Pitchfork review:

'My Heart", the economically arranged highlight from Castanets' latest, 'Texas Rose, the Thaw, and the Beasts' feels a lot like a homestead: Using only guitars, bass, drums, and voice, Raposa washes into a low cloud of reverb, a second, slight layer of vocals chasing after his own. Impeccably timed, the song builds layer by layer, the drums rising only as the third verse collapses, pushing tension to a short-lived pinnacle. "My tongue is forming new words for you/ My lungs are calling like birds for you," Raposa offers for the climax, offering the best of his body to someone intent on using all of him. Considering this may be the most quintessential Castanets song to date, it'd simply be didactic to spell out the metaphor."

QUCIKBEAM

Quickbeam on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Quickbeam are a fresh, newly formed Scottish indie/acoustic act. The three piece have recently started recording their first EP and gigging accross Scotland. Their sound was summed up best by Grandaddy/Modest Mouse guitarist Jim Fairchild, '...beautiful, sparse and concise at its finest'.

TOMMY TUNGSTEN

Tommy Tungsten on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Tommy has been creating and performing music for 15 years, first in his native Glasgow with the band Manganese and latterly in Aberdeen with Flaming Katy. Over the years he has gigged throughout the UK, such as Dublin Castle and Water Rat in London, King Tuts and Barrowlands in Glasgow, The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen and festivals including T in the Park and Glasgow Green, as well as In the City at Manchester.

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It can be a pain getting hold of him sometimes, just keep trying. Or just go in and see him.

I didn't realise they had a PA, is it any good? How much did he charge to use it?

It's been fine when I've used it, though I've been told the monitors aren't brilliant . As for the fee, you would have to discuss that with Sandy.

Aberdeen poster... which myspace just deleted from my profile... interesting...

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Go in and seem him. Or keep trying the phone number. I think hire is free/cheap depending on whether you get a good crowd or not. PA may be suitable/may not. Technicain will need to be brought in. Ask Andy, he used it recently for a party.

I hire the in-house PA and brought in a tech. No room hire.

Bumple for tomorrow nighting....