offramp

This is tonight.

Only just started subscribing to this. Brilliant stuff min Billy!

I can't get on facebook at work, but i assume this is the news that FOUND have signed to Chemikal Underground? Which is good, eh?

Hemmin! Do you want a flyer? Aye?

interesting music promotions and Vocoustics present SAM CARTER + THIS HEROIC ROUTINE Friday, 17 September 2010 The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 1BU. Phone: 01224 647472 Doors 8pm Tickets 6+bf in adv / 8 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.myspace.com/vocoustics SAM CARTER BBC Folk Awards 2010 - Winner of the Horizon Award for best newcomer A startlingly perceptive and self-assured young singer and guitarist from the English midlands, Sam Carter has spent the last few years busily honing his craft both as a writer and performer, studying guitar with Martin Simpson and touring with Bellowhead whilst holding down his post as Emerging Artist in Residence at Londons Southbank Centre. Armed with a killer voice (Nitin Sawhney) and the ability to play his guitar like a harp (Time Out), as well as an unerring ability to put his personal experiences into a wider perspective, the east London-based songsmith made his mark with his debut album Keepsakes released August 2009. Picking up from where the intricate guitar and haunting (Eliza Carthy) storytelling of his EP Here In The Ground (released April 08 via Proper) left off, in August 2009 Sam released his debut album Keepsakes on his own Captain Records. Keepsakes is a collection of ten songs of rare depth and detail that belie their authors tender years. Thats not to say that it doesnt pack a punch; Sam kicks the album into life with Yellow Sign spitting a fiery tale of east end violence over breakneck and impossibly intricate fingerstyle guitar work. Elsewhere is a striking rendering of Oh Dear, Rue The Day, a traditional folk song and tale of romantic deceit and bitterness. Drums and acoustic bass pound as Sams visceral vocals set the scene and are matched in intensity by support from Bellowheads prodigious young fiddler Sam Sweeney. The album closes in a headily reflective vein with Spill Those Secrets, a beautiful and heartrendingly fragile song where Sams tender voice and guitar are ushered towards the albums final climactic moment by cello and piano: Spill those secrets one at a time, come the morning theyll be with mine This final lyric features in the beautiful album artwork alongside a series of images of curious objects. At Sams request, fans sent him their very own keepsakes along with a note revealing their personal significance. The keepsakes were then photographed by the British Design and Art Direction award-winning Thom Atkinson ensuring that the audio and visual elements of the album work beautifully in tandem with the music. In November 2009 Sam received a nomination for the Horizon Award for best newcomer in the 2010 BBC Folk Awards. On February 1st, at the London award ceremony Sam Carter was announced as the winner of the 2010 Horizon Award. The award was presented to him by Nitin Sawhney with whom Sam had collaborated on the Aftershock project at Londons Southbank. Clearly, to be able to play the guitar this well at such a young age means hes sold his soul at the crossroads and will shortly be having a cup of fire tea and a brimstone scone with Hitler. (Allgigs.co.uk) One of the most gifted acoustic guitarists of his generation (Mike Harding, Radio 2) I have a feeling, and Im not alone, that Sam Carter is going to be huge. (Irish World) Theres real talent budding here. (**** Independent on Sunday) An English acoustic virtuoso... reminiscent of John Martyn (Guitarist) Tunes like Taxi and Captain could well be the work of a great songwriter in the making. (Guitar & Bass) The Young English folk singer and guitarist Sam Carters album debut Keepsakes is a surefire collectable (Independent) http://www.myspace.com/samjohncarter Local support from THIS HEROIC ROUTINE http://www.myspace.com/thisheroicroutine

interesting music promotions and Vocoustics present SAM CARTER + THIS HEROIC ROUTINE Friday, 17 September 2010 The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 1BU. Phone: 01224 647472 Doors 8pm Tickets 6+bf in adv / 8 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.myspace.com/vocoustics SAM CARTER BBC Folk Awards 2010 - Winner of the Horizon Award for best newcomer A startlingly perceptive and self-assured young singer and guitarist from the English midlands, Sam Carter has spent the last few years busily honing his craft both as a writer and performer, studying guitar with Martin Simpson and touring with Bellowhead whilst holding down his post as Emerging Artist in Residence at Londons Southbank Centre. Armed with a killer voice (Nitin Sawhney) and the ability to play his guitar like a harp (Time Out), as well as an unerring ability to put his personal experiences into a wider perspective, the east London-based songsmith made his mark with his debut album Keepsakes released August 2009. Picking up from where the intricate guitar and haunting (Eliza Carthy) storytelling of his EP Here In The Ground (released April 08 via Proper) left off, in August 2009 Sam released his debut album Keepsakes on his own Captain Records. Keepsakes is a collection of ten songs of rare depth and detail that belie their authors tender years. Thats not to say that it doesnt pack a punch; Sam kicks the album into life with Yellow Sign spitting a fiery tale of east end violence over breakneck and impossibly intricate fingerstyle guitar work. Elsewhere is a striking rendering of Oh Dear, Rue The Day, a traditional folk song and tale of romantic deceit and bitterness. Drums and acoustic bass pound as Sams visceral vocals set the scene and are matched in intensity by support from Bellowheads prodigious young fiddler Sam Sweeney. The album closes in a headily reflective vein with Spill Those Secrets, a beautiful and heartrendingly fragile song where Sams tender voice and guitar are ushered towards the albums final climactic moment by cello and piano: Spill those secrets one at a time, come the morning theyll be with mine This final lyric features in the beautiful album artwork alongside a series of images of curious objects. At Sams request, fans sent him their very own keepsakes along with a note revealing their personal significance. The keepsakes were then photographed by the British Design and Art Direction award-winning Thom Atkinson ensuring that the audio and visual elements of the album work beautifully in tandem with the music. In November 2009 Sam received a nomination for the Horizon Award for best newcomer in the 2010 BBC Folk Awards. On February 1st, at the London award ceremony Sam Carter was announced as the winner of the 2010 Horizon Award. The award was presented to him by Nitin Sawhney with whom Sam had collaborated on the Aftershock project at Londons Southbank. Clearly, to be able to play the guitar this well at such a young age means hes sold his soul at the crossroads and will shortly be having a cup of fire tea and a brimstone scone with Hitler. (Allgigs.co.uk) One of the most gifted acoustic guitarists of his generation (Mike Harding, Radio 2) I have a feeling, and Im not alone, that Sam Carter is going to be huge. (Irish World) Theres real talent budding here. (**** Independent on Sunday) An English acoustic virtuoso... reminiscent of John Martyn (Guitarist) Tunes like Taxi and Captain could well be the work of a great songwriter in the making. (Guitar & Bass) The Young English folk singer and guitarist Sam Carters album debut Keepsakes is a surefire collectable (Independent) http://www.myspace.com/samjohncarter Local support from THIS HEROIC ROUTINE http://www.myspace.com/thisheroicroutine

If this isn't going to be interesting, then I don't know what will be... Friday!

Updated list... 10.09.10 Sam Baker @ The Blue Lamp (with Vocoustics) 17.09.10 Sam Carter + This Heroic Routine @ The Blue Lamp (with Vocoustics) 22.09.10 Corinne West & Kelly Joe Phelps + Tungsten & Bullhelm @ The Blue Lamp (with Vocoustics and Aberdeen Folk Club) 01.10.10 Kris Drever & Eamonn Coyne + Laura Lockyer @ The Blue Lamp (with Vocoustics) 17.10.10 Polar Bear @ The Tunnels 24.10.10 port-royal + Ten @ Peacock Visual Arts (as part of SOUND) 28.10.10 The Great Park + Woodpecker Wooliams @ Peacock Visual Arts (No More Soundchecks, with Vocoustics) 06.11.10 FOUND + Indian Red Lopez @ The Tunnels (as part of SOUND) 05.12.10 Smackvan + RM Hubbert @ The Tunnels (with The Slow Club) 15.12.10 Martin Stephenson & The Daintees @ The Tunnels 29.12.10 Friends of UTG benefit @ The Tunnels

Own up. Who was the nutjob? Good show, eh?

Some words... LORD CUT-GLASS is the solo incarnation of another ex-Delgado, Alun Woodward. Sometimes bashful, occasionally imbued with curmudgeonly bluster, and yet always lifted by humorous life learned truisms, Lord Cut-Glass strikes a dashing figure of musically inventive bravado. Galloping percussion, waltzes and marches, promenades of male and female harmony, delicate and serene creations punctuated by casual profanity and shot through with brazenly hilarious words-to-the-wise. His eponymous debut is an album comprising one mans refined grasp of the musical form, an idiosyncratic pursuit thats unmistakably in the lineage of independent Scottish music. With its beguiling application of eclectic even anachronistic styles, sharply recalled sense and scene, it is the product of a febrile mind At the start of recording I got Scarlet Fever and stayed in bed for ages, reading my girlfriends books. Explains Woodward of Lord Cut-Glass creation, I read Under Milk Wood in a feverish state and decided I would call myself after one of the characters. Woodwards solo project has grown incrementally over the 4 years since The Delgados disbanded. In between non rock n roll spots of gardening on his allotment, doses of scarlet fever and work on Chemikal Underground releases including those of Aidan Moffat and The Phantom Band the moniker Lord Cut-Glass has made fleeting appearances on Chemikals own Ballads Of The Book project and the compilation Worried Noodles. Musically I started writing songs with the idea of being in a band with a couple of other people. I asked them and they said they didn't want to, so I thought fuck it I'll do it all myself. And so with typically casual defiance Lord Cut-Glass debut was recorded at the labels own studio Chem 19 with former Delgados drummer Paul Savage on the skins, and Woodward himself writing and arranging the parts for an integral band of classical musicians from across Glasgow. If Lord Cut-Glass was a political leader hed be more dictator than democrat: more Charlemagne than Chirac explains Woodward. http://www.myspace.com/lordcutglass

Some words... LORD CUT-GLASS is the solo incarnation of another ex-Delgado, Alun Woodward. Sometimes bashful, occasionally imbued with curmudgeonly bluster, and yet always lifted by humorous life learned truisms, Lord Cut-Glass strikes a dashing figure of musically inventive bravado. Galloping percussion, waltzes and marches, promenades of male and female harmony, delicate and serene creations punctuated by casual profanity and shot through with brazenly hilarious words-to-the-wise. His eponymous debut is an album comprising one mans refined grasp of the musical form, an idiosyncratic pursuit thats unmistakably in the lineage of independent Scottish music. With its beguiling application of eclectic even anachronistic styles, sharply recalled sense and scene, it is the product of a febrile mind At the start of recording I got Scarlet Fever and stayed in bed for ages, reading my girlfriends books. Explains Woodward of Lord Cut-Glass creation, I read Under Milk Wood in a feverish state and decided I would call myself after one of the characters. Woodwards solo project has grown incrementally over the 4 years since The Delgados disbanded. In between non rock n roll spots of gardening on his allotment, doses of scarlet fever and work on Chemikal Underground releases including those of Aidan Moffat and The Phantom Band the moniker Lord Cut-Glass has made fleeting appearances on Chemikals own Ballads Of The Book project and the compilation Worried Noodles. Musically I started writing songs with the idea of being in a band with a couple of other people. I asked them and they said they didn't want to, so I thought fuck it I'll do it all myself. And so with typically casual defiance Lord Cut-Glass debut was recorded at the labels own studio Chem 19 with former Delgados drummer Paul Savage on the skins, and Woodward himself writing and arranging the parts for an integral band of classical musicians from across Glasgow. If Lord Cut-Glass was a political leader hed be more dictator than democrat: more Charlemagne than Chirac explains Woodward. http://www.myspace.com/lordcutglass

Bad news and good news. Adrian Crowley is ill and cannot make the show. He has been replaced by Lord Cut-Glass, the solo incarnation of ex-Delgado Alun Woodward. Lord Cut-Glass on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Bad news and good news. Adrian Crowley is ill and cannot make the show. He has been replaced by Lord Cut-Glass, the solo incarnation of ex-Delgado Alun Woodward. Lord Cut-Glass on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Any idea of how long the NY Dolls will play for Steven?

I love The Kiosque.

Video from Emma's latest album Emma Pollock: "Red Orange Green" on Vimeo

This has come around quickly, eh? Friday.

This is on FRIDAY!

you're sure of a big surprise. Login | Facebook

Without emoticon accompaniment I can't tell if you're being serious or not...

Eagleowl are indeed fantastic. I think Mike, Graeme and myself have all tried to book them at some point over the past couple of year! I'm well looking forward to this one. Phil, are you playing with Meursault tonight? I'm coming down to Fife.

Vetiver - Idle Ties Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You King Creosote - Over The Top Brian Wilson - I'm In Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop The Beach Boys - Feel Flows Yo La Tengo - Daphnia Cuddly Shark - Woody Woodpecker Animal Collective - No More Runnin Pearl Jam - Fatal Beirut - A Call To Arms

Machu Picchu Iceland New Zealand Amalfi Coast Hawaii Rio