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18 tickets left folks...

18 tickets left folks...

What's going on with the apostrophes and inverted commas up there?

Anyway, this is on Friday!

Event Title: imp / vocoustics: Rick Redbeard + Steven Milne

Event Date: 15 Mar 2013 8:00 PM (Single Day Event)

interesting music promotions and Vocoustics present No More Soundchecks - the latest in a series of unplugged shows featuring...

RICK REDBEARD + STEVEN MILNE

Friday 15 March 2013

Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen AB11 5BQ. Phone 01224 639539

Doors 8pm

Advance Tickets £6+bf / £8 on door

Available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/210312

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RICK REDBEARD

With an act as stylistically restive as The Phantom Band, you’d expect at least some of their number to harbour a renegade alter-ego or two. In the case of their vocalist-in-chief Rick Anthony, his ‘Rick Redbeard’ doppelgänger has been hiding in plain sight since The Phantom Band’s critically feted debut in 2009, with some material on ‘No Selfish Heart’ pre-dating ‘Checkmate Savage’ by as much as five years. Originally conceived as an outlet for Anthony’s quieter, more introspective material, it’s fair to say that Redbeard’s ‘songbook’ has outgrown its brief, developing into much, much more than a dead letter office for The Phantom Band.

Eight years in the making, ‘No Selfish Heart’ is a warming, darkly poignant collection that navigates universal themes of love, place and the passage of time. Rick elaborates: “It’s my attempt to harness that sense of yearning for something you’ve never had or can never hope to recapture. The nostalgia for when I was a child - growing up in the countryside - has never left me, it’s a constant melancholy for something I can't even name anymore.”

Eschewing recording studios’ technological toolboxes in favour of his parents’ house in rural Aberdeenshire and the flat he calls home in the west end of Glasgow, the intimate, homely feel to ‘No Selfish Heart’ has been arrived at by clear design rather than happy accident. With the album’s backing vocals provided by Rick’s sister Jo, its fireside intimacy is enhanced further by the retention of creaking piano stools and the preference of character over technical perfection when laying down vocal and guitar takes. Rick again: “I’ve always been attracted to comforting music; for me, Leonard Cohen’s music is never depressing, it's soothing. I want people to hear my songs in the same way I’ve heard certain music over the years: like kind words from an old friend.”

If Mr Cohen and his cohorts Young, Springsteen, Waits, Cave etc. have had an inevitable impact on the DNA of ‘No Selfish Heart’, a deeper delve into its less hallowed influences reveals even more of its emotional heart. A song-writing mother, constantly singing and leaving guitars around the house for young, curious hands to explore; a nature-loving, scientist father whose hermetic tendencies would cultivate an appreciation for stillness and remote, open spaces; the rousing folk tales of Dundonian troubadour Jim Reid contrasted with the torch songs of Julee Cruise; Cormac McCarthy’s southern gothic alongside the dystopic fantasies of Alasdair Gray: all have informed the artist and the album in some way, shape or form.

In contrast with the warmth of the storytelling is the album’s monochrome artwork: a scene of stark, autumnal woodland provides a nod to the album’s other, more bucolic, themes of nature, solitude and the changing of the seasons. Shaped as much by the elements raging outside his window as the albums rotating on his turntable, Rick Redbeard’s debut is the stuff of log fires and graveyards; your breath on the winter air and the frost underneath your feet; love and lust, heartbreak and loss. Encompassing the natural (Old Blue) and the supernatural (Cold As Clay (The Grave)), the temporal (Clocks) and the traditional (Kelvin Grove), ‘No Selfish Heart’ tackles them all with humour, beauty and pathos.

If the macabre and the melancholy have often been the cornerstones of the best folk albums, ‘No Selfish Heart’ upholds that tradition beautifully. As the aching shruti-box lament of ‘Clocks’ fades in at the album’s opening, the companionship of a roaring fire, a whisky and the love of your life could not come more highly recommended.

http://www.chemikal.co.uk/artists/rick-redbeard

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https://twitter.com/RickRedbeard

STEVEN MILNE

A lynchpin in Aberdeen's music scene, Steven Milne wears many hats; musician, promoter, DJ, booker, you name it. Hardest working man in showbusiness. Best-known as lead singer in respected Scottish indie-pop band The Little Kicks, he's now branching out with some more mind-blowingly good solo material including the 2010 album Chasing Phantoms (how appropriate for this show!) released on Bedford Records which is a shimmering slice of pop/folk goodness, full of the kind of gems which are making ears twitch around Scotland and far, far beyond...

http://www.thelittlekicks.co.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/stevenmilnemusic

http://twitter.com/thelittlekicks

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Rob St John added to the line-up!

Lancastrian Rob St John plays drawn-out and ghostly songs underpinned by the creaks and drones of the harmonium, musical saw, fiddle, skittering drums, analogue synth and field recordings. Backed by a talented cast of collaborators and co-conspirators he released his first album ‘Weald’ on 12” LP through Edinburgh DIY label Song, By Toad in November 2011, on which kraut, drone and psych influences are held together by peals of British folk guitar and wheeling gusts of rich, cryptic vocals.

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Rob St John added to the line-up!

Lancastrian Rob St John plays drawn-out and ghostly songs underpinned by the creaks and drones of the harmonium, musical saw, fiddle, skittering drums, analogue synth and field recordings. Backed by a talented cast of collaborators and co-conspirators he released his first album ‘Weald’ on 12” LP through Edinburgh DIY label Song, By Toad in November 2011, on which kraut, drone and psych influences are held together by peals of British folk guitar and wheeling gusts of rich, cryptic vocals.

http://robstjohn.tumblr.com/

http://www.facebook.com/rob.saint.john

https://twitter.com/robsaintjohn

interesting music promotions present

THE PICTISH TRAIL + EAGLEOWL

Saturday 26 January 2013

The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121

Doors 7.30pm

Advance Tickets £8+bf / £10 on door

Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or online http://www.wegottickets.com/event/193649

http://www.facebook.com/interestingmusicpromotions

http://www.twitter.com/IMP_aberdeen

THE PICTISH TRAIL

It’s not easy to pin down The Pictish Trail, aka Johnny Lynch. His critically acclaimed 2008 debut album, Secret Soundz Vol. 1, was a gloriously eclectic slice of lo-fi folk-pop, and he is also one half of demented dance-pop duo Silver Columns with Adem Ilhan.

As if that wasn’t enough, Lynch also has his hands full with Fence Records, a DIY indie label based in the East Neuk of Fife, which he runs alongside Kenny Anderson, best known as King Creosote. Fence’s events, including the Home Game festival in Anstruther and Away Game on the remote Hebridean island of Eigg, are infamous for selling out in a matter of minutes and attract music fans from all over the world to Scotland.

After a summer spent playing the pick of the UK’s music festivals with his band, Lynch is now back home on Eigg where he’s putting the finishing touches to Secret Soundz Vol 2, due to be released on January 21st, 2013.

“Johnny Lynch the one man force behind the Pictish Trail, has spent much of the last few years helping friends and fellow Fence members, like Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) and James Yorkston get their careers off the ground. Finally recording an album in his basement he reveals himself as a powerful songwriter in his own right. 4 STARS ****” Will Hodgkinson, MOJO

“The Pictish Trail should be compulsory listening for anyone under the impression that Fence, the label he co-runs with King Creosote, is solely devoted to lo-fi folk. Indebted to Hot Chip, the Beta Band and Paul McCartney, this is charming, fresh and quietly outré. 4 STARS ****” Paul Mardles, The Observer

http://www.thepictishtrail.com/

http://www.facebook.com/thepictishtrail

http://www.twitter.com/pictishtrail

EAGLEOWL

Meet Bart, Malcolm and Clarissa, aka eagleowl.

These three pals from Edinburgh started life as a trio of electric guitar, double bass and violin. Over the course of two EP's and a 7" single, they have built up a devoted following with spellbinding live performances and regular collaborations with their pal Mark Hamilton (aka Woodpigeon). The group have since expanded to include the illustrious Rob St John on harmonium, Owen Williams (of Two Wings fame) on drums, and Hannah Shepherd (from Withered Hand) on cello, to create a roaring behemoth capable of sonorous waves of summer warmth and thundering cataclysms of wailing feedback.

The band have just completed their debut album, This Silent Year, which is being released on Fence Records in March 2013 - but will be made available FIRST at these live shows!

"a wonderfully atmospheric piece of slowcore post-folk, reminiscent at times of Low, with a dash of Scottish sea shanty thrown in here, a soupcon of Adem's organic melancholy there, all of it positively oozing home-grown, home-cooked goodness." **** The List

"gorgeously quavering folk harmonies" Rob Fitzpatrick, Word magazine

"undeniably beautiful, delicate and yet packs a punch (albeit a slow one, a John Woo punch) straight to the heart and ears of any listener" The Line of Best Fit

http://www.eagleowlattack.co.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/eagleowlattack

http://twitter.com/eagleowlattack

interesting music promotions present

THE PICTISH TRAIL + EAGLEOWL

Saturday 26 January 2013

The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121

Doors 7.30pm

Advance Tickets £8+bf / £10 on door

Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or online http://www.wegottickets.com/event/193649

http://www.facebook.com/interestingmusicpromotions

http://www.twitter.com/IMP_aberdeen

THE PICTISH TRAIL

It’s not easy to pin down The Pictish Trail, aka Johnny Lynch. His critically acclaimed 2008 debut album, Secret Soundz Vol. 1, was a gloriously eclectic slice of lo-fi folk-pop, and he is also one half of demented dance-pop duo Silver Columns with Adem Ilhan.

As if that wasn’t enough, Lynch also has his hands full with Fence Records, a DIY indie label based in the East Neuk of Fife, which he runs alongside Kenny Anderson, best known as King Creosote. Fence’s events, including the Home Game festival in Anstruther and Away Game on the remote Hebridean island of Eigg, are infamous for selling out in a matter of minutes and attract music fans from all over the world to Scotland.

After a summer spent playing the pick of the UK’s music festivals with his band, Lynch is now back home on Eigg where he’s putting the finishing touches to Secret Soundz Vol 2, due to be released on January 21st, 2013.

“Johnny Lynch the one man force behind the Pictish Trail, has spent much of the last few years helping friends and fellow Fence members, like Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) and James Yorkston get their careers off the ground. Finally recording an album in his basement he reveals himself as a powerful songwriter in his own right. 4 STARS ****” Will Hodgkinson, MOJO

“The Pictish Trail should be compulsory listening for anyone under the impression that Fence, the label he co-runs with King Creosote, is solely devoted to lo-fi folk. Indebted to Hot Chip, the Beta Band and Paul McCartney, this is charming, fresh and quietly outré. 4 STARS ****” Paul Mardles, The Observer

http://www.thepictishtrail.com/

http://www.facebook.com/thepictishtrail

http://www.twitter.com/pictishtrail

EAGLEOWL

Meet Bart, Malcolm and Clarissa, aka eagleowl.

These three pals from Edinburgh started life as a trio of electric guitar, double bass and violin. Over the course of two EP's and a 7" single, they have built up a devoted following with spellbinding live performances and regular collaborations with their pal Mark Hamilton (aka Woodpigeon). The group have since expanded to include the illustrious Rob St John on harmonium, Owen Williams (of Two Wings fame) on drums, and Hannah Shepherd (from Withered Hand) on cello, to create a roaring behemoth capable of sonorous waves of summer warmth and thundering cataclysms of wailing feedback.

The band have just completed their debut album, This Silent Year, which is being released on Fence Records in March 2013 - but will be made available FIRST at these live shows!

"a wonderfully atmospheric piece of slowcore post-folk, reminiscent at times of Low, with a dash of Scottish sea shanty thrown in here, a soupcon of Adem's organic melancholy there, all of it positively oozing home-grown, home-cooked goodness." **** The List

"gorgeously quavering folk harmonies" Rob Fitzpatrick, Word magazine

"undeniably beautiful, delicate and yet packs a punch (albeit a slow one, a John Woo punch) straight to the heart and ears of any listener" The Line of Best Fit

http://www.eagleowlattack.co.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/eagleowlattack

http://twitter.com/eagleowlattack

That's some more tickets now in One Up...

Poptastic!

Thread resurrection, nice one Alan.

GY!BE, Cat Power, Flaming Lips, Gorky's, James Yorkston...

thanks for mentioning that.. IMP try to do home-made tickets for all our events & sell them through 1UP our local independent record shop. As you will appreciate we can only sell a limited number for each event & the rest via our online outlet wegottickets for a paperless ticket. I would encourage everyone to support the local outlet & then you will have a wee souvenier for the future as we give the home-made ticket back after its been stamped when you come in. (our next batch for 1UP for King Creosote & FOUND were completed less than an hour ago)

That first batch in One Up has now sold out - we'll try and get some more in. If not, still available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/180110

Damn! One-Up sold out too?

Yes. KC normally draws crowds of over 200 in Aberdeen. 100 tickets went on sale. Demand = High.

As mentioned on the other thread - THIS IS SOLD OUT!

cheers

Just bought my ticket - it was the tea towel that swung it.

Good man.

Did we say this was sold out? Quicker than any other date on the tour.

If we didn't - THIS IS SOLD OUT.

Thanks everyone!

One Up was busy with ticket sales when I was in this morning - sold at least half a dozen to walk-ins whilst I was there & probably the same on the phone. And this was at 9:45!

One Up is now sold out. Not much left online...

interesting music promotions in conjunction with

KING CREOSOTE & FOUND

present ‘My 15th Bit of Strange in 17 Years’

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 1BU. Phone (01224) 647472

Doors 8pm

Tickets £25

On sale Monday 17 September, from http://www.foundtheband.com, plus a limited amount (with added booking fee) in One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662.

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This unique tour will see Mercury Music Award nominated King Creosote and BAFTA Award winning FOUND come together to perform King Creosote’s "My Nth Bit of Strange in Umpteen Years" live album.

The live album was launched in 2009 as a reaction to downward spiralling record sales and the ever decreasing value of a recorded album, whilst attempting to make the live show an absolute "must see". The album has already been performed over a dozen times with various members of the KC band, the fence collective & guests, and most recently with Lancastrian super group The Earlies in 2011.

For these, the 15th-18th Bits of Strange, audience members are asked to arrive with a portable recording device to record this unique version of a continually evolving live album, and to share it with whoever they like. As KC explains:

“Recording these shows on portable battery powered equipment is optional, but highly recommended. We doubt there’ll be a studio version anytime soon, and you never know, over the tour we might pull four very different versions out of the bag."

The 4-date tour will bring the ensemble to each member’s hometown:

Tuesday 27 November:

Aberdeen, The Blue Lamp (Capacity 100)

Wednesday 28 November:

St. Andrews, The Barron Theatre (Capacity 66)

Thursday 29 November

Edinburgh, The Scottish Story Telling Centre (Capacity 99)

Friday 30 November

Hawick, Heart of Hawick (Capacity 108)

Saturday 1 December

Homecoming End of Tour Party, venue TBA

Tickets are priced at £25 each and for that buyers will receive all exclusive tour merchandise:

*A limited edition whisky glass etched with a different logo for each location designed by KC & FOUND to represent their home towns

*A "Bits of Strange Homecoming Tour" tea towel

*A pot luck King Creosote album from his back catalogue

*Free entry to the Homecoming End of Tour Party with special guest djs

Each show will commence with a tasting of a limited edition single cask whisky being produced by Dewar’s specifically for the Homecoming tour. There will also be a different support set for each venue from the various members of the King Creosote band and FOUND.

Are the links to the Found website supposed to go via Facebook? 'Cause if not I can change them for you...

Otherwise the link doesn't work for those behind restrictive work firewalls.

No, they're nae. Maybe I copied and pasted the blurb from facebook?

http://foundtheband.com/

Nice one...

Been painting my house the last few days, so had a lot of time with my thoughts. And I'm still really sad about this. Going out on a limb, I'd say Dave was the single greatest supporter of Interesting Music - certainly since I've been involved for the last 6 or so years. He was pretty much at every gig. And not just ours. Such a great supporter of the local music scene, an enthusiastic and talented member within it, and a lovely and personable chap as well. We've lost a good one. RIP Dave x