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As per my post in the Gigs forum, Johnny Pictish Trail has unfortunately had to pull out of the show due to family reasons. More news when we have it...
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Yeah. Unfortunately Johnny has had to pull out for the reasons stated above. Was going to wait until we had a replacement before mentioning it, but hey ho. Working on it!
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...and selling quite well.
Now, who should we get to open up the evening?
Opening the show, we are delighted to confirm, will be Lomond 'Ziggy' Campbell of the band FOUND.
Updated poster below...
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Opening the show, we are delighted to confirm, will be Lomond 'Ziggy' Campbell of the band FOUND.
Updated poster below...
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Tickets now online as well...
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Ticket bought! Already looking forward to it
Good show!
There are tickets online now as well...
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Can a mod please change the thread title please?
And also remove PumaJaw from the main post as I don't think I can edit.
ta very much
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Since this was originally posted, PumaJaw have pulled out and been replaced by Foxhunting.
Can a mod please change the thread title please?
Foxhunting, despite the name, doesn't actually partake in the killing of carnivorous vulpines. Instead, he's a teenage singer-songwriter from the barren north of Scotland, writing fresh and catchy (and often violent) folk-pop. He's in the middle of recording a second EP in his bedroom with a laptop. Foxhunting WOW-ed everyone at our Withered Hand gig in January - definitely one to watch on the local scene.
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PumaJaw cannot now make the tUnE-yArDs show. Replacement to be announced soon. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Chuffed that Foxhunting will now open the show... what a great line-up!
Foxhunting, despite the name, doesn't actually partake in the killing of carnivorous vulpines. Instead, he's a teenage singer-songwriter from the barren north of Scotland, writing fresh and catchy (and often violent) folk-pop. He's in the middle of recording a second EP in his bedroom with a laptop. Foxhunting WOW-ed everyone at our Withered Hand gig in January - definitely one to watch on the local scene.
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PumaJaw cannot now make the tUnE-yArDs show. Replacement to be announced soon. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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it gives interesting music promotions immense pleasure to announce:
tUnE-yArDs (4AD) + Thousands (Bella Union) + Foxhunting
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121
Doors 8pm
Tickets 8+bf in adv / 9 on door
Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or Welcome to TicketWeb!
* Please use One-Up Records for your ticket purchases / CDs etc - use them or lose them! Also, see those tickets, they are one-offs, ask Titch!
interesting music promotions | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos
tUnE-yArDs (4AD)
After two attempts to get tUnE-yArDs to Aberdeen, its third time lucky because Merrill Garbis is about to explode on to the live scene with her second long play. Her live shows are, we believe, the stuff of legend, being completely and utterly amazing. So much so, she has tried to recreate her live vibe on record with her new release touring the world with a full band.
TUNE-YARDS | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos
lots of links from here >> http://drownedinsound.com/releases/1...eviews/4138426
Thousands (Bella Union)
Thousands is the name of Seattle duo Kristian Garrard and Luke Bergman whose beguiling debut album, The Sound Of Everything, is one of the gentlest, most tender records youll ever hear; just two entwined voices, exquisite acoustic guitar and a very occasional harmonium. Oh, and sounds from nature; bird calls, falling leaves, blowing wind and natural reverb are all present, underlining the organic creation of Thousands songs and their surreal, nature-focused lyrics.
Thousands came to Bella Unions attention via Fleet Foxes guitarist Skye Skjelset, who is a friend of the pair, and the duo are both are long-standing members of Seattles heralded underground scene. When the bands initial home recordings didnt feel right, Kristian and Luke decided to travel around Oregon and Washington looking for interesting or inspiring places to record. To get away from the sterile sounds we were achieving at home, and to offer something with a real sense of place. We want people to listen to this with headphones on and feel like they're immersed in these locations, and there's us, sitting next to you, playing a song. The field recordings led them across the Pacific Northwest; to Luke's family's cabin on the Oregon coast, the banks of the Columbia River, abandoned barns and old farmhouses.
At times the music of Thousands echoes Fleet Foxes hymnal beauty. But the overriding feel shares some of the hushed simplicity of Elliott Smith and Simon and Garfunkel, fused to the finger-picking dexterity of John Fahey and Bert Jansch. But dont let the simplest of acoustic formats hide the deep well of emotion inside. The Sound Of Everything is all about the human voice and heartbeat, the purity of sound, capturing a specific place at an exact moment; in other words, the sound of everything that matters.
PumaJaw
Five albums to date, with a sixth in progress due for release mid 2011, the bewitching Pumajaw are one of the Scottish music scene's most exotic animals. Instrumentalist John Wills (formally of the legendary band LOOP) builds a heady soundtrack by looping effects-laden guitar and beats, but all eyes are on the engrossing Pinkie Maclure, who dresses like a glamorous flapper girl and sings like a siren. Pumajaw always astonish their audience and we are reliably told that their new release moves away from a mix of folk / electronica into more experimental uptempo electronica. We are utterly delighted they have joined this fantastic line-up as it has been a while since their last visit to Aberdeen.
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Delighted to confirm that support will come from Thousands (Bella Union)!
Thousands is the name of Seattle duo Kristian Garrard and Luke Bergman whose beguiling debut album, The Sound Of Everything, is one of the gentlest, most tender records youll ever hear; just two entwined voices, exquisite acoustic guitar and a very occasional harmonium. Oh, and sounds from nature; bird calls, falling leaves, blowing wind and natural reverb are all present, underlining the organic creation of Thousands songs and their surreal, nature-focused lyrics.
Thousands came to Bella Unions attention via Fleet Foxes guitarist Skye Skjelset, who is a friend of the pair, and the duo are both are long-standing members of Seattles heralded underground scene. When the bands initial home recordings didnt feel right, Kristian and Luke decided to travel around Oregon and Washington looking for interesting or inspiring places to record. To get away from the sterile sounds we were achieving at home, and to offer something with a real sense of place. We want people to listen to this with headphones on and feel like they're immersed in these locations, and there's us, sitting next to you, playing a song. The field recordings led them across the Pacific Northwest; to Luke's family's cabin on the Oregon coast, the banks of the Columbia River, abandoned barns and old farmhouses.
At times the music of Thousands echoes Fleet Foxes hymnal beauty. But the overriding feel shares some of the hushed simplicity of Elliott Smith and Simon and Garfunkel, fused to the finger-picking dexterity of John Fahey and Bert Jansch. But dont let the simplest of acoustic formats hide the deep well of emotion inside. The Sound Of Everything is all about the human voice and heartbeat, the purity of sound, capturing a specific place at an exact moment; in other words, the sound of everything that matters.
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Cracking review of the Lone Pigeon box set (Domino)
Record Collector | Lone Pigeon - Lone Pigeon Time Capsule | Album Review
Lone Pigeon - Lone Pigeon Time Capsule
Buried treasure aplenty
For those whove had their ear to the ground over the past decade-and-a-half or so, Fife has been one of the more consistent and unlikely of musical hotspots. This is largely due to the close-knit community record label Fence, helmed by Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) and Johnny Lynch (of Silver Columns and The Pictish Trail). From humble beginnings, selling home-recorded albums in local independent record shops, the label has gone from strength to strength while maintaining the sense of bonhomie that birthed it.
Anybody involved with Fence will maintain that Lone Pigeon (aka Gordon Anderson; pseudonyms are a must with this bunch) most embodies what the label stands for. Anderson first came to prominence as a founder member of The Beta Band and, though he was only on the scene for their earliest days, penned some of their most enduring material. Personal problems saw Anderson retreat from the spotlight and, despite reuniting with members of his old outfit The Aliens and releasing two solo albums, has not had the success that many initially predicted.
Until now the majority of Lone Pigeons vast output has been a well-kept secret, either traded among Fence aficionados or thrust upon enthusiasts by the man himself. As numerous CD-R compilations with varying combinations of songs have done the rounds, word of his unique appeal has spread. Now Domino push the boat out with Time Capsule, a collection of seven full-length collections, five of which are previously officially unreleased, and the other two (Moses and 28 Secret Tracks) long out-of-print Fence releases. Its remarkable that a label would attempt to release such a luxurious offering these days or at least it seems that way, until the myriad delights it has to offer worm their way into the subconscious.
Brother King Creosotes sleevenotes describe Anderson as a wanderer, a pilgrim, a messianic Jew, a dervish, a vandal, a prophet, but mainly a lost soul. From the evidence of Time Capsule, its hard to fault his judgement. At times Anderson sounds as if hes been locked in an attic with nothing but The Beatles Esher demos, a guitar and a clapped-out keyboard with a broken beatbox. Elsewhere, on the likes of Unknown Yesterdays and much of the Baby Piano disc, he produces tender, fragile balladry that recalls the likes of Big Stars Third/Sister Lovers, Dennis Wilson or Neil Young. In fact, over Time Capsules 159 tracks, theres little musical ground left uncovered, from ambient interludes to sci-fi soundclashes, gorgeous wordless harmonising and slightly demented imaginary cartoon theme tunes. If that sounds like difficult listening, dont be discouraged. Anderson has an intuitive pop suss and humour that makes visiting his world an absolute pleasure.
The fragmentary nature of a lot of these discs may leave some listeners unsatisfied and bemoaning Andersons seemingly unfinished material, but that would be missing the point. These sketches are somehow so self-contained and pure that to try and smarten them up would be to lose their essence. Time Capsule is a perfect document of a stunningly gifted, witty and sometimes frustrating artist. Ultimately, the only way to really understand it is by listening describing it is like trying to bottle moonlight.
Domino | REWIGCD 77 X (7-CD)
Reviewed by Jamie Atkins
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it gives interesting music promotions immense pleasure to announce:
tUnE-yArDs (4AD) + Thousands (Bella Union) + Foxhunting
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121
Doors 8pm
Tickets 8+bf in adv / 9 on door
Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
* Please use One-Up Records for your ticket purchases / CDs etc - use them or lose them! Also, see those tickets, they are one-offs, ask Titch!
http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
tUnE-yArDs (4AD)
After two attempts to get tUnE-yArDs to Aberdeen, its third time lucky because Merrill Garbis is about to explode on to the live scene with her second long play. Her live shows are, we believe, the stuff of legend, being completely and utterly amazing. So much so, she has tried to recreate her live vibe on record with her new release touring the world with a full band.
http://www.4ad.com/tune-yards/
http://www.myspace.com/tuneyards
lots of links from here >> http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14883/reviews/4138426
We are currently awaiting confirmation of a tour support...
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Some perspective...
Johnny Sharp interviews Gordon Anderson | Music | The Guardian
Out of the woods
Twelve years ago, Gordon Anderson was in hotly-tipped group the Beta Band. Then mental illness (or demonic possession) intervened. He tells Johnny Sharp how Jesus, and his new band the Aliens, saved him
"So once I'd plotted every single point on a perfect replica of The Great Pyramid, I started to see this giant pharaoh type thing looming above me." Gordon Anderson, singer of the Aliens and founding member of the Beta Band, is recalling a "weird story" from his past. "I started crouching down, because at that point I was in the mindset of a little sphinx. And then the sphinx became this little Egyptian boy who could run really quickly. And then this pharaoh rose up like this - phwooosh! - and it has the face of Christ on the cross. I was visualising Jerusalem in front of me. Then all this water came shooting in a beam out of my pupils, into a pool on the floor..."
Well, I suppose such wild hallucinations are not uncommon in a psychiatric institution.
"No, I was still in the Beta Band at that point."
Right. Did his bandmates at the time not find this behaviour unusual?
"Not really," admits his fellow Beta Band veteran and Aliens' keyboard player John Maclean. "We were all doing quite a lot of drugs at the time." Lovably eccentric rock musician though he is, Gordon Anderson's story is more like The Shining than Spinal Tap. But at least it has a happy ending, in the shape of the band the Aliens. Their debut album Astronomy For Dogs is a fantastically frazzled advert for Anderson's revitalised songwriting talent, from the delirious romp of The Happy Song and the upbeat, vintage organ pop of Setting Sun to the melancholic yearning of Glover and She Don't Love Me No More.
For Gordon, it's been a long, hard and harrowing road to this point. Sitting in a Glasgow cafe taking a break from working on a side project with his brother Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote), he and John Maclean (Aliens drummer Robin Jones is absent with a bad back - and since this interview, Gordon has broken his clavicle while climbing a tree) take up the story from the mid 1990s, when Gordon and school friends John and Robin joined fellow songwriter Steve Mason to form the Beta Band. Gordon worked with the band on their debut EP Champion Versions, co-writing tracks such as Dry The Rain and Dog's Got A Bone. But he was also caning for Scotland.
"I was doing a lot of mushrooms, LSD, dope. I did 40 mushrooms every night for two months. Just writing songs and getting hammered on mushrooms - great fun!"
Then the fun ended abruptly.
"My illness took over," he says. "I'd just be putting some milk back in the fridge or something, and I'd feel this presence growing inside me. Completely evil, demonic, worse than you can imagine. At first it was in my legs, then it was climbing up my insides. I'd try and do paintings to bring out what was inside - pictures with flames coming out of me. But it just got worse. I felt there was something dwelling behind my soul, in the back of my head, creeping up on me. So I'd be hunched up, fearful and scared of everybody. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep. I was like a zombie. It took five months for this thing to completely overtake me."
It became obvious that Gordon couldn't continue with the band, so he returned home to Scotland for psychiatric treatment. Scary what a few mushrooms can do...
"It wasn't the mushrooms," insists Gordon. "I feel it was a classic case of demonic possession. You read about these things, but you don't think it actually happens to people. I became a different character - something that wasn't me possessed me. It sat inside me, controlling everything. It was saying 'Murrrrdur! Murrrdur!' It got to the point where a voice in my head was telling me to kill my twin brother, Ian. I'd be with him and the voice would be hissing at me, 'Kill him. Kill him now. Kill him now. Kill. Him. Now.' They were spirit voices. You couldn't see them, but you could hear them sitting in the corner of the room. I had conversations with them."
Thankfully, "Murrrrdur" did not ensue. More bad craziness did.
"The horrible thing is the spirits know your thoughts before you're going to think of them. I would see this horrible evil old man when I looked in the mirror, so I got rid of all the mirrors in my house. And I'm just about to think of this when some weird thing says to me 'Ha! You took down all those mirrors! You took down all those mirrors didn't you?' And then it starts singing it over and over. Really fucking frightening." Gordon spent eight years in a mental institution near his home town of St Andrews, Fife, where he was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. Even now, he begs to differ.
"I don't believe in schizophrenia. I was never in a different mind from my own, my mind was there, but it was trapped inside me. Medical people don't believe in the spiritual side of things, so they pump you full of drugs! I had 144 electric shocks to the head, and countless drugs. And they did nothing for me."
Gordon didn't write songs during his illness ("It's a bit too much focus on within. I felt better painting."), but he says he was too consumed by his own personal hell to feel anything so trivial as envy as the Beta Band released three albums and toured the world. Gordon's erstwhile bandmates kept in touch, and his brother Kenny put out some of Gordon's solo recordings as Lone Pigeon. However, when John visited Gordon's new home, he wasn't too impressed by the way his old friend was being treated.
"We'd have a laugh about the ridiculousness of the whole thing. Humour seemed to have a better effect on him than the seriousness of the nurses and the doctors, who talked to him like he was an idiot."
Of course some poor souls are admitted to such institutions and never come out again. But Gordon was saved - by Jesus. "These two christians came along and said they'd take me to stay with them in their house, they said 'We'll pray for you, and talk, work out what your problems are'. And they did, and within three months I was fine. They taught me that the first step is to believe you're not mentally ill. It reinforced my belief in Jesus. If you have the kind of experience I had and Jesus got you through it, you can't suddenly deny that."
Gordon's brother Kenny got him a flat in St Andrews, and he wasted no time in throwing himself back into slightly less godly pursuits. "We'd go out drinking a lot, and talking to girls, which you might think wasn't the best thing for me, but I'd spent a decade in a cupboard, man, I had a lot of living to do!"
Around the same time, in late 2004, the Beta Band split. John and Robin had heard that Gordon was back in business, and the trio decided to work together on some of his new songs. The new album, Astronomy For Dogs, is the result. Some of the songs - particularly The Happy Song - seem to ooze with the joy of a new lease of life.
"That song does," says Gordon, "and when I play that song it does make me happy. But some of the other songs are quite sad." Oh well, sounds like he's back in the same mildly unsatisfactory world as the rest of us then.
"I was just in the toilet before the interview, and it was such a nice, white toilet. And I'm thinking 'My God I'm so well, my mind is so clear. I'm doing the band, I'm working with my brother Kenny again, I can't believe it.'"
As he's talking, he draws a cross in the froth on his coffee.
"Something dragged me through the darkness for a long time, and now something's taken me back out the other end. All I can say is thanks a lot."
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Tickets now in One Up.
...and selling quite well.
Now, who should we get to open up the evening?
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Probably my favourite wee gig space in Aberdeen. I like.
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Tickets now in One Up.
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Tickets now in One Up.
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What a fantastic gig that was - Tim Harrington is totally mad. Thanks for all that managed to put this gig on. Fantastic totally fantastic
Now get Monotonix up here to keep the madness going!!! lol
Aye. Nice one Ross. That was a pretty epic show.
Dizzy Storm put on Monotonix a couple of years ago at Transition - not sure if any promoter would touch them again after a less than 20 min set then fucking off (if I remember correctly...)
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The bit when everyone sat down in The Tunnels last night. That was pretty cool, like.
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Really enjoying it Phil. Good work, sir.
Lone Pigeon + Lomond Campbell (FOUND) @ The Blue Lamp, 15th April
in Interesting Music Promotions
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A wee bit about Ziggy...
LOMOND CAMPBELL, as christened recently by King Creosote, is the lo-fi solo guise of FOUND frontman Ziggy Campbell. Seeing as FOUND have previously played 4 imp shows, with Ziggy also having performed solo sets, he really needs no introduction.
Ach well do it anyway.
FOUND is the brainchild of art college buddies: Ziggy Campbell (lead vocals, guitar), Tommy Perman (bass guitar, synth) and Kev Sim (electronics, percussion). The band create an unusual mix of garage rock, melodic pop and glitchy electronica, which has just lead to them signing a publishing deal with the highly respected Domino Records and record deal with Chemikal Underground, who released the bands third long player factorycraft in March.
Well let Chemikal take up the story.
'A psychedelic explosion in the factory', explains FOUND frontman Ziggy Campbell when asked to explain the unifying theory that binds 'factorycraft' together and who are we to argue? It's been over two years since FOUND released an album's worth of material (in January 2009 they brought out 'Snarebrained', essentially a fund raising exercise to finance their impending trip to SXSW), so the anticipation for this, their third album - and first for Chemikal - has been slowly reaching boiling point.??At the risk of blatantly pilfering the tagline for a famous drink brand, it has been worth the wait though. 'factorycraft' (don't you dare capitalise the 'f') is a schizophrenic, kaleidoscopically inventive piece of work, flipping breathlessly from urgent, programmed drum machines to languid Joe Meek inspired 'space-pop' in the space of a few bars, nevermind a few tracks.??Having worked in a factory in the Borders, singer Ziggy observed that "the most exotic ideas are often FOUND lying amongst the swarf of the factory floor. We liked the idea of turning manual labour in to fine art, hence 'factorycraft'." Recorded at (you guessed it) Chem19 studios with Paul Savage manning the controls, 'factorycraft' is FOUND's first full-blown 'studio' album and manages to capture all the eccentricities and musical invention that set FOUND apart from many of their contemporaries. While the songs repeatedly reference industry and the process of manufacturing, you'd be wrong to think this was the limit of Ziggy's lyrical reach, as his bandmates point out: Typically he'll write about his provincial, low-life up bringing in the Scottish Borders or the extremes of relationships. Sometimes though, he'll write about gangs of giant seagull queens or wrestling granite saints in order to gain access to heaven.??OK then.
http://foundtheband.com
http://www.chemikal.co.uk