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Facebook it, yeah? imp present: Lone Pigeon + The Pictish Trail | Facebook

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...)

The bit when everyone sat down in The Tunnels last night. That was pretty cool, like. 8-)

Really enjoying it Phil. Good work, sir.

Tickets on sale now, from link in my signature below...

Aye, he left before the band took off but co-wrote most of the early stuff. Tickets on sale now, from the link in my signature below...

Will advise when tickets are on sale. Oh, and can a mod change the date for me please - obviously it is 2011 not 2010. Duh. Same in the Calendar section, ta. x

Will advise when tickets go on sale...

interesting music promotions present LONE PIGEON + THE PICTISH TRAIL Friday, 15 April 2011 The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 1BU. Phone (01224) 647472 Doors 8pm Tickets 8+bf in adv / 10 on door Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or Welcome to TicketWeb! interesting music promotions | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos LONE PIGEON, aka the elusive and enigmatic Gordon Anderson, landed sometime in 1996. A prolific multi-instrumentalist songwriter, LP has two albums released on Fence CDR and so far one worldwide critically acclaimed release. Alongside these releases he has amassed a multitude of homemade recordings, at one stage a reputed 300 tracks in one month. The LP played an integral role in the recording of the mythical five track demo which resulted in the signing to Regal / EMI of one of the most influential bands of recent times, The Beta Band. Following their demise, Gordon resurfaced in 2005 as frontman of The Aliens with ex-Betas John Maclean and Robin Jones, releasing two albums to date on EMI imprint Pet Rock Records. Just before Christmas 2010, Domino quietly released Time Capsule, a massive 7 album box set which contains pretty much everything the man has ever made. Packaged in beautiful mini card LP sleeves with dizzyingly colourful artwork that looks like the inside of a childs distorted imagination has exploded into reality, Time Capsule, which will receive a wider release in April, contains tracks which may (or may not) have been released on CDr in the past, and provides a fascinating insight into the mind of an artist who has remained impossible to pin down. Time Capsule also comes with some illuminating sleeve notes from King Creosote, who happens to be Lone Pigeons brother, and who readily admits he finds his brother to be as much of a puzzle as the rest of us. He seems to sum things up best in fittingly cryptic terms when he calls his brother, a wanderer, a pilgrim, a messianic jew, a dervish, a vandal, a prophet, but mainly a lost soul. Make of that what you will, but it makes a strange kind of sense to us, and probably will for anyone else who immerses themselves in this almost indescribable collection of songs. The LP cuts an enigmatic figure, whilst his musical eccentricities funnily enough refuse to allow his style to be pigeonholed. Reviews name check familiar artists but in every essence they are wholly Pigeon. Beguiling, fragile and bereft of ego, vanity or spin LP crouches almost alone in a popular culture in which he has no interest and little understanding. Outside of his hometown, the LP live is a very rare bird, but in full flight there really is nothing more spellbinding as anyone lucky to have witnessed can attest. An artist, poet, musician, traveler and believer, the LP is a complicated character but with his music he creates sublime melodies that can elicit the simplest emotions; tunes that will make you smile with joy or alternately weep in shared sorrow. You would have to be wooden not to care. Domino | Artists | Lone Pigeon Lone Pigeon (lonepigeon ) on Myspace The Aliens - Welcome to 'The Aliens' Website THE PICTISH TRAIL is the nom de plume of 28-yr-old singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch, who alongside Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) runs micro-indie DIY-folk collective Fence Records, in a remote fishing village in Fife, Scotland. His music is a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop, that has been described as a post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk (Plan B Magazine). Over the past 7 years hes recorded various mini-albums, EPs and singles of his own material for the Fence label working with a number of artists such as King Creosote, KT Tunstall, James Yorkston, The Red Well and The Earlies along the way, amongst a legion of others. The Pictish Trails debut full-length album, Secret Soundz Vol.1, was released in 2008, to glowing reviews: Glorious, 4 STARS MOJO // 4 STARS Metro // Compulsory listening, 4 STARS The Observer // Limitless imagination NME. In 2009, Johnny embarked on an extensive tour of the album playing shows across the UK, mainland Europe and America. Last year, he released an album of brand new material an electronic-pop collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Adem, under the name SILVER COLUMNS on the Moshi Moshi label. On tour with comedian Josie Long throughout the Autumn of 2010, Johnny has been promoting the release of a new Pictish Trail EP, In Rooms, which contains 50 songs each 30 seconds in length! The EP was born out of the 100 Days Project that Josie started at the end of 2009 Johnnys project was to write and record a new 30-second song every day. The result is a collection of sper-concentrated pop, ranging from the plaintive to the playful. Expect live performances to be intimate, funny, endearing and maybe a wee bit haphazard too! The Pictish Trail Pictish Trail | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Fence Records

interesting music promotions present LONE PIGEON + LOMOND CAMPBELL Friday, 15 April 2011 The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 1BU. Phone (01224) 647472 Doors 8pm Tickets 8+bf in adv / 10 on door Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or http://www.ticketweb.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic LONE PIGEON, aka the elusive and enigmatic Gordon Anderson, landed sometime in 1996. A prolific multi-instrumentalist songwriter, LP has two albums released on Fence CDR and so far one worldwide critically acclaimed release. Alongside these releases he has amassed a multitude of homemade recordings, at one stage a reputed 300 tracks in one month. The LP played an integral role in the recording of the mythical five track demo which resulted in the signing to Regal / EMI of one of the most influential bands of recent times, The Beta Band. Following their demise, Gordon resurfaced in 2005 as frontman of The Aliens with ex-Betas John Maclean and Robin Jones, releasing two albums to date on EMI imprint Pet Rock Records. Just before Christmas 2010, Domino quietly released Time Capsule, a massive 7 album box set which contains pretty much everything the man has ever made. Packaged in beautiful mini card LP sleeves with dizzyingly colourful artwork that looks like the inside of a childs distorted imagination has exploded into reality, Time Capsule, which will receive a wider release in April, contains tracks which may (or may not) have been released on CDr in the past, and provides a fascinating insight into the mind of an artist who has remained impossible to pin down. Time Capsule also comes with some illuminating sleeve notes from King Creosote, who happens to be Lone Pigeons brother, and who readily admits he finds his brother to be as much of a puzzle as the rest of us. He seems to sum things up best in fittingly cryptic terms when he calls his brother, a wanderer, a pilgrim, a messianic jew, a dervish, a vandal, a prophet, but mainly a lost soul. Make of that what you will, but it makes a strange kind of sense to us, and probably will for anyone else who immerses themselves in this almost indescribable collection of songs. The LP cuts an enigmatic figure, whilst his musical eccentricities funnily enough refuse to allow his style to be pigeonholed. Reviews name check familiar artists but in every essence they are wholly Pigeon. Beguiling, fragile and bereft of ego, vanity or spin LP crouches almost alone in a popular culture in which he has no interest and little understanding. Outside of his hometown, the LP live is a very rare bird, but in full flight there really is nothing more spellbinding as anyone lucky to have witnessed can attest. An artist, poet, musician, traveler and believer, the LP is a complicated character but with his music he creates sublime melodies that can elicit the simplest emotions; tunes that will make you smile with joy or alternately weep in shared sorrow. You would have to be wooden not to care. http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/lone-pigeon http://www.myspace.com/lonepigeon http://www.thealiens.co.uk

Tickets now online, see link in my signature below...

Tickets now online, see link in my signature below...

Sad times...

Me too. Thanks for posting it f_d min.

Julian has played for imp before... http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/music-discussion/61724-julian-lynch-mare.html

I'm led to believe that Big Troubles will be backing up both Ducktails and Julian, so there will be very little turnaround between the first three acts.

Did I mention this already? No, I didn't. What a tube. Interesting Music Promotions | Facebook

I don't think they'll ever serve Red Stripe min Graeme.

imp present: Copy Haho + Ducktails + Julian Lynch + Big Troubles | Facebook Heresit.

imp present: Copy Haho + Ducktails + Julian Lynch + Big Troubles | Facebook Come one, come all...

Tickets not on sale yet - will advise soon...

It gives Interesting Music Promotions great pleasure to announce this gig, as it will be a corker and brings back some friends from past adventures, featuring: COPY HAHO + JULIAN LYNCH + DUCKTAILS + BIG TROUBLES Saturday, 4th June 2011 The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121 Doors 7.30pm, 1st on 8pm sharp, curfew 10.30pm Tickets 9+bf in adv / 10 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! http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic http://www.thetunnels.co.uk COPY HAHO From Stonehaven, a hotspot for great music, Copy Haho have been increasingly impressive as their career has taken off. They have just finished recording their first long play at Scotland's finest studio, Chem 19, with Jamie Savage. Very well known on the Scottish / UK music circuit and radio, this is a rare opportunity to catch them live in Aberdeen. Last year saw them tour the continent with their pals Los Campesinos. Expect some new songs to be previewed and a GREAT headline set as its been over five years since our last Copy Haho promotion. http://www.copyhaho.co.uk The tourists from this show will be present at Primavera Festival and all their current releases are on the Brooklyn label Olde English Spelling Bee which is gaining lots of plaudits for the artists it has released product by. JULIAN LYNCH We are delighted that Julian is to return to play another IMP event. Julian studied at the University of Aberdeen and played a gig as Lese Majesty opening for Larkin Grimm at The Tunnels, and boy did he WOW. It is no surprise he is starting to get superb reviews for his ehthnomusicology work and his releases cover an amazing array of music genres that are really difficult to define. His new long play Terra is scheduled for the end of April and is already being touted as even better than Mare his last release, so that will be some feat. http://julianlynch.bandcamp.com/album/mare http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14366-mare DUCKTAILS This review says a lot: "New collection of sunbleached songs and strange, melancholy instrumentals from Matt Mondanile aka Ducktails, who also passes muster as the guitarist from Real Estate. Mondanile combines a hazy surf/pop sensibility with primitive instrumentation to generate a teenage neverland complete with heavenly Beach Boys harmonies and dreamy psychedelic guitars. Some of the instrumentals almost touch on the kind of naive basement pop of Calvin Johnsons great run of early K cassettes but theres also a heavy 80s Flying Nun/Go Betweens vibe complete with chiming Byrds-style guitars and keening, laconic vocals. As with all Mondaniles work the simplicity of its construction kinda belies the emotional weight of the material making this a supremely personal and inexplicably affecting release. The best Ducktails yet? Either way this is a totally memorable set that is impossible to get out of your head". http://www.myspace.com/ducktailss http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14960-ducktails-iii-arcade-dynamics BIG TROUBLES Debut full-length from this duo / quartet who play euphoric fuzz pop inspired by UK noise like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Pastels, My Bloody Valentine, Meat Whiplash et al but given a basement USA overhaul so that it touches on the less jam / more song focussed end of the Twisted Village catalogue. http://www.myspace.com/inbigtroubles http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14956-worry

http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/interesting-music-promotions/64240-copy-haho-ducktails-julian-lynch-big-troubles-%40-tunnels-4th-june.html#post884107

Oh, and the tickets aren't on sale yet. Will advise...

It gives Interesting Music Promotions great pleasure to announce this gig, as it will be a corker and brings back some friends from past adventures, featuring: COPY HAHO + JULIAN LYNCH + DUCKTAILS + BIG TROUBLES Saturday, 4th June 2011 The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121 Doors 7.30pm, 1st on 8pm sharp, curfew 10.30pm Tickets 9+bf in adv / 10 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! http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic http://www.thetunnels.co.uk COPY HAHO From Stonehaven, a hotspot for great music, Copy Haho have been increasingly impressive as their career has taken off. They have just finished recording their first long play at Scotland's finest studio, Chem 19, with Jamie Savage. Very well known on the Scottish / UK music circuit and radio, this is a rare opportunity to catch them live in Aberdeen. Last year saw them tour the continent with their pals Los Campesinos. Expect some new songs to be previewed and a GREAT headline set as its been over five years since our last Copy Haho promotion. http://www.copyhaho.co.uk The tourists from this show will be present at Primavera Festival and all their current releases are on the Brooklyn label Olde English Spelling Bee which is gaining lots of plaudits for the artists it has released product by. JULIAN LYNCH We are delighted that Julian is to return to play another IMP event. Julian studied at the University of Aberdeen and played a gig as Lese Majesty opening for Larkin Grimm at The Tunnels, and boy did he WOW. It is no surprise he is starting to get superb reviews for his ehthnomusicology work and his releases cover an amazing array of music genres that are really difficult to define. His new long play Terra is scheduled for the end of April and is already being touted as even better than Mare his last release, so that will be some feat. http://julianlynch.bandcamp.com/album/mare http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14366-mare DUCKTAILS This review says a lot: "New collection of sunbleached songs and strange, melancholy instrumentals from Matt Mondanile aka Ducktails, who also passes muster as the guitarist from Real Estate. Mondanile combines a hazy surf/pop sensibility with primitive instrumentation to generate a teenage neverland complete with heavenly Beach Boys harmonies and dreamy psychedelic guitars. Some of the instrumentals almost touch on the kind of naive basement pop of Calvin Johnsons great run of early K cassettes but theres also a heavy 80s Flying Nun/Go Betweens vibe complete with chiming Byrds-style guitars and keening, laconic vocals. As with all Mondaniles work the simplicity of its construction kinda belies the emotional weight of the material making this a supremely personal and inexplicably affecting release. The best Ducktails yet? Either way this is a totally memorable set that is impossible to get out of your head". http://www.myspace.com/ducktailss http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14960-ducktails-iii-arcade-dynamics BIG TROUBLES Debut full-length from this duo / quartet who play euphoric fuzz pop inspired by UK noise like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Pastels, My Bloody Valentine, Meat Whiplash et al but given a basement USA overhaul so that it touches on the less jam / more song focussed end of the Twisted Village catalogue. http://www.myspace.com/inbigtroubles http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14956-worry