misterdale Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Triptych 06: King Creosote/Akron/Family/Adem/Kitchen CynicsFriday 28th AprilThe Lemon Tree10 + 1.50 b/feeDoors Open: 8pmKing CreosoteIn 1994, the singer / songwriter with Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes realised that an increasing number of his songs were either not folky / bluegrassy enough for the Dubhs, or had too few chords for the Heroes. King Creosote crowned himself to bring to the world - "songs with relatively few chords in a non-bluegrass style", except in those cases where "this song is an over-elaborate bluegrass ditty". In 2005, KC live might, fully clothed, only sport the accordion, with some rare guitar / banjo / box-playing from Pip Dylan of Spain, naturist and ogre of beauty.King Creosote maintains that the song is more important than the style, and that the performance outweighs recording quality. If a part can't be recorded in one take, scrap it for something simpler. No sample should be longer than four seconds, and although samples should be in tune or in time, not necessarily both. King Creosote detests noodling virtuoso, and thus has a go on whatever instrument is at hand. Anyway, duff tunes strengthen the songs on either side. A KC album starts at the beginning, and don't finish 'til the end - by design. Except where they start in the middle and grow out of control. KC is still unknown outside of his small coastal village.Akron/FamilyA prodigious, swooning Brooklyn brood of measured, revered, multi-instrumentalists, Akron/Familys muse is infused in elegant, orphic, oddball folk and thrilling, meticulous, psyche-warped rock.Their radiating 2005 eponymous debut was heralded one of the years finest and most enduring releases: the Brooklyn four-piece carve a gnarled, enchanting art that traverses out-folk, guitar meditations, drone passages and sing-a-long swamp rawk.Signed to the distinguished Young God imprint, (Devendra Banhart, Mi and Lau) their label boss is fted Swans commander Michael Gira a guru with whom Akron/Family also shared an ace release last year, playing alongside his Angels of Light.Amidst Charalimbides, Radiohead and Six Organs of Admittance, Akron/Family glide and tussle: they entwine eastern canticles and dense finger picking and electronic trickery like no other.AdemCometh sublime folk, cometh Adem: a pastoral, prodigal delectation whose acoustic trickery and laptop psalms are dramatic and fragile in equal measure.A sometime member of post-rockers Fridge and a one-time musician with Badly Drawn Boy, Adem recently contributed to Vashti Bunyans lovely Lookaftering album. Master of serenades and exquisite song-craft, he has recently played with Bert Jansch, Smog and SFAs Gruff Rhys: among whom Adem and his arias sparkle.His woozy strings and soaring oratorios and whispering, harmonium charms prove a highlight wherever Adem plays live: from Londons Royal Festival Hall and the Green Man Festival, to myriad Fence Collective shindigs and glam-bashes at the Tate Modern.His 2003 inaugural offering, Homesongs, (Domino), proved one of the decades finest debuts and asserted Adem as one of the UKs most precious (and precocious) stars.Kitchen CynicsA one-man psych-folk vanquisher from Aberdeen, Alan Davidson aka Kitchen Cynics has cultivated wry acoustic apologues and warm machine parables since the 1980s. He has propagated a slew of cassettes and albums and CDRs, while live alliances include Damon Krukowski (of Damon & Naomi) and Masaki Batoh (of Ghost).Kitchen Cynics mythological, prosaic and deadpan narratives map the universal and the personal: the sea and lasagne and fossils and love. Recalling Nick Drake, Syd Barrett and Roy Harper, Davidsons elemental inflection and elegiac emblems as evinced on current album, Tunnels (Barl Fire) are a timely reminder of his fate as a treasured, exceptional outsider idol.Lemon Tree website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 What a beautiful line up.... hmm... supposed to be at a wedding.... but..........Great gig to get Alan - well done!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Oh yes.*clears diary* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDP Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 if only i had money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 you must STEAL. yes STEAL. Adem is fantastique. Kitchen Cynics - uberkind.I must rest. Too many.... postings..... *gasp* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Only a few days to wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Only a few days to waitWhat's the stage time for the first KC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterdale Posted April 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 New Adem albumJust listening to the new Adem album, and I'm glad to say its excellent.I totally fell in love with 'Homesongs' and was praying that this one would be a worthy follow up.Yay! it is!though brace yourselves, there's drumkit on it, which isn't bad, just different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 It's a great line-up. Particulary looking forward to Akron/Family. Just because I know/have heard less of them, but the one track I have heard is a cracker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 What's the stage time for the first KC?8pm: doors8.20 - 8.40pm: KITCHEN CYNICS9 - 9.45pm: ADEM10.05 - 10.50pm: KING CREOSOTE11.10 - 12.40am: AKRON/FAMILY1am: curfew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
careering Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 8pm: doors8.20 - 8.40pm: KITCHEN CYNICS9 - 9.45pm: ADEM10.05 - 10.50pm: KING CREOSOTE11.10 - 12.40am: AKRON/FAMILY1am: curfewdoes anybody know if this is this a standing or seated event Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Standing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Adem and KC were both on top form this weekend at the Homegame. Expect more brilliance on Friday. Should be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Adem and KC were both on top form this weekend at the Homegame. Expect more brilliance on Friday. Should be good.Didn't need to know that! To think I missed the Homegame for Morrissey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Mulhern Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Id be there if I wasnt gonna be folking it up at the Shetland Folky this weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Didn't need to know that! To think I missed the Homegame for Morrissey.Ho Ho' date=' sorry Graeme. I'll tell you all about it on Friday. Here's a wee taster though.[img']http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4687/dscf00264xu.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 It's a festival in a living room! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMike! Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Adem was indeed awesome both times this weekend. Our drummer Chris joined in at Adem's Assembly on the Sunday but i missed it as i was seeing Northern Alliance at last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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