“Commercially? The heart says sales in the millions. It’s hard to find a single bar on this wonderful album that might deter fans of Hucknall or Gray, or repel those who cleave to (Ben) Christophers or (Paul) Buchanann.Does that not suggest a large audience? Well, it should, and tracks as startlingly intimate as Amsterdam Weeps, Heart Still Breaking and Comfort Me could yet connect with one.”
Sunday Times Album of the Week 31st Dec. 2006
"A work of great quality, far removed from the removed from the morose ramblings of many other singer songwriters."
Irish Independent ****
"Beautiful but sad. Like a weeping willow in the fall."
Oor Magazine, Holland
"Attic Faith is a gorgeously fragile, deliciously delicate album to make you fall in love with sad songs again, an album to wallow in for hours at a time and an album to soften the heart of a cynical, scarred and scorned music hack."
Hot Press (9 out of 10)
THE STORY OF ATTIC FAITH - EMMETT'S DEBUT SOLO ALBUM
Recorded and produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, Beth Orton and
PJ Harvey) in New York at the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq the
story of Attic Faith is a long and winding one involving various
countries, various record labels and a host of musicians.
Starting at the end of a Prayer Boat tour at the tail end of 1999 in
Amsterdam, Attic Faith was written, honed, recorded and mixed over
three and a half years in the US, Denmark, Ireland and the UK.
Coming straight out of 12 years as lynch-pin and frontman with The
Prayer Boat Emmett was eager to try something different in his life
and in his approach to music.
After periods of living and writing in
Amsterdam, Arhus and LA (interspersed with solo touring in the U.S.
and Europe) Emmett settled in Denmark again in 2002 and began
working with bassist Martin Spure, drummer Nikolaj Bundvig and
pianist Allin Bang, all of whose backgrounds were in jazz. After a
few months, the addition of Dutch guitarist Marijn Slager added
another facet to the songs.
In the meantime producer Van Vugt had become part of the picture.
One of Victors great talents lies in his ability to create and
maintain an atmosphere of creativity and positivity, Emmett muses.
We knew beforehand that there would be a very limited amount of time
in which to capture the sound we wanted and to this end Victor was
the right man for the job.
At the beginning of March 2003 recording began in New York. Most of
the album was captured in a studio in Manhattan, although some
finishing touches were added in Denmark and Dublin and a
fourteen-piece string section along with Adam Peters Cello and
Keyboard touches recorded in London.
Attic Faith was released in Ireland in 2005 on Independent Records to great acclaim with 4 stars reviews in all the national newspapers and a 9 out of 10 in Hot Press Magazine.
At the end of the year it was nominated for the Choice Music Prize (Ireland's equivalent of the Mercury's).
Emmett was finally released from his deal with Atlantic Records at the end of the year and had the album returned to him.
It is being released in the UK on Independent Records at the beginning of 2007
The Sunday Times made it their album of the week in their UK and Ireland edition on the 31st Dec 2006
Michael Brunnock will be performing with his Irish Band "Little Palace" November 5th 8pm Whelans, Dublin November 7th 9pm Headfort Arms, Kells, Co. Meath November 12th 8pm The Backroom, Navan, Co. Meath Little Palace will be releasing their New Single "Beekeeper" from their latest album Invitation Time. We all hope to see you there. Keep Music Alive go hear a show.
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New myspace background, a new homepage layout, a remastered download version of Polichinelle available June 16th.... All these things have my fingers crossed for an announcement of tour dates! Please come to the UK, if not at least advertise any Dublin dates for us Brits who can hop on a flight over there for less than a bus fare nowadays :D
Michael Brunnock has teamed up with his old band Little Palace and have just released a single entitled "Eviction" and can be down loaded at www.downloadmusic.ie
They have also released their third album called Invitation Time and is available in all good music stores.
Little Palace will be touring Ireland to support the release of their album and can be seen/heard at these venues.
March 29th CRANE LANE - CORK March 31st ROISIN DUBH - GALWAY April 1st DOLANS WAREHOUSE - LIMERICK April 3rd THE SPIRIT STORE - DUNDALK April 4th HEADFORT ARMS - KELLS April 7th WHELANS - DUBLIN April 9th THE BACKROOM - NAVAN
It's a raw rootsy affair with 11 new songs including the singles Women Around Here, 45 and Sweet Angel.
Downloads and CD's are available from cdbaby. com CD's are available mail order from theracketeers. com From April the album will be out in record shops in Germany on Cannery Row Records and by then it will also be available digitally from the usual outlets such as iTunes, Amazon etc...
