Aidan is playing at The Slaughtered Lamb on Thursday 28th August You can buy tickets here
Allotments
Humble Soul HS202
"With so many young British singer-songwriters rushing to adopt a self-consciously 'urban' voice, Aidan Smith blows in like a fresh breeze."Uncut "Eccentric, profound and very human, Aidan Smith’s Allotments are fertile ground indeed"Subba-Cultcha "he waltzes through his second LP with a lightness and grace that is quite beguiling"The Fugitive Motel "this is as close as it comes to being the type of personal, fearless statement of a great artist that are too infrequent today. 8/10"Foxy Digitalis
LAST GIG WE’RE PUTTING ON FOR A FEW MONTHS…Features…BELLVILLE- Luscious Lilting Gypsy Jazz!! JAMES BROWNE- Boogie Piano Riot!!! And the return of COMPETITION TIME and a whole heap of nonsense!!!! PACKHORSE FRIDAY 27th NOV.Woodhouse Lane opp. Library Pub
PLUS SAT 6th NOV. we’re in WETHERBY, At the St JAMES CHURCH CRYPT With TOM ATTAH, RUBY CORSET, and more…
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Greetings Sinners,As part of their on-going quest to rid the world of ennui and other French philosophical maladies, THE DEVIL’S JUKEBOX are rolling out the ragtime red carpet and humping it ‘till the weave gets pilled, on FRIDAY 23rd OCTOBER, at THE PACKHORSE supported by English Music Hall Maestros BISCUIT HEAD and the BISCUIT BADGERS-expect ukulele, tuba and a sense of the absurd akin to Vivian Stanshall’s Bonzo Dog Band, featuring Dino Casino, not to be missed.PLUS the frankly quite splendidTOM ATTAH- expect stompin’, raw delta sounds from the kick-ass king of Shipley!
Also, for those who are interested, ‘Righteous!’ is back, end of November, DR B.
Aloha Sinners, FRIDAY 23rd Oct. the PACKHORSE, LEEDS, Woodhouse Lane
THE DEVIL’S JUKEBOX- Raucous Ragtime! BISCUIT HEAD and the Biscuit Badgers- Bonzo-esque English Music-Hall with Ukulele and Tuba!! TOM ATTAH-The Authentic King of the Sheffield Delta Stomp!!!
Luke Lukas is back with an album full of that gleeful gloom that made us love him at first sight. His trustworthy 4-tracks and him go their separate ways so he's now presenting 12 perfectly arranged folk songs to us. Luke reveals himself as a kind soul, but like the western movies taught us, a dreadful killer always hides under every placid looking Texan.
"Leaving his strongly lo-fi sound that impressed us the first time, he treasures the recipe, packing in this new plain, delightful work a caring love for vocals, which are worthy of Neutral Milk hotel, with a touch of Chordettes feel."Daniele Dileo - Lab Magazine
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Yes Suavesters, it’s that time again. Thursday 3rd September at SELA Bar for the very hottest in sleazy ragtime, dirty jazz, and unspeakably torrid blues, plus the best in 30’s Americana, 40’s Swing and 50’s rockabilly, jump and wail!
All this and a top live act every month for only £2!
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Also, for those who are interested, ‘Righteous!’ is back, end of November, DR B.
