Click here to Download 'The Leader' or buy the CD online here http://www.bronzerat.com/shopuk.html at Bronzerat Records, or get dressed and get down to your local record shop.
Click here to Download 'Hard Shoulder' or buy the 7" also featuring 'Name Your Lord' at www.bronzerat.co.uk or your favourite record shop.
PRESS: Fifth Avenue PR
CONTACT: Sarah Lowe - fifthavenuepr@googlemail.com
'The Leader' tour line-up is:
Gemma Ray - Vocals and Guitar
Mary Epworth - Autoharp, Backing Vocals and Percussion
Tom Brown - Bass
Nick Foot - Drums and Percussion
Alex Captain Spangle Louise - Backing Vocals
Mal Bruk- Guitar
Influences
phonetics, phenetics, frenetics, furnetics, fanatics, ladies singing the blues, men singing the blues, gospel and some country music, odd 60's pop, welsh choirs, corrugated cardboard, burnt paper, rust, things that become good when you multiply them, black ink, sepia, photos of strangers and war heros, 1966 goldfoil pickups, reverb, medieval recreation museums, life, death, hospitals, hindsight, foresight, the past, THE PRESENT.
New Video for 'Rise of the Runts' by Chicano, filmed in the heart of Essex one beautifully colourless morning in July 2008.
Trailer for the forthcoming British horror film 'Mum & Dad', starring Perry Benson. It's fucked. It's also the perfect marriage for Gemma Ray's first soundtrack. Check it out:
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Hard Shoulder Video - By MW Brown and produced by Finch.
Some reviews for 'The Leader'...
“With noir-ish hints of Lee Hazlewood’s unearthly country-rock, Ray sits midway between Nina Simone and Isobel Campbell, and is the better for it.” - MOJO
“A startlingly good album” – Clash
“Imagine Norah Jones on Amy Winehouse’s drugs” - Q
"Few (girl singers) are as raw and honest, she weaves an entrancing tapestry of Soul and Blues, full of dark themes and late-night confessions all presented in a sultry seductive voice" - The Sun
"(The Leader’s) classic pop genes are host to a bewildering range of foreign bodies, rising from minor key squalls to full girl-group majesty. You could do worse than imagine PJ Harvey in thrall to the Shangri-Las, but Ray has a clutch purse full of sundry to other party tricks, she has no problem producing straight, sparkling pop". - The Word
Come and celebrate the release of Kitty, Daisy & Lewis's brilliant new AA single, (Baby) Hold Me Tight/ Buggin' Blues, at Madame Jo Jo's this coming Wednesday 3rd. December!
Click on flyer for tickets…….
Forthcoming NTSOBC action…..
Mon 8 Dec: Boss Hog at The Luminaire, Kilburn, NW6
Sat 20 Dec: Jim Jones Revue at Whats Cookin, Leytonstone, E11 (FREE!)
Wed 31 Dec: Jim Jones Revue at Tapestry New Years Eve party, St Aloysius Social Club, NW1
Hope you are enjoy thursday afternoon and not working to hard if you have some free time we have added some new events to our blogs, guest book, photos, etc also why not check our other site www. lairofsin. co. uk
Map of the Week: Where Were You When You Heard Obama Had Won.
No matter how you voted on election day, this is clearly a defining moment in our history. Mark yourself on the map and write a few words about where you were and how you felt.
If you can do anything with a MIC then come down to the Spareromm Hanley before 11pm with your backing track on a CD starting from the 21 November check the flyer out.
It's finally done. Eleven songs including my version of Amazing Grace, and for the month of October, I will be donating 20% of the net proceeds from all sales of my debut, "Sinners and Saints", to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Visit www. RickStrouse. com for details.
Thought we’d let you know that we’re playing your new single "Rise Of The Runts" on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Sunday morning between 1-3am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the on line "Listen Live/Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there's a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
