THE AUTUMN DEFENSE (two members of WILCO) + PLUSH (Liam Hayes) Sunday 7th September @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
The Autumn Defense is a collaboration between Wilco/Uncle Tupelo bassist John Stirratt and Wilco multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone who has also produced records for the likes of Andrew Bird and Joseph Arthur. They have released 3 albums of beautifully arranged, organic, wispy folk-rock and singer-songwriter musings.
"Comfort music for the soul...” UNCUT **** "never less than utterly gorgeous" THE WORD "reference points include Nick Drake and CSN, Bread, Big Star and the essence of Love, Steely Dan and a dozen others" MOJO **** "edifying and beautifully textured" DAILY MIRROR **** "soft rock at it's most elegant." TIME OUT "Soft, dreamy and bittersweet” WASHINGTON POST "Warming, gorgeous and delightful” DAVID FRICKE, SENIOR EDITOR, ROLLING STONE
Liam Hayes appeared as himself in High Fidelity and his band Plush's long lost masterpiece 'Fed' is currently receiving rave reviews across the music press including 5/5 in Uncut, 4/5 in Mojo, Q, Plan B, NME 8/10 etc. A regular collaborator, he has also worked with Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy), appearing on keyboards across the Palace era output, and also played on records by Royal Trux.
"Fed is beautifully excessive, ornamented with dazzling soul/pop arrangements. And the songs are glorious..." UNCUT ***** "A banquet of sonic gorgeousness" NME 8/10 "Fed is something of a lost classic" MOJO **** "Fed can be finally heard as a testament to Hayes's widescreen obsessions" Q **** "Perfect takes time" PLAN B “a soulful symphonic masterpiece” ROLLING STONE
A pretty decent amount of superlatives there for just £9 (adv.) Get your tickets from www. clwb. net, Spillers (Cardiff) or Diverse (Newport)
PLEASE COME TO THE LOOSE FREE INDIE DISCO THIS FRIDAY 23RD NOV 8PM - O'NEILLS, TRINITY STREET (BY CARDIFF MARKET) ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIKE STUFF LIKE THIS!
aislers set / animal collective / arthur and yu / aztec camera / apples in stereo /architecture in helsinki / bearsuit / belle + sebastian / beirut / bridgitte bardot / beach boys / bob dylan / b52s / casiotone for the painfully alone / cribs / camera obscura / dandy warhols / deerhoof / david bowie / decemberists / daniel johnston / duran duran / dexy's midnight runners / el perro del mar / electrelane / envelopes / fanfarlo / flaming lips / giant drag / the go! team / grandaddy / herman dune / i'm from barcelona / jens lekman / jeffrey lewis / jonathan richman / jesus + mary chain / kenickie / los campesinos! / lucky soul / misty's big adventure / magnetic fields / neutral milk hotel / nuggets / of montreal / os mutantes / orange juice / panda bear / patrick wolf / pet shop boys / pipettes / pixies /pavement / pulp / raveonettes / research / roxy music / ronettes / sonic youth / shins / suburban kids with biblical names / shangri-las / talking heads / tilly + the wall / trachtenburg family slideshow players / television / velvet underground / wings / weezer / xiu xiu / young knives / yeah yeah yeahs / yo la tengo
yeah, sorry about that. this one will be limited to more i think. Probably 200 and if that goes fast then maybe a second pressing. Do you at least have the full album in mp3s or some other format? it's floating around on the internet. I might put it up on yousendit again to let a bunch of people download it. let me know!
hellooo! i am indeed still obsessed, although i feel he lets me (and himself) down a lot these days. i think he has started to believe the hype. anyway, i saw king creosote t'other night, he was awesome. i haven't got any lined up though, what about you? we should gig. x
Don't worry, it's not literally a chinese pizza. My friend's a mong and calls cheese pizzas chinese pizzas... it's a long story.
Aye, I phoned The Point up myself y'day about tickets and they said the same thing. I don't how I'm gonna wait all this time to buy tickets - it's torture.
go on to the tutorials section of getyourbootlegon and there's some wizard stuff in there using simple phase inversion. the program was audiogold or something but it's teh wackest. there's a bunch of plug ins that also do audio isolation as well. search the whole of the forum and you'll turn up nuggets!
and yes. team oton. be here sometime. if you miss all of them, you will be square forever... : )
HAHA! That'll learn you. Not sure what for, but it will. I'm going to be partying hard all weekend (it's my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary). Jealous? Thought so.
all of the people on this photo from last year will be coming again, being from left to right adam, katy, me and darren (yes, katy was at field day), plus some other people including the aforementioned band and the tallest man in britain.
yep - in fact i'll be singing at it with my friends monkey swallows the universe! what do you recommend from the line-up? there's a lot of bands i haven't heard of. oh, and listen out for the fisher price soundsystem if you want a game of boules.
