David Armes: guitar, oddments.
Kev Craig: voice, theremin.
Mike Doward: electric bass, double bass.
Sarah Kemp: violin.
Huw McPherson: drums, percussion.
Gina Murphy: piano, voice, organ.
James Youngjohns: viola, lap & pedal steel, tenor guitar.
Influences
The makers of the space echo.
Sounds Like
PLAN B : “Great chasmic dramas hide within the swooning dustbowl rumbles of these songs, blackly turbulent like 16 Horsepower or Lift To Experience, with a Wild West baroque feel akin to Okkervil River.”
METRO : "Classic outback brooding, recalling the deathly pallor of contemporary Australians The Drones, but also the intimate lethargy of Tindersticks."
LONDON TOUR DATES : “A brooding, country-noir masterpiece.”
UNCUT : “Well worth investigating.”
BIG ISSUE : “Like taking a drunken waltz through a candlelit room, Last Harbour delight in all that is nocturnal and sinister.”
TERRORIZER : “Occasionally witty, always elegant, Last Harbour is for the discerning ear.”
DROWNED IN SOUND : “Bewitching."
ARTROCKER : "The final frontier of funeral pop."
Last Harbour are a Manchester-based band playing rustic, cinematically atmospheric songs that rattle and loom, at once epic and intimate, harsh and beautiful. The seven-piece band operate as a collective of like-minded musicians, all of whom are involved in other artistic work including illustration, photography, writing, filmmaking and recording. K Craig’s distinctive papercuts illustrate much of the band’s artwork. The band have had the honour of touring and playing alongside Willard Grant Conspiracy, Michael Gira (Swans/Angels of Light), Dirty Three, Grails, Califone, The Handsome Family, Devendra Banhart, David Thomas Broughton, Mark Mulcahy, Black Heart Procession, Johnny Dowd and Danny Saul. Get in touch here or via info@lastharbour.co.uk if you are interested in booking the band or just want to ask how much we like space echo.
Releases available now: (NB - if ordering from outside of the UK please see additional postage rates below)
'SAINT LUMINOUS BRIDE' EP (Little Red Rabbit; LRR012) £5.50 plus postage and packing
Limited edition of 350 individually numbered with hand screen printed cover and insert on 10" vinyl & download. Release date: 25th May 2009.
'MY KNOWEN FOE' EP (Little Red Rabbit; LRR006) £3 plus postage and packing
'DEAD FIRES & THE LONELY SPARK' album (Little Red Rabbit; LRR005)
Distributed by Forte in UK & Europe. Available in all record stores and via iTunes etc for digital. Or buy from Little Red Rabbit £8 plus postage and packing.
PLAN B : "Great chasmic dramas hide within the swooning dustbowl rumbles of
these songs, blackly turbulent like 16 Horsepower or Lift To Experience,
with a Wild West baroque feel akin to Okkervil River."
UNCUT : "Well worth investigating."
LONDON TOUR DATES : "A brooding, country-noir masterpiece."
DROWNED IN SOUND : "Bewitching."
BIG ISSUE : "Like taking a drunken waltz through a candlelit room, Last
Harbour delight in all that is nocturnal and sinister."
TERRORIZER : "Occasionally witty, always elegant, Last Harbour is for the
discerning ear."
For postage rates outside the UK please press one of the following buttons (once per order)
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
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.
La Folie are back in town again and we playing at the O2 Academy on Friday 11th of Septmeber! It's £4 a ticket and you get in to Transmission afterwards for free! Entry to that is usually £5 so it makes blatent sense to come see us first and you save a quid as well! get in touch if you fancy coming down
The Unthanks @ candle-lit 12th century halifax parish church on Sat 24th Oct. + kathryn edwards + support real ale bar in church. pay on door or advanced from www.ticketweb.co.uk www.doghouseuk.com
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