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:
'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. Buy the EP now and it will be despatched to you one week before the official release date.
'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 £9 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."
“wiQwar presents a night of ethereal soundscapes, haunting lyrics and stomping instrumentals from around East Anglia – Cambridge’s Fuzzy Lights, Suffolk’s Three Beards and Norwich’s own My Dark Aunt and Spidermilk.”
La Folie are having a launch party on the 8th of June at The Forum in Sheffield! £2 advance tickets/£3 on the door! Plus the added bonus of if you film some stuff from the night of us, you or anything else connected and send it us, we will send you a free copy of 'Risus Sardonicus'
I very much enjoyed your gig at the Shakespeare on Sat, look forward to seeing you again. Have not had change for a listen yet but the art work is really special x
CONFIRMED BANDS FOR 2009 INCLUDE... NINE BLACK ALPS KID BRITISH WAVE MACHINES MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE THE TRAVELLING BAND TEN BEARS THE VORTEX THE MAYBES KARIMA FRANCIS THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP FRAZER KING CASIO KID GIDEON CONN THE GAY BLADES THE WHISKYCATS TEN BEARS ..... with around 200 bands over the weekend
**** CHECK THE MYSPACE BLOG FOR FULL MUSIC AND ARTS LISTINGS ****
Scoop: If you scratch and sniff the ink in BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN by Jeph Joeb and Tim Sale, you can get high as a kite, I tell you, high as a kiiiiiiite.
This beautiful super-heavyweight LP, which comes packaged in a sweet full-colour sleeve reunites the UK's premier free drummer Alex Neilson, who's played, amongst others, with Motor Ghost, Directing Hand, Trembling Bells, Tight Meat Duo, Josephine Foster, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Jandek, MV&EE, Richard Youngs, Baby Dee and Alastair Galbraith, with Nmperign member Greg Kelley, whose reinvention of the trumpet is as crucial now as Anthony Braxton's reinvention of the sax was 30 years ago. A screeching, soaring, scattergun array of noises come maniacally out of Greg's horn, unlike anything we've ever heard and, with the addition of random stabs of electronics, he successfully straddles no wave, concrete and free jazz in a way that makes those genres seem like trite pigeonholes.
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