FEMALE MUSICIANS- Jenny Benford, Rosie Cuckston, Sarah Beam, Björk Gudmundsdottir, Nina Nastasia, Alice Coltrane, Irene Saletan and Ellen Christenson, Françoiz Breut, Kate Bush, Scout Niblett, Mimi Parker, Hope Sandoval, Rennie Sparks, Mary Hanson, Joanna Newsom, Emma Pollock, Chloe Vispap-Rich, a Sparrow and the Workshop, Jess Bryant, Brigid Power-Ryce...
MALE MUSICIANS-
Ola Lempke, Jason Molina, Alan Sparhawk, Alasdair Roberts, Jim O'rourke, Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, Sam Coomes, John McIntire, Jim Krewson, David Grubbs, Leonard Cohen, Yann Tiersen, Zach Condon, Brett Sparks, Jeff Lewis, Steve Albini, John Fahey, Harry Smith, Bert Jansch, Adam Jansch, Sonny boy Williamson, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, Richard Thompson, Brother Daniel, Jack Rose, Ry Cooder, Towns van Zandt, Glenn Jones, Robbie Basho, Felix Lajko, Efrim, György Ligeti, Ornette Coleman, Chad Taylor, Pharaoh (Farrell) Sanders, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, Tim Mosley...
WRITERS- Daniil Kharms, Jorge Luis Borges, Anna Kavan, David Albahari, Andrei Bely, Alaisdiar Gray, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Julio Cortazar, Flann O'brien, Raymond Carver, Jean Giono, Andrey Platonov, Guillermo Arriaga, Samual Beckett, Mikhail Bulgakov, Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, Simone de Beauvoir, Joseph Conrad, Maguerite Duras, Nikolai Gogol, Elfriende Jelinek, Mikhail Lemontov, Thomas Mann, Iris Murdoch, Ivan Bunin, Marcel Pagnol, Saki, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Primo Levi, Donald Barthelme, Proust, William Faulkner, Honore de Balzac, James Joyce, Leonid Dobychin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Oscar Wilde, José Ortega y Gasset...
DIRECTORS-
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Lars von Trier, Alexander Sokurov, Elem Klimov, Darren Aronofsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Hans Weingartner, Emir Kusturica, Hayao Miyazaki, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard...
Sounds Like
'Oh grace' Live at Bush Hall
'Enaleigh' Live at Bush Hall
'Untitled' Live at the Union Chapel
'As silence grew so cold' live at The Cavendish Arms
Filmed by ben and uncle elliot
'As silence grew so cold' Live at the Union Chapel
'Noted as time goes' Live at the Union Chapel
'Piano' Live at the Union Chapel
'After all the time we've depended upon' Live at the Cavendish Arms
'A bed to call my own' by Lady and the Lemkin with Ola Lempke, Live at the Luminaire supporting Cherryholmes
'Eyes Low' with Ola Lempke, Daniel Luper, Tim Mosley and Chloe Vispap-Rich live at Winterwell festival, 2008.
The Luminaire presents
CHERRYHOLMES
+ Laurie McNamee
Doors 7.30
£9 via WeGotTickets and Ticketweb
£10 door.
London based musician Laurie McNamee is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, whose music traverses numerous genres including nu-folk and alternative country; her compositions drawing on modern classical and free-jazz influences. Often referred to as a British Joanna Newsom, Laurie draws comparisons to Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.) through her experimental song writing methods, Low in her emotive sound and Nina Nastasia and Bjork in her powerful yet gentle vocals.
After playing and performing from an early age, recent years have seen her absent from the stage in order to concentrate on composing and recording. Returning to live performance at the end of 2007, these well received live shows preceded her self-released debut album ‘…and they will teach us that eternity is but the standing still of time…’ in March 2008, which sees her moving from guitar to harp, banjo, bandolin and cello joined by Ola Lempke on vocals and Chloe Vispap-Rich on clarinet (who will both be accompanying Laurie for this performance.)
Laurie has headlined the Leftfield Electro-acoustics’ club's residency at the Vortex, performed at winterwell festival, co-composed with Lempke for L.I.F.T (London International festival of Theatre) and has been showcased on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music show.
Friday 18 April| 8.45pm | £7 | Book online http://www.wegottickets.com/event/28670
Electroacoustic Club at the Vortex
Laurie McNamee and guests
As Electroacoustic Club's reputation for hosting up-and-coming leftfield and avant-garde but accessible acoustic and electronic acts from around the world grows, promoter Will Rees presents the club's first show at The Vortex, featuring relative newcomer, Laurie McNamee and special guests.
Endearingly shy and gentle, with a stage manner blending Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan and New Yorkian singer/songwriter Jaymay [Smash Music], Laurie McNamee has recently begun transfixing audiences across London with her whispery ethereal, quiet yet powerful voice, which simultaneously expresses both insecurity and security.
Her self-produced debut album '...and they will teach us that eternity is but the standing still of time...' finds her moving from guitar to banjo and harp, her technique appearing primitive and visceral but the overall effect of the songs, arrangements and her unique voice proving to be absolutely magical and profoundly emotive. To describe her as an English Joanna Newsom would do no disservice to either one.
Monday 10th March at the Slaughtered Lamb, Great Sutton Street, Farringdon. Album Launch for Laurie McNamee's debut album,'...and they will teach us that eternity is but the standing still of time...'
Presented by the Electroacoustic club, Laurie McNamee will be joined by Ola Lempke, Daniel Luper, Jon Osbourne and Chloe Vispap-Rich with collaborative artists captincaptin with support from Joseph Swift, James Bonham, Bluebeard and very special
guests. Please see www.lauriemcnamee.co.uk or www.electroacousticclub.com for more information. Tickets available from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=251470 and http://www.wegottickets.com/event/25960 Advance tickets advisory
Collaborative artists captincaptin please see http://www.captincaptin.co.uk and www.paperworksarts.org
Joseph Swift http://www.myspace.com/thejoeswiftbande
James Bonham http://www.jfbonham.com - scroll down to other activities and download the tunes
I seem to discover new noisy bands all the time. Going to DIY punk/hardcore/whatever shows always seems easy, 'cos there's a lot of them about, and I hear about them regularly. Talking about 'underground' or 'new' music normally gets me thinking about noisy music, not acoustic/singer-songwriter stuff. A few trickle through, most notably of late Paul Marshall, but that's mostly because he is associated with a lot of hardcore gigs and so on.
How the hell do you discover new acoustic/singer-songwriter acts that aren't utter tripe? As my Last.fm probably shows, I listen to a lot of indie-rock, acoustic and folk-y stuff, but when it comes to going to gigs, I'm a bit wary of acoustic nights, as is the aforementioned Paul Marshall, who said he wasn't a fan of the kind of nights like the "first Tuesday of every month at our local pub', at which you are exposed to about three hours of 'local talent' and are required to play an hour-long set consisting of mainly covers, with a couple of your own thrown in." He was more polite than I would've been.
HOWEVER (this does have a point, honest) I happened to attend a gig on Monday night in Farringdon with a 'friend', whose housemate was having her album launch night. I hadn't really thought about what to expect, but Laurie McNamee's multi-instrumental talents were quite stunning, and without any sight of what Mr Marshall despises about 'acoustic nights'. Anyone who cites Jason Molina/Songs Ohia is going to be a friend of mine, and her songs were simply and effortlessly beautiful without any of the contrite naffness I associate with much of this kind of thing. She had harps and guitars and clarinets and banjos and cellos and GUITAR FEEDBACK (not all played by her, it has to be said). Her other project, where she plays in a duo possibly called Bluebeard it would seem, was equally sublime.
Perhaps I should have more faith in acoustic nights huh? girl aloud blog/msn
Laurie McNamee - The Slaughtered Lamb, London - Friday November 12, 2007
A tiny figure dressed all in black, Laurie crept unassumingly onto the stage and, with a smile and the strumming of her acoustic guitar, began playing.
Her first song was hauntingly sweet and soon and the guitar was swapped for a banjo, which she played just as deftly. Incredibly sad but with a Tori Amos-like quality and confidence to her voice, the whole room was filled with a quiet and beautiful melancholy; it was the kind of sound that makes you stop tracks on your journey to the bar, thinking it would be rude to interrupt.
Endearingly shy and gentle, with a stage manner blending Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan and New Yorkian singer/songwriter Jaymay, the room was transfixed by this whispery ethereal, quiet yet powerful voice, with both insecurity and security expressed simultaneously.
For her last song, proving herself somewhat a musical prodigy rather than just another singer with a guitar, Laurie played a heavy wooden harp just as beautifully as she had played the other instruments. At this point, I actually felt a shiver down my spine and it occurred to me that this set in its entirety was the sound of heartbreak; that said, heartbreak sounds pretty good.
(9/10)
London based musician Laurie McNamee is a singer, multi instrumentalist and composer whose music traverses numerous genres from folk noir to minimalist Americana; her compositions drawing on modern classical and free-jazz influences.
Having been described as a post-rock Joanna Newsom, she has also gained maybe more apt comparisons to Jason Molina (Songs: Ohio, Magnolia Electric Co.) in her experimental song writing methods, Low in her emotive sound and both Nina Nastasia and Bjork in her powerful yet hauntingly delicate vocals.
A series of well received shows preceded her self released debut album '...and they will teach us that eternity is but the standing still of time…' in March 2008. This intriguingly titled and startlingly mature release features not only her unique vocals, but her unique guitar picking methods as well as highlighting her instrumental prowess on Celtic harp, banjo, cello, bandolin, charango, harmonium and percussion.
Recently, Laurie has performed at venues including The Union Chapel, The Luminaire, The Vortex and Bush Hall. She has composed at length for film and theatre, for recent projects such as L.I.F.T (London International Festival of Theatre) in 2008 and in 2009 has collaborated with musician Charlie Henry on Royal College of Art graduate Hannah Warren's final animation piece and is undertaking ongoing projects with film students from the Slade School of Art. She has been featured on Tom Robinson's 6 Music radio show as well as radio programs in America, Canada and Europe. She is currently working on performance and promotion projects with her newly established music and arts collective beware! the crows bite for which a description can be read at the address below.
For bookings, more information or to request a demo, please contact beware.thecrowsbite.music@gmail.com or Tim Mosley: tim.mosley@gmail.com
For upcoming information on beware! the crows bite music and arts collective, stay in touch at present at www.myspace.com/bewarethecrowsbitemusic
CURRENT PROJECTS
Lady with the Lempkin
This long running duet with talented Swedish musician Ola Lempke, mixes many different styles and influences - listen at
http://www.myspace.com/bluebeardlaurieandola
Othay and the Wilderness
This project with musician Ophey Adams works with traditional American folk from the early 1900's, Americana and Bluegrass standards. Reworking songs for male and female vocals, but with the traditional instruments such as guitar banjo and bandolin Ophey and The Wilderness add an English influence and somewhat 'nu' folk tweaks hear and there...
Drawing upon influence from his Portuguese and South African heritage, Miguel Gnomes presents his beautiful, verging on soundtrack and sound scape sounding compositions, with which Laurie McNamee adds her delicate guitar techniques and occasionally celtic harp. A very new project that is in the development stage!
Tom Robinson played 'eyes low' on his show on the 11th May 2008
Laurie! It's been forever, but you popped up in my top friends. I just wanted to say hi (I wonder if you even remember me). How are you doing? I hope you are still pursuing the music thing --it seems you are. Anyways, cheers from across the world. -david of thecitylights*
Thanks for being our friend...
We've moved, too - now upsatirs at Albert & Pearl, 118 Upper
Street, Islington (opposite the Town Hall). December SoftlySoftly is on
THURSDAY 3rd ..hen from January, it's every first and third
Wednesday of each month...
See you there I hope x
Just letting you know, my EP "Imaginary Mind" has finally arrived! It can be bought from my website for $10, which is found on my page, and along with that i have also uploaded two songs from it! So please have a listen if you have time, would be great to hear what you think!
Just a reminder that Clerkenwell's best Monday Night Folk Night will next be taking place on Monday 2nd November, featuring: Chris Sarjeant and Emma Scarr,plus floor spots and more
Emma Scarr has been active on London’s live scene for approaching two decades. A proficient performer on guitar, fiddle and banjo, in recent years she has concentrated on song craft.
Chris Sarjeant has been recently described as,".a very major addition to the British Folk Scene.." by BBC Folk-musician of the year Tom McConville who added that his guitar work is "...impeccable.."
Hello Laurie! You're going to End of the Road...so am I :) Will be lovely to see you. Good luck with recording the EP and look forward to getting a copy at the festival. Jess x
laurie, your music is beautiful, and thanks for being our friend, hope our paths will cross someday, and good luck with the recording. Peace and Love. The Woven Project.
Hey Laurie, don't apologise. So lemme guess, were you hangin' out at Madame Tussaud's or something? I mean, don't get me wrong, I know you roll with a classy bunch of folk...x
Oh that's alrighty! :) I should have some new recordings up soon though, going to the studio hopefully this week to record for the EP, so i'll tell you when they're up. Music over here is pretty good, ever thought of coming to play here one day?
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
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