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Mary Hampton
Folk / Experimental / Melodramatic Popular Song



Brighton, England
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  12/9/2009
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Member Since8/18/2006
Band Websitewww.maryhampton.org
Band MembersMary Hampton (voice, guitars, piano), Jo Burke (fiddle, voice), Alistair Strachan (horns, percussion), Seth Bennett (double bass), Alice Eldridge (cello, bass, electronics)
InfluencesMy peculiar kin, the postal service, the parks of London, weather, Anne Briggs, The Song of Solomon, Bob Dylan, Norwegian Hardinger fiddle music, Bach, birdsong, Gagaku, The Muppet Show, Fred Astaire, Blind Mamie Forehand, David Attenborough, pretty much anything published by Dover, William James, Erasmus Darwin, Kabuki, hormones, superstitions/ghost stories/jokes, Harpers journal of civilization, clockwork/bridges/fireworks, watching an Englishman dance, Homer, Rumi, Rabelais, Woolf, Beckett, Baudelaire, Thoreau, tobacco/tea/sugar, the well-made thing and its maker, the wind coming through my ill-fitting window, lists.

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Record LabelNavigator Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Dec 9 2009 8:00P
The Great Banana Hoax at the Boogaloo with Rowan Coupland and polarbear London Town
Feb 3 2010 8:00P
Prince Albert Brighton

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   About Mary Hampton
Hello there. I am Mary Hampton and I live in Brighton in a room overlooking the sea. I find old songs and keep them in coloured vials in my fridge. Sometimes I make up new songs. And sometimes I do neither one thing nor the other.


If you would like to book me for a show, please contact me directly through this page.

The new album 'My Mother's Children' contains a lot of the new songs. It is out on 4th August 2008.

"terrifying and gorgeous....unusual and strong.....epic and tiny... 'My Mother's Children' is an album I know I am going to love for life." (Eliza Carthy, fRoots April 08)

"songs, which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness...fragility, desolation and humour...scurrying around Dartmoor under cover of darkness." (Colin Irwin, Telegraph, 26/04/08)

"her bizarre flights of fancy are the dreams of children, far more unsettling for an adult.....evoking Eliot’s Wasteland in it’s beautiful bleakness". (Wyl Menmuir, Fly, June 08)

"coffee-table-shattering purity...these are songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting" **** (David Stubbs, Uncut, August 08)

"brilliant..peculiar...how great the unexpected on this album makes me feel" (Kate Lewis, Acoustic Magazine, August 08)

"...a true original.....Hampton's vocal lines are not so much melodies as weather systems" ***** (Clare O'Brien, Subba-Culture, May 08)

Songlines **** (June 08)

Mojo, Folk album of the month **** (August 08)

The first two EPs contain more old songs and are available to buy below...

"At a time when it sometimes seems that one cannot move for new folk, free folk, freak folk, weird folk, outsider folk and goodness knows what else, it's an unqualified joy to discover a collection of songs that sit proudly and uncomplicatedly within the folk tradition. And yet, while Mary Hampton's debut CD ... certainly derives much of its appeal from its appropriation of centuries-old folk idioms, it is certainly no museum piece. Its unearthly radiance and undercurrents of desolate modernity transform it into a vital and contemporary living document_" (Sound Projector, issue 15, 2007)

Click here to buy:








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Mary Hampton has 2658 friends.
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Mary Hampton's Friends Comments
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The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Libba Bray's fans



Dec 9 2009 5:16 AM

~* Thanks for adding me *~
william

william



Dec 7 2009 6:49 AM


















Medicine and Duty

Medicine and Duty



Dec 2 2009 1:39 PM

5th Medicine & Duty CD 'Brighter past impressions' out now on Foolproof Projects.
Samuel Guerrier - Photographer

Samuel Guerrier
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Nov 29 2009 2:27 AM

Thanks a lot for the friendship my talented friend :)






Melita Dennett

Melita Dennett



Nov 25 2009 6:21 PM

Your gig on Sunday night at the Hand in Hand was magnificent!
The Great Banana Hoax

The Great Banana Hoax



Nov 25 2009 12:12 PM

Hello all... We can't wait for Mary's London show on Wed 9th Dec - it'd be nice to see you there! x

You can buy tickets here - just four quid, no
booking fee :)

http://www.thegreatbananahoax.com/page4.htm

CIRCULUS

CIRCULUS



Nov 23 2009 3:33 PM

Hail Mary of sweet trillsTheatre Delicatessen
The Black Neck Band of the Common Loon

The Black Neck Band of the Common Loon



Nov 23 2009 1:23 PM

new live jams to download...
Live at Warner Studios 19 9 09
Live at Warner Studios 26 9 09
From Beneath It Devours

From Beneath It Devours



Nov 19 2009 10:22 PM




Mary you were beautiful at the albert
xjenx
grook presents

grook presents



Nov 18 2009 8:43 PM

Noah Ross

Noah Ross



Nov 18 2009 12:33 AM

My dearest friend;
I happen to have a new song entitled "Under The Arno."
I would truly appreciate it if you checked it out.
Much Love
Noah Ross
Books for Amnesty, Brighton

Books for Amnesty, Brighton



Nov 14 2009 3:49 PM

Wateraid and Books for Amnesty present the winter-warming WINTERFEST Music Festival
November 21st at the Brighton Unitarian Church (near the Theatre Royal)
Music, film, chocolate and cake all day and into the night! From 12pm till 10:30pm
Music from:
Django Spears www.myspace.com/djangospears
The Wellingtons www.myspace.com/brightonwellingtons
The Flash Bang Band www.myspace.com/flashbangwallop
Seadog www.myspace.com/seadogmusic
The Bobby Mcgees www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
The Don Bradmans www.myspace.com/thedonbradmans
Foxes www.myspace.com/foxesfoxesfoxes
Los Piratas www.myspace.com/lospiratasband


November 21st web

Tickets at the Books for Amnesty Bookshop, £5 for the evening gig (from 7pm) Free for the afternoon (12-4:30)
All funds raised go to Wateraid and Amnesty International
AYAQUI VIDAY

AYAQUI VIDAY



Nov 12 2009 3:52 PM

very very very nice to meet your sound! :) CHeers!
Table - Songs you can Sing - DOWNLOAD NOW!

Table - Songs you can Sing - DOWNLOAD NOW!



Nov 10 2009 9:56 PM

The Gambling Lambs

The Gambling Lambs



Nov 9 2009 4:37 PM

Interesting songs, thoroughly enjoyed listening. Thank you very much for the add.
the man from another place

the man from another place



Nov 7 2009 7:10 PM

Really lovely  stuff.
Thanks for the add!
Check out my music if you fancy.
All the best!
Dan.

 

sjofn

sjofn



Nov 7 2009 6:31 PM

so lovely
kozavsarafane

Dana Mamazhanova



Nov 5 2009 12:03 AM

Thanks for the add:)
The Dream Demolition Factory

The Dream Demolition Factory



Nov 4 2009 2:52 AM

Thank-you very much for accepting my humble friend request...I am not worthy etc.!

I'll come and see you next time you're in Leeds (the girlfriend is a big fan).
Colyn

Colyn



Nov 3 2009 12:25 PM

ANNABEL LEE



It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.



I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love-

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.



And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.



The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me-

Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.



But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we-

Of many far wiser than we-

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.



For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.



Edgar Allan Poe



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Willkommen Collective

Willkommen Collective



Nov 1 2009 8:26 PM

Willkommen Records,Willkommen Collective,Noiserv,Woodpecker Wooliams,Redwood Red,Coachwerks,Brighton



The first Willkommen Records event at Coachwerks in
Brighton. Located just off Lewes Road, on Hollingdean Terrace, this is
a beautifully converted industrial space and now an inspiring and
spacious venue (plus they have a very cheap bar!)




Noiserv is the name given for Portugeuse musical mastermind,
David Santos. Compared to Juana Molina, David Thomas Broughton and Jose
Gonzalez, he creates a hypnotising and emotionally engaging atmosphere,
looping the sounds of the room, xylophone, guitar, melodica, harmonica
and keyboards.




Woodpecker Wooliams is a charming one woman experimentalist. With an extraordinary
bag of tricks, employing vocals, kora, celtic harp, clarinet,
harmonium, glockenspiels and whistles, she conjures bewitching freeform
lo-fi chants and sings folk songs of mystery and secrecy.




Redwood Red is Cathy Cardin. She is the feminine touch to
Willkommen favourites Sons of Noel and Adrian and Laish Quartet. With
her grounded and pure vocal delivery, she interweaves a unique
fingerpicking guitar style with double bass and flute. This is a rare
live outing for Redwood Red and one not to be missed.



Tickets available from Resident (01273 606312) or online here:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/58765
ALIEN ROAD [in studio now]

ALIEN ROAD [in studio now]



Oct 30 2009 6:49 PM

 

We thank you for the add. We’re just a small band, but we’d be delighted if you listened to our Garage Rock songs and you sent us any kind of comment!! If u couldn’t we’ll be happy if you just let this comment be shown, so that ur fans & friends get to know us.

Eat Your Own Ears

Eat Your Own Ears



Oct 30 2009 2:15 PM

Eat Your Own Ears presents
JAMES YORKSTON AND THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS
ALASDAIR ROBERTS
MARRY WATERSON & OLIVER KNIGHT
MARY HAMPTON
DAVID A JAYCOCK
Plus guests

Saturday 7 November 2009 
THE TABERNACLE POWIS SQUARE,
LONDON, W11 2AY



Tickets from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444771000
www.seetickets.com 0870 264 3333 
www.wegottickets.com
Bellows

Bellows



Oct 22 2009 8:25 PM


 

Belvedere Mountain Express

Belvedere Mountain Express



Oct 19 2009 10:37 PM

Thank you so much for coming up to Edinburgh.  It was good to see and hear you in the flesh, as it were; I thought you were going to be scary but you weren’t!  I’ve been a huge fan of My Mother’s Children since hearing a track on Late Junction late last year, and I just picked up Books 1 and 2 at the gig this evening.  Best of luck to you for the rest of the tour.

Howard of Belvedere Mountain Express, in Edinburgh
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