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Mary Hampton
Folk / Experimental / Melodramatic Popular Song



Brighton, England
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/15/2009
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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.

The following salad (of Greek origin ), as made by Alice Eldridge. It is possible that the preparation and eating of this salad will bring about many good things in the world...
Rough-diced watermelon
Rough-diced feta cheese
Fresh mint leaves
Finely shredded red onion
Splash of balsamic vinegar
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Record LabelNavigator Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
Hedge Manchester
Jul 19 2009 8:00P
Church of Vega TBC Vega
Jul 30 2009 8:00P
Modern Minstrelsy at Cafe Oto with Caoimhin O Raghallaigh and The Hand London Town
Aug 2 2009 8:00P
Local heroes show @ Hove Folk Club with Pog and Phil Jeays Hove
Aug 13 2009 8:00P
Moonshine Jamboree at Tamesis Dock London Town
Aug 21 2009 8:00P
Greenman Festival Wales
Sep 4 2009 8:00P
Moseley Folk Festival Birmingham

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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)



Buy CD Book One



Buy CD Book Two



Buy CD Books One and Two

Please allow 28 days for delivery. Thanks.




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Mary Hampton's Friends Comments
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Ishai Shapira Kalter





Jul 6 2009 2:06 AM

the well





Jun 30 2009 8:28 PM

Hope you can make it x
william





Jun 30 2009 5:17 AM


















The Singer Not The Song





Jun 28 2009 8:58 PM

Again, thank you so so much for a wonderful evening last friday in Madrid, it was breathtaking, & I thought that maybe you're still around this next Thursday... Hoping to come across again, Love

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Pamela Wyn Shannon





Jun 24 2009 1:48 PM

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Anders Griffen





Jun 22 2009 3:38 PM


Magpie Magazine





Jun 20 2009 3:32 PM

Magpie Magazine Issue Four is now in full bloom!



it includes a collection of short stories, music reviews and illustrations plus lots of poetry, prose, roots and mud...

x
I Draw Slow





Jun 18 2009 1:52 PM

Hi Mary Hampton, I Draw Slow are playing The Cobblestone, Smithfield in Dublin on Wednesday 24th June, supported by the amazing Thomas Kitt. Doors are at 8.30 and admission is €10, a small price to pay to see the citys two premier acoustic acts don't you agree? On the off chance you disagree, come down on wednesday next to the Cobblestone, Smithfield Dublin and we'd be happy to discuss it.
The Psychogeographical Commission


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Jun 18 2009 7:58 AM


Hello, thank you ever so much for adding us. :-)
In Like A Lion...





Jun 15 2009 9:49 PM

Hey Mary,
hope you're well.

We have our first birthday and a goodbye to In Like A Lion for a while, I thought I'd share it with you...
Jen x




Hollowbody





Jun 12 2009 3:11 PM

Nice to see you again, thanks for a spine-tingling set last night.
Dan
L*A*W*M in Lancaster





Jun 7 2009 5:28 PM

The Lancaster gig on friday June 12th has now sold out.
LILY & WEIZENEGGER





Jun 4 2009 1:48 PM



Hi Mary,

i hope you like our music, too.

Hans
Willkommen Collective





Jun 2 2009 2:02 PM

Come down if you're around!









Medicine and Duty





May 26 2009 1:00 PM

Out now, new CD of frantic free jazz sax/drums from Ron Caines and Andy Pyne. Available from us, £6.00 inc p&p worldwide. Download a track here.
william





May 26 2009 5:09 AM


















Wyrdstone





May 24 2009 6:55 PM

Hello Mary, looking forward to seeing you play in Sharpthorne!

---Wyrdstone - Cuffern (RW 075)---

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I am happy to announce that my debut album 'Cuffern' is now released through 'Reverb Worship'!

10 tracks of psychedelic/traditional/pastoral folk guitar and other sounds.

The CD comes in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies in white card sleeves with paste on artwork with a "Wickerman" theme.

For full track listing and other details, please check out my latest blog.

The album is available to order now at 'Reverb Worship' on:

www.reverbworship.com

Love

Clive
Peter Nevins





May 20 2009 8:42 PM

Now I regret not having checked further into Diane Cluck before leaving NYC.
kyoungmi





May 14 2009 4:05 PM


thank you, mary hampton :)
have a nice day
william





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In Like A Lion...





May 13 2009 10:12 PM

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Daniel Mark Faller





May 13 2009 5:37 PM

greetings from Idaho / USA....thanks for the friendship....daniel
Books for Amnesty, Brighton





May 12 2009 9:57 AM

Hiya from the folks at the Books for Amnesty bookshop, Brighton.



Thanks for being our friend, hope all's well with you!
sjofn





May 9 2009 3:01 AM

lovely
Chiara Ambrosio





May 7 2009 5:41 PM

Watch CHARON online!

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/chiaraambrosio/video/x96fhn_charon_creation

Directed by Chiara Ambrosio
Produced by Michael Nyman
Original score by Michael Nyman
Sound by Mark Peter Wright.

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