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Mary Hampton
Folk / Experimental / Melodramatic Popular Song



Brighton, England
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  11/7/2009
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   Mary Hampton: General Info
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 )
Oct 15 2009 8:00P
The Tunnels with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Aberdeen, Scotland
Oct 16 2009 8:00P
The Arches with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Glasgow, Scotland
Oct 18 2009 8:00P
Cupar Arts Festival with JY and the Big Eyes Family Band Fife, Scotland
Oct 19 2009 8:00P
The Bongo Club with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 20 2009 8:00P
The Cluny 2 with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Newcastle
Oct 21 2009 8:00P
The Kazimier with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Liverpool
Oct 22 2009 8:00P
The Faversham with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, Alasdair Roberts, David A Jaycock Leeds
Oct 23 2009 8:00P
Fibbers with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock York
Oct 24 2009 8:00P
Night & Day Cafe with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Manchester
Oct 25 2009 8:00P
The Fleece with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Bristol
Oct 26 2009 8:00P
Clwb Ifor Bach with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Cardiff, Wales
Oct 28 2009 8:00P
Bang Bangor Festival Bangor, Wales
Oct 31 2009 8:00P
Fence Halloween Party with james Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Band Anstruther, Scotland
Nov 5 2009 8:00P
South Street Arts Centre with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock Reading
Nov 7 2009 8:00P
Tabernacle with JY & TBEFP, Alasdir Roberts, Marry Gilhooley, David A Jaycock London Town
Nov 9 2009 8:00P
The Hanbury Ballroom with James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players, David A Jaycock 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)







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Mary Hampton's Friends Comments
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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

ALIEN ROAD



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
william

william



Oct 15 2009 4:44 AM






















John

John



Oct 14 2009 10:05 PM

Mary, sorry to hear you've been unwell. T'was good to see you in Kilburn the other night. Plenty of key jangling going down!
Best of luck on the forthcoming tour.
Tandy Hard

Tandy Hard



Oct 14 2009 8:58 PM

Hello!
It would be a great pleasure to see you next friday.
neate photos

Greg Neate



Oct 9 2009 9:51 PM

Neate exhibition at Resident, Brighton

Come see some photographs of bands, fans and the spaces in between them! Exhibition open now at Resident, 28 Kensington Gardens, Brighton.

Also, new neate photos website is now online including Mary!
citizen helene

citizen helene



Oct 9 2009 9:56 AM

Thanks for the add! x
ALIEN ROAD

ALIEN ROAD



Oct 8 2009 10:18 PM


 

ALIEN ROAD

ALIEN ROAD



Oct 8 2009 10:18 PM

Acabamos de subir 7 canciones al myspace grabadas en crudo. Si te gusta lo que hacemos deja un comentario. Muchas gracias !!!

 

NOS GUSTA MUCHO LO QUE HACEN. FIESTA!!!

 

COSMOS RECORDINGS

COSMOS RECORDINGS



Oct 8 2009 5:08 PM

In NEWCASTLE Upon Tyne in October

James Yorkston + The Big Eyes Players

JAMES YORKSTON & THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS
with MARY HAMPTON and DAVID A JAYCOCK

JAMES YORKSTON, resident of the East Neuk of Fife and core member of musical family The Fence Collective, for a special night of folk music in the company of The Big Eyes Family Players.

James plays in support of his new album Folk Songs - released on Domino in August, which features traditional songs from the length and breadth of Great Britain & Ireland and one tune from Galicia in Spain. After a decade which has seen folk music morph into nu-folk, mobile phone-ad folk, mortgage-folk, smoothie-folk and so on, Yorkston has reached back into the tradition of song and place and drawn a line in the sand.

Support from Mary Hampton & David A Jaycock

www.myspace.com/jamesyorkston
www.myspace.com/maryhampton
www.myspace.com/davidajaycockmusic
Ninja Bunny (webcomic)

Ninja Bunny



Oct 7 2009 2:11 PM

Thanks for the add!
TWILIGHT FOLK

TWILIGHT FOLK



Oct 4 2009 8:47 PM

TWILIGHT FOLK PRESENTS….
SHARRON KRAUS
With support from Peter Delaney and C Joynes
Live at Orange Street Music Club,
Canterbury
Weds October the 21st 8.00pm
£5 in advance/£6 on door

“Sharron Kraus is a dark-folk gem. Listening to her high, clear voice cut through melodies woven from acoustic guitar, banjo and hurdy-gurdy, you may struggle to remember which late-'60s traditionalists beat her to the material.Here's one folklore expert whose originals feel both authentic and alive….Exquisite second album by this wonderful singer. She conjures up visions of Karen Dalton, Shirley Collins, Judy Dyble and even early Joni. Live she was fantastic too. ..this moves from traditional folk (in a Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs style) to her own songs and enchants all the way. An immaculate album from a major new singer.”

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Peter Delaney lives in Limerick, Ireland. He comes from a folk music background and plays his own unique style, drawing on early Hawaiian folk songs and Alan Lomax field recordings as well as more contemporary musicians such as Joanna Newsom and Josephine Foster. Peter released his debut EP/Mini Album "Duck Egg Blue" in April 2007 to much acclaim.

Peter has played throughout the UK, Ireland and Norway and has shared the bill with A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Alasdair Roberts, Jozef van Wissem, Juana Molina and The Swell Season.
  www.myspace.com/peterdelaney    

 "English acoustic guitarist C Joynes uses traditional country-blues and early ragtime t
Merlins Company

Merlins Company



Oct 4 2009 3:37 PM

Thank you for accepting our friend request!! Really
appreciate it. Wish you an awesome sunday! =) Very best regards from Merlin’s
Company!



“Beware of the armadilloes whose dark shadows sweeps the
streets”



Partizan Fields

Partizan Fields



Sep 25 2009 11:16 PM

Mary, My Mother's Children is, for me, one of the finest albums I've ever heard and I don't use such terms lightly, thanks. I can't wait for your next.
The 5th Galaxy Orchestra

The 5th Galaxy Orchestra



Sep 23 2009 11:08 PM

Hi. A brand new remix of Royksopp's song tricky-tricky is on our spaceplayer and also on soundcloud.
http://soundcloud.com/the5thgalaxyorchestra/royksopp-tricky-tricky-5th-g-o-sci-fi-mix
I hope you enjoy it.
william

william



Sep 21 2009 6:22 AM














Coachwerks

Coachwerks



Sep 20 2009 7:19 PM



SoundCurious #1:  listen & look : look & listen
A weekend of enthralling activities in sound and moving image: Live scoring and zoetroping, puppets, OHP animation and more and more.

Performances from:

Hamilton Yarns
Robert Stillman
Bunty
Weirding Vessel
Collectress
Sons of Noel and Adrian
Charlie Henry
The Grubby Mitts
Vitamin B12
Same Actor
Bela Emerson
Viv

Oct 10th & 11th Workshops 1000 - 1200. Shows 1800 - late. Weekend £14, Day £8
Coachwerks. 19 Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton.
More info at www.soundcurious.org.uk
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