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Newton Faulkner
Acoustic / Alternative / Acousmatic / Tape music

"acoustic voodoo"


United Kingdom

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InfluencesEric Roche, Tom Waits, Jurrasic 5, Massive Attack, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Prince, Mr Hudson, Green day, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Primus, Led Zepplin, Joni Mitchell, The Mighty Boosh, Nirvana, Cee-lo Green, Gordon Giltrap, Seu Jorge, DJ Shadow, The Beatles, The Neptunes, Jamiroquai, The Presidents, Slick Rick, Nick Harper, Cornelius, Neil Young, Pearl Jam....yea, s'all good.
Record LabelUgly Truth
Type of LabelIndie




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Oct 30 2008 7:00P
Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre DOORS 6pm Denver, CO
Nov 1 2008 10:30P
Windjammer DOORS 9PM Charleston, South Carolina
Nov 2 2008 7:00P
3rd & Lindsley DOORS 6PM Nashville, Tennessee
Nov 4 2008 8:00P
House of Blues - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Anaheim, California
Nov 5 2008 8:00P
House of Blues - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford San Diego, California
Nov 6 2008 8:00P
El Rey Theatre - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford DOORS 7PM Los Angeles, California
Nov 7 2008 9:00P
Great American Music Hall - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford DOORS 8PM San Francisco, California
Nov 8 2008 9:30P
Harlow’s - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford DOORS 8.30PM Sacramento, California
Nov 10 2008 8:00P
Neumo’s - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Seattle, Washington
Nov 11 2008 8:00P
Wonder Ballroom - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Portland, Oregon
Nov 13 2008 8:00P
Belly Up Aspen - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Aspen, Colorado
Nov 16 2008 8:00P
The Slowdown - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Omaha, Nebraska
Nov 17 2008 7:30P
Pantages Theatre - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford DOORS 6.30PM Minneapolis
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Barrymore Theatre - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Madison, Wisconsin
Nov 19 2008 6:30P
Park West - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford DOORS 5.30PM Chicago, Illinois
Nov 20 2008 8:00P
The Ark - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford SOLD OUT Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nov 21 2008 8:00P
Madison Theater - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Cincinnati, Ohio
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Theater of Living Arts - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Theater of Living Arts, Pennsylvania
Nov 24 2008 7:00P
Club Cafe - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford DOORS 6PM Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nov 25 2008 8:00P
The Birchmere - Supporting Ingrid Michaelson with David Ford Alexandria, Virginia
Dec 8 2008 8:00P
Duo Tokyo
Dec 10 2008 8:00P
Shagri-La Osaka
Jan 16 2009 8:00P
Victoria Hall Stoke
Jan 18 2009 8:00P
Town Hall Middlesbrough
Jan 19 2009 8:00P
Eden Court Inverness
Jan 20 2009 8:00P
Carnegie Hall Dunfermline
Jan 22 2009 8:00P
Parr Hall Warrington
Jan 23 2009 8:00P
Town Hall Cheltenham
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Civic Aylesbury
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Opera House Buxton
Jan 27 2009 8:00P
Town Hall Reading
Jan 28 2009 8:00P
Medina Theatre Isle Of Wight
Jan 30 2009 8:00P
Pavillion Bath
Jan 31 2009 8:00P
Carnglaze Caverns Liskeard
Feb 1 2009 8:00P
Royal Theatre Winchester
Feb 2 2009 8:00P
Huntingdon Hall Worcester

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   About Newton Faulkner

Newton Faulkner is a 23 year old English singer songwriter with a wistful smile and phenomenal dreadlocks. But you’ll already know him as one of 2007’s most striking musical arrivals, clocking up a Number One platinum album, sell-out UK tours and a growing legion of passionate fans. This is an old fashioned word-of-mouth success story from an artist with simply stunning songs and an astonishing virtuoso guitar technique.

So just what is that Faulkner sound? It’s acoustic guitar like we’ve never heard it before. It’s things done to six strings that will boggle the ears and eyes. It’s a throaty but gentle blues croon that speaks of backwoods, beaches and the badlands of, ah, Surrey. It’s t*u*n*e*s, the likes of which have become a word-of-myspace cult across the Cornwall surf scene and landed prestigious support slots with Jack Johnson’s cult buddy Donavon Frankenreiter.

It’s a genius cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop dropped into a set to silence a rowdy crowd whilst supporting Paulo Nutini during the World Cup or the Python-esque wit with which Newton Faulkner is fast winning over audiences across the UK.

It’s this inventiveness – this esprit de gig – that made this 22-year-old from just outside London one of the most buzzed-about DIY artists of 2006. With no promotion and bugger-all money his first release, spring 2006’s Full Fat EP, reached Number One on Amazon’s singles chart. The shuffling beats; Faulkner’s laidback scat singing and gutsy holler; the chewy blues riffs; the ‘tapping’ of strings – these had (pardon the pun) struck a chord with anyone who had stumbled across his shows in the south-west, causing the low-key release to sell-out its 3000 copies. With his wonderfully dexterous approach to guitar, Faulkner is as exciting to watch as he is to hear.

‘Tapping,’ explains Faulkner, ‘is prodding the strings really hard with your other hand, your picking hand. You can have stuff coming from both sides of the strings. There are certain frets which work really well – you get two notes and they harmonise with themselves. It sounds like there’s more than there actually this. You’re getting stuff out of both sides of the guitar.’

But Faulkner doesn’t want to get all Guitar World on our ass, even if he does play his handmade guitar (‘it’s been built to take a hammering’) with proper affection. He just wants to move us, and himself, with his music. Which is why prefers writing while he’s touring rather than while sitting at home.

‘Everything makes more sense on the road,’ he says. ‘When you’re not gigging you write stuff that’s for you in a way that you don’t when out doing gigs. If you’re doing gigs whilst writing you know what you need, you have a clear understanding of what people like and want – which I can’t seem to remember when I’m at home. Which is really stupid,’ he says with a grin, ‘but it’s just how it is.’

He spent his teenage afternoons teaching himself the guitar after picking one up for the first time aged 13. He progressed so fast that by age 16 he secured a place at the prestigious Academy Of Contemporary Music in Guildford.

Aware that there would be some serious players also enrolling, super-focused kids who’d been playing since the age of four, this three-year veteran – well, novice – spent the summer before enrolling with a guitar round his neck from dawn to dusk, working on his skills.

His diligence paid off. Under the tutelage of the college’s Head Of Guitar, the legendarily innovative guitarist Eric Roche – who sadly died in 2005 aged only 37 – Faulkner rapidly developed. ‘It was Rock School,’ he admits. But while other students were seriously into ‘heavy metal shredding,’ he was pushing on with his own style of rhythmic, percussive playing.

A stint in a teenage wannabe punk-rock band petered out. ‘I knew we really were a Green Day tribute band when at one gig we played the whole of Dookie, in order.’ He played in another outfit called Half Guy – ‘everyone else was playing angry metal in church halls so we thought we’d be perverse and be the happiest band in town. My guitar was pink…’ But the responsibilities of being, effectively, the band’s manager, soon took their toll.

So Faulkner started writing and gigging on his own. A publishing deal and a record deal – the latter with Ugly Truth, a new subsidiary of SonyBMG – quickly followed. His second release, the UFO EP, came out at the end of 2006. The lead track, a co-write with his brother, is a rippling, infectious tune that had earned him a standing ovation at one of Jo Whiley’s 2006 Xmas Little Noise gigs (sharing the Union Chapel stage with the likes of Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Lily Allen & The Automatic).

‘UFO’ was closely followed by first single proper ‘I Need Something’ which propelled Newton straight onto the Radio 1 Playlist for the first time. Follow-up ‘Dream Catch Me’ became a much coveted Jo Whiley Record of the Week and sat in the UK Top Ten for three weeks while headline shows across the UK helped send his myspace into meltdown with over 1,500,000 plays in just eight months.

Now a fully fledged touring artist, Newton wowed audiences at several major festivals through summer 2007 including Glastonbury, Secret Garden, Cambridge Folk Festival, V, Wireless and Newquay Unleashed. He’s also undertaken several headline tours that have seen him play to sell out crowds the length and breadth of the country.

July 2007 saw the release of Newton’s debut album, ‘Hand Built By Robots’ which showcases not only those fantastic vocals and beautifully dextrous guitar lines, but also wistful and intelligent lyrics delivered with tremendous wit. A winning formula indeed, as the album spent its first six weeks inside the top five, including two weeks at Number One, before quickly being declared Platinum. The album also secured a very tidy six week residency at Number One on the iTunes chart and stayed inside their Top Ten for the rest of the year.

By January 2008 ‘Hand Built..’ had gone on to sell over 500,000 copies and secure our hero a Brits nomination for Best Male Artist. Newton has also started spreading the word globally with his first North American and European live dates - a highlight being an especially exciting performance that took place in a hot air balloon high over the Swiss Alps for a radio broadcast.

‘Hand Built..’ also offers the chance to hear that staggering version of ‘Teardrop’. There aren’t many who would have the bottle to attempt a reinvention of Liz Fraser’s spectral vocal and Massive Attack’s symphonic majesty. But Faulkner does, with style. While his guitar gently weeps, his voice quietly soars. It’s quite something. He’s quite a talent. Lord knows what next he’ll magic out of those fingers, that throat, and that instrument.

Prepare to be gobsmacked.



Teardrop Live At The Roundhouse

I Need Something Live At The Roundhouse

Dream Catch Me Live at the Roundhouse

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Marc





Oct 12 2008 7:21 PM

Thanks for the add

Have a great week
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Oct 12 2008 2:07 PM

love u!!!!!


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Staircase Wit





Oct 12 2008 1:53 PM

thanx for the add!

let us tell you we have just released our debut album. If you have some time, come and check us out! you can listen our album on our myspace!

cheers

Staircase wit
Jess





Oct 12 2008 12:52 PM

SOOO gutted, driving back from Bristol after a few days away,listening to your album,singing your praises...get home to find an email that you're playing Carnglaze in January,went straight on to buy tickets and it's SOLD OUT...boohoo...I never should've left home!! xx
Simon Andrews





Oct 12 2008 11:17 AM

Hey hey, if you have a spare five minutes come on over and check out my new song, "Maybe", and let me know what you think

Cheers

Simon
Moocho Beardo





Oct 12 2008 9:04 AM

cmon come to ireland on the solo tour! pleeeeease! i'll buy you the confection of your choice if you do
Raggy Gold





Oct 12 2008 12:11 AM

If you like Newton Faulkner, you'll probably like me!
If you like Bob Dylan, you'll love me too!
If you like Robert Johnson and old school blues, you'll probably like me!
Why not check me out? Go on!! You know it makes sense.
MYSPACE.COM/RAGGYGOLD
If you like Newton Faulkner, you'll probably like me!
If you like Bob Dylan, you'll love me too!
If you like Robert Johnson and old school blues, you'll probably like me!
Why not check me out? Go on!! You know it makes sense.
MYSPACE.COM/RAGGYGOLD
If you like Newton Faulkner, you'll probably like me!
If you like Bob Dylan, you'll love me too!
If you like Robert Johnson and old school blues, you'll probably like me!
Why not check me out? Go on!! You know it makes sense.
MYSPACE.COM/RAGGYGOLD
If you like Newton Faulkner, you'll probably like me!
If you like Bob Dylan, you'll love me too!
If you like Robert Johnson and old school blues, you'll probably like me!
Why not check me out? Go on!! You know it makes sense.
MYSPACE.COM/RAGGYGOLD
If you like Newton Faulkner, you'll probably like me!
If you like Bob Dylan, you'll love me too!
If you like Robert Johnson and old school blues, you'll probably like me!
Why not check me out? Go on!! You know it makes sense.
MYSPACE.COM/RAGGYGOLD
If you like Newton Faulkner, you'll probably like me!
If you like Bob Dylan, you'll love me too!
If you like Robert Johnson and old school blues, you'll probably like me!
Why not check me out? Go on!! You know it makes sense.
MYSPACE.COM/RAGGYGOLD
Tatyana Sherman





Oct 11 2008 7:27 PM

Hello Newton Faulkner

Good luck and success in your activities!!!
Have a fantastic weekend!!!

LIFE-MUSIC-LOVE
Soul of the River





Oct 11 2008 6:54 PM

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Oct 11 2008 9:37 AM

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Oct 11 2008 2:00 AM

Your music puts a smile on my face
keep it up
Valarie Dunn





Oct 10 2008 9:43 PM

“ THIS GREAT DEBUT SINGLE WILL

BE LOVED BY MODERN COUNTRY MUSIC FANS

THE WORLD OVER”

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<< Listen here and buy YOUR OWN copy from I-TUNES <<
Raggy Gold





Oct 10 2008 4:28 PM

Hey Newton, loving