Hi - hope you like the music on the player (I've just rejigged it so that has reset the play count). It contains tracks from my debut solo album, 'Tell the Truth', as well as some new lowish-fi live tracks from the Analogue Club, and a demo or two. The album is released on the Inshore Madman label and is available on iTunes and at www.simonhardeman.com.
It features songs The Independent described as “original, intelligent music”, and made a Critic’s Choice Download. All are based around voice and guitar, with bass and drums, but no keyboard or synthesiser – except for a battered Sixties-vintage Stylophone. The tracks are all written, played, and produced by me, with the exception of bass on "If You Ever Change" (Simon Littlefield) and additional drums on the same song (Nigel Summerley).
PRESS RELEASE:
SIMON HARDEMAN arrived as a solo singer-songwriter after a career as a stand-up comedian. He has appeared on BBC radio and TV, Channel 5, Live TV, and played the 100 Club, Hackney Empire, 93 Feet East, and university and college stages nationwide.
With his black, Telecaster-shaped, guitar, Simon doesn’t look like your regular singer-songwriter. He writes “about things that matter to ordinary people”, according to Robert Moss of The Independent, and “he rocks one moment, and breaks your heart the next”, said another reviewer.
Born in Rugby, in the UK’s Midlands, Simon now lives in Hackney, London,
A bit of advance notice - MondayMonday proudly presents Rún and Steven Finn and more at The Wilmington Arms, Clerkenwell on Monday 7th December
Rún collect and arrange old folk songs written in the ancient language of Erin. So far, thanks to Nora from Donegal, they have a nice wee collection of well-known ditties and are now adding to their repertoire with some unusual old forgotten songs from the province of Ulster. Rún are five fantastic lassies who perform four-part vocal arrangements of old Gaelic songs like ’An Cailín Rua’ (the red-haired girl), ’Casadh an tSúgain’ (twisting the hayrope) and ’Bo Na Leath Adhairce’ (the one-horned cow). Rún is the Gaelic word for ’secret, wish or love’ (cf. rune). See http://www.myspace.com/runceol ..
Steven Finn’s ears were filled with the music of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Johnny Cash and old time country music. Aged 15 he began teaching himself the guitar, learning songs like Leadbelly’s ‘Bourgeois Blues’ and Charlie Daniels’ ‘The devil went down to Georgia’. On hearing Bob Dylan songs Finn started to write his own words and in doing so found a lifelong passion for Jazz and Folk Blues, a getaway car he could drive. See http://www.myspace.com/stevenfinn for more details
See http://event.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&eventID=515763.72936 for more details.
we release our debut album wih a bang on 14th november at the Half Moon in Bishop's Stortford. FREE ENTRY, live music from us and CURLY CIRCUS and MOZZY GREEN. plus DJ sets too. doors open 7:30... join us!
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.."
See www.folkonmonday.co.uk for details
Come along and start your week in full blooded folky mode.
Thanks for the add... I like your solo stuff as well! And the Analog Club stuff... your solo stuff reminds me a tiny bit of "death in june" - very cool.
Hey man, thanks for the add, really enjoyed your set on Friday. You have some lovely songs and a terrific stage patter, hopefully our paths will cross again... Love Coppers for Karma. x
It was lovely to meet you other night, the skull on my parents coffee table was called Jerald so I am afraid the hunt continues for the face of Victor Richmond………………x
The Good Ship was lovely, The Good Ship was grand, but now it be time to return to Nambucca's bosom for another awesome saturday night
On Saturday 19th May Bloody Awful Poetry doth bring you 4 awesome bands...
The Indelicates
Friends Of The Bride
Si Jubb (formally of Jubb And The Dirty Sleeves (RIP))
You're Not Patrick!
Aaaalso, our awful poetry competition where you can win original artworks and free beer (comment us with your entries), aaaaaand This Handsome Devil & That Perfect Fumble and The Mescalitas all plying their DJ trade till the wee hours.
