New Collaboration - Kris Drever & Chis Stout

KRIS DREVER & CHRIS STOUT- Live Touring Dates March 2025

 

Kris Drever and Chris Stout are icons of the Scottish roots culture and two of the most powerful contemporary voices to sing out of it in the last quarter century.    Both come from the Northern Isles (Kris from Orkney and Chris from Shetland) and represent the strength of those identities in the music they inhabit. Inherited through childhood, family and osmosis, you can hear the wind whistling through the strings, the rhythms washing against your animal self and the old stories whispering out from the ingleneuk.    In Glasgow in 2019 the two found themselves to be neighbours in the West End and began meeting up and playing music together. Both musicians found a sound of great interest and emotional power in these little get-togethers, and it soon became a more regular happening.    Now they’ve decided to share the experience with a wider audience. Come and hear songs and tunes you know and some you don’t, shining through the unique prism of these two ‘one of a kind’ musicians.   Kris is a guitarist, singer and founder member of the trio Lau. He’s a multi award winning singer songwriter and has played and written with a galaxy of stars (Eddi Reader, Roddy Woomble, Mark Knopfler, Kate Rusby, Jack Bruce, Karine Polwart…).   Chris is a virtuoso violinist, viola player and composer, founder member of the legendary Shetland band ‘Fiddlers Bid’ and long-time collaborator of the genius harpist Catriona McKay. He has performed in venues as storied as the Sydney Opera House and has composed for and performed with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, The Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and a great many more.

For Live touring dates in March 2025 and festival gigs

please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk

KRIS DREVER & CHRIS STOUT = ***NEW COLLABORATION***

 

***NEW COLLABORATION*** Available Live Touring Dates Feb/March 2025   KRIS DREVER & CHRIS STOUT   Kris Drever and Chris Stout are icons of the Scottish roots culture and two of the most powerful contemporary voices to sing out of it in the last quarter century.    Both come from the Northern Isles (Kris from Orkney and Chris from Shetland) and represent the strength of those identities in the music they inhabit. Inherited through childhood, family and osmosis, you can hear the wind whistling through the strings, the rhythms washing against your animal self and the old stories whispering out from the ingleneuk.    In Glasgow in 2019 the two found themselves to be neighbours in the West End and began meeting up and playing music together. Both musicians found a sound of great interest and emotional power in these little get-togethers, and it soon became a more regular happening.    Now they’ve decided to share the experience with a wider audience. Come and hear songs and tunes you know and some you don’t, shining through the unique prism of these two ‘one of a kind’ musicians.   Kris is a guitarist, singer and founder member of the trio Lau. He’s a multi award winning singer songwriter and has played and written with a galaxy of stars (Eddi Reader, Roddy Woomble, Mark Knopfler, Kate Rusby, Jack Bruce, Karine Polwart…).   Chris is a virtuoso violinist, viola player and composer, founder member of the legendary Shetland band ‘Fiddlers Bid’ and long-time collaborator of the genius harpist Catriona McKay. He has performed in venues as storied as the Sydney Opera House and has composed for and performed with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, The Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and a great many more.   Video Link     Video Link     For available Live touring dates in late Feb - mid March 2025 please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk CHRIS STOUT KRIS DREVER

HANNAH READ & MICHAEL STARKEY - Live Touring Dates February 2025

 Live Touring Dates February 2025 HANNAH READ & MICHAEL STARKEY plus two very special guests CAHALEN MORRISON and VERA VAN HEERINGEN

Over recent years, Hannah Read and Michael Starkey have fast become one of the most sought-after fiddle-banjo duos on the UK acoustic music scene. Their richly dynamic take on Appalachian old time music has seen them enthrall audiences up and down the country, both during their live shows and on their critically-acclaimed debut duo album 'Cross The Rolling Water', released on Hudson Records. They bring a unique depth of expression to traditional music, looking forwards and reaching out whilst still finding an anchor in its timeless language. At the heart of their sound is the complex and driving rhythmic interplay between fiddle and banjo, which draws the listener in “the way lungs draw in air” (Songlines), as they shine a light on “the powerful essence of the music” (RNR Magazine). To complete their sound they bring a range of old, contemporary and original folk songs, sung with charismatic voices that are “destined to be appreciated for a very long time” (Old Time News). 

They will be joined by Cahalen Morrison for dates throughout Scotland from 5th - 13th February 2025 and Vera Van Heeringen for dates throughout England & Wales from 14th - 23rd February 2025.

Video Link Hannah Read & Michael Starkey - Apple Blossom (youtube.com)

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please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk

Hannah Read & Michael Starkey...Hannah Read & Michael Starkey (hannahandmichaelmusic.com)

Cahalen Morrison...Cahalen Morrison

Vera Van Heeringen... Vera van Heeringen

Liz Stringer, Arguably Australia's Finest Female Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Available Dates...

 Liz Stringer, Arguably Australia's Finest Female Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Touring Dates plus festival dates 26th January – July, 2024

Liz Stringer is one of Australia’s most admired and versatile songwriters and instrumentalists. A venerated guitarist and vocalist, her notoriously powerful live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs have earned her a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era. Liz Stringer has performed all over Australia and the world for her own musical projects aswell as being a session musician for countless acts, most recently including performing with Midnight Oil for their final ever tour in Australia, North America, Europe, UK and New Zealand. 2019 saw the release of collaborative project Dyson Stringer Cloher's self-titled debut album through Melbourne's Milk records to wide media acclaim and a sold-out headline tour and Stringer was honoured at Woodford Folk Festival as an 'emerging legend of Australian song' with a performance of selections from her back catalogue by her musical peers.  Lizs' sixth studio album - First Time Really Feeling - was released in April 2021. This ten-song collection documents a recent personal reckoning and metamorphosis Liz experienced while living in North America just prior to the pandemic. Recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced by Chris Stringer, known for his work with Timber Timbre and the Rheostatics, this is regarded as Stringer’s seminal work to-date and her most searingly personal: a musical time-capsule of love, loss and legacy, profound change and her recent path to self-acceptance. Between rock stylings, knee-buckling ballads and a world-class lyrical and story-telling prowess, Liz writes affectingly from a range of perspectives. Any fan will testify to the strength of her live performances, and this album is arranged much like one of her iconic shows such is the power and intent of her arresting vocal delivery.The album has been nominated for two AIR awards including Best Independent Album, APRA song of the year, Music Victoria award for best Solo Act and debuted at no. 14 on the ARIA charts the week of release. Emotional, unflinching,expansive and revealing - this album is unmistakably Australian music at its finest, and is, without question, Liz Stringer at her best.

For Live touring dates: January - July 2024 plus festival appearances please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk Liz Stringer website

JOHN DOUGLAS (Trashcan Sinatras) - Available Live Touring Dates March / April / May 2024

JOHN DOUGLAS (Trashcan Sinatras) - Live Touring Dates March / April / May 2024

Solo album tour

John Douglas Scotland's Reveal Records is pleased to announce that the debut solo album from one of Scotland’s finest songwriters - John Douglas (Trashcan Sinatras) - will be released worldwide on October 6th. At long last, fans and newcomers alike are treated to an intimate snapshot of the talent, charisma and depth of this celebrated Scottish indie songsmith. With this release comes the start of a new chapter in John Douglas' creative life as he simultaneously looks back at a lifetime of musical adventures and accolades and moves forwards. The album 'John Douglas' features new recordings of some of John's favourite Traschcan Sinatras material, alongside new songs he has written and his own rendition of the Prefab Sprout classic ‘We Let The Stars Go’. The eleven songs on this record were performed solo, recorded live at Kyoti Studio in Glasgow (with no overdubs) by producer Mark Freegard, who also mixed and mastered the album. John Douglas explains, “I’ve often been encouraged by friends over the years to make a solo album, but the timing or inclination didn’t flow. Last year - out of nowhere - everything suddenly felt right and the process was quick and natural. Mark just set the mics up and I played my songs. No other musicians or overdubs. Me and my guitar. That way, I became the songs and they became me. The finished record, though varied in song styles, has a mood to it… it’s warm, thoughtful and quiet.. as I generally aspire to be. Hailing from Irvine on Scotland’s west coast, John has a rich history, making music with Trashcan Sinatras for over thirty years. Apart from his role as a songwriter (and guitarist) there, John has been playing live gigs across the UK and Ireland as part of his partner Eddi Reader’s band. He has also been performing solo sets at shows with musical friends, such as Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Jill Jackson and James Grant (Love & Money). Whilst visiting Irvine recently, John was invited to guest with Martin McAloon (Prefab Sprout), the two artists having first met in 1990 during Trashcan Sinatras' ‘Jordan - The Comeback’ tour with Prefab Sprout. Get in touch if you would like to book a date for a live performance. For live touring dates mid March - mid April & May 2024 please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk

SALT HOUSE - Lauren MacColl, Jenny Sturgeon & Ewan MacPherson - TOURING 2022 / 2023

 Songs are central to Salt House. New songs that sound as if they’ve always been here.

Ancient ballads woken up. Poems given the tunes they’ve long deserved. Songs about place, politics, landscape and birds. A collaboration of writing and song from 3 of Scotland's foremost performers; Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson and Lauren MacColl.

​Their latest album 'Huam' sees them solidify their reputation as fine interpreters of words both old and new. It's their third collection of songs, and the second pairing with folk heavyweight producer Andy Bell. It was released amidst the impressive roster of Hudson Records in 2020. Their most recent EP 'Working For Zeus' was released in 2021, featuring 5 amazing guest musicians Maija Kauhanen, Dean Honer, Cahalen Morrison, Petter Frost Fadnes and Olav Luksengård Mjelva.

​The trio continue their love of recording ‘on location’ with this album, taking themselves to rural Argyllshire to finish writing and recording the songs which were crafted between their homes of Inverness-shire and Shetland.

'Undersong' (2018) was recorded in the stunningly restored Telford Church on the island of

Berneray (as seen on Channel 4’s Restoration Man.) You can hear its tranquility in the sympathetic and dynamic recording. A sense of place captured both in songs and sound; Ewan claims if you listen closely you can even hear the flies in the overhead lights.

You’ll also hear echoes of Pentangle, a touch of Dick Gaughan, murmurs of Scandinavian and Scots, all woven into a music that’s traditional and new. The group’s meticulous attention to detail, shared passions and care for their craft sees Salt House soar.

More about the band:

Singer, guitarist and harmonium player Jenny has a PHD in seabirds. Described by R2 Magazine as “a singer-songwriter who brings together the old and new with a rare skill.” Her songs are earthy and wise; she sings them with beauty and power.

Ewan brings to Salt House a wealth of understanding and experience gained with the highly respected Fribo and Shooglenifty. His songs are poetic and layered; his voice plaintive and from the heart.

Lauren’s arrangements hold a rich, deep, darkness flecked with gold. You can hear the Highlands in Lauren’s elegant bowing, honed while performing with the quartet RANT, The Rachel Newton Band and as a prolific and award-winning soloist. She plays with warmth, wisdom and soul.

“Wonderful… a trio of exceptional talent.” – Folk Radio UK

LINE UP: ​

Ewan MacPherson - vocals, guitars

Jenny Sturgeon - vocals, harmonium, guitar

Lauren MacColl - fiddle, viola, vocals

​Touring Dates available on FRIDAY 30 SEPT / SAT 1 OCTOBER / MON 3 OCTOBER / TUES 4 OCTOBER / THURS 6 OCT (North) 2022, March/April 2023 + festival appearances.

‘Elegant’ - Mojo

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Scotsman

‘Effortless’ Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

‘Awfy Bonnie’ Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland

‘An album of temporal beauty that touches the eternal’ Folking.com

‘Light and quick, profound and full of care, it is an album of serenely balanced opposites.’ Folk Radio

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ fRoots

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Songlines

⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Characterful new songs and settings, deftly woven" The Scotsman

"Outstanding" Irish Music Magazine

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FOR FESTIVAL DATES & TOURING DATES IN SEPT / OCT 2022 & MARCH / APRIL 2023 contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk tel: + 44 (0) 7905 952 374 Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC

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State Of The Union return with some new tunes and a rescheduled full tour in March 2023

The Mighty, STATE OF THE UNION (Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams) - MARCH 2023

STATE OF THE UNION return with some new tunes and a rescheduled full tour in MARCH 2023.

Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams aka State of the Union, create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere with two guitars and two voices. Their performances are consistently brilliant, equal parts emotive and entertaining. Audiences are still buzzing about their previous festival main stage appearances.

The two formed their collaboration in 2011 and created two albums in rapid succession, State of the Union and Snake Oil. Subsequent tours took them around the UK, to Ireland and Portugal, including a 14-date stint playing theatres with Eddi Reader and an appearance on The Andrew Marr Show (BBC 1).

What followed in 2017 is Saltwell Sessions, an album of covers, some obscure and some well-known, including Don’t Blame Me (The Everly Brothers), Halfway (Greg Trooper) and Unforgettable (Nat King Cole). Their 25-date tour that followed saw full houses night after night. Here's another opportunity to catch the brilliant duo.

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FOR LIVE DATES : MARCH 2023 (plus general availability) Get in touch now, contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk tel: + 44 (0) 7905 952 374 Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC Click here to go to BROOKS WILLIAMS Click here to go to BOO HEWERDINE

 

 

 

The Little Unsaid - Full Band Tour October 2022 + Festivals

The Little Unsaid - Full Band Tour October 2022 + Festivals

The Little Unsaid is a musical vehicle for the diverse music of songwriter and band leader John Elliott. Born out of the English indie-roots scene of the 00’s, The Little Unsaid have built up a solid committed following, received glowing reviews and gained the attention of national media since signing with UK independent Reveal Records (home to award winning international artists such as Joan as Police Woman, Lau, Kris Drever and Eddi Reader).

In 2021 The Little Unsaid released two albums: the full band & experimental “Lick The Future’s Lips” followed by a contrasting, intimate solo winter music reflection “December Songs”.

Both albums were played on radio and reviewed with acclaim, and awarded Album of The Month by Folk Radio UK (the number one roots media platform in the UK). The band has frequently collaborated with renowned producer Graeme Stewart (who alongside engineering for Radiohead has produced Oscar-nominated film scores by Jonny Greenwood) and have received several awards for their work including: the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award (PRS Foundation & Gilles Peterson, with mentoring from FourTet) and Help Musicians Emerging Excellence Award.

The band have played a variety of major Festivals (including Glastonbury) and their recent UK tour was described as “a soaring piece of sonic beauty…one hell of a show” (MusoMuso). During the Covid lockdowns, John created the Relay album project, collaborating on two covers albums with artists including Billy Bragg and Frank Turner to raise money for the Music Venue Trust.

To get in touch for touring dates in October 2022 and festival Appearances

contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk

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FAY HIELD TRIO - Touring Dates March / April 2022

FAY HIELD TRIO - Touring Dates March / April 2022

Fay has teamed up once again with fiddle maestro Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron on concertina to tour songs from her new album, Wrackline, and some old favourites.

Exploring ideas of the space between, Wrackline was inspired by ghosts, fairies, spirits and talking animals to understand what it is about the unknown that entrances us. Working with traditional materials and ideas, Fay explores the feelings they evoke and how they relate to her experience in the contemporary world. Universal ideas of death, love, motherhood echo through time and space. Playing with these difficult ideas through the eyes of an unobtainable other, whether that be the spirit of a dearly departed, a fairy from another realm, or the thoughts animals have, gives us space to work through very real social problems.

Shifting between lighthearted stories about drunks sitting with pigs, to darker questions about infanticide, Fay breaths life and meaning into old stories presenting them with a fresh twist and consummate musicianship from Sweeney and Harbron including fiddle, concertina, guitar and banjo.

Expect to be enveloped in music, woven through magical stories and teased into thinking about your relationship with the world around you. 

Fay Hield – Folk Singer

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GET IN TOUCH FOR TOURING DATES MARCH / APRIL 2022 & FESTIVAL APPEARANCES FOR 2022

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BOO HEWERDINE - New solo album tour MAY 2022

BOO HEWERDINE - New solo album tour MAY 2022

A master in the art of songwriting, Boo Hewerdine (The Bible) reaches his 60th year in the creative form of his life. Producing and collaborating with young artists, taking musical risks and focussing on the minute details of life through new songs.

Touring with a new solo album in May 2022 and releasing a new mini collaborative album titled 'Singularities' out on Reveal Records on 5 November 2021.

As much in demand as ever as a songwriter, Boo is a well loved musician and continues to write poignant lyrics about everyday life and people that resonate with everyone.

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 Video | Boo Hewerdine (bandcamp.com)

FOR TOURING DATES THROUGHOUT MAY 2022

Get in touch with gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk 

The Clifftown Story - M G BOULTER - Touring Autumn 2022

 Laughing Dog Music Present The Clifftown Story - M G BOULTER - Touring Autumn 2022

Clifftown is a celebration of the history and culture of the English seaside. In this show songwriter and musician M G Boulter plays music from his 2021 album ‘Clifftown’ (on Hudson Records), which charts his personal history of growing up in the seaside suburbia of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. Here you will find the neon lights and burnt sugar smells of a Saturday night seafront but also the solitary Essex noir of the salt marshland. With stories collected from his time creating the companion podcast series ‘The Clifftown Podcast’ and accompanied by a full band M G will bring his unique take on the English seaside to the stage.

Serving his apprenticeship in numerous bands in the hotbed of the Southend-on-Sea pub rock scene (the precursors of which were household names such as Dr Feelgood and Eddie and the Hotrods), M G has been quietly working at creating rich and evocative story songs since 2013. M G creates vignettes of suburban lives and seaside communities and is a contemporary voice in the long tradition of the singer-songwriter. Often referred to as the artist’s artist M G has been a much sought after collaborator in the folk and Americana scenes, having significant tenures in the Simone Felice Group, The Duke and the King, Emily Portman’s Coracle Band, Blue Rose Code and The Owl Service.

Having previously released two albums and numerous EPs, Clifftown is M G’s most complete work to date creating an immersive world rich with ordinary lives glimpsed through fairground grease and mindless 9 to 5 jobs. As much social commentary as an honest picture postcard of his hometown, Clifftown is an exquisite and life-affirming exploration of modern suburbia and the British seaside by one of the UK’s finest

THE CLIFFTOWN STORY featuring the M G BOULTER BAND TOURING PERIOD OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2022:

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ADAM HOLMES - New Album, Solo Tour Oct & Nov 2021

       ADAM HOLMES - New Album, Solo Tour Oct & Nov 2021

 

27 year-old Edinburgh born singer-songwriter Adam Holmes is one of the brightest rising stars on the UK roots music scene, with influences from either side of the Atlantic mixing traditional and contemporary folk with his own brand of soul and Americana. Twice nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, his first two albums were also nominated for Scottish Album of the Year in 2014 & 2017, and there is much anticipation as to whether he can make it three in a row this year with his third album ‘Midnight Milk’. His first album, ‘Heirs & Graces’, was produced by John Wood (producer of all Nick Drake’s albums and John Martyn’s iconic ‘Solid Air’ album) and mastered by Simon Heyworth (co-producer of Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’) and second album, ‘Brighter Still’, features two-time BRIT award winner Eddi Reader on backing vocals throughout. His latest album was recorded in his one bedroomed flat in Edinburgh, complete with full brass section, an eighteen piece choir and a widescreen folk/soul/electronica production, influenced by a 2016 collaboration with Adrian Utley of Portishead, Dominic Aitchison of Mogwai and Martin Green of Lau. A rare solo tour, stripped back and showcasing the songs, giving them the space they deserve. If you have booking enquiries, contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC                                       Click here to go to ADAM HOLMES

Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow Touring in 2021 / 2022 Book Now.

Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow will be touring in 2021 / 2022. Promotors are invited to book in a date for brighter times ahead -

Brooks Williams is a Cambridge UK-based, Statesboro, Georgia US-born guitarist singer and songwriter.

With over 30-plus recordings and 30-plus years of touring, Williams is named one of WUMB-FM Boston's Top 100 All-Time Artists and is listed in the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists. He was playing Americana before it was called that.

Known for both solos shows and collaborations, RnR writes, Williams is a "guitarist in
possession of rich vocal powers and a talent for lyrical imagery, his songs are imbued with uplifting generosity

" (Read Full RnR

Aaron Catlow  is a Briston, UK based fiddle player  playing acoustic, folk and roots music. Aaron Catlow | Facebook

The pair will be touring the UK in 2021 / 2022. Dates may be available outside of the official touring periods so please enquire. email gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk

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