Glasshouse Acoustic Online Session Sunday 22 November 2020

 The last Glasshouse Acoustic Session of a 'most unusual' 2020 features live-streams and pre-records by Oakleas Rise (2pm), Tommy Philpot (3pm) and 2Steps 4Words (4pm).

Oakleas Rise 2pm

www.oakleasrise.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/OakleasRise

Lesley Curtis and Stuart Mcleod are singer/songwriters who perform together as Oakleas Rise.
Together they have created their own unique style of music which crosses a range of genres including
country, rock, folk and pop. They released their debut album ‘Little White Lies’ in 2019 and have recently released two new songs ‘A Little Bit Of Understanding’ and ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ in 2020.
During lockdown they have been working on new songs for their follow up album as well as various other projects. These include converting poems written by WW1 poet Arthur Choyce into song for a short film/documentary being made about the poet.
In normal times Oakleas Rise can be seen performing in venues and festivals in and around the Cambridge and Northamptonshire area.

Tommy Philpot 3pm

https://www.facebook.com/TommyPhilpotMusic

Tommy Philpot is a singer/songwriter who specialises in upbeat, fast paced, acoustic music. Delivered with high quality vocals and skillful acoustic guitar playing.
Tommy plays his Spotify certified originals and a variety of covers from artists such as Ed Sheeran, Arctic Monkeys, Elvis, The Beatles, Oasis and many more!

2Steps 4Words 4pm

https://www.musicglue.com/2steps4words/

https://www.facebook.com/2Steps-4Words-138020276536072

2Steps 4Words are an acoustic music collective from the Fens and wider Cambridgeshire area. The current line up includes Robin 12 string guitar, footdrum and vocals, Richard on double bass and vocals, Stephen 6 string guitar with Joe on drums and percussion. Additional local musicians also join in on various songs. The music is along the alternative folk and acoustic indie lines according to those in the know and is delivered with a sense of humour.
The band have a few releases to date, including the Moving Along album and the most recent Stevens Mill e.p. release. Recorded with other local musicians and mixed during the first 2020 lockdown for the 200th Anniversary of Stevens Mill at Burwell, this release gained some larger radio station coverage including programme features on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire 105 Radio.
The 2Steps 4Words song output is on Spotify, BandCamp, SoundCloud with various videos on the band YouTube channel, including both of the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire live sessions

Glasshouse Acoustic

The Little Unsaid - New Album Tour // May & November 2021

Little Unsaid - New Album Tour // May & November 20211

Bold and different - The Guardian 9/10 - 'A stunning interpretation of contemporary chaos...a gorgeous whiplash of delirium and hazy reveries' - The Line of Best Fit ★★★★★ 'Mesmeric. Atmospheric. Totally beguiling' - R'n'R (R2 Magazine) 'Entrancing... songwriting of a real rich quality, all held together by an intensity of approach, by a focus on the emotional weight music can carry'- Clash Magazine

 

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO   London/Aarhus-based band The Little Unsaid - BBC6 Music regulars and winners of the Steve Reid Foundation Award for Boundary-Pushing New Music – return with an album of raw, restless and celebratory music all brought together while in the limbo of lockdown life, plus an energised live show (hopefully) offering an injection of hope for 2021. Acclaim for their previous album Atomise saw their sound likened to artists as diverse as Nick Cave (Line of Best Fit), Radiohead, Joni Mitchell and Roy Harper (The Guardian). The (as yet untitled) new album scheduled for release in May 2021 on Reveal Records (Joan As Police Woman, Lau, Boo Hewerdine, Eddi Reader) is being recorded remotely between the four band members – and marries John Elliott's crafted, melodic songwriting with far less conventional elements, through necessity of isolation – from the found sounds of a forest mixed into pounding, beats-heavy electronica to an exultant, life-affirming call-to-arms composed and recorded in John Elliott's tiny South London flat during the claustrophobia of lockdown. All bound by Elliott's sometimes intimate, often soaring vocals and visceral, deeply personal lyrics together with string arrangements that recall Warren Ellis's most heart-rending themes. The Little Unsaid's loyal live audience has been boosted by repeated plays on BBC6 Music by the likes of Guy Garvey, Iggy Pop and Tom Robinson; known for shows which involve a rich emotional journey – in 2021 the band will focus on full-on performances and cathartic release, spotlighting straight-to-the-heart songwriting and the sampled elements of the album's making.And driven by excitem ent to get back on the road and share live music again.   The Little Unsaid   CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO     PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FOR TOUR BOOKINGS 21 - 31 MAY & 29 OCT - 7 NOV 2021 Dates may be available outside of the official touring periods so please enquire email: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC Click here to go to THE LITTLE UNSAID

 

Martin & Eliza Carthy - On Line -8.00 pm Friday 18 December 2020

 8.00 pm Friday 18 December – Martin & Eliza Carthy

Tickets £8 – £22

Martin Carthy and his twice Mercury nominated daughter Eliza Carthy, join forces to perform for you.

Martin is a legendary ballad singer and guitarist who has influenced a generations of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, while Eliza has been twice-nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and a multiple-award winner at the BBC Radio Two Folk awards.

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Band From County Hell 2021 Bookings

The Band From County Hell are an original celtic folk band with 7 critically acclaimed albums, published works with Cherry Red Records and over 2000 live performances as part of their history. Live gigs have seen them play from the smallest of venues to outside arenas and most notably their own show at The London Palladium

Gigs already in the diary for 2021

Sat, JUL 10, 2021

Summer at The Jubilee, Woodhall Spa Woodhall Spa, United Kingdom

Sat, JUL 17, 2021

Boston West Hotel Hubbert's Bridge, United Kingdom

Sat, AUG 28, 2021

Alford Craft & Music Festival 2020 - Half Moon Alford, United Kingdom

Sat, OCT 23, 2021

40th anniversary at Short Ferry Park 2021 Fiskerton, United Kingdom

 

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Machine Head Release New Single “My Hands Are Empty”

 Machine Head have debuted a new single, “My Hands Are Empty.” 

The track, which deals with the subjects of depression and opioid addiction, marks the first musical collaboration between MH mastermind Robb Flynn and original Burn My Eyes guitarist Logan Mader in 24 years.

“My Hands Are Empty” Lyrics:
Misery, cover me in waves
The heartache is slowly
Withering, I become her slave
Succumb to the darkness
Suffocating like I’m drowning in sand
Depression’s got me by her cold dead hands
Treachery, the choices you made
Cut my heart open with this golden blade
My hands are empty, lies so petty
My hands are empty, kill me gently
Medicate, I watched you slowly die
The powders and pills
Disintegrate, you right before my eyes
The emptiness haunts me
Glass reflections of a cold dead stare
Ingesting chemicals of death with no care
Memories, they haunt me they stain
Of what you once meant to me before this pain
My hands are empty, lies so petty
My hands are empty, kill me gently
I, I will not hide these scars of mine
(Take away the shame)
I, I will not be what’s left behind
(Find someone else to blame)
Forgiveness, constricted
No longer human
A ghost in time                https://www.machinehead1.com/ 

An Introduction to Nic Jones - On Topic Records

 

An Introduction to Nic Jones

The 14th release in Topic’s acclaimed ‘An Introduction To…’ series celebrates the classic English folk singer, fingerstyle guitarist and fiddle player, Nic Jones. Compiled by Nic himself, the album includes sleeve notes by Colin Irwin (fRoots/The Guardian) and two previously unreleased 2013 studio tracks, ‘Now’ and ‘I Only Spoke Portuguese.’

Nic Jones has won awards galore, has made some fantastic albums and played with the likes of June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Richard and Linda Thompson, Peter Bellamy and Shirley Collins to name but a few. There is no doubt he would have made even more fantastic music had it not been for a tragic car crash that robbed this world of his magic touch. 1980 saw the release of his classic album Penguin Eggs on Topic Records but less than two years later, fate took a disastrous turn. After a gig and while traveling home his car collided head-on with a brick lorry. Virtually every bone in his body was broken. The shock waves reverberated around the entire folk world. The battle to rebuild his body and his life was long and tortuous. He would never play again,                                                                               that was for sure.

Except. Except, eventually – well, almost thirty years eventually – he did.
Coerced, encouraged, protected and inspired by his remarkable wife Julia, he was able to put the pieces back together again. First lured to play a few festivals and then in 2013 with the help of his son Joe Jones and Belinda O’Hooley, record a few new studio tracks, two of which appear on this release for the first time.

Nic insisted on compiling this introduction to his work, a mix of material from the Topics classic Penguin Eggs and Game Set Match albums, tracks included are ‘Humpback Whale’, ‘Seven Yellow Gypsies’, ‘Dives of Lazarus’ as well as the magical never released before 2013 studio recordings of ‘I Only Speak Portuguese’ and ‘Now.’
I think it’s best to have Nic have the last word.

“I think this selection of tracks represents very well my working repertoire during the years I was a professional performer. In music, I have always liked stories, encapsulated in a rhythmic way. I have enjoyed the visions, true or false, black or white, philosophical or emotional, played to the best on my old guitar… So here are a few of those songs that will take you all around the world and, hopefully, set your own visions alight” – Nic Jones January 2019

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The Flaming Lips To Play "World's First Space Bubble Concert" In December

The Flaming Lips have announced a special show in Oklahoma City.

The septet will play the "World's First Space Bubble Concert" — where the band members and the audience are all housed in giant inflatable bubbles — at the Criterion on December 11.

The bubbles have frequently been used as part of the group's onstage repertoire since they first appeared encased in the plastic spheres at 2004's Coachella festival.

Having staged a series of trial runs, including a performance for family and friends, which they turned into a live video for Assassins of Youth, the band are ready to present a concert for the general public. Attendance will be limited to 100 people and tickets go on sale at 10am on November 13.

The Flaming Lips recently confirmed a handful of rescheduled UK and Ireland gigs supporting their latest LP, 'American Head', released in September.

The Flaming Lips Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Fri December 11 2020 - OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma - Criterion (USA)
Mon January 25 2021 - LOS ANGELES California - Wiltern (USA)
Tue January 26 2021 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Warfield (USA)
Thu January 28 2021 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom (Canada)
Fri January 29 2021 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom (Canada)
Tue February 02 2021 - DENVER Colorado - Mission Ballroom (USA)
Thu March 18 2021 - PORTLAND Oregon - Arlene Schnitzer Hall (USA)
Fri March 19 2021 - SPOKANE Washington - Martin Woldson Theatre At The Fox (USA)
Sat March 20 2021 - MISSOULA Montana - Wilma Theatre - MT (USA)

Click here to compare & buy The Flaming Lips Tickets at Stereoboard.com.

 

Jackie Oates & Megan Henwood On Line Show - Saturday 14 November 2020

 Jackie Oates & Megan Henwood On Line Show - Saturday 14 November 2020

Multi award winning contemporary folk duo Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood meld together their love of storytelling, songwriting and melody with their voices and acoustic instruments, resulting in a fresh sound that combines both reworked traditional folk song with original and contemporary material. Their individual musical backgrounds are quite different yet their voices blend effortlessly, sensitively backed by viola, guitar, and sometimes piano.

The pair met at Nettlebed Folk Club in Oxfordshire, already admiring one another’s work – they began playing music together shortly after and Jackie contributed heavily on Megan’s last album ‘Head Heart Hand’. Since then they have been working together on new material and experimenting with arranging traditional and contemporary songs to fit their musical vision. Working with producers Pete Brown and Tom Excell they have recorded a 5 track EP entitled ‘Wings’ which features their haunting adaption of Brain Bedford’s poignant song ‘What’s The Use Of Wings?’.

After their duo performance at Folk Weekend: Oxford was scuppered by Covid (although we had a lovely shared set of solo songs instead!) we are delighted that Jackie and Megan will be back performing together for us, live to your living rooms.

Event Details This event takes place in Zoom. You will be emailed a joining link when you have booked your ticket - if you don't receive the confirmation straight away please email cat@livetoyourlivingroom.com

Start date: 14 November, 2020 Start time: 20:00 GMT End time: 22:00 GMT

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That'll Be The Day Rock and Roll Variety Show - On Line - December 2020

 Watch the UK’s leading rock and roll variety show ONLINE this December.

VARIOUS DATES - DECEMBER 3rd-13th

View Trailer https://youtu.be/WFU5LwgxQvo

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Blurcrow Music Website Now Back Up and Running

 Good news!

The Bluecrow Music Website is now back up and running. 

Check it out now...

www.bluecrowmusic.co.uk