Wednesday 9 September 2015

STEPHEN STEINBRINK and JULIE BYRNE tomorrow & RICHARD DAWSON and ASIQ NARGILE next Monday!


Good afternoon!
Thanks go out to so many of you for helping making the FUZZ show last week so much fun, I’m still nodding my head slowly in time to the all consuming God of Riff. Our next show takes place tomorrow and marks a considerable gear change as we’ll be pitching up at the truly ancient St Pancras Old Church for a night of heart-spun balladeering with poignant but growing gestures from STEPHEN STEINBRINK, JULIE BYRNE and SLUSHY GUTS. Live music will commence around 8pm and we will have some select tickets available on the door. Read on for all you need to know, along with our listing for next Monday’s RICHARD DAWSON and ASIQ NARGILE show, where they’ll compare and contrast the wandering poetic traditions of Britain and Georgia, bards at the ready! In other news we just confirmed ERIC CHENAUX as main support for MATANA ROBERTS’ concert next month too.


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STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
SLUSHY GUTS
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333  

STEPHEN STEINBRINK is a 27 year old songwriter and recording engineer born and raised in the arid desert of Arizona and currently floating around the western USA, dividing his time between the green spaces around Olympia, Washington and the concrete flats of Oakland, California. Having spent the better part of a decade touring North America and Europe in buses, vans, and trains, his wanderlust travels shaped his stunning breakthrough album Arranged Waves, released last year on Melodic. Truly engaged with the unintelligible and absurd, Steinbrink is more cultural observer than 21st century busker with his intelligently cool left-of-centre approach to a sincere melody, using pop tropes to convey something deeper. At the same time, it’s his lyrics that mark Steinbrink out as a true punk minstrel trying to how to figure out how to be a person in the world.
http://stephensteinbrink.com/

JULIE BYRNE has counted Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Northampton, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, Seattle, New Orleans and New York as her home in recent years and spent the majority of the last two years on the road. It's these travels and new places that inspire and influence her most, giving us a glimpse inside her own quietly mystical world and her unique slant on the one the rest of us happen to inhabit. Her debut long player 'Rooms With Walls and Windows', released last year on Orindal is a true modern-day word of mouth success and was voted number 7 in Mojo's best albums of 2014. It's a stunning set of front porch psych-folk that unknowingly recalled the greats - Vasthi Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, Karen Dalton - but very much for our time. For all her otherworldliness, there is a realism too to Byrne, she is street smart and more punk in spirit than searching for the hippie ideal.
http://juliemariebyrne.com/

SLUSHY GUTS is the continually evolving idea of Stephen Keane, a one man endeavor, with additional members occasionally brought in and out for live performances. Slushy Guts exists by itself, slowly, quietly, spaciously, strangely skewed and scattered, the sound of stripped-bare tape deck bedroom recordings made in the gray dawn light. With guitars pitched somewhere between 90s post-rock forward thinking, fuzzed out pop and tradition balladeering, Slushy Guts sound is completely its own. Since 2009 Slushy Guts has self released a slew of limited tapes, cdrs and records, as well as a screenprinted book of Stephens artwork, which he has made under the name Chaos vs Cosmos since the early noughties . In 2015 Edils records digitally re-issued much of this. Edils will be releasing a best of cassette and a new Slushy Guts LP in early 2016.
http://soundcloud.com/slushyguts



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RICHARD DAWSON
ASIQ NARGILE
Monday 14 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823

A very special union of two bold and visionary performers from very different walks of song: Richard Dawson (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK) and Asiq Nargile (Georgia) are bound together by the distinctive ways in which they channel the ancients to transcend the everyday. Dawson and Nargile met at last October's TUSK Festival in Newcastle, and the seeds were sown for a tour pairing these questing musical spirits for a select run of double-bill occasions across the UK.

RICHARD DAWSON is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive, rising up from the bed of the River Tyne, his voice crumbles and soars being steeped in age-old balladry and finely-chiseled observations of the mundane. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback. His songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown. Latest album Nothing Important, out now on Weird World/Domino, has seen Dawson's song visions seep, uncompromised and irrepressible, into wider consciousness, confirming him as an unparalleled voice in today’s over-preened and manufactured music world.

ASIQ NARGILE aka Nargile Mehtiyeva was born in Tbilisi and is now based in the Borcali region of Southern Georgia, she has been playing saz (long-neck lute) and singing since the age of 15. Fluent in Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Russian, Nargile represents the cosmopolitan heritage of old Tbilisi, a city once known as a meeting point for multilingual aşıq bards who would travel through the region serving as conduits for news, ideas, music and culture. A powerful solo performer, her vocal recital of epic folk poetry is by turns ecstatic and deeply expressive, and is interspersed with bursts of virtuosic, highly ornamented saz. Equally comfortable performing moving laments or upbeat folk dances, Nargile is currently the only female aşıq living and performing in the ethnic Azeri region of Georgia, and has been teaching the art to new generations. Thanks to the efforts of The Sayat Nova Project, a non-profit group aiming to help preserve and promote the diverse musical dialects of the Caucasus, European audiences can now experience the elusive, hypnotic beauty of Nargile's music for themselves.


See you tomorrow, thanks for your time!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
SLUSHY GUTS
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333  

RICHARD DAWSON
ASIQ NARGILE
Monday 14 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823

DOPE BODY
USA NAILS
OLD FOREST
Wednesday 16 September
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804

RAT COLUMNS
H. GRIMACE
ATHENS
Thursday 17 September
Montague Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA

MARTIN NEWELL - ‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Three sets of music, poetry and yarns!
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG

PC WORSHIP
HOUSEWIVES
TAR POOLING
Thursday 24 September
DIY Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm | £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/

TROPICAL TRASH
PERSPEX FLESH
APOSTILLE
Friday 25 September
DIY Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm | £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA
CASUAL SECT
CLAIRE
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany

MATANA ROBERTS
Coin Coin Chapter Three
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL

AARON DILLOWAY
SISSY SPACEK

Tuesday 13 October

Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/nuz7eot

THE SPACE LADY
MELTING HEARTS
Wednesday 14 October
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH

NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Saturday 24 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

PROTOMARTYR
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN

Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014 

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
THE CREEPING IVIES
Wednesday 11 November
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL

MIKAL CRONIN
Tuesday 17 November
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL

CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306

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