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Next week Samaris play a handful of European shows including Spot Festival and a London date at OSLO, Hackney on Tuesday 5th, May.

The band release ‘Silkidrangar Sessions’ – a companion to last year’s debut, containing re-worked tracks from the original and released a year later on the 25th May.

Performing at different times of day and sometimes playing more unusual arts & gallery spaces, the trio found themselves instinctively tailoring the songs to fit what the environment suggested. So the idea for the ‘Sessions’ album became – as singer Jófríður attests -“To try and capture the moments that happen live when we surprise each other and play around with our parts. I guess the main difference between ‘Silkidrangar’ and the ‘Sessions’ album lies within the rawness and improvisation that the sessions contain and the speediness with which they were recorded - we deliberately went into the studio with only a very loose idea of what we wanted to come out with.”

SAMARIS SILKIDRANGAR SESSIONS is released on  25th May 2015 via One Little Indian

 

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London’s Northern Light Exposure head a fine bill at Hoxton’s Underbelly next Wednesday 6th May, with their widescreen sounds. The show starts  at 7:30pm. So if you are in town, check it out!

Tickets just £6.95 Here 

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Guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson will release 'Still', an album of new music produced by Jeff Tweedy, on June 29, 2015 via Proper Records.

Still was recorded in a two-story rehearsal loft in Chicago over the course of just nine days with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at the helm, backed by several longtime players from both Thompson’s and Tweedy’s bands.

Richard comments on having Jeff as producer, “It turned out be really good idea,” Jeff is musically very sympathetic. Although some of his contributions are probably rather subtle to the listener’s ear, they were really interesting and his suggestions were always very pertinent.”

“I really tried to not have any preconceived ideas,” Thompson says of working with Tweedy, “but of course you do. I tried to shove those to the back of my mind. You don’t really know until you turn up — what the studio is like, what the gear is like. It ended up being a nice unfolding of surprises.”

 Still - Track Listing

1) She Never Could Resist A Winding Road
2) Beatnik Walking
3) Patty Don’t You Put Me Down
4) Broken Doll
5) All Buttoned Up
6) Josephine
7) Long John Silver
8) Pony In The Stable
9) Where’s Your Heart
10) No Peace No End
11) Dungeons For Eyes
12) Guitar Heroes

RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC TRIO – UK TOUR DATES

Fri 28 Aug  Wareham, Dorset Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (solo)
Sun 30 Aug Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Tue 01 Sep  Dublin Vicar Street
Wed 02 Sep  Perth Perth Concert Hall
Thu 03 Sep  Aberdeen Aberdeen Music Hall
Sat 05 Sep  Edinburgh Queens Hall
Sun 06 Sep  Gateshead Sage
Tue 08 Sep  Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Wed 09 Sep  Salford Lowry
Thu 10 Sep  Sheffield City Hall
Sat 12 Sep  Nottingham Royal Centre
Sun 13 Sep  Birmingham Symphony Hall
Tue 15 Sep  Cardiff St. David's Hall
Wed 16 Sep  Bristol Colston Hall
Fri 18 Sep  Ipswich Regent Theatre
Sat 19 Sep  Cambridge Corn Exchange
Sun 20 Sep  London Royal Festival Hall

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Canadian 5-piece Arkells are on their way to Europe for some shows. With the release of their 3rd album High Noon  last year, the band are going to have plenty of material to play, on what should be a great night out!

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12 May London - Old Blue Last
14 May Brighton - The Great Escape Festival - The Green Door Store (2:45 - 3:15)
16 May Brighton - The Great Escape Festival - Patterns (6:45 - 7:15)

Jackson Square,was the band's first full length LP which was released in 2008, garnering the Juno Award for New Group Of The Year in 2010. In 2011,they released Michigan Left, in 2012 they won the Juno Award for Group Of The Year, and the CBC Music award for Best Live Band.

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The winner of 'The Future of the Blues' competition has been announced as Charlotte Marshall & The 45s who, after a hard-fought live final, have won a recording contract with the Mascot Label Group, home to Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Cray, Warren Haynes and many more.

Charlotte Marshall & The 45s beat off competition from the other four finalists Henry’s Funeral Shoe, Kaz Hawkins, Matthew Douglas, and The Black Circles who all played amazing sets on the night – and you can hear more from them on an upcoming The Blues Magazine CD, coming soon.

Charlotte Marshall & The 45s will next play Brews, Blues and ‘Ques, Big Easy Pop-Up at Crossrail Place in Canary Wharf on 1 May 1 alongside label mate and 17-year-old blues guitarist Aaron Keylock and the Big Easy house band The Big Easy All Stars.

 

 

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FRI 22 MAY – SUNDAY 24 MAY - MANCHESTER / BRISTOL / NOTTINGHAM

Tickets HERE Don't miss out!

 

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