COLLEEN UK & Ireland tour dates
Following her recent, highly successful tour with Triosk, Colleen returns to the UK and Ireland this summer for a further five shows, covering cities in which she has not previously appeared, along with two festival appearances.
Colleen’s mesmerising show will include material from her third album, Les Ondes Silencieuses. The viola de gamba, classical guitar and the clarinet, all of which feature heavily on the new album, will be performed at the concerts.
Saturday 9 June
Faster Than Sound Festival,
Bentwaters Airbase,
Suffolk
with Murcof and others
Monday 11 June
Oxford Contemporary Music Festival,
The Jam Factory,
Oxford
Tuesday 12 June
Sacred Trinity Chapel,
Chapel Street, Salford,
Manchester
with Nancy Elizabeth & Gnac
Thursday 14 June
Holy Trinity Church,
Hull
Saturday 16 June 2007
CrawDaddy,
Dublin,
Ireland
Wednesday 20 June
Panopticon (Britannia Music Hall),
Glasgow
with John Cavanagh & Nalle
Reviews of Les Ondes Silencieuses:
“Colleen’s beautifully tranquil third album is a paean to a naked Renaissance sound that exists in its own eerie space. A softly shimmering mirage of an album”
Susanna Glaser, The Wire, May 2007
“We love Colleen… Les Ondes Silencieuses will floor anyone with with a taste for classical or ambient music”
XLR8R, April 2007
“Refined, meditative and genuinely lovely”
John Mulvey, Uncut, May 2007
“Closer to Bach than blues or Beatles”
Andy Gill, Independent Music
“Minimalist chamber pop strokings of a very sensual kind”
Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, June 2007
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Posted by Des on 18 May 2007 at 00:00
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