65daysofstatic to play a series of dates this spring. See below for venues and details.
March:
20th March With The Cure London Wembley Arena
April:
8th Pick up in Sheffield
9th Bristol Thekla
10th Nottingham Rescue Rooms
11th London Indigo
12th Leeds Cockpit
13th Brighton Concorde 2
4th May Wolves Wulfrun
15th May Manchester Academy 2
16th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
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Githead - Live in London
GITHEAD EURO TOUR FEB 2008
February 05 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 06 Blue Shell, Köln, Germany
February 07 4AD, Diksmuide, Belgium
February 08 Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
February 09 Mains d'Oeuvre, Paris, France
February 11 Cafe Zapata, Berlin, Germany
February 12 Atlantik, Freiburg, Germany
For more information about Githead go to www.githead.com
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The Leaf Label can boast a second signing during the January transfer window, in the form of New York based English singer and songwriter Essie Jain.
An album of quietly powerful minimalist chamber-folk, Essie's debut album 'We Made This Ourselves' was released last year in North America through Ba Da Bing (who brought you Beirut) and will be released in the rest of the world on Leaf in the spring. As well as Jain, the album features features guitarist Patrick Glynn and contributions from percussionist Jim White (Dirty Three/Nina Nastasia/Will Oldham).
Essie is currently playing her live shows as a quartet with Glynn on electric guitar plus a drummer and a bassist/trumpeter. We are currently planning UK/European dates for this spring and summer.
If you cannot wait to see Essie live, take a look at these marvellous videos filmed on the streets of Brooklyn by La Blogothèque:
http://www.blogotheque.net/article.php3?id_article=2829
http://essiejain.com
http://www.myspace.com/essiejain
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The Leaf Label Ltd are very proud to announce their latest signing, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, from Gothenberg in Sweden.
Wildbirds & Peacedrums are Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin, and together they have forged an extraordinary amalgam of spiritual pop, primal blues and ecstatic soul music. The label will be releasing their debut album, 'Heartcore', in April. The album was released in Sweden in 2007, but this will be the first time it has been available worldwide.
You can find out more about the band and hear them here:
http://wildbirdsandpeacedrums.com
http://myspace.com/wildbirdsandpeacedrums
The duo will be playing a number of dates in Scandinavia over the next few weeks, and they will be appearing in Europe and North America later this year. Watch this space!
Tue 29 Jan: Jeriko, Malmö, SWEDEN
Wed 30 Jan: Studenterhus, Aarhus, DENMARK
Fri 1 Feb: Månen, Haderslev, DENMARK
Sat 2 Feb: Nefertiti, Gotheburg, SWEDEN
Thu 7 Feb: Winterjazz, Mariehamn, FINLAND
Sun 10 Feb: Kampen, Oslo, NORWAY
Thu 21 Feb: By:Larm, Oslo, NORWAY
Fri 22 Feb: By:Larm, Oslo, NORWAY
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A video for ‘Illuminant’, taken from Parades, can now be found on YouTube. The beautiful but very strange video was made by Tobias Stretch. You can find a higher resolution video on Stretch’s website as well as his other work.
It has also been announced that Efterklang have been nominated for 5 Danish Music Awards! The awards ceremony, to be held in February, will include Efterklang in the categories for best group, best album, best electronica album, best artwork and best video.
And finally, the band have been confirmed to play at this year’s Roskilde Festival in their native country. This will be their second appearance at the world-renowned event and takes place between Thursday 3 Sunday 6 July.
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Slowfoot will be releasing Glass Darkly the debut album by afro-kraut unit Snorkel on 28th January. To celebrate they will be playing a gig at The Adelaide on 1st Feb supported by tape loop maestro Sculpture.
FRIDAY 1st FEB
SNORKEL
+ SCULPTURE
+ DJ LASCELLE LASCELLES
@ The Adelaide
143, Adelaide Rd
London NW3 3NL
Door - £6/5adv -
7.30pm
Chalk farm tube
Tickets & info:
www.wegottickets.com/event/25762
www.slowfoot.co.uk
Snorkel...
"The missing link between Krautrock and Lee Scratch Perry"
[Rock A Rolla magazine] -
"The spirit of Ege Bamyasi era Can looms large" [The Wire]
"..it sounds like electronic fusion-era Miles Davis if he was arranging in
the 22nd century." [experimusic.com]
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Nancy Elizabeth will play her first shows of 2008 in London late January. These come after a very busy 2007 which saw Nancy release her debut album, Battle & Victory, and complete her first UK tour.
On Friday 25 January 2008. at The Borderline, Nancy Elizabeth plays a solo set in support to Diana Jones
The second date will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Paddy Steer (founder of Homelife) at the Arctic Circle night at Corsica Studios on Sunday 27 January. Also playing are the Portico Quartet, Plus Plus, Hybernation and Alex Monk with guest DJs and visuals. You can find out more here.
Nancy Elizabeth myspace
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Nancy Elizabeth recorded a session for Marc Riley's Brain Surgery show which was broadcast on 2 January, hosted by stand-in Rob Hughes. You can hear the online playback for a week by clicking on the following link: www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/brain_surgery/index.shtml
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Following on from the release of their second album, Parades, and a very successful set of tour dates in Europe at the tail-end of last year, Efterklang have announced a further batch of shows for early 2008. The first show is in Berlin on 31 January, and the tour then progresses through Germany onto Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and France, before heading north to Scandanavia in March.
Parades featured in a number of year-end lists including album of the year by The Organ, Mojo (No. 23), Drowned In Sound (No. 24) and Gigwise (No. 38).
You can see the full list of dates below:
Thu 31 Jan 2008: Club Transmediale @ Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, GERMANY
Fri 1 Feb 2008: UT Connewitz, Leipzig, GERMANY
Sat 2 Feb 2008: Gleis, Münster, GERMANY
Sun 3 Feb 2008: Star Club, BeatPol Dresden, GERMANY
Mon 4 Feb 2008: Arena, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Thu 7 Feb 2008: Milano, ITALY (with Peter Broderick)
Fri 8 Feb 2008: Sintetica, Firenze, ITALY (with Peter Broderick)
Sat 9 Feb 2008: Init, Rome, ITALY (with Peter Broderick)
Sun 10 Feb 2008: Bronson, Ravenna, ITALY (with Peter Broderick)
Tue 12 Feb 2008: Ziegel Oh Lac at Rote Fabrik, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Thu 14 Feb 2008: Bad Bonn, Düdingen, SWITZERLAND
Fri 15 Feb 2008: Rocking Chair, Vevey, SWITZERLAND
Sat 16 Feb 2008: Nordklang Festival, St. Gallen, SWITZERLANG (with Taxi Taxi!)
Sun 17 Feb 2008: Tap Tab, Schaffhausen, SWITZERLAND
Tue 19 Feb 2008: Apolo, Barcelona, SPAIN
Wed 20 Feb 2008: NeuClub, Madrid, SPAIN
Thu 22 Feb 2008: Le Florida, Agen, FRANCE
Thu 6 Mar 2008: Sønderborghus Sønderborg, DENMARK
Fri 7 Mar 2008: Musikcafeen, Aarhus, DENMARK
Sat 8 Mar 2008: Pitstop, Kolding, DENMARK
Wed 12 Mar 2008: Pustervik, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Thu 13 Mar 2008: John Dee, Oslo, NORWAY
Fri 14 Mar 2008: Store Vega, Copenhagen, DENMARK (with Lise Westzynthius)
Sat 15 Mar 2008: Mejeret, Lund, SWEDEN
www.efterklang.net
www.myspace.com/efterklang
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Into the New Year
Hello
Welcome to the New Year, the International Year of Planet Earth, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and in Australia the Year of the Scout!
2007 closed with ill health for me, an unfortunate accident with a bicycle in the dark left me bruised, cut, limping and still in severe back pain, whilst a nasty flu took hold of me and much of London for the festive period, so I look forward to 2008 with optimism and more reasons to swim, exercise and look after myself than ever before.
The death of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in December was a strange situation personally too. An email from my friend Ed, via Suzanne Stephens and Kathinka Pasveer, who took care of his scores, CDs, books, films, flowers, shrubs and trees, informed me of his death, a response to which I posted on Facebook. Less than 30 seconds later the BBC telephoned me requesting confirmation of this, then BBC TV news, then BBC Radio 4, and within the hour I was at the BBC newsroom commenting on his death, extremely unprepared and unrehearsed for such an encounter. It seems that in sharing this information I had ‘broken’ the news of his death, which still seems surreal to me.
Curiously for me I still treasure a signed set of CDs Herr Stockhausen mailed me some years ago after the Wire and the BBC had presented a series, ‘The Technocrats’ which examined Stockhausen’s musical legacy. Entitled Advice to Clever Children you can still read this online for some modest amusement. I was especially struck by his suggestion for me to be ‘more like an apple on the moon.’ See you there soon I’m sure.
December was happily a little less crazy for me – trips to Parma to perform at Lenz Rifrazioni and then to Bucharest in Romania to present my work for AVmotional at the Orange Concept Store, and then out to the deserts of El Paso Texas, where I was fortunate enough to disappear into the mountains and to visit White Sands, one of the world's great natural wonders. Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin are the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and created the world's largest gypsum dune field. As far as your eye can see is miles and miles of pure white sand with the occasional American Stealth Bomber flying over, part of the Missile Range next door!
Back to work and a recent micro film collaboration with Dutch video artist Olga Mink. Entitled Landscape it was which was recently shown at Maffiafestival, De Balie Amsterdam 2007. We are currently developing an extended work to be toured in 2008-2009.
In the dangerous and heady world of rock and roll of Githead we’ve been setting up European concert dates for 2008, with several already confirmed in Amsterdam, Cologne, Paris and Belgium in February. In the meanwhile too Renat Ziegermann shot footage at the soundcheck and during the gig at Bar Music Hall, London in June and made a video entitled Profile. Also newly featured is on that page is a link to a witty video interview with Malka & Colin made by Mike Robinson of Eastwood Guitars.
So it only leaves me to wish you a positive and wonderful 2008 and hope to see many of you very soon.
Affectionately
Robin
::: listen :::
Cat Power: Jukebox (Matador)
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (Innova)
Tom Yorke: The Eraser Remixes (XL Recordings)
Clark: Throttle Promoter (Warp)
::: read :::
Non-Format: Love Song (Die Gestalten Verlag)
Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher: Learning to Love You More ( Prestel)
Charles Burns: Black Hole (Pantheon)
Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought (Penguin)
::: film:::
Interview, Steve Buscemi, USA
Throbbing Gristle: TGV 7 DVD set
Art School Confidential, Terry Zwigoff, USA
The Bridge, Eric Steel, USA
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::: Diary Dates :::
2008
25 Jan-Mariam dance Theatre Aragon d’Orly FR
28-29 Jan-Workshops Istituto Europeo di Design Milan IT
30 Jan-Kirikou & Karaba Isle D'Espagnac FR
31 Jan-Faultline dance The Point Eastleigh UK
01 Feb-Play Along with Jean-Paul Dessy Turin IT
02 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith D'Orleans FR
02 Feb-Faultline The Empire British Dance Edition UK
03 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Limoges FR
05 Feb-Dancers' Cut Artrix Bromsgrove UK
05 Feb-Githead Paradiso Amsterdam NL
06 Feb-Githead Blue Shell Cologne DE
06 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Le Musikhall Rennes FR
07 Feb-Githead 4AD
Diksmuide BE
08 Feb-Githead Netwerk
Aalst BE
08 Feb-Dancers' Cut Town Hall Swindon UK
09 Feb-Githead Mains d'Oeuvre 
Paris FR
09-10 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Nantes Metropole St Herblain FR
12 Feb-Mariam dance Theatre Astree de Villeurbanne FR
13 Feb-Dancers' Cut Guildhall Arts Centre Grantham UK
16 Feb-Night Haunts, Stockholm SE
21 Feb-Faultline dance Contact Theatre Manchester UK
27 Feb-Kirikou & Karaba Vinci Tours FR
01 March-Kirikou & Karaba Ampithea 4000 Angers FR
02 March-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Rouen FR
05 March-Kirikou & Karaba Docks Oceane Le Havre FR
07 March-Dancers Cut Guildhall Arts Centre UK
09 March-Kirikou & Karaba Le Zenith Caen FR
13 March-Dancers' Cut Leap Festival Liverpool UK
13 March-Lecture Academy of Architecture
 Amsterdam NL
16 March-Kirikou & Karaba Antares Le Mans FR
20 March-Faultline dance Peepel Centre Leicester UK
22 March-Kirikou & Karaba Galaxie Amneville FR
26 March-Kirikou & Karaba Le Zenith Nancy FR
27 March-Dancers' Cut Deda Derby UK
29-30 March-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Arean Lille FR
10 April-Faultline dance Junction Cambridge UK
19 April-Kirikou & Karaba Arena de Geneve CH
23 April-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith de Strasbourg FR
24 April-Dancers' Cut Bridgwater Arts Centre Devon UK
30 April-Kirikou & Karaba Palais Nikaia Nice FR
14 May-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith de Dijon FR
17 May-Kirikou & Karaba Summum Grenoble FR
24 May-Kirikou & Karaba Le Dome Marseille FR
28 May-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith Sud Montpelier FR
01 June-Kirikou & Karaba Zenith D’Auvergne Toulouse FR
04 June-Kirikou & Karaba Le Zenith Toulouse FR
07 June-Kirikou & Karaba Patinoire Meriadeck Bordeaux FR
11 June-Kirikou & Karaba Le Zenith Pau FR
15 June-Kirikou & Karaba Parc des Expositions Langolvas Morlaix FR
2009
07 March-Royce Hall UCLA with Manuel Gottsching LA USA
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Exhibitions
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
Artangel Interaction invited writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu to write a nocturnal journal unfolding over the course of 2006. His postings will appear sequentially at this microsite specially designed by Mind Unit. Sandhu's forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, zookeepers and exorcists. Acclaimed artist and musician Scanner has collaborated with Sukhdev and Ian Budden of Mind Unit to compose the sound for the site.
An exposition about the reactivation of the paranormal in contemporary art, especially the recurring interest of artists in forms of possible communication with "other worlds" via electronic media. Scanner presents 'Breakthrough,' a work that uses recordings from highly amplified recordings of empty haunted spaces, to demonstrate the redundant and undesired flotsam and jetsam of environmental acoustic space, and the 'ghosts' of our natural world.
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
www.artangel.org.uk
Bittersweet Songs for the Sleepless City
Artangel Interaction
NightJam is the latest project in Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations with people who have a special view on a hidden side of the nocturnal city. Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their ears and eyes. Through music and voice workshops they explored the sense of freedom and fear, celebration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Meanwhile, they captured their nights on disposable cameras, taking images that are at times eerie, startling, contemplative and funny. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours.
NightJam presents two music tracks, a film, photographs, that can be experienced and freely downloaded. A limited edition CD is also being distributed for free through the website. Now featuring remixes of NightJam by Stephen Vitiello, Hakan Lidbo, Troy Banarzi, Si-cut.db and Pete Lockett.
www.nightjam.org.uk
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