Melting Vinyl and The Great Escape Festival bring you the best of a currently thriving Future Folk scene.

Fri.

16th May

11pm-1.30am

LATE SHOW

DEVON

SPROULE

+ EAMON

HAMILTON

(BRAKES)

+ MELODICA

MELODY AND

ME

Duke of Yorks Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton
Tickets: Free for TGE wristband holders. Limited number of £5 tickets. Available from Duke of York's Box Office: 0871 704 2056 / Rounder Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312

Headlining will be Devon Sproule. From Charlottesville VA Devon is an astounding songstress whose lyrical beauty is unmatched. Her profile has rocketed this year with sold out shows across the country and an appearance on Jools Holland. Next down the line is Eamon Hamilton of Brakes front man fame who steps out with his own stripped down punk-folk set. And opening up are Melting Vinyl’s favourite Folk Steppers, The Melodica, The Melody and Me. Young six-piece folksters from London bringing you wholesome melodies and colourful instrumental drops.

www.myspace.com/devonsproule.com

www.myspace.com/brakesband

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On Norway Day, following on from last year's successful Icelandic music showcase, Melting Vinyl and The Great Escape bring you the finest of the Norwegian scene.

Sat.

17th May

11pm-1.30am

LATE SHOW

ANN BRUN

+ NILS

BECH

+ SILJE

NES

 

Duke of Yorks Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton
Tickets: Free for TGE wristband holders. Limited number of £5 tickets. Available from Duke of York's Box Office: 0871 704 2056 / Rounder Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312

Headlining will be Ann Brun. Produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Björk, Sigur Ros, Múm, Bonnie Prince Billy, Coco Rosie, Maps) her songs are surprising, at times strange, and they strike a nerve somewhere between bird-flight beauty and brooding melancholy with a haunting quality embedded in her melodies. Then Nils Bech. Bech is an integral part of the Norwegian art and music scene. Accompanied by a saxophonist he combines sparse acapella versions of contemporary and classical music with well-crafted electronica in a conceptual stage show laced with cabaret and contemporary dance. And last up Silje Nes. Newly signed to Fatcat Records, Silje delicately layers up twinkling melodies and ghostly electronics alongside her celestial other worldly vocals.

www.myspace.com/annbrun.com

www.myspace.com/nilsbech

www.myspace.com/siljenes

 

 

Signed to Domino, the former Fridge man brings perfectly arranged hymn-like songs with a strikingly honest vocal delivery.

Tues. 20th

May

8pm - 11pm

ADEM

+ SUPPORT

The Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY, TEL: 0113 2752411
Tickets: £10.00 adv. / £12.00 on the door: Jumbo: 0113 245 5570 / Crash:
0113 243 6743 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk

Fronting his own four-piece acoustic band, Fridge's bassist originally stepped out into the light with a wealth of beautiful songs in 2004. Perfectly arranged for acoustic guitars, autoharp, harmonium, percussion and double-bass Homesongs was much more song based and much less experimental than any of Fridge’s critically acclaimed back catalogue, slotting neatly and exquisitely into the nu-folk scene. His third album, to be released later this year, is simply called Takes. It is a stunning and evocative collection of interpretations of tracks released between 1991 - 2001, breathing new life into material from Bjork, Smashing Pumpkins, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise and Aphex Twin. Adem played every instrument and produced the whole record himself, no real surprise for a man of his talent.

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Brighton Live and Melting Vinyl present THE RAVEN'S EMPIRE ORCHESTRA project. A unique collaboration featuring David Bramwell (Oddfellows Casino) Andrew Philips, Brighton and Hove Youth Concert Band and avant garde musician Grant Newman.

Sun. 25th

May

7.30pm - 10pm

THE RAVENS

EMPIRE

St. Georges Church, St Georges Rd, Kemp Town, Brighton
Tickets: £8 adults / £3 kids on the door: Available from Rounder Records:
01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk

'The Raven's Empire' is an exciting and unique collaboration between the group Oddfellows Casino, composer Andrew Philips, Brighton and Hove Youth Concert Band (a 30-piece ensemble of woodwind, brass and percussion) and avant garde musician , (whose work involves manipulation of radio signals and other electronic phenomena). To be performed at St Georges Church on

Sunday 25th May, the concert will blend music specially composed for the

Concert Band as accompaniment to the songs of Oddfellows Casino's with the soundscapes of Grant Newman. Loosely themed around tales of the supernatural, visual elements for the event will include scenes from Cocteau's Orphee (especially appropriate given the themes of the voice from the dead

being broadcast through radios during the film).

www.brightonlive.net
www.bhmpa.org.uk

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The saviours of mainstream British rock.

Sat.

31st May

7.30pm door / 8pm start

GUILLEMOTS

+ Royworld

Dome Concert Hall, Church St, Brighton TEL:01273 709709
Tickets: £14.50 adv. / £16.50 on the door: Available from Dome Box
Office: 01273 709709 / Fan site:
shop.sandbag.uk.com/Guillemots/Store/DisplayItems.html / Rounder
Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb:
www.ticketweb.co.uk

With 2006’s debut Through The Windowpane, Guillemots injected a much needed boost of alternativism into mainstream UK indie. With the likes of Keane and Coldplay grabbing all the headlines it could be argued that the scene had gone a little errr conservative. Digging up a plethora of ideas and vast array of unconventional sounds, bright colours and grand gestures their sound maximizes and intensifies every moment, every muttered word and every touch of emotion.“Here lie gorgeous tunes that are lithe enough to cope with the little bursts of sonic madness that flit around like overproduced Eighties butterflies.” Observer

www.guillemots.com

www.myspace.com/guillemotsmusic

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Discovered by Moshi Moshi, hypnotic and effortlessly seductive Swedish pop.

Fri. 6th

June

8pm - 11pm

LYKKE LI

+ El Perro Del Mar

The Albert, 48 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, BN1 4ED, TEL: 01273 730499

Tickets £7 Adv. £8 on the door Resident 01273 606312 / Rounder 01273 325440 / Ticket Web www.ticketweb.co.uk

Lykke Li’s debut performances in London left packed audiences pleasantly shell-shocked. A master of subtle delivery, leftfield arrangements, a lovelorn melody, and minimalist brilliance, there's sticking power coursing through her veins. Through the layered, multi-instrumental flavour of her music - you’ll hear harpsichords, flutes, and theremins - there’s a perfect balance of city and suburb that pours from the organic, digital feel of her songs and her sumptuously fragile yet jarringly brutal lyricism tells tales of her extraordinary life. Produced by Bjorn Yttling, of Peter, Bjorn and John fame, Lykke Li is yet another reason why Moshi Moshi are so dam consistent.

"If Timbaland made winsome Scandinavian indie then this is what it would sound like.” Guardian Guide

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2008’s South By South West favourites Fleet Foxes, are joined on a double headline tour by the delicate lovelorn pop of Bella Union label mates Beach House. Sublime.

Mon. 9th

June

8pm - 11pm

FLEET FOXES

&

BEACH HOUSE

 

Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton TEL: 01273 606906

Tickets: £6.50 adv. / £7.50 on the door. Available from Rounder Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk

Pretty much every journo worth his salt came back from this year’s SXSW in Texas ranting and raving about Fleet Foxes. From Seattle this quintet describe their music as "baroque harmonic pop jams.” Changing shape constantly, their pastoral psych-pop takes in elements of classic rock, church music, old-timey folk and, with a heavy use of reverb, it is easy to understand the healthy comparisons to My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses.

If that wasn’t enough this is in fact a duel headline tour with label mates Beach House. From Baltimore this duo sip from the same cup as Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, Spiritualized, and Slowdive. “Their delicate, lovelorn pop comes in the form of deathly waltzes and dark pastoral dirges on which Legrand sings about desire, loss, and dreams as if telling a ghost story, splitting the difference between lovely and creepy.” Pitchfork Media

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Returning to Brighton, Belle and Sebastian mistress again links arms with Lanegan, an idol of the stoner scene, to create something highly special, yet distinctly different to their past.

Weds.

11th June

7.30pm - 11pm

ISOBEL

CAMPBELL

& MARK LANEGAN

+ Gareth Dickson

St. Georges Church, St Georges Rd, Kemp Town, Brighton
Tickets: £14.00 adv. / £16.00 on the door: Available from Rounder
Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb:
www.ticketweb.co.uk

If you’d have taken a bet at the start of 2006 on which influential members of which cult bands would forge creative links with shining results you’d never have put Ms. Beautiful & Delicate Indie (Belle and Sebastian) with Mr. Grunge King of Stoner Metal (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age), but this is what we were offered and what a flawless duo they make. Campbell’s airy Scottish whispers combined with Lanegan’s worn in husky growl make for remarkable listening and with a second album due out in May it looks like this pairing is thankfully set to continue. This is one of only four UK dates and after last years super quick sell out at the Komedia I’d advise everyone to get in early.“Feather light and swimming in echo, Campbell sounds like a teenage ghost … She doesn't so much sing words as inhabit a celestial space above the acoustic guitars, violin and cellos while Lanegan settles in to a close approximation of American Recordings-era Johnny Cash.“ BBC

www.isobelcampbell.com

www.myspace.com/isobelcampbell

www.myspace.com/marklanegan

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From New York, one of Anthony’s Johnsons and collaborator of Rufus Wainwright, unveils a stunning new collection of beautiful and haunting piano melodies.

Fri.

13th June

7pm - 10pm

EARLY SHOW

JOAN AS

POLICEWOMAN

+ SUPPORT

Concorde 2, Shelter Hall, Maderia Drive, Brighton TEL 01273 673311
Tickets: £12.50adv. / £14.50 on the door: Concorde 2 Box Office 01273
673311/ Rounder 01273 325440 / Resident 01273 606312 / Dome 01273 709709
/ Ticketweb www.ticketweb.co.uk / Wayahead www.seetickets.com

The multi-skilled musical phenomenon that is Joan Wasser – classically trained violin player, street taught punk rocker, old soul aficionado, vocal diva - returns to Brighton with a new album in tow. A collection of songs she wrote mostly in the shadow of her mother’s battle with cancer, which ended in her death last year, To Survive centres on Joan as piano player and singer. Joan found her solo feet aa few years aog when Rufus Wainwright invited her to open his shows. She recorded her first album intermittently during this touring with Rufus.

“Wasser’s sensual ululations decorate songs that run the gamut, from sinuous funk nocturnes to toy piano reveries. Arresting stuff. “ BBC

“A voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else's seem ordinary and mundane, the indie generation's Dusty Springfield. “ *THE TELEGRAPH

www.joanaspolicewoman.com.net
www.myspace.com/joanaspolicewoman

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Alex Turner’s conspirator-in-chief gets on with his day job.

Sat. 14th

June

8pm-11pm

THE

RASCALS

+ SUPPORT

The Barfy, 27 Gloucester Place, BN1 4AA TEL: 01273 688011
£7.50 adv. / £8.50 on the door: Available from Rounder Records: 01273
325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk /
Wayahead www.seetickets.com

It was whilst on tour with The Artic Monkeys as The Little Flames that these three lads from The Wirral split from the other Flames and formed The Rascals (More recently singer Miles Kane joined up with Alex Turner to form The Last Shadow Puppets- the next super group me thinks). Since then they have taken their beautiful pop melodies and psychedelic quirk, all underpinned by a compelling dark soul, to larger and larger stages. Heavily backed by the NME these scousers have a natural catchiness about their sound that most of the rest of the contents of Britain’s “favourite” music rag would barter all their skinny jeans for.

“Guitars thunder along with the urgency of The Coral, sewn to the dead-eyed post-mortem pop of Sons And Daughters.” NME

www.myspace.com/rascalmusic

www.therascals.co.uk

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Honey voiced, poectic indie folk

Sat.

14th June

7pm - 10pm

EARLY SHOW

THEA

GILMORE

+ Pete du Pon

Concorde 2, Shelter Hall, Maderia Drive, Brighton TEL 01273 673311
Tickets: £12adv. / £14 on the door: Concorde 2 Box Office 01273
673311/ Rounder 01273 325440 / Resident 01273 606312 / Dome 01273 709709
/ Ticketweb www.ticketweb.co.uk / Wayahead www.seetickets.com

With a honeyed voice akin to Kirsty MacColl, that can cover the full spectrum from timorous to husky baritone within a couple of bars, Thea Gilmore is a real homegrown talent. Combine these unmistakable vocals with her ear for melody, with sounds that recall classic American recordings from the West Coast to Greenwich Village via Texas and the Mississippi Delta, her poetic indie folk embodies both a glossy sheen and stark, eerie acoustic textures.

“The best wordsmith of her generation” The Independent

“The best British singer/songwriter of the last ten years - and then some” Uncut

www.theagilmore.net
www.myspace.com/theagilmore

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Lush folktronica from the chaps behind Tunng, The Bicycle Thieves and The Memory Band

Weds 18th

June

7.30pm - 11.00pm

THE

ACCIDENTAL

+ The Miserable Rich

The Hanbury Club, 83 St. George Road, BN2 1EF, TEL: 01273 605789
Tickets: £8.00 adv. / £9.00 on the door: Rounder 01273 325440 / Resident 01273 606312 / Ticketweb www.ticketweb.co.uk

www.theaccidental.co.uk

www.myspace.com/theaccidental

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From Georgia Atlanta, signed to Kranky, blissfully fed back ambient punk fired through lush psychedelic textures.

Fri. 20th June

8pm-11pm

DEERHUNTER

+ HIGH PLACES

The Barfy, 27 Gloucester Place, BN1 4AA TEL: 01273 688011
£7.50 adv. / £8.50 on the door: Available from Rounder Records: 01273
325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk /
Wayahead www.seetickets.com

Deerhunter began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock. The band has weathered chaotic line-up changes and the death of a member, finally releasing last year’s genre bending ambient-punk document, Cryptograms. Fusing the lush shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine with the freak-out guitar structures of Sonic Youth their sound is one not easily described, nor pigeon-holed, and this is what makes what can only be termed their ‘sonic identity’ so alluring. Maybe Drowned In Sound can help out here:

“An undulating patchwork of attention-deficit kraut-punk squalls and intoxicating and enveloping sound collages that sweep the listener up in a broad clutch, a giant’s palm, taking them on a journey through their own misfiring synapses; it’s soul-infused and passionate, born from hearts troubled and minds razor-sharp.” Drowned In Sound

Support comes from one of the pick Brooklyn’s current crop of uber cool bands High Places. The hypnotic tropical universe of this duo layers bursts of starry pop psychedelia with bass-heavy poly-rhythms, glistening astral reverb and singer Mary Pearson's innocent vocals.

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www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces

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From Texas, fiercely creative and scuzzy garage punk.

"Spelling out the future of dirt-rock in blood" NME

Mon. 30th

June

8pm - 11pm

WHITE

DENIM

+ SUPPORT

 

Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton TEL: 01273 606906

Tickets: £7 adv. / £8 on the door. Available from Rounder Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk

 www.myspace.com/bopenglish

www.whitedenimmusic.com

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From Sweden, critically acclaimed eloquent classical and Spanish guitar and an ultrasensitive soul.

Fri. 28th

August

7.30pm doors / 8pm start

JOSE

GONZALEZ

+ SUPPORT

 

St. Georges Concert Hall, Hall Ings, Bradford, BD1 1JT / TEL: 01274 432672

Tickets: £16.50 Adv + BF / £18.50 on the door: Available from St.
Georges Concert Hall Box Office: 01274 432000 / Jumbo Records: 0113
2455570 / Crash: 0113 2436743 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk

Adored by legions of critics & fans alike Jose relies simply on his eloquent classical guitar and a mature, assured voice to create an inimitable sonic world with an irresistible allure think Nick Drake & Tim Buckley. Lo-fi folk doesn't get any more exotic. Born and raised in Gothenburg to Argentinian parents, "Gonzalez grew up listening to bossa nova and Joy Division, and deftly picks at his classical guitar with a flamenco flourish"Q

The Swedish singer-songwriter marries "Nick Drake's mournful minimalism to deftly picked, Latino guitar. The results melodic purity, a mesmeric rhythmic drive and stark emotionalism are extraordinary." UNCUT

www.josegonzalez.co.uk
www.myspace.com/josegonzalez

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From Sao Paulo, Brazil, samba, bossa nova and jazz sprinkled in amongst subtle downtempo and inventive electro pop.

Fri 19th

September

8pm-11pm

CIBELLE

+ SUPPORT

 

The Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY, TEL: 0113 2752411

Tickets: £8.50 adv. / £9.50 on the door: Jumbo: 0113 245 5570 / Crash: 0113 243 6743 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk

www.cibelle.net

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