Last night we confirmed the spellbinding Alessi’s Ark for May’s Willkommen night. It’ll take place on May 5th at The Freebutt. She’s a captivating performer in the vein of Joanna Newsom, Laura Marling and Emmy The Great.

Her Mike Mogus produced album is out on Virgin next month and her beautiful songs take mere seconds to permanently implant themselves in your mind. Tickets are available at wegottickets.com now.

Stay posted for exciting news about June’s Willkommen night, too.

The wait is over – physical copies of The Leisure Society’s debut album The Sleeper finally hit stores today.  Don’t forget the band are currently touring the UK – all the shows so far have sold out in advance so make sure you buy tickets for upcoming shows in Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham (already sold out), Manchester, Glasgow and Nottingham as soon as possible.

At 6pm today The Leisure Society a performing a free set at the beautiful Resident Records, Kensington Gardens, Brighton. Copies of the debut album will be available along with a free Willkommen Records sampler.

After that we’ll all be heading from Resident to The Albert up the road, where Willkommen Records are hosting Eric Chenaux (excellent folk innovator on Constellation Records) with Curly Hair (members of Laish Quartet playing lo-fi perfect pop) and Redwood Red (Cathy Cardin, female vocalist of Sons of Noel and Adrian, plays her solo material live for the first time).

Both shows are set to be fantastic, no tickets required for The Leisure Society, still some e-tickets available for Eric Chenaux here or buy at Resident or on the door.

The eagerly awaited debut album is finally available from iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody etc.

The physical CD is in shops next Monday, 30th March – and what a beauty it is too.

Don’t forget to come on down to the Sanctuary Café in Hove for the spellbinding Cath & Phil Tyler, the legendary Mary Hampton and the swashbuckling Laish Quartet. There are a very small number of tickets left at wegottickets.com here and there should be a few left at Resident, otherwise arrive early.

Also we have another Willkommen gig next week at the Albert: with the warped country tunes of Constellation’s finest Eric Chenaux all the way from Canada, Curly Hair’s perfect pop songs (catchier than herpes) and the live debut of Cathy from Sons of Noel and Adrian’s beautifully engaging solo project Redwood Red. Tickets still available here.