Richard Dawson, Birdengine and Emma Gatrill
at The Caxton, Brighton
Willkommen Collective
Foxswap Compilation
Laish
Self titled debut album
Rowan Coupland
Thorns, Brambles, Whitewater and Black Oak
The Climbers
The Good Ship
Sons of Noel and Adrian
Rivers: now available from iTunes, 7"s and limited CDs sold out
Willkommen Collective
Volume 1: fourteen track compilation with exclusives from The Leisure Society, Sons of Noel and Adrian and more
The debut album from The Climbers is in stores today. Go and buy it! Or get it from our shop here, or iTunes and all the usual online outlets.
Also check out the second album from The Miserable Rich – Of Flight & Fury, and Junkboy’s new album Koyo, both also out today.
The debut single from The Climbers, “The Good Ship”, is out digitally today. You can buy it on iTunes here.
The single features the titular track from the debut album, out a week today, as well as the exclusive B-side “Listening Boy”.
Good news – you can now preorder the fantastic debut from The Climbers from the Willkommen shop here. They’ll ship as soon as we have them and this is the lowest price you’ll find.
The Climbers are the Department of Eagles to The Leisure Society’s Grizzly Bear – five years in gestation, the studio project began before songwriter Tim West got Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy together to form the band that became The Leisure Society. West plays a role like Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew or the early Brian Eno, writing beautiful songs then giving them to a vast cast of friends who have free reign to make their mark on them. Even lead vocals are shared by a handful of gifted collaborators, and often shared by the whole band.
Also copies will be available at the album launch show, June 2nd at Tamesis Dock, London. Facebook event here and tickets available here – this is selling fast now so buy in advance to avoid disappointment. The album is preceded by a single on May 24th, also called The Good Ship, available on iTunes for preorder shortly.
You can now purchase the last few copies of the Sons of Noel and Adrian “Rivers” EP on vinyl from the Willkommen shop here.
An amazing event called Out Into the White Stare is taking place at the Unitarian Church on New Road on Sunday May 16th.
As well as a set from Mary Hampton and band, Mary writes, “we are on the bill alongside some of my all-time favourite Brighton acts: the weird and wonderful musical storytelling of Hamilton Yarns, warm bone-dry English beat-poet Gary Goodman, consummate modern percussion duo Adam Bushell and Tom Norrell, and kicking things off will be a short talk from legendary traditional folk singer Shirley Collins.”
Out Into the White Stare is a benefit gig to raise funds for the premier performance of Missa Humana, an extraordinary non-religious mass by poet Maureen Duffy and the late composer Dolly Collins.
Doors are at 7pm, tickets are £7.50/6.50 and are available in advance from the Dome Box Office. (01273 709709).
