Willkommen Records

First of two exciting all day shows announced: Diane Cluck, Alessi’s Ark and more

Marcus — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:03:49 +0000

Keep September 11th and 12th free because we have two extra special Willkommen all day shows!

Saturday September 11th sees Diane Cluck and Anders Griffen, Wig Smith, Alessi’s Ark, Robert Stillman, Animal Magic Tricks, Woodpecker Wooliams and Redwood Red bring their beautiful music to the beautiful West Hill Hall – all for just £7. Doors are at 4pm. Lots more details to be announced soon, tickets are available from Wegottickets.com now and Resident Records shortly.

In the next few days we’ll be announcing an even more exciting show for September 12th, with an extra special guest headliner, in an absolutely extraordinary venue, with three stages… so keep checking back.

Willkommen Collective Tour Documentary

Danny — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:54:52 +0000

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the three part documentary of the Willkommen Collective tour featuring The Leisure Society, Sons of Noel and Adrian and support acts (Kopek, Laish, Redwood Red). Made by Martin Goodsmith.

Enjoy!

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Pete Roe, Moulettes and Tristram tomorrow has moved to The Hope

Marcus — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:23:10 +0000

Tomorrow’s show with Pete Roe, Moulettes and Tristram has been moved from Komedia to The Hope. This is just a few streets from Komedia on Queens Road, near the clock tower. Original tickets are still valid and there will be some tickets on the door but we expect the show to be busy (and all three bands are well worth watching) so get down early. You can also still buy tickets online from wegottickets.com/willkommen or from Resident and Rounder in Brighton.

The Climbers debut album out today!

Marcus — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:00:45 +0000

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 Climbers debut single out today

Marcus — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:47:14 +0000

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”.

The Climbers album “The Good Ship” now available for preorder

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:51:38 +0000

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.

Last few copies of the Sons of Noel and Adrian “Rivers” 7″ up for sale

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:40:20 +0000

You can now purchase the last few copies of the Sons of Noel and Adrian “Rivers” EP on vinyl from the Willkommen shop here.

Out Into The White Stare this Sunday with Hamilton Yarns, Mary Hampton and many more

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:28:15 +0000

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).

Sons of Noel and Adrian tour Germany with Laish next week

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:21:19 +0000

Sons of Noel and Adrian hit Europe again next week with Laish as support. Dates are as follows:

19.05.2010 Leipzig (D) – UT Connewitz
20.05.2010 Hannover (D) – Feinkostlampe
21.05.2010 Bremen (D) – Spedition
22.05.2010 Frankfurt (D) – Yellow Stage
23.05.2010 Berlin (D) – West Germany
24.05.2010 Hamburg (D) – Astra Stube
25.05.2010 Dresden (D) – Scheune
26.05.2010 Wetzlar (D) – Franzis
27.05.2010 Zürich (CH) – Exil
28.05.2010 Antwerp (BE) – house show, details to follow, email marcus@willkommenrecords.co.uk

The Mariner’s Children for Green Man – please vote

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:24:30 +0000

Willkommen fresh blood septet The Mariner’s Children are currently near the top of the leaderboard for the Green Man Festival’s annual poll. Please help them get a chance to play the festival by voting here. You can vote every day until May 30th, so please do so. You can also join the facebook group here.

Supports confirmed for Pete Roe on June 8th: The Moulettes and Tristram

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:11:21 +0000

The fantastic Pete Roe is coming to Brighton on June 8th. Anyone who saw his performance with Shoreline and Mumford & Sons at Komedia last year or at our Stanmer House show will know how great he is live.

We’re very pleased to announce two unmissable supports. First up will be Tristram, a charming and effortlessly catchy four piece featuring Becca “Ubiquitous” Mears on the cello (The Mariner’s Children, Kristin McClement, Peggy Sue, Sons of Noel and Adrian). They just released their first EP “Someone Told Me A Poem” is out on the 22nd of february, 2010 on Oh, Invenrted World Music.

Then main support comes from The Moulettes, a folk-stomping barn-storming swingin’ quartet lead by singer-cellist Hannah Miller.

Pete Roe’s band also features a female cellist. This is a coincidence, we’re not starting to theme our nights.

The event takes place on June 8th at Komedia. Tickets are £6.50 adv. See you there! You can buy tickets here and see the facebook event here.

Willkommen bands at The Great Escape – Sons of Noel and Adrian, The Leisure Society, The Miserable Rich and many more

Marcus — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:41:14 +0000

So the Great Escape descends on Brighton today. This is the first time the Willkommen Collective have been properly represented, with live performances from The Leisure Society, Sons of Noel and Adrian, The Miserable Rich, Curly Hair, Laish and our good friends Alessi’s Ark and Peggy Sue.

Sons of Noel and Adrian, Peggy Sue and Alessi’s Ark play at The Duke of Yorks on Friday 14th May. Founded in 1910, it is the oldest working cinema in the UK and a wonderful place to see live music. This is a late show starting at 11pm. Entrance is free for Great Escape wristband holders but you can also buy a separate ticket for just this show for £8 from Resident, Rounder, Ticketweb or on the door.

The Leisure Society play upstairs at the Komedia on Saturday 15th at 9pm. This will be rammed so get there early.

Laish and Curly Hair play with Foxes and The Hornblower Brothers from midday to 4:30pm at the Pavilion Tavern on the Saturday, and The Miserable Rich play at Shipwright’s Yard on Friday at the Skint/ Republic of Music showcase, between 1 and 5pm.

Alessi is also playing at 8pm at Revenge on Saturday. That’s with Anna Calvi who is well worth seeing live. Peggy Sue also play at 9:45pm on the Friday at Life, with the wonderful Sky Larkin. We would also recommend seeing Polar Bear on Friday at Komedia, Seun Kuti at the Dome on Friday, Bo Ningen on Thursday at The Hope and Trembling Bells at the Pavilion Theare on Saturday.

Pete Roe confirmed for Brighton Komedia, 8th June

Marcus — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:46:12 +0000

We are delighted to welcome Pete Roe back to Brighton after his wonderful set at Stanmer House last year. Tickets are on sale now at www.wegottickets.com/willkommen for just £6.50.

Pete Roe is a gifted singer/songwriter, best known as the pianist and guitarist in Mercury Award nominee Laura Marling’s band. Having toured with Marling several times, opened for Mumford & Sons too many times to remember and worked as guitar tech for the Maccabees, Roe is now stepping in to the limelight and releasing a solo EP through Communion Records in June, the label run by Kev from Cherbourg and Ben from Mumford & Sons.

His sound fuses the keen melodic ear and lyricism of his aforementioned friends with the guitar skills of Bert Jansch and John Martyn. His unique style sees complex melody, bass lines and percussive tapping simultaneously weaving in and out of each other and his soothing voice sits perfectly on top.

www.myspace.com/peteroe

The Willkommen Collective tour starts TODAY! Supports announced below

Marcus — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:12:48 +0000

The Leisure Society and Sons of Noel and Adrian hit the road today with a rotating cast of bands from the Collective. There is a facebook event for the tour here.

April 2010

Thursday 1st: LONDON – The Tabernacle (with support from Kristin McClement) ***note early doors and curfew – doors 7pm, first band 7:30pm and they’re unmissable, curfew 10pm***

Saturday 3rd: BRIGHTON – The Corn Exchange (with support from Shoreline)

Sunday 4th: BRISTOL – Thekla (with support from Kopek) ***early doors and curfew again, doors 7pm, first band 7:10pm, curfew 10pm***

—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | 08713 100 000

Monday 5th: LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club (with support from Laish)

—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | 0113 2455570

Tuesday 6th: MANCHESTER – Band on the Wall ***no support, Sons start at 8pm***

Wednesday 7th: KENDAL – Brewery Arts Centre (with support from Redwood Red)

The Climbers album launch gig: Wednesday June 2nd at Tamesis Dock

Marcus — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:16:51 +0000

We’re very pleased to announce that The Climbers will launch their debut album, The Good Ship, on a very good ship. Tamesis Dock is a converted, loveable, 1933 Dutch barge moored on the Thames between Vauxhall and Lambeth Bridge. It’s also a wonderful live music venue, especially during summer.

Tickets are priced at just £6 and are available at TicketWeb now. This will be the band’s first ever full live show. The album is released just two days before on Monday May 31st and is astounding. Exciting supports to be announced.

UPDATE: There is also now a facebook event here.