Last year’s Foxtrot warmup show with Diane Cluck was such a great success that we’ve decided to stretch out the festivities this year too.

After the success of the Rachael Dadd, Rozi Plain and Ichi show at the Caxton, we couldn’t think of a better place to do it, so prepare yourselves for another completely unamplified, extremely intimate evening of music. We’re calling it ECHO, both to tie it in with the FOXTROT name and to draw attention to the reverent silence in the room.

We have full sets from REDWOOD RED – Cathy Cardin from Sons of Noel and Adrian’s solo project, heartbreakingly delicate and fragile but equally powerful and moving, she has written some of my favourite songs of all time, beautifully harmonised by EMMA GATRILL, who has just completed an album of breathtaking harp songs with contributions from various members of the Willkommen Collective.

She also sings with Sons of Noel and Adrian, as well as playing clarinet and accordion with them and the likes of Rachael Dadd, The Mariner’s Children, Laura Marling and Laish.

Laish violinist MARTHA ROSE, also brings her beautiful duets to the Caxton, following on from an unforgettable surprise set in the woods at last year’s Foxtrot and an amazing set supporting Sons and DANCEHALLS, with whom she also plays.

Also expect lots of collaborations and surprise sets.

ADMITTANCE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED SO BUYING IN ADVANCE IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: http://www.wegottickets.com/willkommen

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.

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.

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.

We had a few technical hitches with our mailing list and it seems a few people didn’t successfully receive the link to download our free Christmas covers compilation, so here it is again, available to download for a limited time only:

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/642455248/bac0b2da23acaecf1cae5445428b676c

The compilation features Shoreline covers Sons of Noel and Adrian, Sons of Noel and Adrian reworking The Miserable Rich, Redwood Red covering Sons, Curly Hair covering Laish, Stray Airmail (Alistair Strachan and Mary Hampton) covering Shoreline, Atlas Crease covering The Miserable Rich, Rowan Coupland covering Shoreline, Laish covering Moonshine Moonshine and The Great Park covering Sons and vice verse. It’s a great listen!

You can also stream or download individual tracks from last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/Willkommen+Christmas+2008