@ The
Slaughtered Lamb and beyond...
Friday 4th July
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
LAURIE
MCNAMEE ~
SARAH
JAFFE ~ JF
BUY
JF
BUY
"is a french boy who plays and sings, and hayley moore from el cerrito,
ca who sings and sometimes fellow germain from the band bellyache playing
an es125 on a fender tube amp (which has a great sound). j.f.b. likes skip
james, gary davis, john hurt, son house, elizabeth cotten, jack franck, dave
van ronk, bob zimmer, tom waits, springsteen, johnny cash, billie holiday,
townes van zandt, nick drake, leonard cohen, john cale, nick cave, randy newman,
scott walker, jimi hendrix, franz liszt, bill callahan, will oldham, howe
gelb... ---two home made EPs available : ''nov'05'' featuring 6 originals
and 2 covers; "j.f.buy&hayley moore" (jan07) 5 originals and a rendition of
traditional 'hard times"
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / door | tickets
The
Gallery Cafe | 21 Old
Ford Rd | Bethnal Green | E2
9PL
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Monday 7th July
@ The Slaughtered
Lamb
KAL
LAVELLE ~ ANNA
BURTON ~ AMELIA
HORNE ~
EMILY
CHURCHILL
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Tuesday 8th July
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
BETHIA
BEADMAN ~ THOMAS
KIEFFER
~ LEE
WESTWOOD & PHILIPPE BARNES ~
JAMIE
HANSON
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Wednesday 9th July
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
SWEET
BABOO ~ THE
VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME
~ VICTORIA
& JACOB
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Wednesday
9th July @
The Wilmington
Arms
GESTIR
~ THE BLISTERS
~ REVERE
"…Best of the bunch, though, may yet be the intensely compelling, laser-souled
Gestir, a quintet of hefty, swirling arrangements that recall those moments
of glory and gloom that once made Radiohead such a remarkable band whilst
simultaneously drawing comparisons with Elbow in their more plangent moments.
Where these bands come from matters a lot less than where they are heading."
[THE FLY]
"Just in case anyone was thinking that the schizophrenic programming
was purely accidental, filmic alt-rockers Gestir (pictured, main) step up
next and strip away Angu's acoustic soul-searching with a kaleidoscopic blur
of murky, intense guitars and arching vocals. The visceral undercurrents of
darkness and anguish are captivating." [DROWNED IN SOUND]
Doors
8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The
Wilmington Arms
| 69 Roseberry Av | Angel/Farringdon
| EC1R 4RL
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Friday 11th July
@ The
Cavendish Arms
PETE
DU PON ~ CARRI
HABER ~
ROB
COWEN ~
DAN
CLEWS
Born
in Canada and raised near Guildford, PETE
DU PON travels
on a Dutch passport, courtesy of his musical Father, who played the piano,
guitar and sang while Cat Stevens, James Taylor, and Bob Dylan echoed through
the through the family home during Pete's childhood. Du Pon has already worked
with some of the cream of British songwriters and producers, including Arthur
Baker (Bob Dylan, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa) Rollo (Faithless), Julian Gallagher
(U2), and Blair Mackichan (Lily Allen).
In February he was offered a slot at
short notice
on the World Space sessions at Abbey Road Studios. One
of the prerequisites was a cover version. Along with his guitarist and cello
player, he played an old arrangement of Green Day's 'Basket Case' which he'd
first played while living and gigging in France. "I'd slowed it right down
on the piano then put it back onto the guitar - it's just a different way
of looking at it." The song was incredibly well received attracting over 15,000
hits on the first day it was put online. Support slots with Amy MacDonald
and Thea Gilmore have since introduced him to a whole new audience.
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Cavendish Arms
| 128 Hartington Rd | Stockwell
| SW8 2HJ
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Monday 14th July
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
THE
SARAH CARTER BAND ~
LONGITAL
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Tuesday 15th July
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
THE
WOE BETIDES
~ ELAN
~ PETRUSHKA
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Wednesday 16th July
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
PAUL
MOSLEY ~
STARS
OF SUNDAY LEAGUE
~ HOW
TO CURE DYSLEXIA
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Saturday 19th July
@ The Luminaire
TOBY
KEANE (Single Launch)
~ THE
BLISTERS
Doors 8pm | £6 advance / £7 door
| tickets
The
Luminaire
| 311 Kilburn
High Road | Kilburn
| NW6 7JR
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Monday
21st July @ The
Slaughtered Lamb
VINCE
FREEMAN ~
LOUISA
~
BETHANY
WEIMERS
~
ANDY
FLIGHT
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Tuesday 22nd July @ The
Slaughtered Lamb
JUSTIN
TOWNES EARLE
~
CASE
HARDIN
~ JD
SMITH
Doors 7.45pm | £8 advance / £10 door
| tickets
The
Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St
|
Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
With JUSTIN
TOWNES EARLE’s pedigree come mixed
blessings. As the son of legendary singer/songwriter Steve Earle, high expectations
are the name of the game, and he’s shown that he is up to the task on 'The
Good Life,' crafting stark portraits and narrative tales with elements of
blues, classic country and rock n’roll.
A modern-day troubadour, Earle blends genres seamlessly, framing his songs
in warm musical settings and creating tunes that could easily be mistaken
for classics. “I started out to make an old timey country record, but I listen
to so many other kinds of music,” Justin explained. “Some of the songs were
rearranged on the spot and took on other lives and album is now more of an
exploration of southern music.”
Earle approaches universal topics like traveling and matters of the heart
(“Hard Living”, “The Good Life”) with the same fervor with which he evokes
the bleak loneliness of a Civil War soldier on “Lone Pine Hill”.
Justin is 25 years old and his age belies his experience. Growing up in Nashville
he mis-spent his youth playing in bluegrass/ragtime combo The Swindlers and
the louder, more rocking The Distributors and developing some very bad habits.
During tours as guitarist and keyboardist (“…and not a very good one,” laughs
Earle) in his father’s band, his problems became untenable and he was fired.
Ultimately he cleaned up his act, dropped his self-destructive habits and
began to focus on songcraft.
“You don’t have to be fucked up or torture yourself to write songs,” explains
Earle, “I used to write a lot, a whole lot, and half those songs I don’t even
remember. Now, I sit there and I write it and I finish it and I keep it.”
With inspirations as diverse as Townes Van Zandt (he was named in honor of
the elder Earle’s hero), Jimmy Reed, Kurt Cobain, The Replacements, Ray Charles
and The Pogues, Justin forged his own brand of American roots music. Going
through life with a namesake of Van Zandt’s stature cannot be easy for a young
songwriter, but Earle takes it in stride,” saying, “Anyone who tries to live
up to Van Zandt is a fool. I’m honored to carry the name, but if I spent my
life trying to live up to it, I’d have a pretty miserable life.” Likewise,
his father’s incredibly acclaimed, prolific career casts a huge shadow, but
Justin Townes Earles makes a name for himself by focusing his writing on the
personal rather than the political, narrative tales instead of protest.
The Good Life melds the qualities of a short story with the lyrical acuity
of excellent songs, celebrating grand southern traditions and blowing a fresh
breeze across the musical gardens and dive bars of Nashville. The Good Life
is produced by RS Field (Billy Joe Shaver, Sonny Landreth) and Steve Poulton.
The album was recorded (with the exception of “Ain’t Glad I’m Leaving”) at
House of David studios, the legendary room that has hosted sessions with George
Jones, Elvis Presley, Neil Young and countless others. Joining Earle in the
studio are a cast of all-star players including longtime cohort Cory Younts
(Bobby Bare, Jr) on banjo and mandolin, pedal steel player master Pete Finney
(Dixie Chicks, Patty Lovelace), bassist Bryn Davies (Patty Griffin, Guy Clark),
drummer Bryan Owings (Buddy Miller, Shelby Lynne), keyboardist Skylar Wilson
and fiddle player Josh Hedley.
‘The hard-drivin' "Hard Livin'", from the twenty-five-year-old singer's upcoming
solo debut, The Good Life, is a compactly written opener sporting a percussive
piano, a fiddle that spirals spryly upwards, and a jazzy rhythm section that
keeps the song chugging along at a barreling tempo.’ [PITCHFORK
MEDIA]
"Sometimes Justin Townes Earle, Steve Earle’s 25-year-old son, sounds as if
he was born in the wrong era. Half the songs on his debut album, 'The Good
Life,' could almost have been broadcast decades ago on the Grand Ole Opry,
with unplugged arrangements, honky-tonk rhythms and his nasal, unvarnished
voice singing lines like 'If you ain’t glad I’m leavin’, girl, you know you
oughta be.' Mr. Earle doesn’t reject the songwriting influences of his namesake,
Townes Van Zandt, or of his father. He picks up Van Zandt’s folky solitude
in 'Turn Out My Lights' and 'Faraway in Another Town.' He brings his father’s
sense of history to 'Lone Pine Hill,' a quasi-Appalachian ballad about a Civil
War soldier, and some of his father’s rasp to the measured, emotionally tangled
'Who Am I to Say,' addressed to a self-destructive ex-girlfriend. In those
songs Mr. Earle projects a convincing sincerity. But the stylized, old-time
country of 'Hard Livin,' 'Ain’t Glad I’m Leavin,' 'What Do You Do When You’re
Lonesome' or 'Lonesome and You' — yes, there’s a theme there — frees him to
find glimmers of humor amid the plaints. In 'The Good Life' his narrator has
gone so far downhill since a breakup that he doesn’t even realize he’s a derelict.
With a rolling shuffle beat and fiddle-and-pedal steel sidling around his
voice, Mr. Earle suggests that long ago people danced through troubles like
these, and they might yet again."
[JON PARELES, NEW YORK TIMES]
Doors 7.45pm | £8 advance / £10 door
| tickets
The
Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St
|
Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Wednesday
23rd July @ The
Slaughtered Lamb
ERLAND
& THE CARNIVAL ~
Guests
Doors 8pm | £5 advance/door | tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Monday
28th July @ The
Slaughtered Lamb
MILLA
TRAYLEN ~
ANTHONIO
LULIC ~
BOBBY
TREACLES CARTEL
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Tuesday
29th July @ The
Slaughtered Lamb
PETE
DU PON ~ GARY
GO ~
Guests
Born in Canada and raised near Guildford, PETE
DU PON travels
on a Dutch passport, courtesy of his musical Father, who played the piano,
guitar and sang while Cat Stevens, James Taylor, and Bob Dylan echoed through
the through the family home during Pete's childhood. Du Pon has already worked
with some of the cream of British songwriters and producers, including Arthur
Baker (Bob Dylan, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa) Rollo (Faithless), Julian Gallagher
(U2), and Blair Mackichan (Lily Allen).
In February he was offered a slot at
short notice
on the World Space sessions at Abbey Road Studios. One
of the prerequisites was a cover version. Along with his guitarist and cello
player, he played an old arrangement of Green Day's 'Basket Case' which he'd
first played while living and gigging in France. "I'd slowed it right down
on the piano then put it back onto the guitar - it's just a different way
of looking at it." The song was incredibly well received attracting over 15,000
hits on the first day it was put online. Support slots with Amy MacDonald
and Thea Gilmore have since introduced him to a whole new audience.
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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Wednesday
30th July @ The
Slaughtered Lamb
YO
ZUSHI ~ Guests
Doors 8pm | £5 advance / £6 door
| tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb
| 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican
| EC1V 0DX
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