COMING GIGS:
Thursday 06 Sep - The Landsdown Clifton Rd Bristol, £4
I’ll be playing with Wig Smith as The Hand (banjo/ Kora instrumental stuff with a bit of singing) and Andi Skellam and the Wraiths will be playing too and we plan to do a raffle and projections so you should most certainly come along!Tuesday 11 Sep - The Slaughtered Lamb 34-35 Great Sutton St, London, South EC1V 0DX
The Wraiths, Andi Skellam, Jess Bryant and myselfWeekend 22 and 23 Sep - TRUCK FESTIVAL Steventon, Oxford
NOVEMBER TOUR
Andi Skellam, Wig Smith, myself and The Hand (which is me in disguise on the banjo with Wig Smith on the Kora) are all in various stages of finishing new albums. This is our album launch tour. And in the words of Andi Skellam: 'Imagine your being launched from a circus cannon, it’s a warm sunny day and the birds are singing, you’ve been shot from the peak of a mountain, this means death! At this point you become lucid and realise that your dreaming. You flap your arms slightly and notice that you have wings and the plumage of an eagle. Your feathers then turn into butterflies and flutter away, leaving you as a flightless skeleton. You begin to doubt that your actually dreaming and plummet hundreds of feet shattering upon the jagged rocks below. Everything changes again, you become a sea cucumber sitting amongst the coral and plankton of the ocean floor, you have no friends and you look like shit! Well I was trying to describe how our music might make you feel, hopefully i’m wrong. You’ll just have to come long and judge for yourself!'
Thursday 15 Nov - The Porter Cellar Bar, Bath
Friday 16 Nov - ALBUM LAUNCH at The Cube Microplex, Dove Street South, Bristol
Saturday 17 Nov - The Prince Of Wales, Falmouth
Sunday 18 Nov - The Nell Gwyn, Portsmouth
Tuesday 20 Nov - The Sanctuary, Hove, Brighton
Wednesday 21 Nov - The 12 Bar Club, 26 Denmark Pl, London, WC2H 8NL
Thursday 22 Nov - The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, London
Sunday 25 Nov - The Victory, Hereford
Wednesday 28 Nov - The Village, Edinburgh
Friday 30 Nov - The Red Deer Club, Manchester
Sunday 02 Dec - The Railway Inn, Winchester
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SOME OF MY OLD GIGS THAT HAVE COME AND GONE:
2007
THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST - The Cube Microplex, supportng Piney Gir
MONDAY 13TH AUGUST - The Scout Hut supporting Diane Cluck
SUNDAY 15TH APRIL Fence Records Homegame Festival in Fife, Scotland
TUESDAY 25TH APRIL Mr Woolfs, part of the Bristol Fringe Festival
SATURDAY 24TH MARCH will bring another one in a string of much needed Ashton Court benefit nights taking place at the Folkhouse, Park street, Bristol. I will be sharing the night with Robin Allender and Cleaner Record's Greg Ashby The doors are at 8 and it will cost £5. I'm going to be tinkling away on the ivories and plucking a bit of banjo too
THURSDAY 22ND MARCH I'll be doing some bird inspired songs at a poetry/music night which is part of the Festival of Birds. It's at the Gasworks studios in St Werburghs, 27 Narroways Rd, Bristol. It'll cost a fiver and the doors open at 7.30. Here's a robin taking a worm from a man's mouth to get you in the mood!
FRIDAY 9TH MARCH me and my musical friends are putting on a Cleaner Records night at the John Sebastian in Bathurst Basin (behind the Louisiana), Bristol
A night of beautiful sounds from the cleaner crew - Greg Ashby, Rozi Plain and myself - playing collectively under the name of Mailbird...all kinds of instruments are being brought out of the cupboards, opening will be James Alexander, followed by Dan Everett and star guests of the night will be My Two Toms. Press Release
WEDNESDAY 7TH FEBUARY, Port Mahon, Oxford - a Myanalogue night
SATURDAY 27TH JANUARY, Water Rats in London - a Fence Records night
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2006
SEPTEMBER - AMERICA TOUR with Rozi Plain, Francois & Ladybird
16TH SEPTEMBER - house party CHICAGO
18TH SEPTEMBER - The Note CHICAGO with Pattern is Movement and Them Roaring 20s
20TH SEPTEMBER - Schubas CHICAGO with.Unique Chique, Couple Skate and Red Delicious
22ND SEPTEMBER- Spark Art Space, Syracuse24TH SEPTEMER- house gig 214 Franklyn St, Brooklyn NEW YORK
25TH SEPTEMER - Goodbye Blue MondaysNEW YORK
26TH SEPTEMER- Mercury Lounge NEW YORK
28TH SEPTEMER- Goodbye Blue Mondays NEW YORK
AUGUST - THE CLEANER RECORDS CLEANER TRANSPORT TOUR
MONDAY 31ST JULY, Supporting Diane Cluck at the Scout Hut, Bristol
17TH JULY - Ashton Court Festival
23RD & 24TH JULY - Truck Festival
TUESDAY 30TH MAY - 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London
Myself....with harp and other instruments...and Dan Everett (fellow cleaner collective member) see myspace/daneverettSUNDAY 23RD APRIL - The Home Game, Fife, Scotland
The Fence Collective's home festival. Lots of music for everyone and fish and chips tooSUNDAY 12TH JANUARY - Moles Club, Bath
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2005
FRIDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2005 A cleaner Records Christmas Extravaganza at the Railway Inn in Winchesterwith This isThe Kit (Kate Stables), Romanhead, Rozi Plain, Greg Ashby and Rachael Dadd
SEPTEMBER TOUR
SUNDAY 10TH JULY Whalebone Polly at the Priddy Folk Festival www.priddyfolk.org
SUNDAY 26TH JUNE Whalebone Polly at GLASTONBURY on the Acoustic stage, and The Croissant Neuf stage
SUNDAY 19TH JUNE Summer/Autumn Recordings Album Launch night at the Folkhouse, Bristol.
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2004
FRIDAY 15TH OCTOBER Whalebone Polly supported James Yorkstone at The Cube, Bristol
THURSDAY 21ST OCTOBER Whalebone Polly played as part of the Decode Unplugged night at Cafe Unlimited with Mario Vendredi, Max Milton and SJ Esau and there wasn't a single microphone or plug in the house. Well how about that!?
